Prayer

Prayer, Week of May 6

The Grace of God in a Local Church: Its Abundance, Expression, and Maintenance

Abundance: Acts 4:33, "…great grace was upon them all."

Expression: Acts 11:23, "Who, when he arrived and saw the grace of God…"
Acts 11:23, note 1, The grace that was seen by Barnabas must have been the Triune God received and enjoyed by the believers and expressed in their salvation, change in life, holy living, and the gifts they exercised in their meetings, all of which could be seen by others.

Maintenance: Acts 13:43, "…Paul and Barnabas…urged them to continue in the grace of God."

Brother Minoru's sharing on the abundance, expression, and maintenance of grace is at http://tinyurl.com/greatgrace.

Many verses unveil our cooperation to maintain grace, advance in grace, and grow in grace:

We exercise our spirit because grace is with our spirit (Gal. 6:18).
We come forward to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace (Heb. 4:16) and to enthrone the Lord so that grace as a river may flow (hymn 770, v. 1).
We receive the living word of His grace, which is able to build us up (Acts 20:32).
We let the word of Christ dwell richly in us so that we sing with grace in our hearts to God (Col. 3:16).
We partake of grace by loving our Lord Jesus Christ with God's incorruptible love (Eph. 6:24).
We enjoy grace by abounding in the work of the Lord (1 Cor. 15:10, 58).
We abound in grace by liberal giving of material riches (2 Cor. 8:1-7).

Lord, bring us into every aspect of cooperation with Your grace! Cause Your grace to be expressed much more throughout Los Angeles!

Sixth Grade Conference

The sixth grade conference is May 11 to 13 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.

Spanish-Speaking Brothers' Perfecting

Every spring we have a special time of fellowship and perfecting in the truth with the Spanish-speaking elders, responsible brothers, and serving brothers in Southern California. This year it will be Saturday, May 12 in Anaheim. May the Lord bless this special time with His speaking and presence.

The Church in Strasbourg, France

The resumption of the Lord's table in Strasbourg will take place on May 13. Despite the enemy's efforts to frustrate throughout the last decades, the Triune God has kept on flowing. May the Lord solidly establish an unshakable and un-uprootable golden tree, living, growing, budding, and blossoming here in Strasbourg. A lot has taken place and we pray for His mighty flow to flow forth from the house, toward the east, reaching every part and every person in this city.

Woodland Camp Training Facility

A video update and a written report on the development of a training facility at Woodland Camp in London are available by clicking on 'Reports' at http://amanatrust.org.uk. Those who wish to give through the church may designate offerings for 'UK Building Fund.'

Germany

Please continue to pray for:

the further sowing of the German NT Recovery Version, and the reaping into the church life of many among the 30,000+ recipients who were contacted in October 2017;
the spreading of the Lord's testimony throughout Germany; ask the Lord to supply the saints bountifully in traveling to and shepherding the scattered seekers and to gradually burden some experienced in the church life to migrate for the raising up of additional local churches.

India and Nepal

The Lord's Move to Asia Newsletter describes the current situation and burden of the 177 churches in India. It also has a report of a winter gospel trip and blending in Nepal by students from Taiwan.

http://lmasia.org/temp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/E-2018-04.pdf (English)

http://lmasia.org/temp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Asia-2018-04.pdf (Chinese)

Announcements

Morning revival: REPEAT Week 5 of Crystallization-Study of Leviticus, Vol. 1.
The Bible ends, "The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen." (Rev. 22:21)
Audio of the May 6 joint meeting of the church in LA is available at http://tinyurl.com/greatgrace.
The Summer Training will be July 2 to 7 in Anaheim and by local webcasts in LA. Late registration for the live training including payment ($255) is due June 12. Registration for the webcast ($105) is also due June 12. Saints from LA should register at http://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla and give cash/check payment to their district's registration coordinator.
The International Memorial Day Conference will be May 25 to 28 in Kansas City. Saints from LA attending should RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/memdayla (adults) or http://tinyurl.com/memchildrenla (children) to receive any updated announcements.
The Southern California Blending Conference will be June 9 to 10 in Anaheim. General information and specific information about children are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.
The Summer School of Truth in Los Angeles is July 20 to 28. The topic is: The Church.
Information on Germany and Europe, see the right side of https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.

by Ruolin Fan

Prayer, Week of April 29

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Church in Los Angeles, a Corporate Meal Offering

We need to eat Christ as our meal offering so that He can live again on the earth through us in His divinely enriched humanity. By eating Christ, we become the reproduction, duplication, and enlargement of Christ as the meal offering—the church as a corporate meal offering, composed of humanity oiled with divinity in resurrection through Christ's death and without leaven or honey. (Crystallization-Study of Leviticus, msg 5, II., II.A, IV.)

"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." "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 6:57, 63)

"The bread which we break, is it not the fellowship of the body of Christ? Seeing that there is one bread, we who are many are one Body; for we all partake of the one bread." (1 Cor. 10:16b-17)

The whole church in Los Angeles—with all of our halls, districts, and languages—will come together from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm on Lord's Day, May 6, to blend together as the Lord's one testimony in this city. This will be at LA Trade Tech College; a map is posted at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer. Plan to arrive by 9:20 am to allow time for parking (free) and walking to the meeting place.

Please entreat the Lord to gather all the saints to praise Him, to partake of Him, and to become more constituted as the corporate meal offering.

No lunch will be served. We encourage everyone to plan toward lunch with others in homes or restaurants for blending. Pray for this.

Southern California Blending Conference

This conference will be Saturday afternoon and night, June 9, and Lord's Day morning, June 10, in Anaheim. Translation will be provided. There will be child care for all three meetings; details will be announced later.

We urge all the saints in the churches to reserve this time to gather together for corporate blending and to enter into the Lord's present speaking to the churches in Southern California. May the God of peace be with all the saints.

The Gospel to All the Nations

The burden of a conference in the Washington, D.C. area May 4 to 6 is the gospel to all the nations, with a view of reaching African Americans, as well as others of African descent, for the Lord's testimony. All the saints are needed to pray and participate, regardless of ethnicity. Our burden is to find a way to reach, contact, and reap a number of people of African origin both from the college campuses and from our communities for a fuller testimony of the one new man among us.

One-Week Trainings in Europe

Another series of one-week spring trainings will be held in London. The subject is Truth, Life, the Church, and the Gospel—the Four Great Pillars in the Lord's Recovery. These trainings begin Mondays, April 30, May 7, May 14, and May 21, and end on Saturdays. The trainings also include perfecting in Christian living, time with FTT London and the church in London, and a church history outing.

Lord, enlarge and enrich Your recovery in Europe!

Bibles for Australia at the Commonwealth Games

Over 1,600 copies of the NT Recovery Version were given away by 120 Bibles for Australia volunteers at the recent Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast. Although they were not permitted to set up tables, the volunteers approached people as they walked through the crowds, and gave Bibles to those who were open. Many volunteers testified of the joy they experienced from presenting God's Word to people, and look forward to giving away Bibles in their daily lives.

Please pray for the Lord to operate in the hearts of those who heard the word of the gospel and received a free Bible. Pray also that the volunteers who participated in this event would be energized to spread the Word of God in their localities.

Germany

Trainees from FTTA-XB are coming May 3 to 21 to strengthen the Lord's move among the churches and in all of Germany. Pray for this strengthening and for their blending with the local saints.

One Weekend, Three Conferences in Europe

There will be a conference in Rome May 5 to 6. It will be preceded by a prayer meeting at the church in Rome's meeting place Friday night, May 4.

There will be a conference in Bucharest, Romania from May 4 to 6.

There will be a French-speaking YP conference the same weekend. Please pray to release the young people from France, Belgium, and Switzerland to be separated from this wicked world and to be companionized with each other.

Announcements

Morning revival: Week 5 of Crystallization-Study of Leviticus, Vol. 1. Next week, after the joint meeting of the whole church, we will REPEAT week 5.
The 6th Grade Conference will be May 11 to 13 at Oak Glen. Registration was due April 29.
The Summer Training will be July 2 to 7 in Anaheim and by local webcasts in LA. Late registration for the live training including payment ($255) is due June 12. Registration for the webcast ($105) is also due June 12. Saints from LA should register at http://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla and give cash/check payment to their district's registration coordinator.
The International Memorial Day Conference will be May 25 to 28 in Kansas City. Information is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer. Saints from LA attending are requested to RSVP no later than April 29 at http://tinyurl.com/memdayla (adults) or http://tinyurl.com/memchildrenla (children).

by Ruolin Fan

Prayer, Week of April 22

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Constituted to Be a Duplication of Christ's God-Man Living

"Your words were found and I ate them, and Your word became to me the gladness and joy of my heart, for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, God of hosts." (Jer. 15:16)

"Receive…the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God, by means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit and watching unto this in all perseverance and petition concerning all the saints." (Eph. 6:17-18)

The meal offering typifies Christ in His God-man living and typifies our Christian life as a duplication of Christ's God-man living. By exercising our spirit to touch the Spirit consolidated in the Word, we eat the human life and living of Jesus, we are constituted with Jesus, and the human living of Jesus becomes our human living. (Crystallization-Study of Leviticus, msg. 4, I., II., II.B)

Joint LA Meeting

The whole church in Los Angeles—all our halls, districts, and languages—will gather at LA Trade Tech College from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm on Lord's Day, May 6, to blend together as the Lord's one testimony in this city. There will also be a special fellowship with brother Minoru Chen. Please pray that the Lord would gather all of the saints from all parts of the city to praise Him, to become of one accord for His move, and to be the new man, where Christ is all and in all!

No lunch will be served at the college. We encourage everyone to plan toward lunch with others in homes or restaurants for personal blending. Pray for this.

Children's Work Conference & 6th Grade Preparation Meeting

These times of fellowship are Saturday, April 28, in Diamond Bar. These meetings will focus on the burden and vision for the children along with some practices for the families in the homes and for the churches in raising up the next generation. Pray that all who registered will be able to attend and that all will receive the vision and burden.

Poland - Bible Distributions and Conference

For the past five years the saints in Poland have been laboring on the translation of the Recovery Version NT. It was completed in September 2017, and 30,000 copies for free distribution were printed in February of this year. Praise the Lord!

Upcoming distributions will take place on April 23 to 27 in Warsaw and Krakow and on May 2 to 3 in Warsaw. These distribution dates are before and after the International Blending Conference in Warsaw on April 28 through May 1. The conference subject is the same as the recent Taipei conference: "The Goal of the Lord's Recovery—To Bring Forth the One New Man."

The Church in Madrid and the Work in Iberia

The church in Madrid, Spain began in 2001 with 12 saints; today it has more than 100 with about 70 meeting regularly on Lord's Days. The current rented hall is too small for the church, storage for Bibles for Europe and Rhema, and to be a base for 11 full timers who serve in all of Spain and Portugal.

After several years of prayer and searching, the church found a place suitable for all uses, in a safe neighborhood, with good transportation, and acceptable for use by a church. The initial payment of 30,000 euros ($37,000) was last week. Another 70,000 euros ($86,000) is due at the end of April, and the final amount of 600,000 euros ($740,000) at the end of July.

Pray for this transaction to be completed and for the timely financial supply for this purchase. You may donate to the church (any amount, small or large, as the Lord leads), designated for Madrid.

Germany

Please continue to pray for:

visits of trainees from FTT Taipei (April 3 to May 5) and FTTA-XB (May 3-21) to strengthen the Lord's move among the churches and in all of Germany;
the continued sowing of the German NT Recovery Version and the reaping into the church life; of the 30,000+ recipients who were contacted in October 2017;
more young saints from outside Germany to gain admission to German universities; and
those emigrating to obtain visas, find jobs and housing, and learn the German language.

France

The annual spring conference in Paris will be April 27 to 29.

Announcements

Morning revival: Week 4 of Crystallization-Study of Leviticus, Vol. 1. Next week will be week 5. The week after the joint meeting of the whole church, we will REPEAT week 5.
The Summer Training will be July 2 to 7 in Anaheim and by local webcasts in LA. Live training registration including payment ($205) is due April 27. Registration for the webcast ($105) is due June 12. Late fees will be incurred after these deadlines. Saints from LA should register at http://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla and give cash/check payment to their district's registration coordinator.
The 6th Grade Conference will be May 11 to 13 at Oak Glen. Registration is due April 29.
The International Memorial Day Conference will be May 25 to 28 in Kansas City. Information is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer. Saints from LA attending are requested to RSVP no later than April 29 at http://tinyurl.com/memdayla (adults) or http://tinyurl.com/memchildrenla (children).
The Southern California Blending Conference will be June 9 to 10 in Anaheim.

by Ruolin Fan

Prayer, Week of April 15

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Taking Christ as our Person and Living Him

"My children, with whom I travail again in birth until Christ is formed in you." (Gal. 4:19)

"That [the Father] would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man, that Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith." (Eph. 3:16-17a)

God's central work is to work Himself in Christ into His chosen people, making Himself one with them. God's intention in His economy is to work Himself into us not only as our life but also as our person. If we take Christ as our person, we will live Him out as the proper church life. Taking Christ as our person requires that we love Him to the uttermost.

The way for us to grow in life, which is the way for the Lord to grow within us, is to recover our first love toward the Lord. We grow and enjoy the Lord by loving Him. The Lord loves us all the time, and we need to love Him all the time so that we can spontaneously be one with Him. In this way He will have an opening in every part of our being and will have a way to grow in us. To love the Lord is to be stopped from our doing and is to let Him live in us and take full possession of our being.

Lord Jesus, I open to You. Take full possession of me. Lord, I love You. I present myself to You. Possess me more and more until You reach every part of my being and make Your home in me.
(excerpts from ITERO messages 1, 3, 5)

Joint LA Meeting

The whole church will meet together on May 6 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm at LA Trade Tech College for the Lord's table and a special fellowship with brother Minoru Chen. For the sake of the Lord's testimony in this city, let us pray, remind, and encourage one another to attend this gathering and pray strongly for the Lord's move through this time together!

West Coast University Faculty/Staff Blending Workshop

The churches in Southern California will have a workshop for blending and fellowship for those saints at the colleges or universities on the West Coast of the US and Canada who are or intend to be teachers, research staff, post-doctoral fellows, or Ph.D. candidates.

The workshop will be held at Oak Glen, and will begin at 7 pm on Friday, April 27, and continue until noon on the Lord's Day, April 29. Registration and detailed information at http://tinyurl.com/2018faculty.

Junior High Brothers Conference

From April 20 to 22, brothers from across Southern California will gather at Oak Glen for the Spring Junior High Brothers Conference. For this conference we pray:

for the Lord to prepare the hearts of all of the brothers in Southern California;
that they would be helped to develop a relationship with the Lord through His Word; and
that the Word would grow in them richly so that they can speak to their friends.

The Church in Madrid and the Work in Iberia

After several years of prayer and searching, the church found a place suitable for all uses, in a safe neighborhood, with good transportation, and acceptable for use by a church. The church will make an initial payment of 30,000 euros ($37,000) this Wednesday. Another 70,000 euros ($86,000) is due at the end of April, and the final amount of 600,000 euros ($740,000) at the end of July.

Pray for this transaction to be completed and for the timely financial supply for this purchase. You may donate to the church (any amount, small or large, as the Lord leads), designated for Madrid.

European Brothers' Training

This training will be April 20 to 22 in London. It will include videos of all the ITERO messages, group study times, and fellowship about the Lord's move in Europe.

Announcements

Morning revival: Week 3 of Crystallization-Study of Leviticus, Vol. 1.
The Southern California Blending Conference will be from June 9 to 10 in Anaheim.
The 6th Grade Conference will be May 11 to 13 at Oak Glen. Registration is due April 29.
The Summer Training will be July 2 to 7 in Anaheim and by local webcasts in LA. Live training registration including payment ($205) is due April 27. Registration for the webcast ($105) is due June 12. Late fees will be incurred after these deadlines. Saints from LA should register at http://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla and give cash/check payment to their district's registration coordinator.
The International Memorial Day Conference will be May 25 to 28 in Kansas City. Information is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer. Saints from LA attending are requested to RSVP no later than April 29 at http://tinyurl.com/memdayla (adults) or http://tinyurl.com/memchildrenla (children).

by Ruolin Fan

Prayer, Week of April 8

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We Take Christ Daily to Experience Christ Daily

We need to take Christ as our burnt offering daily so that we may experience Christ in His experiences as the burnt offering, not imitating Christ outwardly but living Him as our daily life. By such a union, Christ becomes one with us and lives in us, repeating in us the life that He lived on earth, the life of the burnt offering. (Crystallization-Study of Leviticus, msg. 2, IV, III.B)

"The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it must not go out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and he shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it and shall burn the fat of the peace offerings on it." (Lev. 6:12)

"The love of Christ constrains us because we have judged this, that One died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all that those who live may no longer live to themselves but to Him who died for them and has been raised." (2 Cor. 5:14-15)

ITERO

The International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones is April 13 to 15 in Anaheim. Let us beseech the Lord that through this training, the Lord will make all the brothers 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 our respective local churches. May the Lord also build His Body through the blending of brothers from the whole earth and the serving of all the FTTA trainees.

Ninety-one brothers from L.A. are registered. Pray that there be no hindrance to our attendance.

Summer Training Registration

Registration for the 2018 Summer Training (July 2 to 7) is open now: $205 for Anaheim. Ask the Lord to increase our number participating in His speaking to the churches in this training on Leviticus. Registration deadline for live is April 27 and for webcast is June 12 at: http://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.

GTCA City Near California - Reno, NV

GTCA is the carrying out of the burden to gospelize, truthize, and churchize America. This is a long-term labor to build up the Body of Christ. In past weeks we mentioned the four 2018 target cities in California.

The Lord has been gathering seekers in the Reno area for a number of years to meet as His testimony. Currently, the church life in Reno consists of 41 saints. There are also numerous community and student contacts. Weekly meetings include the Lord's Table and prophesying meeting, a prayer meeting, and a Friday night meeting at the campus house, 1.4 miles from University of Nevada, Reno.

Pray for continued shepherding contacts with those who received New Testaments during the FTTA gospel trip and for a continuing gospel atmosphere among all the saints.

Germany

Please continue to pray for the spreading of the Lord's testimony throughout Germany. Besides the churches currently in Germany, there are seekers in many other cities. In some of these cities there is a weekly campus Bible study. Ask the Lord to supply the saints bountifully in traveling to and shepherding all of these believers and to gradually burden some experienced in the church life to migrate for the raising up of local churches in Aachen, Bielefeld, Bochum, Cologne, Darmstadt, Dresden, Freiburg, Giessen, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Leipzig, Limburg, Mainz, Munich, and Tübingen.

Also pray for continued grace to all who are studying the German language.

The Church in Islamabad, Pakistan

Our first stay-in Youth Training was March 22 to 24. The subject was "The Need to Become Age-Turners." The 20 young people were very pleased with the messages, the fellowship among themselves, and the outing at a park; they did not want to go back home. One young brother got baptized. Some of these young people attend and participate in multiple meetings per week. We are so excited to report how the Lord has been working in, through, and out of the lives of these young people!

Our gospel preaching is corporate. District 1 and 2 saints go to their own communities Tuesdays and Wednesdays to preach the gospel. On Thursdays, many District 1 saints go to the community where there's a possibility to establish another district. On Fridays both districts' saints go to another community. Many regular home meetings have been established in these communities and new families are being contacted.

Please pray that:

the saints would continue to grow in life, especially the youth who just attended the training;
the number of saints in each locality would grow;
the Lord would raise up brothers who have a burden to establish a third district;
for the release of visas for two saints who desire to attend FTT in the Philippines.

Announcements

Morning revival: Week 2 of Crystallization-Study of Leviticus, Vol. 1 (Winter Training).
Children's Work Conference & 6th Grade Preparation Meeting: Saturday, April 28, 9:00 am to 12:15 pm (children's work) and 1:00 to 2:30 pm (6th grade). Lunch will be served. Translation will be provided. Please bring your FM radio. The location is the Church in Diamond Bar meeting hall. Donation is $20. Register at http://www.scyp.com/conferences by April 15.
Joint LA Meeting: The whole church will meet together on May 6 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm at LA Trade Tech College for the Lord's table and a special fellowship with brother Minoru Chen.
The 6th Grade Conference will be May 11 to 13 at Oak Glen. Registration is due April 29.
International Memorial Day Conference will be May 25 to 28 in Kansas City. Information is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer. Saints from LA attending are requested to RSVP no later than April 29 at http://tinyurl.com/memdayla (adults) or http://tinyurl.com/memchildrenla (children).
The 2018 Southern California Blending Conference will be from June 9 to 10 in Anaheim.
The Summer Training will be July 2 to 7 in Anaheim and by local webcasts in LA. Live training registration including payment ($205) is due April 27. Registration for the webcast ($105) is due June 12. Late fees will be incurred after these deadlines. Saints from LA should register at http://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla and give cash/check payment to their district's registration coordinator.

by Ruolin Fan

Prayer, Week of April 1

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Trained to Live in the Reality of the Universe

"The Word became flesh and tabernacled among us…, full of grace and reality….For the law was given through Moses; grace and reality came through Jesus Christ." (John 1:14, 17)

"Jesus said to him, I am the way and the reality and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6)

The reality of the universe is Christ as the tabernacle and the offerings. As the God-man, Christ is the tabernacle to be the dwelling place for God and man, and He is the offerings for man to enter into God. Through Christ as the offerings, we can dwell in God, and God can dwell in us; this is the reality of the universe and the content of the Bible. (Crystallization-Study of Leviticus, msg 1, II.D, 1, 3)

God is training His people to live in this reality. Lord, we give ourselves to be trained by You and in You day by day. Gain Your full desire in us!

Southern California College Conference

The college conference will take place this weekend, April 6 to 8, in Anaheim. The general subject is "The One New Man." In particular, please pray that:

the number of participating students would significantly increase compared to last year; also that many high school seniors would come;
the students' eyes would be opened to see a vision of Christ Himself as all and in all;
the Spirit would flow in a released way and all attendees would be carried away in spirit; and
the Lord would blend His Body together, including through the hospitality in the homes.

Junior High Sisters' Conference

From April 6 to 8, sisters from across Southern California will gather at Oak Glen for the Spring 2018 Junior High Sisters' Conference. For this conference we pray:

for the Lord to prepare the hearts of all of the sisters in Southern California;
that they would be helped to develop a relationship with the Lord through His Word; and
that the Word would grow in them richly so that they can speak to their friends.

Children's Work Conference & 6th Grade Preparation Meeting

These times of fellowship are Saturday, April 28, 9:00 am to 12:15 pm (children's work) and 1:00 to 2:30 pm (6th grade). Lunch will be served. Translation into Chinese, Spanish, and Korean will be provided; please bring your FM radio. The location is the Church in Diamond Bar meeting hall. Donation is $20. Register at http://www.scyp.com/conferences by April 15.

These meetings will be on the burden and vision for the children along with some practices for the families in the homes and for the churches in raising up the next generation. Pray that in addition to regular serving ones, more parents of children under 12 would attend these meetings.

GTCA Cities in California - Morgan Hill

GTCA is the carrying out of the burden to gospelize, truthize, and churchize America. This is a long-term labor. Each week we are praying for one of the 2018 target cities in California. FTTA gospel trips in 2017 and 2018 included time in Morgan Hill.

Morgan Hill is a city at the southern tip of Silicon Valley, approximately 12 miles south of San Jose. It is primarily a residential community and is among the most expensive places in the U.S. to live. Presently we are meeting three times per month for the table meeting as a district of San Jose. There are 8 or 9 families meeting together every week, with four homes regularly opened for meetings.

Lord, raise up Your shining lampstand in Morgan Hill!

Bibles for Australia

Bibles for Australia volunteers are planning to give away 5,000 Bibles at the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia from April 4 to 15. This athletic event attracts people from 71 nations across the globe. Please pray that many spectators and participants from all over the world will be open to the gospel and to receive a free copy of the NT Recovery Version.

Germany

Please pray for the trainees from FTT Taipei coming April 3 to May 5 to strengthen the Lord's move among the churches and in all of Germany.

For more information on Germany and Europe, see the right side of https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.

Turkey

Much of what is recorded in Acts took place in what is now Turkey, a country of 80 million people. This month's LMA Newsletter has a review of the Lord's move in Turkey and a report from Myanmar:

http://lmasia.org/temp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/E-2018-03.pdf (English)
http://lmasia.org/temp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Asia-2018-03.pdf (Chinese)

Announcements

Morning revival: Week 1 of Crystallization-Study of Leviticus, Vol. 1 (Winter Training).
Joint LA Meeting: The whole church in Los Angeles will meet together on Lord's Day, May 6 at LA Trade Tech College.
Junior High Brothers Conference will be April 20 to 22 at Oak Glen. Registration due April 8.
International Memorial Day Conference will be May 25 to 28 in Kansas City, MO. Information is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer. Saints from LA attending are requested to RSVP no later than April 29 at http://tinyurl.com/memdayla (adults) or http://tinyurl.com/memchildrenla (children).
The Summer Training will be July 2 to 7 in Anaheim and by local webcasts in LA. Live training registration including payment ($205) is due April 27. Registration for the webcast ($105) is due June 12. Late fees will be incurred after these deadlines. Saints from LA should register at http://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla and give cash/check payment to their district's registration coordinator.

by Ruolin Fan

Prayer, Week of March 25

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The Consciousness of the One New Man

"God is my witness how I long after you all in the inward parts of Christ Jesus." (Phil. 1:8)

"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." (Phil. 2:5)

"[In the new man] there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all and in all. Put on therefore…inward parts of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, long-suffering." (Col. 3:11-12)

The one new man comes into being as we are saturated, filled, and permeated with Christ and replaced by Him through an organic process. In order to practice the church life in the consciousness of the one new man, we need to live in the inward parts of Christ Jesus and take Christ's inward parts as our own. (The Genuine Church Life, I.E.2, III.)

Chinese-Speaking Blending and Perfecting at Oak Glen

This weekend Chinese-speaking saints from L.A. will have a retreat at Oak Glen. Some saints from six other localities (SoCal and Phoenix) will join us; our total number will be close to 200. There are two main burdens this time: 1) we will all consecrate ourselves to love the Lord and the church life whether we are students, young adults, or families; 2) we will enjoy the humanity of Jesus for our life and service of the church, that is to practice the God-ordained way through the vital groups. Please pray that the burdens be well-received by the saints, and give us a enjoyable and profitable weekend.

UCLA Spring Break Blending Trips

Every year, the students at UCLA go on blending trips to various parts of the US to have their vision of the Body of Christ enlarged and refreshed. This year, a group of 14 will go to Atlanta, Murfreesboro, and Knoxville; another 12 will go to Washington, DC and Philadelphia; and a few will attend FTTA short term. Please pray:

for the bountiful supply to the saints in the host localities in their receiving us and that this kind of pattern would have a definite impact on our students and be reproduced;
for safe travels and that the times in the vehicles would be filled with the enjoyment of Christ;
that the blending would usher in an enlarged and refreshed vision of the Body of Christ;
that those short-terming would receive the maximum benefit in their time in the training.

Summer Training Registration

Bibles for America

Over the last five years, BfA has produced over 60 videos, with over 1.7 million views across its website and YouTube. These videos have been a great source of help to many people. They cover the following general categories: gospel messages, Bible truths, Recovery Version and Christian books, and inspirational testimonies. BfA videos can be found at http://biblesforamerica.org/videos.

Please pray for many more people to enrich their Christian lives by watching these spiritually nourishing videos and sharing them with others.

Europe

The International Blending Conference is in London March 30 through April 1. The general subject is "The Crucial Revelation of Life in the Scriptures." Please pray for the gathering of the saints from all over Europe for this annual spring conference. Pray also for the Lord's covering of every aspect of this conference, the release of the His up-to-date speaking, and the advance of the His move.

GTCA Cities in California - Folsom

GTCA is the carrying out of the burden to gospelize, truthize, and churchize America. This long-term labor is part of the one, unique work of the Lord to build up the Body of Christ. Each week we are praying for one of the 2018 target cities in California.

Folsom is northeast of Sacramento, less than 12 miles from the church in Roseville. We have a local prayer meeting, children's meeting, various home meetings and Bible studies, and host a weekly BfA table in Folsom City College. After fellowship with the brothers in the region, we had our first table meeting as a district in October 2016. There has been some traction with the local people through the children's meeting yet we feel like there is room for the Lord to grow.

Lord, grow, and gain the local people.

Germany

The church in Stuttgart is in need of a meeting hall. Please pray that the most suitable location at the most affordable price would be released in a timely manner.

There is the need for a new meeting hall for the church in Berlin that will match what the Lord wants to do for His testimony there. The brothers have found two potential places. May the Lord lead them in the decision.

Announcements

Morning revival: Week 6 of The Genuine Church Life. Next week, we will begin Crystallization-Study of Leviticus, Vol. 1 (Winter Training).
Joint LA Meeting: The whole church in Los Angeles will meet together on Lord's Day, May 6 at LA Trade Tech College.
Junior High Brothers Conference will be April 20 to 22 at Oak Glen. Registration due April 8.
International Memorial Day Conference will be May 25 to 28 in Kansas City, Missouri. Conference and hotel information is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer. Saints from LA attending are requested to RSVP no later than April 29 at http://tinyurl.com/memdayla (adults) or http://tinyurl.com/memchildrenla (children).
Information about Germany and Europe: see the right side of https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.

by Ruolin Fan

Prayer, Week of March 18

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Seeing and Practicing the Scriptural Way to Meet and to Serve

"And He... gave Him to be Head over all things to the church, which is His Body…" (Eph. 1:22-23)

"Therefore we do not lose heart; but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day." (2 Cor. 4:16)

We must see and practice the crucial points concerning the light and revelation we have received from the Lord regarding the scriptural way to meet and to serve for the building up of the Body of Christ:

We must function as priests of the gospel, preaching the gospel and saving people by visitation.
We must meet in the new believers' homes, nourishing and cherishing them, so that our fruit may remain.
We must teach and perfect the saints through the vital group meetings under the New Testament work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of Christ.
We must lead the saints to pursue and desire prophesying in the church meetings, speaking for the Lord, and speaking forth the Lord, supplying the Lord to others, and speaking and listening to one another in mutuality for the building up of the saints and the church.

In order to practice the scriptural way to meet and to serve for the building up of the Body of Christ, we need a revived living and a labor in shepherding that flow out from our love of the Lord. (The Genuine Church Life, msg 5, I.A-D; II)

College Conference Registrations

The Spring College Conference (April 6 to 8 in Anaheim) provides college students a significant opportunity for blending, not only with other students, but with many families in Southern California who will provide hospitality. The registration deadline is this Lord's Day, March 25. Please pray for the Lord to motivate and energize more college students to attend.

High School Brothers Conference

From March 23 to 25, brothers from across Southern California with gather at Oak Glen for the Spring 2018 High School Brothers Conference. For this conference we pray:

for the Lord to prepare the hearts of all of the brothers in Southern California;
that the young brothers would open to and experience the Lord as life who meets the need of every situation, condition, and person;
and that the issue of touching this life, in their experience, would be a house of feasting where they learn to serve, testify, and love the Lord to the uttermost.

GTCA Cities in California - Clovis

GTCA is the carrying out of the burden to gospelize, truthize, and churchize America. This long-term labor is part of the one, unique work of the Lord to build up the Body of Christ. Each week we will pray for one of the 2018 target cities in California.

Clovis is northeast of Fresno. It is the location of a community college and near Cal State University-Fresno. There are 20 saints living in Clovis who presently meet with the church in Fresno. The FTTA gospel trips this year included time on the campuses and door-knocking in the community. Lord, raise up a solid testimony to be Your shining lampstand in Clovis!

Bibles for America

On average, over 84,000 people visit the BfA Blog each month. Many are subscribers; others are people who come to our site by clicking on BfA blog posts that show up in their online search results.

As the number of people coming to our site via the blog increases, more people in this country have an opportunity to discover the rich ministry of the age. Please pray for all of these visitors to

notice the free NT Recovery Version offer and books and order them.
read them and be brought into the full knowledge of the truth and the experience of Christ as life.

European University Conference

The Spring European University Conference will take place March 23 to 25 in the Netherlands. The subject will be "The Humanity of Jesus for the Fulfillment of God's Purpose." We feel that this topic is very much according to the Lord's heart, and it is also stirring up His enemy's opposition.

Please pray that the Lord will prepare the hearts of the university-age saints from all over Europe and release them to attend the conference. Please pray also that the Lord's blessing will be poured out on every aspect of this gathering.

Impact of the ICSC in Europe

A good number of saints from Europe, including 60 from Germany, attended the February International Chinese-speaking Conference in Taipei. The subject was "The Goal of the Lord's Recovery—to Bring Forth the One New Man." Please pray that all the saints in Europe will see the vision of the one new man and will have the personal experiences needed to save them from their cultures and to bring forth and live out the one new man on earth today.

Polish Recovery Version

The Polish Recovery Version NT is available beginning this month! Last week, 15 saints in Krakow distributed copies of the NT along with an insert on how to use it, plus The Basic Elements of Christian Life. Over these next two weeks, there will be open days at the universities for the incoming students for the 2018 autumn semester—one was last week and another three universities are this week. Please pray that the Lord would open to us a door to reach many Polish seeking students in these universities.

Announcements

Morning revival: Week 5 of The Genuine Church Life. After next week, we will begin The Crystallization-Study of Leviticus, Vol. 1 (Winter Training).
Joint LA Meeting: The whole church in Los Angeles will meet together on Lord's Day, May 6 at LA Trade Tech College.
College Conference will be April 6 to 8 in Anaheim. Registration due March 25.
Junior High Brothers Conference will be April 20 to 22 at Oak Glen. Registration due April 8.
International Memorial Day Conference will be May 25 to 28 in Kansas City, Missouri. Conference and hotel information is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer. Saints from LA attending are requested to RSVP no later than April 29 at http://tinyurl.com/memdayla (adults) or http://tinyurl.com/memchildrenla (children).
Information about Germany and Europe: see the right side of https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.

by Ruolin Fan

Prayer, Week of March 11

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Fellowship—The Reality of the Church Life

"God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord." (1 Cor. 1:9)

"But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from every sin." (1 John 1:7)

Just as there is the circulation of blood in the human body, so there is a circulation in the Body of Christ—a circulation that the New Testament calls fellowship. This fellowship is the reality of the church life.

Fellowship is a common participation, a joint participation. Thus, to have fellowship is to have a corporate participation in something. Fellowship is the issue of eternal life and is actually the flow of the eternal life within the believers. In order to have the unique fellowship, we must live by and behave in the divine life, not in our natural life. To have fellowship with the Triune God in the apostles' fellowship is to put aside our private interests and join with the apostles and the Triune God for the carrying out of God's purpose. (The Genuine Church Life, msg 4, I.A-D)

Los Angeles

As a church, we have been praying for the Lord to increase His testimony in Los Angeles both in life and in number. As the number of people among us increases, we simultaneously want to reduce the number of persons until there is only one Person in the church—Christ Himself.

As we look to the Lord for increase, may we be more blended into one by putting off the old man and putting on the new man to take Christ as our unique Person. May all the saints in Los Angeles see the vision of the one new man and have the personal experiences needed to bring forth and live out the one new man on earth today!

GTCA Cities in California - Chico

GTCA is the carrying out of the burden to gospelize, truthize, and churchize America. This long-term labor is part of the one, unique work of the Lord to build up the Body of Christ. Twenty-two cities are targeted for ongoing care and labor in 2018. These cities have been selected based on local burdens and their proximity to nearby churches. Each week we will pray for one of the 2018 target cities in California.

Chico is about 90 miles north of the church in Sacramento and 75 miles south of the church in Redding. Cal State University-Chico and a community college are here. Currently seven saints in the recovery live here. FTTA gospel trips visited Chico in 2017 and this year. Pray for the follow-up with the many positively-responding students on campus, and for the gaining of more homes in this city.

FTTA-OL

The 2018 Term B of the Online Full-Time Training (FTTA-OL) begins March 14 and ends May 8. This program conducts the FTTA curriculum completely online.

May every saint who is enrolled be a diligent learner to help others learn and dig into the ministry materials. By the Lord's mercy, may more saints sanctify their time by studying God's Word and being constituted with the divine truth.

Germany

Continue to pray for those whom the Lord has called to live a life of the altar and the tent and move to Germany to spread the Lord's testimony. In particular, please pray:

That the Lord will send experienced brothers who can provide leadership to the work in Germany
That more young saints from outside Germany will gain admission to German universities
That those who are migrating to Germany will find housing and jobs and obtain visas
For the learning of the German language by the saints who have migrated

The Lord's Testimony in Europe

Please pray for the raising up of the Lord's testimony in major cities in Europe, including:
Lisbon, Portugal; Vienna, Austria; Sofia, Bulgaria; Thessaloniki, Greece; Zagreb, Croatia; Belgrade and Novi Sad, Serbia; Geneva and Zurich, Switzerland; Bilbao, Spain; Hamburg and Munich, Germany; Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Tirana, Albania; Valetta, Malta.

Announcements

Morning revival: Week 4 of The Genuine Church Life.
Joint LA Meeting: The whole church in Los Angeles will meet together on Lord's Day, May 6 at LA Trade Tech College.
The College Conference will be April 6 to 8 in Anaheim. Registration due March 25.
The International Memorial Day Conference will be May 25 to 28 in Kansas City, Missouri. Conference and hotel information is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer. Saints from LA attending are requested to RSVP no later than April 29 at http://tinyurl.com/memdayla (adults) or http://tinyurl.com/memchildrenla (children).
Information about Germany and Europe: see the right side of https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.

by Ruolin Fan

Prayer, Week of March 4

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A Vessel to Contain the Lord and to Express Him

Jesus…came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. Therefore they made Him a supper there; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of the ones reclining at table with Him. Then Mary took a pound of ointment, of very valuable pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. (John 12:1-3)

The issue of life is the church life as a house of feasting. The house of feasting is produced by the resurrection life; the church is the produce of the resurrection life. In the real church life the service to the Lord is rendered, the testimony of the Lord is seen, and the love toward the Lord is poured out; this is the real expression of the Body of the Lord, which is a vessel to contain the Lord and to express Him. (The Genuine Church Life, msg 3, II, II.A, II.H.4.b)

Lord, bring us fully into resurrection to feast with You and express You.

High School Sisters Conference

From March 9 to 11, sisters from across Southern California with gather at Oak Glen for the Spring 2018 High School Sisters Conference. For this conference we pray:

for the Lord to prepare the hearts of all of the sisters in Southern California;
that the young people would open to and experience the Lord as life who meets the need of every situation, condition, and person;
and that the issue of touching this life, in their experience, would be a house of feasting where they learn to serve, testify, and love the Lord to the uttermost.

FTTA-MA

The spring term of the Middle-age Training in Anaheim begins March 12. Lord, release the saints from every restraint, and grace them inwardly to give themselves to begin or to continue this training!

Bibles for America

Radio spots advertising free Bibles from BfA aired two weeks ago on over 150 stations in major cities and smaller towns all over the U.S. The advertisements, announcing our free offer for a NT Recovery Version, were sponsored and produced by a brother in coordination with BfA. Please pray:

For the people who heard the ads to be interested in receiving this unique free study Bible.
For them to follow through and place an online order.

Europe

The Spring European university conference will be March 23 to 25. Please ask the Lord to release many students to register and attend the conference.

Germany

This weekend, March 9 to 11, there will be a German-speaking young people's conference.

South Africa

From March 9 to 11, the annual National Conference will take place in Pretoria, South Africa. Brothers Mark Raabe and Michael Stewart will be with us.

It is a new conference venue in a much more central part of the province. We are grateful for this new arrangement but please pray for grace that the logistics and practical arrangements would be properly taken care of and not be a hindrance or distraction.
May the Lord to release His up to date speaking related to the one new man.
Pray that there would be many new and existing ones and that the Lord would specifically burden us whom to invite. The capacity of the venue has increased from 350 to 700, allowing for more attendees.
May the Lord increase the blending during the conference weekend, both within the homes and in the times between the meetings.

Asia

In 1981, the testimony of the Lord's recovery was in only 8 of the 48 Asian countries. Through the spread of the ministry and the migration of the saints, now the testimony of the Lord's recovery can be seen in 36 Asian countries. In recent years, the labor and coordination between the local saints and overseas saints has resulted in the increase of the churches. The Recovery Version and the Life-Studies have also been translated into various Asian languages. By the saints being perfected to function, the churches have had much breakthrough in the gospel and in the spread of the testimonies.

However, we still need to pray for the 12 countries in Asia that do not yet have this testimony.

http://lmasia.org/temp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/E-2018-02.pdf (English)

http://lmasia.org/temp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Asia-2018-02.pdf (Chinese)

India

The current newsletter of the churches in India (at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer) has reports and photos on a brothers' training, propagation on campuses, participation in the International Chinese-Speaking Conference, and practice of the God-ordained way.

Pray for the ongoing translation of the Recovery Version into six Indian languages (with one addition language to be started), pray for the Lord's covering of the tripartite beings of all the translators so that the knowledge of Jehovah may fill the entire land of India. Please also remember the finances needed for this project.

Announcements

Morning revival: Week 3 of The Genuine Church Life.
Brothers High School Conference is March 23 to 25 at Oak Glen. Registration due March 11.
College Conference will be April 6 to 8 in Anaheim. Registration due March 25.
International Memorial Day Conference will be May 25 to 28 in Kansas City, Missouri. Conference and hotel information is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer. Saints from LA attending are requested to RSVP no later than April 29 at http://tinyurl.com/memdayla (adults) or http://tinyurl.com/memchildrenla (children).
Information about Germany and Europe: see the right side of https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.

by Ruolin Fan

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