To those who overcome, the Lord Jesus is the bright morning star as a reward, for they eagerly watch for His coming; we need to be those who love the Lord and His appearing, earnestly wait His coming, put all our hope in Him, and fear Him so that we don’t indulge in earthly pleasures and riches but take His coming as an encouragement.
Lord Jesus, we love You. We love You, Lord, and we love Your appearing. We want to live in Your presence today. We are watching for Your imminent return. Come, dear Lord Jesus! We take Your coming as an encouragement. We do not want to indulge in the things in the world or be tied up with the things around us. Our only hope is in You. We hope in Your coming soon! We love You, Lord, and we earnestly await Your return! Amen!
The Lord Jesus is coming back soon. To us, when He says, “I come quickly,” we may think it will take a few days or months, but to the Lord, even one thousand years is like one day. Until He gains what He is after, until He gains the overcomers He is looking for, He cannot return.
He wants to come back, and we live in the light of His coming, always taking His coming as an incentive and as a warning, but He wants to gain the reality of the Body of Christ lived out on the earth.
However, if we look around us, we see that, even though there are so many Christians in name all over the earth, many of them are busy with other things besides the Lord’s coming.
Some focus on business and say that this is their calling from God, while others focus on having a successful career or ministry.
Who today is awaiting the Lord’s coming in a pure way, earnestly yearning for Him to come? Who today gives heed to the prophetic word as to a lamp shining in a dark place?
We need to be such ones. We need to be those who don’t seek to do many outward things for the Lord or in His name but simply come to the Lord, enjoy Him, remain in His word, and take heed to the prophetic word.
We come back to the word of God, we read and pray the Bible, taking the word of the Lord in the Bible as our food and also as our encouragement.
As we read and pray over God’s word daily, having a set time of prayer and reading, the Lord will slowly rise up in our heart as the morning star.
He wants to gain the overcomers, those who are hidden, in secret, who seek Him exclusively and do not defile themselves with what the world has to offer.
May we be such ones today; may we be like Daniel and his friends, seeking the Lord and refusing to eat the defiled and defiling food that the enemy offers freely to all.
Christ will be the Morning Star to His Overcomers Secretly, before He appears as the Sun of Righteousness in the Kingdom
How we thank and praise the Lord for regenerating us with His life and making us children of God, those part of the kingdom of God! We love Him, and we pursue Him in love, and we want to gain more of Him! Amen!
As we are awaiting the Lord’s return, we realise that He is will be the bright morning star who will appear to those who overcome (Rev. 22:16).
He is signified by the heavenly luminaries, the lights, and right now we’re in the dark night of this age; to those who overcome, the Lord will appear as the morning star. This is very significant.
When the Lord came the first time, right after His birth, there was a star in the heaven that appeared and led some wise men from the east to find Him (Matt. 2:2, 9-10).
It was not the Jewish religionists who had the Scriptures and kept them who saw the star; it was some heathen people from the east.
In Revelation 2:28 the Lord promises the overcomer that he will give him the morning star. And in Revelation 22:16 we are told that He is the bright morning star.
At His second appearing, the Lord will be the morning star as a reward to those who overcome, those who watch for His coming. To all others, He will appear only as the sun (Mal. 4:2). He will appear as the morning star secretly to those who overcome, to those who are watchful and wait for His coming.
We shouldn’t try to locate Him but simply focus on the Lord, give heed to the prophetic word, and allow the morning star to rise in our heart. He will rise up from within us.
Before He comes secretly to steal His believers who are watchful and waiting for Him, the Lord needs to rise up in us day by day as the morning star.
He is the indwelling bright morning star, and we need to come to Him daily and let Him rise up in us.
When the Lord comes back, on the one hand He will come from heaven and everyone will see Him; on the other hand, however, in a subjective way, He will come from within us, for He lives in us, and He will rise up and come from within us.
We will then be manifested together with Him, for we will be even as He is (1 John 3:2). How delightful it will be!
We are eagerly waiting for this time; we have never seen Him, but we are all waiting for the time when we see Him face to face.
Before He comes openly and publicly, He is rising up in us as the morning star. At His coming back, Christ will be the rising sun to His people generally (Mal. 4:2) but the morning star to His watchful lovers particularly.
We want to be His watchful lovers today.
To the children of Israel, He is the Root and Offspring of David, and this is related to the kingdom; to us as believers in Christ who overcome, He is the bright morning star.
The morning star appears before the darkest hour, prior to dawn.
The darkest hour of this age will be the last three and a half years, the great tribulation, after which the day of the kingdom will dawn. In the kingdom, the Lord will appear publicly to His people as the sun, and everyone will see Him as the bright sun.
However, before the great tribulation, Christ will appear privately to His overcomers as the morning star.
We want to be those who gain Him as the morning star today, even have Him as the morning star rising up in our hearts so that, before the great tribulation, He will give Himself as the bright morning star to us.
May we receive the Lord’s mercy and grace to be His overcomers today. May we have His appearing inwardly day by day.
May we remain in His living and shining word to have His appearing, His rising up as the morning star!
Lord Jesus, we love You and we love Your appearing. We want to prepare ourselves for Your coming. We want to gain You as the morning star. Amen, Lord, we give ourselves to You today to enjoy You in Your word. Rise in us as the morning star. May we have Your appearing today as we heed the prophetic word. Amen, Lord, we watch for Your coming. We yearn for Your appearing. Come, dear Lord Jesus! Rise in us as the morning star day by day. May we have a clear sky between us and You, and may we remain in Your presence. We exercise our spirit to touch You, enjoy You, and experience You. We deal with anything that hinders Your shining and that which blocks Your presence. Oh Lord, we love spending time with Your in secret, being in Your word, and receiving Your shining! We love being in Your presence, doing all things in the index of Your eyes, and being with You. May You appear to us daily as the morning star until, before the darkest hour, You will come as the bright morning star to take us to be with You! We love You, Lord!
We Earnestly Wait the Lord’s Coming, We Love His Appearing, We Fear Him, and We Set our Hope on Him!
The Lord Jesus told us, at the end of the book of Revelation (which is the last book in the Bible), that He comes quickly.
In Revelation 22:12, He said, Behold, I come quickly. In verse 20, He said again, Yes, I come quickly. When we hear this word, our loving response should be, Amen, come, Lord Jesus (v. 20).
As the bride of Christ, we are with Him, we love Him, and we love His appearing; we yearn for His coming and we desire Him to return (2 Tim. 4:8).
May we always call for His coming, taking His imminent return as an encouragement for our daily living. Just like the early disciples and the apostles, we need to yearn for the Lord’s return and earnestly wait for the Lord’s coming.
In their hearts, the apostles firmly believed that the Lord would come quickly, even in their lifetime. Therefore, they lived a life in preparation for the Lord’s second coming.
Throughout the ages, the Lord’s loving seekers earnestly waited for His coming and lived a life preparing for His imminent return.
One time, M. E. Barber was walking with Watchman Nee and, as she lived in the light of the Lord’s appearing, she was expecting that, even as they turned the corner, the Lord would return.
Our life on earth after we are saved is a life in preparation and expectation of the Lord’s coming. This means that we need to not only enjoy the Lord in His word to get the spiritual supply, but even more, earnestly wait for the Lord’s coming and love His appearing.
The apostle Paul was assured, toward the end of his course on earth, that the Lord will reward him with the crown of righteousness; but, he said, the Lord would reward not only him but also all those who have loved His appearing.
On the one hand, we overcome individually, for each one of us has our course before the Lord, the race we run in our Christian life, and our individual pursuit of Christ in love.
On the other hand, it is all those who love the Lord’s appearing that will be rewarded by the Lord at His coming with the morning star.
In 1 Thessalonians, a short book of five chapters, we see the apostle Paul’s yearning and desire for the Lord to return. Each of the five chapters ends with the Lord’s coming.
Though this book was written to newly saved believers, Paul infused into them a desire for the Lord’s coming so that they would love His appearing.
May we take the apostle Paul as our pattern so that we also love the Lord and love the Lord’s appearing. As we love His appearing, we earnestly wait for His coming (Phil. 3:20; 1 Thes. 1:10).
Our future is not here on earth; we don’t work to build a career and a golden future but rather, we realise that our future is with the Lord.
Our living indicates that we have no hope on this earth; our future is with the Lord, and our hope is in the coming Lord. He’s our eternal destiny.
The time is shortened, the Lord’s coming is near, and we earnestly wait His coming. We await His coming even as those who were separated from a relative await their imminent coming to be reunited. We await His return as a bride-to-be awaits her wedding day.
At the same time, those among us who have a wife should be as though they had none, those who weep should be as though as they did not weep, and those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice; we live in the light of the Lord’s coming.
As we earnestly wait the Lord’s coming, we buy things but are as though we did not possess, and we use the world as though we do not abuse it, for the fashion of this world is passing away (1 Cor. 7:29-31).
Christ is our hope. Our hope is in the coming Lord. Our hope is not in the electing of a new government or in working hard to provide for our family and our future.
We do our best in our work, we study to the best of our ability, and we live our Christian life in the family life and the church life, but our hope is in the coming Lord.
We love the Lord and His appearing, and we also fear the Lord. We do not lay up wealth for ourselves so that our soul might enjoy itself and be merry, as the rich man did in Luke 12, because we don’t know when our soul is required from us (v. 20).
We only have today; we focus not on the past with its failures or successes nor on the future with its worries but on Christ today.
We love Christ today. We enjoy Him today. We expect Him today. We love the Lord and His appearing, and we await the Lord’s coming. We take His coming as an encouragement.
We are thankful for today, for as long as we have today, as long as we still have breath, we love the Lord and His appearing, await His coming, and fear the Lord, for we want to be His overcomers who will gain Him as the morning star!
Lord Jesus, we love You and we earnestly await Your coming. We love Your appearing. Amen, come Lord Jesus! We love You, Lord, and we love Your appearing. Keep us living in Your presence today, setting our whole being on You. May we not love the world and the things in the world but love the Lord and His appearing. Amen, Lord, may we not be entangled with the world and its things but set our hope in You! Our hope is not in this world: our hope is in the coming Lord! Amen, Lord, You are our eternal destiny. There’s nothing here for us in this world: we only want You! Thank You for giving us a home to live in, a family to be with, and the wonderful church life. We want to live a life in the light of Your coming. We are earnestly waiting for You, Lord, even as a bride is waiting for her wedding day! You are our lovely Bridegroom and we’re being prepared to be Your bride! We yearn for Your coming! Thank You for giving us today! Thank You we have breath. Oh, while we have breath, we eagerly wait Your coming and take Your coming as an encouragement! Come, dear Lord Jesus! Amen!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ron Kangas on this topic, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament (msgs. 32, 411, and 435), by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (4) (2025 December Training), week 48 (msg. 12), Christ Coming with Reward and Punishment, a Lamp Shining in a Dark Place, and Christ Appearing Privately to His Overcomers as the Morning Star – day 5.
- Hymns on this topic:
– The love of Christ constraineth, / Then let us work and pray, / And watch the glad appearing / Of that triumphant day, / When Father, Son, and Spirit, / By every tongue confessed, / All earth His broad dominion / In His dear love shall rest. (Hymns #898 stanza 4)
– How real that He is coming— / Come quickly, Lord, again! / We watch for His appearing, / His precious Word amen. / Oh, don’t delay His coming, / Pray without ceasing, pray; / He’s eagerly awaiting / That coming wedding day. (Hymns #1323 stanza 2)
– Thou art the Sun of righteousness / With healing in Thy wings; / The shining of Thy glorious face / To us Thy riches brings… Thou also art the Morning Star / To us as a reward; / While still ’tis dark it shines with light / To those who love the Lord. / Lord, help us e’er to love Thy light / And see things from afar; / And look for Thee in watch and prayer / As for the Morning Star. (Hymns #200 stanzas 1, 6, 7)
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