Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would experience and enjoy the fellowship with the saints in Christ’s mystical Body and testify of the oneness of His mystical Body, which is the stress in attending the Lord’s table—the horizontal aspect (1 Cor. 10:16-17; Hymns, #221, ss. 3 and chorus). In the bread breaking meeting, […]
Let’s pray for the saints to take the Lord’s supper for God’s administration by discerning the Body
Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would take the Lord’s supper for God’s administration by discerning the Body (1 Cor. 11:27-29; Hymns, #1107). The unique mystical Body of Christ is the means for God to carry out His administration. God’s eternal purpose is to have a group of saved, redeemed, and regenerated people […]
Let’s pray for the saints to see from the Lord’s supper how the church is a bridge connecting the Lord’s two comings
Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would see from the Lord’s supper how the church is a bridge connecting the Lord’s death and His second coming, such that the church continues the Lord’s death and brings in His coming back with the goal of setting up His kingdom (1 Cor. 11:26; Matt. 26:29; […]
Let’s pray for the saints to see that to come to the Lord’s table is to enjoy Christ as the good land
Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would see that to come to the Lord’s table is to enter into the good land and enjoy Christ as the good land (1 Cor. 10:16-17). The experience of the children of Israel in the good land typifies our enjoyment of Christ today. Christ is our good […]
Let’s pray for the saints to shepherd people out of love for them, an interest in them, a burden for them, and adequate prayer for them
Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would shepherd people out of love for them, an interest in them, a burden for them, and adequate prayer for them, practicing to write down their names, praying for their spiritual welfare constantly, visiting them regularly, bringing them to home meetings, and establishing them in the church […]
Let us pray for the saints to travail in birth over their spiritual children until Christ is formed in them
Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would follow the pattern of the apostle in learning to travail in birth over their spiritual children until Christ is formed in them (Gal. 4:19). Paul told the Galatian believers that he was again travailing on their behalf. Travail refers to painful labor in childbirth. In this […]
Let us pray for the saints to foster the new believers as a nursing mother and as an exhorting father
Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would follow the apostle’s pattern to foster the new believers as a nursing mother cherishes her own children and as a father exhorts, consoles, and testifies to his own children (1 Thes. 2:6-8, 11). In verse 8 Paul continues, “Thus, yearning over you, we were well pleased […]