Prayer Burdens & Weekly Pursuit – Week 1 of July

Prayer Burdens:

Azerbaijan

May the Lord strengthen the church life, uplifting the saints’ enjoyment and experience of Christ so they may grow in life through the regular enjoyment of God’s word.

Bangladesh

Pray for the campus propagation, that the Lord as the sevenfold intensified Spirit would strengthen the saints to gain high-quality young people who are willing to know the Lord’s word.

Cambodia

Pray for more brothers to be raised up in the churches in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap to participate in the church services.

Nepal

Pray for the campus work, that more students who are open and willing to read the Bible would be gained, and that 10 stable home meetings would be established in July.

Tajikistan

Pray that the door of the gospel would be opened on the campuses, and that high-quality students would be gained, so the saints may bear six remaining fruit this year.

Timor-Leste

Pray that the sons of peace would be gained among the university students, that more Bible-reading home meetings would be established and continue steadfastly, and that the new ones would have a hunger for the Lord’s word and grow together.

Weekly Pursuit:

Verses:

Eph. 5:32 “This mystery is great, but I speak with regard to Christ and the church.”

Excerpts:

After Christ terminated the entire old creation through His all-inclusive death, the church was produced in His resurrection. The church is a new creation created in Christ’s resurrection and by the resurrected Christ. We must see this vision. In addition to seeing that the church was produced in Christ’s resurrection, we must also see where the church is. The church today is in Christ in ascension. Ephesians 2:6 tells us that the church has been resurrected with Christ, and now the church is seated in the heavenlies with Christ. Therefore, the church is absolutely and purely of the element of Christ, absolutely in resurrection, and absolutely remaining in the heavenlies with Christ. The English language does not give us adequate adjective forms for the nouns Christ and resurrection. We must, therefore, invent some new vocabulary words to communicate such a vision of the church. We may say that today the church is “Christly,” “resurrectionly,” and heavenly. These three adjectives describe the fact conveyed in the Bible. The church is of Christ; the church is of resurrection; the church is of the heavens. The church is Christly, resurrectionly, and heavenly. With the church there is no element other than Christ. Such a vision will govern you to the uttermost and will rule out everything that is not Christly (of Christ), resurrectionly (of resurrection), or heavenly (of the heavens). With the believers there is still the flesh of sin, but with the church there is no flesh of sin because the church was born in resurrection (1 Pet. 1:3). The church is a matter in Christ, in resurrection, and in Christ’s ascension in the heavenlies. (Elders’ Training, Book 2: The Vision of the Lord’s Recovery,” ch. 3)