Week of May 15
Running the Christian Race by Looking Away unto Jesus
"Therefore let us also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, put away every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us and run with endurance the race which is set before us, looking away unto Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down on the right hand of the throne of God." (Heb 12:1-2)
The Christian life is a race. Every saved Christian must run the race to win the prize (1 Cor. 9:24). We need to run with endurance, asking the Lord to direct our hearts into the love of God and into the endurance of Christ (2 Thes. 3:5).
We can live the Christian life, run the Christian race, by looking away unto Jesus with undivided attention by turning away from every other object. Jesus is the Author of faith, the Originator, the Inaugurator, the source, and the cause of faith. In our natural man we have no believing ability, but when we look away unto Jesus, He as the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b) transfuses us with Himself, with His believing element. Then spontaneously, a kind of believing arises in our being, and we have the faith to believe in Him. This faith is not of ourselves but of Him who imparts Himself as the believing element into us that He may believe for us. (Spring 2022 ITERO, God's Economy in Faith, msg. 4, I.B-C, II.A-C)
Lord, in this final stretch of the race, continue to infuse every member of the church in Los Angeles with more faith!
Memorial Day Conference
The 2022 International Memorial Day Blending Conference will be held both in person in Anaheim on the LSM campus and online via webcast. All the saints are invited and encouraged to attend. The first message is on Friday, May 27 at 7:00 pm and the last message is on Monday, May 30 at 10:00 am. The general subject is "Taking the Way to Enjoy Christ as the Tree of Life." Saints may download the conference outlines beginning May 24 at http://conf.lsmwebcast.com.
Please pray for the Lord to take more crucial steps in the advancement of His purpose during this gathering and for many saints to be released and empowered to attend. Pray also for the Lord's wisdom and grace to those overseeing all practical and logistical preparations.
Campus Retreat Follow-up
Thank you, saints, for all of your prayers for last week's campus team retreat from May 9 to 12. Over 320 full-timers from around the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico came together for fellowship and blending. The Lord's presence was with us in each session, and many were encouraged through the Lord's speaking. May the Lord continue to move among and through all those laboring with the next generation in all of the churches!
Ukraine
"During the Babylonian captivity Daniel prayed toward the Holy Land, the holy city, and the holy temple three times a day by opening his window toward Jerusalem (Dan. 6:10). This indicates that God will listen to our prayer when our prayer to God is toward Christ, the kingdom of God, and the house of God as the goal in God's eternal economy. This means that no matter for whom we are praying, our prayers should be aimed at the interests of God, i.e., at Christ and the church as God's interests on earth, for the fulfilling of God's economy." (Footnote on 1 Kings 8:48)
Please continue to pray for the ruling of the heavens over the entire situation so that:
- The shipment of Russian NT Recovery Versions will be released to pass through customs and be distributed among the refugees in Europe.
- The gospel teams who labor among the refugees will be filled with the Spirit inwardly and outwardly and will lead the chosen ones to receive the Lord as their dynamic salvation and to enter the church life.
- The saints in Ukraine and the refugees in the European countries will receive the supply of the resurrection life and will rise up to live and proclaim the gospel to their fellow Ukrainians.
- The tripartite being of the saints who are under attack, including the brothers fighting in the army, will be protected and preserved.
- The Ukrainian families that have been separated by the war will be preserved and eventually reunited for God's economy.
- Those who care for the Ukrainian refugees in Europe will enjoy the Lord as their bountiful supply of grace, wisdom, and endurance.
- Satan and the authority of darkness over Europe will be bound, and God's move in His economy will advance.
As the Lord leads, saints may give through the Church in Los Angeles designated for 'Ukraine'.
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is currently in the midst of an economic crisis, resulting in fuel and medicine shortages and anti-government protests. Please pray for the Sri Lankan government to solve the economic crisis so that the saints may lead a quiet and peaceful life. Also pray for this generation of university students to be captured by the Lord during this time of drastic change.
Announcements
- Morning Revival: REPEAT Week 4 of Crystallization-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, vol. 1.
- July Semiannual Training: The general subject will be on 1 and 2 Kings. Registration for webcasts in LA ($130) is still open until Tuesday, June 14. Information and registration for LA saints are at http://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla. In preparation, saints are encouraged to read the Recovery Version with footnotes and the Life-studies as their time allows.
- Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: Live broadcast this Wednesday beginning at 7:25 pm at http://lsm.org/live in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean. Outlines will be posted on the same site.
- Bibles for America continues to offer easy-to-use resources for telling people about God's salvation. Visit http://gospel.bfa.org (English) or http://gospel.bfa.org/es (Español).
- LSM Newsletter: The April issue of "Having This Ministry…" contains enriching articles such as "Knowing the Time That We Are in and the Lord's Work of Recovery" and "The History and Significance of the Life-study and Crystallization-study Trainings."
- Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.
Week of May 8
Christ Being the Center and Content of the Church
"And they shall call His name Emmanuel (which is translated, God with us)." (Matt. 1:23b)
"And He is the Head of the Body, the church; He is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that He Himself might have the first place in all things." (Col. 1:18)
"And the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle." (Exo. 40:34b)
Christ has gained us so that we might gain Him in order for God to be built into us and for us to be built into Him to become a corporate God-man, the reality of the church as the tabernacle of God, which is the house of the living God, the mutual abode of God and man.
In order to enter into the reality of the Body of Christ, we must see the intrinsic significance of the Ark. The Ark typifies Christ as the presence of the Triune God with His people for the carrying out of His economy to establish His kingdom on earth. The Ark was the center and content of the tabernacle, signifying Christ as the center and content of the church. The Ark being the first item mentioned in the vision of the tabernacle indicates that Christ occupies the place of preeminence in the church. (Crystallization-study of 1 and 2 Samuel, msg. 4, I, II, A-B).
The Church in Los Angeles
The whole church in Los Angeles will meet together this Lord's Day, May 15 at 10:00 am at Hall 1 and Hall 2. Please pray for a strong and healthy attendance so that together we may "run with endurance the race which is set before us, looking away unto Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith" (Heb. 12:1-2). Pray for a rich time of blending among the saints—across all the languages, ages, districts, and halls—for the Lord to gain His shining testimony and expression in Los Angeles.
Campus Team Retreat
From Monday, May 9 to Thursday, May 12, more than 330 full-timers from around the US and Canada who serve with college students and young people will gather at Oak Glen. Please pray for:
- The Lord to blend everyone together and harmonize us to invite God's blessing on the work with the next generation.
- The Spirit to speak, lead, and guide us to advance in our care for all these ones.
- The mutual encouragement and supply to be ministered all of the serving ones, strengthening and encouraging them in their service to the Lord.
Our Sixth Graders
This past weekend, 8 sixth graders from across Los Angeles participated in the in-person Sixth Grade Conference at Oak Glen. The main topic was "Where Are You?" with an emphasis on knowing your sinful condition before God, not hiding from God, and the salvation of God in the Church. Through the messages, singing, and group times each young person realized their need; all were convicted to pray to the Lord for their personal, definite and specific salvation.
The saints can pray for these "new ones" to:
- Declare publicly their salvation by being baptized in the coming weeks.
- Have a healthy and normal entrance into the church life and the practices of a normal Christian.
- Pray to the Lord just as they are and to develop a healthy habit of reading the Bible.
- Find companions and home meetings, even this week, to enter into the fellowship of the Body.
Ukraine
Please continue to pray for the ruling of the heavens over the entire situation so that:
- The shipment of Russian NT Recovery Versions will be released to pass through customs and be distributed among the refugees in Europe.
- The gospel teams who labor among the refugees will be filled with the Spirit inwardly and outwardly and will lead the chosen ones to receive the Lord as their dynamic salvation and to enter the church life.
- The saints in Ukraine and the refugees in the European countries will receive the supply of the resurrection life and will rise up to live and proclaim the gospel to their fellow Ukrainians.
- The tripartite being of the saints who are under attack, including the brothers fighting in the army, will be protected and preserved.
- The Ukrainian families that have been separated by the war will be preserved and eventually reunited for God's economy.
- Those who care for the Ukrainian refugees in Europe will enjoy the Lord as their bountiful supply of grace, wisdom, and endurance.
- Satan and the authority of darkness over Europe will be bound, and God's move in His economy will advance.
As the Lord leads, saints may give through the church in Los Angeles designated for 'Ukraine'.
Italy
This weekend, May 14 to 15, there will be an international conference in Rome. We thank the Lord for the prayers of so many saints and churches throughout the earth, and welcome all the saints to blend with us so that together, as one Body, we might testify of the victory of Christ. The four messages will be given in English and translated into Italian simultaneously. There will also be young people's and children's meetings. Please pray for the Lord to bless this gathering for His further move in Italy, Europe, and the whole earth.
Announcements
- Morning Revival: Week 4 of Crystallization-study of 1 & 2 Samuel. Next week, after the combined Lord's Day meeting, we will repeat Week 4.
- Memorial Day Conference: Living Stream Ministry will host the live, in-person portion of this conference to all the saints from May 27 to 30 in Anaheim. The meetings will also be streamed online.
- July Semiannual Training: The general subject will be on 1 and 2 Kings. Registration for webcasts in LA ($130) is still open until Tuesday, June 14. Information and registration for LA saints are at http://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla. In preparation, saints are encouraged to read the Recovery Version with footnotes and the Life-studies as their time allows.
- Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: Live broadcast this Wednesday beginning at 7:25 pm at http://lsm.org/live in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean. Outlines will be posted on the same site.
- Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry has made a series of free e-booklets available to read and share with others at http://www.lsm.org/booklets. The latest release is "Living by the Law of Life."
- LSM Newsletter: The April issue of "Having This Ministry..." contains enriching articles such as "Knowing the Time That We Are in and the Lord's Work of Recovery" and "The History and Significance of the Life-study and Crystallization-study Trainings."
- Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.
Week of May 1
Being According to God's Heart to Carry out His Economy
"And I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest, who will do according to what is in My heart and in My mind; and I will build him a sure house; and he will go before My anointed continually." (1 Sam. 2:35)
Samuel was faithful to God to do according to what was in God's heart and mind. His whole being and person, not just his doing, living, and work, were according to God. Samuel's being and God's heart were one… God's mind was Samuel's consideration. He had no other thought, consideration, or thinking. His living and working were for the carrying out of whatever was in God's heart. As a consequence, Samuel was one who turned the age.
We can see why Samuel was so useful in the hand of God. He had no self-seeking nor any thought of self-gain… He was happy to go wherever God wanted him to go and to do whatever God wanted him to do. He was a man according to God, a man according to God's heart. Therefore, he was a man whom God could use to carry out His economy. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, pp. 28-29, 45)
May the Lord produce us as such faithful and absolute ones who are according to God's heart, who care only for His interest, and who He could use to carry out His economy.
July Semiannual Training Registrations
Because of the importance of the best possible audience and atmosphere for the ministry of the word, it was necessary for the attendees of the semiannual trainings to be held to a high standard. Whereas conferences were open to all persons without restriction, the semiannual trainings required the attendees to register and be approved by the churches. Further, trainees were required to abide by a set of regulations, including rising and going to bed at proper times, arriving early for the meetings, and preparing to be tested. The trainees' adherence to these regulations not only helped them to be girded up in their spirit, to be saved from looseness, and to receive the greatest benefit from the trainings but also made them a suitable audience for drawing out the highest speaking from the ministry. ("The History and Significance of the Life-study and Crystallization-study Trainings," in the April 2022 issue of "Having This Ministry…")
For saints in Los Angeles, registration for the July 2022 Semiannual Training (July 4 to 9) is open until Tuesday, May 3 for the live in-person training in Anaheim ($205) and June 14 for webcasts ($130). Register online at http://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.
Please ask the Lord to release as many saints as possible to provide the best possible audience and atmosphere for His speaking to the churches in this training!
Sixth Grade Conference
The conference is May 6 to 8 at Oak Glen. Please pray for the Lord to prepare the hearts of all of the sixth graders leading up to the conference, to give each of them a definite experience of salvation, and to companionize them as they go on as young people in the church life.
West Coast Korean-speaking Conference
There will be a West Coast Korean-speaking Conference this weekend. The two sessions about "God's Economy in Faith" are Saturday, May 7, 6:00 to 9:00 pm and Lord's Day, May 8, 9:00 am to 12:15 pm PST. The Zoom link is http://tinyurl.com/koreanconf2022.
Please pray for all the Korean-speaking saints in North America to join this conference and enjoy the reality of the Body through the blending in the up-to-date words of the ministry.
Bibles for America
On April 25, BfA began giving away free physical copies of Basic Elements of the Christian Life, vols.1-3. This new offer was first announced to our 49,500 blog subscribers that live in the United States. So far, over 3,000 orders have been placed by people all over the country.
Please pray that all those who receive these books would get into them and be nourished by the riches in the ministry. Pray also that many more hungry seekers will continue to respond to this offer.
Ukraine
Please continue to pray for the ruling of the heavens over the entire situation so that:
- The teams going out to proclaim the gospel among the refugees in Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, and Romania will be protected from illness and will find many sons of peace who will receive the Lord and be gained for the church life.
- The saints in Ukraine and the refugees in the European countries will receive the supply of the resurrection life and will rise up to live and proclaim the gospel to their fellow Ukrainians.
- The tripartite being of the saints who are under attack, including the brothers fighting in the army, will be protected and preserved.
- The Ukrainian families that have been separated by the war will be preserved and eventually reunited for God's economy.
- Those who care for the Ukrainian refugees in Europe will enjoy the Lord as their bountiful supply of grace, wisdom, and endurance.
- Satan and the authority of darkness over Europe will be bound, and God's move in His economy will advance.
As the Lord leads, saints may give through the Church in Los Angeles designated for 'Ukraine'.
Netherlands
The Dutch Conference will be held from May 6 to 8 in the Netherlands for the first time since May 2019. The topic will be "Living the Christian Life at the End of the Present Age." Pray for the saints to come with a heart to listen to the Lord and focus on the words of the ministry.
Azerbaijan
Pray for the distribution of the new Azerbaijani and Russian literature to find fertile ground, take root, and bear fruit. Pray also for the saints' gathering together to be kept and protected, according to the Lord's wisdom, that the church can be established and flourish until He comes, because a city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
Announcements
- Morning Revival: Week 3 of Crystallization-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, vol. 1.
- July Semiannual Training: Registration is due Tuesday, May 3 for the live in-person sessions in Anaheim ($205) and June 14 for webcasts in LA ($130). Information and registration for LA saints are at http://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.
- SAVE THE DATE: Lord's Day morning, May 15, we will have a meeting of the whole church in LA. Details will be announced in each hall.
- Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: Live broadcast this Wednesday beginning at 7:25 pm at http://lsm.org/live in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean. Outlines will be posted on the same site.
- Memorial Day Conference: Living Stream Ministry will host the live, in-person portion of this conference to all the saints from May 27 to 30 in Anaheim. The meetings will also be streamed online.
- Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry has made a series of free e-booklets available to read and share with others at http://www.lsm.org/booklets. The latest release is "Living by the Law of Life."
- LSM Newsletter: The April issue of "Having This Ministry…" contains enriching articles such as "Knowing the Time That We Are in and the Lord's Work of Recovery" and "The History and Significance of the Life-study and Crystallization-study Trainings."
- Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.
Week of April 24
Praying to Reach the High Peak of God's Eternal Economy
"And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him a hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads." (Rev. 14:1)
"Persevere in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving." (Col. 4:2)
We have to realize what the Lord's recovery is. The Lord's recovery is to build up Zion, which typifies the overcomers as the reality of the Body of Christ to consummate the holy city, the New Jerusalem. The overcomers as Zion are the reality of the Body of Christ and consummate the building up of the Body in the local churches to bring in the consummated holy city, New Jerusalem, the ultimate Holy of Holies as God's dwelling place in eternity. In the new heaven and new earth the entire New Jerusalem will become Zion, with all the believers as the overcomers.
In the book of Revelation what the Lord wants and what the Lord will build up is Zion, the overcomers. This is the intrinsic reality of the spiritual revelation in the holy Word of God. We surely need to be desperate to pray at any cost and to pay the cost just as the apostle Paul did.
There is no other way to reach the high peak of God's eternal economy, the reality of the Body of Christ, except by praying. Our becoming the overcomers as the reality of the Body of Christ to be the bride of Christ will close this age, the age of the church, and will bring Christ as the King of glory back to take, possess, and rule over this earth with His overcomers in the kingdom age. (Crystallization-Study of 1 and 2 Samuel, msg. 2, I, E-F, I)
Gospel Teams & Ukraine
Multiple gospel teams are currently in eastern Europe. This week, a second team of saints begins serving in Poland while trainees and staff from FTTA-XB and FTTA enter their third and final week there. In Hungary and Romania, two teams are now in their second of two weeks of service.
Please continue to pray for the ruling of the heavens over the entire situation so that:
- The teams going out to proclaim the gospel among the refugees in Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, and Romania will be in good health and will find many sons of peace who will receive the Lord and be gained for the church life.
- The saints in Ukraine and the refugees in the European countries will receive the supply of the resurrection life and will rise up to live and proclaim the gospel to their fellow Ukrainians.
- The tripartite being of the saints who are under attack, including the brothers fighting in the army, will be protected and preserved.
- The Ukrainian families that have been separated by the war will be preserved and eventually reunited for God's economy.
- Those who care for the Ukrainian refugees in Europe will enjoy the Lord as their bountiful supply of grace, wisdom, and endurance.
- Satan and the authority of darkness over Europe will be bound, and God's move in His economy will advance.
As the Lord leads, saints may give through the Church in Los Angeles designated for 'Ukraine'.
College Decisions
May 1 is National College Decision Day, the time when college applicants across the country must make their decision on which school they will attend in the fall. Let us pray:
- For our high school seniors in all the churches, including Los Angeles, to experience the Lord in His leading and care as they make a decision;
- That the Lord as the Leader and Savior would sovereignly direct many prospective freshmen, transfers, and grad students across the globe to campuses where they may be gained for Christ and the church;
- That we may be led to many sons of peace as we begin our outreach to the new incoming class of college students for Fall 2022.
LA Chinese-speaking Blending Retreat
This weekend, from April 29 to May 1, the Chinese-speaking saints will have a retreat at Oak Glen. The fellowship for the meetings will be on "Walking in the Steps of Abraham's Faith." Please pray not only for everyone's health and safety, but also for all the saints, especially the new ones, to be open and blended together.
May all see the God of glory more to live the life of the altar and tent and fight for the brother by interceding for the saints according to God and His economy and ministering the processed Triune God to the saints as their overcoming supply and enjoyment!
Bibles for America
BfA is now offering free physical sets of Basic Elements of the Christian Life, vols. 1-3 to residents of the US and US territories. These books cover topics such as the assurance of salvation, the power of the blood of Christ, and the key to experiencing Christ in our everyday life.
Please pray that all those who receive these booklets—whether newly saved or believers for many years—would be helped in establishing a firm foundation for a rich and meaningful Christian life!
Central and Eastern Europe and Balkans Blending Conference
The Central and Eastern Europe and Balkans Blending Conference will take place in Warsaw, Poland from April 30 to May 1. It will be held in a hybrid physical/online format with translation from English into at least 12 other languages. The subject will be "God's Economy in Faith" with two sessions of speaking from the recent ITERO and two more sessions of special fellowship.
Please ask the Lord to pour out His blessing! We believe this conference will provide an excellent opportunity for the Lord to speak an encouraging, supplying and comforting word to the churches and the saints in these regions that are being directly affected by the current, unprecedented world situation.
London Seminar
The next afternoon seminar in London will be on Lord's Day, May 1. The burden for this time is that the contacts could meet us at the seminar and that afterward there would be the one-on-one care and shepherding. Please pray that the Lord as the brooding Spirit would brood over these ones to seek them out. May the Lord release many saints to support the seminars and have good interactions with the new ones. May they result in the growth of the church life and the increase of the church.
Announcements
- Morning Revival: Week 2 of Crystallization-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, vol. 1.
- July Semiannual Training: Registration is due Tuesday, May 3 for the live in-person sessions in Anaheim ($205) and June 14 for webcasts in LA ($130). Information and registration for LA saints are at http://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.
- SAVE THE DATE: Lord's Day morning, May 15, we will have a meeting of the whole church in LA. Details will be announced in each hall.
- Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: Live broadcast this Wednesday beginning at 7:25 pm at http://lsm.org/live in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean. Outlines will be posted on the same site.
- Memorial Day Conference: Living Stream Ministry will host the live, in-person portion of this conference to all the saints from May 27 to 30 in Anaheim. The meetings will also be streamed online.
- Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry has made a series of free e-booklets available to read and share with others at http://www.lsm.org/booklets. The latest release is "Living by the Law of Life."
- LSM Newsletter: The April issue of "Having This Ministry..." contains enriching articles such as "Knowing the Time That We Are in and the Lord's Work of Recovery" and "The History and Significance of the Life-study and Crystallization-study Trainings."
- Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.
Week of April 17
God's Economy Needing Man's Cooperation
"And she made a vow and said, O Jehovah of hosts, if You will indeed look upon the affliction of Your female servant and… give to Your female servant a male child, then I will give him to Jehovah for all the days of his life, and no razor will come upon his head." (1 Sam. 1:11)
"It was for this child that I prayed, and Jehovah has granted me my request that I requested from Him. Therefore I, for my part, have lent him to Jehovah; all the days that he lives, he is lent to Jehovah…" (1 Sam. 1:27-28)
"And working together with Him, we also entreat you not to receive the grace of God in vain." (2 Cor. 6:1)
The central thought of 1 and 2 Samuel is that the fulfillment of God's economy needs man's cooperation—the principle of incarnation. The principle of incarnation is that God enters into man and mingles Himself with man to make man one with Himself. Thus, God is in man and man is in God, having one life and one living. We need to be deeply impressed with the fact that the fulfillment of God's economy requires our cooperation. To cooperate with God means to be bound together with God. (Crystallization-Study of 1 and 2 Samuel, msg. 1, I, A-B)
God chose Hannah because she was willing to cooperate with Him. God answered her prayer and opened her womb, and Hannah conceived and bore a son. Then according to her vow, she offered her son to God, placing him in the custody of Eli. From this we see that Hannah, Samuel's mother, was one who cooperated very much with God. Her case shows us the kind of persons God expects to have today….There is the need for some to make a vow like Hannah. I hope that many of the young people will make such a vow. You need to say, "Lord, I am Yours. I just lend myself to You." God will take your heart and accomplish something to fulfill what you vow to Him. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, pp. 6-7)
July Semiannual Training Registrations
Registration for the July 2022 Semiannual Training (July 4 to 9) is open until May 3 for the live in-person training in Anaheim ($205) and June 14 for webcasts in LA ($130). Saints in LA should register online at http://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla and follow payment directions.
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," in the 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!
SCYP Spring Junior High Conferences
The Junior High Sisters Conference is this weekend from April 22 to 24. The gathering will be held in a hybrid format with options to join online or in person at Oak Glen. The messages on "The Precious Blood of Christ" will help to solve three problems—separation from God, guilt in our conscience, and accusation from the enemy—so that we can partake of God as our portion.
We encourage all the saints—especially the parents, serving ones and college students—to pray for the Lord to open and soften the hearts of our young people to be good receivers this coming weekend!
France
The annual French-speaking conference will be April 22 to 24 in Paris. This will be a joyful return to in-person meetings (with a Zoom option). This will be one of the first times messages will be spoken by local French-speaking brothers rather than by English-speaking co-workers from other places. Over 1,100 invitations were sent to those who have ordered Bibles and ministry books. We are expecting up to 100 first-time attendees. We pray that "God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ" (Col. 4:3); for all who attend to receive and treasure this word; and for many first-time attendees to enter into direct fellowship with the churches.
The same weekend, on April 24, will be the presidential run-off election in France for the top two candidates from the initial presidential election earlier this month. We have no preference among these two. Our prayer is that the will of God be done on earth for His move here. He is the One who "deposes kings and causes kings to ascend" (Dan. 2:21).
Ukraine
Please continue to pray for the ruling of the heavens over the entire situation so that:
- The teams going out to proclaim the gospel among the refugees in Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, and Romania will be in good health and will find many sons of peace who will receive the Lord and be gained for the church life.
- The saints in Ukraine and the refugees in the European countries will receive the supply of the resurrection life and will rise up to live and proclaim the gospel to their fellow Ukrainians.
- The tripartite being of the saints who are under attack, including the brothers fighting in the army, will be protected and preserved.
- Those who care for the Ukrainian refugees in Europe will enjoy the Lord as their bountiful supply of grace, wisdom, and endurance.
- Satan and the authority of darkness over Europe will be bound, and God's move in His economy will advance.
As the Lord leads, saints may give through the Church in Los Angeles designated for 'Ukraine'.
India
Pray for the final printing of the NT Recovery Version in the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, and Mizo languages. The final print files have already been sent to LSM, so please pray that the printing can be done without delay and for the Bible distribution afterwards in the various states of India.
Announcements
- Morning Revival: Week 1 of Crystallization-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, vol. 1.
- July Semiannual Training will take place in-person July 4 to 9 in Anaheim. Registration is open until May 3 for the live sessions in Anaheim ($205) and June 14 for webcasts in LA ($130). No late registrations. Saints in LA are invited to register at http://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.
- Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: Live broadcast this Wednesday beginning at 7:25 pm at http://lsm.org/live in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean. Outlines will be posted on the same site.
- Sixth Grade Conference: In-person at Oak Glen, May 6 to 8 (registration due April 24).
- Memorial Day Conference: Living Stream Ministry is now able to open the live, in-person portion of the 2022 International Memorial Day Blending Conference to all the saints in the Lord's recovery from May 27 to 30 in Anaheim. The meetings will also be streamed online.
- Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry has made a series of free e-booklets available to read and share with others at http://www.lsm.org/booklets. The latest release is "The Law of the Spirit of Life."
- Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.
Week of April 10
Experiencing and Enjoying the Divine Trinity in Full
"The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all." (2 Cor. 13:14)
"But by the grace of God I am what I am…" (1 Cor. 15:10)
To enjoy the Divine Trinity in full is to participate in the love of God, the grace of Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Second Corinthians 13:14…shows that the Divine Trinity is not for the doctrinal study of theology but for our experience and enjoyment….Love is God the Father, grace as the outflow of love is Christ the Son, and the fellowship is the transmission of the Holy Spirit to transmit what the Son is as grace and what the Father is as love. The Holy Spirit transmits the divine riches into our being, and this transmission is the fellowship. Today we have the Divine Trinity operating in us in such a wonderful way.
We have two circulations within us. One circulation is the circulation of blood within our physical body, and the other circulation is the circulation of the Divine Trinity in our spirit. Without either of these circulations we would die either physically or spiritually. Second Corinthians 13:14 gives us a detailed description of this inner, spiritual circulation. This circulation is the supply in our Christian life and church life….We must see that the entire church life depends on 2 Corinthians 13:14. It depends upon the love of the Father, the grace of the Son, and fellowship of the Spirit to flow as a current within our spirit. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 1, "Living in and with the Divine Trinity," pp. 382-384)
May all the saints open to this transmission of the divine riches and exercise their spirit to participate in the Divine Trinity in full!
FTTA, FTTA-XB Gospel Trips & Ukraine
Due to the ongoing and changing situation in Eastern Europe, a number of trainees and serving ones from FTTA and FTTA-XB are traveling to Warsaw and Gut Elim to begin assisting the saints from Ukraine and the refugees in the region. As we all have been following the recent events unfolding in Europe, we have been impressed again with our need to cooperate with the Lord in prayer and by prayer.
Please continue to pray for the ruling of the heavens over the entire situation so that:
- The teams going out to proclaim the gospel among the refugees in Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, and Romania will find many sons of peace who will receive the Lord and be gained for the church life.
- The saints in Ukraine and the refugees in the European countries will receive the supply of the resurrection life and will rise up to live and proclaim the gospel to their fellow Ukrainians.
- The tripartite being of the saints who are under attack, including the brothers fighting in the army, will be protected and preserved.
- Those who care for the Ukrainian refugees in Europe will enjoy the Lord as their bountiful supply of grace, wisdom, and endurance.
- Satan and the authority of darkness over Europe will be bound, and God's move in His economy will advance
As the Lord leads, saints may give through the Church in Los Angeles designated for 'Ukraine'.
Southern California College Conference Follow-up
Praise the Lord for His abounding grace! This past weekend, 70 of our students enjoyed seeing and experiencing "Abounding Grace!" at the Spring 2022 College Conference. Now we are looking to the Lord that the students would apply what they heard.
Please pray that our students would continue to experience grace as the academic quarter goes on—not only in the big things but also the small things—and be faithful ministers of grace this week to their classmates, friends, and family.
European Brothers' Training
From April 13 to 15 the leading brothers in Europe will have a training at Bower House in London. The content will include videos of messages given at ITERO in Anaheim April 1 to 3, and fellowship about the Lord's move in Europe. Please pray that all the brothers will receive the Lord's timely speaking for the advancement of His economy in Europe.
London International Blending Conference
This annual conference will be at a hotel in London on Saturday and Lord's Day, April 16 and 17. There will also be children's and young people's meetings. This is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy being blended together with others while bearing various responsibilities. Please pray that all the saints in Europe will be strengthened and supplied by the Lord's rich speaking to give the Lord their highest cooperation in the carrying out of His economy in these crucial days.
India
From April 4 to 24, FTTND trainees are participating in a three-week intensified propagation in New Delhi, including both campuses of Delhi University and various neighborhoods in the city. This propagation includes preaching the gospel on the campuses by speaking concerning the mystery of human life, door-knocking in the neighborhoods, and baptizing new contacts. There is a burden for more saints to function and coordinate with the trainees in the gospel move, and to invite new ones to read the Bible with us and usher them into the homes of the saints.
Please pray for the Lord to strengthen the tripartite beings of all the trainees and that they can learn to bear remaining fruit through prayer, the Spirit, and the word.
Announcements
- Morning Revival: Week 6 of Living in and with the Divine Trinity. Next week, we begin Crystallization-study of 1 & 2 Samuel.
- July Semiannual Training will take place in-person July 4 to 9 in Anaheim. Registration is open until May 3 for the live sessions in Anaheim ($205) and June 14 for webcasts in LA ($130). No late registrations. Saints in LA are invited to register at http://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla and follow the payment directions.
- Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: Live broadcast this Wednesday beginning at 7:25 pm at http://lsm.org/live in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean. Outlines will be posted on the same site.
- SCYP Spring Conferences: JH Sisters, April 22 to 24; Sixth Grade, May 6 to 8 (due April 24).
- Memorial Day Conference: Living Stream Ministry is now able to open the live, in-person portion of the 2022 International Memorial Day Blending Conference to all the saints in the Lord's recovery from May 27 to 30 in Anaheim. The meetings will also be streamed online.
- Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry has made a series of free e-booklets available to read and share with others at http://www.lsm.org/booklets. The latest release is "The Law of the Spirit of Life."
- Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.
Week of April 3
God Operating in Us
"For I know that for me this will turn out to salvation through your petition and the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ." (Phil. 1:19)
"For it is God who operates in you both the willing and the working for His good pleasure." (Phil. 2:13)
In Philippians 2:13 Paul says that God operates in us "both the willing and the working for His good pleasure." Where within us does this willing take place? It must be in our will. This indicates that God's operation begins from our spirit and spreads into our mind, emotion, and will....The grace of Christ is with our spirit. However, God's operating to will in us involves not only our spirit but also our will. Therefore, God's operation must spread from our spirit into our will.
As God operates the willing within us, He carries out His working. This corresponds to Romans 8, where we see that God works not only in our spirit, but also in our mind and eventually in our physical body (vv. 6, 11). We will in our will, and we work in our body. The Triune God operates in us from our spirit, through our will, and then into our physical body. (Life-study of Philippians, pp. 103-104)
O Triune God, continue to operate in us both the willing and the working for Your good pleasure!
God's Economy in Faith
"...God's economy, which is in faith." (1 Tim. 1:4)
"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)
The subject of ITERO last weekend was "God's Economy in Faith." God carries out His economy by dispensing Himself into us; we receive His dispensing by our spirit of faith—our regenerated human spirit mingled with the Spirit. Then we exercise this mingled spirit in any kind of meeting and in personal contact with other people to speak what we enjoy in the Bible and what we experience of the Lord.
Lord, fill our church life with much more believing (receiving) and much more speaking!
Southern California College Conference
We have 65 to 70 students from Los Angeles (including UCLA, USC, CSUN, and local community colleges) registered to attend the college conference this weekend, April 8 to 9. The topic of the conference is "Abounding Grace!" based on the recent International Chinese-Speaking Conference. On Friday evening, students and serving ones will gather in Westwood for a livestream of the first session. On Saturday afternoon, they will be in Arcadia for the remaining two sessions along with other college students from across Southern California.
Please pray for all of our students to see and experience Christ as the multiplying and abounding grace of God in His economy. Also pray that the newer ones would enter into the rich enjoyment of the Spirit of grace during every conference session.
SCYP Spring Junior High Conferences
The Spring High School Conferences are April 8 to 10 for brothers and April 22 to 24 for sisters. These gatherings will be held in a hybrid format with options to join online or in person at Oak Glen. The messages on "The Precious Blood of Christ" will help to solve three problems—separation from God, guilt in our conscience, and accusation from the enemy—so that we can partake of God as our portion.
We encourage all the saints—especially the parents, serving ones and college students—to pray for the Lord to open and soften the hearts of the young people to be good receivers this coming weekend!
Bibles for America
BfA offers seven titles by Watchman Nee and Witness Lee that anyone in the world can download for free at http://bfa.org/books. We also offer physical copies of one or more of these titles on a rotating basis to residents of the US. From 2019 to 2021, we gave away 33,000 copies of The All-inclusive Christ. This year, we will be giving away free sets of Basic Elements of the Christian Life, vols. 1-3.
Please pray that all the details related to the launch of this offer would be taken care of in a timely way so these books can be made available to the hungry seekers in this country. Pray also that all those who receive these booklets would be helped to establish a firm foundation for a rich and meaningful Christian life.
Ukraine
Please continue to pray for the ruling of the heavens over the entire situation so that:
- The teams going out to proclaim the gospel among the refugees in Eastern Europe will find many sons of peace who will open their hearts to receive the Lord and be gained for the church life.
- Many seeking Ukrainians will read and respond to the publications posted on http://aidmyfreedom.org.
- Saints in Ukraine and refugees in the European countries will receive the needed spiritual supply.
- The tripartite being of the saints who are under attack, including the brothers fighting in the army, will be protected and preserved.
- The Ukrainian refugees will be comforted and supplied with the necessities for their living, and those who care for them will enjoy the Lord as their grace, wisdom, and endurance.
- Satan and the authority of darkness over Europe will be bound, and God's move in His economy will advance.
As the Lord leads, saints may give through the church in Los Angeles designated for 'Ukraine'.
Announcements
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Morning Revival: Week 5 of Living in and with the Divine Trinity (Thanksgiving Conference).
After next week, we begin Crystallization-study of 1 & 2 Samuel. - Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The live broadcast resumes this Wednesday 7:25 pm at http://lsm.org/live in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean. Outlines will be posted on the same site.
- Memorial Day Conference: Living Stream Ministry is now able to open the live, in-person portion of the 2022 International Memorial Day Blending Conference to all the saints in the Lord's recovery from May 27 to 30 in Anaheim. The meetings will also be streamed online.
- Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry has made a series of free e-booklets available to read and share with others at http://www.lsm.org/booklets. The latest release is "The Law of the Spirit of Life."
- SCYP Spring Conferences: Junior High Brothers, April 8 to 10; Junior High Sisters, April 22 to 24 (due April 10); Sixth Grade, May 6 to 8 (due April 24).
- Living Stream Ministry: The March issue of "Having This Ministry..." presents Watchman Nee's message on "World Wars and the Church" in English, Chinese, Korean and Spanish.
- Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.
Week of March 27
Having the Lord's Presence
"In this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, that He has given to us of His Spirit." (1 John 4:13)
"And He said, My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest." (Exo. 33:14)
"When You say, Seek My face, to You my heart says, Your face, O Jehovah, will I seek." (Psa. 27:8)
The practical Emmanuel is the Spirit of reality as the presence of the consummated Triune God in our spirit. His presence is always with us in our spirit, not only day by day but also moment by moment.
The presence of the Lord, the smile of the Lord, is the governing principle. We must learn to be kept, to be ruled, to be governed, and to be guided not by His secondhand presence but by the direct, firsthand presence of the Lord. (Living in and with the Divine Trinity, msg. 4, II, D, F, 2)
We must have the Lord's presence. We must learn to pray, "Lord, if You will not give me Your presence, I will stay here with You. If Your presence does not go with me, I will not go. I will not be governed by Your help but by Your presence." We must go even further to pray, "O Lord, I do not want Your help, but I do want Your presence. Lord, I must have Your presence. I can do without Your help, but I cannot do without Your presence." (CWWL, 1961-1962, vol. 4, "The All-inclusive Christ," pp. 294-296)
ITERO
The International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones will take place by webcast this weekend, April 1 to 3. The general subject is "God's Economy in Faith"
Please pray for the rich and timely supply of Christ to be ministered to all the brothers that they may grow in life and be equipped further in their function and service. May the Lord gain and perfect all the brothers as able ministers of the New Testament, effective building material for the universal building up of the Body of Christ, and good stewards and serving ones in their respective local churches.
UCLA Spring Quarter
Last week, during UCLA's spring break, 49 saints including 37 students went on two simultaneous blending trips, one to Fresno and the other to Arizona. Some students from UC Santa Barbara, CSUN, and College of the Canyons were also able to join. We experienced the Lord's blessing through the blending, and we believe the localities we visited received much grace from the Lord.
This week marks the beginning of the spring quarter at UCLA. Please pray for the follow-up shepherding with all the students who participated in the trips, as well as the reconnecting with newer students through Bible studies and shepherding appointments. Also, pray for the upcoming college conference (April 8 to 9) and that 65 to 70 students, including high school seniors, would sign up by this weekend's registration deadline (April 3).
Ukraine
Please continue to pray for the ruling of the heavens over the entire situation so that:
- Saints in Ukraine and refugees in the European countries will receive the needed spiritual supply.
- The tripartite being of the saints who are under attack, including the brothers fighting in the army, will be protected and preserved.
- The Ukrainian refugees will be comforted and supplied with the necessities for their living, and those who care for them will enjoy the Lord as their grace, wisdom, and endurance.
- Satan's kingdom will suffer loss.
- God's economy will advance in the spreading of the gospel and the building up of the Body.
As the Lord leads, saints may give through the church in Los Angeles designated for 'Ukraine'.
London Seminar
The next afternoon seminar in London will be April 3. The burden for this time is that the contacts could meet us at the seminar and that afterward there would be the one-on-one care and shepherding. Please pray that the Lord as the brooding Spirit would brood over these ones to seek them out. May the Lord release many saints to support the seminars and have good interactions with the new ones. May they result in the growth of the church life and the increase of the church.
Cambodia
Since last year, the churches in Cambodia were able to enter into and enjoy the seven annual feasts online. The brothers would first get into the messages, then translate them into Khmer and make videos. In such a way, all the saints could enjoy the Lord's timely speaking and be strengthened and supplied.
In the capital, Phnom Penh, the saints could not go out to knock on doors due to the pandemic; instead, they became burdened to preach the gospel to friends and relatives around them. In Siem Reap, the saints found that their shepherding via online channels proved to be more effective than before, both in terms of the use of their time and the frequency of new ones' joining. Currently, there are 10 saints serving full-time with the literature and translation work.
Please pray:
- For the Lord to strengthen every saint to pick up the burden of shepherding and perfecting people.
- For the Lord to perfect the young people that they would be attracted by and constituted with the word of the Lord to become propagators of the NT ministry.
- For the literature work in Khmer, specifically for the translation of more ministry books to supply the needs of the brothers and sisters.
To read more, see the February 2022 issue of the Lord's Move to Asia newsletter in English and Chinese.
Announcements
- Morning Revival: Week 4 of Living in and with the Divine Trinity (Thanksgiving Conference).
- Memorial Day Conference: Living Stream Ministry is now able to open the live, in-person portion of the 2022 International Memorial Day Blending Conference to all the saints in the Lord's recovery from May 27 to 30 in Anaheim. The meetings will also be streamed online.
- Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry has made a series of free e-booklets available to read and share with others at http://www.lsm.org/booklets. The latest release is "The Law of the Spirit of Life."
- Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: NO MEETING this Wednesday, March 30. The live broadcast will resume at 7:25 pm on April 6. Past messages may be found at www.lsmwebcast.com. Saints may be interested in watching a video of Brother Lee speaking on the The Ten Great Critical “Ones” for the Building Up of the Body of Christ at www.lsm.org/timely-speaking.html.
- SCYP Spring Conferences: Junior High Brothers, April 8 to 10; Junior High Sisters, April 22 to 24 (due April 10); Sixth Grade, May 6 to 8 (due April 24).
- Living Stream Ministry: The March issue of "Having This Ministry..." presents Watchman Nee's message on "World Wars and the Church" in English, Chinese, Korean and Spanish.
- Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.
Week of March 20
Living in the Divine Trinity by Enjoying Christ as Our Food
"As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me." (John 6:57)
"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life." (John 6:63)
If we are going to live in the Divine Trinity, to abide in the Divine Trinity as our home, we must enjoy Christ as our food. We need to live by Christ as our life supply. He is our food. He is eatable because He is now in resurrection… Now Christ is good for us to eat. After accomplishing death and resurrection, He became perfected for us to eat Him. Because He is living in resurrection, He is good for us to eat organically. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 1, "Living in and with the Divine Trinity," p. 348)
We can eat Christ as our spiritual food in order to live because of Him. To eat Christ is to eat His words by exercising our spirit to both pray-read and muse upon His words so that His words become the gladness and joy of our heart (Jer. 15:16; Psa. 119:15-16; Josh. 1:8-9). To live not only by but also "because of" Christ means that the energizing element of Christ becomes the supplying factor for us to live Christ. (Living in and with the Divine Trinity, msg. 3, I.C)
May we exercise to eat Christ as our spiritual food by eating His words that we may be supplied to live Him!
SCYP Spring High School Conferences
The Spring High School Conference for brothers is this weekend, March 25 to 27. It will be held in a hybrid format with options to join online or in person at Oak Glen. The topic is "Samuel—A Man According to God," and will show the example of an overcoming Nazarite who, in the midst of an age of degradation, was consecrated, sanctified, and separated absolutely and ultimately to God.
We encourage all the saints to pray for the Lord to appear to every young person during these times that they would volunteer themselves to Him for His purpose!
European Spring University Conference
The Spring University Conference for students in the United Kingdom and Europe will take place March 25 to 27. The fellowship will be on "Living the Christian Life at the End of the Present Age." Please pray that all those who registered would not only come but also enjoy the Lord together. May the Lord use this time to gain many who love His appearing in this age.
London – Bower House
Thank the Lord that the current phase of construction at Woodland Camp, with capacity for more than 120 people, will be completed this summer. Attention will then turn to building a new full-time training centre at Bower House with flexible meeting facilities for 800 people, with the expectation that the Lord will bless us over the coming years with a significant enlargement in the training. This project is expected to take several years, with the first step being a clear design for the building. The application for an improved design is currently awaiting decision with the council planners.
Please pray that in our coordination with the council the Lord would release the best design possible according to His will by April, so that construction can begin next year.
Ukraine
Please continue to pray for the ruling of the heavens over the entire situation so that:
- The tripartite being of the saints who are under attack, including the brothers fighting in the army, will be protected and preserved.
- The saints who have escaped into Europe as refugees will be comforted and cared for.
- The saints who are caring for the refugees will enjoy the Lord as their grace, wisdom, and endurance.
- Satan's kingdom will suffer loss.
- God's economy will advance in the spreading of the gospel and the building up of the Body.
Egypt
More than two million people attended the 53rd Cairo International Book Fair, which took place January 27 through February 7. Despite many challenges, this time was nevertheless a real victory to the Lord and a shame to the enemy. What a privilege to offer the ministry of the age, with a proper standing before God and man, to people from Egypt and the Middle East from all different religious backgrounds. Many hungry ones approached our booth, and regardless of how positive or negative they were, they did not leave the same. During this time we experienced the thirsty Savior calling the thirsty ones to come and drink the living water. (See the March issue of LSM's newsletter for testimonies.)
Please pray for:
- The follow-up and the shepherding of new contacts that it would be according to God.
- The ministry to operate in each person who purchased a book that the book would be read and would get into each person so that they would subjectively experience Christ.
- The translation and publication work of the ministry books in Arabic, as well as for distribution channels in the Middle East.
- The preparation for the next year's fair, which we expect will be in January 2023.
Announcements
- Morning Revival: Week 3 of Living in and with the Divine Trinity (Thanksgiving Conference).
- Living Stream Ministry: The March issue of "Having This Ministry…" presents Watchman Nee's message on "World Wars and the Church" in English, Chinese, Korean and Spanish.
- Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: Live broadcast this Wednesday beginning at 7:25 pm at http://lsm.org/live in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean. Outlines will be posted on the same site.
- Opportunities for Giving: As the Lord leads, saints may give through the Church in Los Angeles designated for 'Ukraine' or 'Atlanta Meeting Hall'.
- Bibles for America's latest blog post is "How to Be Freed from Anxiety" based on Philippians 4:6.
- Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.
Week of March 13
Abiding in the Vine and Praying from the Head
"I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing." (John 15:5)
"If you abide in Me and My words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you." (John 15:7)
We live in the Divine Trinity by abiding in Christ as the true vine. As branches of the vine, we need to abide in the vine. To be in the Lord is a matter of union; to abide in the Lord is a matter of fellowship. The Christian life is a life of abiding in the Lord.
We abide in the Triune God by the teaching of the anointing. The anointing, as the moving and working of the compound Spirit within us, anoints God into us so that we may be saturated with God, possess God, and understand the mind of God; the anointing communicates the mind of Christ as the Head of the Body to His members by the inner sense, the inner consciousness, of life. (Living in and with the Divine Trinity, msg. 2, III, B, 2, 4; III.D, 4)
May we all exercise to pray according to the inner anointing, the inner consciousness of life, according to the mind of Christ as the Head of the Body.
SCYP Spring High School Conferences
The Spring High School Conferences are March 18 to 20 for sisters and March 25 to 27 for brothers. These gatherings will be held in a hybrid format with options to join online or in person at Oak Glen. The topic is "Samuel—A Man According to God," and will show the example of an overcoming Nazarite who, in the midst of an age of degradation, was consecrated, sanctified, and separated absolutely and ultimately to God.
We encourage all the saints—especially the parents, serving ones and college students—to pray for the Lord to appear to every young person during these times that they would volunteer themselves to Him for His purpose!
Refugees from Ukraine
More than 1.5 million refugees from the Ukraine have or will come into the European Union nations. Local churches in Europe are getting involved in hospitality for saints from Ukraine, and in preparing and distributing care packages and gospelizing at public locations. These actions have begun in Germany, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
Please pray for the Lord's bountiful supply of the Spirit and physical stamina to all who volunteer to participate in these actions; may they enjoy the Lord as their grace, wisdom, and endurance. Pray for the care and comforting of the saints who have escaped into Europe. Also pray for the gospel to run among the refugees and for many to be brought into the church life.
As for the those who remain in Ukraine, continue to pray that the tripartite being of the saints who are under attack, including the brothers fighting in the army, will be protected and preserved. Pray that Satan's kingdom will suffer loss and that God's economy will advance in the spreading of the gospel and the building up of the Body.
A Report from Gut Elim
Lord's Day, March 13, the church in Bielefeld joined us for the Lord's table and lunch at Gut Elim (the conference center of the churches in Germany, pronounced goot). About 90 Ukrainian refugees are here with about 20 serving saints from churches in Germany. From 9 to 11:30 am we watched a Ukrainian Lord's Table on Zoom. Then we had a break. The Lord's table here started at 12 (all of us together) and ended after 2. Saints from multiple places with music and translation skills served together. A brother spoke in English and was translated into German and Russian. Multiple saints from Ukraine also stood to share. Afterwards, brothers moved tables and chairs and Bielefeld saints loaded the tables with food. Then we had a huge love feast and everyone stayed until quite late.
Zurich, Switzerland
From March 19 to 20, the saints in Tubingen, Germany will blend with the saints in Zurich, Switzerland and other surrounding localities, during which a Bible distribution in Zurich will take place. Please for the Lord's covering and mutual encouragement through the blending and definite contacts among the local Swiss people during the times of the Bible distribution.
Laos
Pray for the proofreading and printing of the translated materials of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke in the Lao language to be completed by the end of 2022.
Announcements
- Morning Revival: Week 2 of Living in and with the Divine Trinity (Thanksgiving Conference).
- Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: Live broadcast this Wednesday beginning at 7:25 pm at http://lsm.org/live in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean. Outlines will be posted on the same site.
- Opportunities for Giving: As the Lord leads, saints may give through the church in Los Angeles designated for 'Ukraine', 'Sacramento' or 'Atlanta Meeting Hall'.
- Bibles for America's latest blog post is "How to Be Freed from Anxiety" based on Philippians 4:6.
- Living Stream Ministry: The February issue of "Having This Ministry…" includes fellowship on the need for training in the Lord's recovery and a report on the literature work in Turkey and Sri Lanka.
- Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.