The Lord's Timely Speaking

The Lord's speaking is very timely, He speaks what He needs to speak. I thank the Lord for His faithfulness and care for me and the church. This year is coming to an end. At the beginning of every year as the church, we have been planning for growth and increase in that year. In pursuit of that goal, we have been planing very vital and practical steps for all the saints in the church to follow. Some of the specific ways we adopt are, especially these days, as we have been trumpeting over and over again. 

• Being Revived: Be revived every morning, spending personal time with the Lord daily, and be deeply rooted in Christ.
• Shepherding: Each one shepherding at least one in a week. 
• Gospel Preaching: Each one contacting at least one and bringing for the gospel meeting on Friday or Lord’s Day, preaching the gospel to our new ones and shepherding them. 
• Household Salvation: Pray for the salvation of all the family members of the saints.
• Pray for the gospel preaching by going out every Friday and Saturday afternoon in coordination with the trainees. Pray for the salvation of the local people, even household salvation, family by family. 
• Our Goal for 2020: 100 regular saints meeting on the Lord’s days.

The Lord is sovereign in giving us the burden for the year and Hs is also faithful even for showing our true condition so that we may know how to go on. The ministry speaking that we dive into and are pursuing every Saturday afternoon, the recorded speaking of Brother Witness Lee on the training and the practice of the vital group was very apt, to me personally, and to us as the church.

Some crucial points from brother Lee's speaking that help me a lot and are:

Serving the Lord in coordination by fellowshipping with our companions. By the Lord's mercy, the Lord has given me a wonderful companion, my brother who serves with me in the church and also in the literature service. I cannot imagine serving the Lord without him. He has been my vital partner without which I cannot go on in my church life or in my service life. How I thank, praise, and worship the Lord for the Lord's sovereign arrangement. He is the one to whom I can open myself up for fellowship on many deep, secret, and important items related to the church and literature service. 

Three enemies that need to be conquered are:

Deadness: The deadness of Sardis (Rev. 3:1-2). This can be conquered in the Body life (Rom. 12:3-10). I must present my body as a living sacrifice to God and being transformed from the fashion of this age by the renewing of our mind. For this, I need to consecrate myself to the Lord every day. I should not keep myself in my own hand but I must hand myself fully over to the Lord.  Every part of my being must be consecrated to the Lord. And I must not secretly follow this age; the fashion of the age makes one dead. The age is very subtle and deadening and one can be deceived unconsciously.  One can seem to love the Lord opening yet he can be loving the age, the world, secretly. This will cause deadness.

Lukewarmness: The lukewarmness of Laodicea (Rev. 3:14-16). This can be conquered by the seeking of the riches of Christ (Rev. 3:17-18, 20). I must seek the Lord, pursue Him, and enjoy Him in a very subjective way. I must not be slothful in zeal (Rom. 12:11a ) and I must be burning in my spirit, serving the Lord (Rom. 12:11b).

Barrenness: The barrenness of the degenerating believers. Unconsciously, I might have been drifting into this danger. This can be conquered in desperation. Desperateness is a matter of life or death. I must be fearing to be cut off from the enjoyment of Christ’s supply in this age (John 15:2a).  I must care for the discipline in the coming age (Matt. 25:24-30). Therefore, I must be disciplined in my Christian life. 

To overcome deadness, lukewarmness, and barrenness, I must be desperate to pursue the Lord, to get myself filled up with the Spirit, be thoroughly dealt with by the Lord by confessing my sins, failures, wrongdoings, weaknesses, trespasses, and faults. Then, gain my vital partners and be desperate, even in fasting and prayer, then  Lord will give me the fruits. 

Lord, grace me, save me, enliven me, and deliver me from the three enemies, deadness, lukewarmness, and barenness. Lord, thank You for your timely speaking.