Prayer, Week of December 29, 2013
The God of Abraham, The God of Isaac, and The God of Jacob
We need to know and experience the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob to become the transformed Israel of God to fulfill God's purpose. May we advance in the experiences of this wonderful Triune God by leaving everything behind and coming forward in spirit to the Holy of Holies. May 2014 be a year of more constituting with Christ, more growing up into Him in everything, and more advancing to maturity.
Australia
James Lee and Craig Birchler are in Australia. The national conference, on the Mending Ministry of Life, is the last few days of 2013. At the same time there is a summer school of truth for the young people. The attendance is 565 adults and young people. After the conference there is a fellowship for leading brothers from all of Australia. Afterwards James and Craig will visit various churches all over Australia.
Philippines
In the first half of January a small team of FTTA trainees will visit the devastated area of the Philippines to encourage the saints there and to coordinate with them in preaching the gospel. A second team will visit the same area in the first half of February.
European Young People's Winter School of Truth
The school is December 26 to 31 in Netherlands and December 27 to January 1 in London. Ask the Lord to keep active in the young people what was imparted to them during the school and to fully gain the young people for His move in all of Europe.
Spain
Barcelona is Spain's second largest city. It is a leading tourist, financial, cultural, educational, and sports centers. The local language is Catalan, but Spanish is widely spoken. There is a small lampstand in Barcelona, but the saints there do not speak either language, making the propagation difficult.
The Lord is moving in a marvelous way in Girona, a city about 50 miles north of Barcelona. There is a small lampstand there, but for several years there was no increase because the saints are not locals. Through a Catalan brother who received Rhema books last year, the Lord raised up an entire Catalan family. The saints in Girona have been shepherding them faithfully, but they are very short-handed. The new ones are all enjoying the ministry, and several of them attended recent conferences.
A few months ago the Lord brought to Barcelona a couple from the U.S., who are very burdened for the situation there and are co-laboring with the brothers in Girona to take care of the whole of northeast of Spain. However, although the harvest is ripe, the laborers are few. How we need to pray that the Lord will thrust out workers into His harvest!
Announcements
- Morning revival: winter training verses or week 6 of Prayer and the Lord's Move. Next week we will begin the Thanksgiving conference, The Mending Ministry of John.
- Gifts marked for Philippines relief may be given to the church or to Lord's Move to Europe.
- A conference for the Spanish-speaking saints in Southern California will be January 17 to 19 in Anaheim. Messages will be given in English with simultaneous translation into Spanish and the meetings are open to all the saints. At the same time, we will have a Young People's Conference and meetings for the children. Details are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.
- The Young People's Blending Conference 2014 will be concurrently with the Spanish-speaking Conference. The conference will be Friday, January 17, 7:30 pm and Saturday, January 18, 4 and 7:30 pm (bring your own dinner for the break between the meetings). The register, go to http://scyp.com and click on "Event Registration."
Prayer, Weeks of December 15 and 22, 2013
Winter Training
The training begins Monday, December 23. Video trainings in Los Angeles are various times from December 23 through early January. Please pray for the Lord's rich supply to the speaking brothers and a spirit of wisdom and revelation to all who attend in Anaheim or by video.
FTTA Graduation
Saturday, December 21, 46 will graduate from FTTA. Ask the Lord to draw each one to serve as He wills and to keep them living in His presence as they leave the training environment
Boston Training Center
Thank the Lord for answering the prayer regarding the Boston training center. The final walk through by the fire department was November 26. The only item that they required was adding one fire extinguisher. The occupancy and use permit was issued December 2. The training moved in immediately after, and was able to use the building for about 10 days before the semester ended. The church in Boston had its first Lord's table in the building on December 8. Praise the Lord for overcoming all the obstacles. He is truly the Alpha and the Omega.
Please pray that the Lord will continue to grant the training and the church favor with the city and its residents and will gain and perfect many young ones for His move in Europe and on the whole earth.
Internet
Please pray for the propagation of the ministry of WN and WL through the internet to contact and gain seeking people, to perfect the believers, to produce the one new man, and to prepare the bride of Christ.
Portugal
December 4 to 7 a Bible distribution was carried out in Lisbon to support the conference that took place there December 6 to 8 and to cooperate with the Lord to raise up a lampstand in Lisbon. During the four days of distribution, 765 Bibles were given out. 415 recipients indicated they were open to be contacted; 32 were very open. In addition, 52 persons prayed to receive the Lord. Eight new ones attended the conference. The experience of the saints who carried out the distribution was overwhelmingly positive. Please pray:
- For the shepherding of the Bible recipients who are open for further contact.
- That a good number of these recipients will be gained for the church life in Lisbon and become building members of the Body of Christ.
- That the word released in the conference will operate in all the saints for their building up.
Sweden and Norway
December 4-9 the New Testament Recovery Version (in English) and Basic Elements of the Christian Life, Volume 1 (in the local languages) were distributed in Sweden and Norway. This initial distribution resulted in more than 60 Bibles given out and a total of 19 who want further contact. Please pray:
- For the follow-up of those who want further contact.
- For a continuation of the distribution in both countries in the coming days and weeks.
- For all the saints to be brought into a normal life of fruit-bearing as branches of Christ, the true vine.
Announcements for weeks of December 15 and 22
- Morning revival: December 16 to 22: week 4 of Prayer and the Lord's Move.
December 23 to 29: winter training verses or week 5 of Prayer and the Lord's Move.
The next prayer email will be Lord's Day, December 29. - Gifts marked for Philippines Relief may be given to the church or to Lord's Move to Europe.
- A conference for the Spanish-speaking saints in Southern California will be January 17 to 19 in Anaheim. Messages will be given in English with simultaneous translation into Spanish and the meetings are open to all the saints. At the same time, we will have a Young People's Conference and meetings for the children. Details are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.
Prayer, Week of December 8, 2013
Winter Training
The training begins Monday, December 23. Please pray for the Lord's wisdom to the speaking brothers and in all the practical preparations.
Pray also for all who have been in the recovery many years. May we be saved from "I have heard that before" and brought onward to intensified experiences of what we have heard.
The Spread of the Children's Work
In the children's work we don’t have the flavor of a school, but we are helping them to be vessels unto honor, useful to the Master, prepared unto every good work (2 Tim. 2:21), with a view that in the future they would become men of God (2 Tim. 3:17).
For this work to be prevailing, we must realize this work should not just be on Sunday, in the hall, not just with those among our own families, but it should be daily, in homes, with children who are not currently meeting with us. Lord, give us solid contact with more children and more families.
Middle Age Training
This Saturday (December 14) 26 will graduate from the middle-age training. Please ask the Lord to:
- clearly lead each one to where they should live and what they should do;
- bring at least 40 new trainees to the spring term to replace them and to increase the training.
Church in Eastvale, California
Eastvale is a small city adjacent to interstate 15 in Riverside County. The first Lord's Table of the church in Eastvale will be December 15.
Report from Portugal
The conference for Portugal and Spain was last weekend. Before the conference there were New Testament distributions in Lisbon and at the University of Lisbon. The students on this campus were open and ready beyond anything the saints had ever seen. Over 250 NTs went out; 47% of the recipients want further contact. Nineteen prayed to receive the Lord.
At present there is only one family in the recovery in Lisbon. Ask the Lord to supply them in shepherding and to gather seekers to them for raising up a lampstand in Lisbon.
Philippines
Continue to pray for 1) the affected saints to be encouraged and supplied, 2) the restoration of communication and transportation, and 3) the gospel to be released and received.
It is likely that some trainees will visit the affected area in January to encourage the saints there and to join them in the gospel. Pray for the Lord's wisdom to those who are planning the trip and for His clear leading to those who might participate.
Announcements
- Morning revival: week 3 of Prayer and the Lord's Move.
- Gifts marked for Philippines Relief may be given to the church or to Lord's Move to Europe.
- A conference for the Spanish-speaking saints in Southern California will be January 17 to 19 in Anaheim. Messages will be given in English with simultaneous translation into Spanish and the meetings are open to all the saints. At the same time, we will have a Young People's Conference and meetings for the children. Details are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.
Prayer, Week of December 1, 2013
Lord, Mend Us, Tune Us, Perfect Us, Complete Us
A very short summary of conference messages 1–3: John's mending (Matt. 4:21) is a ministry to tune us (1 Cor. 1:10), perfect us (Eph. 4:12), and complete us (1 Thes. 3:10); the same Greek word is used in all these verses. This is a ministry of life (1 John 1:1-2) and this life is the living Person (John 14:6). Through incarnation, death, and resurrection, the Triune God comes to us as the consummated Spirit (John 7:39, 20:22) to shepherd us in life (John 10:10b-11) for the one flock (John 10:15-17) and to be incorporated with us (John 14:20) for the Father’s house (John 14:2-3, 23).
Lord, bring us into more experience of Yourself as life for Your one flock and the Father's house!
Children's Work
A summary of message three from the November 9 children's meeting perfecting time for Southern California churches:
We are doing a "BC" (Before Christ) labor. This is an Old Testament work for children up to about age 12. Don't tell them during this time that they can't fulfill the law. They need to receive the word that they should honor their parents. But in due time, they will start to have a sense that they can't do it. This is the law functioning to expose their inability and bring them to Christ. During this “BC” labor, we learn from Romans that the way to restrict wickedness is to know God by his creation; to glorify, thank, worship and serve God; to act according to the God-created good nature within us; to listen to our conscience; and to have proper reasonings. There is a moral degradation of this age that our children are growing up in and we have to get to them first, and we have to get to them strongly.
Perfecting for Spanish-Speaking Saints
This fall there is a Perfecting Training Series for Spanish-speaking saints in Southern California. The last topic is Truth Equipping (December 7). Lord, perfect the saints "unto the work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of Christ" (Eph. 4:12).
Cal State Channel Islands
We baptized two Channel Islands (CI) students on November 23. Eleven CI and one Moorpark student attended this baptism. During the 2013 fall semester, between 10 and 20 students attend our weekly Bible study. The Lord has been adding new students to our club weekly. Please pray for
- establishing core members through home meetings;
- raising up young adults to serve on CI campus;
- much mercy and grace to the existing serving ones, so that they have the enjoyment and full protection from the Lord while laboring on campus.
Iberian Conference
This year's International Conference for Portugal, Spain, Gibraltar, and Andorra will be in Lisbon, Portugal, December 6 to 8. Our burden is that the Lord would raise up a lampstand in this city. We warmly invite all the churches and saints to join us in this burden.
Prayer for the Philippines
- Pray for the affected saints to be preserved and strengthened by the Lord.
- Pray for the Philippine government to operate efficiently so that relief goods can be delivered to the affected areas in a timely manner.
- Pray for the recovery of the electricity and communication systems.
- Pray for the brothers to quickly find out about each of the affected saints so that proper assistance can be granted.
- Pray for the co-workers, elders and saints in Central Philippines that they would grasp the opportunity to preach the gospel in the mingled spirit.
Madrid, Spain
Please pray for the Lord to have a breakthrough in Madrid, with an increase in life and number to gain the vessels that He needs for a strong expression in the capital city of Spain.
European University Conference Report
The conference was November 22 to 24 on The Producing of the Overcomers. To bring in His kingdom, the Lord needs to gain overcomers, who would stand above the degradation of this age and within the church to be the Body that God desires. Around 260 brothers and sisters from the UK, Ireland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Germany were present.
First, we realize that it is impossible for us to be overcomers in ourselves. Second, we give up trying to do it. Third, we praise God that we are not able but He is able! Finally, we believe that He is able: "you have overcome them because greater is He who is in you" (1 John 4:4).
Eight were baptized at this conference! May the Lord continue to gain the European overcomers so that the Lord would be able to return quickly. Please pray:
- for a real desire in the students to be produced as the overcomers.
- for the students to be built up with one another and with the saints in their localities.
- that the students would see the need for the training and perfecting so that they could be so useful to the Lord in Europe.
Announcements
- Morning revival: week 2 of Prayer and the Lord's Move.
- Gifts marked for Philippines Relief may be given to the church or to Lord's Move to Europe.
- A conference for the Spanish-speaking saints in Southern California will be January 17 to 19 in Anaheim. Messages will be given in English with simultaneous translation into Spanish and the meetings are open to all the saints. At the same time, we will have a Young People's Conference and meetings for the children. Details are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.
Prayer, Week of November 24, 2013
"You Then Pray in This Way:
Our Father who is in the heavens, Your name be sanctified; Your kingdom come; Your will be done, as in heaven, so also on earth." (Matt. 6:9-10) Prayer is the believers' act of working together with God to accomplish His will. (Prayer and the Lord’s Move, week 1, II.B)
Thanksgiving Conference
The conference is Thursday, November 28 through Lord's Day, December 1. Please ask the Lord to bless the conference with His speaking and with a full response from all who attend or watch videos. Also ask the Lord to release many to attend this conference.
Children's Work
The following is a summary of message two from the November 9 children's meeting perfecting time for Southern California churches. The subject was, "Compiling Children's Lessons that Build up a Proper Humanity and Lead the Children into a Proper Enjoyment."
Every class, every student is different and we need fresh leading each time. We seek the Lord's leading; we cannot depend solely on a printed page. We pick examples from the children’s daily living, such as cleaning their room or their relation to their teachers. End with a verse. Realize you don't have to use the whole verse. Follow up with them the next week to see if they practiced what they heard. As they grow up, we slowly go from teaching them about God, God's creation, and what proper humanity is to the fall of man, and to bringing them to Christ as life. On this last point, we speak about Christ not as a mere story but in a practical way based on their failures and desires.
Bibles for America
BfA's three-week distribution tour from Philadelphia to South Carolina concluded last week. They distributed New Testaments and Basic Elements of the Christian Life. About 2000 NTs were given out on college campuses and in communities. The saints met many seeking people in each state, including some interested in further contact. Some recipients already called BfA to request other free books. Please pray that the Lord would continue to operate in each recipient through the Bible and books they received.
Paris, France
In September and October a Bible distribution was carried out in front of the Sorbonne and Nanterre Universities. The distribution was under the Lord's blessing. The Lord brought some seeking ones, and some of these are now being contacted. Also, a number of new ones are being added to the church in Paris. Please pray that:
- the Lord will gain more French students from the Sorbonne and Nanterre;
- all the new ones will grow normally and be added to the church for the building up of the Body;
- the FTT London trainees from France will be perfected by the Lord to serve in France.
One-Week Trainings in Europe
This is the last week of this year's four one-week trainings at Bower House in London. The overall theme is The Four Great Pillars in the Lord’s Recovery: Truth, Life, the Church, and the Gospel. Please pray that the saints will be perfected in the divine truths, in their daily life before the Lord, in practicing the vital groups, in participating in the spread of the divine truths throughout Europe, in becoming fruit-bearing branches in the vine, and in developing their organic functions for the building of the churches.
Announcements
- Morning revival: week 1 of Prayer and the Lord's Move.
- Gifts marked for Philippines Relief may be given to the church or to Lord's Move to Europe.
Prayer, Week of November 17, 2013
Vessels unto Honor, Sanctified, Useful to the Master, Prepared
"If therefore anyone cleanses himself from these [vessels unto dishonor, in prior verses], he will be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, useful to the master, prepared unto every good work." (2 Tim. 2:21 with footnote 2)
The children's work is an important work for the raising up of our next generation. For this to be a prevailing work, we need a proper realization and a proper preparation. Saturday, November 9, there was a children's work perfecting time for the Southern California churches. The subject was, "Compiling Children's Lessons that Build up a Proper Humanity and Lead the Children into a Proper Enjoyment." The following is a summary of message one; the other two messages will be summarized in coming weeks.
Our realization of the children's work is that we don’t have the flavor of a school, but we are helping them to be vessels unto honor, useful to the Master, prepared unto every good work (2 Tim. 2:21), with a view that in the future they would become men of God (2 Tim 3:17). If we regard the children's work as a school and teach from books, it will be of more harm than benefit because it gives the children premature knowledge and makes them dull of hearing.
For this work we need a proper preparation. This preparation comes from having proper lessons which help serving ones cultivate the children in their humanity so that they would be proper human beings. These lessons are entirely from a children's perspective and help them (with demonstrations and illustrations from their human living) to know how to honor their parents, love others, and know the proper elements of human morality, humility, patience, and kindness. May the Lord continue to bless our labor among the children in Los Angeles to raise up many Timothy's among us who are fostered under the loving care of parents and serving ones who labor with a long term view that one day these ones would be useful to the Master.
College Conference
This coming weekend, November 22-24 about 145 saints including just over 100 students from Los Angeles and Santa Barbara (UCLA, CSUN, USC, UCSB, SMC, and others) will attend the college conference at Big Bear. The topic of the conference is "The Life and Work of an Age Turner," based on the story of Noah. Please pray that:
- All who have signed up would come, prepared, wide open to the Lord to receive His speaking.
- All who come would have the veils removed to see a vision of God's need to have man's cooperation to change the age.
- All would give themselves not just to see or touch the ark but to enter into the ark, the church life, and to remain there, not just in body but in their hearts.
- The enemy with all of his frustrations would be bound because he knows the strategic importance of this topic.
The Philippines
The typhoon in the Philippines caused much destruction and much loss of life. About 250 families (plus more in areas where there is no communication) in the recovery have lost food and lost some or all of their housing. Brothers in other parts of the Philippines are delivering food to churches they can reach.
Let us pray for:
- effective work by the government and relief agencies;
- the coworkers, elders, and saints in all the affected areas to gain discernment to act wisely and decisively under the leading of the mingled spirit;
- a rich supply to the saints laboring to deliver food and help in other ways;
- the Lord's care for all the suffering ones, both within and outside the churches, and His turning of this disaster into an opportunity for spreading of the gospel of the kingdom.
Monetary donations may be given to the church in Los Angeles or to Lord's Move to Europe (see http://www.lordsmove.org/offerings.html). In either case, mark the donation for "Philippines Relief."
Thanksgiving Conference
The conference is Thursday, November 28 through Lord's Day, December 1. Please pray for the Lord’s wisdom and supply to all who are preparing for this conference.
Bibles for America
This is the last week of BfA's three-week distribution tour from Philadelphia through Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, to North and South Carolina. Please continue to pray that:
- The Lord would brood over this part of the country and prepare many hungry ones to receive the Word and the ministry.
- The traveling saints would remain safe and be strengthened into their inner man throughout this trip.
European University Students Conference
The Autumn University Students Conference is this weekend, November 22 to 24, in London. This conference is for students across Europe. The subject is The Full Ministry of Christ in the Third Stage of Intensification -- The Producing of the Overcomers.
Pakistan
- Pray for the National Blending Conference at Lahore November 23 to 24.
- Pray for the translation and proofreading of the Crystallization-Study of Genesis.
Vietnam
Pray for the gospel move in the southeastern region from November 17 to 23.
Announcements
- Morning revival: week 12 of Crystallization-Study of Genesis. After Genesis, we will repeat Prayer and the Lord's Move, which we used in February and March. Please find your book or order a new one.
- Gifts marked for Philippines Relief may be given to the church or to Lord's Move to Europe.
- The Thanksgiving Conference will be in Illinois from Thursday, November 28 through Lord's Day, December 1. We invite all the churches and individuals to participate. There will be translation into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese. Details are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.
- There will be a conference in Hawaii January 24 to 26. Details are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.
Prayer, Week of November 10, 2013
Love, Feed, Shepherd
"Jesus said, do you love Me? Feed My lambs. Do you love Me? Shepherd My sheep. Do you love Me? Feed My sheep." (part of John 21:15-17) Lord, cause our love for You to increase our shepherding and feeding of others, and to cause our shepherding and feeding to increase our love.
Prayer and the Lord's Move
We need to persevere in prayer, pray at every time in spirit, and be on the alert for the maintaining of a prayer life. (2012 Thanksgiving Conference, banner 2)
After week 12 of Genesis, we will repeat Prayer and the Lord's Move, which we used in February and March. Please find your book or order a new one.
Perfecting for Spanish-Speaking Saints
This fall there is a Perfecting Training Series for Spanish-speaking saints in Southern California. The remaining topics are Gospel Service (November 16) and Truth Equipping (December 7). Lord, perfect the saints "unto the work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of Christ" (Eph. 4:12).
Bibles for America
This is the second week of BfA's three-week distribution tour from Philadelphia through Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, to North and South Carolina. Please continue to pray that:
- The Lord would brood over this part of the country and prepare many hungry ones to receive the Word and the ministry.
- The traveling saints would remain safe and be strengthened into their inner man throughout this trip.
London
Over 400 people attended a seminar Saturday, November 2. Of the 165 first time attendees, 72 want a Bible study in their home. Some have already received an initial visit. Please pray for many saints to be available to visit these and many, many other new contacts whose homes are open and waiting for visitation.
One-Week Trainings in Europe
This is the third week of this fall's four one-week trainings at Bower House in London. The overall theme is The Four Great Pillars in the Lord’s Recovery: Truth, Life, the Church, and the Gospel. Please pray that the saints will be perfected in the divine truths, in their daily life before the Lord, in practicing the vital groups, in participating in the spread of the divine truths throughout Europe, in becoming fruit-bearing branches in the vine, and in developing their organic functions for the building of the churches.
Belgium
The annual conference in Belgium is November 16 to 17. Please pray for the release of the Lord's fresh and up-to-date speaking, and the effect of this speaking on the practical living of the saints.
Announcements
- Morning revival: week 11 of Crystallization-Study of Genesis. After Genesis, we will repeat Prayer and the Lord's Move, which we used in February and March. Please find your book or order a new one.
- The winter training in Anaheim will be December 23 to 28. There will also be video trainings in L.A. Registration is $205 for Anaheim (includes late fee) and $80 for video. Registration deadline for video is Lord's Day, November 17.
- The Thanksgiving Conference will be in Illinois from Thursday, November 28 through Lord's Day, December 1. We invite all the churches and individuals to participate. There will be translation into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese. Details are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.
Prayer, Week of November 3, 2013
Prayer and the Lord's Move
The principle of prayer is that God's people must pray before God will rise up to work (2012 Thanksgiving Conference, message 1, II.A). "Truly I say to you, Whatever you bind on the earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on the earth shall have been loosed in heaven. Again, truly I say to you that if two of you are in harmony on earth concerning any matter for which they ask, it will be done for them from My Father who is in the heavens." (Matt. 18:18-19)
After we finish week 12 of Genesis, we will repeat Prayer and the Lord's Move, which we used in February and March. Please find your book or be ready to order a new one.
Children's Work Perfecting Conference
This conference will be Saturday, November 9th from 9:00 am until 3:30 pm at the church in Diamond Bar meeting hall. We will be focusing our fellowship on the need to compile children's lessons that build up a proper humanity and lead the children into a proper enjoyment. Donation is $20, including lunch. To register please click here.
"The harvest is great, but the workers few; therefore, beseech the Lord of the harvest that He would thrust out workers into His harvest." (Luke 10:2) The labor in this harvest is not only Lord's Day morning but also in our homes and among children in our neighborhoods.
An Open Letter
From its inception in May there have been about 34,000 unique visitors to http://an-open-letter.org and 4,200 "Likes" on Facebook. A Chinese language version of this site was recently launched. It can be accessed at http://www.localchurchopenletter.org or by clicking on the Chinese-language symbol in the upper right corner of the English-language pages. Also, we added some new and encouraging testimonies from Christian leaders. We ask that you continue to pray:
- For the impact and effectiveness of this site in overcoming the negative and inaccurate impression of the Lord's recovery spread by some on the Internet;
- That this site would help seekers of Christ to disregard opposition and rumors to pursue Christ in an unhindered way;
- For additional testimonies from respected Christians.
Boston
Construction of the Boston training center is finished. In order to get the Occupancy Permit and Assembly Permit from the Boston Fire Department and the City of Boston, several inspections are necessary. We rejoice and thank the Lord for bringing us to this point. May our prayers give Him the way to head up the inspections and all things related to the timely completion of this project.
Bibles for America
Last Friday BfA began a three-week distribution tour from Philadelphia through Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, to North and South Carolina. Please pray that:
- The Lord would brood over this part of the country and prepare many hungry ones to receive the Word and the ministry.
- The traveling saints would remain safe and be strengthened into their inner man throughout this trip.
One-Week Trainings in Europe
This is the second week of this fall's four one-week trainings at Bower House in London. The overall theme is The Four Great Pillars in the Lord’s Recovery: Truth, Life, the Church, and the Gospel. Please pray that the saints will be perfected in the divine truths, in their daily life before the Lord, in practicing the vital groups, in participating in the spread of the divine truths throughout Europe, in becoming fruit-bearing branches in the vine, and in developing their organic functions for the building of the churches.
Seminar in London
Last Saturday there was a seminar in London for radio listeners and New Testament recipients. More than 400 attended, 160 for the first time. (photo below) The subject was God's Eternal Purpose as seen in Genesis 1-2 and Revelation 21-22. At the end of the seminar, attendees were asked to fill out a form if they were interested in joining home meetings in their home or the homes of others. Many are open to enjoying the Word of God in the homes. Please pray that:
- many local saints would rise up to function as shepherd-teachers to care for so many new ones;
- many more saints would be burdened and touched by the Lord to be sent to Europe.
Europe
The European brothers' training, attended by approximately 140 brothers, and the international blending conference, attended by about 575 saints from 27 countries, concluded on October 27. Please pray for the operation of the Lord’s word in all the leading ones and the saints in Europe to advance the Lord’s move in the months ahead.
Announcements
- Morning revival: week 10 of Crystallization-Study of Genesis.
- The audio from the October 13 meeting of the church in L.A. is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/ministry/audio-messages.
- The winter training in Anaheim will be December 23 to 28. There will also be video trainings in L.A. Registration is $205 for Anaheim (includes late fee) and $80 for video. Registration deadline for video is Lord's Day, November 17.
- The Thanksgiving Conference will be in Illinois from Thursday, November 28 through Lord's Day, December 1. We invite all the churches and individuals to participate. There will be translation into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese. Details are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.
- There will be a conference in Hawaii January 24 to 26. Details are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.
Prayer, Week of October 27, 2013
Increase in L.A.
"These things I command you that you may love one another." This is to love one another in the Lord's life, the divine life, in the Lord's love, and in His commission of fruit-bearing. Life is the source, love is the condition, and fruit-bearing is the goal. If we all live by the Lord's life as the source, in the Lord's love as the condition, and for fruit-bearing as the goal, we surely will love one another. Having different sources of life, different conditions, or different goals will separate us and prevent us from loving one another. (John 15:17 and note)
Let us ask the Lord to bring us into this gospel atmosphere full of life, love, and fruit-bearing to reach relatives, students, friends, neighbors, and work places and to recover dormant saints so that at least 1000 are meeting with the church by the end of this year.
Children's Work Perfecting Conference
This conference will be Saturday, November 9th from 9:00 am until 3:30 pm at the Diamond Bar meeting hall. We will be focusing our fellowship on the need to compile children's lessons that build up a proper humanity and lead the children into a proper enjoyment. Donation is $20, including lunch. To register please click here.
"The harvest is great, but the workers few; therefore, beseech the Lord of the harvest that He would thrust out workers into His harvest." (Luke 10:2) The labor in this harvest is not only Lord's Day morning but also through the week in our homes and among children in our neighborhoods.
Boston
Everything related to the construction of the Boston training center is finished, including the parking lot and landscape. (photos below) The building has a positive effect on the surrounding neighborhoods and this project brought in the Lord's blessing to the churches in the Greater Boston Area.
In order to get the final Occupancy Permit and Assembly Permit from the Boston Fire Department and the City of Boston, several inspections are necessary. We rejoice and thank the Lord for bringing us to this point. May our prayers give Him the way to head up the inspections and all things related to the timely completion of this project.
Bibles for America
On Friday, November 1, BfA will begin a three-week distribution tour. It will begin in Philadelphia and continue south through Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, and North and South Carolina. Tour participants will give away free copies of the NT Recovery Version and books by Watchman Nee and Witness Lee while blending with the saints in each locality they visit. Please pray that:
- The Lord would brood over this part of the country and prepare many hungry ones to receive the Word and the ministry.
- The traveling saints would remain safe and be strengthened into their inner man throughout this trip.
One-Week Trainings in Europe
There will again be four one week trainings at Bower House in London, beginning Mondays October 28, November 4, 11, and 25. The overall theme is The Four Great Pillars in the Lord's Recovery: Truth, Life, the Church, and the Gospel. Attendees will also spend some time with FTT London with the brothers and sisters in London or surrounding churches.
Please pray that the saints will be perfected in the divine truths, in their daily life before the Lord, in practicing the vital groups, in participating in the spread of the divine truths throughout Europe, in becoming fruit-bearing branches in the vine, and in developing their organic functions for the building up of the churches in their respective localities.
Chile
There will be a national training for serving brothers October 31 to November 2.
Bulgaria
More than 100 attended the conference held in Sofia on October 11-13, including Bulgarians and visiting saints from Romania, Turkey, England, Spain, Greece, and the United States. Most of the saints from Bulgaria were gathered together for the first time. Several Bulgarian brothers expressed a desire to attend a one-week training in London in November.
Please pray:
- That the brothers who attend the one-week training will receive a governing vision from the Lord
- That the saints who met each other for the first time during the conference will go on to pursue
the Lord and His testimony together - That the Lord will lead the serving ones to continue to care for the saints in Bulgaria
Announcements
- Morning revival: week 9 of Crystallization-Study of Genesis.
- The audio from the October 13 meeting of the church in L.A. is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/ministry/audio-messages.
- The winter training in Anaheim will be December 23 to 28. There will also be video trainings in L.A. Registration deadline for video is Lord's Day, November 17.
- The Thanksgiving Conference will be in Illinois from Thursday, November 28 through Lord's Day, December 1. We invite all the churches and individuals to participate. There will be translation into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese. Details are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.
- There will be an International Blending Conference in Myanmar November 29 to December 1. Please contact ibcmyanmar2013@gmail.com for more information.
- There will be a conference in Hawaii January 24 to 26. Details are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.
Boston Training Center
Prayer, Week of October 20, 2013
"Our Savior God Desires...
...all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth." (1 Tim. 2:3b-4)
God desires all the saved ones to have the full knowledge of the truth. Truth means reality, denoting all the real things revealed in God's Word, which are mainly Christ as the embodiment of God and the church as the Body of Christ. Every saved person should have a full knowledge, a complete realization, of these things. (first paragraph of note 2, 1 Tim. 2:4)
Let us ask the Lord to strengthen saints who are regularly reading the ministry and to bring many more into this reading. May we all be nourished, be enlightened, and come to the full realization of the truth.
High School Conferences
The conferences are this weekend, in Irvine (brothers) and Anaheim (sisters). Lord, gain these high school young people and many friends with their families as fruit for the Father's glory.
Children's Work Perfecting Conference
We are very burdened to enter into and practice the vision released in Raising Up the Next Generation in the Church Life. To continue in this line, there will be a Children's Work Perfecting Conference Saturday, November 9th, from 9 am until 3:30 pm at the Diamond Bar meeting hall. Registration donation, including lunch, is $20; to register please click here.
European Brothers' Training and European Blending Conference
These two gatherings will be in the Netherlands. The training is October 22 to 24 (a re-speaking of ITERO, October 3 to 5 in Thailand) and the conference is October 25 to 27. Please pray for the perfecting of the leading ones in Europe and the blending of all the saints in these two crucial gatherings.
Israel
The fall conference is October 24 to 26.
Budapest, Hungary
The Lord has made great progress toward the raising up of a lampstand in Budapest (Hungary's capital and largest city) in recent years. Please pray that the Lord will continue to work in and among the Hungarian saints and will establish His testimony in Budapest in His time and for His glory.
The Lord's Move in Asia
A 16 minute video at http://lmasia.org (scroll to the bottom of this page if the video does not start automatically) gives a brief overview of the continent followed by a view of the Lord's move in 16 nations where the recovery has been raised up in the past 25 years. The video shows many saints, meetings, gospel activities, and baptisms. It concludes with a request for prayer for:
- the Lord's rule over the political and economic situation in these nations;
- overseas saints to visit and blend with local saints and to coordinate in gospel moves;
- the translation of ministry books; and
- shepherding and perfecting of local saints.
Announcements
- Morning revival: week 8 of Crystallization-Study of Genesis.
- The audio from the October 13 meeting of the church in L.A. is at https://churchinlosangeles.org/ministry/audio-messages.
- The winter training in Anaheim will be Monday, December 23 to Saturday, December 28 with meetings at 4 pm and 7:30 pm. There will also be video trainings in L.A. Registration is $155 for Anaheim and $80 for video. Registration deadline for Anaheim is Lord's Day, October 27.
- The Thanksgiving Conference will be in Illinois from Thursday, November 28 through Lord's Day, December 1. We invite all the churches and individuals to participate. There will be translation into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese. Details are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer.
- There will be an International Blending Conference held in Myanmar November 29 to December 1. All churches and saints are invited to participate. Please contact ibcmyanmar2013@gmail.com for more information.