Prayer

Prayer Requests, January 22, 2012

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Christ

Christ is the reality of the law as God's living Word to infuse His living substance into His loving seekers to make us the same as He is in life, nature, and expression (but not in the Godhead) so that we can be the reality of the Body and bring Him back to recover His right over the whole earth. (opening word of Psalms msg. 8)

International Chinese-Speaking Conference

The 2012 International Chinese-Speaking Conference will be January 25-26 in Taipei. Church visiting in Taiwan will be January 27-29.

New Church in Los Angeles Website

We would like to inform all the saints that we have a new website for the church in Los Angeles! Please visit https://churchinlosangeles.org. We hope and pray that this website can be a tool to gain many seeking believers throughout Los Angeles for His testimony. Last week a web programmer from India who has been working with us for the past few months on the construction of the website received the Lord by calling on His name via Skype! Also in the last few days two other seeking Christians have contacted us via the website interested in meeting with us. Please pray for all of these contacts and many more hungry seekers in the Los Angeles area.

For those who use Facebook and Google+ social networks, we have also launched pages for mutual fellowship and for reaching gospel contacts. Visit these pages at http://facebook.com/churchinlosangeles and http://gplus.to/churchinlosangeles. We encourage all of the saints to use the sites freely as gospel tools and to pass them along to friends, coworkers and family members interested in finding a church that by all means some would be saved (1 Cor. 9:22).

FTTA Gospel Trips

This week Tuesday through Friday many trainees and some other saints will depart on gospel trips of 9 to 19 days duration. On these trips they will coordinate with local saints to preach the gospel and shepherd people. Revelation 6:2 says, "And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and he who sits on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went forth conquering and to conquer." This is the preaching of the gospel, based on the victory already won by Christ, manifesting His glory, and overcoming in Him. Let us pray with those traveling for much victorious and glorious overcoming.

Here are the Los Angeles related trainees and their destinations. A list of all the trips is at the right side of https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/.

Santa Barbara Campus Time

Last week was gospel time on the UCSB campus. Students shepherded over the past year were strong participants in reaching other students. During the time there was much prayer and rich enjoyment day by day and house to house. Two students prayed clearly to receive the Lord, at least 87 Recovery Version New Testaments were distributed, and about 40 students are open for further contact.

Please pray for

• Continued shepherding of recently contacted students by on-campus appointments and in homes;
• Rich supply to couples opening homes, to couples supplying food, and to full timers traveling weekly to SB;
• More homes open for students and more saints trained to cherish and nourish students.
  The link to an annotated photo report (for viewing or downloading) is at the right side of https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/.

Indianapolis, Indiana

The city of Indianapolis is building a three-block-long Super Bowl Village for the Super Bowl on Sunday, February 5. Ten days before the Super Bowl, the street and convention center will play host to an interactive festival of football.

We are moving ahead with the burden to distribute BfA offers and Bibles here from January 27 to February 5. Please pray with us for an open door, open hearts, the Lord to send us chosen ones for His building, and no problems with security.

Please pray with us that the Lord will send those that He has chosen to this event, that He will lead us and open the way to contact them, and bountifully sow seeds of the gospel, that He will prepare us, strengthen us, and send us out in oneness with Him to do His work for the increase and building of His Body.

Bloomington, Illinois

The saints from Champaign and the Chicago metropolitan area are laboring weekly on about 30 open believers here. We are caring for these dear saints by weekly appointments, monthly mini-conferences, and periodic meetings in their homes. We have had 8 mini-conferences using the book "The All Inclusive Christ." Five to 15 saints from Bloomington attend these conferences. The obvious need is for some with church life experience to migrate here. Our goal is to have a strong enough core to begin meeting as the church in 2012.

Birmingham, Alabama

The church is looking to buy a home close to campus for housing and campus/church meetings. Please pray for us as we consider the homes available that the Lord would make clear His will for us at this time in this matter.

London

The bookshop officially opened on Monday, January 16. Praise Him! Please pray that the Lord will use the bookshop to sow the seed of the ministry in London, the UK, Europe, and beyond.

Announcements

1. Morning revival: The Four Great Pillars in the Lord's Recovery, week 8.
   Brothers' written summaries of ITERO message 8, which may be useful as a supplement to the morning revival book, are here and here.
2. A report about the mid-December flooding in the Philippines, with donation instructions, is here.

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Prayer Requests, January 15, 2012

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Zion

Psalm 87:2: "Jehovah loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob." Psalm 87 reveals that God's heart is set on Zion with Christ within it. Zion within Jerusalem typifies the overcomers, the perfected and matured God-men, within the church as the heavenly Jerusalem. (Psalms, msg 3) O Lord, perfect us and mature us!

International Chinese-Speaking Conference

The 2012 International Chinese-Speaking Conference will be January 25-26 in Taipei. Church visiting in Taiwan will be January 27-29.

GTCA

Our burden is to gospelize, truthize, and churchize the United States and Canada. This long-term labor is part of the one, unique work of the Lord to propagate his testimony to build up the Body of Christ. This coordinated endeavor requires continued labor and steadfast prayer through this decade and beyond. We can all participate by praying, giving, and going (short-term visits or migrations).

In 2009 to 2011, thirty new churches began meeting in North America. Praise Him!

The 6 minute video GTCA December 2011 Update, shown at the end of the winter training, is at the top of the list of videos at http://gtca.us/videos/. Contact information for the fifteen 2012 cities is at http://gtca.us/2012-cities/.

Upholding the Truth

The Triune God and His word are the truth. The church is the pillar and base upholding and testifying this truth. Petition the Lord for His mercy that we could cooperate with Him
* to be constituted more with truth, and
* to release the truth more in our speaking and on the internet.

FTTA Gospel Trips

Colossians 1:5b-6: "the word of the truth of the gospel, which has come to you, even as it is also in all the world, bearing fruit and growing, as also in you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth." May this word be the testimony in every destination of the gospel trips. Trips will be between January 24 and February 14. At least 250 saints, mostly FTTA trainees, will go in teams to 15 cities in the U.S., 6 nations in Asia, 11 in Europe, 4 in South America, and South Africa. Specific dates and locations are in a list at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/.

Santa Barbara Campus Sowing Time

"Strengthen, O God, that which You have done for us" (Psalm 68:28b). This week Monday evening through Saturday morning is gospel sowing time on the UCSB campus. Participants on the campus include local students, full timers from UCLA, two FTTA trainees, and some from CSUN. Please petition the Lord that:
- the students that have been with us in 2011 will taste the Lord in the gospel flowing out,
- He will have a way to reach those He has called to make them a new crop of fruit for 2012,
- He will take care of all the practical details,
- Santa Barbara community saints will be refreshed in gospelizing and going out even though this time is focused on the campus.

Midwest College Conference

There will be a Midwest College Conference in the Midwest this weekend, January 20-22, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Ken Walker and Stephen Yowell will be going to care for this time, and appreciate prayers from the church in Los Angeles for the Lord's rich blessing.

Please pray that the college students from all over the Midwest would enter into the experience and enjoyment of Christ as their portion as seen in Colossians. The brothers there are very burdened that the Lord would continue to have a new beginning in this area, and that the students really would see, experience, and enjoy Christ as their Good Land, the Reality of all Positive things, the New Man, and as the Word dwelling in them richly!

Australia

Dick Taylor is with the church in Perth, Australia until Tuesday. Wednesday he is with the church in Sydney, and Thursday he returns to Los Angeles. Pray that Australia be full of people experiencing, enjoying, and expressing Christ. In addition, continue to support the traveling brothers in prayer that they be strengthened in spirit, soul, and body for a rich outflow of truth and life.

Philippines

In the early morning of December 16 a flash flood caused by a typhoon swept through the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan City in the southern Philippines causing widespread damage and loss of life. Many who died were swept away as they were sleeping. To date, the number of dead or unaccounted for is over 2000. A more complete report is here.

At such a time of suffering and loss, we encourage all the churches and saints in the Lord's recovery to bear the burden to pray for the dear saints in the southern Philippines and according to the Lord's leading make a financial offering to help restore the saints to their homes. Offerings designated for "Philippines Relief" can be made payable to the church or given through LME at <http://www.lordsmove.org/offerings.html].

San Luis Obispo

Through your prayers the Lord is continuing to move in San Luis Obispo and specifically on the Cal Poly campus. Last week we met with 5 of our new ones on campus; 6 new ones and 11 total in our Friday club Bible Study; 6 new ones and 19 total Saturday night; and 2 new students and 19 total in the Lord's Day meeting.

We were very blessed to have a couple from Huntington Beach join us for the weekend and a student also from Huntington Beach who is hoping to get accepted into Cal Poly for the Fall.

We hope you can pray for our GTCA week when 6 to 7 FTTA saints join us to blend with our new students and to help build up our campus club. We have been praying twice a week with them to prepare the way for the Lord to take a further step on the campus and with the church.

Again we thank the Lord for His continual supply through your prayers for the church in San Luis Obispo.

Announcements

1. Morning revival: The Four Great Pillars in the Lord's Recovery, week 7. A brother's written summary of ITERO message 7, which may be useful as a supplement to the morning revival book, is at http://newjerusalem12.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/how-to-build-the-church/.
2. The 2012 Spring Russian-Speaking Conference will be in Sacramento March 23-25. The registration deadline is March 4. Details are at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/.
3. An invitation to the spring conference in Israel at https://churchinlosangeles.org/prayer/. Registration deadline is April 1.

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