Fanning Our Spirit into Flame
“Fan into flame the gift of God…For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of sobermindedness.” (2 Tim. 1:6)
The spiritual gift is in our spirit. There is fire in our regenerated spirit, which is indwelt by the Holy Spirit. Actually, we may say that our spirit is the fire.
If you want to fan your spirit into flame, you need to open up your mouth, open up your heart, and open up your spirit. You need to open these three layers of your being. You have to use your mouth to say, “O Lord Jesus.” But then you have to go deeper by using your mouth with your heart to say, “O Lord Jesus.” Then you need to go even deeper by using your mouth with your heart and with your spirit to say, “O Lord Jesus.” This is to open up your spirit from deep within. Then the fire burns. (CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, “The Exercise of Our Spirit,” pp. 183-184)
Let us pray for all of us in the church in Los Angeles to build up a strong habit in our daily life of exercising our spirit, fanning our God-given spirit into flame. May we live the normal church life by pursuing Christ with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Flowing Forth in Valleys and in Mountains
“For Jehovah your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of waterbrooks, of springs and of fountains, flowing forth in valleys and in mountains.” (Deut. 8:7)
“For we who are alive are always being delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So then death operates in us, but life in you.” (2 Cor. 4:11-12)
“He who loves his soul-life loses it; and he who hates his soul-life in this world shall keep it unto eternal life.” (John 12:25)
The all-inclusive Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit is “a land of waterbrooks, of springs and of fountains, flowing forth in valleys and in mountains.” The water “flowing forth in valleys and in mountains” indicates that Christ as the living water flows in different environments. The valleys are the experiences of the cross, the experiences of the death of Christ, and the mountains are the experiences of Christ’s resurrection.
Jesus, in a positive sense, is always killing all the negative things within us in order to heal and enliven us. When we reject ourselves in the morning to receive God into us, we have the sense during the day that a killing process is going on within us. The killing of the cross results in the manifestation of the resurrection life. This daily killing is for the release of the divine life in resurrection. The Lord, as a grain of wheat that fell into the ground, lost His soul-life through death that He might release His eternal life in resurrection to the many grains. As the many grains, we also must lose our soul-life through death that we may enjoy eternal life in resurrection. (Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good Land…, msg. 4, II, III, A, C.1-2, D.1, E.2)
Semiannual Training Live Registrations
The deadline to register for the in-person July Semiannual Training, July 1 to 6, in Anaheim ($205) is Tuesday, April 30. Late registrations will not be accepted. For LA saints, sign up and payment instructions are at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla. Registrations for our local video trainings are due later on June 16.
May the Lord grant us to treasure these trainings and seize every opportunity to attend them not only to see the intrinsic essence of the divine revelation but also to serve as a proper audience for the unhindered release of the crystals in the Word of God. May we all, by the Lord’s mercy, highly value and enter into all the divine truths in the Word that He has released through His ministry by means of the life-study and crystallization-study trainings until we are constituted with these truths, enjoy the Lord as life according to these truths, and minister Him to others for the fulfillment of God’s eternal purpose to produce and build up the Body of Christ, consummating in the New Jerusalem. (“The History and Significance of the Life-study and Crystallization-study Trainings,” April 2022 issue of “Having This Ministry…”)
Please ask the Lord to release as many saints as possible to participate in His speaking to the churches in this training!
Sixth Grade Conference
This weekend, May 3 to 5, the Southern California Sixth Grade Conference will be held in person at Oak Glen. Pray for the preparation of all the sixth graders in the Southern California churches for this time of being infused with the precious gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Pray for the Lord to be with all the speaking brothers, to anoint them with the Spirit and give them the utterance to speak a word that will penetrate the hearts of the sixth graders. Pray that the parents and the serving ones will be in one accord to pray for the children and to care for them in the best way, so that the Lord will have the way to dynamically save them and gain them for His purpose.
West Coast Korean-speaking Conference
There will be a West Coast Korean-speaking Conference this weekend via Zoom. The two sessions about “God’s Economy in Faith” are Saturday, May 4, 6:00 to 9:20 pm and Lord’s Day, May 5, 9:00 am to 12:30 pm. The detailed schedule and access information are at tinyurl.com/2024westcoast.
Please pray for the Lord to fully release His burden through this re-speaking of the messages from the recent International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones.
Paris Conference and Torch Relay Gospel Trips
A conference will be held this weekend, May 3 to 5, in Paris, France. The conference consists of five messages on “Fighting the Good Fight, Finishing the Course, Keeping the Faith, and Loving the Lord’s Appearing in order to Receive the Reward of Christ as the Crown of Righteousness” along with the Lord’s table. Please pray that all the saints would enter into the up-to-date ministry of the age and touch the up-to-date burden for the Lord’s move.
Then, starting on May 6 in Marseille and concluding on July 17 in Paris, nine gospel trips have been planned in many major cities along the route of the Olympic Torch Relay. Please pray that during this time, Christ’s triumphal procession will move from city to city all over France (2 Cor. 2:14). Pray for all the logistics of the Bible distributions—that they would arrive on time and at the right destinations, and for all necessary municipal authorizations to be approved—and for many divine appointments to take place for the Lord to gain local French speakers along with their families.
The April 2024 issue of LSM’s newsletter explains the current burden in the Lord’s move in French-speaking Europe at newsletters.lsm.org/having-this-ministry. Application for gospel trips is at www.amanatrust.org.uk/page/2024Paris. Saints in LA burdened to give for the distribution and associated expenses can do so through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Paris Olympics.”
Warsaw, Poland
A conference will also take place in Warsaw this weekend, May 3 to 5. Please pray for the saints’ attendance and the release of the Lord’s burden and supply in this conference.
Announcements
- Morning Revival: Week 4 of Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good Land…
- Semiannual Training: July 1 to 6 in Anaheim. For LA saints, registration is open until April 30 (live) and June 16 (video) at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.
- Memorial Day Conference: May 24 to 27 in Bellevue, WA. For LA saints attending in person, please RSVP by April 30 at tinyurl.com/memdayla. More information is linked at that site.
- Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The ministry meeting continues this week starting at 7:25 pm.
- Bibles for America‘s most recent blog post, The Crucial Role of Our Mind in Our Christian Life, is available to read and share at blog.bfa.org. Helpful videos are also available at bfa.org/videos.
- Ways to Give: Information about the church’s online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.