Prayer Burdens & Weekly Pursuit – Week 1 of October

Prayer Burdens:

Bangladesh

Pray for the perfecting meeting to be held in Chattogram this October, that the Lord would gain a group of brothers and sisters with a heart to serve, who would receive the same vision and advance together in the Body.

Cambodia

Pray for the labor on the campuses, that more remaining fruits would be gained and established in the church life.

Nepal

Pray that the Lord’s instant words would be released during the conference on November 7 and 8.

Pakistan

Pray that at least 285 saints would attend the national conference on November 8-9, to witness the oneness of the Body of Christ and enjoy the Lord’s abundant grace during the conference.

Sri Lanka

Pray for the saints who have a burden to go out to visit and shepherd, that they would gain new families and recover the backsliding ones.

Tajikistan

Pray that the Lord would strengthen the gospel work on the campuses in this new semester, release the sons of peace, and bring high-quality students into our midst.

Weekly Pursuit:

Verses:

1 Pet. 2:25 “For you were like sheep being led astray, but you have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.”

Excerpts:

Christ shepherds the sheep led astray and returned to Him, overseeing their inward condition as the Overseer of their souls. This should be a part of His inward comforting of the believers. When the Lord’s shepherding goes deeper in us, it reaches our soul to take care of our inward condition for the doing of the will of God in us. Christ as the Shepherd of our soul oversees the inward situation of our soul, which is composed of our mind, emotion, and will. We need Him to perfect our mind, adjust our emotion, and correct our will.

Christ became the Spirit of reality as the second Comforter. The first Comforter was Christ in the flesh, and the second Comforter is Christ as the life-giving Spirit, the Spirit of reality.

Christ comforts us inwardly to constitute the divine organism, the incorporation of the processed and consummated Triune God with His regenerated and transformed elect (14:17b-20). As the second Comforter, Christ is the Spirit of reality who comes not only to be with us but also to be in us, the redeemed ones of God (v. 17). Then the Son in whom we believe is in the Father and we are in Him and He is in us. These four in s show the Triune God incorporated with His redeemed and transformed people to be one entity. (The Vital Groups, ch. 6)