A Group of People

The Lord is moving in, among, and through the believers on earth today. His move is dependant on a group of people who are gained by Him to be fully one with Him. 

The book of Acts reveals such a group of people who live in the divine history within human history as the acting God; they have become God in life, in nature, in expression, and in function (but not in the Godhead) for the spreading and building up of the church as the corporate manifestation of Christ. This group of people are those who are calling on the name of the Lord, suffering on behalf of the name of the Lord, and speaking in the name of the Lord, the name of Jesus. They are living, moving, and acting as one Body; they do everything in the Body, through the Body, and for the Body by rejecting themselves and living by another life—Christ as the divine life; this corporate living of Christ is the reality of the Body of Christ. They also are continuing steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word; effectually living in the apostolic ministry in coordination with Christ as their great High Priest in His heavenly ministry. 

This group of people are the ones who can fulfil the Lord's heart's desire on the earth today. This group of people has three special characteristics, defined in their walk, word, and work. 

Walk: Their living is their walking as God-man, possessing the life of God and living Christ. They are men of prayer setting their mind on the things of God and  depending on prayer to do what man cannot do, to understand what man cannot understand, and to speak what man cannot speak. They live and walk in the spirit in the Body for the Body. 

Word: They are the ministers of the word too. By the ministry of the word, they impart Christ into others as the heavenly life and power so that they may be sustained with the riches of Christ to live Christ as their heavenly life on earth. They are men of the word of God. 

Work: They serve the living God and live by faith, propagating the resurrected and ascended Christ, saving sinners, shepherding the saved ones, and perfecting them for the building up of the Body of Christ. 

Such is the group of people the Lord is looking for today, through whom He can move and accomplish His eternal economy. These are the words the Lord has been speaking today. Blessed are those who are chosen to be such group of people, and much more blessed are those whose walks, words, and works are one with God. 

Lord, gain us to be such group of people as the continuation of the books of Acts. The meaning of life is to be this group of people who are the acting God on the earth today.