Announcements
Week of July 26, 2026
Lord's Day - 7/26
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 coordination for the serving groups'
Tuesday - 7/28
Prayer meetings by area in person and on Zoom
Lord's Day - 8/2
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
Holy word for morning revival
July 27 - August 2
HWMR: The All-inclusive Christ as Revealed in Matthew, Week 6,
"Christ as the One Who Has All Authority in Heaven and on Earth"
Next HWMR: Noah, Daniel, and Job - Patterns of Living an
Overcoming Life on the Line of Life, $5.50 each
Read this article entitled The Holy Word for Morning Revival: Its
Purpose and Usefulness.
PursuiNG THE TRUTH
July 27 - August 2
Read Life-Study of Ephesians, Message 85 - "Ordinances and the Church
Life" and Message 86 - "Slaying the Ordinances"
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 Ephesians online at Living Stream
Ministry, use this link.
To listen to the Life-study of the Bible Radio Broadcast for Ephesians 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.
July 27 - August 2
Read Chapter Three in The Excelling Gift for the Building Up of the
Church, $8.00 each
Conferences, Trainings, & MEETINGS
August 16
Blending and love feast with the church in Sarasota here in Tampa
September 4 - 6
2026 Southeast Labor Day Blending Conference, Atlanta, GA. See the
conference schedule and "Helpful Links and information" by clicking
on this link.
December 11 - 13
2026 Florida Young People's Conference, Lake Placid Camp
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 to watch the video recording of that fellowship.
You can also watch the most recently recorded TSUF webinar from June 14 and all the previous ones on the Truth Sets US Free website’s video page. The next webinar will be on August 9 at 5:00 pm EDT. 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)
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 Enjoying the Blessings of the Jubilee. The Old Testament jubilee was a provision from God with two main blessings: land was returned to its rightful owner, and people were freed from slavery. Today, “the preaching of the gospel is the sounding, the trumpeting, of the jubilee. In the preaching of the gospel, we proclaim glad tidings, good news. This good news is that we can be returned to our lost possession and that we can be freed from slavery, from bondage.” In this booklet taken from Life-study of Luke, Witness Lee presents the Old Testament jubilee and the corresponding New Testament blessings we can enjoy now.
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.
EXCERPTS FROM THE MINISTRY
OVERFLOWING TO SPEAK
In Ephesians 5:18 Paul charges us to “be filled in spirit.” As members of the Body of Christ, we need to be filled in our spirit unto all the fullness of God. If we are filled in spirit, that with which we are filled will overflow from within us.
Verse 19 refers to this overflow: “Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and psalming with your heart to the Lord.” We do not overflow by meditating or by sitting silently in the meetings of the church. On the contrary, we overflow by speaking to one another. If we are filled in spirit unto all the fullness of God, we shall spontaneously speak to one another concerning Christ. Speaking, therefore, is the way to overflow.
Christians must be a speaking people. We should not be dumb, or silent, for the God we worship is the speaking God. Idols, on the contrary, do not speak; they are dumb. In 1 Corinthians 12:2 Paul mentions “dumb idols.” Because idols cannot speak, those who worship idols are also dumb. A dumb god needs dumb worshippers. But our God is not dumb; He is the speaking God. Therefore, those who worship Him must also speak.
Since our God is a speaking God, we as His worshippers must also speak. At times, we should even make a joyful noise to the Lord, as we are charged to do in Psalm 100:1. Often when we come together we should make joyful noise to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:19 also refers to “singing and psalming” to the Lord. Such singing and psalming are not only the overflow of being filled in spirit, but also the way to be filled in spirit. Whenever we are filled in our spirit unto all the fullness of God, the first thing we shall do is speak. Then we shall sing and psalm with our heart to the Lord.
The way to be spiritual is to speak for the Lord and concerning the Lord. The more we speak, the more we shall be filled in our spirit. However, if we remain silent, we shall find that we cannot be filled in spirit. In our daily living we need to be those who speak. We can speak concerning the Lord even when we are alone. If you speak in this way day by day, you will see that it produces in you a genuine spirituality and that it causes you to be filled in your spirit.
In the meetings of the church we all need to speak for the Lord and regarding the Lord. Everyone should be bubbling over with the Lord. If this is the experience of every one of us, there will be no need for so much singing or preaching in the meetings. In many Christian meetings singing and preaching are used to fill up time. Without singing and preaching, there would be large gaps in those meetings. The situation among us in the Lord’s recovery must be altogether different. We must be those who experience Christ, who live by Him, and who are filled in our spirit with Him. If we are filled with Christ in our spirit, we shall overflow by speaking of Christ and for Christ. Whenever we come to the meetings, we shall speak to one another of our experience and enjoyment of Christ. Of course, we shall still sing, but not because we have nothing else to do. We shall not use songs and hymns to fill the gaps caused by the shortage of speaking regarding Christ.
May the Lord be merciful to us in the church life that we may contact Him day by day and live according to the index of His inner being. If we live by Christ, we shall be filled in our spirit unto all the fullness of God. Then spontaneously we shall overflow by speaking for the Lord. Through this kind of speaking we shall offer Christ to God and share Him with one another. Meetings that are filled with this speaking of Christ will be the expression of the living Christ. In principle, this is the proper way to have the church meetings. May we all be filled with Christ and be overflowing with the riches of Christ. (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 703-710)