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Overcoming by Breathing the Spirit

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

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

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

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

Southern California High School Sisters Conference

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

FTTA-MA

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

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

Spring European University Conference

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

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

Ukraine

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

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

Sri Lanka

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

Tajikistan

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

Announcements

  1. Morning Revival: Week 4 of The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy.

  2. Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The general subject of this term’s weekly ministry meeting is “The Crucial Points of the Truth in Paul’s Epistles.” Saints are invited to attend in-person at 7:25 pm at the Ministry Conference Center in Anaheim or online at http://www.lsmwebcast.com.

  3. Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers a series of free e-booklets to read and share at http://www.lsm.org/booklets, including “Life’s Setting Free—the Need of Those under the Bondage of Sin.”

  4. Bibles for America‘s latest post is available to read and share at http://blog.biblesforamerica.org.

  5. Living to Him has a podcast series particularly helpful to working saints, available on all major podcasting services at http://livingtohim.com/the-living-to-him-podcast.

  6. A Timely Speaking of Supply: Enjoy a free weekly video from messages given by Brother Lee at http://lsm.org/timely-speaking.html.

  7. Ways to Give: Information about the church’s online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at http://www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.