Announcements
Week of October 18, 2026
Lord's Day - 10/25
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 the coordination meetings for the serving groups
Tuesday - 10/27
Corporate prayer meetings in person at the hall and on Zoom
Lord's Day - 11/1
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
Holy word for morning revival
October 19 - 25
HWMR: The Great Need for a New Revival, Week 6 - "Shepherding
according to God."
Our next HWMR will be from the Summer Semiannual Training on
The Believers (1) and the cost for each copy received from the bookroom
is $5.25.
Read this article entitled The Holy Word for Morning Revival: Its
Purpose and Usefulness.
PursuiNG THE TRUTH
October 19 - 25
Read Life-Study of Philippians, Message 12 - "Working Out Our
Salvation" and Message 13 - "Holding Forth 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. 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.
We encourage everyone to practice spending time reading the Bible each
day according to the most comprehensive way as described in this
ministry portion.
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.
October 19 - 25
Read Outline Three in The Lord's Table Meeting (Outlines), "The Worship
of the Father"
Conferences, Trainings, & MEETINGS
November 1
Deadline to register and make the $205 donation for the Semiannual
Training in Anaheim on December 21-26, 2026.
November 8
Blending with the church in Sarasota at the "Green Room" in the Twin
Lakes Park.
November 14
Picnic for parents, children and young people from 10 am - 3 pm.
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.
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, 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 Life’s Shepherding—the Need of Those outside Religion. Every human being has a need related to his or her condition. In his Gospel, John uses nine cases to represent the various conditions and needs of human beings in order to illustrate that Jesus Christ as life fully meets the need of man’s every case. In this booklet taken from Life-study of John, Witness Lee focuses on John 10, which is related to the case of the blind man in John 9. In chapter 10 the Lord Jesus spoke of the sheepfold. Many Christians know that we are the Lord’s sheep, but have you considered what the sheepfold is? The key to unlocking the secret of this parable depends very much upon the meaning of the sheepfold.
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 EXALTATION OF CHRIST
EXPERIENCING CHRIST AS OUR PATTERN
We should take the crucified life in Philippians 2:5-8 as our pattern so that we can experience the power of resurrection which exalted Christ to the highest peak in the universe. There is an urgent need among us in the Lord’s recovery today to experience Christ as our pattern. We desperately need to experience Him as our crucified life. It is utterly foolish to have rivalry in the church life. We should fear this more than we fear a serpent. Whenever you are in rivalry with others, you are without question living in the self. We must condemn this rivalry and repudiate it. We should not claim any standing, title, or position for ourselves. Do not seek any glory that is other than Christ Himself. We need to say, “Lord, I want only You. I am not seeking any exaltation or glory.” If you are weak in your family life, daily life, or church life, it is an indication that you are not taking the crucified life and therefore are not in the power of resurrection.
EXALTING CHRIST IN OUR EXPERIENCE
My burden in this message is to relate the exaltation of Christ to our spiritual experience. God has already exalted Christ, but have you exalted Him? The problem is that Christ has been exalted everywhere except in you. Christ cannot be exalted in us unless we take Him as the crucified life to be the pattern of our daily life. The main elements of the salvation in verse 12 are Christ as the crucified life and Christ in His exaltation.
THE HIGHEST STANDARD OF SALVATION
The words "so then" indicate that what Paul speaks of in verse 12 is a consequence of taking Christ as the pattern of a crucified life in the preceding verses. These words indicate that Christ’s crucified life should be our experience. It is also true that Christ’s exalting life should be our experience. This should be the salvation we work out by God operating in us. Surely the exaltation of Christ is the highest standard of our salvation. The bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ is the very power that exalts Christ. It is also the power of resurrection in 3:10 and the power referred to in 4:13, where Paul says, “I can do all things in Him who empowers me.” This power is adequate to enable us to work out our salvation to the highest standard. When we reach this standard, we shall be more than conquerors.
THE HIGHEST NAME
Philippians 2:9 says, “Wherefore also God highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name.” The Lord humbled Himself to the uttermost, but God exalted Him to the highest peak. The name referred to in this verse is the name of Jesus, as indicated in the following verse. From the time of the Lord’s ascension, there has never been a name on this earth above the name of Jesus. God has exalted Jesus, a real man, to be the Lord of all. Therefore, it is altogether right for us to call, “O Lord Jesus.” We need to confess the Lord’s name openly. What a glory it is to worship the Lord by calling on His name! n verses 10 and 11 Paul goes on to say, “That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and every tongue should openly confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.” The name is the expression of the sum total of what the Lord Jesus is in His Person and work. The words in the name mean in the sphere and element of all the Lord is. It is in this way we worship the Lord and pray to Him. We should not only call on the name of the Lord Jesus, but also bow our knees in His name. This is to worship Him. (Life-study of Philippians, pp. 91-98)