Living Stars are Messengers of the Churches Living under His Shining in the Kingdom

The living stars are the messengers of the churches enjoying the present and fresh message from God to dispense Christ into others, having great resolutions and searchings in heart and leading others to the path of righteousness, fearing God and walking in the light, and have the shining of Jesus as the kingdom in them and through them.

Lord Jesus, make us the living stars today in the church life. Shine in us. Shine over us. Shine through us. May we gain You as the morning star today. May we have You rise up in our hearts as we give heed to the prophetic word. Amen, Lord, keep us in the light. May we walk in the light until we are the light of the world, bringing others to the path of righteousness. Reign and rule in us today so that You may shine Your kingdom through us! Amen!

Thank the Lord that today in the church age we believers in Christ can be living stars, the duplication of Christ as the living star! First, we need to find Christ by the living star, and we need to have Him rise up in our hearts as the morning star.

If we today seek the Lord, secretly watch and wait for Him, He will give Himself to us as the morning star, for we love Him and He wants us to taste the freshness of His presence.

He will appear to all as the sun, and we will shine with Him as the sun in the kingdom of His Father; however, before that time, we need to find Him as the living star, allow Him to rise in us as the morning star, and shine with Him as light to be living stars today.

May we be the overcoming saints today, those who hear what the Spirit is speaking to the churches and who receive and enjoy the sevenfold intensified life-giving Spirit to be living and shining stars.

Christ as the living star is in the local churches and among the local churches, and He is speaking as the Spirit to the churches.

Due to the degradation of the church, He has been intensified sevenfold to counteract the degradation, produce the overcomers, and consummate the New Jerusalem.

May we open to the Lord’s sevenfold intensified Spirit so that we may be produced by Him as His overcoming believers who are intensely living and intensely shining for God’s building.

We don’t want to just be produced as His overcomers in ourselves and by ourselves; we do this in and for God’s building, for God is looking after a corporate body of overcoming saints. Oh, may the Lord have mercy on us and make us His living and shining stars today!

The Living Stars are the Messengers of the Churches who Love God and Receive the Fresh Message from God to Dispense Christ into God’s People

The seven epistles to the seven churches in Revelation were written to the churches, but in particular, they were written to the messengers of the churches, the seven stars in the Lord’s hand (Rev. 1:16, 20; 2:1; Mal. 3:1-3).

The living stars are the messengers of the churches.

Who are these messengers? Each of the seven churches has a messenger, someone who is enjoying and experiencing the pneumatic Christ as the Messenger of God and as the fresh message from God so that he can dispense the fresh and present Christ into the people of God for the testimony of Jesus.

We need to pray that we would be such ones today. We need to be those who enjoy Christ as the Messenger and Message of God so that we may have something fresh of Christ to dispense to God’s people.

First of all, the Lord Jesus Himself is the Messenger, and He is also the fresh message of God to us. He is the Christ, the sent One, and He is also the Word, the very word that God speaks to us (Matt. 16:16; John 1:1, 14).

When we come to the Lord in His word, we do not come just to read the Bible and find out more about God and His plan for us; we come to receive the fresh message from God.

Day by day we need to wake up a bit earlier, before all our daily activities start, and spend time with the Lord in His word to gain Him as the fresh message from God.

May we be the messengers of the churches today, those who receive Christ as the fresh message and are one with Him as the Messenger of God to speak and minister Christ as the fresh message from God to His people according to the need for God’s building.

On the one hand, Christ as the High Priest, walks among the golden lampstands and sees the situation in the local churches, and He is speaking to each church a particular message.

On the other hand, each church has a messenger, a saint or a group of saints who are the living stars and who have an ear to hear what the Spirit is speaking to the churches.

The messengers are the mature spiritual ones in the churches who bear the responsibility for the testimony of Jesus. They are of a heavenly nature and in a heavenly position like stars.

May we open to the Lord daily so that He may make us His messengers today in the local churches. May we come to the Lord’s living word day by day to have Christ as the morning star rise in our hearts until the day dawns (2 Pet. 1:19).

The living stars have great resolutions in heart and great searchings of heart (Judg. 5:15-16, 20, 31; Dan. 11:32).

They are those who love the Lord and are like the stars who fight together with God against His enemy so that they may be like the sun when it rises in its might and be thos ewho shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father (Matt. 13:43).

May we have great searchings of heart and great resolutions in heart as we allow the Lord to rise in us as the morning star.

When we come to the Lord in His word, He shines on us and in us, and our hearts are touched; we have great resolutions in heart and great searchings of heart. The living stars fight the spiritual warfare one with the Lord, and they are like the sun when it rises in its might.

On one hand, we want to be the living stars in the churches today, even the messengers of the churches to receive the Lord’s fresh message and then convey it to God’s people to minister Christ to them.

On the other hand, we stand one with the Lord and shine with Him, for He as the morning star rises in our heart and we are so one with Him that we shine and fight the battle with Him! Amen, we aspire to be such overcoming ones today!

Lord Jesus, make us the living stars in the local churches today. We aspire to be the messengers of the churches, those who enjoy and experience Christ as the Messenger of God and as the fresh message from God! Speak to us, Lord, and infuse us with Yourself as the fresh message from God. May we have an ear to hear what the Spirit is speaking to the churches. Oh Lord, grant us to have the fresh message from God so that we can dispense the fresh and present Christ into the people of God for the testimony of Jesus! Amen, keep us under Your speaking today and make us one with Your speaking! May we allow Your speaking to touch us so that we may have great resolutions in heart and great searchings of heart. Oh Lord, as Your loving seekers, we seek You in Your word, giving heed to the prophetic word, so that You may rise in us as the morning star! Amen, shine in us and through us until we become shining like You, shining forth like the sun and fighting the battle against God’s enemy!

Living Stars Walk in the Lord’s Light and Live in the Kingdom of God under His Shining

The living stars are those who fear Jehovah and hear the voice of His servant, trusting in Jehovah so that they may have light while walking in darkness (Isa. 50:10-11; Psa. 139:7-12, 23-24).

Who fears Jehovah? Who reveres, regards, respects, and honours Jehovah? Who hears the voice of His servant? Such a one has light and does not walk in darkness.

But if someone kindles his own fire and surrounds himself with firebrands, walking into his own light and firebrands, he will lie down and in torment.

For us to be living stars, we need to walk in the Lord’s light and not make our own light. May we not kindle our own fire or make our own light but rather, come to the Lord to walk in His light.

If the way we are taking is bringing in division, even though we may think we are right, this is “our own light” and is not the Lord’s light.

If we think we have the Lord’s anointing to go somewhere and do something, yet what we do causes division and trouble in the Body, that is not the Lord’s light and His leading. Oh Lord Jesus!

Those who make light for themselves and walk in their self-made light instead of in God’s light will suffer torment. Oh Lord!

This should be a warning to us so that we may walk in the light given by God, not in the light we make for ourselves. May we come and walk in the light of Jehovah (Isa. 2:5).

May we come to the Lord to walk in His light!

As seen in Gen. 1:14-19, the living stars are typified by the stars that were established on the fourth day of God’s restoration with His further creation, in which they rule by their shining.

Where there is the shining of light, there’s the ruling for the growth of life.

We need to walk in the Lord’s light, even to have an increased shining from the Lord so that we may have the growth in life and live in the kingdom of God. The more the Lord shines on us, the more His life can grow in us and His kingdom can come into us.

If we read the story of the transfiguration of the Lord Jesus on the Mountain of Transfiguration, we will see that the shining forth of the Lord Jesus was the coming of the kingdom in power (Matt. 17:1-8; Mark 9:1-8).

The Lord Jesus came as the King of the kingdom of God and also as the kingdom of God, and His kingdom is simply His shining.

He was confined in His flesh, and people thought of Him as being a little man from Nazareth, for they could not see the kingdom within Him.

But when He went to the mountaintop and was transfigured, something within Him was shining; this was the coming of the kingdom.

The shining of the Lord Jesus, the transfiguration of the Lord Jesus, is the coming of the kingdom of God.

The more we allow the Lord to shine in us, the more His shining increases in us, the more the kingdom of God comes in us, and we become living stars.

The shining forth of Christ is the ruling presence of the Triune God. As the Lord shines in us and over us, the ruling presence of the Triune God is with us and in us, and we are in the kingdom of God.

The kingdom of God as the ruling of God, the reigning of God, with all its blessings and enjoyment, is the shining of the Lord Jesus and the spreading of the Lord Jesus by shining over us.

He wants to bring in His kingdom, and He does this by His shining. The more we have the Lord’s shining, the more we are in His kingdom, where we shine as living stars.

The kingdom is the shining of the reality of the Lord Jesus. Whenever the Lord is shining over us and we are under His shining, we are in the kingdom of God under God’s ruling and reigning within us for our growth in life.

We all can testify that we have sensed the Lord’s shining in the saints and in the church life.

Sometimes we may visit a brothers’ house and, even though we don’t know the brothers personally, we simply sense the Lord’s presence there, for even though there are five different brothers living together, they are under the Lord’s ruling and reigning within.

They don’t have a written set of rules somewhere to which they adhere so that things are in order; they just enjoy Christ, live under His shining, and they shine as living stars.

However, we may also sense the kingdom being absent when we visit a particular home where, even though everything is proper and nice, people are behaving nicely and they say the right words, the people in that home do not live under the Lord’s shining.

If we don’t live under the Lord’s shining, we are not living stars but rather, the authority of darkness is present among us.

May we come to the Lord in His word, give heed to His prophetic word, and allow Him to shine on us and over us, even to rise in us as the morning star so that we may be in the kingdom of God in reality and grow in life.

Whenever the Lord is shining over us, and we are under that shining, we’re in the kingdom under God’s ruling and reigning over us for our growth in life.

Lord Jesus, make us those who fear Jehovah and hear the voice of His servant. May we trust in Jehovah so that we may have light while walking in darkness. Amen, Lord, shine on us and shine over us. We do not want to make our own light; we want to walk in God’s light. Give us light. Be light in us and over us. Oh Lord, we come to walk in the light of Jehovah today! Shine in us again and again! Shine over us. May Your kingdom come in us. Hallelujah, the shining of Jesus over us is the coming of the kingdom in us! Amen, Lord, keep us under Your shining today! May we have the shining reality of the Lord Jesus so that we may be under God’s reign and grow in the divine life. Keep us under Your ruling and reigning today as we remain under Your shining. Amen, Lord, make us the living stars who shine You forth by allowing You to shine in us and through us. May Your kingdom come in us. May Your kingdom be manifested through us.

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 Ed Marks on this topic, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1972, vol. 2, “The Kingdom,” ch. 2, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The All-inclusive Christ as Revealed in Matthew (2025 Thanksgiving Blending Conference), week 1, The Up-to-date, Instant, and Living Vision of the Heavenly Christ as the Living Star – day 5.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Watch, and arise in service! / Watch, though the day be drear; / Watch, and go forth to labor! / Watch, the end is near. / Watch and put on thy armor! / Watch with thy spirit strong; / Watch to resist the devil! / Watch, Christ comes ere long. / Watch for the Savior’s coming! / Watch for the Morning Star; / Watch and pursue the Kingdom! / Watch with many a scar. / Watch, and be ever watchful! / Watch, till the night is done; / Watch till the dawn of glory! / Watch till the Lord shall come. (Hymns #666 stanzas 2-3)
  – 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 6-7)
  – Jesus the kingdom has come into us, / Reigning and shining He’s all glorious, / Christ as the seed is the King who has come, / Into our spirit His kingdom He’s sown. / O let Him grow, O let Him grow; / His kingdom life be all we know. / Jesus, the kingdom is sown into us; / Jesus, the kingdom, O how glorious! (Hymns #1301 stanza 1 and chorus)