Faith in God's Economy

After more than two full years of abstaining from public gatherings for training, on the last weekend of the last month, I attended a national level training. All the saints in NCR region came together to attend the training physical at the training center in Gurugram. It was a wonderful time of gathering together after having been starved from such a meeting due to the pandemic. Now that things have improved, our gathering has also gradually recovered.

The messages spoken in this training were the messages I have dived into during the International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones online meeting. But I did not get much from the online training. But this time, with all the saints together, with much exercises of the spirit for the Lord's speaking and also for our listening, every message was fresh and new to me. Besides, the atmosphere of the meeting played an important role in receiving the Lord's speaking. Through this recent training, I freshly appreciate the physical coming together of the saints for a meeting like this. Such a meeting cannot be replaced by an "online meeting." I feel online meeting has their own benefits but they cannot replace physical meetings at all.

Message by message the Lord unveiled the truth concerning God's economy in faith. I could see and understand the deeper meaning of faith which I have never seen or known before. My fresh appreciation for the ministry grew much more.  Some gleanings from the training:

Everything related to God and His economy is in faith. There is a need to see the vision of God's economy and for this, there is a need for one to be taken to the high mountain spiritually. 

God's economy is to dispense Himself in Christ into His chosen people, to produce the new creation, to conquer the destructive satanic chaos, to triumph in the constructive divine economy, and is being carried out by faith in (of) Christ in the organic union between God and us, the believers.

To sees this vision, there is a need to remove the veil; any veil, be it religious, human concept, or any satanic blinding. Then the light of God will shine, through which there will be the sight to see. And then the spirit of wisdom and revelation will enable us to apprehend the vision. The result of such seeing of God's economy makes our lives meaningful and purposeful, empowers us to boldly move forward, supports us, makes us endure all trials, preserves us, and brings us into the present move of the Lord.

To know and understand what faith is, we must also know what faith is NOT. Faith is not blind faith, it is not empty hope, nor a mere mental agreement or consent.

Faith is the facts of God becoming experiences to us. Faith is to amen the word of God. Faith is a spontaneous response to the Lord in our spirit; a response to the word of God. Faith is the substantiation of unseen divine things. Faith is an organic union with the Triune God Himself. 

By such a faith, the riches of God become our inheritance, then the victory over obstacles is real, and it also enables us to live a life filled with the Spirit inwardly and outwardly.

To have such a faith subjectively, we need the hearing of the word of God, the appreciation of the word of God, and the need to call upon His name and receive and accept Him. As a result, we will be joined to Him, partake of Him, and enjoy Him. 

This is the linking faith, that links us with God. The subjective way to stay in this linking is by calling upon Hisname, prying to Him, preay-reading His word, and musing upon His word.

One warning concerning faith is, not to have an evil heart of unbelief and not to live in the past nor in the future, but to live in the present.