We need to be blended together by praying in one accord with the exercise and release of our spirit, following the Lord’s leading and praying short and living prayers for the Lord to have a way, so that we may serve in coordination with one another by eating Jesus, shepherding people, and building the church by prophesying.
Lord Jesus, teach us how to pray in one accord with the exercise of our spirit today. We want to learn, Lord, to be one with You. We come to You open and emptied. Empty us of anything that is not You. Empty us of what we are, our burdens, our thoughts, and our feelings. We want to be joined to You and to the saints to pray in one accord with the exercise and release of our spirit. Amen, Lord, may we be those who serve in coordination with one another in the church and overcome any degradation of the church by the sevenfold intensified Spirit! Amen!
This week we have been prayerfully endeavouring to cooperate with the Lord to carry out His economy by being His faithful stewards who minister the Word with a burden from the Lord and who coordinate with one another in one accord.
For the ministry of the word, we need to cooperate with the Lord in His economy, realising that He has an eternal economy which becomes our stewardship.
The way God accomplishes His economy is by means of His dispensing. We need to not only open to the Lord to partake of His divine dispensing but also to cooperate with Him to carry out our stewardship of grace.
We are stewards, dispensers, those who dispense the divine life supply to God’s children.
As we open to the daily, continual, gradual divine dispensing, our living will be of grace; we will experience grace, and we will minister grace to others.
As we minister grace to others, we must do it with a burden from the Lord. We must receive His divine revelation by having an open spirit, and we need to release the burden He is giving us by means of His revelation.
This means that we must pray, both personally and corporately. In a personal way, we need to be before the Lord to receive His word and be saturated with His word.
As He reveals something to us, we receive a burden from Him to share with others; the revelations we receive from the Lord become the burden we have before Him to share with others also.
Our ministry of the Word should not be individualistic; we serve in coordination with the saints, even in one accord with the saints.
The Lord blesses the one accord, being in harmony in spirit with others, having real coordination, and having genuine oneness. May the Lord again this in us and among us for the sake of His move on the earth.
We need to be blended together by Praying in One Accord with the Exercise and Release of our Spirit
On the personal side, we need to have much prayer and fellowship with the Lord to receive His revelation and be infused with His burden. On the corporate side, we need to be blended together by praying in one accord with the exercise and release of our spirit (Matt. 18:19; Acts 1:14).
The one hundred twenty early disciples and followers of the Lord continued in prayer in one accord for ten days, and this brought in God’s blessing.
When we pray, especially as we pray with the saints, we should pray as a corporate body, not individualistically.
Many times we join the prayer meeting with the saints and we may have no idea what the main burden is, for each of the saints may pray their own burden and line before the Lord.
We may come to the prayer meeting with our own burden, our own needs, and our own things, and we may simply utter our prayers according to what we feel, not following those who prayed before us.
We need to learn to pray in one accord with the exercise and release of our spirit.
On the one hand, we should pray in such a way that the next one who prays can continue our prayer; on the other hand, we should listen to others’ prayers, enter into their prayers, and follow their prayers.
We are in the prayer meeting for the Lord’s interest, and we want to cooperate with Him for Him to have a way to move and accomplish what He desires.
So we come open; we don’t come to pray what we want to pray, we come open, exercised in our spirit, not knowing what to pray for but being open to the Lord with an exercised spirit.
Even as we start the prayer, we may pray two or three sentences. Maybe someone may start by thanking the Lord for His mercy, for His mercy reaches farther than His grace, and we are here because of His mercy.
The second person can “receive the ball” and continue to pray alongside the line of the Lord’s mercy, and he may pray just two or three sentences, simply to continue in this.
If we pray long prayers, we kill the spirit in the meeting, and we even bring others into dormancy. May we learn to pray short prayers of petition and supplication to the Lord.
Instead of praying long prayers that are full of explaining to the Lord and full of giving the Lord instructions and descriptions, may we simply exercise our spirit and release our spirit in prayer so that we may continue the burden in prayer and let the Spirit flow in the meeting.
One time brother D. L. Moody was in a prayer meeting and one brother was praying a very long prayer; as he was praying, Moody came to him and stopped him for a second.
Then he said, Let’s begin to have our meeting and share with one another, while this brother continues to pray. We need to be perfected in our prayer.
We need to be perfected in the way we pray to realise that a long prayer kills the prayer meeting.
A long prayer indicates that you are only for yourself and for your feelings, not for others and not for the atmosphere and flow of the Spirit in the meeting.
For us to learn to serve in coordination in the ministry of the word, we need to be blended together by praying in one accord with the exercise and release of our spirit.
When we pray, we put ourselves on the cross; we pray not as we want but as the Spirit leads us in the meeting, according to the burden released in the prayer of the saints.
If we still remain in our own feeling and try to steer the prayer in the direction of our own prayer burden, the saints may not follow, and the flow of the Spirit may stop.
We all have experienced this in the prayer meeting. The prayer meeting is truly a battle, and the enemy is so subtle, for he can use even our own burdens and feelings to cause us to kill the spirit in the meeting. Oh Lord Jesus!
When we come together to pray with the saints, we need to realise that we are like a team playing a ball game; no one can hold the ball for too long, no one can do too many tricks, and everyone is needed for the game to be successful.
Every saint is needed for the prayer time, and we need to pray in such a way that the saints will continue to pray after us, being encouraged by our prayer.
This is why we need to allow the Lord to apply the cross to our being as we exercise and release our spirit. We need to deal with our heart, being pure in heart, and we need to be poor in spirit, that is, emptied before the Lord, so that He may gain the prayer in one accord with the saints.
This prayer in one accord accomplishes God’s will, carries out His economy, and at the same time it blends us and makes us one with the Lord and with one another for the Lord’s move.
Lord Jesus, teach us to pray in one accord with the saints. We open to You. We just open, Lord, and we come to pray with the saints. Grant us to learn to pray in one accord. May we be blended together by praying in one accord with the exercise and release of our spirit! Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit! We exercise to be one spirit with You and one spirit with the saints. We release our spirit and we want to do it in our measure by praying short and living prayers. May we pray as a corporate body, not individualistically. Amen, Lord, may we pray in such a way that the saints can continue the prayer and enter into the prayer. Teach us to pray as in a heavenly team playing a heavenly game for the enemy to be defeated and put to shame! Amen, Lord, save us from praying long prayers that kill the meeting. Save us from caring only for ourselves and for our own feeling. Grant us the grace to be broken, dealt with, and exercised in spirit to enter into others’ prayer, release our spirit in prayer, and open the way for many others to pray! Amen, Lord Jesus, may we be blended together by praying in one accord with the exercise and release of our spirit!
To Serve in Coordination with One Another in the Church is to Overcome the Degradation of the Church by the Sevenfold Intensified Spirit!
As we open to the Lord and exercise and release our spirit in the meetings of the church, we realise that we need to learn, even continually learn, to serve in coordination with one another in the church.
There is much degradation in the church, and we ourselves may be in degradation, for we may serve not in coordination but individualistically, even in our own way, according to our own understanding, and in our own terms. Oh Lord Jesus!
To serve in coordination with one another in the church is to overcome the degradation of the church by the sevenfold intensified Spirit of God through eating Christ as the tree of life, the hidden manna, and the feast for the finalisation of God’s eternal economy (Rev. 4:5; 5:6; 2:7, 17; 3:20-21; Zech. 4:11-14).
Our serving together in one accord is not just for us to accomplish something, nor is it something that is merely outward.
We need to eat Christ day by day, both personally and corporately, and we need to feast on the Lord both in our personal time with Him and together with the saints.
Eating the Lord will cause us to be revived, live a living and vital life, and overcome any degradation.
To serve in coordination with one another in the church is to enjoy Christ as righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit (Rom. 14:17-18).
As we enjoy Christ in this way, we serve Him in a way that is well-pleasing to God and approved by men. God is pleased when we serve Him in coordination with the saints by enjoying Christ in spirit.
To serve in coordination with one another in the church is to shepherd people according to God (1 Pet. 5:1-6).
We cannot shepherd people according to God on our own; we need to be part of a vital group, serving the Lord in coordination with the saints, so that He in us may shepherd others according to God.
May we learn this in our Christian life and may we apply this in our Christian service in the church life.
To serve in coordination with one another in the church is to be a cheerful giver (2 Cor. 9:7; Acts 20:35).
We may be a giver by nature or we may not be inclined to give; anything that is natural in this matter in us is exposed and dealt with as we serve in coordination with one another.
It is impossible in ourselves to be a cheerful giver, but when we serve in coordination with the saints, we simply give ourselves and all we have to the Lord and for His move. We will even waste ourselves on the Lord and on the sacrifice and service of the saints.
To serve in coordination with one another in the church is to build up the church by living a prophesying life to overflow with the flowing Triune God for the constituting of the church as the fullness of God (John 4:14b; 7:38-39; 1 Cor. 14:4b, 26; Eph. 3:19).
We can live a prophesying life for the building up of the church as we serve in coordination with one another. Prophesying builds up the church.
We may not be inclined to prophesy; we may think we don’t know what to speak to build up the church, or we may have too much to speak but not much exercise of our spirit, but when we serve in coordination with the saints in the church life, we will live a prophesying life.
We will drink the living water and flow it out. We will drink the Spirit flowing from the smitten Christ, and we will have something to share of our enjoyment and experience of Christ for the building up of the church.
May we be those who are blended together by praying in one accord with the exercise and release of our spirit. May we learn to serve in coordination with one another in the church!
Lord Jesus, grant us to have the spirit of a learner as we serve You with the saints. We want to learn to serve in coordination with one another in the church. Amen, Lord, may we overcome any degradation in the church and in our being by the sevenfold intensified Spirit of God! We come to You to eat You as the tree of life, the hidden manna, and the feast so that we may live and work for the finalisation of God’s eternal economy! Oh Lord Jesus, we want to serve in coordination with one another in the church by enjoying Christ as righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit! May our serving Christ be well pleasing to God and approved by men! Keep us one with You and one with the saints in our serving the Lord so that we may shepherd people according to God. Amen, Lord, make us those who are cheerful givers as we serve in coordination with one another in the church. May we build up the church by living a prophesying life to overflow with the flowing Triune God for the constituting of the church as the fullness of God! Amen!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers on this topic, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 2: The Vision of the Lord’s Recovery,” ch. 10, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Ministry of the Word and God’s Dispensing for God’s Economy (2026 March ITERO), week 5, “Cooperating with the Lord to Carry Out His Economy by Being His Faithful Stewards Who Minister the Word with a Burden from the Lord and Who Coordinate with One Another in One Accord” – day 6.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Pray with one accord in spirit, / Not according to our thought, / But alone by the anointing, / As the Lord has ever sought. / Pray with one accord in spirit, / By the cross deny the soul; / All desires and all intentions / Let the Spirit now control. (Hymns #779 stanzas 1-2)
– I long for fellowship in spirit, / Long thus to know authority; / Long for true fellowship in service, / Coordinated thus to be. / O Lord, fulfill our hearts deep longing, / Saints for such fellowship inspire, / That we may realize Thy building / And soon fulfill Thy heart’s desire. (Hymns #847 stanzas 5-6)
– As in a team we’d never / Act independently, / But in coordination, / Each would dependent be; / Not acting by our choosing / But following the flow, / Distraction never bringing, / The Spirit’s way we’d know. (Hymns #867 stanza 2)
