We believers in Christ engage in spiritual warfare to conquer the satanic chaos and triumph in the divine economy; God does not deliver us from the satanic chaos but rather, He wants us to be one with Him to overcome and conquer the destructive satanic chaos in the old creation and to carry out the constructive divine economy for the new creation.
Lord Jesus, make us one with You today. You are the overcoming One. We stand one with You. We want to be one with You to overcome the destructive satanic chaos. We turn to You. We love You. We love being in You and You being in us. We love being one with You for the fulfilment of Your divine economy. May Your economy be carried out in us. Make us Your overcomers. Make us the overcoming ones in this satanic chaos! Amen!
We believers in Christ are citizens of the kingdom of God, and whether we realise this or not, there is a spiritual warfare going on. The enemy is attacking, constantly attacking, and he is seeking to usurp us and damage the church.
The kingdom of Satan is one of darkness, sin, and death; it may seem that there’s much knowledge, good and evil, and many other things, but it is the authority of darkness.
Christ has already destroyed the devil on the cross; He partook of blood and flesh and He destroyed Satan on the cross. Praise the Lord! Now we need to stand in His victory and apply His victory.
We need to see that the will of God is Christ and the church; God wants to gain Christ as our everything and the church as His corporate expression.
Our living on earth today is not for us to merely save people or do good works; we are here as believers in Christ to take Christ as our life and everything and to live in the church to be the corporate expression of God.
As we live our Christian life, we realise that spiritual warfare is necessary, for Satan’s will is against God’s will.
We understand what the will of God is, we stand with the will of God, we ask for His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven; and we cooperate with the Lord in prayer for His will to be done.
We remain in the position of ascension and we pray one with the Lord to apply the victory of Christ over the enemy.
May we see who we are and where we are, and may we stand one with the Lord to build up the church, overcoming the satanic chaos and triumphing in the divine economy for God’s will to be done on earth! Amen!
The History of the Universe is a History of God’s Economy and Satan’s Chaos
We may be pacifists and we may want to solve any conflict by negotiation and compromise, but God is not like that; God has His kingdom and His righteousness, and Satan has his kingdom and lawlessness, and we need to engage in spiritual warfare.
We engage in spiritual warfare in particular so that we may conquer the satanic chaos and triumph in the divine economy (Eph. 1:10).
The whole universe is in a state of collapse due to Satan’s rebellion and man’s fall. If we look around us, both nature and humanity is in a state of collapse, corruption, and decay.
Satan is the source of all the chaos around us. The history of the universe is a history of God’s economy and Satan’s chaos (Gen. 1:1-2, 26; Rev. 20:10—21:4).
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth; these were perfect and glorious, and the angels rejoiced when they saw them; however, Satan rebelled, and the whole earth became corrupted, even waste and emptiness.
But God has an eternal economy, and He is carrying out His divine economy. Satan is the source of chaos, and God Himself is the divine economy. God not only has an economy; He is the divine economy.
In His divine economy, God doesn’t want to only recover us back to Himself; He wants to work Himself into us and make us the same as He is so that we and Him, He and us, would be so one that we become one corporate entity to express the Triune God corporately. Wow!
If we read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, on the one hand we see the positive divine economy being carried out, and on the other hand, we see the satanic chaos going along with the divine economy (2 Cor. 4:6; 1 Tim. 1:4).
God has His line of life, His chosen people who cooperate with Him, His overcomers; however, Satan comes in to usurp, ruin, and damage God’s work and His people.
We can say that the history of the universe is a history of God’s economy and Satan’s chaos.
Not only the history of the universe but also the history of mankind and even the history of our own nation, the country we are born in and live in, is a history of God’s economy and Satan’s chaos.
Whenever God does something, Satan comes in to damage and affect the work of God and the people of God in a negative way; he comes in to create chaos.
Look in society today: just look at what is going on with the governments, the leading ones, and those in power in the country you are in.
Look at the place you work and in the area you live in: there is chaos everywhere, and more and more chaos is created by the enemy.
The reason for all the chaos is that there are two sources: God and Satan. If we look at the situation in the world today, we may be discouraged; however, we should not be discouraged, for God has a constructive divine economy!
In Matthew 16:18, the Lord said that He will build His church, and immediately after He said, And the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
Instead of delivering us from the chaos, God wants us to overcome and conquer the destructive satanic chaos in the old creation and to carry out the constructive divine economy for the new creation (Eph. 3:8-10; 2 Cor. 5:17).
In addition to the satanic chaos, there is the divine economy. The satanic chaos will one day come to an end, but the divine economy will reach a consummation!
The satanic chaos will end in the lake of fire, where Satan and all those influenced by him and who followed him will end up.
The consummation of the divine economy will be the New Jerusalem, where God and all those who are joined to Him are becoming a corporate expression of the Triune God! Hallelujah!
Lord Jesus, thank You for saving us and bringing us into the kingdom of God, out of the satanic chaos and into the divine economy! Hallelujah, we believers in Christ are now citizens of the kingdom of God, a kingdom of love and light, holiness and righteousness. Amen, Lord, we stand one with You today. May we see that the history of the universe is a history of God’s economy and Satan’s chaos. May we see that Satan works in us and around us to produce satanic chaos. Oh Lord, we give ourselves to You today. We want to build up the church. Thank You for Your promise that the gates of Hades cannot prevail against the builded church! We take You as our life. We want to enjoy You. We want to be one with You in all things. Keep us on the line of life. Keep us enjoying You in the divine economy. Amen, Lord Jesus, make us Your overcoming saints, those who are one with You to conquer the satanic chaos and triumph in the divine economy! We are one with You today for this! Amen!
Engage in Spiritual Warfare to Conquer the Satanic Chaos and Triumph in the Constructive Divine Economy
One spiritual principle in spiritual warfare is that God does not deliver us from the satanic chaos; rather, in the midst of the satanic chaos, with all the problems caused by the evil one, He wants us to triumph in the divine economy.
As we go on with the Lord, we realise that the satanic chaos goes along with the divine economy. When God does something in us and in the church according to His divine economy, Satan is there to cause chaos.
Where God is, Satan is also; when God does something in the central lane of His economy, Satan is there in the side lane, causing chaos.
We are on a racecourse, running the race with endurance, looking away from anything else unto Jesus so that we may obtain the prize.
We want to overcome today, being among those who run the race and finish the course to receive the prize, even as Paul did.
In 2 Timothy 4:6-8, he said that he was being poured out; the time of his departure was at hand, but he fought the good fight, he finished the course, and he kept the faith. He was assured that the crown of righteousness was laid up for him.
Outwardly, Paul was in the midst of the satanic chaos, in a Roman prison, on his way to be judged and martyred; inwardly, he was running the race and exercised his spirit to conquer the satanic chaos and triumph in the divine economy.
We need to be the Lord’s overcomers today, those who conquer all the destructive chaos and triumph in the unique constructive divine economy.
We may pray according to Matthew 6:13 that the Lord would deliver us from the evil one with his temptations, and we may expect that the Lord will rescue us from this satanic chaos.
Each one of us has a certain situation he’s in, a chaos that affects him and he wants to be rescued from.
But we may have the wrong concept concerning what kind of deliverance this is; God doesn’t want us to be delivered OUT of the satanic chaos.
He allows us to remain there, but as we live in the satanic chaos, God wants us to conquer it.
This is why we need to be empowered in the Lord and in the might of His strength so that we may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil (Eph. 6:10-12).
We need to be strengthened in the Lord, even to be empowered in Him and in the might of His strength so that, no matter how difficult and impossible the satanic chaos is around us, we would overcome and conquer the chaos in the divine economy.
As we suffer the chaos, as we live in the satanic chaos outwardly, we need to stand for and live out the divine economy (1 Tim. 1:4, 18; 2 Tim. 4:7).
The enemy can cause much chaos around us and even within our being. He may affect our disposition, stir our emotions, corrupt our mind, and damage our will; however, we can still exercise our spirit to be one with the Lord.
The Lord wants us to just be one with Him. We may want to be rescued from the chaos, but the Lord increases the level of grace.
Paul asked the Lord to remove the thorn in his flesh, but the Lord said, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness (2 Cor. 12:9).
God increases the level of grace, the level of the enjoyment of Christ, so that we may be inwardly supplied and strengthened to overcome and soar over the satanic chaos.
As we are suffering the chaos, we need to stand for and live out the divine economy.
May we take up the whole armour of God so that we may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand (Eph. 6:13).
The Lord will not deliver us from the satanic chaos, but we can overcome it and stand against it.
We are surrounded by chaos wherever we go, whether at home, on the street, at work, at school, and sometimes even in the church life, for the gates of Hades continually attack the church.
But we can stand one with the Lord. We can turn to Him. We can ask Him to empower us with the might of His strength so that we may overcome.
May we be those who engage in spiritual warfare for the divine building, the church as the Body of Christ; the building up of the church is a service of warfare (Matt. 16:18; Num. 4:3; 26:2; Neh. 4:14-23; 1 Tim. 1:18; 6:12; 2 Tim. 4:7).
Especially as we give ourselves to serve Him in the church, we feel that the enemy attacks even more, causing more chaos.
We may love the Lord and serve Him with the saints, participating in the building up of the church, and then, all of a sudden, Satan creates more chaos in our personal life or at home.
May we stand against the enemy’s stratagems. May we take up the whole armour of God in the Body and stand, asking the Lord to strengthen us to stand against the satanic chaos and triumph in the constructive divine economy.
Lord Jesus, may we be empowered in the Lord and in the might of His strength so that we may stand against the stratagems of the devil! Amen, Lord, we love You and we turn to You! Empower us with the might of Your strength to overcome and conquer the satanic chaos and to be in the constructive divine economy to carry it out! We exercise our spirit and stand one with You in the Body to take up the whole armour of God so that we may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand! Lord Jesus, we stand one with You today. We do not ask You to rescue us from the satanic chaos; we simply want to enjoy Your grace and Your empowering! Make us Your overcomers today. We want to fight the good fight until we finish the course and keep the faith! Lord Jesus, make us those who conquer all the satanic chaos and triumph in the unique constructive economy of God! Amen, Lord, we want to engage in spiritual warfare for the divine building, for the church as the Body of Christ! Build up Your church! 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 the brothers on this topic, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1991-1992, vol. 3, “The Satanic Chaos in the Old Creation and the Divine Economy for the New Creation,” chs. 1-5, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Ministry of the Word and God’s Dispensing for God’s Economy (2026 March ITERO), week 4, “The Measure of God’s Rule and Ministry on Spiritual Warfare” – day 5.
- Hymns on this topic:
– We’re in the local church, / God’s chosen ground; / Here we have Christ as life / And blessings all abound. / “In spirit, on the ground” / Our battle cry; / And we will overcome the enemy / To bring the kingdom nigh. (Hymns #1260)
– I dare not be defeated / With Calvary in view, / Where Jesus conquered Satan, / Where all His foes He slew; / Come, Lord, and give the vision / To nerve me for the fight, / Make me an overcomer / Clothed with Thy Spirit’s might. / A victor, a victor! / Because of Calvary. / Make me an overcomer, / A conqu’ror, a conqu’ror, Lord, in Thee. (Hymns #877 stanza 1 and chorus)
– Who then will choose God’s best, / And take the narrow track, / Though passing thru the wildest storms, / Yet never turning back? / Who now will dare press on, / Enduring pain and fear? / All such will then rejoice to see / Jesus, the Lord, is near! / Though deep the darkness be / We still would onward go, / Till we the day of rapture greet / And glory ’round shall glow. / ’Tis there we’ll see the Lord, / And Satan overcome; / The overcomers will rejoice, / Jesus, the Lord, has come! (Hymns #893 stanzas 5-6)
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