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Experiencing the Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity

“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)

“Blessed be the Lord, who day by day loads us with good; God is our salvation.” (Psa. 68:19)

According to the entire revelation of the sixty-six books of the Bible, the Divine Trinity—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—is for God’s dispensing, that is, for the distribution of God into His chosen people. God is triune so that He can dispense Himself into us, work Himself into us, for us to enjoy so that we can be built up to be the Body of Christ and prepared to be the bride of Christ for His second coming when the kingdom of the world becomes the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ to reign forever and ever.

As believers in Christ, we simply need to love he Lord and keep ourselves open to Him, giving Him every opportunity to do everything He wants to do, and we need to be satisfied with a life of ordinary days in the regular and normal experiences in the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity according to the miraculous normality of the divine economy. (2022 Thanksgiving Conference, Key Statements 4, 3)

Please pray that the Lord’s up-to-date speaking in the Thanksgiving Conference will result in the saints’ uplifted and intensified experience of the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the divine economy in the building up of the Body and the preparation of the bride for the Lord’s coming.

The Glory of God and Economy of God

“And the glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as We are one.” (John 17:22)

“When Christ our life is manifested, then you also will be manifested with Him in glory.” (Col. 3:4)

The glory of God is intrinsically related to the economy of God. God’s eternal goal is to bring His many sons into glory for the eternal corporate expression—the New Jerusalem. God has predestinated us to obtain His glory so that we may express Him; thus, the goal of God’s predestination is our glorification. Through the gospel of the glory of God, God has called us by and into His eternal glory.

As we behold and reflect the glory of the Lord, we are being transformed into the Lord’s image from glory to glory. God the Father is moving within us as the God of all grace so that we may participate in His eternal glory and even become the glory of God. The glory of God in the economy of God involves the high peak of the divine revelation—God becoming man so that man may become God in life, nature, and function but not in the Godhead. (CS 1 & 2 Kings, msg. 9, IV, A-B, E, G-I)

FTTA

The application deadline for the Spring 2023 term of the Full-time Training in Anaheim is Wednesday, November 30. Please pray for many college graduates, young working saints, and middle aged saints to answer God’s call to go to the training next term.

Ukraine

Please continue to pray that:

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

Botswana

The church life in Botswana began in 2014. Currently, there are 20 saints enjoying the church life. Five of them have completed two years of the Full-time Training in Pretoria, South Africa. The saints in the capital, Gaborone, have been endeavoring to practice the God-ordained way, and about 15 new ones are being shepherded regularly. At the end of August, 50 locals returned from Israel, where they had some contact with the saints; 10 of them are now receiving ministry portions and open to further contact.

The Lord has also blessed the translation work of the ministry into the local language, Setswana. Two booklets have been completed (The Basic Elements of the Christian Life, Vol. 1 & 2), and The All-Inclusive Christ is being translated. Please pray that the Lord will establish a strong, bright and shining lampstand in the city of Gaborone and bring all the new ones into the church life.

To read more about the church life in Southern Africa, including Eswatini and Zambia, see the November issue of the Lord’s Move to Africa newsletter:

Announcements

  1. Morning Revival: Week 9 of Crystallization-study of 1 and 2 Kings, vol. 2.

  2. Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: Live broadcast this Wednesday 7:25 pm at http://lsm.org/live.

  3. Thanksgiving Conference: All messages are now available for purchase at http://www.lsmwebcast.com.

  4. December Semiannual Training: Saints in LA may register for the video training until December 11 at http://tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla. This training will be a crystallization-study of Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther.

  5. LSM Newsletter: The November issue includes a list of resources to help saints prepare themselves for the upcoming training. Visit http://newsletters.lsm.org/having-this-ministry.

  6. LSM Christian Radio broadcasts hymns and messages 24 hours each day at http://lsmchristianradio.com.

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

  8. Living to Him has a podcast series particularly helpful to working saints, available on all major podcasting services at http://anchor.fm/livingtohim.

  9. 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.