Announcements
Week of September 6, 2026
Lord's Day - 9/13
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 K - P
Tuesday - 9/15
Corporate prayer meetings in person at the hall and on Zoom
Lord's Day - 9/20
Lord's table and prophesying meeting at the hall, also children's and young people's meetings
Love feast
Hall cleaning by all the saints and fellowship and coordi-nation meetings for the serving groups
Holy word for morning revival
September 7 - 13
HWMR: Noah, Daniel, and Job - Patterns of Living an Overcoming
Life on the Line of Life, Week 5 - "God’s Intention with Job—That a
Good Man Become a God-man"
Next HWMR: The Great Need for a New Revival, $5.50 each.
Read this article entitled The Holy Word for Morning Revival: Its
Purpose and Usefulness.
PursuiNG THE TRUTH
September 7 - 13
Read Life-Study of Ephesians, Message 97 - "The Church as God's
Warrior" and Life-Study of Philippians, Message 1 - "The Background
and Subject of the Book"
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. Also, here is a very encouraging
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.
To read the Life-study messages for Philippians (free) use this link and
for the Second Edition this link.
To listen to the Life-study of the Bible Radio Broadcast for Philippians online
at Living Stream Ministry, click this link.
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 schedule, go to this link.
Also, here is a website about the Recovery Version Bible to read and
share with others.
September 10
Read Chapter Three in The Lord's Table Meeting (Outlines),"The
Worship of the Father," $6.50 each
Conferences, Trainings, & MEETINGS
September 4 - 6
2026 Southeast Labor Day Blending Conference, Atlanta, GA. The
General Subject will be "Rapture and Abiding in the Lord."
You can find the "Audio Files" with the recordings of the messages
from this conference at this link.
Recommended books to read and study related to the topic of this
conference:
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
October 10 - 11
2026 Southeast Spanish-speaking Blending Conference, Orlando.
Here is the conference invitation in Spanish and in English.
November 26 - 29
2026 International Thanksgiving Blending Conference will be held
in Denver, CO. See the conference announcement by clicking on this link.
December 11 - 13
2026 Florida Young People's Conference, Lake Placid Camp
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 August 9 and all the previous ones too on the Truth Sets US Free website’s video page. You can also 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)
Also, during the recent June Semiannual Training, saints gathered together for a time of special fellowship. Several brothers testified of the Lord’s blessing in their going out in one accord with prayer, the Spirit, and the Word throughout North America. Brother Minoru concluded with an encouraging word about two cases in Acts where the speaking of the Word was the spearhead of the gospel and emphasized the invaluable riches contained in the Recovery Version. Click this link and scroll down in the Video Archive to find the July 2, 2026 Special Fellowship: Semiannual Training tile and click on the Play button to watch the video recording.
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, but customers who purchase their calendars by October 31 will enjoy a reduced price of $12 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 them in spreading these riches.
A suggested eBooklet for you to read and share with someone else this week is To Be Found in Christ in the Righteousness of God. In Philippians 3:9 the apostle Paul says, “And be found in Him, not having my own righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ…” What does it mean to be found in Christ? What does Paul mean by a righteousness “which is through the faith of Christ”? In this booklet compiled from Life-study of Philippians, Witness Lee answers these questions and expounds this passage of Paul’s writing.
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 is in Florida-Pensacola, read the report at this link.
EXCERPTS FROM THE MINISTRY
THE BEAUTY OF THE BRIDE
SPOTS AND WRINKLES
In Ephesians Paul deals with the four categories of negative things in a very good sequence. Related to the creation of the new man, we have the ordinances. Related to the growth of the new man for function, we have doctrine. Furthermore, related to the daily living of the new man, we have the old man with his old way of life. For the creation of the new man, the ordinances must be abolished and slain. For the growth of the new man, doctrine must be depreciated. For the proper daily living of the new man, the old man must be put off. However, after these three categories of negative things have been dealt with, we must still face the problem of the spots and wrinkles (5:27).
Because they are so subjective, the spots and wrinkles are more difficult to deal with than the ordinances, the doctrines, and the old man. We cannot simply abolish the spots and wrinkles or put them off, for they are in our organic tissue and natural makeup. Spots are of the natural life, and wrinkles are a matter of oldness. Humanly speaking, there is no way for us to remove such things. However, God has a way. The water of life in the Word can metabolically wash away these defects by the transformation of life. The more Christ sanctifies the church and cleanses her through the washing of the water in the Word, the fewer spots and wrinkles there will be. Furthermore, as Christ nourishes and cherishes the church, the spots and wrinkles will be removed metabolically. Every flaw, defect, and imperfection will be removed by Christ’s transforming life.
To be sure, the Bride presented to Christ will not have any spots or wrinkles. Revelation 19:7 says, “Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife has made herself ready.” Certainly the wife by this time will have been purified from all the spots and wrinkles.
BEAUTY FOR PRESENTATION
In chapter one we have a general sketch of the church, and in chapter two, the creation, birth, and formation of the one new man. Then in chapter four we have the growth of this new man for functioning. Also in chapter four we see the daily life of the new man. Then in chapter five we come to the presentation of the church to Christ. At the time of this presentation, the church will be the Bride, not the new man. As the new man, the church needs the functions.
THE WAY TO BE PREPARED
Today we must prepare ourselves to be the Bride by taking in the element of Christ’s riches as our nourishment. Christ is the food for the church. Therefore, as she prepares herself to be presented to Christ, the church must eat Christ. There is no other way to be prepared. Eating Jesus is the way. By eating Him we become a beautiful and even glorious Bride.
THE REFLECTION OF CHRIST
Firstly, Christ must come into us and then be assimilated by us. Then He will be able to shine out of us. This shining is the glory of the Bride, the manifestation of divinity through humanity. Real beauty is the expression of the divine attributes through humanity. Nothing in the universe is as beautiful as this expression. Therefore, the beauty of the Bride is Christ shining out of us. It is a matter of divinity expressed through humanity. Through our humanity there is an expression of the divine color, the divine appearance, the divine flavor, the divine nature, and the divine character. Hallelujah for such a beauty!
On the day of his wedding, a bridegroom cares much more for the beauty of his bride than for her ability. In like manner, in the church life our beauty will eventually be much more important to the Lord than our function. At the beginning of the church life, we may emphasize ability and function. But eventually we shall place more emphasis on beauty. The church that will be presented to Him will be glorious and beautiful, a church without spot, wrinkle, or any such thing. If our blemishes and imperfections are to be removed, we need to take in more and more of Christ. He should not simply energize us for our function, but also beautify us that we may be His Bride.
THE LORD’S WORK IN HIS RECOVERY
I am burdened that we would all realize that the Lord’s recovery is not another Christian movement or an ordinary Christian work. The work in the recovery is the Lord’s genuine work to prepare His Bride. The primary work of the Lord in His recovery is not to preach the gospel throughout the earth; it is to prepare His Bride.
The Lord’s intention is not to revive Christianity as a whole. In His recovery, He is calling out a remnant of those who love Him and who are faithful to Him. He is sending out the call to overcome the degradation of Christianity so that a number of those who seek Him may be prepared as His Bride. In this matter, the Lord is moving on, and we are going on with Him. What a privilege to be alive in this age! (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 795 – 800)