Prayer Burdens & Weekly Pursuit – Week 4 of May

Prayer Burdens:

Azerbaijan

Pray for the saints to dive deeper into the truth, so that their service as the labouring priests of the gospel of God will not be in vain.

Bangladesh

Pray for the literature work, especially the translation of the Bangla Recovery Version Bible.

Cambodia

Pray for the campus work in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap; may the Lord gain more young people to be attracted by Him to follow Him.

Laos

Pray for one or more families to move to serve in the church in Luang Prabang.

Sri Lanka

Pray for the Sinhala New Testament Recovery Version Bible translation of the Epistle of Philippians.

Tajikistan

Pray for the saints to have stable home meetings with their contacts so that they will be nourished by the word of God and grow up in the divine life.

Weekly Pursuit:

Verses:

John 6:57 “As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.”

Excerpts:

What we eat eventually becomes our being. If day by day we eat Christ as our meal offering, eventually we will become Christ. “To me, to live is Christ.” The meal offering includes the humanity of Jesus, the divinity of Jesus, the cross of Jesus, and the resurrection of Jesus. There is the fine flour, the oil, the frankincense, and the salt. There is no ground for any leaven or honey in this meal offering. In the life of Jesus as a man there is no place for any kind of impurity or corruption. If we are feeding on such a Jesus, we will have the fine flour, the oil, the salt, and the frankincense, without any leaven or honey.

In ourselves we cannot live a human life like that of the Lord Jesus. Only He can live such a life. But we can take Jesus at any time by coming to His Word and exercising our spirit to pray-read the Word. When we do this, we touch the Spirit, and the Spirit supplies us with Jesus as our nourishment. Since we are what we eat, the more we eat Jesus, the more we are constituted with Jesus. By our eating of Jesus’ human living, His living becomes ours. Spontaneously, without any self-effort, we will be as humble and holy as Jesus is. This is to enjoy Jesus as our food for us to live a life which is qualified to serve God.