The One Who Is Formed in the Believers
“…It pleased God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me…” (Gal. 1:15-16)
“I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me…” (Gal. 2:20)
“My children, with whom I travail again in birth until Christ is formed in you.” (Gal. 4:19)
The book of Galatians reveals that God’s intention is for Christ to be wrought into His chosen people that they may become sons of God. In order to be God’s sons, we need to be permeated and saturated with Christ. Christ must occupy our entire being. The Galatians, however, were distracted from Christ to the law…The believers should come back to Christ, who is both the seed who fulfills God’s promise to Abraham and the good land, the all-inclusive Spirit, to be our enjoyment. As believers in Christ, we need the full enjoyment of this blessing, the full enjoyment of the life-giving Spirit. We need to be saturated, possessed, and fully taken over by this Spirit.
Christ has been born in us; that is, He has been revealed in us. He is now living in us, and He will be formed in us unto maturity…May the Lord bring us into the experience and enjoyment of Christ who has been born in us, is now living in us, and will be formed in us unto maturity in order that we may be sons of full age, heirs of God’s promised blessing, and may mature in the divine sonship. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3314-3315)
International Memorial Day Blending Conference
“In the blending of the churches we receive nourishment, we receive revelation, and we receive a vision of God’s eternal purpose concerning Christ and the church. Such a blending is not only for our own mutual spiritual benefit but is also for the mutual building up of the Body of Christ.” (1993 Blending Conference Messages concerning the Lord’s Recovery and Our Present Need, ch. 2)
The 2025 International Memorial Day Blending Conference will take place in Phoenix this weekend. The general subject is “The Preparation of the Bride.” All the saints are warmly invited to participate in person or by webcast. Living Stream Ministry will livestream the conference messages; afterwards, the archived video will be available for a month. All information, schedules and outlines are now posted at lsmwebcast.com.
| Message 1: Friday, May 23………….. | 7:30 pm |
| Message 2: Saturday, May 24……… | 10:00 am |
| Message 3: Saturday, May 24……… | 7:30 pm |
| Message 4: Lord’s Day, May 25……. | 10:00 am |
| Message 5: Lord’s Day, May 25……. | 7:30 pm |
| Message 6: Monday, May 26……….. | 10:00 am |
Please pray for the release of the Lord’s up-to-date speaking and for the operation of the intensified Spirit in all the saints to prepare the bride for the Lord’s coming. May all the churches and all the saints prepare for this upcoming time of ministry and sanctify these days for the hearing of faith among us. Pray for the transmission of grace to all the saints traveling from all over the world to attend and to the many saints who have volunteered to serve in some capacity at the conference. May this conference turn out to be a real memorial among us to the shame of God’s enemy and to the glory of God’s grace!
Brussels, Belgium
Brussels is the administrative center of the European Union 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 this crucial city. Please pray for saints to migrate under the Head and in the Body to strengthen the Lord’s testimony in Brussels!
Germany
Please pray for the follow-up of all the new ones contacted through last month’s FTTT gospel trips, especially in Hamburg and Leipzig. Pray for the labor and coordination of the saints that these ones may be borne as remaining fruit.
Cairo, Egypt
According to the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, the 2025 Cairo International Book Fair, held earlier this year from January 24 to February 5, witnessed an exceptional public turnout of over 5.5 million visitors, a new record compared to previous years. The final day alone attracted nearly half a million visitors. This fair continues to be considered the largest literary event in the world. Al Jadwal Al Haii (AJAH), the Arabic literature center in Cairo, was given a corner booth, covering 18 square meters, featuring 95 titles in Arabic.
Isaiah 45:15 (“Surely You are a God who hides Himself”) was truly the experience of the serving ones. In contrast to our human concept, the Lord sent the sons of peace to the booth mainly during quiet and low-traffic times for some quality, divine appointments. On the contrary, when there were large crowds, there were not many visitors to the booth. There was real appreciation for the contents of the ministry books. There was also much curiosity and interest in the Bible, which confirms the crucial need for an Arabic NT Recovery Version. Once this ongoing translation project is finished, undoubtedly the Lord will use it to have a significant turn in this Arabic-speaking nation.
Please pray:
- For completion of the Arabic NT Recovery Version project in a timely manner.
- For the ministry to operate in each person who purchased a book—that the book would be read and would get into each person so that they would subjectively experience Christ.
- For the ongoing translation and production of the Life-study of the Bible as well as the standalone titles.
- For the serving ones in the Arabic publication work.
- For the Lord’s testimony in Cairo and the Middle East region.
- For the follow-up with the new ones so that they would become remaining fruit.
- For the Lord to strengthen the church in Cairo so that the new ones would be shepherded according to God and become normal and healthy members in the Body of Christ.
For a full report with precious testimonies, see the April 2025 issue of “Having This Ministry…” at newsletters.lsm.org/having-this-ministry.
Announcements
- Morning Revival: Week 19 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (2), vol. 4.
- SAVE THE DATE: Lord’s Day, June 8 we will have our spring LA Joint Meeting—all halls, all languages—beginning 10:00 am at the LA Convention Center.
- No Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: There is no ministry meeting this week due to preparations for the Memorial Day Conference. The meeting will resume next Wednesday, May 28 at 7:25 pm.
- Bibles for America‘s new blogpost “How We Can Experience True Rest for Our Souls” is available to read and share at bfa.org/blog. Helpful videos are available at bfa.org/videos.
- Semiannual Training: June 30 to July 5 in Anaheim. For LA saints, registration for our local video training is open until June 15 ($130) at tinyurl.com/summertrainingla.
- 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.