Prayer

Week of June 9

Walking in the Corporate Christ

“As therefore you have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in Him.” (Col. 2:6)

“For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.” (1 Cor. 12:12)

[In Colossians 2:6] the One in whom we need to walk is the incorporated God. To receive Christ is to receive the Body-Christ, because Christ today is a corporate Body (1 Cor. 12:12). We need to receive this Christ. (CWWL, 1973-1974, vol. 1, “The Vision and Experience of the Corporate Christ,” p. 496)

It makes a great difference in our Christian life to walk in the corporate Christ. Most Christians today have been robbed of the riches of Christ. Most are spiritually poor and weak simply because they care only for Christ and not for the church.

Many of us in the Lord's recovery can testify that since the day we came into the church and began to care for the church, there has been a great difference in our spiritual life. We have the inner sense that we are rich. Everyone in the church is a spiritual billionaire; we are all rich.

In the meetings of the church every member of the Body has a portion of Christ. For this reason, we each need to open our mouth to release the riches of Christ within us. We all need to share our portion of Christ and enjoy the portion of others. (CWWL, 1973-1974, vol. 1, “The Vision and Experience of the Corporate Christ,” pp. 496-497, 490-491)

Semiannual Video Training Registrations

The general subject of the upcoming July Semiannual Training is “Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1).” For saints in Los Angeles, the firm registration deadline to participate in this training by video is this Lord's Day, June 16 ($130). Register at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.

Please pray for the release and receiving of the Lord's speaking in this training. 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. (For more fellowship on the history and significance of the semiannual trainings, see the April 2022 issue of "Having This Ministry…")

LA YP Summer Kick-off

This Saturday, June 15, there will be an LA YP Summer Kick-off gathering that will include time at a park, lunch, meeting, fellowship and dessert. We hope many of the young people in LA will be free to join all or part of the time. Our burden is that this time will provide some strong momentum and blending among our young people ahead of next month's LA Truth School (July 27 to August 3).

Please pray for the preparations for this Saturday, the availability of the young people, and an encouraging atmosphere. May the Lord bless this time with His living word!

Lord, Move Onward in Europe

From June 6 to 9, citizens in the 27 European Union nations voted to select the 720 members of the European Parliament. The new parliament will shape the direction of the European Union for five years on various matters. Politics in Europe will have a big role in preparing the world for antichrist to rise up and for the Lord's return. Let us release in prayer on earth the Lord's will in heaven to move Europe in the direction He desires.

Following these elections, the President of France suddenly set French national parliamentary elections for the end of June. Petition the Lord that nothing in French politics will hinder His current move in the gospel and in raising up new churches.

2024 Olympics Torch Relay Gospel Trips

Currently, the Torch Relay (TR) trips are paused for two weeks while the torch travels to overseas French territories. The seventh trip will start on June 24 in Strasbourg.

Before the start of the official TR trips, and concurrent with some of them, the Russian-speaking trainees from FTTM-XW (Warsaw Extension in Poland) were sent to Lille in northern France, near the border with Belgium, on three separate trips (April 8 to 15, May 11 to 18, and June 1 to 8). In addition to Lille being the location of our distribution warehouse, this region also has some Russian-speaking saints.

The goal of these trips was to till the soil, preparing the ground for the next stage, to strengthen the testimony there, and to encourage and refresh the local saints. More than 2,400 NTs were distributed and many contacts were made. The saints testified, “Our concept about French people being very closed was completely broken. We were so impressed by their openness, especially the young people, some were literally running to the table.” Hallelujah!

Please pray for:

A lampstand to be raised up in Lille and a strong testimony in this city.
Communications with the French authorities, that there would be no hindrances to the Lord's move.
The follow-up shepherding of contacts from Lille and TR1–6 (Marseille, Montpellier, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Caen, Rennes, and Nantes), including a weekly Zoom seminar, through the coordination of both local and overseas saints.

For the saints' awareness and prayer, the following detailed reports and testimonies are available:

Pre-Olympic Trips to Lille: lme.org/pdfs/PrayerBurdens735.pdf
TR5: lme.org/pdfs/PrayerBurdens734.pdf
TR1–4: lme.org/pdfs/FranceTorchRelayReports-27May2024.pdf

More information is at www.amanatrust.org.uk/page/2024Paris. Saints in LA burdened to give for the distribution can do so through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Paris Olympics.”

Ramenskoye Meeting Hall

When the Lord's recovery came to the Russian-speaking world, the Lord raised up a group of Christians in Ramenskoye, about 20 miles from Moscow, to take the way of the recovery and become one of the first churches in Russia. Later, the saints in Ramenskoye obtained a plot of land on which the work in Russia, through the giving of the saints mainly in the United States, built a blending facility to serve the needs of the churches in the Russian-speaking world. All these years the church in Ramenskoye has been meeting in this facility without a meeting hall of their own. The brothers in Russia all feel that it would be beneficial if the church in Ramenskoye could have its own meeting hall and the blending facility be used exclusively for the Lord's work in Russia.

A few years ago a plot of land next to the blending facility was purchased for the church there. The co-workers feel that it is now the right time to build a meeting hall on that land. The estimated construction cost is about $500,000. Saints in LA burdened to offer toward this need may do so through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Ramenskoye Meeting Hall.”

Azerbaijan

Pray for the saints who will join a short-term training in Moscow that their eyes can be opened to see the vision of the church, renew their consecration, and serve the Lord together.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 10 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.
Memorial Day Conference: Saints are encouraged to watch or listen to the archived messages, available at no charge until June 26 at www.lsmwebcast.com.
Living to Him: A recording of the working saints gathering at the recent Memorial Day Conference in Bellevue is available at youtu.be/u5fRTZ5LrrQ. The fellowship focused on the actual carrying out of the God-ordained way, especially in the practice of the vital groups and shepherding.
Semiannual Training: July 1 to 6 in Anaheim. The general subject is “Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1).” For LA saints, registration for participation by video is still open until June 16 ($130) at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.
Bibles for America's most recent blog post, “Jesus Sympathizes with Us in All Things,” is available to read and share at blog.bfa.org.
The LA Years: Chapter 5: Publications to Reach the Seekers is now available at www.layears.org, an oral history project documenting the early years of the church life in LA from 1958–1974, including written history, photos, and first-hand accounts.
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.
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 June 2

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Concentrating on Christ for the Maturity in Life

“Whom we announce, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man full-grown in Christ.” (Col. 1:28)

“Seeing that His divine power has granted to us all things which relate to life and godliness, through the full knowledge of Him who has called us by His own glory and virtue.” (2 Pet. 1:3)

If we see the vision of the all-inclusiveness and extensiveness of Christ, we will concentrate our whole being on this Christ, and He will fill and saturate us. To us to live will be the Christ who takes possession of us and fills and occupies us with Himself. To be full-grown in Christ is to be filled, saturated, and permeated with Christ. This is the growth in life and the maturity in life, the issue of experiencing the Christ revealed in Colossians.

Life is within, enabling us to live, and godliness is without as the outward expression of the inward life. Life is the inward energy, the inward strength, to bring forth the outward godliness, which leads to and results in glory. Eventually, we will have the full development and maturity in life from the seed of faith, through the roots of virtue and knowledge, the trunk of self-control, and the branches of endurance and godliness, to the blossom and the fruit of brotherly love and love. (Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified By the Good Land…, msg. 9, I.C.2, b, 3, b; V.A.1-2, C)

May we all concentrate our whole being on the all-inclusive Christ that He might bring us to the maturity in life and express Him in godliness and love.

Bibles for America

So far this year, Bibles for America has sent out over 65,000 free copies of the NT Recovery Version to people throughout the United States. Please pray that everyone who receives a copy would be helped to understand and experience the riches in God's Word. Pray that the recipients would grow in their faith and develop a taste for the ministry of life.

2024 Olympics Torch Relay Gospel Trips

Gospel trips to distribute the NT Recovery Version during the 2024 Paris Olympics began on May 6 and will continue until September 9. We praise and thank the Lord for an unprecedented openness and hunger among the French people. This openness is surely due—on heaven's side—to God's desire and—on earth's side—to the prayers of the saints in churches around the globe. The goal of these trips is to raise up lampstands in more French-speaking cities, so following up with contacts will be critical.

The sixth gospel trip is currently underway from May 31 to June 8 in two cities in the northwest of France—Rennes and Nantes. After a two-week pause while the torch travels to overseas French territories, the seventh trip will start June 24 in Strasbourg.

Please continue to pray for:

The fresh and detailed consecrations of all the saints going out, as well as their health and safety.
Local French speakers and their families, as a result of meeting us and speaking with us, to have a powerful hunger and desire to seek after God in His Word and pursue Him with those who call on Him out of a pure heart.
The follow-up shepherding of contacts from TR1–5 (Marseille, Montpellier, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Caen), including a weekly Zoom seminar, through the coordination of both local and overseas saints.
The Lord to continue casting “fire” on French-speaking Europe and have His way for His testimony.
The Lord to thrust out the workers to labor with Him in France, not only during these gospel trips, but also afterwards.

For the saints' awareness and prayer, the following reports and testimonies are available:

More information is at www.amanatrust.org.uk/page/2024Paris. Saints in LA burdened to give for the distribution can do so through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Paris Olympics.”

FTTL

The graduation of the Full-time Training in London's spring semester will take place at Bower House this Saturday, June 8. Please pray for the graduating trainees—whether they serve, work, or study—to continue in the things that they have learned and been assured of during their two years in the training.

Ramenskoye Meeting Hall

When the Lord's recovery came to the Russian-speaking world, the Lord raised up a group of Christians in Ramenskoye, about 20 miles from Moscow, to take the way of the recovery and become one of the first churches in Russia. Since the saints in Ramenskoye had been registered with the government since 1968, this registration allowed the churches in Russia to gain a solid legal standing. Later, the saints in Ramenskoye obtained a plot of land on which the work in Russia, through the giving of the saints mainly in the United States, built a blending facility to serve the needs of the churches in the Russian-speaking world. All the conferences, trainings, and blending meetings in Russia take place in that facility. The brothers and sisters in Ramenskoye also serve there in a practical way.

All these years the church in Ramenskoye has been meeting in the blending facility without a meeting hall of their own. The brothers in Russia all feel that it would be beneficial if the church in Ramenskoye could have its own meeting hall and the blending facility be used exclusively for the Lord's work in Russia. A few years ago a plot of land next to the blending facility was purchased for the church in Ramenskoye. The co-workers feel that it is the right time to build a meeting hall there. The estimated construction cost is about $500,000.

Saints in LA burdened to offer toward this need may do so through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Ramenskoye Meeting Hall.”

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 9 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.
Memorial Day Conference: Saints are encouraged to watch or listen to the archived messages, available at no charge until June 26 at www.lsmwebcast.com.
Living to Him: A recording of the working saints gathering at the recent Memorial Day Conference in Bellevue is available at youtu.be/u5fRTZ5LrrQ. The fellowship focused on the actual carrying out of the God-ordained way, especially in the practice of the vital groups and shepherding.
Semiannual Training: July 1 to 6 in Anaheim. The general subject is “Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1).” For LA saints, registration for participation by video is still open until June 16 ($130) at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.
Bibles for America's most recent blog post, “Jesus Sympathizes with Us in All Things,” is available to read and share at blog.bfa.org.
The LA Years: Chapter 5: Publications to Reach the Seekers is now available at www.layears.org, an oral history project documenting the early years of the church life in LA from 1958–1974, including written history, photos, and first-hand accounts.
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.
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 May 26

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Taking Time to Absorb Christ

“Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light.” (Col. 1:12)

“Having been rooted and being built up in Him…” (Col. 2:7)

Colossians 2:6-7 reveals that Christ as the good land, a land in which we do not lack anything, is the rich soil in which we have been rooted so that we may grow with the elements that we absorb from the soil. Day by day we need to take time to absorb Christ, the One into whom we have been planted; we must take time to enjoy the Lord as the all-inclusive land so that all the elements of Christ as the rich soil may be absorbed into us for us to be made full in Him in our experience. We need to forget our situation, our condition, our failures, and our weaknesses and simply take time to absorb the Lord.

As we take time to absorb Him, we grow with the growth of God in us for the building up of the Body of Christ. Our contact with the Lord should not be rushed; we must exercise our spirit to stay in the Lord's presence to absorb Him; we must spend more time to absorb the Lord—to adore Him, to praise Him, to offer thanks to Him, and to speak to Him freely. The growth of the Body depends on the growth of God, the increase of God, within us in a very subjective way; the growth of the Body is the growth of God's building; the actual building of the church is by the believers' growth in life. (Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified By the Good Land…, msg. 8, II, B, 2; C, D)

The Christian Life

The Christian life is a life of living Christ; our living should be Christ, and the way to live Christ is to love Christ. We can live Christ by loving Christ to the uttermost; if we do not love Christ, we cannot live Him, and loving Him is the best way to concentrate our entire being on Him. The Christian life is a life of loving God and loving one another with God Himself as our love; Christ lived in this world a life of God as love, and He is now our life that we may live the same life of love in this world and be the same as He is in His lost-one-seeking and sinner-saving ministry journey.

In order to live the Christian life, we need to enjoy the flow of life out of the house of God. Our enjoyment of Christ as the flow of life is for us to be sowers, planters, waterers, begetters, feeders, and builders with the ministry of life for the marvelous organic building of God, the magnificent house of God. (Memorial Day Conference, msg. 1, I, A, E; msg. 5, I, II)

Please pray for the advance of the Lord's recovery based on His speaking in the Memorial Day Conference, that the burden released in the messages would be worked into and worked out through the saints in all the churches. Praise the Lord for His rich speaking!

The conference messages may still be accessed at no charge until June 26 at www.lsmwebcast.com.

UCLA Celebration Meeting

This Friday, May 31, we are having a special celebration meeting for our students at UCLA and nearby colleges along with the Hall 5 saints. This will be a joyous opportunity for students to share their top experiences of Christ from this past academic year, including a particular emphasis and recognition of the graduating seniors. Please pray for:

The Lord to gather our students together, including any ones who were new with us this past year.
The loving, Spirit-filled atmosphere to cherish everyone there, especially the graduating seniors who will be finishing their undergraduate careers.
The rich overflow of Christ through testimonies from all the students that would bring glory to the Lord for all that He has done.

FTTA

The deadline for Fall Term applications is this Friday, May 31. We are continuing to pray and trust in the Lord for His blessing on many young saints through the Full-time Training in Anaheim. In light of this week's deadline, please pray that the Lord would touch and lead many more college graduates and young working saints, especially from the United States and Canada, to consecrate themselves and apply to the FTTA. We expect that the Lord will increase the number in the Training through such prayers.

2024 Olympics Torch Relay Gospel Trips

We thank the Lord for a strong beginning to these gospel trips. So far, we have been amazed at the unprecedented openness and hunger among the French people. Since the goal of these trips is eventually to raise up lampstands in more French-speaking cities, following up with all the new contacts will be critical.

This week, the fifth and sixth gospel trips are taking place, respectively, May 25 to 31 in Caen and May 31 to June 8 in Rennes and Nantes. May the Lord continue to cast “fire” on French-speaking Europe and have His way there for His testimony!

Please pray for:

The fresh and detailed consecrations of all the saints going out, as well as their health and safety.
Local French speakers and their families, as a result of meeting us and speaking with us, to have a powerful hunger and desire to seek after God in His Word and pursue Him with those who call on Him out of a pure heart.
The follow-up shepherding of contacts from Marseille, Montpellier, Toulouse, and Bordeaux, including an ongoing series of Zoom seminars, through the coordination of both local and overseas saints.
The Lord to thrust out the workers to labor with Him in France, not only during these gospel trips, but especially afterwards.

A compilation of reports and testimonies from the first four trips for the saints' awareness and prayer is available at www.lordsmove.org/pdfs/FranceTorchRelayReports-27May2024.pdf. Application information 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.”

Cambodia

Pray for the new believers who were saved in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, and Battambang in April to be remaining fruits and building materials.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 8 of Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good Land…
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The ministry meeting resumes this week starting at 7:25 pm.
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.
Bibles for America's most recent blog post, “Jesus Sympathizes with Us in All Things,” is available to read and share at blog.bfa.org.
The LA Years: Chapter 5: Publications to Reach the Seekers is now available at www.layears.org, an oral history project documenting the early years of the church life in LA from 1958–1974, including written history, photos, and first-hand accounts.
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.
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 May 19

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Knowing the Ascension

“But we see Jesus, who was made a little inferior to the angels because of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor…” (Heb. 2:9)

“And what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe…And He subjected all things under His feet and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church, which is His Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all.” (Eph. 1:19a, 22-23)

What God gave Christ to be is to the church; it is transmitted to the church. The church shares it. This corresponds to the word His power toward us in Ephesians 1:19. The phrase toward us is a key, for it also indicates a transmission.

Man condemned Christ and sentenced Him to death. But God came in to raise Him up, to seat Him in the heavens, to subject all things under His feet, and to give Him to be the Head over all things.

The best translation of the second part of Ephesians 1:22 is: “gave Him to be Head over all things to the church.” If Paul had concluded Ephesians 1 by saying that God gave Christ to be Head over all things, Christ's ascension would not have anything to do with the church. Paul, however, added the important phrase to the church…Whatever Christ, the Head, has attained and obtained is transmitted to the church, His Body.

The church should continually receive this transmission. Electricity may be installed in a building once for all, but the transmission of electricity takes place continually. Likewise, God raised up Christ, seated Him in the heavens, put everything under His feet, and gave Him the great gift of being the Head over all things. Now whatever Christ is in His ascension is being transmitted into the church. This is the continual transmission into the church of the ascended Christ with the full significance of His ascension. (Life-study of Luke, 2nd ed., pp. 646, 649-650)

International Memorial Day Blending Conference

The 2024 International Memorial Day Blending Conference will take place this weekend in Bellevue, Washington. The general subject is “The Christian Life.” All the saints are invited and encouraged to participate in person or by webcast. Living Stream Ministry will broadcast the conference messages according to the live schedule; a few hours after the message is given, the video will be in the archives.

All information, schedules and outlines are now posted at conf.lsmwebcast.com. The live broadcast schedule is as follows:

Message 1: Friday, May 24 7:25 pm
Message 2: Saturday, May 25 9:55 am
Message 3: Saturday, May 25 7:25 pm
Message 4: Lord's Day, May 26 9:55 am
Message 5: Lord's Day, May 26 7:25 pm
Message 6: Monday, May 27 9:55 am

Please pray for the release of the Lord's up-to-date speaking to His recovery and for the blending of the entire recovery in that speaking. May all the churches and all the saints prepare for this upcoming time of ministry and sanctify these days for the hearing of faith among us. May this conference turn out to be a real memorial among us to the shame of God's enemy and to the glory of God's grace!

FTTA

The deadline for Fall Term applications is next Friday, May 31. We are continuing to pray and trust in the Lord for His blessing on many young saints through the Full-time Training in Anaheim. In light of this week's deadline, please pray that the Lord would touch and lead many more college graduates and young working saints to consecrate themselves and apply to FTTA. We expect that the Lord will increase the number in the Training through such prayers.

2024 Olympics Torch Relay Gospel Trips

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). Since the goal of these trips is eventually to raise up lampstands in more French-speaking cities, following up with all the new contacts will be critical. This week, the fourth and fifth gospel trips are taking place, respectively, May 20 to 25 in Bordeaux and May 25 to 31 in Caen.

Please pray for:

The fresh and detailed consecrations of all the saints going out.
The Lord's casting “fire” on French-speaking Europe.
Many divine appointments to take place for the Lord to gain local French speakers and their families.
The Lord's testimony in Bordeaux to be strengthened and a lampstand in Caen to be raised up.
The follow-up care of contacts from Marseille, Montpellier, and Toulouse, including a series of Zoom seminars beginning this weekend.

The May 2024 issue of LSM's newsletter features a report from the FTTA-XB Gospel Trip to Marseille and Montpellier at newsletters.lsm.org/having-this-ministry. More information 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.”

Ukraine

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.

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 7 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 Memorial Day Conference. The meeting will resume next week, May 29.
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 May 12

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Entering into God's Rest

“And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.” (Gen. 2:2)

“Come to Me all who toil and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matt. 11:28)

God rested on the seventh day because He had finished His work and was satisfied; God's glory was manifested because man had His image, and His authority with His dominion was about to be exercised for the subduing of His enemy. When there is a situation on earth in which man expresses God and represents God, that situation is a Sabbath rest to God…

God's seventh day was man's first day; after man was created, he did not join in God's work, but he entered into God's rest; man was created not to work but to be satisfied with God and rest with God. The Sabbath signifies that God has done everything, completed everything, and prepared everything and that man must stop all his work; to keep the Sabbath is to stop our work and to take God and all that He has accomplished for us as our enjoyment, rest, and satisfaction…

As God's people, we should bear a sign that we rest with God, enjoy God, are refreshed with God, and are filled up with God first; then we work together with the very One who fills us in oneness with Him; this is an eternal covenant, and eternal contract, with God. (Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good Land…, msg. 6, I.A, B, C, D, IV.F, G)

Let us pray for all the saints to first come to the Lord to rest with Him, enjoy Him, and be refreshed by Him in order to labor with Him to carry out His heart's desire!

University Campuses

Please pray for the God of peace to rule on the university campuses to make the situation and atmosphere conducive to the preaching of the gospel and to cause the students' hearts to be open to God and to His truth.

2024 Olympics Torch Relay Gospel Trips

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 Torch Relay Gospel Trip was last week in Marseille; this week, the second and third trips are taking place, respectively, May 11 to 15 in Montpellier and May 15 to 20 in Toulouse. The teams on these three trips 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.
The Lord's casting “fire” on French-speaking Europe—France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland.
Many divine appointments to take place for the Lord to gain local French speakers and their families.
The Lord's testimony in Marseille, Montpellier, and Toulouse 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.”

Central and Eastern Europe and Balkans Blending Conference

The spring conference for the countries in Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans will take place this weekend, May 17 to 19, in Bratislava, Slovakia. The five sessions will be a respeaking of the messages from the 2024 International Chinese-Speaking Conference. May the Lord speak a timely word and pour out His blessing on the gathering of the saints and the churches in this region of Europe!

Ukraine

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.

Israel

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 6 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 May 5

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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.

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

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.

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