Prayer

Week of December 29

Material Offerings and Full-time Service

“I exhort you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.” (Rom. 12:1)

“For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself; for whether we live, we live to the Lord, and whether we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore whether we live or we die, we are the Lord's.” (Rom. 14:7-8)

Today, when we speak of handing ourselves over, we are not talking about what we have to do to take care of our money. Rather, we are saying that a person has to offer himself up for the Lord and for the gospel.

First He wants us; then He wants what is ours. We ourselves have to come to Him first before we can bring what we have to Him. If we do not come, God will not accept what we have. All the brothers and sisters have to see that everything is for the Lord and that everything has to center around the Lord…Although some function in their money-making ministry while others function in their ministry of the word, the center for both must be the same. (The Resumption of Watchman Nee's Ministry, vol. 1, pp. 310-311)

To be full-time does not mean that you need to give up your job. To be a full-timer means that whatever you do, you do to the Lord; whatever you are, you are to the Lord; and whatever you have, you have to the Lord. If you remain in a job, you remain there to the Lord. If you leave your job, you leave it to the Lord. As long as you are to the Lord you are a full-timer.

Let us rise up to go full-time, either by dropping our jobs to go out or by remaining in our jobs to make more money and give every cent to the Lord's move…The wise way is that we all take the full-time way…This is what the Lord needs! (Elders' Training, Book 8: The Life-pulse of the Lord's Present Move, pp. 121-123, 126-127)

More Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ in 2025

The December Semiannual Training was held last week in Anaheim and by video in LA. The general subject was “Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (2).” Video trainings will continue to take place in the coming weeks and months around the world.

Please pray:

For the Lord to advance His move on the whole earth through the operation of His word for the building up of His Body and the preparation of His bride.
For the saints to digest and assimilate the rich content through their spending time with the Lord and applying what they heard in prayer, until all the points become their experience and enjoyment.
For the saints and the churches to advance in 2025 in the experience and enjoyment of Christ, so that Christ would be formed in us by our allowing Him as the all-inclusive Spirit to occupy, possess, and saturate our mind, emotion, and will, until every part of our inner being bears the image of Christ for Him to gain a fuller expression of Himself on the earth.

Bibles for America

The past year has been full of challenges and upheaval. The world situation continues to be volatile, and people everywhere are full of anxiety. Bibles for America has also faced difficulties, including shipping delays, increasing costs, and changes to marketing platforms. Despite everything, we praise God that we have His Word as a sure foundation on which to stand.

In 2024, we began exploring different ways of reaching people with God's Word, such as social media and audio streaming advertising. We are also happy to share that the video studio has been completed, enabling us to produce more videos on the truth and the Christian experience. Please continue to stand with us in prayer as we seek the Lord's blessing on this labor.

Atlanta Meeting Hall

The church in Atlanta is burdened to rebuild their meeting hall after a fire in June 2020 caused extensive damage to the hall. Currently, an additional $3 million is needed to meet the estimated total cost of $12 million. Saints in LA who are burdened may participate financially through the church in Los Angeles and designate their offerings for ‘Atlanta Meeting Hall.'

Further details, including proposed architectural renderings, are at hall.churchinatlanta.org.

French-speaking Europe

A number of gospel trips will be taking place from late January to early February. Please pray for the Lord to open the hearts of the people and to bring His seekers in contact with us.

Let us also continue to ask the Lord to supply all the saints who live in French-speaking Europe, and all who are there on “shepherding trips” for weeks or months, to labor diligent in ministering Christ to the seeking contacts so that these ones may grow in truth and life and be added to the church. Beseech the Lord to thrust out more workers into this harvest and to release the long-term visas.

For all the latest reports of the gospel and shepherding trips, click here.

The Lord's Move in Europe

Please pray for the migration of burdened saints to strengthen the Lord's testimony in nine critical European cities in 2025—Paris, Geneva, Brussels, Belfast, Dublin, Vienna, Prague, Rome, and Athens.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 3 of Material Offerings and the Lord's Move Today. Next week, we will cover Week 5 from this book. After that, we will get into Galatians with recommended resources.
Winter SCYP Blending Conference: January 11 to 12 in Anaheim. Please contact serving ones for event and registration details.
SoCal Spanish-speaking Conference: January 17 to 19 at the Ministry Conference Center, Anaheim. Pray for the Lord's abundant blessing during this time. The sessions are open to all the saints. All relevant information is posted at conf.socalspanish.org.
FTTA: A video of the graduation meeting on December 21 is available for a limited time at ftta.org.
LSM Conferences & Trainings: Information on upcoming Living Stream Ministry “feasts” can be found at lsm.org/announcements/events.html.
Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Ruiyu Wu

Week of December 22

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2024 December Semiannual Training

The December Semiannual Training is being held this week in Anaheim from December 23 to 28. The general subject is “Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (2).” In addition to the saints attending in person in Anaheim, many saints all over the earth will participate by video.

Please pray for the release of the Lord's up-to-date speaking to His whole Body and for the advance of the Lord's move on the whole earth through the operation of His word for the building up of His Body and the preparation of His bride.

FTTA

Last weekend, trainees graduated from the FTTA. Please continue to pray for all these ones to follow the Lamb wherever He may go. Pray also for many college graduates and young working saints to answer God's call to go to the FTTA next term. A video of the graduation meeting is available at ftta.org.

Santa Barbara

Please pray for the Lord encourage and lead younger couples and families to move to Santa Barbara/Goleta to strengthen the church and shepherd the students.

Bibles for America

In 2024, we began exploring different ways of reaching people with God's Word, such as social media and audio streaming advertising. We're also happy to share that the video studio has been completed, enabling us to produce more videos on the truth and the Christian experience. Please continue to stand with us in prayer as we seek the Lord's blessing on this labor.

French-speaking Europe

Beseech the Lord to supply all the saints who live in French-speaking Europe, and all who are there on “shepherding trips” for weeks or months, to labor diligent in ministering Christ to the seeking contacts so that these ones may grow in truth and life and be added to the church. Also beseech the Lord to thrust out more workers into this harvest and to release the long-term visas.

For archived reports of the gospel and shepherding trips, click here.

Madrid House Purchase

Pray that the Lord will release the funds to complete the purchase of the house next to the meeting hall in Madrid, Spain to greatly expand the usefulness of the church's property to the church there and the Lord's move in the Iberian Peninsula. Specifically, pray that the remaining 16,900 Euros would be provided by January 6, 2025. The final installment will be due in March.

A detailed letter can be downloaded at lme.org/reports.html. As the Lord leads, saints in LA may participate in giving through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Madrid House.”

The Lord's Move in Europe

Announcements

Morning Revival: Repeat Week 12 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1) or enjoy verses and content from the Semiannual Training. Starting Monday, December 30, we will pursue Week 3 of Material Offerings and the Lord's Move Today.
Thanksgiving Conference: Recordings are on lsmwebcast.com at no charge until December 31.
SAVE THE DATE: The 2024 Winter SCYP Blending Conference will be January 11 to 12 in Anaheim. Please contact serving ones for event and registration details.
LSM Conferences & Trainings: Information on upcoming Living Stream Ministry “feasts” can be found at lsm.org/announcements/events.html.
Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Jeremy Tsai

Week of December 15

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The Church as the Kingdom of God, the Expansion of Christ

“…He presented Himself alive after His suffering by many irrefutable proofs, appearing to them through a period of forty days and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God.” (Acts 1:3)

“Proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, unhindered.” (Acts 28:31)

Luke's writing [of Acts] both begins (1:3) and ends [28:31] with the kingdom of God.

The fact that the proclaiming of the kingdom is the propagation of the resurrected Christ is proved by the words teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ in 28:31. This indicates that the kingdom of God goes together with the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. To teach people the things concerning Christ is to spread the kingdom of God. Therefore, the kingdom of God is actually the propagation of the resurrected Christ.

This book was not actually ended; rather, it was left open that more may be added. The reason for this must have been that the work of the Holy Spirit in preaching Christ for His propagation, multiplication, and spread through the believers of Christ was not yet completed and needed to be continued for a long period of time. Such an evangelistic work for Christ's propagation, multiplication, and spread is according to God's New Testament economy for the producing of many sons for God (Rom. 8:29) that they might be the members of Christ to constitute His Body (12:5) for the carrying out of God's eternal plan and the fulfillment of His eternal will. This is revealed in detail in the twenty-one Epistles and the book of Revelation, which follow Acts. The church produced by Christ's propagation and multiplication is the sphere in which God is expressed and in which He reigns in Christ; hence, the church becomes the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God, along with Christ's propagation and multiplication, grows out of and spreads from God's life. Acts is a record of the spreading of Christ; it is also a record of the kingdom of God, because the kingdom of God is the expansion of Christ. The gospel that is widely preached in this book is the very Christ as the gospel (5:42), the gospel of Christ, and it is also the kingdom of God as the gospel (8:12), the gospel of the kingdom of God. The preaching of such a gospel will continue and advance until the whole earth becomes the kingdom of Christ (Rev. 11:15). (Life-study of Acts, 2nd ed., pp. 605-606)

2024 December Semiannual Training

The December Semiannual Training will be held in Anaheim from December 23 to 28. The general subject is “Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (2).” In addition to the saints attending in person in Anaheim, many saints all over the earth will participate by video. Please pray for the release of the Lord's up-to-date speaking to His whole Body and for the advance of the Lord's move on the whole earth through the operation of His word for the building up of His Body and the preparation of His bride.

FTTA Graduations

This Saturday, December 21, the graduation meeting for the 2024 Fall Class of the Full-time Training in Anaheim starts at 9:30 am at the Ministry Conference Center. Saints are warmly invited to attend in person or online at www.ftta.org/graduation.php. In the afternoon, the Middle-age Training (FTTA-MA) graduation starts at 3:00 pm at 1853 W Ball Rd and will also be live-streamed at a different link.

Please pray for the 30 FTTA and 23 FTTA-MA graduates, for their presentations this Saturday, and for them to “follow the Lamb wherever He may go” after the training (Rev. 14:4). May these dear ones continue to pursue Christ, gain Him, live Him, and minister Him for the building up of the Body.

The Church in Santa Barbara

The brothers in the church in Santa Barbara have been in fellowship and prayer for younger families to move there to strengthen the church life and to support the college work at the UCSB campus. Also there are students at Santa Barbara City College with a potential to join our Bible studies and church meetings. Currently, one brother is taking the lead with this heavy burden and thus there is the need for others to join in and share the burden of shepherding these students.

May the Lord encourage and lead younger couples and families to move to Santa Barbara/Goleta to strengthen the church and shepherd the students. Praise the Lord for His move on these campuses!

Geneva, Switzerland

Geneva is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous in the French-speaking part of the country. It is consistently ranked among the top 10 cities in the world for quality of living. Earlier this year, many saints visited Geneva as part of the Olympic Gospel Trips. Through the fellowship of the co-workers in Europe, it is now one of the nine critical European cities targeted in 2025 for migration to strengthen the Lord's testimony there. Please pray:

For solid couples/families to migrate to Geneva and that they would have the capacity to open their homes and join the local saints in cherishing and nourishing the new ones.
For a group of saints in Geneva to be vitalized and begin practicing the God-ordained way.
For the saints in Geneva to be coordinated with the serving team in Paris for the follow-up care.
For the saints in Geneva to be more blended with the other localities in Switzerland and France for the reality of the Body of Christ.
For the Lord to raise up a shining golden lampstand in Geneva and in many French cities for the carrying out His divine economy.

Madrid House Purchase

A detailed letter can be downloaded at lme.org/reports.html. As the Lord leads, saints in LA may participate in giving through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Madrid House.”

Australia

This week there will be a Training for Serving Brothers (December 19 to 20) followed by the National Blending Conference (December 20 to 24) in Sydney, Australia. Please pray for this important annual gathering of the saints in Australia during their summer holiday. The conference topic will be “Living in the Reality of the Kingdom of God,” based on the messages given at the October ITERO. Two brothers from Southern California, including one from Los Angeles, are en route to Australia to minister to the saints for this training and conference. Please pray specifically:

For the training of the serving brothers to perfect them in their one accord and their common fellowship for the building up of the Body of Christ.
For the blending of the 11 churches in Australia that will be represented there, including saints from other areas too, with sweet fellowship and harmony throughout the blending conference.
For the ministry of the word concerning the reality of the kingdom of God such that the saints can (1) live this personally and privately before God, (2) as well as corporately, which spontaneously issues in the genuine church life (Rom 14:17), and (3) spread this gospel of the kingdom throughout Australia.
For the covering of the saints' traveling and health.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 12 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1). Next week, repeat Week 12 or enjoy verses and content from the Semiannual Training. Starting Monday, December 30, we will pursue Week 3 of Material Offerings and the Lord's Move Today.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The final ministry meeting of the fall term is this Wednesday starting at 7:25 pm. Saints are invited to join online or in person at the Ministry Conference Center.
SAVE THE DATE: The 2024 Winter SCYP Blending Conference will be January 11 to 12 in Anaheim. Please contact serving ones for event and registration details.
Thanksgiving Conference: Recordings are on lsmwebcast.com at no charge until December 31.
LSM Conferences & Trainings: Information on upcoming Living Stream Ministry “feasts” can be found at lsm.org/announcements/events.html.
Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Ruiyu Wu

Week of December 8

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Experiencing and Enjoying God as Our Father

“Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” (2 Thes. 1:1)

“Yet to us there is one God, the Father, out from whom are all things, and we are unto Him.” (1 Cor. 8:6a)

The Father's house, the church, is in God the Father. For the church to be in God the Father, God must become the Father to us, and we need to have a life relationship with Him. We can call God our Father because we have been born of Him, and now, as His children, we have a life relationship with Him (Rom. 8:15-16).

For the church to be in God the Father means that the church is in the One who is the unique source, the Originator and Initiator. To know God as the Father is to know that everything originates from Him and that everything proceeds from Him. In the church life the Father should be the unique source, and we all should be in His unique purpose and plan. (Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1), msg. 11, III, A, 4, B, 1-2)

May we all advance in our experience and enjoyment of God as our Father to be built up as His house for His dwelling and expression.

Living the Kingdom Life by Living a Hidden Life

“When you pray, enter into your private room, and shut your door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you.” (Matt. 6:6)

“And after He sent the crowds away, He went up to the mountain privately to pray. And when night fell, He was there alone.” (Matt. 14:23)

We have to learn to leave the crowds, our family, our friends, and the saints in the church to go to a higher level on a “high mountain”; we have to get to a higher level, separated from the crowd and the earthly things, to be with the Father privately and secretly to have intimate fellowship with Him. Our Father is in secret, and He sees in secret; the kingdom people, as children of the heavenly Father, must live in and care for the Father's secret and hidden presence. The kingdom people must have some experience of prayer in their private room, contacting their heavenly Father in secret, experiencing some secret enjoyment of the Father, and receiving some secret answer from Him. (October 2024 ITERO, Living in the Reality of the Kingdom of God, msg. 2, I.B.3, II.A, F)

May all of us follow the secret pattern of our Lord!

Germany – University Conference Follow-up

The Lord brought together 191 students and serving ones, primarily from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, to be under His speaking this past weekend at Gut Elim. The subject of the conference was “Eat and Live,” and the messages traced the journey of the children of Israel from being slaves in Egypt to entering the good land, with a major underlying burden being the three stages of eating in our Christian life—eating Christ as the Passover lamb, eating Christ as the heavenly manna, and eating Christ as the produce of the good land. Please pray:

That the Lord's hand will follow His word.
That those who joined the conference will mix the word they heard with faith so that it will profit them.
That the Lord will continue to work in this generation of young people to prepare for Himself a people who will match Him in His ultimate move at the end of this age.

Iberian Peninsula Conference

This year's Iberian Peninsula Conference will take place December 13 to 15 in Torremolinos (Málaga), Spain. Please pray for the blending of the saints and Lord's timely speaking for the advance of the Lord's move on the Iberian Peninsula.

Luxembourg

Luxembourg is a small country bordered by France, Belgium, and Germany. From late July to early September, there were five gospel trips to Luxembourg as part of the Lord's move in Francophone Europe. Since then there have been short-term visiting saints for shepherding the contacts made during the summer and meeting with the family already solidly in the recovery.

In late November a couple from Brazil arrived for longer term shepherding, since a number of contacts are from Portugal. They have already had multiple good appointments. Ask the Lord to supply the couple with the apartment they need and to open more appointments with contacts there. May the Lord gain a solid testimony in Luxembourg!

Tajikistan

Tajikistan is a secular Muslim country in Central Asia with a population of 9 million. The main language is Tajik, but most people are also fluent in Russian. The largest city is the capital, Dushanbe. Please pray that the Lord would bless the promotion of Rhema books and give the saints wisdom to be sowers of the divine word. Also pray for the door of the gospel to be opened on campus and for the gaining of high-quality students, that the saints can bear at least four remaining fruit in the new year.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 11 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1).
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The ministry meeting continues this Wednesday 7:25 pm.
Thanksgiving Conference: Recordings are on lsmwebcast.com at no charge until December 31.
FTTA: The graduation meeting of the Fall 2024 class will be Saturday, December 21 at 9:30 am.
A Timely Speaking of Supply: Enjoy a free weekly video from messages given by Brother Lee at lsm.org/timely-speaking.html.
LSM Digital Resources: Living Stream Ministry's many digital resources, including newsletters and free booklets, may be enjoyed at lsm.org/daily.
GTCA: To learn more about the burden for migration within North America, visit gtca.us.
Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Jeremy Tsai

Week of December 1

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Oneness in Glorification with the Divine Glory

“He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of Him who sent Him, this One is true, and unrighteousness is not in Him.” (John 7:18)

“And the glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as We are one; I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me.” (John 17:22-23)

If we would be one in the divine glory, we must forsake and forget ourselves. It must be no longer I but Christ who lives in me (Gal. 2:20). The “I” has been crucified, and the self must be denied that Christ may live in us. We must not only renounce the world but also ourselves. On the one hand, we have been sanctified from so many worldly places and worldly things and have come home to the Father's house. On the other hand, each of us has his opinions, thoughts, or ideas. If this is the situation, how can we be one? Once we were separated into various worldly places, but now, having come home, we may still have trouble with the self. For this reason we must not live by our own life but by the life of glory, the divine life.

In this aspect of oneness, the believers, their self having been fully denied, enjoy the glory of the Father as the factor of their perfected oneness and thus express God in a corporate, built-up way. (Life-study of John, 2nd ed., pp. 469, 471)

Loving the Lord for Growth in Life

“Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him.” (John 14:23)

In order to grow in life for God's building, we must love the Lord (Thanksgiving Conference, msg 3, III.A). During this message we were encouraged to read Practical Lessons on the Experience of Life, chapter 16 (CWWL, 1964, vol. 4). The Lord Jesus asks us to believe in Him and to love Him. We must have faith in Him, and we must have love toward Him. It may be good that we pray for a few weeks, even when we come together for the prayer meeting, “Lord, show us this love, and grant us such a love.” We must learn to love the Lord…When we start to love the Lord, we start to grow.

We need to pray that the Lord would touch the hearts of many saints. Among us we need this love…The source, the origin, of the fall of the church is the loss of the first love (Rev. 2:4). (Practical Lessons…)

Lord, daily grant us a love for You!

Thanksgiving Conference Recordings

The 2024 Thanksgiving Blending Conference was held last weekend in Atlanta. The general subject was “Living the Christian Life and Church Life Under the Government of God for the Economy of God.”

Let us pray for the divine riches and burden from the conference to enter into and operate in all the saints for their advancement in the enjoyment of Christ and the growth in life unto maturity. Pray for as many saints as possible to review the messages at www.lsmwebcast.com so that the Lord's burden could be received and absorbed throughout His recovery.

Church in Los Angeles

The whole church in Los Angeles—all halls, districts, and languages—will meet together starting at 10:00 am on Lord's Day, December 8 at Hall 2 (8655 Haskell Ave). There will be translation to Chinese, Korean, and Spanish via FM radio as well as on Zoom. Lunch will be provided afterwards for more blending among the saints.

Please pray for a healthy attendance and blending, and for the timely speaking of the Lord to shepherd all the saints in the church. Lord, release Your speaking and Your burden into us for Your moving onward in each of us and in the whole of Los Angeles!

Semiannual Video Training Registrations

The general subject of the upcoming Semiannual Training, December 23 to 28, is “Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (2).” For saints in LA, the firm registration deadline to participate in this training by webcast is this Lord's Day, December 8 ($130). Registration is at tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla.

Please pray for the release and receiving of the Lord's speaking in this training. 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. (For more fellowship on the history and significance of the semiannual trainings, see the April 2022 issue of "Having This Ministry…")

FTTL Graduation

The Full-time Training in London will hold its graduation for the 2024 fall semester on December 7. Pray that the graduating trainees will continue to love the Lord and to pursue the growth in life and the constitution with the truth to become useful vessels for the building up of the Lord's testimony in Europe.

Brussels, Belgium

Please pray for the gathering of the saints and the new ones and for the Lord's speaking this weekend, December 7 to 8, in Brussels, Belgium. The conference will be on “Body-consciousness.” May the Lord's up-to-date speaking meet the particular need at this time and the saints be more blended for the reality of the Body of Christ.

Madrid House Purchase

In September 2018 a meeting hall was purchased for the church in Madrid, Spain. In March 2021, one of the houses next to the meeting hall was purchased. Having these properties allowed the church in Madrid to take better care of visiting saints, gather all the responsible brothers of the Iberian Peninsula, and serve as one of the European hubs for FTTA gospel trips.

On August 17 of this year, the owner of the other house next to the meeting hall notified us that she wanted to sell and gave us the first right of refusal. The two-story, three-bedroom house is in very good move-in condition and the asking price of €1.36 million (around US$1.5 million) is reasonable. With this additional property, the entire city block will be owned by the church.

In order to fulfill the purchase contract for this house, 28,760 Euros are needed by January 6, 2025; 610,000 Euros more are needed by March 6, 2025. Please pray for the advancement of the Lord's move on the Iberian Peninsula through the purchase of this property.

A letter in English, Spanish, and Chinese can be downloaded at lme.org/reports.html. As the Lord leads, saints in LA may participate in giving through the Church in Los Angeles designated for “Madrid House.”

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 10 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1). Next week, after our LA Joint Meeting, proceed to Week 11.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The ministry meeting continues this Wednesday 7:25 pm.
Semiannual Video Training: This Lord's Day, December 8 is the firm deadline for LA saints to register for the video training (December 23 to 28) at tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla.
Thanksgiving Conference: Recordings are on lsmwebcast.com at no charge until December 31.
FTTA: The graduation meeting of the Fall 2024 class will be Saturday, December 21 at 9:30 am.
A Timely Speaking of Supply: Enjoy a free weekly video from messages given by Brother Lee at lsm.org/timely-speaking.html.
Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Jeremy Tsai

Week of November 24

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God Is Able and We Are Not

“And on the next day Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony, and there was the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi: it had budded; it even put forth buds and produced blossoms and bore ripe almonds.” (Num. 17:8)

“And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.” (Gen. 21:2)

“…Jesus said to them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” (Matt. 19:26)

After the children of Israel rebelled, as recorded in Numbers 16, God commanded the twelve leaders to take twelve rods according to the twelve tribes of Israel and put them in the Tent of the Testimony before the Ark. Then He said, “The rod of the man whom I choose shall bud” (17:5). All twelve rods were leafless, rootless, dry, and dead. Whichever one budded was the one chosen by God. Here we see that resurrection is the basis of God's selection and that the basis of service is something apart from our natural life. Thus, the budding rod signifies our experience of Christ in His resurrection as our acceptance by God for authority in the God-given ministry.

Resurrection means that everything is of God and not of us. It means that God alone is able and that we are not able. All of those who know resurrection have given up hope in themselves. They know that they cannot make it. As long as the natural strength remains, the power of resurrection has no ground for manifestation. As long as Sarah could conceive a child, Isaac would not come. 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. Only the Spirit can be a Christian, and only the Spirit can be an overcomer. (Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1), msg. 9, I.D.1, 2, 5, 6, 9)

Thanksgiving Conference

The 2024 International Thanksgiving Blending Conference takes place this weekend, November 28 to December 1, in Atlanta. The general subject is “Living a Christian Life and Church Life Under the Government of God for the Economy of God.” The live schedule is below. Please note that listed start times are EST (3 hours ahead of PST):

Meeting 1: Thursday, November 28………. 7:30 PM
Meeting 2: Friday, November 29………….. 10:00 AM
Meeting 3: Friday, November 29………….... 7:30 PM
Meeting 4: Saturday, November 30……….10:00 AM
Meeting 5: Saturday, November 30……….. 7:30 PM
Meeting 6: Lord's Day, December 1………. 9:30 AM

The six conference messages will be broadcast live at www.lsmwebcast.com. They will also be accessible for viewing anytime until December 31 in the “Archives” section without a subscription. Outlines are already available for download on the site.

Let us prepare ourselves for this upcoming time of ministry and sanctify these days for the hearing of faith among us. Please pray for the release of the Lord's timely word to the whole Body. Pray also that the saints not attending in-person would make use of the online provision to get into the messages, that as many saints as possible may receive this word.

Church in Los Angeles

The whole church in Los Angeles—all halls, districts, and languages—will meet together starting at 10:00 am on Lord's Day, December 8 at Hall 2. Lunch will be provided afterwards for the saints to enjoy more blending. Please pray for all the preparation and coordination and for the saints to attend.

Lord, release Your speaking and Your burden into us for Your moving onward in each of us and in the whole of Los Angeles!

FTTA

The application deadline for the Spring 2025 term of the Full-time Training in Anaheim is this Saturday, November 30. Please pray for many college graduates and young working saints to answer God's call to go to the training in next term.

United States

A quiet and tranquil life is one that is peaceable, still, and without disturbance, not only outwardly in circumstances but also inwardly in our heart and spirit. Such a life enables us to have an enjoyable church life in godliness and gravity. (1 Tim. 2:2, note 1)

After last month's elections, the nominees for high positions in the government have brought forth strong reactions, some positive, some negative. Let us petition the Lord that those who take office in January will be for a quiet and tranquil life both outwardly and also inwardly in our hearts.

France – Shepherding Trips

Urk, The Netherlands

For a number of years a group of faithful saints have been meeting regularly in Urk, a town in the central Netherlands. This Lord's Day, December 1 they will hold the first Lord's table meeting as the church in that city. Please pray for the leading brothers in their being a pattern and in their shepherding of the saints according to God, and for all the saints in their experiencing, enjoying, and expressing Christ for His testimony in Urk.

The Lord's Move in Europe

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 9 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1).
No Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: There is no ministry meeting this week due to preparations for Thanksgiving Conference. The meeting will resume next week, December 4.
Semiannual Training: December 23 to 28 in Anaheim. Lord's Day, December 8 is the firm deadline to register for the video training in LA at tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla.
Europe Blending Fellowship: A message given by Ron Kangas on “Doing the Will of God in the Two Systems of God in the Universe” after the October ITERO can be viewed at lsm.org/blending.
Bibles for America's blog post “Knowing the Truth concerning God's Forgiveness” is at blog.bfa.org.
Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers free e-booklets to read and share. For example, sixty nuggets and gems have been extracted from the Life-study of Philippians with timely topics such as “The Rich Word for Living Christ” and “The Way to Be Freed from Anxiety.” These e-booklets may be accessed for free at www.lsm.org/life-study-philippians.
Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Jeremy Tsai

Week of November 17

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Experiencing Christ as the Life-giving Spirit

“But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.” (John 7:39)

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

As the last Adam in the flesh, through the process of death and resurrection, He “became a life-giving Spirit” (1 Cor. 15:45). As He is the embodiment of the Father, so the Spirit is the realization, the reality, of Him. It is as the Spirit that He was breathed into the disciples. It is as the Spirit that He is received into His believers and flows out of them as rivers of living water (John 7:38-39). It is as the Spirit that through His death and resurrection He came back to the disciples, entered into them as their Comforter, and began to abide in them (14:16-17). It is as the Spirit that He can live in the disciples and enable them to live by and with Him (v. 19). It is as the Spirit that He can abide in the disciples and enable them to abide in Him (v. 20; 15:4-5). (Life-study of John, 2nd ed. pp. 535)

The normal Christian life depends upon our knowing and experiencing the Spirit; without Christ being the life-giving Spirit, we cannot experience anything of God in His economy. (Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1), msg. 8, II.D)

2024 International Thanksgiving Blending Conference

The International Thanksgiving Blending Conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia from November 28 to December 1. Please pray for all the saints traveling, for the speaking brothers and their families, and for all the practical preparations and services. Pray also that as many saints as possible will participate through webcast, whether by watching individually or with others. May the Lord take more crucial steps in the advancement of His purpose during this gathering!

Both live and archived messages will be available for free (without subscription) until December 31 via the “Thanksgiving Conf.” button at lsmwebcast.com. Conference outlines will be available to download beginning Thursday, November 21.

SoCal College Conference Follow-up

Thank you, saints, for your prayers for this past weekend's college conference at Oak Glen. Nearly 200 college students from around Southern California attended, which is an excellent turnout! A total of 75 saints from LA attended, including 47 students (18 of whom did not grow up in the church life). From the first meeting we could sense the Lord's blessing, as the atmosphere was full of joy and some of our students were aggressive to share right away. Throughout the weekend we could sense the Lord's particular speaking and shepherding of each student. The fellowship during mealtimes, in cabins, and in groups was also quite sweet, and the students made an effort to blend with others.

Please continue to pray for the Lord to bring our students on in their experience and enjoyment of Christ according to what they have seen this past weekend!

FTTA

The application deadline for the Spring 2025 term of the Full-time Training in Anaheim is Saturday, November 30. Please pray for many college graduates and young working saints to answer God's call to go to the training in next term.

French-speaking Europe

Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans

The Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans (CEEB) geographical region encompasses the northern part of Central Europe, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. It also touches Romania in the east before turning south to the Balkan countries, including Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, and Turkey.

Today there are approximately 700 adult saints meeting in 34 local churches in the eleven countries mentioned above. Please pray for them to continue faithfully in giving the Lord the cooperation He needs and desires for the carrying out of His move in this region before the end of this age.

The next CEEB Blending Conference will be May 16 to 18, 2025 in Budapest, Hungary.

Things Which Must Quickly Take Place (Rev. 22:6)

“The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.” (1 Cor. 10:26)

“The king's heart is like streams of water in the hand of Jehovah; He turns it wherever He wishes.” (Prov. 21:1)

For the Lord's visible manifestation (Matt. 24:30) and the seven preceding years (Rev. 11:2, note 4; Dan. 9:27, note 1), Europe and Israel are the crucial geographic regions. Leaders in both regions are considering how to get ready for and respond to potential U.S. policies when the President-elect takes office. Petition the Lord that His will be fully accomplished to prepare the relationships between the United States, Europe, and Israel for those seven years.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 8 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1).
SAVE THE DATE: Lord's Day, December 8 we will have our fall LA Joint Meeting—all halls, all languages—beginning 10:00 am at Hall 2. Lunch will be provided.
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The ministry meeting continues this week starting 7:25 pm.
Semiannual Training: December 23 to 28 in Anaheim. The firm deadline to register for video training in LA is December 8 at tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla.
Bibles for America's latest blog post “Knowing the Truth concerning God's Forgiveness” is at blog.bfa.org.
Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers free e-booklets to read and share. For example, sixty nuggets and gems have been extracted from the Life-study of Philippians with timely topics such as “The Rich Word for Living Christ” and “The Way to Be Freed from Anxiety.” These e-booklets may be accessed for free at www.lsm.org/life-study-philippians.
Europe Blending Fellowship: A recording of the fellowship during the post-ITERO blending conference in Warsaw can be viewed at lsm.org/blending. The video begins with a 78‑minute speaking by Brother Ron Kangas and concludes with reports on the Lord's present move in Europe. Translation is available by following instructions for selecting a language track.
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.

by Jeremy Tsai

Week of November 10

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The Bread of Life and the Word of Life

“As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.” (John 6:57)

The primary purpose for which the Lord Jesus came down out of heaven to the earth was to accomplish one central matter—to give Himself to us as food—the bread of life—so that He could be eaten by us as spiritual nourishment and be digested by us to become our constitution.

“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.” (John 6:63)

Chapter 6 of John closes with the word of life, which is the means for us to receive the Lord as the bread of life. If we receive the Word, we will have the Spirit, and if we have the Spirit within us, we will have Christ as the inner supply of life. May we all realize that our need is Christ as our life supply and then daily contact Him as the life-giving Spirit embodied in the Word. (Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1), msg. 7, II, IV.G, 1-2)

United States

“…His grace, which He caused to abound to us in all wisdom and prudence, making known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure…to head up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in Him.” (Eph. 1:7-10)

Following last week's elections, let us all give ourselves to cooperating with the Lord in prayer and to enjoying the Lord's abounding grace that we may: 1) know more of the mystery of God's will and see it worked out around us; 2) continue to pray for His will to be accomplished at every level of government in the United States; and 3) be headed up more in Christ so that through the church He can head up all things in the heavens and on earth.

SoCal College Conference

This weekend, November 15 to 17, college students from mostly quarter system schools will gather at Oak Glen for the second of two college conferences. We will be covering the topic of “The Wonderful Jesus in Matthew and Mark.” From Los Angeles, we have 48 students from the Westside and Valley areas registered. For around half of these students, it will be their first time attending the college conference and need much prayer.

Please pray for:

The Lord to unveil Himself to each student in a very personal and fresh way.
The students to come forward to Lord, leaving behind all other concerns and distractions, as they sing, fellowship, and listen to the messages.

United Kingdom – Autumn University Conference

This weekend, November 15 to 17, there is a conference for university students taking place in Doncaster, UK. The total number registered for this conference is 226, including 86 serving ones, 30 FTTL trainees, and 106 students. The general subject will be “The Two Joys.”

Please pray:

That the hearts of all those attending will be softened and prepared for the Lord's speaking.
That each one will see the Lord's joy set before Him to have the church, will have a divine sense of value concerning the church, will see that the Christian life is a life of enjoyment, and will enjoy the Lord Jesus as the coming Bridegroom to hasten our marriage to Him.
That the enemy will be bound in every way, be put to open shame, and suffer loss in every aspect of the conference and in the lives of our next generation.

French-speaking Europe

“The harvest is great, but the workers few; therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest that He would thrust out workers into His harvest.” (Matt. 9:37-38)

Beseech the Lord to supply all the saints who live in French-speaking Europe, and all who are there for weeks or months, to shepherd many contacts to growth in truth and life and into the church life. Also beseech the Lord to thrust out more workers into this harvest and to release the visas for them to live in France and in the surrounding nations.

The Lord has been assembling a full-time team to support what the Lord is raising up in the cities where we had gospel trips. Praise the Lord that already 16 have responded to the Lord's call to serve Him among the French-speaking people. Currently, they are meeting in the mornings for prayer and fellowship as they are being blended together. Please continue to pray that by the summer of 2025 there will be at least 20 saints serving in this way.

Azerbaijan

Pray for more high-quality students, the sons of peace who are willing to read the Bible, to be gained, and that the Lord will grant the church four remaining fruits by the end of the year.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 7 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1).
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The ministry meeting continues this week starting at 7:25 pm.
Semiannual Training: December 23 to 28 in Anaheim. Registration for the live training in Anaheim is closed, but for video training in LA remains open until December 8 at tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla.
Thanksgiving Conference: November 28 to December 1 in Atlanta, GA. Interested LA saints can get more information and RSVP at tinyurl.com/thanksgivingconfla.
Bibles for America's recent blog post “What Is the Church according to the Bible?” is at blog.bfa.org.
Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers free e-booklets to read and share. For example, sixty nuggets and gems have been extracted from the Life-study of Philippians with timely topics such as “The Rich Word for Living Christ” and “The Way to Be Freed from Anxiety.” These e-booklets may be accessed for free at www.lsm.org/life-study-philippians.
Post-ITERO Blending Fellowship: A recording of the blending fellowship in Warsaw after the ITERO can be viewed at lsm.org/blending. The fellowship opens with a 78‑minute speaking by Brother Ron Kangas and concludes with several reports on the Lord's present move in Europe. Translation is available by following instructions for selecting a language track.
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.

by Ruiyu Wu

Week of November 3

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The Word of God as the Anointing Spirit

“And John testified, saying, I beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and He abode upon Him.” (John 1:32)

“And He said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, You shall see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” (John 1:51)

Christ as the Word of God speaks for God through His becoming the anointing Spirit for the transformation of God's redeemed people into stones (John 1:32-42) for the building of God's house (Bethel—v. 51)…In His becoming the anointing, life-giving, and transforming Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45), Christ speaks to us further how God carries out His economy organically by His divine life for His divine purpose according to His heart's desire.

We need to be watchful to not allow anything in our daily living to replace Christ as the anointing Spirit in our spirit. Christ is the anointed One becoming the anointing One and also the anointing; to live in the principle of antichrist is to be anti the anointing (anti means “against” and “in place of, instead of”).

To be anti Christ is both to be against Christ and to replace Christ with something else. If we replace Christ with something of our own behavior and character, we are practicing the principle of antichrist in the sense of allowing certain things to replace Christ Himself.

We need to repent for having a daily living in the principle of antichrist, allowing culture, religion, ethics, and natural concepts to replace Christ as the inner anointing; this is to be against the anointing, anti the moving, working, and saturating of the Triune God within us.

We should pray, “Lord, we want to live and walk in, with, through, and by the anointing—the moving, working, and saturating of the Triune God within us.” (Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1), msg. 6, V, A-B.5)

United States

“Our Father who is in the heavens…Your kingdom come; Your will be done, as in heaven, so also on earth.” (Matt. 6:9-10)

Pray for our heavenly Authority to have His way in all the elections. Petition Him to use the outcome of these elections for His will to be accomplished increasingly and His kingdom to be developed further in the United States and on the whole earth.

Ask the Lord to keep all His people at peace in Him, looking to Him, regardless of the results of the elections. Also, if there are contentions after the elections, or if people have disappointments, pray that these would expose the vanity of politics and open more people to the gospel. May these elections and the resulting governments bring us onward to our Lord's return!

Bibles for America

In early October, BfA began to offer free physical copies of The Knowledge of Life to residents of the US and US territories. We first announced the offer to the subscribers of the BfA Blog, and recently started advertising it on social media. So far, we have received over 2,500 orders.

Please pray for all those who have ordered this book, that they would be brought into a deeper experience of God as life in order to fulfill His eternal purpose. Please also pray that the Lord would bless and supply the laboring saints as they prepare and ship all the orders!

SCYP Children's Work Conference

This year's Southern California Children's Work Conference will be conducted in person only in Anaheim this Saturday, November 9 from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm. The conference is for parents with children under 12 years of age and for the saints who are serving with the children's service. Matters related to the burden and vision for the children will be covered along with practical fellowship related to raising up the next generation for the church life. More information is at scyp.com/children.

French-speaking Europe

The wonderful response this year is the result of specific prayer which began in 2021. The saints prayed many days each week with no discussions and no plans for activities, only looking to the Lord for a breakthrough in the gospel and in raising up of churches. This consistent prayer led to coordination in the Body with churches in many nations cooperating in prayer and in the work to let the Lord accomplish far beyond what the churches in France could do alone. Praise the Lord for His move!

“The harvest is great, but the workers few; therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest that He would thrust out workers into His harvest.” (Matt. 9:37-38)

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 6 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1).
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The ministry meeting continues this week starting at 7:25 pm.
Semiannual Training: December 23 to 28 in Anaheim. Registration for the live training in Anaheim is closed, but for video training in LA remains open until December 8 at tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla.
Thanksgiving Conference: November 28 to December 1 in Atlanta, GA. Interested LA saints can get more information on hotel rates and RSVP at tinyurl.com/thanksgivingconfla.
Post-ITERO Blending Fellowship: A recording of the blending fellowship in Warsaw after the ITERO can be viewed at lsm.org/blending. The fellowship opens with a 78‑minute speaking by Brother Ron Kangas and concludes with several reports on the Lord's present move in Europe. Translation is available by following instructions for selecting a language track.
Bibles for America's recent blog post “What Is the Church according to the Bible?” is at blog.bfa.org.
Free e-Booklets: Living Stream Ministry offers free e-booklets to read and share. For example, sixty nuggets and gems have been extracted from the Life-study of Philippians with timely topics such as “Pursue toward the Goal for the Prize of the High Calling” and “The Way to Be Freed from Anxiety.” These e-booklets may be accessed for free at www.lsm.org/life-study-philippians.
The LA Years: Chapter 6: Visiting Seekers Throughout America is published at www.layears.org, an oral history project documenting the early years of the church life in Los Angeles from 1958–1974, including written history, photos, and first-hand accounts.
Ways to Give: Information about the church's online giving platform, Subsplash, and where to mail checks, are at www.churchinlosangeles.org/members/offerings.

by Jeremy Tsai

Week of October 27

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Enjoying Christ as the Real Jubilee

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to announce the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send away in release those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, the year of jubilee.” (Luke 4:18-19)

“…Today this Scripture has been fulfilled…” (Luke 4:21)

Christ has already come, so the age of jubilee is here, but we do not have the jubilee in us unless we have allowed the Lord Jesus to come into us...Even if we have believed into Christ and have allowed Him to come into us, unless we allow Him to live in us and unless we live by Him, we are not practically living in the jubilee. If we live by Christ in a certain matter and allow Him to live in us, we enjoy jubilee in that matter. In this way everything pertaining to that particular matter is to our satisfaction. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 4, “The Jubilee,” pp. 7, 10-11)

The living of the jubilee is a living in the enjoyment of Christ, a living of enjoying God as our inheritance and real freedom. The living of the jubilee is a life in which we take God Himself, Christ Himself, in every situation; then He becomes the primary factor and center in us to overrule all the troubles of human life. Because everything is under His sovereignty, we should pray, “Lord, fill me, gain me, and possess me; no matter what my outward situation is, I just want to enjoy You.” We need to be today's ministers and witnesses by living and proclaiming the gospel—Christ as the jubilee of grace—for the accomplishing of God's eternal economy. (Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1), msg. 5, IV.F, 1-2)

United States

“Immediately I was in spirit; and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and upon the throne there was One sitting.” (Rev. 4:2)

Pray that the saints would see a vision of the throne as the center of God's administration and that they would know that the heavens do rule in the midst of the present world situation.

“I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made on behalf of all men; on behalf of kings and all who are in high position, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all godliness and gravity. This is good and acceptable in the sight of our Savior God, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth..” (1 Tim. 2:1-4)

Pray concerning “kings” and all who are in high position at every level of government, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all godliness and gravity and that men may be saved and come to the full knowledge of the truth.

Semiannual Training Live Registrations

This Thursday, October 31 is the firm deadline for saints in LA and Santa Clarita to register for the upcoming in-person December Semiannual Training in Anaheim ($205). Video training registrations will be due later on December 8 ($130). To register, go to tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla.

May the Lord grant us to highly value the semiannual trainings and encourage one another to have a heart for these trainings, and may the Lord grace us to bear the burden to pray for the semiannual trainings so that He as the seven Spirits of God may have an unhindered way to continue to speak the present truth to the churches.

North & South America Korean-speaking Conference

This weekend, there will a blending conference for Korean-speaking saints in both North and South America. The subject is “Living in the Reality of the Kingdom of God.” The two conference sessions are Saturday, November 2 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm and Lord's Day, November 3 from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm PST. All information and Zoom links are at tinyurl.com/2024KoreanConf.

Please pray for all the Korean-speaking saints in the Americas to join this conference and enjoy the reality of the Body through the blending in the up-to-date words of the ministry.

SoCal College Conference

This weekend, November 1 to 3, college students from mostly semester system schools will gather at Oak Glen for the first of two college conferences. We will be covering the topic of “The Wonderful Jesus in Matthew and Mark.” From LA, we have 15 students from the downtown area (mostly USC students) planning to attend. Among these ones, many are very new and need much prayer! Please pray:

For the Lord to unveil Himself to each student in a very personal and fresh way.
For the students to come forward to Lord, leaving behind all other concerns and distractions, as they sing, fellowship, and listen to the messages.
For the shepherding and feeding of the newer students, including a good number who need to get transferred out of Satan's kingdom and into God's kingdom through baptism!

The Lord's Move in French-speaking Europe

“Another Angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and much incense was given to Him to offer with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.” (Rev. 8:3)

Christ (the Angel, cf. Rev. 7:2, note 1), through the intercession at the incense altar, manages the universe. This intercession is the corporate Christ including “the prayers of all the saints.”

The seed of the Lord's present move in French-speaking Europe was sown in 2021 when a small group of saints began to pray for the Lord to have a breakthrough in gaining more people and for more lampstands in French-speaking cities. These saints had no plan for a work but they were not content to have the situation remain the same. They met to pray a number of times every week; they did not discuss what to do and were not even considering the Olympics; they simply prayed.

Then the Lord began to move by bringing together co-workers from France, UK, Germany, Spain, and Poland for days of prayer and fellowship. The Lord erased all the boundaries. The fellowship and coordination became the reality of the Body of Christ! The result in this year was beyond what we could ask or think.

Beseech the Lord to continue what He has done, to bless the current shepherding labor, to strengthen the churches, and to raise up new churches in French-speaking Europe.

Expansion of the Lord's Move in Europe

Petition the Lord to spread the lesson of prayer and coordination from France to expand His move to reach all of Europe!

Ukraine and Russia

Please pray concerning the ongoing war, that the Lord will protect the tripartite being of all the saints and will rule in the heavens over every aspect of this situation for the advance of His economy on earth.

Announcements

Morning Revival: Week 5 of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1).
Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting: The ministry meeting continues this week starting at 7:25 pm.
Semiannual Training: December 23 to 28 in Anaheim. Registration is open for LA saints at tinyurl.com/wintertrainingla. Registration due October 31 (live) or December 8 (video).
Post-ITERO Blending Fellowship: A recording of the blending fellowship in Warsaw after the ITERO can be viewed at lsm.org/blending. The fellowship opens with a 78‑minute speaking by Brother Ron Kangas and concludes with several reports on the Lord's present move in Europe. Translation is available by following instructions for selecting a language track.
Bibles for America's recent blog post “What Is the Church according to the Bible?” is at blog.bfa.org.
SCYP Children's Work Conference: Saturday, November 9, conducted in person only in Anaheim. Translation provided. Register by November 3 at scyp.com/children.
Thanksgiving Conference: November 28 to December 1 in Atlanta, GA. Interested LA saints can get more information on hotel rates and RSVP at tinyurl.com/thanksgivingconfla.

by Ruiyu Wu

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