Prayer Burdens & Weekly Pursuit – Week 2 of December

Prayer Burdens:

Bangladesh

Pray for the saints to find the seeking ones and gain more remaining fruit.

Bhutan

Pray for the saints to be strengthened and supplied in the Lord.

India

Pray that the Lord would, through this situation and the prayers of the saints, usher in His further move in North India, and that the Lord would gain many seekers of the truth for His testimony.

Laos

Pray for the student work to gain 17 remaining fruits this year.

Tajikistan

Pray for the saints to have wisdom in distributing spiritual books, so that His Words may be sown as seed.

Timor-Leste

Pray for the church in Dili to gain more young people (the campus students and the employees of the saints’ stores)

Weekly Pursuit:

Verses:

Mark 4:26-27 “And He said, So is the kingdom of God: as if a man cast seed on the earth. And sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and lengthens…”

Excerpts:

The four Gospels reveal the Triune God incarnated. This God-man eventually came forth to sow Himself into God’s chosen people by proclaiming and teaching. When those who had been chosen by God heard His word and received it, they received the seed, the gene, of the kingdom. In the Gospels we have the sowing of this seed of the kingdom. In Acts hundreds and even thousands of sowers were raised up. All these sowers were those who received the seed, the gene. By receiving the seed they became those who could then sow it into others. In this way we have the propagation of the sowing and of the seed.

In the Epistles we see the growing of the seed, the gene of the kingdom. Further development of the kingdom gene is seen in chapter 1 of 2 Peter. [In 2 Peter 1:3 and 5-7] we have the steps of the development of the seed unto maturity. Peter indicates that if we have this development, “the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly and bountifully supplied” to us.

The harvest of this seed is found in the last book of the New Testament, the book of Revelation. In the new heaven and the new earth God will have an eternal kingdom with the New Jerusalem as the capital. Then God will have an eternal kingdom as the full development of the gene sown in the Gospels by Jesus the Nazarene, who was the Triune God in humanity. Praise the Lord for this picture of the kingdom gene and its development! (Life-study of Mark, msg. 15)