Announcements
Week of October 26, 2025
Lord's Day - 10/26
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 coordination meetings for the serving groups
Tuesday - 10/28
Prayer meetings by area in person and on Zoom
Lord's Day - 11/2
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 beginning with A - C
Holy word for morning revival
October 27 - November 2
HWMR: Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3), Week 30,
"The Church in the Triune God."
PursuiNG THE TRUTH
October 27 - November 2
Read Life-Study of Ephesians, Message 7 - "The Mystery of God’s Will"
and Message 8 - "To Head Up All Things in 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 using this link.
To read the Life-study messages for Ephesians online at Living Stream
Ministry, click this link.
To listen to the Life-study of the Bible Radio Broadcast for Ephesians
online at Living Stream Ministry, click this link.
October 27 - November 2
Read God’s New Testament Economy, Chapter 41: "The New Jerusalem’s
Application to the Believers—The Triune Existence"
Conferences, Trainings, & MEETINGS
October 26
Semiannual Training, December 22 - 27, 2025, Anaheim
Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (4) - the book of Revelation
This is the deadline to register and submit your $205 payment.
November 7 - 9
Florida College Conference, Tampa
November 27 - 30
We would like to announce that the 2025 International Thanksgiving
Blending Conference will be held in Indianapolis, IN, at the
JW Marriott Indianapolis. The entire conference announcement is
available at this link.
Both the live and archived messages of the 2025 International
Thanksgiving Blending Conference will be available to view on
the LSM Webcast site, lsmwebcast.com, which will not require
login credentials to access the messages of the conference. The
videos of the messages will be available for free for a period of
30 days after the conference.
We hope that all the churches and all the saints will prepare for this
upcoming time of ministry and fellowship and will sanctify these days for
the hearing of faith among us everywhere. Please pray for His blessing
upon this conference. From Living Stream Ministry, Registration Section
* Southeast Labor Day 2025 Conference audio and video messages are available using this link. The outlines can be downloaded here.
* Ministry Propagation fellowship shared in Tampa on June 1, 2025
Session 1 - The audio recording can be listened to using this link and the outline that was used as the basis for the sharing can be downloaded here.
Session 2 - The video recording can be watched using this link.
* To setup a recurring monthly gift through Zelle with your bank for the purpose of supporting the saints sent from the Southeast who are serving in Europe, use this email address: southeastchurches@gmail.com.
Also, the following link is intended to facilitate the giving of the saints in the Southeast churches to meet this need: https://southeastchurches.us/.
* At the Living Stream Ministry website - lsm.org - click on Free Resources and then on "Quick Links for our Daily Life" at the bottom of the list or go there directly using this link. The option for free "eBooklets to Download and Share with Friends" is in the bottom left hand corner.
A recommended eBooklet to read yourself and then share with someone else this week is God's Selection Our Destiny. "In this booklet taken from Life-study of Romans, Witness Lee fellowships concerning Romans 9 and 10, which reveal that we are vessels and give us the way to be filled with the riches of Christ. “We were made vessels to contain Him; we were selected and predestinated to be His containers. This requires our cooperation in receiving Him and taking Him in. In order to do this we need to open ourselves from the depths of our being and call upon Him with our mouth from deep within our spirit.”
Upcoming Events
* Here in the Southeast & beyond - See the Calendar at this link.
EXCERPTS FROM THE MINISTRY
“Ephesians 1:6 says, “To the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He graced us in the Beloved.” This verse does not stand by itself. Rather, it is the issue of predestination unto sonship mentioned in the preceding verse. This means that the praise of the glory of God’s grace is the result, the issue, of the sonship. Therefore, in order to understand the praise in verse 6, we must know the sonship in verse 5. If we do not know the content of the sonship, we may merely understand verse 6 in a natural way.
The glory of God’s grace is that His grace, which is Himself as our enjoyment, expresses Him. God is expressed in His grace, and His predestination is for the praise of this expression. As we receive grace and enjoy God, we have the sense of glory, although we may not have the words to express this sense. Sometimes after an excellent meeting we are full of grace and say, “That was glorious!” This is God expressed in His grace.
When we realize that we have been chosen to be holy and predestinated to sonship; that we have the Spirit of the Son, the life of the Son, and the position of the Son; and that we shall be conformed to the image of the Son, have the completion of sonship, the redemption of our body, and inherit the full sonship, we shall say, “What a glory!” We need to consider six items prayerfully: the Spirit of the Son, the life of the Son, the position of the Son, the image of the Son, the completion of sonship, and the inheritance of sonship. If you do this, you will be in glory and praise God for the sonship.
What is the praise of the glory of God’s grace? Have you ever praised God for the sonship? We, the sons of God, do not praise God very much. Usually we simply thank Him. When we say, “Praise the Lord,” we often mean, “Thank the Lord.” To thank God means that we have received a certain benefit and thank God for it. But when we praise God, we praise Him primarily for what He is or what He does, no matter whether or not we have received any benefits from Him. In praising God you need to forget yourself and get outside of yourself. When you are truly praising God, it seems that you do not exist. You see only God, what He is, and what He does. Therefore, you praise Him and speak well concerning Him. To use an extreme illustration, could you praise God if He sent you to hell? If you truly knew God, you would be able to say, “O God, even if You send me to hell, I will still praise You because You are God.” Oh, how we need to learn to praise Him!” (Excerpts from Life-study of Ephesians, pp.47-50)