Announcements
Week of September 27, 2026
Lord's Day - 9/27
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 R - Z
Tuesday - 9/29
Corporate prayer meetings at the hall in person and on Zoom
Lord's Day - 10/4
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
Holy word for morning revival
September 28 - October 4
HWMR: The Great Need for a New Revival, Week 3 - "The God-man Living
for the New Revival."
Read this article entitled The Holy Word for Morning Revival: Its
Purpose and Usefulness.
"Based upon the experience of many believers throughout the ages, the
most comprehensive way to read the Bible is:
1) To be nourished daily in our spiritual life by pray-reading (that is,
speak to the Lord directly with His word and pray His word into you) two
or three verses in a book of the Bible in a sequential way for ten to
fifteen minutes every morning.
2) To study a book of the Bible in depth for thirty minutes every day.
An accurate understanding in reading the Bible depends on the reader’s
degree of knowledge of the Bible. For this reason we have to receive the
teaching, and continuously dig deeper into the Bible.
3) To speed-read three chapters of the Old Testament and one chapter
of the New Testament for fifteen minutes every day. The best time to do
this is after lunch. This kind of reading does not require much thinking;
you do not need to try to understand. It would be marvelous if we could
read the Bible in this way throughout the entire year." (The Vision of the
Divine Dispensing and Guidelines for the Practice of the New Way, pp. 321,
325-326)
PursuiNG THE TRUTH
September 28 - October 4
Read Life-Study of Philippians, Message 6 - "Magnifying Christ by Living
Him" and Message 7 - "The Best Choice of Paul."
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 (subscription) this link.
To listen to the Life-study of the Bible Radio Broadcast for Philippians
online, 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 schedules, go to this link.
Also, here is a website about the Recovery Version Bible to read and
share with others.
September 28 - October 4
Read Outline Six in The Lord's Table Meeting (Outlines),"Discerning the
Body."
Conferences, Trainings, & MEETINGS
October 10 - 11
Southeast Spanish-speaking Blending Conference, Orlando. Here is the
conference invitation in Spanish and in English.
October 11
Blending with the church in Sarasota at the "Green Room" in the Twin
Lakes Park
October 16 - 18
Florida College Conference, TBBCC, Tampa. The registration cost is $50,
due by October 12. Register to give hospitality on the form on the
Resources tab.
November 1
Deadline to register and make the $205 donation for the Semiannual
Training in Anaheim on December 21-26, 2026.
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. See the announcement with the details
at this link. The deadline to register to attend is October 1.
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. 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 this year's 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 God’s Intention to Have a God-man. In this booklet compiled from Life-study of Luke, Witness Lee fellowships concerning the first three and a half chapters of the Gospel of Luke. These chapters reveal that two angels and a number of human beings were involved in the preparation of the Man-Savior, and in the words spoken by these persons, seventeen aspects of the Man-Savior are revealed. “When we consider all these aspects…we see that He is not only both God and man, but everything God intended to give to His people and do for them.”
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
THE BOUNTIFUL SUPPLY
In 1:19 Paul says, “I know that for me this shall turn out to salvation through your petition and the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.” The words bountiful supply are not simply a translation of the Greek, but an interpretation of the Greek term used. Literally, the Greek word refers to the supplying of all the needs of the chorus by someone known as the choragus, the leader or director of the chorus. The Greek word Paul uses thus implies a bountiful supply. The choragus supplied all the needs of everyone in the chorus, the needs for food, clothing, lodging, and musical instruments. The supply of the choragus truly was bountiful, even all-inclusive. Paul likens the supply of the Spirit to that of the choragus. This bountiful supply of the all-inclusive Spirit was for Paul to live Christ and magnify Christ in his sufferings for Him. The supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ is bountiful and all-inclusive.
The Spirit of God in Creation
The revelation in the Bible concerning God, Christ, and the Spirit is progressive. This revelation begins in Genesis 1 and develops progressively until it reaches its consummation in the book of Revelation. The first mention of the Spirit in the Scriptures is found in Genesis 1:2, where we are told that the Spirit of God was brooding over the waters (Heb.). In relation to God’s creation, the Spirit is specifically called the Spirit of God.
The Spirit of Jehovah in Relationship with Man
God’s relationship with man, of course, is more intimate than His relationship with creation. Hence, in speaking of God’s relationship with man, the title of the Spirit is the Spirit of Jehovah (Judg. 3:10; 1 Sam. 10:6).
The Holy Spirit in Making Man Holy
At the time of the conception and birth of Christ, the term “Holy Spirit” was used (Luke 1:35; Matt. 1:20). This title of the Spirit is related to holiness, sanctification, and separation unto God. Through the Holy Spirit something in man is sanctified, made holy.
The Spirit of Jesus in Suffering
In Greek, Acts 16:7 speaks of the Spirit of Jesus. The Lord’s life on earth was a life of suffering. Thus, the title “the Spirit of Jesus” refers in particular to the Spirit in relation to the Lord’s suffering.
The Spirit of Christ in Resurrection
In Romans 8:9-11 Paul speaks of the Spirit of Christ. According to the context of these verses, the Spirit of Christ is related mainly to Christ’s resurrection.
The Spirit of Jesus Christ in His Suffering and in His Resurrection
We have seen that in 1:19 Paul speaks of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Since the Spirit of Jesus has particular reference to the Lord’s suffering, and the Spirit of Christ, to His resurrection, the Spirit of Jesus Christ is related both to suffering and resurrection. In his imprisonment Paul was enjoying the Spirit both as the Spirit of Jesus in suffering and as the Spirit of Christ in resurrection. As he was suffering, Paul was enjoying Christ’s resurrection.
The Spirit of Jesus Christ is “the Spirit” as mentioned in John 7:39. This is not merely the Spirit of God before the Lord’s incarnation, but the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit with divinity, after the Lord’s resurrection, compounded with the Lord’s incarnation (humanity), human living under the cross, crucifixion, and resurrection. The Spirit of Jesus is mainly for the Lord’s humanity and human living; the Spirit of Christ is mainly for the Lord’s resurrection. To experience the Lord’s humanity, as illustrated in Philippians 2:5-8, we need the Spirit of Jesus. To experience the power of the Lord’s resurrection, as mentioned in 3:10, we need the Spirit of Christ.
The Spirit—the All-inclusive, Life-giving Spirit of the Triune God
John 7:39 says, “But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus was not yet glorified.” After His resurrection, the Spirit of God became the Spirit of the incarnated, crucified, and resurrected Jesus Christ. This term—“the Spirit”—is used often by Paul in his Epistles and by John in the book of Revelation. Instead of saying the Spirit of God or the Holy Spirit, Paul often said “the Spirit”—the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit of the Triune God.
The Compound Spirit Typified by the Compound Ointment
The term “compound Spirit” cannot be found in the Bible. However, the reality of this aspect of the Spirit is found in the Scriptures. The same is true of the Trinity. In the same principle, based upon the facts in Scripture, we may properly speak of the Spirit as the compound Spirit. According to Exodus 30:23-24, a hin of olive oil was compounded with four spices to produce the holy anointing oil, the holy ointment. In typology, oil signifies the Spirit of God, and the compound ointment, the oil blended with four spices, signifies the Holy Spirit. Before Exodus 30, this compound ointment was “not yet,” but after Exodus 30, such an ointment was definitely in existence. In like manner, before Christ was crucified, resurrected, and glorified, the Spirit as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit was “not yet.” But through the process of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection, the Spirit of God, typified by the oil, became the compound Spirit, typified by the ointment.
The four spices used to make the ointment in Exodus 30 typify the effectiveness of Christ’s death, the sweetness of His death, the power of His resurrection, and the fragrance of His resurrection. After Christ’s resurrection, these elements were compounded into the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God became “the Spirit,” the compound Spirit.
The Seven Spirits of God
According to the mathematics of the Bible, there is a sense in which seven is one and one is seven. The one Spirit is called the seven Spirits. Eventually, this compound Spirit of Jesus Christ becomes the seven Spirits of God, who are the seven lamps of fire before His throne to carry out His administration on earth for the accomplishment of His economy with the church, and who are the seven eyes of the Lamb for the transfusing of all that He is into the church (Rev. 1:4; 4:5; 5:6).
In the light of God’s Word, we see that the Spirit we are enjoying today is not only the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Jehovah, and the Holy Spirit. The Spirit we are enjoying is the Spirit of Jesus Christ. This Spirit is “the Spirit,” the all-inclusive, compound, life-giving Spirit of the Triune God. Because this Spirit is so rich, bountiful, and all-inclusive, He has the supply to meet our every need.
We are not satisfied simply to have a doctrinal understanding of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. We must go on to experience the Spirit, the compound Spirit, and the seven Spirits of God. We need more and more experience of the compound, all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit who is the processed Triune God as everything to us. By such a Spirit Paul could be an overcomer because he experienced and enjoyed the all-inclusive Spirit with His bountiful supply dwelling in him to be everything to him. Paul realized in his experience that the Triune God was working Himself into his being. May we also experience and enjoy the Triune God supplying us and working Himself into us as the compound, all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit. (Life-study of Philippians, pp. 39 – 44)