Prayer

Week of December 14, 2025

Knowing the True God and Eternal Life

“And this is the testimony, that God gave to us eternal life and this life is in His Son.” (1 John 5:11)

“And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding that we might know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.” (1 John 5:20)

Eternal life is divine life with a special function—to know God. Because as believers we have been born of the divine life, we are able to know God. First John 5:20 speaks of knowing the true One. Here the word know actually means “experience, enjoy, and possess.”…In this universe only God Himself is the true One. We need God’s life in order to experience, enjoy, and possess Him.

The word this refers to the very God who has become experiential to us through our being in Him. No longer are we outside of this God. Rather, we are in this God, and we are in the true One, in His Son Jesus Christ. Because we are in Them, God and Jesus Christ are no longer objective to us, and in our experience They are no longer two. When we are in Them, They become one to us.

The word this includes this fact of our being in the true God and eternal life. Hallelujah, this is the true God and eternal life, and we are in this God and in this life! We know that we are in the true God and in eternal life because we are in the true One and in His Son Jesus Christ. (LS 1 John, pp. 345, 350-351)

Gospelize, Truthize, and Churchize America (GTCA)

We should all be migrants, following the footsteps of our forefather Abraham who migrated throughout his life. After migrating to a certain place, we should not stay there for too long. Instead of being settled there, we should always be ready to migrate to another place. We should not be permanently settled in any place, for we all are journeying toward the New Jerusalem. The place where we are is not our destination but only a station from which to migrate to another place. We all are on our way to our ultimate destination, the New Jerusalem. Migration is the way of the Christian life. (CWWL, 1971, vol. 2, pp. 483-484)

The subject of Acts is “The Propagation of the Resurrected Christ in His Ascension, by the Spirit, through the Disciples, for the Producing of the Churches—The Kingdom of God.” This is what we should do—live a life of the altar and the tent as sojourners looking for that better country.

The Lord brought His recovery to the United States because this country is strategic for His move in the final days. Today we are still very small. Locally we should be preaching the gospel and spreading the truth; at the same time, we are burdened for the whole country, especially for more cities in the Bible belt where there must be many seekers. Do not have the thought that this country has been fully taken by the Lord; there are still many cities which need shining lampstands. This is the burden of GTCA. While the focus of GTCA is the United States, there will be an overflow to other nations, especially Europe.

God wanted to pour out His Spirit for the carrying out of His New Testament economy and had promised to do it, yet He still needed His chosen people to pray for this. As God in heaven, He needs men on earth to cooperate with Him for the carrying out of His plan (Acts 1:14, footnote 3). Let us beseech the Lord for His spread in Los Angeles, around Los Angeles, and in more cities across the United States. Let us also ask the Lord to impart a burden for these migrations into all of us.

A recording of the GTCA Update Webinar from December 14 is available at gtca.us. The three new target cities announced are Lafayette, Indiana; Charleston, South Carolina; and Pensacola, Florida.

2025 December Semiannual Training

The December semiannual training will take place in Anaheim next week, December 22 to 27. The general subject is “Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (4).” In addition to the saints attending in person in Anaheim, many saints all over the earth will participate by video.

Please pray for the release of the Lord’s present speaking to His recovery and for the saints’ response to the operation of the seven Spirits to intensify God’s organic salvation and produce the overcomers to meet the Lord’s need today. May this training result in the deeper experience, enjoyment, and expression of Christ in all the saints for the furtherance of God’s economy.

FTTA Graduations

This Saturday, December 20, the graduation meeting for the 2025 Fall Class of the Full-time Training in Anaheim starts at 9:30 am at the Ministry Conference Center. Saints are warmly invited to attend in person or online at ftta.org/graduation.php. In the afternoon, the Middle-age Training (FTTA-MA) graduation starts at 2:00 pm, also at the MCC, and will be live-streamed at ftta.org/ma.

Please pray for the 38 FTTA, 4 FTTA-XB, and 27 FTTA-MA graduates, for their presentations this Saturday, and for them to “follow the Lamb wherever He may go” (Rev. 14:4). May these dear ones continue to pursue Christ, gain Him, live Him, and minister Him for the building up of the Body.

2026 Winter YP Blending Conference

Praise the Lord for all that He has gained in our young people this year! Our hearts are full of gratitude for the fellowship, prayers, gatherings and growth that God granted to them. As this calendar year draws to a close, we have much to pray for concerning our dear young people:

That they would learn to touch the Lord in a normal, genuine way during their final exams this week.
That they would redeem their winter breaks by spending time in the Word with companions, serving ones and family members to “guard the good deposit” (2 Tim. 1:14) they received this year.
That the Lord would release many to register for the Winter YP Blending Conference taking place in Anaheim, January 10 to 11, so they could be encouraged and blended with others from across SoCal.

Italy – Gospel Trips

For a number of years there have been three small churches in Italy. But the Lord’s recovery needs to be firmly rooted and growing in these localities, and the Lord’s interest needs to spread to new cities. The Lord is using the time of the Torch Relay and Winter Olympics in Italy to accomplish this. Accordingly, over 300 saints from around the world, along with local saints, are participating in gospel trips.

Please pray for the gospel teams that are currently in Sicily from December 12 to 21 and Naples from December 15 to 23. Pray for the Lord to find the sons of peace as the teams go out on the gospel. Also pray for the follow-up of all the contacts made over the past week and a half in Rome and the Florence area, and for the Lord to continue to reach open vessels in these places.

Saints may register for follow-up shepherding trips at amanatrust.org.uk/page/2026italy. As the Lord leads, saints in LA may give through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Italy Olympics.”

Australia

Each December the churches in Australia gather for their summer national blending conference. The conference will take place in Sydney from December 19 to 23 with a brothers’ training preceding it from December 18 to 19. At least 15 churches from Australia will be represented with over 1,000 saints registered. There will also be a concurrent Summer School of Truth for the young people. Two brothers from Southern California, including one from LA, will be there to minister to the saints during this time. The general subject will be based on John 15 about living a life of mutual abiding in Christ for fruit-bearing.

Please pray for the churches in Australia, the traveling saints, the ministering brothers, and all the arrangements so that the universal vine in Australasia, with all its branches, will be a healthy, loving, and joyful vine that bears fruit for the glorification of the Father.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 36 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), vol. 6. Next week, repeat Week 36 or digest verses and content from the Semiannual Training. Starting December 29, we will get into Week 4 of Material Offerings and the Lord’s Move Today.
Next week: No corporate prayer meeting on December 23 due to the Semiannual Training.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The weekly ministry series concludes this Wednesday, December 17, starting 7:25 pm, in-person at the MCC in Anaheim or online at lsmwebcast.com.
Thanksgiving Conference: Videos are available for free until Dec. 30 at www.lsmwebcast.com.
Bibles for America’s special blogpost “A Time for Prayerful Reflection at the End of the Year” is available to read and share at bfa.org/blog.
Ways to Give: Information may be found at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Ruiyu Wu

Week of December 7, 2025

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The Fellowship of the Eternal Life

“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” (2 Cor. 13:14)

“And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street.” (Rev. 22:1)

The fellowship of the eternal life is the reality of living in the Body of Christ in the oneness of the Spirit. We enter into the vertical aspect of the divine fellowship by the divine Spirit, the Holy Spirit; this aspect of fellowship refers to our fellowship with the Triune God in our loving Him. We enter into the horizontal aspect of the divine fellowship by the human spirit; this aspect of fellowship refers to our fellowship with one another by the exercise of our spirit in our loving one another. The one divine fellowship is an interwoven fellowship—the horizontal fellowship is interwoven with the vertical fellowship.

The divine fellowship is everything in the Christian life. When fellowship disappears, God also disappears; God comes as the fellowship. In this divine fellowship God is interwoven with us; this interweaving is the mingling of God and man to bring the divine constituent into our spiritual being for our growth and transformation in life. (Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), msg. 11, II, A-D, 1-2)

May we all pray to enter into the interwoven fellowship for the reality of living in the Body of Christ!

Pursuing Hospitality and the Normal Growth in Life

Romans and Ephesians speak of normal gifts. Romans 12:13 says, “Pursue hospitality.” To take a guest into our home is normal, but it is more difficult than exercising a miraculous gift such as speaking in tongues. Miraculous gifts do not enable the saints to care for guests in their homes without offending or being offended. To give proper hospitality requires normal growth in life. Romans and Ephesians reveal that it is not miracles but growth in life that builds up the church as the Body of Christ. (CWWL, 1970, vol. 2, “The Human Spirit and the Church,” ch. 4: Worshipping in Spirit and Truthfulness, pp. 551-552)

The last mention of the church in the book of Romans regards hospitality: “Gaius, my host and host of the whole church, greets you” (16:23). Without hospitality there is something lacking in the practical church life. If there is no hospitality in a certain church, that church must be poor. However, the more hospitality you have, the richer your church life will be. Gaius was not only the host of one apostle but the host of the entire church…His home was open and available to all the saints. The genuine church life depends upon this kind of hospitality. When a home is open to hospitality, it will be filled with the blessing of Christ. We praise the Lord that the more hospitality we render, the greater will be our experience of the church life. This is practical. (Life-study of Romans, 2nd ed., msg. 30, p. 354)

As many saints give and receive hospitality in the coming weeks, pray for every home and every heart to be filled with God and His attributes of love, light, righteousness, and holiness. Pray for many normal experiences of Christ for the practical church life and the building up of the church as the Body of Christ.

Our Young Working Saints

“Not that I have already obtained or am already perfected, but I pursue, if even I may lay hold of that for which I also have been laid hold of by Christ Jesus.” (Phil. 3:12)

When we grow into the Head, Christ, we are allowing Christ to increase and grow in all the inward parts of the members. Today our common problem is that we reserve a big part within us for ourselves and give the Lord only a little place. Therefore, it is impossible for Him to increase and grow within us. When He cannot grow, we cannot grow…We must allow the Lord to have the proper place in us. We must allow Him to increase, grow, and occupy our whole being, part by part. In this way when you grow in the Lord and I grow in the Lord, the sum total will be the growth of the Body of Christ. In other words, when Christ grows in you and me, the Body of Christ will grow. Hence, the growth of the Body of Christ is the growth of Christ in His members. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 4, “The Perfecting of the Saints and the Building Up of the Body of Christ,” pp. 104-105)

Please pray for the young working saints among us to allow the Lord to have the proper place in them and aspire to be perfected for the building up of the Body.

Italy – Gospel Trips

Thank you for your prayers for the Lord’s move in Italy this winter. In total, 300 saints from 25 countries and 6 continents have signed up to participate in gospel trips from December 4 to February 23. There will be five trips during the Torch Relay (TR) and two trips during the Olympic Games (OL).

The first TR trips to Rome and the Florence area (including the cities of Prato and Fucecchio) run from December 4 to 15. The second TR trips to Sicily and Naples begin this weekend. Please pray:

For many personal contacts to be made and follow-up appointments to be established with those whom the Lord has marked out in Italy.
For new ones to be gained and saints to migrate under the Head and in the Body to strengthen the Lord’s testimony in Italy.
That the Lord will blend the saints together and will advance His move in His recovery.

Saints who would like to participate in follow-up shepherding trips can register using the form at amanatrust.org.uk/page/2026italy. Those who register will be contacted after details have been arranged concerning the shepherding trips.

FTTL Graduation

This Saturday, December 13, the Full-time Training in London will hold a graduation meeting for the 2025 autumn semester at Woodland Camp, London. Pray that the 8 graduating trainees will continue to love the Lord and to pursue the growth in life and the constitution with the truth to become useful vessels for the building up of the Lord’s testimony in Europe.

Iberian Peninsula Conference

This year’s Iberian Peninsula Conference will take place December 13 to 15 in Torremolinos (Málaga), Spain. Please pray for the blending of the saints and Lord’s timely speaking for the advance of the Lord’s move on the Iberian Peninsula.

Germany – Stuttgart Meeting Hall

In 2023 the church in Stuttgart purchased a building near public transportation and a university, next to a large public park. Then it took more than two years to obtain the change of use and renovation permits. The architect has prepared the renovation plans and is working on detailed structural computations. Renovation is set to begin in December but have only €1 million (about $1.15 million) of the €3 million needed.

Please pray together with us that the funds needed to complete this project can be released for the Lord’s move in this region of Germany. Donations designated for ‘Stuttgart Meeting Hall’ can be made through the Church in Los Angeles or lordsmove.org.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 35 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), vol. 6.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The weekly ministry series continues this Wednesday 7:25 pm, in-person at the MCC in Anaheim or online at lsmwebcast.com.
December 2025 Semiannual Training: For saints in LA and Santa Clarita, registration for the upcoming semiannual training (December 22 to 27) is now closed.
Thanksgiving Conference: Videos and outlines from the recent Thanksgiving Conference on “The All-Inclusive Christ as Revealed in Matthew” are available for free until Dec. 30 at www.lsmwebcast.com.
Bibles for America’s blogpost “What is faith, where does it come from, and how do I get it?” is available to read and share at bfa.org/blog.
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 November 30, 2025

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Shepherding according to God

“Shepherd the flock of God among you…according to God…” (1 Pet. 5:2)

“Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but only that which is good for building up, according to the need, that it may give grace to those who hear.” (Eph. 4:29)

In order to shepherd according to God, we need to become God in life, nature, expression, and function. We need to be filled to the brim with the divine life, enjoying the Triune God as the fountain, the spring, and the river to become a totality of the divine life, even to become the divine life itself. We need to become God in His attributes of love, light, righteousness, and holiness. We need to be the reproduction of Christ, the expression of God, so that in our shepherding we express God, not the self with its disposition and peculiarities. We need to become God in His function of shepherding the flock of God according to what He is and according to His goal in His economy.

To shepherd according to God is to minister God to others. The Triune God is embodied in Christ and realized as the consummated Spirit; this is the God whom we worship, proclaim, and minister to others. If we would minister God to one another, we need to speak words of grace, truth, spirit, and life, ministering the processed God who has been wrought into our being. (Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), msg. 10, V.E.1-4, J.1-2)

The Living Vision of the Heavenly Christ

“And when they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.” (Matt. 2:10)

The star is the living revelation, the up-to-date vision that human concepts can never teach. After receiving the living vision, the magi were misled by their human concept and went to Jerusalem. When the magi were corrected by the Scriptures and restored to the right track, the star appeared to them again; living vision always accompanies the Scriptures.

The priests and the scribes had knowledge concerning the birth of Christ, but unlike the magi, they did not see the vision, nor did they have the heart to seek after Christ. It is easy to accumulate scriptural knowledge, but if we would have living guidance, we must live in an intimate relationship with the Lord; we must be one with Him. (2025 Thanksgiving Conference, msg. 1, II.C, E, G.1; II.G.2,4)

The Scripture, the word of God, is the breathing out of God…The Scripture is the embodiment of God as the Spirit. The Spirit is therefore the very essence, the substance, of the Scripture, just as phosphorus is the essential substance in matches. We must strike the Spirit of the Scripture with our spirit to catch the divine fire. As the embodiment of God the Spirit, the Scripture (God’s word) is also the embodiment of Christ. Christ is God’s living Word (Rev. 19:13), and the Scripture is God’s written word (Matt. 4:4). (2 Tim. 3:16, note 2)

Let us pray for the Lord to always give us a heart to seek Him and live in an intimate relationship with Him. May He make us those who regularly strike the Spirit of the Scripture to know the Bible and to have an up-to-date, living vision.

Thank the Lord for His speaking to the churches during the past weekend’s Thanksgiving Conference on “The All-Inclusive Christ as Revealed in Matthew.” Pray for the saints to receive, review, and assimilate the messages. All videos and outlines are available at no charge until December 30 at www.lsmwebcast.com.

Semiannual Video Training Registrations

The general subject of the upcoming Semiannual Training, December 22 to 27, is “Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (4).” For saints in LA, the firm registration deadline to participate in this training by webcast is this Lord’s Day, December 7 ($130). Sign up at tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla.

Please pray for the release and receiving of the Lord’s speaking in this training. Such trainings are a precious heritage in the Lord’s recovery. The purpose of these trainings is to minister the all-inclusive Christ as eternal life embodied in the word of God to bring the believers to the full knowledge of the truth so that they may enjoy Christ as life, grow in life unto maturity, and dispense life to others for the growth and building up of His Body.

May the Lord grant us to highly value the semiannual trainings and encourage others to have a heart for them, and may the Lord grace us to bear the burden to pray for the trainings so that He as the seven Spirits of God may have an unhindered way to continue to speak the present truth to the churches.

University Conference for Germany, Switzerland, Austria

The University Conference for students and young adults from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and beyond is December 5 to 7. The saints will once again gather at Gut Elim to seek the Lord’s presence, sit at His feet, and listen to His Word (Luke 10:39).

May the Lord grant each attendee mercy and grace (Heb. 4:16) to have a pure heart (Matt. 5:8) and be poor in spirit (Matt. 5:3), so that they may receive freshly from the Lord what He wishes to say to this generation. May the Lord gain many more young adults from these nations for the advancement of His move in Europe.

Brussels, Belgium

A conference will be held in Brussels, Belgium this weekend, December 6 to 7. Please pray for the release of the Lord’s rich word to supply the saints and knit them together. Continue to pray for the strengthening of the Lord’s testimony in this crucial city and for more saints to migrate there under the Head and in the Body.

Czech and Slovak Translation Work

The labor continues to translate the NT Recovery Version into the Czech and Slovak languages. It was a year ago when, after thorough fellowship and many prayers, the translation team started their preparations for this project. This week, the team finally begins the translation of the Gospel of Matthew. The translation of this book is expected to take until June 2026. These first weeks and months are very crucial for the whole team of six translators, as they will still be learning ways of working individually and corporately. It is also a new experience of applying everything they have learned into practice, handling new translation tools, and establishing working procedures.

Please pray:

For the Lord to be the team’s wisdom in setting the best principles for their work from the start.
That the whole team be kept from unnecessary distractions to remain focused and on schedule.
That the Lord Himself may become and remain the unique goal and focus of all the serving saints as they carry out their daily tasks.

Announcements

Morning Revival: REPEAT Week 34 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), vol. 6.
December 2025 Semiannual Training: For saints in LA and Santa Clarita, registration for the video training (December 22 to 27) closes this Lord’s Day, December 7 ($130) at tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The weekly ministry series resumes this Wednesday 7:25 pm, in-person at the MCC in Anaheim or online at lsmwebcast.com.
Bibles for America’s newest blogpost “What is faith, where does it come from, and how do I get it?” is available to read and share at bfa.org/blog.
LSM Christian Radio broadcasts hymns and messages 24 hours each day at lsmchristianradio.com.
The LA Years: This oral history project at www.layears.org documents the early years of the church life in Los Angeles from 1958–1974, including written history, photos, and first-hand testimonies.
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 November 23, 2025

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The Church in Los Angeles

“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)

Since Christ is the vine and we are branches in the vine, we need to abide in Him; as we abide in Him, we will live, grow, and produce Christ. If we abide properly in the vine, then the life of the vine will fill us up; the life that has filled us up will overflow into others; this is fruit-bearing, and this is the genuine and proper preaching of the gospel. (2025 South OC Labor Day Conference, msg. 2, IV; msg. 3, II.C.3)

In our service in the church, the main thing we should do is bear fruit. We are here simply for fruit-bearing; that is, we are here for the release of life, the outflow of the inner life, and the impartation of life into others. This is the purpose of the church’s existence on the earth. (CWWL, 1966, vol. 1, p. 263)

Let us pray for the saints in the church in Los Angeles to live a normal life of fruit-bearing by abiding in the Lord moment by moment, paying careful attention to those among whom He has placed us, asking in prayer on their behalf, and staying in a condition of love and not rivalry. May His joy be in us, and our joy be made full!

Being Constituted with Christ for a Life of Mutual Shepherding

“I am the good Shepherd; the good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.” (John 10:11)

“He said to him again a second time, Simon, son of John, do you love Me? He said to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Shepherd My sheep.” (John 21:16)

In the Lord’s recovery today there is an urgent need of shepherding. The shepherding that builds up the Body of Christ is a mutual shepherding. All believers, regardless of their stage of spiritual growth, need shepherding; we all have defects and shortcomings and need others to shepherd us. We need to be under the organic shepherding of Christ and to be one with Him to shepherd others. We are both sheep and shepherds, shepherding and being shepherded in mutuality; through this shepherding, the church is built up into the Body of Christ.

The more we are constituted with Christ, the more we will spontaneously live a shepherding life and have the burden to take care of others. The constitution of Christ in our spiritual life has a shepherding aspect. Shepherding is not a matter of responding to being encouraged by others to shepherd. Shepherding is the issue of being constituted with Christ. The part of our being that has been constituted with Christ is the part that shepherds others. We cannot shepherd anyone; the Christ constituted into us is the Shepherd. (Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), msg. 10, III, D.1-3, E.1-5)

Thanksgiving Conference

The 2025 International Thanksgiving Blending Conference is this weekend, November 27 to 30, in Indianapolis, Indiana. The general subject is “The All-inclusive Christ as Revealed in Matthew.” The live schedule is below. Please note that listed start times are EST (3 hours ahead of PST):

Meeting 1: Thursday, November 27......	7:30 pm
Meeting 2: Friday, November 28...........	10:00 am
Meeting 3: Friday, November 28...........	7:30 pm
Meeting 4: Saturday, November 29......	10:00 am
Meeting 5: Saturday, November 29......	7:30 pm
Meeting 6: Lord’s Day, November 30....	10:00 am

The six conference messages will be broadcast live at www.lsmwebcast.com. They will also be accessible without a subscription for 30 days following the conference in the “Archives” section. Outlines and expanded outlines (with verses) in multiple languages are already available for download on the site.

Let us prepare ourselves for this upcoming time of ministry and sanctify these days for the hearing of faith among us. Please pray for the release of the Lord’s up-to-date speaking to His Body during this conference and for the saints to be fully open to receive and respond to the Lord’s burden. Also pray that the saints not attending in-person would make use of the online provision to get into the messages, that as many saints as possible may receive this word.

Our Young People

This past Lord’s Day, following the LA Joint Meeting, our young people, parents and serving ones enjoyed a time of fellowship together over lunch. Our YP were encouraged to see that the gospel work is not just something for “the older ones.” Rather, they themselves are in the best position to share the gospel and love of Christ with “all the nations” (Matt. 28:19) in their daily life at school and in the community.

After hearing about sharing the gospel, the YP had a chance to practice using a gospel tract as if contacting friends. They also wrote down some names of acquaintances they wished would be saved, then prayed over these names in groups.

Please pray that our young people would pick up this burden for the gospel, not as an outward activity, but as their genuine living. Also pray that the Lord would open the way for our YP to share the gospel with those whom the Lord has placed on their hearts.

FTTA

The application deadline for the Spring 2026 term of the Full-time Training in Anaheim is this Lord’s Day, November 30. Please pray for many college graduates and young working saints to answer God’s call to go to the training next term.

FTTL

This term, health issues seem to have impacted the overall morale and exercise in the Full-time Training in London. Please pray:

For the Lord to preserve the trainees’ health, that they can receive the maximum benefit in the FTTL, and to strengthen their tripartite being with His resurrection life so they finish the term in victory.
To bind the enemy and any discouragement.
That the Lord would use this situation to gain what He is after in all the trainees for His eternal economy.

Germany – Stuttgart Meeting Hall

Ukraine and Russia

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.”

Please pray that the Lord will protect the tripartite being of all the saints and will bring an end to the present conflict so that His move in Russia, Ukraine, and Europe will advance.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 34 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), vol. 6. Next week, after the Thanksgiving weekend, we will repeat Week 34.
No Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: There is no ministry meeting this week due to preparations for the Thanksgiving Conference. The meeting will resume next Wednesday, December 3 at 7:25 pm.
December 2025 Semiannual Training: For saints in LA and Santa Clarita, registration for the video training (December 22 to 27) closes on December 7 ($130) at tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla.
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 November 16, 2025

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Having a Vision of the Supreme Preciousness of Christ

“Coming to Him, a living stone, rejected by men but with God chosen and precious.” (1 Pet. 2:4)

“Therefore thus says Jehovah,…If you bring out the precious from the worthless, you will be as My mouth…” (Jer. 15:19)

The believers in Christ should have a change in their concept of value. The proper concept of value for the believers can be seen in their estimation and assessment of the following aspects of Christ and His full salvation: their valuation of the Lord Jesus as the chief cornerstone for the building up of the church; their valuation of the Lord Jesus in comparison to their relatives; the valuation of Christ as the treasure of justice in comparison to earthly treasure; and their valuation of the knowledge of Christ in comparison to all things.

We need a vision to see that the New Jerusalem is the Triune God, the Divine Trinity, as three basic factors wrought into and structured together with His redeemed as a miraculous structure of treasure to be the conclusion of the whole Bible—the gold as the base of the city typifies God the Father; the pearls as the gates of the city typify God the Son; and the jasper wall of the city typifies God the Spirit.

We need to ask the Lord to grant us the light to have a thorough change in our concept of value so that we will continually choose Christ and all that He is as our super-excelling portion. (Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), msg. 9, I, A, 1-5, B)

Church in Los Angeles

Jesus is getting us together! Come and see the saints in one accord! This Lord’s Day, November 23, starting at 10:00 am at UCLA, we will have our joint meeting for all halls, districts, and languages of the church in Los Angeles. For our young people and young working saints, respectively, there will be a special time of blending and fellowship after the meeting.

May this gathering be our corporate looking away unto Jesus so that He ministers heaven, life, and strength to us, transfusing and infusing us with all that He is, that we may be able to run the heavenly race and live the heavenly life in Los Angeles. Please pray:

For the Lord to gather as many saints as possible, including newer ones, younger ones, and ones that have not joined us in a while, to drink the Spirit together as His one Body.
For the Lord to impart His current burden to the church related to branches abiding in the Lord as the vine to bear fruit for the Father’s glory.
For the sweet coordination and fellowship among all those carrying out practical services for an uplifted atmosphere filled with the presence of the Lord.

SoCal Christian Students Fall Retreat Follow-up

Thank you, saints, for your prayers for the college conference this past weekend. Despite the heavy rain, the Lord blessed the time and kept us all safe. Eighty-one students from LA attended (an excellent turnout!), including 27 newer ones who came to their first-ever college retreat at Oak Glen. Furthermore, 4 students from LA were baptized, and one was gloriously saved. Praise the Lord! We truly saw the wonderful Jesus as revealed in the Gospel of John. Please pray:

For the students to continue feeding on the Lord in His word, eating Him as the bread of life.
For the students to abide in the vine to bear fruit, enjoying the Lord’s shepherding to shepherd others.
For the newly saved and baptized ones to be kept from the evil one and to walk in newness of life.

2025 International Thanksgiving Blending Conference

The upcoming Thanksgiving Conference will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana from November 27 to 30. The general subject is “The All-inclusive Christ as Revealed in Matthew.” Both the live and archived messages, as well as the outlines, will be available for free at lsmwebcast.com. Please pray:

For all the saints traveling, for the speaking brothers and their families, and for all the practical preparations and services.
For as many saints as possible to participate through webcast, whether individually or with others.
That the Lord’s speaking would be received by all the saints, and that the saints would come to know and experience the all-inclusive Christ in a deeper way.

Sweden

The saints in Stockholm have been regularly distributing Bibles at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), the largest technical university in Sweden. This year, since August, the response has been very positive, much more so than in the past; every time the saints go out, they distribute around 15 to 25 Bibles.

Two weeks ago, one of the key community sisters on the gospel team experienced a health setback. Then, last Friday, November 14, a double-decker bus for an unknown reason crashed into a bus stop on the street, killing and injuring several bystanders. This tragedy occurred in the area where the saints usually distribute, on a busy street next to the campus which is frequented daily by most students. Many people have been shaken by this incident, which is highly unusual in Stockholm. Please pray:

For the Lord’s covering and strengthening of all the saints as they faithfully sow seeds for the spread of His testimony in Stockholm.
For more opening and turning to God among this generation of university students.
For some form of campus Bible study to be established at KTH.

United Kingdom – London Seminar

This Lord’s Day, November 23, the saints in London will have a whole church meeting in Central London, followed by an afternoon seminar hosted by Amana Trust on “The Divine Romance and the Preparation of the Bride of Christ.” The saints are encouraged to invite their relatives, friends, and neighbors to this seminar to discover how they can experience the great love of God in Christ and become part of His glorious, overcoming Bride.

Please pray for the Lord to release the listeners of the radio program and the readers of literature from Rhema and Bibles for Europe. Also pray for the saints to invite gospel contacts and dormant ones.

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan is a predominantly Muslim country at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Some saints meet regularly in the capital city, Baku, serving and coordinating in one accord, and taking every opportunity to shepherd gospel contacts. Despite many outward restrictions, the saints continue to look to the Lord for His blessing and to establish His testimony in Azerbaijan. Please pray:

That the ten people saved since last November 2024 may be shepherded, strengthened, and brought into the church life to become remaining fruits.
For the Lord to open the way for the saints to gain solidly at least two new key families to bear the Lord’s testimony.
That the Lord would bind the strong man and release the visas and residence permits for the overseas saints, so they may cooperate with the Lord’s move in this land.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 33 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), vol. 6. Next week, after our joint meeting, we will move onto Week 34.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The weekly ministry series continues this Wednesday 7:25 pm, in-person at the MCC in Anaheim or online at lsmwebcast.com.
December 2025 Semiannual Training: For saints in LA and Santa Clarita, registration for the video training (December 22 to 27) closes on December 7 ($130) at tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla.
LSM Christian Radio broadcasts hymns and messages 24 hours each day at lsmchristianradio.com.
Bibles for America’s blogpost “Do You Need Help Understanding the Bible?” is at bfa.org/blog.
The LA Years: This oral history project at www.layears.org documents the early years of the church life in Los Angeles from 1958–1974, including written history, photos, and first-hand testimonies.
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 November 9, 2025

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The Author and Perfecter of Our Faith

“Looking away unto Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.” (Heb. 12:2)

Jesus is the Author of faith, the Originator, the Inaugurator, the source, and the cause of faith. In ourselves we do not have faith…Unbelief is the fiber of our constitution. Hence, in ourselves it is impossible to meet the New Testament requirement of faith (Gal. 1:16). When we look unto Jesus, He as the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45) transfuses us with Himself, with His believing element. Then, spontaneously, a kind of believing arises in our being, and we have the faith to believe in Him. This faith is not of ourselves but of Him who imparts Himself as the believing element into us that He may believe for us. Hence, He Himself is our faith. We live by Him as our faith; that is, we live by His faith (Gal. 2:20), not by our own.

Jesus is the Perfecter, the Finisher, the Completer, of our faith. He is not only the Author, the Originator, of faith but also the Perfecter, the Finisher, of faith. He will finish what He originated; He will complete what He inaugurated. If we look to Him continually, He will finish and complete the faith that we need for the running of the heavenly race. Once Christ has originated this faith within us, He will never let it go. Rather, He will complete, finish, and perfect it…Day by day our faith will be under the Lord’s perfecting until we meet Him on the day of rapture. (Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), msg. 8, III, IV; The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3827, 3831-3832)

Knowing the Truth for the Spread of the Lord’s Recovery

“Our Savior God, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.” (1 Tim. 2:3b-4)

The New Testament says repeatedly that we should know the truth. Moreover, when referring to this matter, Paul repeatedly says that we should come to the full knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4; 2 Tim. 2:25; 3:7; Titus 1:1). This means that we must know not just a small part or one aspect of the truth but rather the truth in its entirety and in all its aspects. Paul also says that the church is the pillar and base of the truth (1 Tim. 3:15). This implies that the truth in the Bible is like a large building that is not one-sided but complete on all sides with a foundation and a roof. If we are going to spread the Lord’s recovery today, we must know the truth and be able to expound the truth. For this reason we must know every side of the truth without any biases or particular leanings. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 5, “Truth, Life, the Church, and the Gospel—the Four Great Pillars in the Lord’s Recovery,” ch. 4, pp. 393-394)

Please pray that the saints would see their need to come to the full knowledge of the truth for the proper testimony of the church and the spread of the Lord’s recovery.

Church in Los Angeles

The whole church in Los Angeles—all halls, districts, and languages—will meet together starting at 10:00 am on Lord’s Day, November 23 on the UCLA campus at Covel Commons. As lunch will not be provided, saints are encouraged to create opportunities to blend together afterwards. For our young people and young working saints, respectively, there will be a special time of blending and fellowship after the meeting. More information will be communicated to these groups in the coming days.

Please pray for all the preparation and coordination and for the saints to attend. Lord, release Your speaking and Your burden into us for Your moving onward in each of us and in the church in LA!

SoCal Christian Students Fall Retreat

This weekend, November 14 to 16, college students from across Southern California will gather at Oak Glen for a conference. From Los Angeles and Torrance, nearly ninety students have registered; fifty of these are joining for the first time. The general subject is “The Wonderful Jesus in the Gospels: John.” Please pray:

That each student’s heart would be good soil to receive His word.
For the Lord’s covering of everyone’s health and safety during travel, especially with circulating sicknesses and the potential for inclement weather.
For rich fellowship, genuine blending, and the building of solid companionships, and that each student—especially the new ones—would touch and enjoy the Lord personally.

CEEB Blending Conference

The Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans (CEEB) geographical region encompasses the northern part of Central Europe, including Poland, the Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary. It also touches Romania in the east before turning south to the Balkan countries, including Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, and Turkey. In these eleven nations there are more than 30 local churches, some of which have been meeting since the 1990s. Most are in cities that may be less familiar to those of us in the US.

This weekend, November 15 to 16, there will be a blending conference for the CEEB region in Bucharest, Romania. Please pray for the release of the Lord’s timely word and for the blending of the saints.

Baarlo Conference Follow-up

We thank the Lord for providing a sweet, clear atmosphere at last month’s International Blending Conference in Baarlo, The Netherlands where He could release His speaking to over 1000 saints from 37 counties. Brother Ron Kangas spoke on the matter of “Praising and Overcoming at the End of the Age.” Recordings of the four messages plus a fifth meeting with reports on the Lord’s move in Europe are available in English, Chinese, and Spanish at www.elimsprings.de/english/events/current-audio.

May the Lord gain the sacrifice of praise in all the churches to overcome all spiritual attacks!

Brussels, Belgium

Brussels is the administrative center of the European Union (EU) and the capital of Belgium. It has a population of over 1 million. There is a local church there that started in 2000 and now has about 45 saints meeting, but the burden is for the strengthening of the Lord’s testimony in such a crucial location.

Pray for saints to migrate under the Head and in the Body to strengthen the Lord’s testimony in Brussels!

Laos and Thailand

Laos is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia with a population of almost 8 million; there are currently six local churches there, including in the capital, Vientiane. The country shares a long border with Thailand, which has over 71.5 million people; there are currently 73 local churches, including in the capital, Bangkok.

From November 10 to 24, trainees from the Full-time Training in Bangkok are going out in 22 teams throughout Laos and Thailand for propagation trips. Saints from the Middle-age Training in Bangkok will join for the second week. Four teams will be in Laos, the rest in Thailand. The burden is to go out and preach the gospel in existing localities as well as in places where there is a burden to establish something new.

Please ask the Lord to supply the traveling trainees richly with His grace and hide them from any attack of the enemy. Pray for a good coordination with full-timers and local saints for the Lord’s blessing and testimony to spread in this region.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 32 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), vol. 6.
SAVE THE DATE: Lord’s Day, November 23 we will have our fall LA Joint Meeting—all halls, all languages—beginning 10:00 am on the UCLA campus at Covel Commons. More details to come.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The weekly ministry series continues this Wednesday 7:25 pm, in-person at the MCC in Anaheim or online at lsmwebcast.com.
December 2025 Semiannual Training: For saints in LA and Santa Clarita, registration for the video training (December 22 to 27) closes on December 7 ($130) at tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla.
Bibles for America’s blogpost “Do You Need Help Understanding the Bible?” is at bfa.org/blog.
The LA Years: This oral history project at www.layears.org documents the early years of the church life in Los Angeles from 1958–1974, including written history, photos, and first-hand testimonies.
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 November 2, 2025

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Praise and Victory

“And about midnight Paul and Silas, while praying, sang hymns of praise to God; and the prisoners were listening to them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken. And instantly all the doors were opened and everyone's bonds were unfastened.” (Acts 16:25-26)

We have to see that praising is the way to overcome spiritual attacks…Satan’s greatest attacks are not aimed at prayers; his greatest attacks are aimed at praise. This does not mean that Satan does not attack prayers. The moment a Christian prays, Satan begins to attack. It is very easy to talk to people, but the moment one prays, Satan comes with problems. He will make one feel that it is hard to pray. This is a fact. But Satan does not attack just prayer; he also attacks the praise of God’s children.

The ultimate goal of Satan is to stop all praises to God. Prayer is a warfare, but praise is a victory. Prayer signifies spiritual warfare, but praise signifies spiritual victory. Whenever we praise, Satan flees. Therefore, Satan hates our praising the most. He will use all his strength to stop our praising. God’s children are foolish if they stop praising when they suffer under adverse environments and downtrodden feelings. But as they come to know God more, they will find that even a Philippian jail can become a place of songs. Paul and Silas were praising God inside the jail cell. Their praise broke loose all the jail doors. (CWWN, vol. 48, “Messages for Building Up New Believers (1),” ch. 16: Praising, pp. 250-251)

Enter the Veil and Go Without the Camp

“Which we have as an anchor of the soul, both secure and firm and which enters within the veil, where the Forerunner, Jesus, has entered for us, having become forever a High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek.” (Heb. 6:19-20)

“Let us therefore go forth unto Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.” (Heb. 13:13)

We need to enter within the veil and go outside the idolatrous camp to have the closest and most intimate relationship with the Lord so that we can be persons who share a common interest with God and who can be used by Him to carry out His enterprise on earth.

To enter within the veil means to enter into the Holy of Holies, where the Lord is enthroned in glory, and to go outside the camp means to come out of religion, from which the Lord was cast in rejection. We must be in our spirit, where, experientially speaking, the practical Holy of Holies is today, and outside religion, where the practical camp is today. The more we are in our spirit, enjoying the heavenly Christ, the more we will come outside the camp of religion, following the suffering Jesus. (Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), msg. 7, II.D.4.c, A, B, 1)

SCYP Children’s Work Conference

This year’s Southern California Children’s Work Conference will take place in Anaheim this Saturday, November 8 from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm. This conference is for parents with children under 12 years of age and for the saints who are serving with the children’s service. Matters related to the burden and vision for the children will be covered along with practical fellowship related to raising up the next generation for the church life. Translation will be provided into Chinese, Korean, and Spanish. More information is at scyp.com/children.

Let us pray for all the parents and serving ones to be brought on in their burden and vision concerning the children’s work.

Pasadena Meeting Hall

The church in Pasadena is in the process of purchasing a property for their meeting place; they expect to close escrow in mid-November. A public hearing with neighbors has been scheduled for this Wednesday, November 5; this is standard practice to receive full permission and access to the property.

Please pray that there will be no objections from the community to have a place of worship among them. And, as the Lord leads, saints in LA may give through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Pasadena Meeting Hall.”

Canada

The 2025 Canada Brothers’ Conference will be held at the meeting hall of the church in Vancouver, British Columbia on November 7 to 8 for all the leading, responsible, and serving brothers in Canada. It will be followed by a Lord’s Day Blending Conference on November 9 at the meeting hall of the neighboring church in Richmond, open to all the saints.

Please pray that the Lord, in His heavenly ministry, would continue to shepherd His churches throughout Canada for His increase and spread to express His glory in a fuller and richer way.

United Kingdom – Autumn University Conference

This weekend, November 7 to 9, there is a conference for university students taking place in Doncaster, UK. The general subject is “The Will of God—Our Sanctification.” Please pray:

That the hearts of all those attending will be softened and prepared for the Lord’s speaking.
That each one will see a vision of God’s organic salvation in order to cooperate with His desire to make us the same as He is in life, nature, and expression.
That the Lord will sanctify and gain many university students for His move in Europe
That the enemy will be bound in every way, be put to open shame, and suffer loss in every aspect of the conference and in the lives of our next generation.

France – Toulouse

Toulouse is the fourth-largest city in France (after Paris, Marseille, and Lyon), with over half a million inhabitants within the city proper and over 1.5 million in the greater metropolitan area. It is also the fourth-largest student city in France, with a university population of nearly 140,000 students attending several prestigious institutions, including Toulouse University, one of the oldest in Europe (founded in 1229). Toulouse is also the center of the European aerospace industry.

This Lord’s Day, November 9, there will be the first Lord’s table meeting in Toulouse. Praise the Lord! By the His abundant mercy and grace, the saints in this southern French city would like to ask all the saints to stand with them in this joyous milestone. They are grateful for the prayers and participation in the Body for the Lord’s move there, especially over the past year. May the Lord richly bless this new start, and may He continue to raise up shining lampstands throughout France and Europe.

France – Rouen

This Saturday, November 8 there will be a special Rhema seminar in Rouen, the capital city of the northern French region of Normandy. The topic will be “The History of the Divine Romance in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation.” Invitations have gone to all 1,000 readers in France and Belgium who have ordered all 7 of the Rhema books since January 2023.

Please pray for the Lord to bring His seeking ones, including contacts from the Olympic trips, and the more recent contacts of the local saints.

Pakistan

Pray that at least 285 saints would attend the national conference this weekend, November 8 to 9, to witness the oneness of the Body of Christ and enjoy the Lord’s abundant grace during the conference.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 31 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), vol. 6.
SAVE THE DATE: Lord’s Day, November 23 we will have our next LA Joint Meeting—all halls, all languages—beginning 10:00 am on the UCLA campus. More details will be forthcoming.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The weekly ministry series continues this Wednesday 7:25 pm, in-person at the MCC in Anaheim or online at lsmwebcast.com.
December 2025 Semiannual Training: Registration for the live training is now closed. Sign-up for the video training (December 22 to 27) is open till December 7 ($130) at tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla.

by Ruiyu Wu

Week of October 26, 2025

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Knowing the Triune God by Experiencing and Enjoying Him

“And as for you, the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone teach you; but as His anointing teaches you concerning all things and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, abide in Him.” (1 John 2:27)

“That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith…” (Eph. 3:17a)

The Triune God is not merely the object of our faith. He is dwelling in us as our life and life supply for our experience and enjoyment. We need to know the Triune God experientially through the inner enjoyment of the subjective God. If we would know the Triune God, we must be in the line of life and in the process of the growth in life. The more we grow in life, the more we will be concerned with the Divine Trinity.

When the Triune God becomes our experience and enjoyment, He is not only the One on the throne who is universally vast, but He is also the One in our heart. The concern of the New Testament is that we know the Triune God who has come to dwell in our being—the One who dwells in our spirit and desires to spread into all the inward parts of our heart. The New Testament way for us to know the Triune God is personal, detailed, and experiential. How precious is this experiential way of knowing the Triune God! (Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), msg. 6, II.A, B, C, III, B, C, D)

Semiannual Training Live Registrations

The goal of Brother Lee’s burden to hold semiannual trainings was to release the riches of Christ for the producing and the building up of the church as the testimony of Jesus and the reality of the Body of Christ. In speaking concerning the need to educate the saints in the divine truth through trainings, including the semiannual trainings, Brother Lee stated that the issue of these trainings, through which the saints would be “filled with the knowledge of the truth,” would be “the living testimony of Jesus” (Elders’ Training—Book 3, p. 139). This is because “the nature of the testimony of Jesus…must be a constitution of the proper truth that produces a daily living” (p. 144).

In accordance with this thought, Brother Lee said, “If the saints are not properly constituted with the truth, they cannot live a proper life. If they only live by inspiration and not by the constitution of the truth, I do not trust in that kind of living to be a testimony of the Lord” (p. 144). It is only by having the divine truth in the Word thoroughly wrought into us that we can live and magnify Christ in our daily life, preach the gospel to the unbelievers, and present the truth and minister life to the seeking believers, thereby becoming the prevailing testimony of Jesus, the living Body of Christ. (See the June 2022 issue of “Having This Ministry…”)

The upcoming December Semiannual Training will be held December 22 to 27 in Anaheim and by webcast in Los Angeles and around the world. This Friday, October 31 is the firm deadline for saints in LA and Santa Clarita to register for live, in-person attendance in Anaheim ($205); December 7 is the deadline to sign up for the video training ($130). To register, go to tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla.

SoCal High School Conference Follow-up

This past weekend, 27 of our high schoolers and 12 serving ones from across Los Angeles attended a conference on “The Humanity of Jesus” with the sisters in Cerritos and the brothers in Irvine. Through the four messages they received a vision of the only kind of humanity that can fulfill God’s purpose, saw their need to eat and masticate the proper humanity of Jesus as the meal offering and stand as acacia boards overlaid with gold signifying the uplifted humanity of Jesus, and realized that the shining out of the proper humanity of Jesus in their daily living is the remedy and healing power to this present age.

Please pray that our high schoolers would be sober-minded in the digestion of these messages, that their minds would be guarded against the attacks of the enemy by eating Jesus and taking in the humanity of Jesus to exercise dominion on their campuses.

LA College Students Fellowship

This Friday, October 31, we will have an evening meeting at UCLA for all the college students in LA. Please pray:

For many newer students to come and taste the sweet fellowship and blending across our different halls and campuses.
For the students to sing with grace in their hearts to God.
For the Lord to touch the students concerning their having a renewed and loving heart so that life can flow forth in them.

France – Nanterre

Nanterre is a suburb to the west of Paris. The city of Nanterre includes Paris Nanterre University, one of the largest and most prestigious universities in France. For many years, the saints who live in this area have been meeting as a district of the church in Paris, but by the Lord’s abundant mercy and grace, the time has come for them to start meeting as the church in Nanterre.

The first Lord’s table meeting of the church in Nanterre will be held this Lord’s Day, November 2 with a mini-conference on Saturday. The saints are grateful for the prayers and participation in the Body for the Lord’s move there, especially in the past year. May the Lord richly bless this new beginning, and may He continue to raise up shining lampstands throughout France.

UK Building Project

The current status of the new FTTL training facility is at the early stage of construction. Some old structures have been torn down to make space for the new building. The current 48 trainees are crowded into the existing facility; sisters and couples live there but trainee brothers live in houses, some at a distance away.

The completed project will have residential capacity and dining facilities for at least 200 trainees and a meeting room with a capacity of more than 900 which can be divided into three sections. This facility is needed for constituting many young Europeans for the development and future of the Lord’s recovery in Europe (an area with twice the population of North America).

With the current financial giving and the current small number of saints working on it (plus some actions needing hired contractors), the building project might take a long as ten years to complete. However, according to a brother with experience in building multiple large meeting places, the project could be completed in just two years if there is a sufficient rate of funding and number of workers.

Please beseech the Lord for the release of funds and workers, including from LA. Pray for the workers to be supplied and safe as they labor and for the weather to be suitable so the building work may proceed. To give through the Church in Los Angeles for the new training center, designate offerings for “UK Building Project.”

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 30 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), vol. 5.
End of Daylight Savings Time: DST will end at 2:00 am this Lord’s Day, November 2. Remember to set your manual clocks back one hour before you sleep on Saturday night.
December 2025 Semiannual Training: For LA saints, this Friday, October 31 is the firm registration deadline for live attendance ($205). Sign up at tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The weekly ministry series continues this Wednesday 7:25 pm, in-person at the MCC in Anaheim or online at lsmwebcast.com.
Thanksgiving Conference: November 27 to 30 in Indianapolis. Saints from LA interested in attending can get more information and RSVP at tinyurl.com/thanksgivingconfla.
Bibles for America’s blogpost “Do You Need Help Understanding the Bible?” is at bfa.org/blog.
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 October 19, 2025

Having Our Heart Established Blameless in Holiness

“Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the issues of life.” (Prov. 4:23)

“So that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.” (1 Thes. 3:13)

We should guard our heart above all because from it are the issues of life…The heart is related to the sources of life, the springs of life, and the issues of life.

To be a living believer involves both our spirit and our heart. If our heart is dormant or asleep, exercising our spirit to call on the name of the Lord will not be effective…This is the reason we need to deal thoroughly with our heart. This dealing must include our mind, emotion, and will. Our mind must be the mind of Christ, our emotion must be saturated with the love of Christ, and our will must be one with His will. If this is the condition of our heart, our heart will be active and functioning. Then if we call on the Lord when our heart is active, this calling will be very effective.

We need to pray, “Lord, have mercy on me. I want to have my mind renewed. I want to have my emotion filled with Your love. I want to have a will that is truly one with Your will.” If we have such a heart, then the heart as our acting agent will be established blameless in holiness, blameless in the state of being made holy. (Life-study of 1 Thessalonians, pp. 181-182, 194-195)

SCYP Fall Conferences

The upcoming Southern California High School Conferences will be held October 24 to 26 with sisters in Cerritos and brothers in Irvine. The topic is “The Humanity of Jesus.” Please pray:

For the Lord to prepare the hearts of the high schoolers so that they will be soft and open toward the Lord, able to receive His speaking and shining.
For each attendee to be freed from all distractions so that they would thoroughly enjoy the conference.
For the continued blending and companionship among the young people.
For each attendee to see and partake of the humanity of Jesus to be the testimony of Jesus in the midst of a crooked generation.

Also pray for the junior highers’ continued digestion of all that they heard from their conferences earlier this month, that they would enter into what they heard in their daily life and in the church life.

LA Korean Festival Follow-up

Thank you for your prayers for our Bible distribution during last week’s LA Korean Festival. Saints from Hall 1, Hall 2, and some nearby localities distributed Recovery Versions plus invitations to a gospel seminar on Saturday. In total, we distributed approximately 400 NTs in Korean, English, and Spanish.

Ten guests attended the seminar, three of whom came directly from the Bible distribution. Everyone enjoyed the message about the Man-Savior described in Luke 10 as the Good Samaritan. Please pray:

That those who received NTs would read and enjoy them.
That the Lord would open a way for us to reach the younger generation in LA’s Koreatown with the gospel of the kingdom.
That the Lord would gain more remaining fruit this year through the more gospel seminars as well as personal shepherding.

Korean-speaking Blending Conference of the Americas

This weekend, October 25 to 26, the 2025 Korean-speaking Blending Conference of the Americas will be held in-person for the saints in Southern California and online via Zoom for saints in all other regions. Meetings are Saturday 4:00 to 7:30 pm and Lord’s Day 9:00 am to 12:30 pm. The fellowship will be on the subject of the recent ITERO on “Crucial Aspects of Matthew 5 through 7.” Conference information is at tinyurl.com/2025KoreanConf.

Pray that many Korean-speaking saints across the Americas will be able to attend this conference and that the Lord will use this conference for the blending of the Body of Christ in His up-to-date speaking.

Pasadena Meeting Hall

The church in Pasadena is in the process of purchasing a property for their meeting place; they expect to close escrow in mid-November. The city has already granted a conditional use permit for the property to be used as a meeting hall, and a public hearing with neighbors has been scheduled for November 5; such a hearing is standard practice for the city to grant full permission and access to the property.

The total funds needed for purchase and renovations is $2.2 million. The remaining amount still needed to close escrow by next month is $742,705. As the Lord leads, saints in LA may participate in giving through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Pasadena Meeting Hall.” May the Lord bless all the churches and the saints through the oneness and one accord in His Body.

European Brothers Training and Blending Conference

From October 21 to 24, in Baarlo, Netherlands, the leading brothers in Europe will review the messages given at the September 2025 ITERO. This will be followed by an international blending conference from October 24 to 26.

Please pray that the Lord will take a significant step to build up His Body and prepare His bride through His speaking in these two important gatherings.

Germany – October Gospel Trips

The two weeks of gospel trips concluded on October 19. Please pray for all the contacts made during this time, that many would be shepherded into the church life and that the Lord would gain many young people from the university campuses and spread His testimony in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

2026 Winter Olympics in Italy

The 2026 Winter Olympic Games will be held in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. Gospel trips during the time of the Torch Relay and the Olympic Games will be conducted from December 3 through February 23. All gospel trip cycles have been closed, but information about potential follow-up shepherding trips will be announced once details have been arranged. Please pray:

That the Lord will use the next few months to prepare the hearts of many seeking people to receive Christ in His word and be added to the Lord’s testimony in Italy and other parts of Europe.
That the Lord will grace the serving saints to prepare the most effective ministry publications for distribution to the seeking ones.
That the Lord will blend the saints together for the spreading of the lampstands in Italy and will advance His move in His recovery.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 29 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), vol. 5.
Bibles for America’s recent blogpost “Do You Need Help Understanding the Bible?” is available to read and share at bfa.org/blog.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The weekly ministry series continues this Wednesday 7:25 pm, in-person at the MCC in Anaheim or online at lsmwebcast.com.
December 2025 Semiannual Training: December 22 to 27 in Anaheim. For LA saints, the firm registration deadlines are October 31 (live) and December 7 (video) at tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla. As a reminder, past issues of LSM’s newsletter contain helpful fellowship on the burden for semiannual trainings, the need for training and regulations, and the purpose of training donations.
Thanksgiving Conference: November 27 to 30 in Indianapolis. Saints from LA interested in attending can get more information and RSVP at tinyurl.com/thanksgivingconfla.
France Shepherding Trips: Information about migration as well as participation in ongoing short-term shepherding trips throughout France is posted at lme.org/reports.html.
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 October 12

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Christ, the Mystery of God

“That their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love and unto all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, unto the full knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ, in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.” (Col. 2:2-3)

The all-inclusive Christ is the mystery of God. As the mystery of God, the all-inclusive, extensive Christ is the definition, explanation, and expression of God—the Word of God. The all-inclusive, extensive Christ—the mystery of God, the mysterious story of God—is the history of God.

As believers in Christ, we are made full in Christ, in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily. Because all the fullness dwells in Christ and because we have been put into Him, we have been made full, filled with the divine riches. Because we are one with Christ, we partake of all that He has accomplished, obtained, and attained; we inherit all that Christ has experienced and passed through, receiving all that He is and has. All that He has passed through is now our history, and all that He has obtained and attained is our inheritance. The result is that all that He is and all that He has belong to us, and all that He has experienced has become our history.

Because this fullness is all-inclusive, it accomplishes everything for us, it fully satisfies and supplies us, and it makes us full, perfect, and complete. We have the all-inclusive, inexhaustible fullness that dwells in Christ bodily, and in Him we are made full. (Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), msg. 4, V, C, 2, VII, B, 3-5, D-E)

Pray that all the saints would enter into the practical experience of being made full in Him day by day!

Bearing Fruit and Begetting Spiritual Children

To bear fruit is to beget children. Every fruit you bear is a child you have begotten. In 1 Corinthians 4:15 Paul says, “Though you have ten thousand guides in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.” Paul called Timothy his “genuine child in faith” (1 Tim. 1:2) and Titus his “genuine child according to the common faith” (Titus 1:4). The New Testament does not give the names of the children of the apostles, but the Holy Spirit purposely identifies two of Paul’s children in the faith. Paul had a family of at least two children, Timothy and Titus. God does not care as much for our physical children as He does for our spiritual children. (CWWL, 1975-1976, vol. 3, “Young People’s Training,” ch. 4, p. 354)

When the Lord returns, all the believers as His servants will have to give an account to Him. If we have not borne fruit, we will be condemned by the Lord as slothful and evil slaves and be cast into outer darkness for a thousand years. Since the Lord will return and ask us to give Him an account, we should not feel at peace to die without having brought forth spiritual children. (CWWL, 1993, vol. 1, “Southern California Elders’ and Co-workers’ Meetings,” ch. 19, p. 278)

We need to make a vow to the Lord to go out to preach the gospel to sinners in order to beget them as spiritual children so that we may care for them by feeding them with the riches of Christ week after week. If we do not contact people to preach the gospel, we will not have any spiritual children under our care. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 1, “Bearing Remaining Fruit for the Lord’s Pleasure,” ch. 2, p. 87)

Pray that the saints would become burdened to bear fruit and would rise up to preach the gospel in order to beget spiritual children.

LA Korean Festival

The 52nd LA Korean Festival will be held at Seoul International Park this week, October 16 to 19. The saints will be out in the streets of Koreatown from Thursday, October 16 to Saturday, October 18, setting up tables to preach the gospel and distribute Recovery Version NTs. On Saturday, we will host a Bible seminar.

Please pray:

For the most suitable location for distribution without any obstructions.
For our gospel table to be filled with joyful volunteers serving together in one accord.
For the Lord to call and meet the sons of peace He has prepared and who are seeking the church.
For the Lord to open the hearts of our contacts and acquaintances as we invite them to the seminar.

Bibles for America

In the month of September, we received over 22,000 Bible orders, a 59% increase over August. We are working to package and ship them out in a timely way—more days of labor have been added at our distribution center and a new labeling machine has helped to speed up our process and output capacity.

Please pray for an increased supply of grace and wisdom to carry out this labor. Pray also for the Bible recipients, that they would read, pray, and enjoy the Lord in His Word. An encouraging comment left on Facebook read, “I just ordered mine. I have never had a Bible and this is a new path for me, but in the wake of recent events I feel I am being pulled in a new direction.”

Pasadena Meeting Hall

Please pray that there will be no objections from the community to have a place of worship among them. May many neighbors even be added to the church!

Germany – October Gospel Trips

The gospel teams in Germany continue their outreach in various cities until the end of this week. Their main goal is to reach students, especially freshmen, at the beginning of the university year, and establish personal contacts. Since last week, hundreds of people have received NTs and some have given their contact information. Please continue to pray:

For more local saints to join the visiting saints to be blended together and be brought into the gospel atmosphere and burden.
For many Germans to receive, read, and be inwardly stirred by the Spirit through the word.
For many to receive the Lord as their Savior, and some gospel and Bible recipients to have continuing fellowship with the churches in Germany.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 28 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), vol. 5.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The weekly ministry series continues this Wednesday 7:25 pm on “The Crucial Points of the Truth in Paul’s Epistles—Philippians and Colossians.” Saints are invited to attend at the MCC in Anaheim; the meeting will also be live-streamed at lsmwebcast.com.
December 2025 Semiannual Training: December 22 to 27 in Anaheim. For LA saints, the firm registration deadlines are October 31 (live) and December 7 (video) at tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla. As a reminder, past issues of LSM’s newsletter contain helpful fellowship on the burden for semiannual trainings, the need for training and regulations, and the purpose of training donations.
Thanksgiving Conference: November 27 to 30 in Indianapolis. Saints from LA interested in attending can get more information and RSVP at tinyurl.com/thanksgivingconfla.
France Shepherding Trips: Information about migration as well as participation in ongoing short-term shepherding trips throughout France is posted at lme.org/reports.html.
Italy 2026 Winter Olympics: Important information and instructions on how to participate in gospel trips during the Olympics in Italy are posted at lme.org/reports.html.
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

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