Ministering in the Combined Meeting

Today, three local churches, the churches in Marthandam, Nagercoil, and Kanyakumari, had a combined Lord’s Table Meeting together in Marthandam. This was my first time to attend the meeting with the saints in these localities. For this meeting, a few weeks ago a brother messaged me that the brothers had alloted me to minister the word in two sessions. I took the matter to prayers and considered before the Lord. The Lord then gave me a message for the first session, but for the second, I was not sure. While I was attending the national serving ones training, the Lord made it clear to me to respeak the Lord’s speaking to the saints.

Yesterday night and today morning I went before the Lord in prayer and also went through the outlines of the recent training on "The Ministry of the Word and God's Dispensing for God’s Economy". The Lord then made the message clear to me with a very clear burden on what to minister.

As the meeting began, I released the burden the Lord gave me. Beginning with Acts 6:4 on the need to continue steadfastly in prayer and the ministry of the word, the burden was fully released as I exhorted the saints to spend time with the Lord in prayers and also in the word of God daily and using the ministry to open up the word. Following this is the ministry of reconciliation in 2 Corinthians 5:18-20, then issuing in the ministry of life in 1 John 5:16. The burden rotates around these three points, and when it was sufficiently released, I stopped my speaking and let the saints flow out. Many saints overflowed their enjoyment of the ministry of the word, and the first session ended.

We then partook of the table and had lunch lovefeast, afterwhich, the second session started. I continued to release the burden on the ministrering life for the Body and dwelt on the need to stay within the measure of God's rule in 2 Corinthians 10:12-15 and fighting the spiritual warfare in the Body. Finally, to fulfill God’s economy,  there is a need for our cooperation 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. When the burden was thoroughly released within the one hour time allotted to me,  I concluded my ministering. The saints then continued to flow out their enjoyment of the word. 

In both the sessions, the saints testified that the Lord’s speaking was very timely and apt and it was the need of the churches at the present time. Thank the Lord for the ministry of the word. 

May the Lord grace all the saints in tbe churches to be man of prayer, man of the word of God, minister of the word, having been reconciled, ministering life for the Body, functioning within the measure of God's rule, fighting the spiritual warfare in the Body in the victory of Christ, and cooperating with God in fulfilling His economy.