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The Reality of Christ in my Daily LifeI would like to testify of the utter joy and reality of Christ I have experienced in my daily life through contact with the local church in Spokane and the writings of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. I was raised in a fundamental Christian home and was taught the truths of the Bible as a child. My father was an elder of a Plymouth Brethren Assembly. I appreciated the elderly Christian brothers and sisters there because of their deeper relationships with the Lord. Even though I embraced the truths of the Word, I recognized that I was not experiencing the personal daily enjoyment of Christ. I also found myself being attracted to and expressing the world. I was trying to satisfy myself with so many things although I knew that only the Lord should truly satisfy me. I was also grieved that my Christian testimony was so lacking that unbelievers were not drawn to the Lord through me. I recognized that if I was in the experience of the Lord more, Christ would be filling me and then other things would have no room to fill me and to blot the testimony of Christ through me. This caused me to cry out to the Lord. As I was before the Lord I blurted out, “Lord, You have to be more to me.” He mercifully answered my prayer beyond what I could have imagined. God sovereignly brought me in contact with a Christian brother who was full of the enjoyment of Christ. This was expressed on his face and evident in the words spoken from his mouth. I was so attracted to this that I was inspired to go to a conference in Seattle where the reality of Christ in believers' lives was so testified. This impression stayed with me for over a year, until the Lord caused me to feel I could not go on in my human life without the Lord being real in my daily life. I felt the world's strong draw and longed to be delivered from it to go on with the Lord for His pleasure. I moved into a house with some of the Christian sisters meeting with the local church in Spokane. Their daily life helped me learn to take in the Lord as my life supply. I learned the practicality of John 6:57 where the Lord Jesus spoke, “He that eats Me even he shall live by Me.” I have learned to treasure the eating of the Lord through His Word, the testimony of others, and through the publications of Living Stream Ministry. This has brought me to a wonderful, practical, daily experience of Christ that overflows to others. I thank the Lord that He has worked a testimony of the reality of His life in my life. Marilyn Somner | Back to List |
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