Week of April 30

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The Need for Ezras – Those Skilled in the Word of God

"This Ezra…was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which Jehovah the God of Israel had given…" (Ezra 7:6)

"All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction, in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work." (2 Tim. 3:16-17)

God's intention with Israel was to have on earth a divinely constituted people to be his testimony—a people reconstituted the word of God. After the return from captivity, the people of Israel were still unruly, for they had been born and raised in Babylon and had become Babylonian in the constitution. There was the need of teaching and reconstitution to bring the people of God into a culture that was according to God, a culture that expressed God. This kind of culture requires a great deal of education.

Ezra brought the people back to the Word of God so that they might be re-educated and reconstituted with heavenly truths in the divine word. Ezra reconstituted the people of Israel by educating them with the heavenly truths so that Israel could become God's testimony. In the Lord's recovery we need Ezras, priestly teachers who contact God, who are saturated with God, who are one with God, who are mingled with God, who are filled with God, and who are skillful in the Word of God. (Crystallization-Study of 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, msg. 5, II.A, B, C, E, II, III)

Sixth Grade Conference

The Spring 2023 Sixth Grade Conference is this weekend, May 5 to 7, at Oak Glen. The general subject is "Where Are You?" Please pray for the Lord to prepare the hearts of all of the sixth graders leading this week, 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.

Hall 1 – Olympic Meeting Place

Around 100 Korean-speaking saints meet regularly in two districts as Hall 1 of the Church in Los Angeles. Starting this month, an additional meeting place at 3400 W Olympic Blvd Suite 206, Los Angeles, CA 90019 will be used primarily by around 50 saints from District 2, but it is open to all the saints as a strategic location for the Lord's testimony to be strengthened in this city. The main room can accommodate gatherings of up to 80 people for Lord's Day meetings and will be used for prayer meetings, Bible studies, and small group fellowships. The first Lord's table meeting at the new Olympic meeting place will be held this Lord's Day, May 7 at 10:00 am.

Please pray that the Lord will pour out His blessing on this place and that all the saints will boldly preach the gospel of the kingdom and practice the God-ordained way for the building up of the Body of Christ in the Koreatown area.

Bibles for America

A new video titled "How Do Sins Affect My Relationship with God?" has been released. This video has been published on BfA's website and YouTube, as well as on their social media accounts. Please pray that this video would be widely spread and reach many believers struggling with how to deal with their sins after they are saved. Pray that they would see God's wonderful provision revealed in His Word to resolve the problem of our sins and would apply it in their daily lives.

Gospel to All the Nations

This weekend, May 6 to 7, there will be an in-person gospel conference with the Church in New York City in Brooklyn, NY. Over the past few years, there has been a burden shared by many in the Body of Christ to reach more African Americans in order to increase their participation in the riches in the Lord's up-to-date move. Although it may appear that this burden is a matter of race, it is in fact directly related to the ratio of African Americans participating in the reality of the one new man.

Our burden is to reach African Americans, others of African descent, as well as all men for the Lord's testimony. All saints are invited to attend, especially those of African descent. We encourage all the saints to contact, invite, and arrange for gospel friends, relatives, and colleagues to attend the conference.

Germany

This week the 29 saints from FTT Taipei end their four weeks of gospel service in Germany. On Wednesday they visit the Gut Elim blending center before returning home the following day. They will share their highlights on Wednesday 6:00 to 7:30 am PST; the Zoom link is shorturl.at/kzCRV.

Much of the gospel activity has been at universities where semesters begin mid-April. Thank the Lord for all the fruit from these weeks and pray for continued shepherding of all the new believers and Christians contacted. May these believers to be receptive to further contact and to join campus meetings.

Munich Meeting Hall

After much prayer and fellowship, the brothers in Munich and Germany have agreed to purchase a building for the church and the work. Centrally located in a prime residential neighborhood within 10 minutes of the two main universities, the building can serve as a meeting place with additional space for a comfortable student center for appointments, Bible studies and campus activities. The owner has offered the building to us for €2.5 million ($2.7 million), far below the estimated value. Our application with the city is still pending, but approval is expected and final purchase should take place within two or three months. Please stand with us in prayer for the support needed to complete this purchase for the Lord's interests in this key German city.

A presentation of the property is available at lme.org/reports.html. Saints in LA who are burdened to contribute may give through the Church in Los Angeles designated for 'Munich Meeting Hall'.

Kenya

We thank the Lord that He opened a way for the printing of the seven Rhema books in Kenya. In 2022 we printed a total of 5,000 books. In addition, we received 1,000 NT Recovery Version Bibles and a pallet of used books from the churches overseas. Through distributing these books among the churches we have received a good number of contacts. We are now laboring on these contacts and our prayer is that these ones would be drawn to the Lord through this ministry!

For a detailed report with photos, see the March 2023 issue of the Lord's Move to Africa newsletter:

Announcements

  1. Morning Revival: Week 5 of Crystallization-study of 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther.
  2. SAVE THE DATE: Lord's Day morning, May 21, we will have a meeting of the whole church in Los Angeles at the LA Convention Center at 10:00 am.
  3. Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The weekly ministry meeting on "The Crucial Points of the Truth in Paul's Epistles" continues this Wednesday starting 7:25 pm.
  4. Memorial Day Conference: Saints in LA who are considering attending in-person sessions May 26 to 29 in Chicago are asked to RSVP at tinyurl.com/memdayla.
  5. July Semiannual Training: July 3 to 8 in Anaheim and by video via Zoom. LA saints may still register for the video training ($130) until June 18 at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.
  6. LSM Newsletter: The April issue of "Having This Ministry…" contains helpful fellowship on "What Makes a Good Hymn?" Go to newsletters.lsm.org/having-this-ministry.
  7. 500 Life-studies App: This app, on Apple and Google Play, is designed to help us get constituted with the truth by using the Life-study of the Bible for our spiritual nourishment and growth. Create custom schedules, read directly in the app or ministrybooks.org integration, and track your progress toward different milestones. For additional resources and information, please visit 500lifestudies.org.

by Ruiyu Wu

Week of April 23

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The Recovery of the Building of the House of God

"Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled-up houses, while this house lies waste? Now therefore thus says Jehovah of hosts, Consider your ways." (Hag. 1:4-5)

"Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build the house, and I will take pleasure in it and will be glorified, says Jehovah." (Hag. 1:8)

Haggai's speaking to Zerubbabel the governor and Joshua the high priest was to strengthen and encourage them and the people for the rebuilding of the temple as God's house.

The self-serving and God-neglecting returned captives were taking care of their houses but not Jehovah's house…Regarding the recovery of the building of God's house, we cannot be neutral; we must be absolute, either taking care of our houses first or taking care of the Lord's house first.

For the recovery of the building of God's house, God's elect were stirred up in their spirit and came and did work in the house of Jehovah. In our response to the Lord's charge, we all should be occupied by the Lord Jesus in the work of preaching the gospel, feeding the new believers, and taking care of others for the building up of the Lord's house, the church as the Body of Christ. (Crystallization-Study of 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, msg. 4, II, C, D, E, F)

Semiannual Training Live Registrations

This is the final week to register by Lord's Day, April 30 for the in-person July Semiannual Training, July 3 to 8, at the Ministry Conference Center in Anaheim ($205). Late registrations will not be accepted. For saints in LA, registration and payment instructions are at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla. Please contact your district's registration coordinator if you have any questions. Registrations for our local video trainings are due June 18.

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

High School Seniors

Graduation for high school seniors is right around the corner. Even sooner than that is National College Decision Day on May 1, the date when many college applicants across the country must choose which school they will attend in the fall. Let us pray:

  • For our high school seniors in all the churches, including Los Angeles, to experience the Lord in His shepherding care and leading as they make their decisions.
  • That the Lord in His sovereignty as the Leader and Savior would direct many prospective freshmen, transfers, and graduate students across the globe to campuses where they may be gained for Christ and the church.
  • That we may be led to many sons of peace as we reach out to the new incoming class of college students for Fall 2023.

West Coast Korean-speaking Conference

There will be a North America West Coast Korean-speaking Blending Conference this weekend. The two online sessions on "Knowing, Experiencing, and Living the All-inclusive Christ for the Genuine Church Life" are Saturday, April 29 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm and Lord's Day, April 30 from 9:00 am to 12:15 pm. The Zoom link is tinyurl.com/2023westcoast.

Please pray for as many as possible Korean-speaking saints to attend and enter more into the reality of the Body through the blending in the up-to-date words of the ministry.

Munich Meeting Hall

Munich is the third-largest city in Germany with a population of 1.58 million people. With more than 200,000 university students, it is also rated as one of the world's best cities for university students. The church in Munich was established in 2018 and the church meetings have grown to more than 80 saints. The campus work has grown and flourished with nearly 50 new ones being regularly cared for and attending the weekly college meeting.

A large apartment previously rented by the church is no longer available. In late January, a very nice stand-alone building was identified. The property is centrally located in a prime residential neighborhood within 10 minutes of the two main universities. Munich has the most expensive housing market in Germany and stand-alone buildings are extremely rare to find, but the owner has offered the building to us for €2.5 million ($2.7 million), far below the estimated value.

After much prayer and fellowship, the brothers in Munich and Germany feel that this building is the Lord's provision for both the church and the work as a meeting place with additional space for a comfortable student center for appointments, Bible studies and campus activities. By faith, we have agreed to purchase the building. We have taken possession and are now starting to use the facility. Our application with the city is still pending, but approval is expected and final purchase should take place within two or three months. Please stand with us in prayer for the support needed to complete this purchase for the Lord's interests in this key German city.

A presentation of the property is available at lme.org/reports.html. Saints in LA who are burdened to contribute may give through the Church in Los Angeles designated for 'Munich Meeting Hall'.

Poland

An International Blending Conference will take place in Warsaw this weekend, April 29 to May 1. Unlike last year, this conference will be held in-person only. The general subject is "Knowing, Experiencing, and Living the All-inclusive Christ for the Genuine Church Life."

A report on the current situation in Poland is at lme.org/reports.html. Please pray for:

  • The blending and building up of the Polish saints and the Ukrainian saints in Warsaw and Kraków.
  • The feeding and shepherding of the Ukrainian refugees gained through the gospel.
  • The 15 trainees in the Warsaw extension of the Full-time Training in Moscow.
  • The raising up of new lampstands in Wrocław, Łódź, and Poznań.

Announcements

  1. Morning Revival: Week 4 of Crystallization-study of 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther.
  2. SAVE THE DATE: Lord's Day morning, May 21, we will have a meeting of the whole church in Los Angeles at the LA Convention Center at 10:00 am.
  3. Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The weekly ministry meeting on "The Crucial Points of the Truth in Paul's Epistles" continues this Wednesday starting 7:25 pm.
  4. Sixth Grade Preparation Meeting: This Saturday, April 29 there is a preparation meeting held online related to the Sixth Grade Conference at Oak Glen the following weekend, May 5 to 7. Please fellowship with the serving ones or go to scyp.com for more information.
  5. Memorial Day Conference: Saints in LA who are considering attending in-person sessions May 26 to 29 in Chicago are asked to RSVP by April 30 at tinyurl.com/memdayla.
  6. July Semiannual Training: July 3 to 8 in Anaheim and by video via Zoom. Registration for LA saints is now open until April 30 (live) and June 18 (video) at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.
  7. LSM Newsletter: The April issue of "Having This Ministry…" contains helpful fellowship on "What Makes a Good Hymn?" and a report on the Spanish Recovery Version distribution. Go to newsletters.lsm.org/having-this-ministry.
  8. 500 Life-studies App: This app, on Apple and Google Play, is designed to help us get constituted with the truth by using the Life-study of the Bible for our spiritual nourishment and growth. Create custom schedules, read directly in the app or ministrybooks.org integration, and track your progress toward different milestones. For additional resources and information, please visit 500lifestudies.org.

 
 
 

by Ruiyu Wu

Week of April 16

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Rebuilding the Altar of Burnt Offering

"They built the altar of the God of Israel to offer burnt offerings upon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God." (Ezra 3:2b)

"And He said to them all, If anyone wants to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me." (Luke 9:23)

"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. 5:15)

The first thing to be recovered for the church life is the altar. We must put all that we have, all that we are, and all that we can do on the altar for God's satisfaction. This is the start of the church life. The altar of burnt offering typifies the cross of Christ. The cross is the center of God's operation in His economy. If we want to have a proper church life, we need to experience the cross. Through the cross we need to become nothing, to have nothing, and to be able to do nothing. Otherwise, what we are, what we have, and what we can do will become a substitute for Christ.

The burnt offering, which was wholly for God's satisfaction, typifies Christ as God's pleasure and satisfaction. The burnt offering typifies Christ not only in His living a life that is perfect and absolute for God but also in His being the life that enables God's people to have such a living. By laying our hands on Christ as the burnt offering, we are joined to Him. As Christ lives in us, He repeats in us the life He lived on the earth, the life of the burnt offering. (Crystallization-Study of 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, msg. 3, I.A.1, b, B, 1.a, 2.b-c, II.A.1-2, C.2-3)

College Conference Follow-up

Thank you, saints, for joining us in prayer for the recent SoCal Spring College Conference. From Los Angeles, 73 college students participated as well as a good number of serving ones, bringing our total to about 100 saints from LA. Praise the Lord! Each meeting had a high atmosphere during the singing that gave way for the Lord to speak strongly. After each message many students testified of what they saw concerning the greatest prophecy in the Bible, that Christ will build His church!

Please join us to pray for the follow-up:

  • May the Lord continue to reveal His desire for the church and put a restless caring in all the students to give all for the building.
  • Grant each one according to this vision to have daily growth and transformation in life as well as a willingness to be perfected in their function for the building's sake.
  • Inspire the students to have a living for the building—that is, a living that preaches the gospel, shepherds others, and practices to prophesy for the building up of the Body of Christ in love.

Southern California Junior High Sisters Conferences

The Spring Junior High Sisters Conference will take place April 21 to 23 at Oak Glen. The topic is "The Spirit." Please pray for our young sisters to be open vessels under the divine dispensing this weekend. Pray that they would be encouraged by and blended with others from Southern California.

Francophone Conference

A conference for French-speaking saints will be held this weekend, April 21 to 23, in Paris. The conference, consisting of five messages along with the Lord's table, will take place in person with an online option. Please pray that all the French-speaking saints and churches would enter into the up-to-date ministry of the age and touch the up-to-date burden for the Lord's advance. For more conference information, visit www.egliseaparis.fr/2023-conference-francophone.

UK Building Project

Construction is set to begin this December for a new training facility of the Full-time Training in London at Bower House with a capacity of holding at least 400 trainees as well as conferences for 1,000 saints. The total cost is estimated at approximately $6 million (dollars). To give through the Church in LA for the new training center, please follow instructions at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings. Designate offerings for "UK Building Project."

Ukraine

Please continue to pray that:

  • The Lord will keep all the saints in the involved countries open to Him for their experience of the divine dispensing in all the situations of their daily living.
  • The Lord will meet all the practical needs of the saints.
  • The brothers who are fighting in the war will be preserved by the Lord in their tripartite being.
  • The Lord will shepherd the refugees and establish them in the church life.

Turkey

Please pray for Rhema readers who are in the earthquake area and were contacted and helped by the saints. May the saints' time be separated for them to maintain their relationship with these readers, bringing them into the fellowship of the Body so that they can be saved and released from religion to pursue the One who is eternal life.

Tajikistan

Pray for the friends who heard the gospel. May the Lord work in them and make them wise unto salvation to become members of the Body of Christ.

Announcements

  1. Morning Revival: Week 3 of Crystallization-study of 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther.
  2. GTCA: There will be a series of online fellowships on the topic of migration. The first session will be this Lord's Day, April 23, at 3:00 pm on Zoom.
  3. SAVE THE DATE: Lord's Day morning, May 21, we will have a meeting of the whole church in Los Angeles at the LA Convention Center at 10:00 am.
  4. Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The weekly ministry meeting on "The Crucial Points of the Truth in Paul's Epistles" continues this Wednesday starting 7:25 pm. Saints are invited to attend in-person at the Ministry Conference Center in Anaheim or online at www.lsmwebcast.com.
  5. Memorial Day Conference: Saints in LA who are considering attending in-person sessions May 26 to 29 in Chicago are asked to RSVP by April 30 at tinyurl.com/memdayla. Your response helps LSM in making preparations and you to receive any pertinent updates.
  6. July Semiannual Training: July 3 to 8 in Anaheim and by video via Zoom. Registration for LA saints is now open until April 30 (live) and June 18 (video) at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.
  7. West Coast Korean-speaking Blending Conference: Saturday, April 29 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm and Lord's Day, April 30 from 9:00 am to 12:15 pm on Zoom only.
  8. 500 Life-studies App: This app, on Apple and Google Play, is designed to help us get constituted with the truth by using the Life-study of the Bible for our spiritual nourishment and growth. Create custom schedules, read directly in the app or ministrybooks.org integration, and track your progress toward different milestones. For additional resources and information, please visit 500lifestudies.org.
  9. Bibles for America's blogpost, "3 Wonderful Things That Happened in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ," is available to read and share at blog.biblesforamerica.org.
  10. LSM Newsletter: The March issue of "Having This Ministry…" contains enlightening fellowship on "Our Need to Study the Hymnal" and "The Recovery Version—Why Another Translation of the Bible." Go to newsletters.lsm.org/having-this-ministry.
  11. Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

 
 
 

by Ruiyu Wu

Week of April 9

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Praying for God's Will and for Our Spiritual Border to Be Enlarged

"Your kingdom come; Your will be done, as in heaven, so also on earth." (Matt. 6:10)

"And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, Oh that You would richly bless me and enlarge my border, and that Your hand would be with me, and that You would so keep me from evil that it would not grieve me! And God caused what he had requested to come to pass." (1 Chron. 4:10)

One main principle of God's work is the need for man's prayer. He wants man to cooperate with Him in prayer. As believers in Christ, we need to have prayers that express God's will and our desire to have our personal spiritual border to be enlarged.

In order to do something, God must first put His will within us through the Holy Spirit. He will only accomplish something after we have echoed it in our prayer. God operates through this procedure. He wants a will that is one with Him and that echoes Him. God wants man's will to be joined to Him. He does not want to act alone; He wants man to cooperate with Him. This is the responsibility of the church on earth.

If our prayer is only for the fulfillment of our plans and wishes, it will not have any value in the spiritual realm. Only prayers that are initiated by God and echo what He has initiated have any spiritual value; we must learn to pray this kind of prayer.

Jabez called on God to enlarge his border. The enlarging of the border of the good land in his prayer signifies the enlarging of the border of gaining Christ and the enjoyment of Christ, who is the reality of the good land. God caused what Jabez had requested to come to pass. I hope that all of us would have such a prayer, a prayer that God would enlarge the border of the enjoyment of the good land, that is, enlarge the border of our enjoyment of Christ. (CWWN, vol. 38, pp. 281-284; Crystallization-study of 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, msg. 2, VI, A.2, B; Life-study of 1 & 2 Chronicles, p. 18)

Southern California College Conference

This weekend, April 14 to 16, college students and current high school seniors from around Southern California will gather in Cerritos for the Spring College Conference. The topic is "The Greatest Prophecy in the Bible." Please join us in prayer for:

  • More than 90 college students and high school seniors from Los Angeles to attend at least one meeting.
  • An atmosphere filled with the exercise of the spirit and hearts that are wide open to receive the word of the Lord.
  • A vision of Christ and the church to be imparted to each student, one that would guide them and that they would never forget.

North America College Training

The second deadline to register for this summer's North America College Training is this Saturday, April 15. So far, nearly 2,300 saints have registered. Please continue to fight the battle in prayer with us for:

  • More than 3,000 to register by this next deadline; pray for the Lord to open doors even in seemingly impossible situations due to conflicts with internships, family plans, classes, etc.
  • Especially the newer and younger ones to see the preciousness of this training and be willing to joyfully pay the price to give this week to the Lord and seek first His kingdom.

Bibles for America

Last month, BfA incorporated USPS tracking information into the customer service emails that people receive after they order a Bible. Recipients are now alerted when their Bible is shipped, out for delivery, and delivered, allowing them to track the shipment progress and making for a better overall experience.

We are continuing to make technical improvements to the order tracking process that will be implemented in both English and Spanish. Please pray that these improvements would be developed in a timely way, and that every Bible would successfully get to its intended recipient. Pray also that as the Lord's Word continues to go out, it would accomplish what He delights in, and would prosper in the matter to which He has sent it (Isaiah 55:10-11).

Poland

After the war between Russia and Ukraine started, between 4 and 5 million Ukrainian refugees moved to Poland. Because of such an overwhelming number of refugees, we decided to preach the gospel in Eastern Europe, mainly in Poland. In 2022 we had four gospel trips and three shepherding trips in Poland. A report on the current situation in Poland can be downloaded from https://lme.org/reports.html.

Please pray for:

  • The blending and building up of the Polish saints and the Ukrainian saints in Warsaw and Kraków.
  • The feeding and shepherding of the Ukrainian refugees gained through the gospel.
  • The 15 trainees in the Warsaw extension of the Full-time Training in Moscow.
  • The raising up of new lampstands in Wrocław, Łódź, and Poznań.

Pakistan

In November 2022, the annual National Conference in Pakistan was held for the first time since the pandemic. Approximately 240 saints from the churches in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi, and Faisalabad (a newly-propagated city) attended the conference, along with some brothers and sisters from other Christian groups. The subject was "God's Grace in His Economy." In the Lord's table meeting, the brothers and sisters testified that we were one Body. Even saints from other Christian groups, including some pastors, attended the conference and appreciated the word of the ministry. After the conference, some gospel friends expressed their desire to continue to meet with us.

For a detailed report with photos, see the March 2023 issue of the Lord's Move to Asia newsletter:

Announcements

  1. Morning Revival: Week 2 of Crystallization-study of 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther.
  2. Memorial Day Conference: Saints in LA who are considering attending in-person sessions May 26 to 29 in Chicago are asked to RSVP by April 30 at https://tinyurl.com/memdayla. Your response helps LSM in making preparations and you to receive any pertinent updates.
  3. July Semiannual Training: July 3 to 8 in Anaheim and by video via Zoom. Registration for LA saints is now open until April 30 (live) and June 18 (video) at https://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.
  4. West Coast Korean-speaking Blending Conference: Saturday, April 29 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm and Lord's Day, April 30 from 9:00 am to 12:15 pm on Zoom only.
  5. Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The general subject of this term's weekly ministry meeting is "The Crucial Points of the Truth in Paul's Epistles." Saints are invited to attend in-person at 7:25 pm at the Ministry Conference Center in Anaheim or online at https://www.lsmwebcast.com.
  6. Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers a series of free e-booklets to read and share at https://www.lsm.org/booklets, including "Life’s Sight—the Need of the Blind in Religion."
  7. Bibles for America's latest post is available to read and share at https://blog.biblesforamerica.org.
  8. Living to Him has a podcast series particularly helpful to working saints, available on all major podcasting services at https://livingtohim.com/the-living-to-him-podcast.
  9. A Timely Speaking of Supply: Enjoy a free weekly video from messages given by Brother Lee at https://lsm.org/timely-speaking.html.
  10. Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at https://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

 
 
 

by Ruiyu Wu

Week of April 2

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God's Move in Man's History to Carry Out His Economy

"Even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish before Him in love." (Eph. 1:4)

"The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Thus declares Jehovah, who stretches forth the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him." (Zech. 12:1)

The intrinsic significance of the twelve historical books in the Old Testament (Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings,1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther) is the revelation that God's move in man's history prepares the way for God to carry out His eternal economy by His becoming a man that man may become God in life and in nature (but not in the Godhead), for the producing and building up of the church as the organic Body of Christ to consummate the New Jerusalem for His ultimate expression.

The way to fulfill God's move in man's history for the carrying out of His eternal economy is by exercising our spirit to experience and enjoy Christ as the sevenfold intensified Spirit. The heavens are for the earth, the earth is for man, and man was created by God with a spirit that he may contact God, receive God, live God, fulfill God's purpose for God, and be one with God.

With God's move, as the divine history, in man's history, there is the new creation—the new man with a new heart, a new spirit, a new life, a new nature, a new history, and a new consummation. We praise the Lord that we are in the divine history, experiencing and enjoying the mysterious, divine things for our organic salvation, so that we may make ourselves ready to become His overcoming bride to bring Him back. (CS 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, msg. 1, I, V, VI; LS Zechariah, pp. 67-68)

Southern California Junior High Brothers Conference

The Spring Junior High Brothers Conference will take place April 7 to 9 at Oak Glen. The general subject is "The Spirit." Please pray for our young brothers to be open vessels under the divine dispensing this weekend. Pray also that they would be encouraged by and blended with other young brothers from across Southern California.

European Brothers Training and Blending Conference

The Spring 2023 European Brothers Training will take place in London on April 5 to 7 to review the messages from the recent ITERO held in Anaheim. This training will be followed by the International Blending Conference in London for all the saints from April 8 to 9.

Please pray that the Lord's word released in these meetings will operate effectively in the responsible brothers and all the saints to bring forth the genuine church life and build up the Body in all of Europe.

Germany

Twenty-nine saints from FTTT (28 trainees, 1 TA) will be in Germany from April 4 to May 5. After gathering in Frankfurt for orientation, teams of saints will travel to various localities in Germany. Some teams will stay with one church for the entire month; others may visit another nearby city currently being shepherded by that church. Local saints will participate to the extent that they are available.

Every morning, the teams will spend time in the truth, then gospel preaching and shepherding of new believers. Their main locations will be universities, since these trips coincide with orientation week on the university campuses and the first week of lectures. The goal is not merely to distribute tracts and NTs, not merely to get people to receive the Lord, but also to have shepherding times and repeated appointments with new believers.

UK Building Project

The UK building project in London has moved its emphasis from Woodland Camp to the construction of a new training center for the Full-time Training in London at Bower House. Permission has already been obtained to construct a new facility capable of holding at least 400 full-time trainees as well as conferences for up to 1,000 saints. Initial preparations are being made to begin construction this December. The total cost for the training center is estimated to be approximately £5 million (pounds) or about $6 million (dollars). If funds are forthcoming construction can be completed within two years, which is when we expect to reach the capacity of the current facility.

To give through the Church in Los Angeles for the new training center, please follow instructions at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings. Designate offerings for "UK Building Project."

Madagascar

There are currently around 130 saints enjoying the church life in Antananarivo (commonly known as "Tana"), the capital of Madagascar. There are now regular meetings for the young people, appointments and Bible studies with university contacts, and visits by brothers to other cities for the shepherding, strengthening, and perfecting of the saints.

In 2021, land was purchased near the US Embassy; since then, additional connecting plots of land have been purchased. So far, construction of a small meeting hall, an office, and a brothers' house have been completed. We pray that the construction of a large meeting hall can begin in the near future.

For a detailed report with photos, see the March 2023 issue of the Lord's Move to Africa newsletter:

Announcements

  1. Morning Revival: Week 1 of Crystallization-study of 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther.
  2. Memorial Day Conference: Saints in LA who are considering attending in-person sessions May 26 to 29 in Chicago are asked to RSVP by April 30 at http://tinyurl.com/memdayla. Your response helps LSM in making preparations and you to receive any pertinent updates.
  3. July Semiannual Training: July 3 to 8 in Anaheim and by video via Zoom. Registration for LA saints is now open until April 30 (live) and June 18 (video) at http://tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.
  4. Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The general subject of this term's weekly ministry meeting is "The Crucial Points of the Truth in Paul's Epistles." Saints are invited to attend in-person at 7:25 pm at the Ministry Conference Center in Anaheim or online at http://www.lsmwebcast.com.
  5. LSM Newsletter: The March issue of "Having This Ministry…" contains enlightening fellowship on "Our Need to Study the Hymnal" and "The Recovery Version—Why Another Translation of the Bible." Go to http://newsletters.lsm.org/having-this-ministry.
  6. Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers a series of free e-booklets to read and share at http://www.lsm.org/booklets, including "Life’s Sight—the Need of the Blind in Religion."
  7. Bibles for America's latest post is available to read and share at http://blog.biblesforamerica.org.
  8. Living to Him has a podcast series particularly helpful to working saints, available on all major podcasting services at http://livingtohim.com/the-living-to-him-podcast.
  9. A Timely Speaking of Supply: Enjoy a free weekly video from messages given by Brother Lee at http://lsm.org/timely-speaking.html.
  10. Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

 
 
 

by Ruiyu Wu

Week of March 26

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Open Vessels for the Divine Dispensing

"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not out of us." (2 Cor. 4:7)

"That He 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, that you, being rooted and grounded in love." (Eph. 3:16-17)

The summary of Paul's fourteen Epistles can be expressed in two words: open vessel. An open vessel is doing nothing but keeping itself open to be filled by the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity. We simply need to love the Lord and keep ourselves open to Him, giving Him every opportunity to do everything He wants to do. This is the proper and genuine Christian life.

We should pray, "Lord, by Your grace I would not have any part of my being closed to You; I choose to keep myself entirely and thoroughly open to You." This proper prayer, deeper prayer, genuine prayer, is to love the Lord and be open to Him. If we have this kind of prayer, we will be living, open vessels, and the Lord will have the way to fill us with Himself. When the Lord fills us, He does everything for us.

Our destiny is to live an ordinary life in the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity, for our Father has destined that we live in an ordinary way under His continual dispensing. (The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy, msg. 6, I.B, 1.b, 2.b-c, I.C, a-c, II.D)

ITERO

The Spring 2023 International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones held in Anaheim this past weekend, March 24 to 26, was on "Knowing, Experiencing, and Living the All-inclusive Christ for the Genuine Church Life." Please pray that the Lord's word released in this training will operate effectively in the responsible brothers and the saints to bring forth the genuine church life all over the earth.

500 Life-studies App

We are happy to announce the launch of the 500 Life-studies app. It is designed to help believers to become constituted with the truth by using the Life-study of the Bible for their spiritual nourishment and growth. This app allows users to: 1) create custom reading schedules; 2) read directly in the app via a built-in reader or http://ministrybooks.org integration; and 3) track their progress toward different milestones.

The app is now available for free download on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. For additional resources and information, please visit http://500lifestudies.org.

Please pray that this digital tool will be useful in bringing in a new culture of reading the Life-studies among the churches.

LA Chinese-speaking Blending Retreat

This weekend, March 31 to April 2, the Chinese-speaking saints will have a retreat at Oak Glen. Please pray not only for everyone's health and safety, but also for all the saints, especially the new ones, to be open and blended together for their mutual encouragement and for the building up of the Body.

UK Building Project

The UK building project in London has moved its emphasis from Woodland Camp to the construction of a new training center for the Full-time Training in London at Bower House. Permission has already been obtained to construct a new facility capable of holding at least 400 full-time trainees as well as conferences for up to 1,000 saints. Initial preparations are being made to begin construction this December. The total cost for the training center is estimated to be approximately £5 million (pounds) or about $6 million (dollars). If funds are forthcoming construction can be completed within two years, which is when we expect to reach the capacity of the current facility.

To give through the Church in Los Angeles for the new training center, please follow instructions at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings. Designate offerings for "UK Building Project."

Ukraine

Please continue to pray for the saints in Russia and Ukraine to be kept in the oneness of the Body and the reality of the new man, where Christ is all the members and in all the members, and for the preservation and shepherding of all the saints in their tripartite being.

A reminder from the footnote on 1 Kings 8:48: "No matter for whom we are praying, our prayers should be aimed at the interests of God, i.e., at Christ and the church as God's interests on earth, for the fulfilling of God's economy."

Cambodia

After the pandemic eased in May 2022, the saints were encouraged to resume their weekly gospel preaching. In the past, various methods were used to reach people—language teaching, outdoor activities, love feasts—but the saints felt that something was missing. Last year, they began using The Mystery of Human Life to speak directly to people and found some genuine seeking ones and open homes. Through persistent weekly visitations, other saints have also been recovered.

After meeting regularly with the new ones or the newly recovered saints on a weekly basis, we invited them to participate in daily morning revival. Every morning, we would spend 10 to 15 minutes on the phone, releasing our spirits to call on the Lord's name, pray-read the Lord's word, and receive light from the interpreted word. Many new ones testified that their desire for the Lord's word has deepened because of the practice of morning revival, and they spontaneously began to share and minister the Lord's word in the meetings. Through this the Lord began to work marvelously in many saints to overflow to their friends, relatives, and neighbors.

For a detailed report with photos, see the March 2023 issue of the Lord's Move to Asia newsletter:

Announcements

  1. Morning Revival: Week 6 of The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy. Next week, we begin Crystallization-study of 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, vol. 1.
  2. Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The general subject of this term's weekly ministry meeting is "The Crucial Points of the Truth in Paul's Epistles." Saints are invited to attend in-person at 7:25 pm at the Ministry Conference Center in Anaheim or online at http://www.lsmwebcast.com.
  3. LSM Newsletter: The March issue of "Having This Ministry…" contains enlightening fellowship on "Our Need to Study the Hymnal" and "The Recovery Version—Why Another Translation of the Bible." Go to http://newsletters.lsm.org/having-this-ministry.
  4. Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers a series of free e-booklets to read and share at http://www.lsm.org/booklets, including "Life’s Sight—the Need of the Blind in Religion."
  5. Bibles for America's latest post is available to read and share at http://blog.biblesforamerica.org.
  6. Living to Him has a podcast series particularly helpful to working saints, available on all major podcasting services at http://livingtohim.com/the-living-to-him-podcast.
  7. A Timely Speaking of Supply: Enjoy a free weekly video from messages given by Brother Lee at http://lsm.org/timely-speaking.html.
  8. Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

 
 
 

by Ruiyu Wu

Week of March 19

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Experiencing and Enjoying the Divine Dispensing

"That He would grant you…to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man, that Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you…with all the saints…may be filled unto all the fullness of God." (Eph. 3:16-19)

"Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and psalming with your heart to the Lord, giving thanks at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to our God and Father." (Eph. 5:19-20)

The entire revelation in Ephesians concerning the producing, existing, growing, building up, and fighting of the church as the Body of Christ is composed of the divine economy and the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity into the members of the Body of Christ; thus, the crucial focus of Ephesians is the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity into the believers.

In chapter 3 the apostle prays that God the Father will grant the believers to be strengthened with power through God the Spirit into their inner man so that Christ, God the Son, may make His home in their hearts, that is, occupy their entire being, that they might be filled unto all the fullness of the Triune God; this is the climax of the believers' experience and participation in God in His Divine Trinity.

Chapter 5 exhorts the believers to praise the Lord, God the Son, with the songs of God the Spirit, and give thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, God the Son, to God the Father. This is to praise and thank the processed God in His Divine Trinity for our enjoyment of Him as the Triune God. (The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy, msg. 5, III, C, E, 1)

ITERO

The Spring 2023 International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones will be held in Anaheim this weekend, March 24 to 26. The general subject is "Knowing, Experiencing, and Living the All-inclusive Christ for the Genuine Church Life."

Please pray that the Lord will speak a timely word to His whole Body, especially the elders and responsible ones, for the advancement of His economy on the whole earth.

UCLA Blending Trips

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

Next week, two groups from UCLA will be participating in blending trips. Around 12 saints will travel to Nevada to visit the church in Las Vegas. Another group of nearly 25 saints will remain in LA to blend with a group of more than 30 saints visiting from Berkeley. Please pray that:

  • The Lord would sovereignly cover the health, traveling, and weather so that all the saints could enjoy the Lord to the uttermost and none would be hindered from fully participating;
  • All the students would get a taste of blending and experience the sweet Body life;
  • The saints providing hospitality would be supplied with the Lord as grace as they receive different saints in their homes during this time.

Bibles for America

In January and February of this year, saints and FTTA trainees participated in a number of gospel trips in cities throughout the US. Many gospel tracts, Bibles, and ministry books were given away on campuses and in communities in each city, and a good number of people were open to follow-up contact.

Please pray that all the Bible and book recipients would be enlightened and nourished by the interpreted Word of God. Pray also that the local saints would be strengthened to shepherd these contacts into the enjoyment of the riches of the ministry.

Ukraine

Please continue to pray for the saints in Russia and Ukraine to be kept in the oneness of the Body and the reality of the new man, where Christ is all the members and in all the members, and for the preservation and shepherding of all the saints in their tripartite being.

A reminder from the footnote on 1 Kings 8:48: "No matter for whom we are praying, our prayers should be aimed at the interests of God, i.e., at Christ and the church as God's interests on earth, for the fulfilling of God's economy."

Announcements

  1. Morning Revival: Week 5 of The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy. After next week, we begin Crystallization-study of 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther.
  2. Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: Because of the upcoming ITERO, there will be no ministry meeting on March 22. The Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting will resume on March 29.
  3. Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers a series of free e-booklets to read and share at http://www.lsm.org/booklets, including "Life’s Sight—the Need of the Blind in Religion."
  4. LSM Newsletter: The March issue of "Having This Ministry…" contains enlightening fellowship on "Our Need to Study the Hymnal" and "The Recovery Version—Why Another Translation of the Bible." Go to http://newsletters.lsm.org/having-this-ministry.
  5. Bibles for America's latest post entitled "Learning to Taste God in His Word" is available to read and share at http://blog.biblesforamerica.org.
  6. Living to Him has a podcast series particularly helpful to working saints, available on all major podcasting services at http://livingtohim.com/the-living-to-him-podcast.
  7. A Timely Speaking of Supply: Enjoy a free weekly video from messages given by Brother Lee at http://lsm.org/timely-speaking.html.
  8. Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

 
 
 

by Ruiyu Wu

Week of March 12

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Overcoming by Breathing the Spirit

"And when He had said this, He breathed into them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit." (John 20:22)

"…The bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ." (Phil. 1:19)

To be a Christian is not merely difficult—it is impossible. Only the processed and consummated Triune God living in us as the all-inclusive Spirit can be a Christian…The kind of holiness required, for example, is something that we cannot produce…Only the Spirit can be a Christian, and only the Spirit can be an overcomer.

We need to call on the Lord Jesus, continually…Because we are not accustomed to this, we need to practice calling on the Lord's name all the time. To live is to breathe. Spiritually speaking, to breathe is to call on the Lord's name and to pray. By calling on the name of the Lord Jesus, we breathe the Spirit. Just as we must breathe in order to live physically, we must breathe spiritually to live Christ. (Life-study of Job, p. 110; Life-study of Philippians, pp. 298-299)

Southern California High School Sisters Conference

The Spring High School Sisters Conference will be held in-person this weekend, March 17 to 19, at Oak Glen. The topic is "The Divine Romance." Please pray for our young sisters to respond to the Lord's love and be brought into the divine romance shown in the Bible. May they see the Lord afresh and be drawn by Him personally so that together they would run after Him. Pray also that they would be encouraged by and blended with other young people across Southern California.

FTTA-MA

The spring term of the Middle-age Training in Anaheim begins next week on March 20. The goal of the training is to foster living, functioning, overcoming members of the Body of Christ for the fulfillment of God's eternal purpose!

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

Spring European University Conference

This weekend, March 17 to 19, a conference will take place in the Netherlands for university students in Europe. The subject will be "Living for the Fulfillment of God's Eternal Purpose." Please pray that:

  • The Lord will pour out His blessing on every aspect of the conference, including the travel and weather.
  • Each attendee will meet the Lord this weekend and, seeing His beauty and realizing that this is the day of day of His warfare, will offer themselves willingly to Him.
  • The Lord will speak a timely word to the university students in Europe and gain them for His final move to prepare for His coming. Each one will see God's purpose, live for His purpose, enjoy Him, be consecrated to Him, and shepherd according to Him.
  • Satan and his kingdom will suffer fatal, irrevocable loss in the hearts and lives of this generation, and that they will be produced as part of the one new man who will live for and become part of the fulfillment of God's eternal purpose.

Ukraine

Please continue to pray for the saints in Russia and Ukraine to be kept in the oneness of the Body and the reality of the new man, where Christ is all the members and in all the members, and for the preservation and shepherding of all the saints in their tripartite being.

A reminder from the footnote on 1 Kings 8:48: "No matter for whom we are praying, our prayers should be aimed at the interests of God, i.e., at Christ and the church as God's interests on earth, for the fulfilling of God's economy."

Sri Lanka

Pray for the printing of the Sinhala Recovery Version of the Gospel of Matthew this month.

Tajikistan

Pray for the contacts who heard the gospel; may the Lord work in them and make them wise unto salvation to become members of the Body of Christ.

Announcements

  1. Morning Revival: Week 4 of The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy.
  2. Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The general subject of this term's weekly ministry meeting is "The Crucial Points of the Truth in Paul's Epistles." Saints are invited to attend in-person at 7:25 pm at the Ministry Conference Center in Anaheim or online at http://www.lsmwebcast.com.
  3. Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers a series of free e-booklets to read and share at http://www.lsm.org/booklets, including "Life's Setting Free—the Need of Those under the Bondage of Sin."
  4. Bibles for America's latest post is available to read and share at http://blog.biblesforamerica.org.
  5. Living to Him has a podcast series particularly helpful to working saints, available on all major podcasting services at http://livingtohim.com/the-living-to-him-podcast.
  6. A Timely Speaking of Supply: Enjoy a free weekly video from messages given by Brother Lee at http://lsm.org/timely-speaking.html.
  7. Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

 
 
 

by Ryan Li

Week of March 5

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The Law of the Spirit of Life in Romans 8

"Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death? Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord!…" (Rom. 7:24-25)

"There is now then no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death." (Rom. 8:1-2)

The key to being an overcomer is the law of the Spirit of life in Romans 8, a chapter for desperate seekers. All those who are qualified for this chapter must be the ones who are desperate. After being saved, after seeking the Lord, and after being defeated along the seeking way, they are desperate...You must be a desperate one. This chapter does not try to stir you up because you do not have a heart toward the Lord...This chapter gives you a clear view of what you have within you. Because you are so seeking, because you are so desperate, you need such a view. You do not need a "way"; you need a view. You need to see what has been done with you, what has been installed into you. You need to see what you have already. You do not need just a kind of instruction, but you need a view to see what you have.

We must have a clear view that...God today is this law within us. Such a God as a law does not work in us and for us by activities...Today He is the processed God as a law to you. Have you ever had a specific prayer to thank Him that He is now the law to you?...I am afraid we still pray in the old way, asking the Lord for His help in our weakness. We still ask the Lord to help us not to lose our temper...Do you really realize that God has been installed into you as the law of the Spirit of life? He is working within us by a law, not by activity. What we need to do is to cooperate with Him. (The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy, msg. 3, I; Perfecting Training, ch. 36, pp. 396-399)

Southern California High School Brothers Conference

The Spring High School Brothers Conference will be held in-person this weekend, March 10 to 12, at Oak Glen. The topic is "The Divine Romance." Please pray for our high school brothers to see the Lord afresh and be drawn by Him personally so that together they would run after Him. Pray that they would be encouraged by and blended with other young people across Southern California.

Los Angeles Large Group Fellowship

This Friday evening there will be a meeting at Hall 5 for all college students in LA. We will be covering the importance of blending as seen in Romans 16. Please pray that:

  • Jesus would gather the students throughout the LA area together to this time.
  • All attending would touch the living Spirit.
  • A vision of the Lord's desire for His blended Body would be imparted through the speaking.

Ukraine

Please continue to pray for the saints in Russia and Ukraine to be kept in the oneness of the Body and the reality of the new man, where Christ is all the members and in all the members, and for the preservation and shepherding of all the saints in their tripartite being.

A reminder from the footnote on 1 Kings 8:48: "No matter for whom we are praying, our prayers should be aimed at the interests of God, i.e., at Christ and the church as God's interests on earth, for the fulfilling of God's economy."

Turkey

Pray for the saints in Istanbul and other cities in Turkey to be strengthened to bear a strong testimony for the Lord and cooperate with Him.

Ethiopia

The Lord is blessing many areas of His move in Ethiopia. The saints throughout the country are steadfastly entering into the riches of this ministry through local conferences and video trainings. The campus work is growing stronger in the Oromiya region in the western part of the country; in the various universities in Addis Ababa, we are looking to the Lord for the best way to take care of more than 60 new contacts. Last August, we held a Summer School of Truth for our young people for the first time. In the Full-time Training in Addis Ababa there are currently 50 trainees, 23 of whom will graduate this July.

There are currently 10 churches in Ethiopia, but there are saints meeting in over 60 localities. Many localities are ready to take the ground. In the first half of 2023 we plan to take the ground in five more cities. Please pray for the security and political stability of the country. Pray that the Lord may gain many serving ones and strengthen them. Also pray for the literature service, that we may distribute more books all over the country.

For a detailed report with photos, see the February 2023 issue of the Lord's Move to Africa newsletter:

Announcements

  1. Morning Revival: Week 3 of The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy.
  2. Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The general subject of this term's weekly ministry meeting is "The Crucial Points of the Truth in Paul's Epistles." Saints are invited to attend in-person at 7:25 pm at the Ministry Conference Center in Anaheim or online at http://www.lsmwebcast.com.
  3. Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers a series of free e-booklets to read and share at http://www.lsm.org/booklets, including "Life's Setting Free—the Need of Those under the Bondage of Sin."
  4. Bibles for America's latest post is available to read and share at http://blog.biblesforamerica.org.
  5. Living to Him has a podcast series particularly helpful to working saints, available on all major podcasting services at http://livingtohim.com/the-living-to-him-podcast.
  6. A Timely Speaking of Supply: Enjoy a free weekly video from messages given by Brother Lee at http://lsm.org/timely-speaking.html.
  7. Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

 
 
 

by Ruiyu Wu

Week of February 26

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Participating in the Things Prepared by God by Loving Him

"…Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard and which have not come up in man's heart; things which God has prepared for those who love Him." (1 Cor. 2:9)

To realize and participate in the deep and hidden things God has ordained and prepared for us requires us not only to believe in Him but also to love Him...To love God means to set our entire being—spirit, soul, and body, with the heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:30)—absolutely on Him, that is, to let our entire being be occupied by Him and lost in Him, so that He becomes everything to us and we are one with Him practically in our daily life. In this way we have the closest and most intimate fellowship with God, and we are able to enter into His heart and apprehend all its secrets. Thus, we not only realize but also experience, enjoy, and fully participate in these deep and hidden things of God. (1 Cor. 2:9, note 3)

Let us love the Lord, setting our entire being on Him, to experience the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity!

Having a Labor of Shepherding

"…Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed My lambs…Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Shepherd My sheep." (John 21:15-16)

In order to make ourselves ready for the Lord's coming, we need to maintain our victory by participating in Christ's heavenly ministry to feed His lambs and shepherd His sheep in order to take care of God's flock, which is the church that issues in the Body of Christ.

We need to shepherd people according to the pattern of the Lord Jesus in His ministry for carrying out God's eternal economy. Our not having the Father's loving and forgiving heart and the Savior's shepherding and seeking spirit is the reason for our barrenness. We need to cherish people (to make them happy and to make them feel pleasant and comfortable) in the humanity of Jesus. We need to nourish people (to feed them with the all-inclusive Christ in His ministry of three stages) in the divinity of Christ.

In His caring for the churches as the golden lamp stands, the ascended Lord is the "walking Christ" and the "speaking Spirit"; by His walking in the midst of the churches, He gets to know the condition of each church, and then according to what He sees, He speaks to us so that all the saints in the churches might be metabolically and organically transformed with the aim of making them His overcomers. (ICSC, msg. 5, II, A, 1, 2, 6)

Wednesday Night Ministry Meetings

The weekly Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting will resume this week on March 1 at 7:30 pm. The live, in-person meetings at the LSM Ministry Conference Center will once again be open to all the saints. Accordingly, the previous website provided previously to nearby churches and saints to watch remotely (lsm.org/live) will no longer be available. The saints are invited and encouraged to attend these crucial ministry meetings in person to support the release of the word.

Those who cannot attend in person may create or log into their account at http://lsmwebcast.com and either pay to watch the meeting live or watch without paying if they are monthly subscribers.

Please pray for the ministry of the Lord's word week by week to His recovery. Pray for the Lord's continued blessing of the Full-time Training in Anaheim and covering of all trainees and serving ones.

Ukraine

Please continue to pray that:

  • The Lord will keep all the saints in the involved countries open to Him for their experience of the divine dispensing in all the situations of their daily living.
  • The Lord will meet all the practical needs of the saints as the cold weather of winter settles in.
  • The brothers who are fighting in the war will be preserved by the Lord in their tripartite being.
  • The Lord will shepherd the refugees and establish them in the church life.
  • The local saints, serving ones, and trainees will be blended with the refugees by being through the cross and by the Spirit to minister Christ to one another for the building up of the Body.
  • The saints will be kept in the oneness of the Body and the reality of the new man.
  • The tripartite being of saints in besieged cities will be protected and preserved for the Lord's interests.
  • The Lord will comfort and sustain those who have lost loved ones in the war.
  • The enemy will be bound in his attack on the Lord's interests in Russia, Ukraine, and Europe.

Turkey

Pray for the two families affected by the earthquakes, that their lives can turn back to normal and be protected from further disaster; also pray for their hearts to be comforted and be free from the shadow of fear and death. May the Lord open the door of the gospel in Turkey!

Egypt

Over three million people attended the 54th annual Cairo International Book Fair, which took place January 24 through February 6. The CIBF is the largest book fair in the world for the Arabic-reading public as well as the largest in the world that is open directly to the public. For the fifth year in a row the Arabic literature work in Egypt was able to present LSM ministry publications in Arabic openly to the public. The interactions with the public and the reception to the Arabic ministry materials were, by far, the best we have had since we began participating in this fair. (For highlights, see the February issue of LSM's newsletter.)

Please pray for:

  • The follow-up with and shepherding of new contacts.
  • All those who received our books to benefit from this ministry.
  • The translation and publication of ministry books into Arabic, including the NT Recovery Version.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the second-largest country by area in Africa and, with nearly 90 million people, the continent's fourth-most populous country. Over 600 saints are meeting in 12 localities, including the capital Kinshasa. Please pray for:

  • The Lord's protection and care of the saints in Goma, where there have been protests against the political situation and military conflict between the government and rebel groups.
  • The preservation of the Lord's interests in the DRC and neighboring countries.
  • The saints to be supplied in all aspects of their tripartite being so that the Lord's testimony may increase and the light of the Lord will shine as in a dark place.

Announcements

  1. Morning Revival: Week 2 of The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy.
  2. Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers a series of free e-booklets to read and share at http://www.lsm.org/booklets, including "Life's Sight—the Need of the Blind in Religion."
  3. LSM YouTube Channel: Living Stream Ministry's YouTube channel features videos of entire messages spoken by Brother Lee and LSM Radio Programs. Subscribe for free to receive notifications of new content as it is made available. Visit http://youtube.com/@LivingStreamMinistry.
  4. Bibles for America's latest post is available to read and share at http://blog.biblesforamerica.org.
  5. Living to Him has a podcast series particularly helpful to working saints, available on all major podcasting services at http://livingtohim.com/the-living-to-him-podcast.
  6. A Timely Speaking of Supply: Enjoy a free weekly video from messages given by Brother Lee at http://lsm.org/timely-speaking.html.
  7. Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

 
 
 

by Ryan Li