May we Walk by Faith and Seek God Diligently, Believing that God Is and we are Not

To walk with God is to walk by faith, that is, to believe that God is and we are not, for He’s everything to us and we are nothing; we deny ourselves and take Christ as our everything, learning to seek the Lord, live by faith, and live a life for His satisfaction on earth today.

Lord Jesus, You are everything to us. We open to You and we come to You to enjoy You. Amen, Lord, we give ourselves to You today. We want to live by faith. We want to walk by faith, trusting in You in all things and concerning all things. We believe that You are and that we are not. Oh, the joy of having nothing, seeing nothing, being nothing, and desiring nothing but a living Christ in glory, and caring for nothing but His interests here on earth! Amen!

As believers in Christ who love the Lord and who want to please Him in all things, we want to live a life for His satisfaction today. We do not want to live in ourselves, by ourselves, or for ourselves; we want to live one spirit with the Lord.

Our aspiration is to be with Him, even to do all things in the organic union with Him, so that we may be raptured to His sweet and dear presence when He returns.

It is so interesting to see that the one hundred forty-four thousand in Revelation 14 are not raptured, or at least it doesn’t say that they were raptured; they simply are on Mount Zion.

They are the firstfruits to God for His satisfaction. They ripened earlier, and they walked with God, even as Enoch did.

To walk with God means that we let Him take the lead and we follow; we don’t override Him, we’re not presumptuous, and we don’t do anything in and for ourselves.

It means that we fellowship with God all the time, opening to Him, being in a constant contact with Him, and seeking His counsel in all things.

We are learning to deny the self, for the self is exposed and put to death as we are learning to walk with God by faith.

May the Lord gain us to be like Enoch today, those who walk with God until we obtain the testimony that we are well-pleasing to God and are therefore raptured.

What a glory that would be for us to be raptured to God for His satisfaction!

May we live in His presence today, having habitual fellowship with God to be under His constant infusion. He wants to infuse Himself into us; may we allow Him to do this in us so that He may produce us as His firstfruits today.

To Walk with God is to Walk by Faith, believing that God is and we are Not

Enoch walked with God and obtained the testimony that he was well pleasing to God. Today we need to also walk with God by faith; to walk with God is to walk by faith.

Without faith, it is impossible to be well pleasing to God, for he who comes forward to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Heb. 11:6).

What God requires of us when we come to Him is that we believe. He doesn’t want us to change, improve our behaviour, or do things to please Him; He just wants us to believe that He is.

He simply is. He is the verb to be. Enoch was a person who believed that God is and he walked with God.

We need to believe that God is and that we are not. Enoch walked with God, believing that God is, until Enoch was not.

We need to believe that God is and that we are not. Without faith it is impossible for us to please God, to make Him happy. To make God happy, we need to believe that He is.

This means that we need to believe that He is everything to us and that we are nothing (John 8:58; Eccl. 1:2).

To believe that God is implies that we are not; only God is, and we are not. He must be the unique One, the only One in everything, and we must be nothing in everything (Gen. 5:24; Heb. 11:5).

If we look around us we can see the vast universe with the sky, the sun, the moon, and all kinds of living creatures and beings; they are not real, only God is real.

Everything we see and touch today will pass away, but God will always remain. He is the One who was existing, who is existing, and who will be existing.

We believe that God is and we are not. By faith, we make a motion toward Him to touch Him and enjoy Him. He is always present. He is always with us.

For us to believe that God is means that we deny the self, for in the whole universe only God is and all of us are nothing (Luke 9:23).

I shouldn’t be anything, I should not even exist; only God should exist. It is no longer I who should be living but Christ who lives in me (Gal. 2:20).

And when we say that He is and we are not, this means that He is everything to us.

He is the all-inclusive One for us to enjoy and partake of. According to what we see in God’s word, Jesus is the great I Am to be everything to us for our enjoyment.

Christ is the life (John 14:6), the resurrection (11:25), the door (10:7, 9), the good Shepherd (v. 11), the bread of life (6:35), the real food and the real breath (20:22), the living water (4:10, 14), and the tree of life (15:1; 14:6; Rev. 2:7). Christ is God (John 1:1; 20:28-29; Rom. 9:5), the Father (Isa. 9:6; John 14:9-10), the Son (Mark 1:1; John 20:31), and the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:17; 1 Cor. 15:45b).

He is everything to us. We are alive today, and we have life; however, even our human life is false, not real, for it will not last forever.

In the whole universe, we are nothing. When someone gets married, the husband needs to realise that, on the one hand, he’s the husband and he has a wife, but the real husband is Christ; the husband should not be but Christ should be.

Similarly, even though the bride seems to be the most beautiful person, she needs to realise that she is not but Christ is; Christ is the most wonderful One, and she needs to be one with Christ.

In our married life, we need to take Christ as our everything and let Him be everything to us; He is and we are not.

When Saul was persecuting the followers of Jesus, he thought he was doing a work for God, but then the Lord Jesus appeared to him, knocked him down, and said, I am Jesus (Acts 9:5).

The Lord was basically saying, I am the great I am; I am the One who is; you must believe that I am and that you are not.

Saul believed that Jesus is and he is not, and Saul was over and Paul came up (13:9).

We need to realise that Jesus is; He simply is and we are not. Saul was strong, even very strong; Paul, however, means small.

When Saul saw Jesus and believed that He is, he was nothing.

We need to be those who follow the Lamb wherever He may go.

As we are doing our shopping, as we are driving, as we are talking to others at home, and as we do this and that, we need to check with the Lord, Lord, am I the one speaking or is it You? We need to realise the joy of having nothing, seeing nothing, and being nothing but a living Christ in glory!

What a joy it is to be one with Christ and care only for Christ! What a joy it is to entrhone Christ, love Christ, and let Him rule and reign in us! In our speaking, in our living, Christ needs to be everything to us in a practical way.

As we live the married life, as we live with our family and take care of many things around the house, we need to realise that we are not, but Christ is. May we bring this to the Lord and may we allow Him to do this in us.

Lord Jesus, we love You and we believe that You are! Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit of faith to believe that God is and that we are not. We come forward to God believing that God is. You are everything to us and we are nothing. We take You as our everything and we enjoy all that You are; we are nothing but You are everything. Amen, Lord, in our daily life with all its daily activities, may we realise that You are and we are not. You are the only One in everything and we are nothing in everything. We come to You. We come to enjoy You. We open our whole being to You. We want to enjoy Your riches. We deny our self, for we are not but You are. Hallelujah, we are not but God is! We no longer exist – only Christ exists! Amen, Lord, it is no longer we who live but it is Christ who lives in us. May we realise this wonderful fact in our Christian experience today. May we see that Jesus is and we are not. May we allow You to live in us and do everything in us. Hallelujah, God is! Amen, we are not!

We Walk by Faith and we Believe that God is a Rewarder of those who Diligently Seek Him: we continually walk upward with God!

According to Hebrews 11:6, faith means that we believe that God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Gen. 15:1; Phil. 3:8, 14). When we seek God, when we diligently seek God and walk with God by faith, God will reward us.

Enoch received the highest degree of life as a reward, for he escaped death (Heb. 11:5a; 2 Cor. 5:4; Rom. 8:6, 10-11; 5:17). Amazing!

If we walk with God today, that is, if we walk by faith, God will reward us. In this age, He rewards us by giving Himself to us for our enjoyment so that we may partake of Him with all His riches.

And if we obtain the testimony of being well pleasing to God, we will be rewarded with the highest degree of life – escape from death!

Amen, the Lord is a rewarder, and we must be His seekers, even His loving seekers today (Psa. 27:4, 8; 42:1-2; 43:4; 73:25; 119:2, 10).

As those aspiring to be the firstfruits today, may we ask from the Lord to dwell in His house and enquire in His temple, even to behold His beauty.

We just want to see the Lord’s face. We want to inquire of Him for everything. We don’t take the lead nor do we initiate anything; we simply fellowship with Him.

Our soul thirsts for God, for the living God; we come and appear before Him to enjoy Him and take Him as our everything as we walk by faith.

Enoch was the first person to be raptured; he is the representative of all the overcomers who will be raptured while they are living (Matt. 24:37-51; Rev. 14:1; Luke 21:34-36).

We want to be like him today; we want to walk by faith, even walk with God by faith so that we may be raptured while we are living.

However, our being raptured depends on our being mature in the divine life by our walking with God (Heb. 6:1).

Enoch walked with God continually for three hundred years. He walked upward with God day and night for three centuries, becoming closer to God and more one with God each day until he was not, for God took him (Gen. 5:24; Song of Songs 8:5).

He walked with God more than one hundred thousand days. Not just one day or a thousand days; more than one hundred thousand days. He walked upward, upward, upward, until one day there was the last step, and he was gone.

May we believe that God is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him, and may we seek God, even walk with God.

To walk with God is to continually exercise our spirit in our daily life so that we may enjoy the Blessed Trinity (see Jude 14, 19-21). May we exercise our spirit as we live our daily life; as we touch the Lord in all things, we enjoy the Blessed Trinity.

To walk with God implies that we deny the self and anything that is of the self so that we may be one with God (Matt. 16:24-25).

We give ourselves to the Lord, we give in to Him, and we let Him take the lead. To be the firstfruits, we believe that God is, we walk by faith, and we follow the Lamb wherever He may go.

We give in to Him. The apostle Paul had this experience; he wanted to go to a certain place, but the Holy Spirit forbade him.

Then he tried to go to another place, and the Spirit of Jesus did not allow him. He said Amen to the Lord’s leading and followed Him. Amen, He takes the lead and we follow.

As we follow Him, it is against what we want and desire; it is against our thoughts, so we give in to Him.

May we learn to give in to the Lord, allowing Him to be everything to us. Walking with the Lord is by faith and involves the denial of the self.

Even our good concerns for the Lord can be something that hinders the Lord’s work in us and causes us not to follow Him. May we follow the Lord’s leading, heeding the inner anointing, in all things.

Lord Jesus, we come to You by faith and we believe that You are and that You are a rewarder of those who diligently seek You! Amen, Lord, we come to You to seek after You. Our desire is to be with You, even to be in Your presence, beholding You face to face. We yearn to be in our spirit, face to face with You to behold You and inquire in Your temple. Amen, Lord, grow in us unto maturity. Bring us on to maturity today as we open to You and fellowship with You in all things. May we walk upward with God day by day until we are in His presence continually. Hallelujah, the Lord is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him, and we are His seekers today! Amen, Lord, our heart seeks after You. We long after Your presence. We delight to be with You. We heed the inner anointing in all things. May we be closer and closer to You every day until we are not, for God takes us! Yes, Lord, we aspire to be the firstfruits, the living overcomers who are taken into Your presence on Mount Zion!

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 Ricky Acosta on this topic, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “Crystallization-study of the Epistle to the Romans,” ch. 7, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (4) (2025 December Training), week 45 (msg. 9), The Lamb Whom the Overcoming Firstfruits Follow – day 4.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Not I, but Christ my every need supplying, / Not I, but Christ my strength and health to be; / Christ, only Christ, for spirit, soul, and body, / Christ, only Christ, live then Thy life in me. / Christ, only Christ, ere long will fill my vision, / Glory excelling soon, full soon I’ll see; / Christ, only Christ, my every wish fulfilling, / Christ, only Christ, my all in all to be. (Hymns #591 stanzas 4-5)
  – Dear Lord Jesus, precious Jesus, / Can I tell it all to Thee? / Thou my love and satisfaction, / Thou my everlasting portion; / Thou art all that I desire, / Nothing else I would pursue. / Dear Lord Jesus, precious Jesus, / All I have I give to Thee; / Who like Thee—so fair and comely? / Who like Thee—so sweet and lovely? / Matchless One, unrivaled beauty, / None can e’er compete with Thee! (Hymns #1158 stanzas 6-7)
  – I am crucified with Jesus, / And He lives and dwells with me; / I have ceased from all my struggling, / ’Tis no longer I, but He. / All my will is yielding to Him, / And His Spirit reigns within; / And His precious blood each moment / Keeps me cleansed and free from sin. (Hymns #564 stanza 2)