We Know the Triune God in an Experiential Way, in the Personal Realm of our Heart

The Bible reveals that God wants to be enjoyed and experienced subjectively by us; when the Triune God becomes our experience and enjoyment, He’s not only the One on the throne who is universally vast but also the One in our heart, for we know Him subjectively in the personal realm of our heart.

Amen, Lord, thank You for being so personal and intimate with us! Thank You for coming into us to be in us, with us, and always present in our being! We love You and we open to You! We want to know You subjectively and intimately today, in all things of our daily living! Amen!

We believers in Christ are not just those who worship God who is in heaven, while we here on earth do our best to please Him and do what He tells us to do.

This is what it may seem to others that we do, but this is not the reality.

Against all odds, against all the outward things that seem to indicate that God is not present, we believers in Christ believe into the One whom we have not seen, and we love the One we have never seen or met physically.

We just love Him. We want to know Him, enjoy Him, and be filled with Him.

We want to be on the line of life, not on the line of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; this means we don’t just want to know about God but even more, know Him intimately and subjectively.

He came into us as our life; the Triune God in Christ as the Spirit is in our spirit, mingled with our spirit, and spreading from our spirit into every part of our being. Praise the Lord!

As we open to Him, as He speaks to us and we agree with His inner speaking, He grows in us and we grow in the divine life.

The more we grow in the divine life, the more we will be concerned with the Divine Trinity, for we realise that God in Christ as the Spirit is our life and our everything.

The more we advance in the Lord and with the Lord, the more we realise that we are in the Triune God and the Triune God is in us.

He is in us to saturate us, flow in us, and transform us. We see how natural we are, we realise that apart from the Lord we can do nothing, so we remain in the organic union with Him, always caring for His feelings in our spirit.

Because He is in us, we care for what He cares about, and we are one with Him to care for the saints.

We want the saints to grow in life and advance in the Lord so that the Lord may have a way to live in them and be expressed through them. Amen!

May we all open our being to the Lord more for Him to grow in us, and may we allow Him to infuse us with Himself to make us the same as Christ in every possible way!

We Know the Triune God in an Experiential Way, in the Personal Realm of our Heart

On the one hand, we know God on the throne of the universe, being universally vast and in charge of all things; on the other hand, we believers in Christ know the Triune God as the One in our heart (Rev. 4:2-3; 5:6; 1 John 3:19-21).

These two are not mutually exclusive: they are true at the same time, and we treasure that we know the Triune God in an experiential way, even in the personal realm of our heart.

God is very subjective to us; 1 John 3:19-21 shows us that God is right there, in our heart, and we have boldness toward God.

Yes, God is almighty, He is on the throne, and He upholds all things, being sovereign over all things.

But at the same time, the God who is infinite, unlimited, and beyond our ability to understand is also small enough to be in our heart.

Thank You, Lord, we can know You in our small heart! We ask for Your mercy, Lord, that we would enjoy You, experience You, and know You in a subjective way today! Grant us today’s measure of grace so that we may know the Triune God in an experiential way today! Amen!

God wants to be experienced by us; the One who is on the throne in the universe and who is universally vast wants to be the One who is personal and subjective to us in our heart.

This is what the New Testament shows us, that we need to know God in the personal realm of our heart.

He wants to even make His home in our heart (Eph. 3:17). He dwells in our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22) and He wants to spread into all the inward parts of our heart and make His home in us.

May we be those who know the Triune God not only in the vastness of the universe but also in the personal realm of our heart (Heb. 8:10-11).

May we open to the Lord’s shepherding within us so that we may grow in life and know the Triune God in an experiential way.

May we deepen our personal relationship with the Lord as the Father strengthens us into our inner man through His Spirit so that Christ may make His home in our heart.

May we all have a personal, intimate, and spiritual relationship with the Lord.

We cannot see Him physically, nor can we sense Him with our feelings or understand Him with our mind; however, we can turn our heart to Him and exercise our spirit to contact Him.

We can even tell Him to make Himself real to us, for we can’t see Him or sense Him, but we know He is within us. God is greater than the universe, and He is also greater than our heart.

We need to know the Triune God in an experiential way; this means that, even though our heart may blame us, for the Lord shines on us through our conscience, God is greater than our heart, so we can confess our sins and come to God.

May we be saved from knowing God in a religious way, in an objective way, without touching Him and enjoying Him.

May we know God in our heart, in our conscience. The infinite, great, and almighty God has come into us to be practical to us in our conscience, and we can have fellowship with Him in our spirit.

If our conscience bothers us, if there’s something that the conscience points out to us as a problem, it is the Lord who shines on us, and we need to deal with these things.

How is God experiential to us? It is by His shining in us through our conscience. Sometimes we may not say anything bad or do anything evil, but we may simply have a long face toward our spouse, and our conscience bothers us.

This is the Lord speaking to us. God cares for our long face. He cares not only for the billions of items in the universe but even more, for all the details of our daily life.

We may argue with God and tell Him we didn’t do anything wrong, but the Lord continues to shine on us.

We may argue with our spouse, being assured we are right and even proving them we’re right; however, the Lord may bother us concerning this, and we need to repent to Him.

We may even argue with the Lord, telling Him that it’s not fair that our spouse or those around us give us a hard time; however, God never rules in our favour.

He’s not about right or wrong; He wants us to have Him as our life and as our peace. We can know God in a personal, detailed, and experiential way in our daily life.

This is such a precious way to know and experience God!

It is quite amazing to see that the God who has billions of matters to take care of is concerned with the small details of our daily living!

He’s infinite, He’s almighty, yet He cares even for the small things in our daily life. What a subjective God we have!

The concern of the New Testament is that we know the Triune God who has come to dwell in our being; He came in our spirit to be mingled with our spirit, and now He’s spreading into all the parts of our heart.

We simply need to be vessels that are open to His dispensing. It is so sweet and precious for us to know the Triune God in a personal, detailed, and experiential way (1 John 2:20, 27; Heb. 10:16)!

How precious is this experiential way of knowing the Triune God!

We can enjoy and experience Him in our spirit even when we are lying on a hospital bed or when we’re at work; He is in us, we are in Him, and we can inwardly open to Him to receive and enjoy His divine dispensing.

He speaks to us through the feeling of our conscience, and we can deal with our conscience before the Lord to have peace toward God; in this way, we are under the divine government in a practical way.

Lord Jesus, we love You and we open to You! Thank You for coming into us to mingle Yourself with us and be experienced by us. May we know God not only in the vastness of the universe but also in the personal realm of our heart. Thank You, Lord, for being so subjective to us. Thank You for caring for us. Thank you for caring for all the details of our daily life. Hallelujah, Christ is in us and we are in Christ, and He is making His home in our heart! Amen, Father God, strengthen us into our inner man through the Spirit so that Christ may make His home deep down in our heart! We turn our heart to You. Shine on us. Speak to us. We want to heed Your shining and speaking through our conscience. Save us from arguing with You when You bother us through our conscience. May we know the Triune God in an experiential way. May we know God personally, in a detailed way, in our daily experience. Oh Lord, we love Your indwelling! We open to You! Spread from our spirit into our mind, emotion, and will a little more today!

The Revelation concerning the Triune God in the Word of God is for God’s Dispensing into us for us to become His Corporate Expression for Eternity

As we are prayerfully considering the matter of the church being in the Triune God, we need to realise that the New Testament is fully composed of and structured with the Divine Trinity (Matt. 28:19; Rev. 1:4-5; 22:1-2).

The Bible as a whole and the New Testament in particular is fully composed of and structured with the Divine Trinity.

The entire New Testament is related to the Triune God; we can say that the Triune God is the element for the construction of the New Testament (Eph. 3:16; 4:4-6).

The Bible reveals the Triune God not from the doctrinal point of view, for us to merely know in our mind or feel with our emotion.

The Bible presents a picture of the move of the Divine Trinity for the accomplishment of His economy (Luke 15:3-32; Eph. 2:18).

The Triune God has an economy, and He does many things in His Divine Trinity, as revealed in the Bible, to accomplish His eternal economy.

If the Lord grants us His divine light, we will see that the Bible was written according to a particular governing principle.

The governing principle seen in the writing of the entire Bible is that the Triune God is working Himself into us, His chosen and redeemed people, to be our enjoyment and experience, for Him to obtain a corporate expression (Psa. 36:8-9). Wow!

The Triune God is being wrought into His chosen and redeemed people as their enjoyment, their drink, and their fountain of life and light.

If we read Psalm 36 with much prayerful consideration, we will be full of joy and rejoicing in our being.

The revelation concerning the Triune God in the Word of God is not mainly for our doctrinal understanding and theological apprehension by our mind.

Rather, the Bible reveals the Triune God for the dispensing of God in His Divine Trinity into His chosen and redeemed people for their experience and enjoyment so that they might become His corporate expression for eternity (Eph. 1:3-23; 4:16; Rev. 21:2, 10-11).

This is what is in the Lord’s heart. He is gaining the New Jerusalem, which is not just the holy city but also the bride of the Lamb.

What God is after is a corporate person as the mingling of God and man to match Him as the bride of Christ.

We need to grow in life unto maturity in this age to become the bride of Christ to match Him at the wedding feast.

May we allow the Lord to grow in us and may we know the Triune God in an experiential way in our daily living.

We have been born of God. We have God in Christ as the Spirit in us. We are in Him and He is in us. We want to grow in Him.

We want to be perfected as the members of His Body. How blessed we are to know what is on God’s heart. How blessed we are to know what is God’s economy.

And what a great responsibility we have today to cooperate with the Lord and let Him dispense Himself into us, let Him deal with us, and allow Him to grow in us so that He may make us ready for the rapture.

The outward world situation is being prepared by God, who operates behind the scenes, to bring in the end of this age.

We want to match His move and work today inwardly by knowing Him experientially, being built up together, and being perfected to function in our measure so that He may gain the bride He is after.

May the Lord gain His corporate expression in us and through us today!

Lord Jesus, unveil us to see that the structure of the New Testament is the Triune God! Hallelujah, the Triune God is the very element for the construction of the New Testament! Amen, Lord, may we see the move of the Divine Trinity for the accomplishment of His economy! May we open to Your move and allow You to move in us, through us, and among us! Praise the Lord, the Triune God is working Himself into us, His chosen and redeemed people, to be our enjoyment, our drink, and our fountain of life and light! Amen, Lord, we open to You! Work Yourself into us a little more today. Be our food, our drink, and our enjoyment today! Dispense Yourself more into us today. May we know the Triune God in an experiential way in our daily living. Make us Your corporate expression today and for eternity! Praise the Lord, our God is not only on the throne in the heavens but also in our being, spreading in us, making His home in us, and making us His corporate expression! Praise the Lord!

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 the brother Ron Kangas on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of 1 John, pp. 253-256, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (part 3 – 2025 Summer Training), week 30, The Church in the Triune God – day 2.
• Similar articles on this topic:
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  – Four-in-one: Witness Lee & Trinitarian Ecclesiology, article via, Conversant Faith.
  – The consummation of the Triune God, a portion from, The Basic Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, Chapter 3, by Witness Lee.
  – Coming to Know the Triune God, via, Church in Anaheim.
  – Two steps taken by the Triune God in order to become our experience, article via, Four Crucial Elements of the Bible, The—Christ, the Spirit, Life, and the Church, Chapter 2, by Witness Lee.
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  – So Great a Foundation–The Economy of God, via, Having this ministry.
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  – Becoming a person who knows the Triune God, article by Ron Kangas in, Affirmation and Critique.
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• Hymns on this topic:
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  – We need a heart condemning not, / In all things right with God; / A heart which has a conscience purged / And covered with the blood. / Lord, grant us such a heart as this, / Forever fixed on Thee, / That of Thyself we may partake / And Thy true fulness be. (Hymns #744 stanzas 5-6)
  – It is God’s intent and pleasure / That His Christ my hope may be; / It is not objective glory, / But ’tis Christ subjectively. / It is God’s intent and pleasure / That His Christ be all in me; / Nothing outwardly possessing, / But His Christ eternally. (Hymns #538 stanzas 5-6)