«　WEEK 5　DAY 5　»

　　Eph. 6:17-18 "And receive…the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God, by means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit…"

　　Col. 3:16 "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God."

　　[To live Christ all the time] we must be plugged into the contact with these two wires, the Word and the Spirit.…If we are going to live Christ, we must have ourselves plugged into this current.…To pray unceasingly…is to keep ourselves plugged into that heavenly current. Once we are cut off from the heavenly current, we are through. It does not matter how many years of experience we have in Christ. Although this room may have received electricity for fifty years, once it is insulated, the current is cut off.

　　First Thessalonians 5:17 says, “Unceasingly pray.” Colossians 4:2 says, “Persevere in prayer.” …Ephesians 6:18 says, “Praying at every time.” This means praying at every second—not only praying at every hour or every minute but every second.…Praying in the Bible is spiritual breathing. Among all the matters that maintain our human life, our breathing never ceases. So the New Testament says to pray unceasingly, pray continually, pray at every time, and pray at every time in spirit. How could we pray all the time? By putting Ephesians 5:17-20 and Colossians 3:16-17 together, we can be clear. These two portions are parallel portions, sister portions. Ephesians says, “Be filled in spirit.” No doubt this surely refers to prayer. There is no other way for you to be filled in your spirit.…You have to pray. (CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, “Perfecting Training, ” pp. 179-180)

　　Colossians 3:16 says, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.” How do you let the word of Christ dwell in you? It should be in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God. Then verse 17 says, “Whatever you do in word or in deed, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.” We have the Spirit as the antenna wire and the Word as the ground wire. The antenna wire is in us, in our spirit, and the ground wire is in our hand; we just need to remain here with these two wires.…It altogether depends upon our daily practice. We must practice continual prayer and continual praising and continual psalming and singing and thanking because we are breathing Him in, making Him our saturation and making ourselves practically one with Him. Spontaneously we will live Christ.

　　The Bible could be living to you only when you breathe it, when you pray it, when you praise it, when you sing-read it, when you psalm-read it. All the lines of the Holy Writings will become the living God, the living pneuma, to you. Then you will get the transmission, the transfusion, the permeation, making Him everything to you and making you one with Him. Then whatever you say and whatever you do will be Christ. This is to live Christ. You must put this into practice.

　　Nothing pleases the Lord so much as for us to realize that He does not want us to do anything. He only wants us to love Him, to open ourselves up to Him, and to let Him live from within us.… From the very beginning when God created man, God had no intention to ask man to do anything for Him. God's intention was to create a vessel to contain Him and to express Him, so God only wants an opening of the vessel. If the vessel is open, God can fulfill His purpose, but if the vessel is closed, God's purpose is frustrated. Paul's fourteen Epistles…[in] summary…may be expressed in just two words: open vessel. God wants an open vessel. (CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, “Perfecting Training, “pp. 181-183, 239, 241)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, “Perfecting Training, “chs. 15-17, 22