Jeremy Tsai

Week of May 5

The Sacrificing Christ, Cheering God and Others

“And walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor.” (Eph. 5:2)

“Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.” (Rom. 12:1b)

The vine typifies the sacrificing Christ, the Christ who sacrificed everything of Himself, and out of His sacrifice He produced new wine to cheer God and man. Under the Lord's sovereignty, we may be put into situations where we need to sacrifice ourselves to make others happy. If in the midst of such a situation we contact the Lord, we will experience Him as the wine-producing vine, as the One who gives cheer to God and to others. In ourselves we are not able to live a life of sacrifice, for our life is a natural life, a selfish life. Only the life of Christ is a life of sacrifice. Christ as the sacrificing Lamb lives in us, energizing us to sacrifice ourselves for others to bring them cheer and to make God happy. The more we experience Christ as the vine with His sacrificing life, the more we will be energized to sacrifice ourselves to make God and others happy. We will be “drunken” with happiness, realizing that the happiest person is the one who is the most unselfish. (Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good Land…, msg. 5, I, II.A, A.1, C, C.1-3, 3.a-b)

Let us pray for all the saints, in the midst of various circumstances, to contact the Lord who is living in us and energizing us to live a life of sacrifice to cheer God and others. May our church life be filled with rejoicing in the Lord based upon our experience of this sacrificing Christ!

Inhaling and Exhaling the Word of God

“All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable…that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.” (2 Tim. 3:16-17)

Being a fully equipped man of God with the breath of God requires the exercise of our spirit, the continual receiving of the Spirit, and the breathing in of God's word. A fully equipped man of God reads the Bible by means of all prayer and petition in the spirit to inhale God and ministers the word as the Spirit to exhale God into others. On God's side, the Bible is God's breathing; on our side, the Bible is for us to receive the breath of God as our profit…The issue of God's breathing out of Himself through the Scripture for teaching, conviction, correction, and instruction in righteousness is that the man of God becomes complete, fully equipped for every good work. (ITERO msg. 5, I.D, II.A.2, II.B,C)

Lord, increase our inhaling and exhaling of Your Word that each of us may be fully equipped to be a functioning member in the good work of building Your Body to prepare for Your coming.

SoCal College Meeting

This Saturday evening, May 11, there will be a Praise and Ministry Meeting in Cypress for college students throughout Southern California. Please pray for a high number of students from many campuses to attend (including many newer ones), for the Spirit to flow mightily in this time, and for the word to be richly imparted into the students!

Bibles for America

Due to the ongoing instability in and around the Suez Canal, our next shipment of 25,000 Spanish copies of the NT Recovery Version has been delayed from May until the end of August. We currently only have about 100 Spanish copies left in our inventory. After prayer and fellowship, we have decided to continue allowing people to place orders for the Spanish copies while informing them it may take 3 to 4 months to arrive. In the meantime, we will send them a free copy of the Recovery Version of The Gospel of John which includes all the footnotes, cross-references, and outline points.

Please pray that this Bible shipment would not be delayed any further so that we can resume fulfilling orders for the Spanish NT as soon as possible. Pray also that everyone who places an order would dive into the riches in the book of John and be sanctified in the Word as they wait for their full NT to arrive.

2024 Olympics Torch Relay Gospel Trips

Last weekend's conference in Paris, May 3 to 5, was a wonderful gathering and blending of around 300 saints from 21 countries, including French-speaking saints from France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxembourg. The conference consisted of five messages on “Fighting the Good Fight, Finishing the Course, Keeping the Faith, and Loving the Lord's Appearing in order to Receive the Reward of Christ as the Crown of Righteousness” along with the Lord's table. It was a timely and encouraging speaking particularly for the churches in the French-speaking world.

During the Olympic Torch Relay we are preparing to till the ground in many major cities along the route of the relay. We pray that during this time, Christ's triumphal procession will move from city to city all over France (2 Cor. 2:14). The first two Torch Relay Gospel Trips are happening May 6 to 11 in Marseille and May 11 to 15 in Montpellier. The teams consist of FTTA-XB trainees and serving ones in coordination with saints from other French-speaking localities. Please pray for:

The fresh and detailed consecrations of all the saints going out.
A strong beginning to this series of gospel trips, including the gaining of experiences that might benefit subsequent trips.
Many divine appointments to take place for the Lord to gain local French speakers and their families.
The Lord's testimony in Marseille and Montpellier to be raised up.

The April 2024 issue of LSM's newsletter explains the current burden in the Lord's move in French-speaking Europe at newsletters.lsm.org/having-this-ministry. Application for gospel trips is at www.amanatrust.org.uk/page/2024Paris. Saints in LA burdened to give for the distribution and associated expenses can do so through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Paris Olympics.”

Italy

A conference will take place in Rome this weekend, May 11 to 12. Please pray for the Lord's rich speaking and blessing on this conference to strengthen His testimony in this key European city and further His move in Italy and Europe.

Israel

Please continue to pray for the situation in Israel and the Middle East, that through the prayers of the saints the evil rulers and authorities in the air, and the human agents used by them, will be bound, and God's interests will be furthered and His chosen ones preserved.

Pray that God will use the situation to cause the gospel of the kingdom to be proclaimed, and that many people, regardless of ethnicity, religion or background, will be unveiled to see Christ as the Savior and the only way to God.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 5 of Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good Land…
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The ministry meeting continues this week starting at 7:25 pm.
Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers free e-booklets to read and share. The latest release is “A Life That Lives Christ” at www.lsm.org/life-study-philippians.
Bibles for America's most recent blog post, The Crucial Role of Our Mind in Our Christian Life, is available to read and share at blog.bfa.org.
Semiannual Training: July 1 to 6 in Anaheim. For LA saints, registration for participation by video is still open until June 16 ($130) at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.
Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Jeremy Tsai

Week of April 28

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Fanning Our Spirit into Flame

“Fan into flame the gift of God…For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of sobermindedness.” (2 Tim. 1:6)

The spiritual gift is in our spirit. There is fire in our regenerated spirit, which is indwelt by the Holy Spirit. Actually, we may say that our spirit is the fire.

If you want to fan your spirit into flame, you need to open up your mouth, open up your heart, and open up your spirit. You need to open these three layers of your being. You have to use your mouth to say, “O Lord Jesus.” But then you have to go deeper by using your mouth with your heart to say, “O Lord Jesus.” Then you need to go even deeper by using your mouth with your heart and with your spirit to say, “O Lord Jesus.” This is to open up your spirit from deep within. Then the fire burns. (CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, “The Exercise of Our Spirit,” pp. 183-184)

Let us pray for all of us in the church in Los Angeles to build up a strong habit in our daily life of exercising our spirit, fanning our God-given spirit into flame. May we live the normal church life by pursuing Christ with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Flowing Forth in Valleys and in Mountains

“For Jehovah your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of waterbrooks, of springs and of fountains, flowing forth in valleys and in mountains.” (Deut. 8:7)

“For we who are alive are always being delivered unto death for Jesus' sake that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So then death operates in us, but life in you.” (2 Cor. 4:11-12)

“He who loves his soul-life loses it; and he who hates his soul-life in this world shall keep it unto eternal life.” (John 12:25)

The all-inclusive Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit is “a land of waterbrooks, of springs and of fountains, flowing forth in valleys and in mountains.” The water “flowing forth in valleys and in mountains” indicates that Christ as the living water flows in different environments. The valleys are the experiences of the cross, the experiences of the death of Christ, and the mountains are the experiences of Christ's resurrection.

Jesus, in a positive sense, is always killing all the negative things within us in order to heal and enliven us. When we reject ourselves in the morning to receive God into us, we have the sense during the day that a killing process is going on within us. The killing of the cross results in the manifestation of the resurrection life. This daily killing is for the release of the divine life in resurrection. The Lord, as a grain of wheat that fell into the ground, lost His soul-life through death that He might release His eternal life in resurrection to the many grains. As the many grains, we also must lose our soul-life through death that we may enjoy eternal life in resurrection. (Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good Land…, msg. 4, II, III, A, C.1-2, D.1, E.2)

Semiannual Training Live Registrations

The deadline to register for the in-person July Semiannual Training, July 1 to 6, in Anaheim ($205) is Tuesday, April 30. Late registrations will not be accepted. For LA saints, sign up and payment instructions are at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla. Registrations for our local video trainings are due later on June 16.

May the Lord grant us to treasure these trainings and seize every opportunity to attend them not only to see the intrinsic essence of the divine revelation but also to serve as a proper audience for the unhindered release of the crystals in the Word of God. May we all, by the Lord's mercy, highly value and enter into all the divine truths in the Word that He has released through His ministry by means of the life-study and crystallization-study trainings until we are constituted with these truths, enjoy the Lord as life according to these truths, and minister Him to others for the fulfillment of God's eternal purpose to produce and build up the Body of Christ, consummating in the New Jerusalem. (“The History and Significance of the Life-study and Crystallization-study Trainings,” April 2022 issue of "Having This Ministry…")

Please ask the Lord to release as many saints as possible to participate in His speaking to the churches in this training!

Sixth Grade Conference

This weekend, May 3 to 5, the Southern California Sixth Grade Conference will be held in person at Oak Glen. Pray for the preparation of all the sixth graders in the Southern California churches for this time of being infused with the precious gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Pray for the Lord to be with all the speaking brothers, to anoint them with the Spirit and give them the utterance to speak a word that will penetrate the hearts of the sixth graders. Pray that the parents and the serving ones will be in one accord to pray for the children and to care for them in the best way, so that the Lord will have the way to dynamically save them and gain them for His purpose.

West Coast Korean-speaking Conference

There will be a West Coast Korean-speaking Conference this weekend via Zoom. The two sessions about “God's Economy in Faith” are Saturday, May 4, 6:00 to 9:20 pm and Lord's Day, May 5, 9:00 am to 12:30 pm. The detailed schedule and access information are at tinyurl.com/2024westcoast.

Please pray for the Lord to fully release His burden through this re-speaking of the messages from the recent International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones.

Paris Conference and Torch Relay Gospel Trips

A conference will be held this weekend, May 3 to 5, in Paris, France. The conference consists of five messages on “Fighting the Good Fight, Finishing the Course, Keeping the Faith, and Loving the Lord's Appearing in order to Receive the Reward of Christ as the Crown of Righteousness” along with the Lord's table. Please pray that all the saints would enter into the up-to-date ministry of the age and touch the up-to-date burden for the Lord's move.

Then, starting on May 6 in Marseille and concluding on July 17 in Paris, nine gospel trips have been planned in many major cities along the route of the Olympic Torch Relay. Please pray that during this time, Christ's triumphal procession will move from city to city all over France (2 Cor. 2:14). Pray for all the logistics of the Bible distributions—that they would arrive on time and at the right destinations, and for all necessary municipal authorizations to be approved—and for many divine appointments to take place for the Lord to gain local French speakers along with their families.

Warsaw, Poland

A conference will also take place in Warsaw this weekend, May 3 to 5. Please pray for the saints' attendance and the release of the Lord's burden and supply in this conference.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 4 of Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good Land…
Semiannual Training: July 1 to 6 in Anaheim. For LA saints, registration is open until April 30 (live) and June 16 (video) at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.
Memorial Day Conference: May 24 to 27 in Bellevue, WA. For LA saints attending in person, please RSVP by April 30 at tinyurl.com/memdayla. More information is linked at that site.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The ministry meeting continues this week starting at 7:25 pm.
Bibles for America's most recent blog post, The Crucial Role of Our Mind in Our Christian Life, is available to read and share at blog.bfa.org. Helpful videos are also available at bfa.org/videos.
Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Jeremy Tsai

Week of April 21

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Experiencing Christ as the Wheat and the Barley

“Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” (John 12:24)

“Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes into Me, even if he should die, shall live.” (John 11:25)

Whenever you are put into a situation by the Lord's sovereignty in which you are limited, in which you are pressed, you may experience the Lord as wheat. When in the midst of that limiting and pressing situation you contact the Lord, He is just as a grain of wheat to you. Immediately upon contacting Him, you can be completely satisfied with your situation and your limitation.

Actually, in order to experience Christ as the grain of wheat, the limited Jesus, we must apply Him as the barley, as the resurrected Christ. It is the resurrected Christ who is living in us. This resurrected Christ possesses a life that has passed through incarnation, crucifixion, and burial, but He Himself today is the resurrected One. Today we are following the limited Jesus, but we do it in the power of the unlimited Christ.

This kind of experience not only causes you to know Christ inwardly as the wheat and as the barley, but by this experience you become a grain of wheat; you become a loaf of barley. Then you are food for others. You are able to feed others by what you have experienced. (CWWL, 1961-1962, vol. 4, “The All-inclusive Christ,” pp. 234, 236, 237-238)

Church in Los Angeles Joint Meeting

The whole church in Los Angeles—all halls, districts, and languages—will meet together at 10:00 am this Lord's Day, April 28 at the LA Convention Center.

Please pray for a healthy attendance and blending, and for the timely speaking of the Lord to shepherd all the saints in the church to be brought on for the sake of His testimony in Los Angeles and for the building up of the reality of the Body of Christ, the preparation of the bride of Christ, and the manifestation of the kingdom of Christ.

Semiannual Training Live Registrations

The deadline to register for the in-person July Semiannual Training, July 1 to 6, in Anaheim ($205) is next Tuesday, April 30. Late registrations will not be accepted. For saints in LA, registration and payment instructions are at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla. Please contact your district's registration coordinator if you have any questions. Registrations for our local video trainings are due June 16.

We hope that many saints will seize the opportunity to participate in this training. As the Lord leads, may many be led of the Lord to budget their time and money so that they can attend the in-person meetings. As Paul commended Timothy, “You have closely followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, endurance” (2 Tim. 3:10). May we likewise closely follow the Lord's up-to-date speaking so that He may build His Body and prepare His bride.

2024 Olympics Bible Distribution

There is still space available for the last two gospel trips in August and September. For this special move in the Lord's recovery, please pray for:

The granting of the final approval from civic authorities for the distributions in a timely manner.
The Lord's casting “fire” on French-speaking Europe—France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland.
The logistics of all the Bibles going out to the various cities, that they would arrive on time and at the right destinations.
The Lord to release the saints needed for all the gospel trip teams.

The April 2024 issue of LSM's newsletter features an article on the current burden in the Lord's move in French-speaking Europe at newsletters.lsm.org/having-this-ministry. The application for gospel trips is at www.amanatrust.org.uk/page/2024Paris. Saints in LA burdened to give for the distribution and associated expenses can do so through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Paris Olympics.”

Israel

Taiwan

A major earthquake occurred in Hualien, Taiwan, on April 3. The meeting hall and some of the saints' homes were damaged. About 10 saints were injured and were discharged after being admitted to hospital. About forty saints were placed in temporary residences.

Please pray for the Lord's leading of the brothers in Taiwan concerning the best way to meet the need in Hualien, so that the church life there will continue in an uninterrupted way, and the testimony in that city will be stronger than ever. Pray for saints to be guarded by the peace of God (Phil. 4:7) and emboldened to speak the gospel (Eph. 6:19-20), and for the people of Taiwan to be open to receive the gospel and be transferred into God's unshakeable kingdom.

Saints in LA burdened to contribute toward the needs of the church and the saints in Hualien may do so through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Hualien Earthquake Relief.”

South Africa

This weekend, April 26 to 28, there will be a blending conference near Cape Town, South Africa. Cape Town is one of the strategic cities in South Africa targeted for strengthening the Lord's existing testimony. Despite living very far apart geographically, the saints endeavor to enter into the God-ordained way through a house-to-house church life. This is the first time since 2019 that this conference is taking place, and it represents a turning point for the church in Cape Town and the Western Cape area. At least 87 adults have registered, 36 of whom are from Cape Town, plus 15 young people and 19 children.

Please pray for the Lord's speaking for His move. Pray for the release, both outwardly and inwardly, of everyone who signed up to be able to attend this conference as open vessels to receive a fresh infusion of the divine dispensing and to be more blended together for the Lord's testimony in this outermost part of the earth!

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 3 of Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good Land…
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The ministry meeting continues this week starting at 7:25 pm.
Sixth Grade Preparation Meeting: This Saturday, April 27 there is a preparation meeting related to the Sixth Grade Conference at Oak Glen the following weekend, May 3 to 5. Please fellowship with the serving ones or go to scyp.com for more information.
Semiannual Training: July 1 to 6 in Anaheim. For LA saints, registration is open until April 30 (live) and June 16 (video) at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.
Memorial Day Conference: May 24 to 27 in Bellevue, WA. For LA saints attending in person, please RSVP by April 30 at tinyurl.com/memdayla. More information is linked at that site.
Bibles for America's most recent blog post, The Crucial Role of Our Mind in Our Christian Life, is available to read and share at blog.bfa.org. Helpful videos are also available at bfa.org/videos.
Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers free e-booklets to read and share. The latest release is “The Expression of a Life Which Lives Christ” at www.lsm.org/life-study-philippians.
Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Jeremy Tsai

Week of April 14

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Inheriting the All-inclusive Christ as the Good Land

“The whole commandment which I am commanding you today, you shall keep and do, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers.” (Deut. 8:1)

“All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” (2 Tim. 3:16)

The goal of God's calling of the children of Israel was that they would enter into the promised land to enjoy its riches so that they might establish God's kingdom and be God's expression on earth. In order to fully possess Christ as the good land, we must maintain our freshness and newness with the Lord by receiving His new speaking to us day by day. We must beware of languishing in the land (Deut. 4:25); the word languish implies “the loss of spiritual freshness, and the blunting of original impressions, produced by force of custom, or long residence in the same spot” (S. R. Driver).

If we love God, humble ourselves, and come to the Lord as the living word in His written word by pray-reading His Word, He becomes the applied word of the Spirit to us; His instant words are spirit and life to us for our supply and nourishment, we are infused with God's substance through His words, and we become one with God in life and nature but not in the Godhead for His glory, His expression. (Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good Land…, msg. 2, I, III.B.3-4)

May we all learn to love God, humble ourselves, and come to Lord as the living word so that we might become one with God to establish God's kingdom and to be God's expression on earth.

ITERO

The Spring 2024 International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones was held in Anaheim this past weekend, April 12 to 14. The general subject was “Being a Vessel unto Honor, a Fully Equipped Man of God, by Being Empowered in the Grace Which Is in Christ Jesus to Fully Accomplish Our Ministry in the Unique Ministry of God's Economy.”

Please pray that the Lord's up-to-date speaking would operate in brothers through their reviewing and praying over the messages, that they would “be empowered in the grace which is in Christ Jesus” to be “faithful men, who will be competent to teach others also” (2 Tim. 2:1-2).

USC Celebration Meeting

This Friday, April 19, we are having a special, end-of-year celebration meeting for college students at USC and in the downtown area. Please pray for:

The Lord to gather our students together, especially ones who were new with us this past year.
The students to fan their spirits into flame during the singing.
The rich overflow of Christ through testimonies from all the students that would bring glory to the Lord for all that He has done this past year.

European Brothers Training and Blending Conference

The Spring 2024 European Brothers' Training will take place in London at Woodland Camp from April 17 to 19. The brothers will review the messages from last week's ITERO in Anaheim. Please pray that the Lord will strengthen His testimony in Europe through this training.

Following the brothers' training, the Spring 2024 International Blending Conference will take place in London from April 20 to 21. Please pray for many saints to be able to attend and for the Lord to speak a timely word for the building up of His Body.

Israel

Pray for the situation in Israel and the Middle East, that through the prayers of the saints the evil rulers and authorities in the air, and the human agents used by them, will be bound, and God's interests will be furthered and His chosen ones preserved.

Taiwan

Please pray for the comfort, care, and safety of the saints in Hualien. Pray for saints to be guarded by the peace of God (Phil. 4:7) and emboldened to speak the gospel (Eph. 6:19-20), and for the people of Taiwan to be open to receive the gospel and be transferred into God's unshakeable kingdom.

Saints in LA who are burdened to contribute toward the needs of the church and the saints in Hualien may do so through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Hualien Earthquake Relief.”

Laos

In 2021, a family and two sisters received the burden to migrate from the capital Vientiane to Luang Prabang, the fourth-largest city in the country, for the spread of the Lord's testimony. Despite the ongoing pandemic and a difficult environment, the saints faithfully labored in one accord until they experienced a breakthrough and gained one family in a solid way and some gospel friends on the campus. In April 2022, the church in Luang Prabang had its first bread-breaking meeting.

This month, 6 FTTT trainees are visiting Laos for gospel trips. Please pray for the propagation in Vientiane and Luang Prabang in coordination with the trainees. May the Lord bless the churches in Laos to bear much remaining fruit for the Father's glory!

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 2 of Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good Land…
SAVE THE DATE: Lord's Day, April 28 we will have our spring LA Joint Meeting—all halls, all languages—beginning 10:00 am at the LA Convention Center.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The ministry meeting resumes this week starting at 7:25 pm.
Sixth Grade Conference: May 3 to 5 at Oak Glen. Registration is due April 21.
Semiannual Training: July 1 to 6 in Anaheim. For LA saints, registration is now open until April 30 (live) and June 16 (video) at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla. Past issues of LSM's digital newsletters contain helpful fellowship on the burden for semiannual trainings, the need for training and regulations, and the purpose of training donations.
Memorial Day Conference: May 24 to 27 in Bellevue, WA. For LA saints attending in person, please RSVP by April 30 at tinyurl.com/memdayla. More information is linked at that site.
Bibles for America has created a new video, What's the Difference between the Soul and the Spirit?, to explain how the soul and spirit are indeed different and why knowing the difference is crucial in our Christian life. This video is available to watch and share at bfa.org/videos.
Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers free e-booklets to read and share. The latest release is “The Expression of a Life Which Lives Christ” at www.lsm.org/life-study-philippians.
LSM Newsletter: The March 2024 issue features more encouraging FTTA Gospel Trip Testimonies and a report on the 55th Cairo International Book Fair. Go to lsm.org/daily.
Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Jeremy Tsai

Week of April 7

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Fighting for the Good Land

“Finally, be empowered in the Lord and in the might of His strength. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil. For our wrestling is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenlies.” (Eph. 6:10-12)

“For Jehovah your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of waterbrooks, of springs and of fountains, flowing forth in valleys and in mountains.” (Deut. 8:7)

If we read the Scriptures carefully, we will see that there is a battle for the good land. In order to understand the significance of the Israelites entering Canaan and the warfare in Canaan, we need to know that Canaan has a twofold significance in typology: on the positive side, Canaan, a land of riches, typifies the all-inclusive Christ with His unsearchable riches; on the negative side, Canaan signifies the aerial part, the heavenly part, of the dark kingdom of Satan, the heavenlies that are full of Satan's forces. (Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified By the Good Land…, msg. 1, I, II, A, B)

We must…remember that there are evil powers in the heavenlies. We must fight the battle with the enemy. We are enjoying a portion of the all-inclusive Christ, yet the enemy and his evil forces in the heavenlies are still usurping and occupying the land…As soon as we enjoy Christ in such a way, we realize in our spirit the reality of the evil forces in the heavenlies. These evil forces are veiling the all-inclusiveness of Christ from the Lord's children…There is an exceedingly real spiritual warfare in which we must engage. By enjoying something of the all-inclusive Christ, we will be burdened for this fighting; we will be burdened for this battle. That is why we have been formed as an army. The conflict is before us. (CWWL, 1961-1962, vol. 4, “The All-inclusive Christ,” p. 336)

ITERO

The Spring 2024 International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones will be held in Anaheim this weekend, April 12 to 14, as well as by webcasts around the world throughout this month. Please pray for the full release of the Lord's timely speaking with His burden to His Body, especially the elders and responsible ones, for the advancement of His economy on the whole earth.

Spring College Conference

Thank you, saints, for praying with us for the Southern California College Conference in Arcadia this past weekend. In total, 65 college students and 7 high school seniors from LA participated.

The conference, entitled “Whose House We Are,” covered crucial revelations of the church as the house of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth, the mystery of godliness, and a dwelling place of God in spirit. The speaking was practical and highlighted our cooperation to build up the church by exercising our spirit, growing in life, and meeting on the proper ground, the ground of oneness.

Our students' response to the messages was very positive, especially related to our personal experience of our spirit being crucial for the building up of the church. The Lord's blessing was surely with us, as many students came to more meetings than they had originally planned. Furthermore, on the last day, four college students were baptized, including two from LA. Praise the Lord! Please continue to labor with us through prayer that many of these students would give themselves to be living stones built up together as God's house on the proper ground.

Bibles for America

Last year, Facebook ads were responsible for 68% of all BfA's Bible orders. Recently, Facebook updates have caused significant disruption for advertisers and users alike. Keeping up with their changing algorithm is always challenging, but this last month has been particularly difficult. The cost per Bible order has increased by almost 60% while producing only 30% of the usual number of orders.

Please pray that BfA would have a breakthrough in using new strategies for ad campaigns. Pray that the Lord would be wisdom to us in how to establish ads in a cost-effective way that would allow us to reach more people. Pray also that the Lord would continue to work behind the scenes to make the digital advertising environment fit for the going out of His Word.

Europe

Teams of trainees from the Full-time Training in Taipei have traveled to a number of cities in Europe this month to blend with the local saints and serving ones and to spread the gospel of the kingdom to the local people. Pray for the Lord's blessing on these trips for the increase and building up of His Body.

Taiwan

“Therefore receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly with piety and fear.” (Heb. 12:28)

Last Wednesday, April 3, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the island of Taiwan. The epicenter was near the city of Hualien, where the meeting hall of the church has sustained damage and a number of saints' homes have collapsed, forcing the saints to take shelter elsewhere.

Please pray for saints to be guarded by the peace of God (Phil. 4:7) and emboldened to speak the gospel (Eph. 6:19-20), and for the people of Taiwan to be open to receive the gospel and be transferred into God's unshakeable kingdom.

Turkey

Pray for the propagation work in Adana to be strengthened that the saints can be perfected and built up to be His lampstand. With nearly 2.3 million people, Adana is the fifth most populous city in Turkey.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 1 of Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good Land…
No Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: There is no ministry meeting this week due to preparations for ITERO. The meeting will resume next week, April 17.
SAVE THE DATE: Lord's Day, April 28 we will have our spring LA Joint Meeting—all halls, all languages—beginning at 10:00 at the LA Convention Center.
Semiannual Training: July 1 to 6 in Anaheim. For LA saints, registration is now open until April 30 (live) and June 16 (video) at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla. Past issues of LSM's digital newsletter contain helpful fellowship on the burden for semiannual trainings, the need for training and regulations, and the purpose of training donations.
Memorial Day Conference: May 24 to 27 in Bellevue, WA. For LA saints attending in person, please RSVP by April 30 at tinyurl.com/memdayla. More information is linked at that site.
Sixth Grade Conference: May 3 to 5 at Oak Glen. Registration is due April 21.
Bibles for America has created a new video, What's the Difference between the Soul and the Spirit?, to explain how the soul and spirit are indeed different and why knowing the difference is crucial in our Christian life. This video is available to watch and share at bfa.org/videos.
Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers free e-booklets to read and share. The latest release is “The Expression of a Life Which Lives Christ” at www.lsm.org/life-study-philippians.
LSM Newsletter: The March 2024 issue features more encouraging FTTA Gospel Trip Testimonies and a report on the 55th Cairo International Book Fair. Go to lsm.org/daily.
Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Jeremy Tsai

Week of March 31

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The Church as the Bride Being a Warrior to Defeat God's Enemy

“Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” (Rev. 19:7)

“Therefore take up the whole armor of God…And receive the helmet of salvation and 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 and watching unto this in all perseverance and petition concerning all the saints.” (Eph. 6:13a, 17-18)

The joy set before us is the Lord Jesus, the Bridegroom, coming for His bride, who has made herself ready—the maturity of the bride, the building of the bride, the righteousness of the bride, the beauty of the bride, and the bride being a warrior to defeat God's enemy. (The Enjoyment of Christ and Our Growth in Life unto Maturity, msg. 6, Key Statement 4)

Spiritual warfare is not an individual matter; it is a matter of the Body, a corporate entity to fight the battle against God's enemy. No soldier in a modern army would enter into battle by himself. Rather, he would fight as part of a well-trained and fully equipped army. After we have been formed corporately into an army, we will be able to fight against God's enemy…Therefore, it is very dangerous to be isolated from the army. Only by remaining in the army will we have the necessary protection.

In Ephesians 5 the word is for nourishment that leads to the beautifying of the bride, but in Ephesians 6 the word is for killing that enables the church as the corporate warrior to engage in spiritual warfare. Pray-reading the Word of God is the way to kill the adversary within us. Every day and in every kind of situation, we should pray-read. Whenever we are troubled by something negative within us, we should take the Word of God by means of prayer in spirit. As we do this, the negative element will be killed.

In Ephesians 6:17 Paul charges us to receive “the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God.” This means that we need to take the word of the Bible as a sword for fighting the enemy. According to Paul's word in this verse, the word of God is the sword not directly but indirectly…The sword is not the word directly. Rather, the sword is the Spirit directly, and then the Spirit is the word. This indicates that if we would deal with the enemy Satan, the word of the Bible must become the Spirit. If we would use the word of the Bible as a sword to kill the enemy, in our experience the word must be the Spirit. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 4340-4342)

Southern California College Conference

The weekend, April 5 to 7, a conference for all the college students in Southern California will take place in Arcadia. The title of this conference is “Whose House We Are,” about the church as the dwelling place of God. Please pray for:

Many students (including our current high school seniors), especially those who are younger or newer, to attend at least 2 to 3 meetings.
The Lord to carry the students away in spirit, especially through the singing.
The eyes of the students' hearts to be enlightened that they may see a vision of God's house today!

Southern California Junior High Sisters Conference

This weekend, April 5 to 7, sisters from across Southern California will gather at Oak Glen for the Spring 2024 Junior High Sisters Conference on “The Precious Blood of Christ.” Please pray:

For the Lord to prepare the hearts of all of the young sisters attending the conference.
That they would experience and appreciate the precious blood of Christ (1 Peter 1:19).
That companionships would be built through spending time together during the conference.

Also pray for the junior school brothers returning from their conference last weekend, that they would enter into the experience of applying this precious blood to deal with any sins and offenses to maintain their fellowship with the Lord in their daily life.

Santa Barbara

The church life in Santa Barbara, California consists of about 25 saints who meet regularly (10 to 15 college students, 2 elderly couples, a few younger couples, and a few working saints) in several open homes. Some other couples and students have the heart to meet, but struggle to do so with young children and school or work commitments. When the FTTA trainees visited in early February, two such couples brought their children for a short time of singing; some of the students we rarely see also joined. In brief, through the FTTA gospel trip, saints of all ages were encouraged and uplifted to go on in the church life with a view for the Lord to recover the existing saints who are not meeting as well as gain new ones for His increase.

We are grateful for the prayers of the Body! Please join us to pray for:

The busy saints with their children to make time for the church life.
The Lord to send some incoming freshmen, transfers, and graduate students to UCSB to be normal functioning members and strengthen the church life in Santa Barbara.
Some community saints to migrate to Santa Barbara to open their homes for the sake of the Lord's increase and testimony in Santa Barbara.
More saints from nearby localities to visit and blend on Lord's Days to strengthen the meetings and motivate existing families and new ones to participate.

Iceland

A team of 12 saints from different continents were in Iceland from March 24 to 30 to preach the gospel and distribute ministry publications. They had copies of The Mystery of Human Life in Icelandic to distribute throughout the places visited and also gave out NT Recovery Versions at the university. The saints reported that people they met on the campus were really open.

May the Lord soften the hearts of the people in Iceland, remind those who took some literature to read it and receive Him, and arrange some follow-up contact with the saints.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 6 of The Enjoyment of Christ and Our Growth in Life unto Maturity. Next week, starting April 8, we begin the two volumes of Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good Land for the Building Up of the Church... (from the December 2023 Semiannual Training).
Semiannual Training: July 1 to 6 in Anaheim. For LA saints, registration is now open until April 30 (live) and June 16 (video) at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla. Past issues of LSM's digital newsletter contain helpful fellowship on the burden for semiannual trainings, the need for training and regulations, and the purpose of training donations.
Memorial Day Conference: May 24 to 27 in Bellevue, WA. For LA saints considering attending in person, please RSVP by April 30 at tinyurl.com/memdayla. More information is available at that site.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The ministry meeting continues this week starting at 7:25 pm.
LSM Newsletter: The March 2024 issue features more encouraging FTTA Gospel Trip Testimonies and a report on the 55th Cairo International Book Fair. Go to lsm.org/daily.
Bibles for America's blog post, What Does It Mean to Walk According to the Spirit in Romans 8?, is available to read and share at blog.bfa.org.
Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers free e-booklets to read and share. The latest release is “Magnifying Christ by Living Him” at www.lsm.org/life-study-philippians.
LSM Radio Programs: Life-study of the Bible with Witness Lee focuses on the enjoyment of the divine life as revealed in the Scriptures. Spoken ministry portions are followed by a lively discussion. All episodes available for free at www.lsmradio.com/programs.
Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Jeremy Tsai

Week of March 24

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Speaking According to the Heavenly Vision

“And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” (Rev. 21:2)

“And having the same spirit of faith according to that which is written, ‘I believed, therefore I spoke,' we also believe, therefore we also speak.” (2 Cor. 4:13)

Joseph, a “master of dreams” (Gen. 37:19), dreamed that, according to God's view, His people are sheaves of wheat full of life and heavenly bodies full of light. Joseph's two dreams, both from God, unveiled to him God's divine view concerning the nature, position, function, and goal of God's people on earth. We have to use the “divine telescope” to see through time and behold the New Jerusalem, where there is nothing but sheaves full of life and stars full of light. Thus, the reigning aspect of the mature life never speaks negatively concerning the saints or the church.

Although his own dreams were not yet fulfilled, Joseph had the faith and the boldness to interpret the dreams of his two companions in prison. Eventually, Joseph was released from prison indirectly through his speaking by faith in interpreting the cupbearer's dream, and he was ushered to the throne directly through his speaking boldly in interpreting Pharaoh's dreams. Both release and authority came to him through his speaking.

We should not speak according to our feelings but according to the heavenly vision. We are visionaries, seers, of God's eternal economy, so we should speak according to the absoluteness of the truth of His economy. (The Enjoyment of Christ and Our Growth in Life unto Maturity, msg. 5, I.B, 1; E, 3)

SoCal Junior High Brothers Conference

This weekend, March 29 to 31, brothers from across Southern California will gather at Oak Glen for the Spring 2024 Junior High Brothers Conference on “The Precious Blood of Christ.” For this conference, please pray:

For the Lord to prepare the hearts of all of the young brothers in Southern California.
That they would experience and appreciate the precious blood of Christ (1 Peter 1:19).
That companionships would be built through spending time together during the conference.

College Conference Registrations

The Southern California Spring College Conference is coming up April 5 to 7 and will take place in Arcadia. The title of this conference is “Whose House We Are,” which will be about the church as the dwelling place of God. The registration deadline is this Lord's Day, March 31. Please pray for:

Many students (including our current high school seniors), especially those who are younger or newer, to register and commit to attend at least 2 to 3 meetings.
The Lord to carry the students away in spirit, especially through the singing.
The eyes of the students' hearts to be enlightened that they may see a vision of God's house today!

2024 Olympics Bible Distribution

There is room for more saints to participate in the Lord's move in France during the upcoming Summer Olympics. There are still places on the four trips taking place in August and September. For this special move in the Lord's recovery, please pray:

That the Lord will release the saints needed for the trips and the brothers needed to lead them.
For the formation of all the gospel trip teams.
For the timely communication with the civil authorities and favorable views from them.
That the Lord will encourage the saints in France, add to them, and raise up more lampstands—including in Luxembourg.

Updated information and an application form are at www.amanatrust.org.uk/page/2024Paris. Applications for each trip will close when capacity is reached.

Saints in LA who are burdened to give for the Bible distribution and other associated expenses can do so through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Paris Olympics.”

Germany

Please pray for the preparation of the FTTT gospel trip taking place on April 3 to 17 in Hamburg, Bremen, and Hanover.

Sri Lanka

Pray for the saints to enter into the riches of the Life-study of John daily in order to be vital persons to carry out the God-ordained way. As was mentioned in the December 2023 issue of the Lord's Move to Asia, the saints are burdened to preach the gospel and shepherd people so that there could be the multiplication of districts and small groups for the increase of the church. Specifically, ask the Lord for the number of saints in the church in Colombo to reach 100 by June of this year.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 5 of The Enjoyment of Christ and Our Growth in Life unto Maturity. After next week, starting April 8, we begin Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good Land for the Building Up of the Church... (from the December 2023 Semiannual Training).
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The ministry meeting continues this week starting at 7:25 pm.
Junior High Conferences: At Oak Glen for brothers, March 29 to 31; for sisters, April 5 to 7.
LSM Newsletter: The March 2024 issue features more encouraging FTTA Gospel Trip Testimonies and a report on the 55th Cairo International Book Fair. Go to lsm.org/daily.
Bibles for America's blog post, What Does It Mean to Walk According to the Spirit in Romans 8?, is available to read and share at blog.bfa.org.
Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers free e-booklets to read and share. The latest release is “Magnifying Christ by Living Him” at www.lsm.org/life-study-philippians.
Memorial Day Conference: The 2024 International Memorial Day Blending Conference will be held in Bellevue, WA at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue Hotel from May 24 to 27. Saints in LA who are considering attending in person are asked to RSVP by April 30 at tinyurl.com/memdayla. More information, including recommended hotels at discounted rates, is available at that site.
LSM Radio Programs: Life-study of the Bible with Witness Lee focuses on the enjoyment of the divine life as revealed in the Scriptures. Spoken ministry portions are followed by a lively discussion. All episodes available for free at www.lsmradio.com/programs.
Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Jeremy Tsai

Week of March 17

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Experiencing the Transmission of the All-Inclusive Christ

“If therefore you were raised together with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.” (Col. 3:1)

“But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.” (1 Cor. 6:17)

Our position is that we are in Christ. Because we are in Him, we are where He is—at the right hand of God…What makes this real is that we are one spirit with the Lord. It is when we are in the spirit that we are in Christ, in the Father, and in heaven practically and experientially.

Praise the Lord that transmission is going on from heaven to our spirit! When we experience this transmission, we are truly in Christ, in the Father, and in heaven. Our spirit is directly related to heaven. The heavenly transmission begins in heaven and ends in our spirit. Because we may experience and enjoy this unique transmission, there is no need for us to go to heaven in order to be in heaven. Simply by being in our spirit where we experience the transmission from heaven, we are in heaven. [We] are connected to heaven by the divine transmission, which flows from the throne of God in heaven into our spirit. (Life-study of Colossians, 2nd edition, pp. 510-511)

UCLA Blending Trips

Spring is upon us, and during the academic year this is a time where many college students take the opportunity to visit other localities, blend with the saints, and attend the FTTA short-term training.

Next week, two groups from UCLA will be participating in blending trips. Around 15 saints will travel to Austin, Texas to visit the church there. Another group of 10 will go up to San Jose to blend with churches in that area. Please pray that:

The Lord would sovereignly cover the health, travel, and weather so that all the saints could enjoy the Lord to the uttermost and none would be hindered from fully participating.
All the students would enjoy the fellowship during the trips, get a taste of blending, and experience the sweet Body life.
The saints providing hospitality would be supplied with the Lord as grace as they receive our saints into their homes.

Hall 3 Blending Trip

This weekend, March 23 to 24, the saints in Hall 3 will visit the church in San Diego. On Saturday evening, they will have a blending and gospel meeting together. Over 50 people (including young people, children, and gospel friends) have registered for this trip. Please pray for:

Everyone to have an open heart and be supplied and encouraged by the divine supply in the Body.
All the saints to go through the cross, by the Spirit, dispensing Christ to one another for the sake of being blended in the Body life for the reality of the Body of Christ.
For the gospel friends to be saved and baptized on this trip.

Spring European University Conference

This weekend, March 22 to 24, a conference will take place in the Netherlands for university students in Europe. The subject will be “The Centre of the Universe.” Please pray that:

The Lord will speak a timely word to the university students in Europe and will gain them for His final move to prepare for His coming.
Each attendee will see a vision of the crucified and resurrected Christ and will be constrained by the Lord’s love to “waste themselves” on Him.
The enemy will be bound and utterly shamed, both in the outward environment of all the aspects of the conference and in the minds of all the conference attendees.
The Lord will bless all the service before and during the conference, cover all the travel to and from the conference, and release the very best weather for the conference weekend.

2024 Olympics Bible Distribution

There is still room for many more saints to participate in the Lord’s move in France during the 2024 Summer Olympics. There are still places on the four trips taking place in August and September.

Besides the burden for France, there is also a burden for the Lord’s move in the neighboring country of Luxembourg. One town, Mertzig, will be targeted in all the distribution trips from late July to early September.

For this special move in the Lord’s recovery, please pray:

That the Lord will release the number of saints needed for the remainder of the gospel trips in August and September and the brothers required to lead these trips.
For the formation of all the gospel trip teams.
For the clear and timely communication between us and the civil authorities and favorable views from them.
That the Lord will encourage the saints in France, add to them, and raise up more lampstands—including in Luxembourg.

Updated information and an application form are at www.amanatrust.org.uk/page/2024Paris. Applications for each trip will close when capacity is reached.

Saints in LA who are burdened to give for the Bible distribution and other associated expenses can do so through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Paris Olympics.”

Ukraine

Please pray that the Lord will protect the tripartite being of all the saints and will rule in the heavens over every aspect of this conflict so that the result will advance His economy on earth.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 4 of The Enjoyment of Christ and Our Growth in Life unto Maturity.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The ministry meeting on “The Crucial Points of the Truth in Paul’s Epistles—2 Corinthians” continues this Wednesday at 7:25 pm.
Bibles for America’s new blog post, What Does It Mean to Walk According to the Spirit in Romans 8?, is available to read and share at blog.bfa.org.
Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers free e-booklets to read and share. The latest release is “Magnifying Christ by Living Him” at www.lsm.org/life-study-philippians.
LSM Newsletter: The February 2024 issue of Living Stream Ministry’s digital newsletter features encouraging FTTA Gospel Trip Testimonies. Go to lsm.org/daily.
Junior High Conferences: At Oak Glen for brothers, March 29 to 31 (registration due March 17); for sisters, April 5 to 7 (registration due March 31).
Memorial Day Conference: The 2024 International Memorial Day Blending Conference will be held in Bellevue, WA at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue Hotel from May 24 to 27. Saints in LA who are considering attending in person are asked to RSVP by April 30 at tinyurl.com/memdayla. More information, including recommended hotels at discounted rates, is available at that site.
Ways to Give: Information about the church’s online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Jeremy Tsai

Week of March 10

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Dealing with Our Heart

“Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the issues of life.” (Prov. 4:23)

“For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” (Matt. 12:34b)

“For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.” (Rom. 8:6)

We need to see the subjective obstacles encountered by God’s life in our heart. The first subjective problem is the problem of our mind. When our mind is set on the spirit, our outward actions are in agreement with our inner man, and there is no discrepancy between us and God. He and we are at peace, not at enmity. The result is that we feel peaceful within. The second subjective problem is the problem of our will. Both a strong will and a weak will to carry out the Lord’s will are hindrances to God’s life. A will that has been dealt with is both strong and pliable by being subdued and resurrected by the Lord. Having a will that can cooperate with God is a great matter. The third subjective problem is the problem of our emotion. We should love whatever God loves, like whatever God likes, and hate whatever God hates. Our emotion and His emotion should become one emotion.

We must deal with our heart in the light of the Lord’s presence for the growth of the divine seed of life within us unto our maturity in life. The heart is the conglomerate of man’s inward parts, man’s chief representative, his acting agent. The heart is the entrance and exit of life, the “switch” of life. If the heart is not right, life in the spirit is hindered, and the law of life cannot work freely and without obstruction to reach every part of our being. Though life has great power, this great power is controlled by our small heart. (The Enjoyment of Christ and Our Growth in Life unto Maturity, msg. 3, IV, A, 3, B, 3, C, 2; I, E)

High School Sisters Conference

The Southern California High School Sisters Conference takes place this weekend, March 15 to 17, at Oak Glen. The topic this season is “The Good Land.” Please pray:

For the Lord to prepare the hearts of each high school sister this week.
That each one would appreciate and experience inheriting the all-inclusive Christ as the good land.
That companionships would be built through spending time together during the conference.

Also pray for the high school brothers returning from their conference last weekend, that they would enter into what they heard and also appreciate and experience the all-inclusive Christ as the good land this week in their daily life and in the church life.

High School Seniors

During the months of March and April, high school seniors find out which colleges have offered them admission. In the church in Los Angeles, we have 8 brothers and 10 sisters who are graduating from high school this year. Please pray:

For all of our seniors in LA to be open to the Lord for His leading and to the Body for shepherding fellowship related to their college decision and future.
For the Lord to place each senior in the best place and situation for them to grow in life and be useful to the Lord for His purpose.
That the Lord would send open and seeking vessels from around the United States and the world to our college campuses in LA for us to contact and gain for His glory!

FTTA-MA

The spring term of the Middle-age Training in Anaheim begins next week on March 18. The goal of the training is to foster living, functioning, overcoming members of the Body of Christ for the fulfillment of God’s eternal purpose!

Please pray for the Lord’s covering and blessing of all the trainees, serving ones, and their families. Pray for the rich infusion of the truth into each trainee and for the Lord’s maturing them through His moving within each one and His using the outward environment.

2024 Olympics Bible Distribution

There is still room for many more saints to participate in the Lord’s move in France during the 2024 Summer Olympics. The quotas for the gospel teams during the Torch Relay from July 21 to 30 have now been filled, but there are still places on the four trips between July 31 and September 9.

Besides the burden for France, there is also a burden for the Lord’s move in the neighboring country of Luxembourg. In fact, one town in central Luxembourg, Mertzig, will be targeted in all the distribution trips from late July to early September.

For this special move in the Lord’s recovery, please pray:

That the Lord will release the number of saints needed for the remainder of the gospel trips in August and September and the brothers required to lead these trips.
For the formation of all the gospel trip teams.
For the clear and timely communication between us and the civil authorities and favorable views from them.
That the Lord will encourage the saints in France, add to them, and raise up more lampstands—including in Luxembourg.

Updated information and an application form are at www.amanatrust.org.uk/page/2024Paris. Applications for each trip will close when capacity is reached.

Saints in LA who are burdened to give for the Bible distribution and other associated expenses can do so through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Paris Olympics.”

Germany – Stuttgart

Pray that following the resubmission of the architect’s application, the city will approve the request for the renovation of the meeting hall in Stuttgart without delay so that the saints can begin this renovation as soon as possible.

Azerbaijan

Pray for the saints’ enjoyment of the Lord to be preserved through morning revival, reading the Life-studies, and attending meetings to gain life and light, be constituted with the truth, and grow in life.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 3 of The Enjoyment of Christ and Our Growth in Life unto Maturity.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The ministry meeting on “The Crucial Points of the Truth in Paul’s Epistles—2 Corinthians” continues this Wednesday at 7:25 pm.
Junior High Conferences: At Oak Glen for brothers, March 29 to 31 (registration due March 17); for sisters, April 5 to 7 (registration due March 31).
Memorial Day Conference: The 2024 International Memorial Day Blending Conference will be held in Bellevue, WA at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue Hotel from May 24 to 27. Saints in LA who are considering attending in person are asked to RSVP by April 30 at tinyurl.com/memdayla. More information, including recommended hotels at discounted rates, is available at that site.
Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers free e-booklets to read and share. The latest release is “Magnifying Christ by Living Him” at www.lsm.org/life-study-philippians.
LSM Newsletter: The February 2024 issue of Living Stream Ministry’s digital newsletter features encouraging FTTA Gospel Trip Testimonies. Go to lsm.org/daily.
Living to Him has a podcast series particularly helpful to working saints, available on all major podcasting services at livingtohim.com/the-living-to-him-podcast.
Bibles for America’s most recent blog post is available to read and share at blog.bfa.org.
Ways to Give: Information about the church’s online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Jeremy Tsai

Week of March 3

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Enjoying, Rejoicing, and Exulting with Joy

“…And do not be grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.” (Neh. 8:10)

“Whom having not seen, you love; into whom though not seeing Him at present, yet believing, you exult with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory.” (1 Pet. 1:8)

A sweet thought revealed in the Word of God is that in Christ God has given Himself to us as grace to be our enjoyment. God’s desire is to give Himself to us to be our enjoyment. The secret to the Christian life is not how much we work for Him but how much we absorb Him and enjoy Him. (The Enjoyment of Christ and Our Growth in Life unto Maturity, msg. 2, I.C.4, c)

We need to rejoice, but it does not mean that we wait for some pleasant things to happen for us to rejoice. The indwelling Lord is the cause of our rejoicing, and the Holy Spirit who moves within us is the motivation of our constant rejoicing. If we live in the fellowship of the Triune God and experience and enjoy the Spirit, we will have the joy that is brought to us by the Spirit. (Truth Lessons—Level Two, vol. 4, pp. 60-61)

This joy [in 1 Peter 1:8] is immersed in the Lord as glory; thus, it is full of the expression of the Lord. This joy is also unspeakable; it is a joy that is beyond our ability to utter…By believing into the Lord and loving Him, we obtain great joy. The normal condition of a Christian is to “exult with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory.” (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3854-3855)

High School Brothers Conference

This weekend, March 8 to 10, is the Southern California High School Brothers Conference at Oak Glen. The topic this season is “The Good Land.” Please pray:

For the Lord to prepare the hearts of each young person this week.
That each one would appreciate and experience inheriting the all-inclusive Christ as the good land.
That companionships would be built through spending time together during the conference.

Germany – Young People’s Conference

The general subject of this weekend’s German-speaking young people’s conference at Gut Elim, March 8 to 10, is “Salvation in God’s Economy.” Pray that the Lord will prepare the hearts of the young people to be the good ground to receive the word spoken in the conference. Pray that during the conference every young person will be shepherded and will have a companion. Pray that the young people will contact and enjoy the Lord.

Germany – Stuttgart

During the last October’s gospel outreach, the church in Stuttgart prayed specifically for gaining five local German students. The Lord answered and five local Germans contacted in October are now meeting regularly. These ones have also brought two more, so the total number remaining is seven Germans plus some international students. Hallelujah! Lord, we thank You and praise You! Lord, continue to gain these ones in a solid way as remaining fruit for the church!

Bible Distribution in France

There is still the opportunity for 400 more saints to participate in the Lord’s move in France during the 2024 Olympics from mid-July to September. Saints with some knowledge of French are especially requested, but knowledge of the language is not required since English will be the main language for coordination.

Financial contributions are also needed to support the operation of these gospel trips since there are expenses involved in reserving rooms for coordination, purchasing Bible distribution kits, transporting thousands of Bibles to each city, etc.

Finally, please continue to remember before the Lord this matter of His move in the French-speaking world and in particular the Bible distributions during the Torch Relay and Olympics. Petition the Lord concerning His wisdom to the saints planning these trips, as well as the praying and going from churches around the world, including from Los Angeles.

Saints in LA who are burdened to give for the Bible distribution and other associated expenses can do so through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Paris Olympics.” Updated information and an application form are at www.amanatrust.org.uk/page/2024Paris. The applications for each trip will close when capacity is reached.

Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste, or East Timor, is a Southeast Asian nation with fewer than 1.5 million inhabitants, most of whom are Catholic. The two official languages are Portuguese and Tetum, with English and Indonesian designated as working languages. Currently, the saints in the capital, Dili, are burdened for more of their friends and relatives to receive the gospel. Please pray for the saints to be channels of blessing to all these warm doors for the increase of the Lord’s testimony in Timor-Leste!

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 2 of The Enjoyment of Christ and Our Growth in Life unto Maturity.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The ministry meeting on “The Crucial Points of the Truth in Paul’s Epistles—2 Corinthians” continues this Wednesday at 7:25 pm.
Memorial Day Conference: The 2024 International Memorial Day Blending Conference will be held in Bellevue, WA at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue Hotel from May 24 to 27. Saints in LA who are considering attending in person are asked to RSVP by April 30 at tinyurl.com/memdayla. More information, including recommended hotels at discounted rates, is available at that site.
ICSC: Archived messages from the recent International Chinese-speaking Blending Conference in Taipei are available to watch for free until March 12 at lsmwebcast.com.
LSM Digital Resources: Living Stream Ministry’s many digital resources, including apps and free booklets, may be found at lsm.org/daily. The February 2024 newsletter features encouraging FTTA Gospel Trip Testimonies.
Bibles for America’s most recent post, How Can We Experience Christ Living in Us?, is available to read and share at blog.bfa.org.
High School Conferences: At Oak Glen for brothers, March 8 to 10 (registration was due February 25); for sisters, March 15 to 17 (registration due March 3).
Junior High Conferences: At Oak Glen for brothers, March 29 to 31 (registration due March 17); for sisters, April 5 to 7 (registration due March 31).
Ways to Give: Information about the church’s online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Jeremy Tsai

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