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Let’s pray for the saints to see the importance of the Lord’s table in carrying out God’s move so that they will earnestly keep it

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For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread, and having given thanks, He broke it and said, This is My body, which is given for you; this do unto the remembrance of Me. Similarly also the cup after they had dined, saying, This cup is the new covenant established in My blood; this do, as often as you drink it, unto the remembrance of Me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you declare the Lord’s death until He comes. 1 Cor. 11:23-26

Dear saints, let us pray that from the type of the Passover the saints would see the importance of the Lord’s table in carrying out God’s move and would be encouraged to earnestly keep this weekly feast (1 Cor. 11:23-26; cf. Num. 9:1-5). The … [Continue reading]

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

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Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God. Col. 4:12

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 … [Continue reading]

The Lord urgently needs the Reality of the Body of Christ Expressed in the Local Churches

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Now you are the Body of Christ, and members individually. 1 Cor. 12:27

The Lord urgently needs the reality of the Body of Christ expressed in the local churches so that He can return to rapture His bride. Today the Lord is recovering the building up of the Body of Christ, and for us to be in the proper recovery of the … [Continue reading]

Let’s pray for the saints to labor and endeavor consistently and persistently, not expecting quick results

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Whom [Christ] we announce, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man full-grown in Christ; for which also I labor, struggling according to His operation which operates in me in power. Col. 1:28-29

Dear saints, let us pray that, according to the divine operation in them, the saints would take the way of laboring and endeavoring consistently and persistently, undeterred by obstacles, not disappointed by setbacks, and not expecting quick results … [Continue reading]

We are the Body of Christ in Actuality when we Remain in the Organic Union with Christ

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So we who are many are one Body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Rom. 12:5

The highest peak in God's economy is the reality of the Body of Christ, and this reality is absolutely organic; we can be in the Body in reality by being in Christ, that is, by abiding in the organic union with the Lord. This week in our deeper and … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to travail in birth over their spiritual children until Christ is formed in them

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My children, with whom I travail again in birth until Christ is formed in you. Gal. 4:19

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 … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to foster the new believers as a nursing mother and as an exhorting father

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Just as you know how we were to each one of you, as a father to his own children, exhorting you and consoling you and testifying. 1 Thes. 2:11

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 … [Continue reading]