Prayer, Week of August 15, 2016
The Increase of Christ for God’s Building
The greatest prophecy in the Bible is in Matthew 16:18: “I will build My church.” The builded church contains and expresses God. For this, God must have human vessels to fill.
For the building up of the church as the house of God and the Body of Christ, we need to “disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you." (Matt. 28:19-20) . (Memorial Day conf., msg 6, II, III)
Lord, energize and send us to disciple, baptize, and teach, so that You can gain and fill more vessels, and build Your church.
CSUN
On Lord's Day, August 21, the Chinese-speaking saints in Hall 2 will have a gospel time and lunch with new students coming to CSUN. They will be supported by saints from Hall 3. Some new students were contacted last week; others are being contacted this week. Ask the Lord to remove any hindrances to attendance at the gospel time, to prepare their hearts to receive Him in a strong way, and to arrange continued shepherding through the coming weeks and months.
The English-speaking students gather afternoons Tuesday through Friday this week for perfecting and enjoying, then go out to contact new freshmen after orientations. Ask the Lord to give our students much enjoyment, to arrange meeting hungry students, to maintain contact with them, and to bring these students into participating in club activities and into our homes.
FTTA, FTTL
The Anaheim and London trainings begin this week. Pray for the Lord to supply the new trainees in their adjustments to training life. Please pray also that the Lord will carry out His perfecting work in all the trainees by giving them a controlling vision of God’s economy, by growing in them day by day, by blending them together, and by raising them up to be living and functioning members of His Body.
Middle-Age Training
The middle age training begins September 5. Ask the Lord to release more saints to give themselves to this term of training for the sake of His move all over the earth.
Anchorage, Alaska
The Anchorage Market and Festival is an outdoor, weekend event held throughout each summer. Anchorage receives over one million tourists per year, and the market has become a popular attraction.
The church in Anchorage has a booth at the market each Saturday throughout the summer to give away ministry books, gospel tracts, and the Recovery Version NT in various languages. They have met many visitors who might not otherwise have had the opportunity to hear God’s Word and many Christians who encourage them in their labor. So far, they have passed out an average of over 300 items per week.
Please pray that the Lord prepare people’s hearts as they visit the market and bring them to the booth to meet the saints and receive the Word. Pray also that the saints would be supplied to be channels of life to these vessels from all over the world.
European University Training
The training is this week, August 15 to 21, in London. The goal is to perfect God-loving and Christ- pursuing students in the areas of biblical truth, experience of life, gospel preaching, and character development, all with a view to moulding them into useful vessels in the Lord’s hands for the building up of His Body.
Germany
The results of gospel trips in the first half of the year have been dramatic and encouraging. We now have over 1,000 contacts, both refugees and local Germans, with almost 300 having prayed to receive the Lord. If just the newly saved are added to the churches, that will be a 100% increase in Germany. It is clear that the fields in Germany “are already white for harvest.” (John 4:35.) Yet the workers are few.
"Beseech the Lord of the harvest that He would thrust out workers into His harvest." (Luke 10:2)
Baltic Blending Conference
This annual conference is August 19 to 21 in Latvia.
Announcements
- Morning revival: Week 6 of The Increase of Christ (Memorial Day Conference).
Our next morning revival will be Exodus, vol. 7. - This year's Spanish-Speaking Perfecting Training in Southern California will be Saturdays August
27, September 24, and November 19. - The Lord’s Move in Europe:
Information about serving in Germany this fall is at http://germany2016.amanatrust.org.uk.
Giving for the Gospel Work in Europe instructions are at http://www.lordsmove.org/information.html. Giving for the UK Building Fund instructions are at http://www.lordsmove.org/ukbuildingfund or you may give to the church in LA, designated for UK Building Fund.
Prayer, Week of August 7, 2016
Increase of Christ, Spiritual Progress, Growth in Life
“Until we all arrive at the oneness of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, at a full- grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.” (Eph. 4:13)
"Until Christ is formed in you." (Gal. 4:19)
On the positive side, spiritual progress is the increase of the element of Christ within us; on the negative side, spiritual progress is the removal of all things other than Christ within us. When Christ grows and is formed in us so that there is the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ within us, this is spiritual progress. (Memorial Day conference, message 5, I.E.1, I.F)
Lord, grow in us! Increase within us and remove all other things!
United States
“I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made on behalf of all men; on behalf of kings and all who are in high position, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all godliness and gravity.” (1 Tim. 2:1-2)
The elections for the U.S. president and congress are two months from now. We pray to release on earth the authority of the "Ruler of the kings of the earth" (Rev. 1:5) for His choice of elected officials.
CSUN
“Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are already white for harvest” (John 4:35).
The CSUN students have begun to coordinate together to contact the incoming freshmen at their orientations during the next three weeks. The freshmen are the “ripe” ones to contact: they are open and looking for new friends and direction in their college years. Please pray that:
- Our students would become enjoyers of life to be ministers of life;
- Our students would be built together in one accord;
- The best freshmen would be contacted, attracted, and eventually gained as remaining fruit in the
homes and in the meetings of the church.
Thousand Oaks - Cal State Channel Islands
In May seven members of our campus Bible club graduated. We had a wonderful graduation meeting but now only a few students remain in our club. We need to re-start our campus work. Please pray for:
- a BfA table on campus for the first two week of the semester, which begins August 29;
- saints to serve at the BfA table and contact new students (we welcome help from other churches);
- an off campus meeting place, in either Camarillo or Oxnard, to be with students and their friends.
Oak Glen
The churches in Southern California are owners of the Southern California Blending Center in Oak Glen. The downpayment was 20 percent of the purchase price. The seller is loaning us 80 percent, to be paid through 2016 and 2017. Thank the Lord for this purchase and ask Him to keep us in His grace for our giving for the payment of this loan.
Polish New Testament Recovery Version
The gospel of John in Polish was released at the International Blending conference in Poland in May. The project is now entering its final year, with the typesetting set to begin in December 2016, and the proof-reading to follow in August and September 2017. Please pray for:
- the typesetting schedule to be met without any problems;
- a sufficient number of saints to make themselves available for the proof reading next year;
- the Lord would be the supply, wisdom, oneness, and protection to all the saints involved in this work;
- all of the project's practical and financial needs, so that it can continue without interruption and be
finished as planned.
Announcements
- Morning revival: Week 5 of The Increase of Christ (Memorial Day Conference).
Our next morning revival will be Exodus, vol. 7. - This year's Spanish-Speaking Perfecting Training in Southern California will be Saturdays August 27, September 24, and November 19.
- The Lord’s Move in Europe:
Information about serving in Germany this fall is at http://germany2016.amanatrust.org.uk.
Giving for the Gospel Work in Europe instructions are at http://www.lordsmove.org/information.html.
Giving for the UK Building Fund instructions are at http://www.lordsmove.org/ukbuildingfund or you may give to the church in LA, designated for UK Building Fund.
Prayer, Week of July 31, 2016
One Accord for the Increase and Spread of the Church
“I beseech you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ...that you be attuned in the same mind and in the same opinion.” (1 Cor. 1:10)
“Truly I say to you that if two of you are in harmony on earth concerning any matter for which they ask, it will be done for them from My Father who is in the heavens.” (Matt. 18:19)
In order to have the increase of Christ for the increase and spread of the church, we must have the one accord; the Greek word for one accord is homothumadon from homo, “same,” and thumos, “mind, will, purpose (soul, heart)”. The one accord is the master key to every blessing in the New Testament; to apply the oneness is to keep it, and to keep it is to practice the one accord. (Memorial Day conf, msg 4, I, I.A)
Lord, enrich and strengthen our experience of one accord, and release many twos and threes to pray regularly for the increase and spread here in Los Angeles.
Summer School of Truth
LA’s Summer School of Truth concluded Saturday. We ask for your prayer this week for a strong continuation. Please pray that:
- The Lord would continue to open the hearts of the young people;
- They would experience the divine Spirit mingled with their human spirit in their daily life;
- The young people would be blended and build relationships with each other;
- All of the serving ones would continue steadfastly in one accord;
College Freshmen Orientation Times
In the weeks and months before the school year begins, every college has orientation times for new students. These orientations and the first two weeks of the school year are the best time for our Christian Students Clubs to contact new students. Please pray for many contacts, for continued communication with each one in the weeks after initial contact, and for them to be brought into participation in club activities early in the school year.
European Young People’s and Children’s Conferences
The conferences are July 29 to August 4 in Poland. The purpose is to provide an atmosphere of truth, love, blending, and enjoyment that imparts light and life, and builds up and inspires the young people to consecrate their lives to the Lord and take positive directions in their Christian walk.
Over 1200 young people, parents, and children are expected to attend. Please continue to pray for:
- The Lord to release a timely word that will meet His present need among the young people of Europe;
- The young people to receive a vision of the testimony of Jesus that they could give their lives to;
- The binding of the enemy and all his distracting tactics;
- The serving ones to be brought into the Lord’s heart for the young people.
The Lord’s Move in Germany
To continue the gospel trips that took place in Germany during the first half of 2016, a door has been opened for saints to serve in Germany for a period of one to three months. For more information, see http://germany2016.amanatrust.org.uk. Please pray that the Lord will burden the saints for the ongoing care of the seeking ones in Germany.
In Germany, the refugees are primarily from Syria and Iran. Those from Syria are mostly fleeing the war; a large number from Iran are Christians fleeing religious persecution. The saints have made contact with individual Iranian believers as well as groups of believers who are searching for spiritual food. We need to pray for adequate translators. We also need to pray that the Lord would have a way to quickly get more ministry books into Farsi (the language spoken in Iran) in order to feed these hungry ones.
Recent Attacks in Germany
In recent weeks, several attacks have been carried out in Germany by asylum seekers. These attacks have unsettled the Germany people and have the potential of changing the attitude of the German people toward the refugees. Please pray that the Lord as the heavenly Administrator in God’s government will maintain a favorable situation for His work in Germany and will use the recent events to open the hearts of the German people and the refugees.
Lord's Move in Vietnam and Turkey
The current LMA newsletter presents the history and current advance of the Lord in Vietnam, where there are 45 churches with about 1800 saints meeting regularly and a larger number who meet occasionally. More than 200 young people came to a three-day summer camp earlier this month. Last year the saints bought land and now are building a training center.
The newsletter also has something about the recovery in Turkey.
English: http://lmasia.org/temp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/E-2016-07.pdf
Chinese: http://lmasia.org/temp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Asia-2016-07.pdf
Announcements
- Morning revival: Week 4 of The Increase of Christ (Memorial Day Conference).
- This year's Spanish Speaking Perfecting Training in Southern California will be Saturdays August 27, September 24, and November 19.
- The Lord’s Move in Europe:
Giving for the Gospel Work in Europe instructions are at http://www.lordsmove.org/information.html. Giving for the UK Building Fund instructions are at http://www.lordsmove.org/ukbuildingfund or you may give to the church in LA, designated for UK Building Fund.
Prayer, Week of July 24, 2016
The Increase of the Church by Ministering Life to Others
“Those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.” (Rom. 5:17)
In order to minister life to others: (1) we need adequate time with the Lord; (2) we learn to be
dealt with by the Lord; (3) we pick up a burden to care for unbelievers, young believers, and weak believers; and (4) we learn to be interested in people. (The Increase of Christ, outline 3, II.A–D)
Lord, take each of us onward in these four directions so that we may gain life to minister to all kinds of people for Your increase!
UCLA
At UCLA we are contacting new students during their freshmen orientation sessions organized by the university throughout the summer. Session 104 (July 26-28) is special in that it is reserved for students participating in the FSP and CSI “head start” programs. These students will live on campus and take classes for 6 to 7 weeks, giving us a valuable opportunity for continued contact. Please pray for us to be linked strongly to many students in these two summer programs.
Summer School of Truth
LA’s Summer School of Truth (July 22 to 30) got off to a good start this past Friday. We sense a simplicity and openness among the young people and believe that it is the result of the prayers of the saints. We continue to ask for your prayer this week. Please pray that:
- The Lord would continue to open the hearts of the young people this week;
- They would be helped to experience the Two Spirits—the divine Spirit mingled with the human spirit—in their daily life;
- The young people would be blended and build relationships with each other;
- All of the serving ones would continue steadfastly in one accord;
- The Lord would bless this Summer School of Truth and that it would become a blessing to the
whole church!
European Young People’s Conference
The conference is July 29 to August 4 in Poland. The purpose is to provide an atmosphere of truth, love, blending, and enjoyment that imparts light and life, and builds up and inspires the young people to consecrate their lives to the Lord and take positive directions in their Christian walk. Young people from all over Europe will attend, with some also from outside Europe. Our hope is that we all would develop a sense of mutuality, and receive the spiritual energy, strength, and motivation to live for the Lord and His recovery.
Over 1,200 are expected to attend either the Senior Conference, the Junior Conference or the Parents and Children Conference which run concurrently. Please pray for:
- The Lord to release a timely word that will meet His present need among the young people of
Europe; - The unveiling of the young people, that they would receive a vision of the testimony of Jesus that
they could give their lives to; - The binding of the enemy and all his distracting tactics;
- The serving ones to be brought into the Lord’s heart for the young people.
Germany
We have entered a new phase in the work in Germany. The initial Gospel Trips have been completed and the extremely favorable results compel us to continue to seek workers to thrust into the harvest. Although the flood of refugees into Germany has slowed for a time, the window of opportunity for us to reach the people remains open.
Many new ones, both refugees and Germans, have been given to us. We now have over 1,000 contacts, with almost 300 having prayed to receive the Lord. If just the newly saved are added to the churches, that will be a 100% increase in Germany. It is clear that the fields in Germany “are already white for harvest” (John 4:35). Yet the workers are few.
To provide continuing care and much needed shepherding, the coworkers determined that the work should continue. Thus there is now the opportunity to participate in the shepherding phase of this labor in September, October, and November. More information is at http://germany2016.amanatrust.org.uk.
Announcements
- Morning revival: Week 3 of The Increase of Christ (Memorial Day Conference).
- This year's Spanish Speaking Perfecting Training in Southern California will be Saturdays
August 27, September 24, and November 19. - The Lord’s Move in Europe:
Giving for the Gospel Work in Europe instructions are at http://www.lordsmove.org/information.html. Giving for the UK Building Fund instructions are at http://www.lordsmove.org/ukbuildingfund or you may give to the church in LA, designated for UK Building Fund. - The European Student Blending Trip is July 13 to 26. Pictures, videos, and updates are at http://www.unistudents.eu/blending-trip-2016/.
Prayer, Week of July 17, 2016
Summer School of Truth
LA’s summer school of truth (July 22 to 30) needs the prayer of the entire church so that the Lord have a way to move within and among the young people for His testimony. Please pray that the Lord would prepare the hearts of the young people, that they would experience the Two Spirits—the divine Spirit mingled with the human spirit—in their daily life, and that the Lord would bless this summer school of truth which begins this Friday.
Summer College Training
The Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast college trainings are this week. More than 700 students are expected at these trainings. Please pray that:
- The Lord would grant each one a vision of His economy;
- The students would experience much perfecting in the exercise of the spirit and the carrying out of the God-ordained way;
- All those serving would continue steadfastly in one accord;
- The Lord would personally shepherd each trainee, in particular each of the newly graduated high school seniors, so that they consecrate their college years fully to the Lord.
Internet
May many saints rise up to give a little time each week to “war the good warfare” (1 Tim. 1:18) on the Internet by presenting truths of this ministry, supporting others’ presentations, or testifying their experiences of Christ. This will provide a positive flow of life and truth to water people everywhere and will help (in internet search results) to push down false information that has accumulated over the past years. For more information, contact Don Martin.
Lord, Add Believers to Yourself!
Acts 5:14, "Believers were all the more being added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women."
In recent weeks there has been much violence in the United States, in Europe, and in other places. This violence is due to "the mystery of lawlessness that is now operating" (2 Thes. 2:7). However, Christ is "Head over all things to the church" (Eph. 1:22). We cooperate to ask Him to turn the mourning and lamentations from these negative events to a hunger for His word in all the earth (Amos 8:10-11) and to add believers all the more to Himself.
Germany
A 21-minute video was shown the last day of the Summer Training. It is available at https://www.amanatrust.org.uk/videos/2016STV.mp4.
For the continued shepherding of the seeking ones, a door will be open for the saints to serve in Europe (mainly Germany) for a period of one to three months. This service is tentatively scheduled to begin on September 1st. An application will be required. Details will be forthcoming. Please pray:
- That the Lord will burden the saints to participate in the ongoing care of the seeking new ones in Germany and other parts of Europe.
- For translators to be raised up and perfected to be our co-workers and for our own brothers and sisters who can translate to be able to come to Germany either by visitation or migration.
Nordic Conference
The annual Nordic Conference will be in Uppsala, Sweden on July 22 to 24, for blending fellowship in the Triune God. Following the conference, there will be a brothers’ fellowship July 24 to 25.
Announcements
- Morning revival: Week 2 of The Increase of Christ (Memorial Day Conference).
- This year’s Spanish Speaking Perfecting Training in Southern California will be Saturdays August
27, September 24, and November 19. - The Lord’s Move in Europe:
Giving for the Gospel Work in Europe instructions are at http://www.lordsmove.org/information.html.
Giving for the UK Building Fund instructions are at http://www.lordsmove.org/ukbuildingfund or you may give to the church, designated for UK Building Fund. - The European Student Blending Trip is July 13 to 26. Pictures, videos, and updates are at http://www.unistudents.eu/blending-trip-2016.
Prayer, Week of July 10, 2016
Summer College Training
The West Coast South and Northwest College trainings are this week at Oak Glen and near Seattle, respectively. About 320 saints are at Oak Glen, and 150 in Washington. The Midwest, Southeast, and Northeast College trainings are next week. The title of the training is "The Revelation of the Mystery." Please pray for these times that:
1) the Lord would grant each one a vision of His economy;
2) the students would experience much perfecting in the exercise of the spirit and the carrying out of the God-ordained way;
3) all those serving would continue steadfastly in one accord;
4) the Lord would personally shepherd each trainee, in particular each of the newly graduated high school seniors, so that they consecrate their college years fully to the Lord.
Video Trainings
Please remember the delayed video trainings that take place in many localities after last week’s live Summer Training and simulcasts. In Los Angeles, there are video trainings taking place now at Hall 2 in English and Spanish. Pray for the saints’ hearing, receiving, and absorbing of the Lord’s speaking.
The Church in Rohnert Park, California
In May, the Church in Rohnert Park took the ground! The saints in Marin county and Sonoma county are meeting together every Lord's Day as the Church in Rohnert Park. This is the first church in North Bay (Bay Area north of San Francisco), and it is the location of Sonoma State University. We are about 20–30 total, including children.
Anti-Terrorism Law in Russia
On June 30 the upper house of Russia’s parliament approved an anti-terrorism law that places broad limitations on “missionary work,” including preaching, teaching, and engaging in any activity designed to recruit people into a religious group. Russian president Putin has not yet put the law into effect. Russian president Putin signed this law late last week, thus putting it into effect beginning later this month. [added July 11] . Please pray that the heavens will rule and keep the door of the gospel open in Russia.
UK Building Fund
Those who are burdened to give to the UK Building Fund for the purchase of the farm adjacent to Bower House in London and for the construction of new facilities at Bower House, Bower Farm, and Woodland Camp can find instructions at http://www.lordsmove.org/ukbuildingfund or you may give to the church, designated for UK Building Fund.
European Student Blending Trip
A group of 27 saints, mostly students from the UK, will blend with the churches in Belgium,
Germany, and the Netherlands July 13 to 26. Please pray for:
- the preparation of the students' hearts and the Lord's arranging and covering of all practical details;
- the Lord to impress the students with His Body and His move in Europe and that they will have the Lord's fresh calling to consecrate themselves to Him and for His move;
- the sweet blending with each locality and a rich supply of grace to the churches.
Announcements
- Morning revival: week 1 of The Increase of Christ (Memorial Day Conference).
- The L.A. Summer School of Truth will be on the Two Spirits; the dates are July 22 to 30. Schedule and registration are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/ssot/.
- The Lord’s move in Germany:
Reports are on a public Facebook page Germany Update http://facebook.com/germanyupdate.
Giving for the Gospel Work in Europe instructions are at http://www.lordsmove.org/information.html.
Prayer, Week of July 3, 2016
Summer Training
Please remember the live training this week, July 4–9, in Anaheim, as well as the webcast and video training in many localities. Pray for the saints’ hearing, receiving, and digesting of the Lord’s up-to-date speaking, not only during the meetings but even in study sessions and dinner-time fellowships. May the Lord infuse His recovery with His burden from the book of Exodus!
College Trainings
The West Coast South and Northwest College trainings will be July 11-17 at Oak Glen and close to Seattle, respectively. We expect about 320 saints at Oak Glen, and 150 in Washington. The title of the training is “The Revelation of the Mystery.” Please pray for these times that:
1) the Lord would grant each one a vision of His economy;
2) the students would experience much perfecting in the exercise of the spirit and the carrying out of the
God-ordained way;
3) all those serving would continue steadfastly in one accord;
4) the Lord would personally shepherd each trainee, in particular each of the newly graduated high
school seniors, so that they consecrate their college years fully to the Lord.
The Church in Rohnert Park, California
Last month, the Church in Rohnert Park took the ground! The saints in Marin county and Sonoma county are meeting together every Lord's Day as the Church in Rohnert Park. This is the first church in North Bay (Bay Area north of San Francisco), and it is the location of Sonoma State University. We are about 20–30 total, including children.
Europe
Hebrews 12:26-27 speaks of the shaking of earthly things. Verse 28 says, "Therefore receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us have grace..."
On June 23 the citizens of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. This has caused political, economic, and social uncertainty in the UK and in Europe. Europe is shakable! Please pray that:
- the heavens will continue to rule over the entire situation.
- the uncertainties will open many to the gospel, and that all who have received will "have grace."
- the negotiation of the UK’s exit from the EU (a two year process which will begin at an uncertain time) will be favorable to the Lord’s move in Europe.
Lyon, France
A group of saints started to meet in mid June to plan campus gospel activities for the school year which starts mid September. We are praying together and fellowshipping weekly all the details and started to translate several gospel tracts from English to French. This planning is carried out not only by the core brothers and sisters but also by some zealous students who are living and active. Through our endeavoring in one accord, we desperately hope that the Lord will add more native French to us as
remaining fruits.
Announcements
- Morning revival: summer training verses or repeat week 36.
Monday, July 11, we will begin The Increase of Christ (Memorial Day Conference). - Summer Training—No Open Meetings: Due to a full capacity at the Ministry Conference Center, there will be no open meetings during this week's live training in Anaheim.
- The L.A. Summer School of Truth will be on the Two Spirits; the dates are July 22 to 30. Schedule and registration are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/ssot/.
- The Lord’s move in Germany:
Reports are on a public Facebook page Germany Update http://facebook.com/germanyupdate.
Giving for the Gospel Work in Europe instructions are at http://www.lordsmove.org/information.html.
Prayer, Week of June 26, 2016
The Increase of Christ in the Believers
“The hungry He has filled with good things, and the rich He has sent away empty.” (Luke 1:53)
The first condition for spiritual progress in a believer is hunger. All spiritual progress depends on our hunger; in order to have sustained progress before the Lord, we need a sustained hunger. God’s principle is to fill the hungry with good things and to send the rich away empty. Spiritual progress comes with a price; in order for a believer to make progress, he must pay a price. (Memorial Day, msg. 5, I.A-I.A.3)
“I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire that you may be rich, and white garments that you may be clothed and that the shame of your nakedness may not be manifested, and eyesalve to anoint your eyes that you may see.” (Rev. 3:18)
Summer Training
The Summer Training is July 4 to 9 in Anaheim as well as through webcasts and video in many localities. Ask the Lord to prepare the speaking brothers during their labor on the messages. Also ask the Lord to prepare all who have registered to attend and to be good listeners and absorbers of the word.
FTTA Graduation
One hundred nineteen will graduate from FTTA this Saturday. Please pray for their faithful going on with the Lord outside the training environment, the willingness of many to serve full time, and their blending into the church life wherever they go. Let us also ask the Lord to bring 80 brothers and 80 sisters to begin the training in August.
Southern California Chinese-speaking Gospel
Last Saturday there was a Chinese language gospel time in Arcadia. In the afternoon was a gospel truth forum, with about 750 in attendance. The panelists answered the questions in an excellent way. At the end, new ones rushed to the podium fighting to get their number to be baptized. A total of 36 were baptized after the gospel truth forum.
After dinner, the gospel meeting was given in three parts, each focusing on one word: Lost, Newness, and Look. Before each message, there were a few testimonies from the saints. After each message, there was a call for those to believe and be baptized. Every time there was a call, some responded. The meeting was full of joy and the Spirit.
Thank the Lord for his blessing on this gathering where a total of 46 were baptized, including four new ones from L.A.
European Union Referendum in UK
In the EU Referendum on June 23, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union by a narrow majority. It is a decision that requires at least two years to bring to completion. Its potential impact on the Lord’s interests could include freedom of movement (for trainings at Bower House) and visa regulations (for saints moving to Europe). Please pray for the heavens to rule over the repercussions of this referendum for the sake of the Lord’s move in Europe.
Germany
This is the last week of the seventh gospel trip. None are planned during summer. Please pray
- For the Lord's blessing on all the homes opened by the saints in Germany for care of new believers.
- For the new believers to be shepherded into a normal and healthy walk with the Lord.
- That the Lord gain many key young people, university students, and young families who will be the future of the Lord's move in Germany.
Lord’s Move to Asia
The June issue of the LMA newsletter has a report from the national blending conference in Laos and some history of the recovery there. It also has a brief report of a young people's training in Myanmar.
English: http://lmasia.org/temp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/E-2016-06.pdf
Chinese: http://lmasia.org/temp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Asia-2016-06.pdf
Announcements
- Morning revival: Week 36 in Crystallization-Study of Exodus, vol. 6.
Next week use summer training verses or repeat week 36.
Monday, July 11, we will begin The Increase of Christ (Memorial Day Conference). - The L.A. Summer School of Truth will be on the Two Spirits; the dates are July 22 to 30. Schedule
and registration are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/ssot/. - The Lord’s move in Germany:
Reports are on a public Facebook page Germany Update http://facebook.com/germanyupdate. Information about follow-up gospel trips is at http://germany2016.amanatrust.org.uk.
Giving for the Gospel Work in Europe instructions are at http://www.lordsmove.org/information.html.
Prayer, Week of June 19, 2016
The Increase of Christ
“These all continued steadfastly with one accord in prayer.” (Acts 1:14a)
“And day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord...” (Acts 2:46)
“And He is the Head of the Body, the church; He is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that He Himself might have the first place in all things.” (Col. 1:18)
“And have put on the new man...where...Christ is all and in all.” (Col. 3:10-11)
In order to have the increase of Christ for the increase and spread of the church, we must have the one accord. The one accord is the master key to every blessing in the New Testament. In order to have the one accord, we need to care for one thing; the one thing, the unique thing, in the Lord’s recovery is God’s eternal economy with Christ as the centrality and universality. (Memorial Day, msg 4, I.-I.B)
If you mean business with the Lord's recovery and if you mean business with His present day, up-to- date move, you must first take care of this one thing—one accord. (Elders' Training, Book 7, ch. 1)
Summer Training
Lord, bless the brothers preparing to speak Your word in the training and work in each one of us to get us ready to receive and respond to Your word.
FTTA-Midage Graduation
This Saturday thirty-two trainees will graduate from the Middle-Age Training. Please pray for 1) the Lord's rich dispensing to all who attend the graduation, and the attraction of some to participate in the training, 2) the graduates following of the Lamb wherever He may go after graduation, 3) the current first term trainees to continue to their second term, 4) forty new trainees to begin in March, including some from L.A.
Summer School of Truth
The Summer School of Truth in L.A. is July 22-30. The subject is the Two Spirits. Please pray for the young people and shepherd them to register. In the past, we have had 50 young people participate. However, if the Lord would be gracious to us this year through our prayer, we could have as many as 65 young people. The schedule and registration information are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/ssot/.
Full-Time Team Reunion
The reunion of Southern California full-time campus teams, also open to students and community saints, is June 23 to 25 in Fullerton. Please pray for blending and being brought into one accord for the Lord's move on the campuses.
European Union Referendum in United Kingdom
The EU Referendum to be held on June 23 will decide if the United Kingdom remains in the European Union. It is a decision that will affect everyone and its potential impact on the Lord’s interests could include freedom of movement (for trainings at Bower House) and visa regulations (for saints moving to Europe). Please pray for heavens to rule over the outcome of the referendum for the sake of the Lord’s move in Europe.
Gospel Trip in Germany
The seventh follow-up gospel trip began Lord's Day, June 19. Four saints from L.A. and two from Thousand Oaks are participating. This will be the last trip until the fall. Please pray for a wonderful harmony within the team, the Lord's blessing on the gospel and shepherding of new believers, and much participation by the local working saints.
Germany
Please pray for the Lord's advance in Germany including:
- a rich supply to local saints who are coordinating the trips and follow-up care;
- translators to be raised up and perfected to be our co-workers as channels of life to the refugees;
- brothers and sisters in the recovery who can translate to come to Germany by visitation or migration;
- the refugees and German people who have been saved through the gospel and follow-up trips will remain with the Lord and enter into the church life to be built up with all the saints into the one new man;
- meeting halls in Berlin and Düsseldorf in the best location and adequate to meet the ongoing need;
- continued blessing on the distribution of the Bible and the remaining fruit through this distribution.
Madagascar
June 19 was the first Lord's Table of the church in Antananarivo, Madagascar, an island nation east of the main part of Africa.
Announcements
- Morning revival: Week 35 in Crystallization-Study of Exodus, vol. 6. June 27 to July 2, week 36
Hold on to Material Offerings and the Lord's Move Today. We will use it more later this year. - The Lord’s move in Germany:
Reports are on a public Facebook page Germany Update http://facebook.com/germanyupdate. Information about follow-up gospel trips is at http://germany2016.amanatrust.org.uk.
Giving for the Gospel Work in Europe instructions are at http://www.lordsmove.org/information.html.
Prayer, Week of June 12, 2016
The Increase of Christ by Ministering Life to Others
“I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5)
The church is altogether a matter of life, because the church is the organism of the Triune God as the Body of Christ and as the vine with the branches; our work, speaking, fellowship, service, ministry, message, Bible study, and prayer must be in the flow and imparting of life. (Memorial Day msg 3, III.B.)
“Which man of you, who has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety- nine in the wilderness and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? And when he finds it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.” (Luke 15:4-5)
In order to minister life to others and recover the dormant saints among us, we must have the loving and forgiving heart of our Father God and the shepherding and seeking spirit of our Savior Christ. (Memorial Day msg 3, V.)
Radio Listeners’ Seminar in Anaheim
Saturday, June 18 there will be a light dinner and presentation for English-speaking listeners of Life-study of the Bible on KBRT. Ask the Lord to prepare and bring many listeners who will absorb the word spoken and seek continued contact.
European Union Referendum in United Kingdom
The EU Referendum to be held on June 23 will decide if the United Kingdom remains in the
European Union. It is a decision that will affect everyone and its potential impact on the Lord’s interests could include freedom of movement (for trainings at Bower House) and visa regulations (for saints moving to Europe). Please pray for heavens to rule over the outcome of the referendum for the sake of the Lord’s move in Europe.
FTTL
Last Saturday, June 11, fifteen trainees graduated from the Full-Time Training in London. Please pray that the Lord would richly bless and lead them in their future life and service; that all the trainees would continue to to be living and functioning members in the Body; and that the Lord would gain a new crop of first-term trainees from the UK and the rest of Europe.
Greece
The Lord superabundantly blessed the conference held in Thessaloniki last month (May 20–22).
Many saints came to blend with us, giving the conference the impact to encourage all our contacts and the saints from other surrounding small localities. It might be hard to imagine, but to have 70 saints in one place exercising their spirit can be a big supply to localities that are used to having only seven.
The conference coincided with the final literature distribution trip for refugees in Greece for the foreseeable future. We were blessed to have been able to participate in this move of the Lord. We received and co-labored with saints from all over the world in all kinds of difficult, unfamiliar, and new situations. We believe that much building took place in addition to all the seeds of the gospel of the kingdom that were sown among the refugees.
We are now going out weekly near the university campus to distribute the Recovery Version in English. Our prayer is that the Lord will fill our hands with English-speaking Greeks who will be reconstituted with the truths, acquire a taste for the ministry, and join themselves to the testimony of Jesus in this city.
Announcements
- Morning revival: Week 34 in Crystallization-Study of Exodus, vol. 6. June 20 to 25, week 35; June 27 to July 2, week 36
- The 2016 Summer Training will be July 4–9 in Anaheim. Registration for video ($80) and late registration for Anaheim ($205) are open until June 14: go to http://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.
- The L.A. Summer School of Truth will be on the Two Spirits; the dates are July 22 to 30. Schedule and registration are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/ssot/.
- The European YP Conference will be July 29 to August 4 in Poland; https://ypconference.eu.
- The Lord’s move in Germany:
Reports are on a public Facebook page Germany Update http:facebook.com/germanyupdate. Information about follow-up gospel trips is at http://germany2016.amanatrust.org.uk.
Giving for the Gospel Work in Europe instructions are at http://www.lordsmove.org/information.html.