Announcements
Week of November 8, 2026
Lord's Day - 11/8
Lord's table and prophesying meeting at the hall, also children's and young people's meetings
Hall cleaning by all the saints with last names starting with A - C
Tuesday - 11/10
Corporate prayer meetings at the hall in person and on Zoom
Lord's Day - 11/15
Lord's table and prophesying meeting at the hall, also children's and young people's meetings
Hall cleaning by all the saints with last names starting with D - J
SATURDay - 11/21
Lawn maintenance at the meeting hall
Holy word for morning revival
November 9 - 15
HWMR: The Believers (1), Week 3 - "The Wheat of Life, the Good
Seed, the Salt of the Earth, the Light of the Word, and the Fishers
of Men" $5.25 each.
Read this article entitled The Holy Word for Morning Revival: Its
Purpose and Usefulness.
PursuiNG THE TRUTH
November 9 - 15
Read Life-Study of Philippians, Message 18 - "Counting All Things Loss
on account of Christ" and Message 19 - "The Excellency of the Knowledge
of Christ"
To help you develop a habit of reading the Life-studies for your spiritual
nourishment and growth in Christ, download and use the 500 Life-Studies
app on your phone by clicking this link.
To read the Life-study messages for Philippians (free) go to LSM Online
Publications or for the Second Edition purchase a subscription at
MinistryBooks.org, then click on "Create Account."
To listen to the Life-study of the Bible Radio Broadcast for Philippians
online, click this link.
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We encourage everyone to practice spending time reading the Bible each
day according to the most comprehensive way as described in this
ministry portion. Also, here is a very strengthening excerpt entitled
"Becoming What We Read" as an incentive to read the Bible and the
ministry that opens up the Word of God to us.
Reading through the Recovery Version Bible each year: three chapters
in the Old Testament and one chapter in the New Testament six days
per week. Click here for the 2026 schedule. Or to create your own
personal Bible reading schedules, go to this link.
Also, here is a website about the Recovery Version Bible to read and
share with others.
November 9 - 15
Read The Mystery of Human Life and then pass that booklet along to a
friend or contact. You can also download it as a printable tract at this link
or get Basic Elements of the Christian Life, Volume 1 which includes
The Mystery of Human Life as the first chapter.
Also, here is an article entitled, "How to Use the Mystery of Human Life."
November 9 - 15
Read Outline Six in The Lord's Table Meeting (Outlines), "Discerning the
Body."
The next book that we'll read together will be The Vital Groups - $10 each.
Conferences, Trainings, & MEETINGS
November 14
Picnic for parents, children and young people from 10 am - 3 pm at
Lettuce Lake Park, Shelter #2
November 22
Love feast and coordination meetings for the serving groups
November 26 - 29
International Thanksgiving Blending Conference, Denver, CO. See the
conference announcement by clicking on this link.
December 11 - 13
Florida Young People's Conference, $150 each at Lake Placid Camp.
Register to attend through Kevin Lo.
December 11 - 13
Iberian Peninsula International Blending Conference, in Malaga,
Spain, where Diana is serving.
December 13
Blending with the church in Sarasota in the "Green Room" at the Twin
Lakes Park.
December 21 - 26
Semiannual Training in Anaheim on The Believers (2)
You can also review the video training schedule and register to attend
by December 20.
The audio recordings of the messages from this year's Southeast Labor Day Blending Conference on the General Subject of "Rapture and Abiding in the Lord" can be listened to by going to this link.
Recommended books to read and study related to the topic of this conference include:
The Need to Grow and Mature in Life
The Way for a Christian to Mature in Life
Preparing for the Lord's Return
Abiding in the Lord to Enjoy His Life
The Divine and Mystical Realm
There is a series of distribution training videos available on the Resources page of TSUF.us based on the Bibles for America (BfA) Distribution Guide. These videos cover the burden for spreading God’s Word and lay out best practices for distributing Bibles, books, and gospel tracts. We recommend watching them in order, starting with Video 1.
You can watch the most recently recorded TSUF webinar from October 18, and all the previous ones too, on the Truth Sets US Free website’s video page. The July 2, 2026 Special Fellowship: Semiannual Training is also available there for you to watch. You can read encouraging reports from the saints who have been spreading God’s word on the Testimonies page. You may share your own testimonies with others here. “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” (Galatians 5:1)
Living Stream Ministry is pleased to announce the release of the 2027 Gospel Calendar. Calendars are available for immediate purchase at the LSM Bookstore at this link. Pre-ordering is not required. This calendar features traditional Chinese drawings with Scriptures in both Chinese and English and includes American holidays. The size of the calendar is 13–3/8” x 30–5/8”. The list price is $16.00 per calendar. Appropriate sales tax and shipping and handling charges will be added to your order.
Living Stream Ministry offers two series of free eBooklets: Nuggets and Gems from the Bible and Essential Classic Booklets. All these eBooklets are free to download and share, with the hope that many will join in spreading these riches.
Also, at the Rhema Literature Distributors website you can download the three volumes of the Basic Elements of the Christian Life, which include eleven short publications that everyone should read and then share with others.
One of the National GTCA Target Cities this year is in Florida - Pensacola. Read the report concerning the Lord's move there at this link.
EXCERPTS FROM THE MINISTRY
MESSAGE SIXTEEN
BEING LIKE-SOULED AND RISKING OUR SOUL
Scripture Reading: Phil. 2:19-30
THE SOURCE OF DIVISIONS
In order to accomplish something for Christ, we must use our soul. To simply have fellowship with the Lord it is sufficient to exercise our spirit, but to do something for Him we need to exercise our soul with its faculties. This was the reason God created the soul with the faculties of mind, emotion, and will. Whenever we seek to accomplish something for the Lord, we must use these faculties. However, the serious problem is that when Christians endeavor to do something for the Lord Jesus out of their love for Him, they are not like-souled. Instead, they are very different in the soul. These differences in the soul are the primary cause of division.
TWO RESULTS
This difference in soul may have two different kinds of results. First, some may even go so far as to leave the church life and cause yet another division. Second, some may keep the proper standing on the ground of oneness and stay in the recovery, but they may become negative, dissenting, or cold. One who remains in the recovery while holding such an attitude may say to himself, “The brothers certainly are strong in their concepts about certain things. I simply am not able to get my idea across to them. Since they are not willing to take my proposal, it is best that I am silent from now on. Instead of being aggressive, I’ll withdraw and become passive. I’ll attend the church meetings, but I’ll let someone else care for the various matters in the church life.” Those who adopt such an attitude may have a good intention. They may be reluctant to argue or cause trouble. For example, an elder in a local church may consider within himself, “My concept is different from that of the other elders. According to my opinion, my way is better than theirs. But, they won’t accept my proposal. Instead of arguing, it is better that I not say anything. Let the brothers do things their way and let them bear the responsibility of taking the church on.” I have seen many cases of this in the church life.
EXPERIENCING CHRIST IN THE BODY
It is very important to realize that if we hold such an attitude because of differences in the soul, this will cause our experience of Christ to be limited. We shall not be able to experience Him to the full extent. Rather, our experience of Christ will be limited to what we experience in our fellowship with Him in the spirit. We shall be hindered from going further to experience Christ in the Body. Because of the differences of our emotion, understanding, or decision regarding certain matters, we are different in soul.
Any co-worker who could not be sent by Paul with such a concern for the Body of Christ could not experience Christ to the same degree Paul did. Because Timothy was like-souled with Paul, he was in a position to experience Christ to the uttermost in the Body, just as Paul was experiencing Him. But those who were different in soul from Paul could not experience Christ to this high degree. Their experience of Christ was restricted by the differences in soul.
MARTYRS FOR THE CHURCH LIFE
Years ago, I read an article which said that before a believer can become a martyr, he must first have the attitude of a martyr. According to that article, every martyr has already been equipped with a certain attitude. Then when the time comes to be martyred, such a person can actually become a martyr by laying down his physical life. This principle applies to risking our soul in the church life. If we do not have the heart to sacrifice our mind, emotion, and will for the sake of the Body of Christ, we shall not be able to sacrifice our physical life in martyrdom. In order for Epaphroditus to risk his physical life, he first had to be willing to risk his soul.
Epaphroditus risked his soul in order to fill up what was lacking on the part of the Philippian believers toward Paul (2:30). This indicates that if we do not risk our soul, we shall not be able to fill up any lack there may be in the Body of Christ. Filling a lack in the Body affords us a splendid opportunity to experience Christ. We need to experience Christ to such an extent that we are able to fill up what is lacking in the Body. If we would experience Christ to this degree, we must risk our soul life by sacrificing our emotion with its desires, our will with its intentions, and our mind with its opinions. Whenever we sacrifice our soul for the sake of the Body, we have an opportunity to experience Christ in the Body. This is to experience Christ to the full extent.
OUR NEED TO BE LIKE-SOULED AND TO RISK OUR SOUL
Paul’s word about being like-souled is a warning to all who remain in the Lord’s recovery. If we are not like-souled with others, we shall not have the full enjoyment of Christ, even though we stay in the church life. Although we have no problems in our spirit, we may hold on to differences in our soul. According to your impression, the feeling you have in your soul is right. However, because you hold on to your differences, your experience of Christ is limited. Thus, it is crucial for us all to learn that in the church life we need to be like-souled. Do not allow the differences in your soul to hold you back from experiencing Christ in His Body. May we all learn to sacrifice our soul, to risk our mind, emotion, and will. Then we shall become like-souled with others in the Body of Christ. If this is our condition, how much we shall experience Christ and enjoy Him in the Body! In order to experience Christ to the full extent in the Body, we need to be like-souled and we need to risk our soul. (Life-study of Philippians, pp. 131-138)