When we exercise to live one Spirit with the Lord, we actually take care of what He thinks, what He feels and what He chooses. And in this way we let him feel and saturate our mind, emotion, will and kind.
As a result, he no longer lives only in our Spirit. He is making his home in our heart.
Ephesians 3:16, 17 says, That He will grant you to be strengthened through His Spirit into the inner man, that Christ may make His home in your heart.
Our heart is the entrance to our Spirit. The more we open our heart to that to be filled by Christ, who is the Spirit in our spirit, the more He is making His home in our heart.
In the training, I learned to open my heart and allow the Lord to come in.
When I got offended by others, I would go to the Lord and just ask the Lord, Lord, come into my emotion, come into these thoughts.
And after opening and fellowshiping with Him, the Spirit would always lead me to pray. Pray for those who offended me.
And when I choose not to dwell in this offense, but stand with my spirit, the result will be His sweet presence and the joy of interceding for others.
Second Corinthians 5:14-15 says, for the love of Christ constrains us because we have judged this, that one died for all, therefore all died and he died for all that those who live may no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.
God’s love is like a rushing wave which constrains us to love Him and to live to Him. To live to the Lord is different from just living for the Lord.
Living for the Lord implies that the Lord and I are two separate persons, but living to the Lord indicates that I am one with the Lord.
God’s operation needs man’s cooperation. Living to the Lord is man cooperating with God and allowing God to express Himself through man to accomplish His purpose.
In the training I realized I can do a lot of things for the Lord, but without the Lord as the source.
This is just living to myself rather than living to the Lord. For God to operate, He needs man’s cooperation.
So now I am learning to ask the Lord, Lord, are you the source in this matter? Is this just me doing this or is this You? This is me cooperating with the Lord.
This is a sharing from the recent FTTL Graduation by one of the graduating trainees. Praise the Lord for such a sweet and encouraging testimony! See all the testimonies from the 2024 fall FTTL graduation here.
