Announcements
Week of May 3, 2026
Lord's Day - 5/3
Lord's Table and prophesying meeting at the hall, also children's and young people's meetings
Hall cleaning by the saints with last names of A - C
Tuesday - 5/5
Corporate prayer meetings at the hall in person and also on Zoom
Lord's Day - 5/10
Lord's Table and prophesying meeting at the hall, also children's and young people's meetings
Hall cleaning by the saints with last names of D - J
Holy word for morning revival
May 4 - 10
HWMR: Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (4), vol. 7, Week 42,
"Christ, the Eternal King, Coming to Possess the Earth and the Finishing
of the Mystery of God"
PursuiNG THE TRUTH
May 4 - 10
Read Life-Study of Ephesians, Message 61 - "A Summary of the Exhortation
in Chapter Five" (5:1-33) and Message 62 - "The Believers' Living in the Relationship
between Children and Fathers and between Slaves and Masters" (6:1-9)
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 clicking this link. Also, here is a very encouraging excerpt entitled "Becoming
What We Read" as an incentive to read the Bible and the ministry that opens up
the Word of God to us.
To read the Life-study messages for Ephesians online at Living Stream Ministry,
use this link.
To listen to the Life-study of the Bible Radio Broadcast for Ephesians online
at Living Stream Ministry, click this link.
Reading through the Recovery Version Bible each year: in the Old Testament
3 chapters and in the New Testament 1 chapter six days per week - Click here for
the schedule for 2026. Or to create your own Bible reading schedule, go to
this link.
May 4 - 10
Read chapter one in Meeting to Speak the Word of God, $7.00 each.
Conferences, Trainings, & MEETINGS
May 9 - 10
Spring 2026 Southeast Spanish-speaking Blending Conference
Location: Carillon Elementary School, 3200 Lockwood Blvd., Oviedo, FL 32765.
Click on this link to see the detailed announcement for this conference
in Spanish or for the announcement in English, click on this link. Registration to
attend already ended. NOTE: The first meeting on Saturday, May 9, will start at
9:30 am, not 9:00 as originally announced. Bring snacks to eat during the break
from 11:00 to 11:30 am.
May 10
Blending with the saints in Sarasota at the Twin Lakes Park, 6600 Clark Road
in the "Green”conference room.
May 22 - 25
International Memorial Day Blending Conference
Location: Sheraton Dallas Hotel, 400 Olive Street, Dallas, TX
Subject: A Great Need for a New Revival
Click on this link to see the detailed announcement for this conference.
June 29 - July 4
June Semiannual Training, Anaheim, CA
Subject: The Believers (1)
* The Truth Sets US Free website is https://www.tsuf.us. The most recent webinar, which was originally streamed on April 26, as well as the first three, are all available to watch by clicking on this link. We encourage you to prayerfull view each presentation and pray earnestly concerning how the Lord would have you participate in this labor during 2026!
* The messages from this year's Spring Southeast Blending Conference are available at the Media Archive section of the Church in Atlanta's website. For the best viewing experience on mobile devices, please download their smartphone app.
* 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 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 Sons of the Most High. In the Gospel of Luke we see that the Lord Jesus, the God-man, lived a life that was according to the highest standard of morality, and in Luke 6:17-49 He teaches us this standard. In this booklet compiled from Life-study of Luke, Witness Lee expounds these verses and the Lord’s teaching. “I hope that many of us will delve into this teaching. If we pray over these verses and digest them, this will affect our daily walk.”
* Books that everyone should read at https://www.rhemabooks.org/en/free-christian-books/
Basic Elements of the Christian Life - Volume One:
1) The Mystery of Human Life
2) The Assurance, Security, and Joy of Salvation
3) The Precious Blood of Christ
4) Calling on the Name of the Lord
5) The Key to Experiencing Christ
Basic Elements of the Christian Life - Volume Two:
6) A Time With the Lord
7) A Simple Way to Touch the Lord
8) Deep Calls Unto Deep
Basic Elements of the Christian Life - Volume Three:
9) Two Principles of Living
10) The Way to Build Up the Church
11) Pray-reading the Word
Upcoming Events
* Here in the Southeast & beyond - See the Calendar at this link.
EXCERPTS FROM THE MINISTRY
EXPERIENCING CHRIST IN GOD’S ECONOMY
Christ is sanctifying, cleansing, nourishing, and cherishing us in order to present to Himself a glorious church. Contrary to the religious concept, this presentation will not take place suddenly, without any preparation, when the Lord Jesus appears in His coming back. Rather, Christ’s presentation of the glorious church involves a process which began at the time of the Apostles and which has been going on throughout the centuries. Today we also are participating in the process through which Christ is presenting the glorious church to Himself. This presentation is the goal of His sanctifying, cleansing, nourishing, and cherishing.
Since the day we first called upon the Lord Jesus and received Him into us, He has been seeking opportunities to work Himself into our being. The more His element is worked into us, the more we are saturated with Himself and the more we are sanctified, cleansed, nourished, and cherished. The ultimate consummation of this process will be the presentation of the church to Himself in glory.
SATURATED WITH CHRIST
Christ’s working Himself into us is not a matter of behavior or self-improvement. It is a matter of our being inwardly saturated with the Shekinah glory of God. Suppose a steel rod, hard, cold, and black, is thrust into fire and held there. Eventually, the fire will saturate the steel and cause it to glow. In this way the steel loses its natural color and becomes white hot. In a sense, the color of the steel is swallowed up by the fire. Now the steel is shining, glowing. However, it would be useless, even ridiculous, for someone to teach steel to shine. What can cause the steel to shine is not teaching, but burning. It must be burned until fire has saturated its very substance. This will cause the steel rod to become a bearer of light. If this steel is to keep on glowing, however, it must remain in the fire. If it is kept out of the fire for any length of time, its natural color and darkness will return. In a similar way, what we need today is not doctrine in letters; we need to be burned by Christ and saturated with Him as the indwelling glory of God.
COMING TO CHRIST IN THE WORD
I can testify that most of the teachings I received in Christianity did not afford me very much help. They actually hindered me and frustrated me from going on with the Lord. Today to me the Bible is not mainly a book of teachings, but a book that reveals the Person of the living Christ. As I read the Word, I open to the Lord, and immediately I experience His burning within me. Since I have His burning, what need do I have for mere teachings?
In John 5:39 and 40 the Lord Jesus said to the religionists, “You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life, and it is these that testify concerning Me; and you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.” These verses indicate that religion may even help people to honor and respect the Bible, but that very respect for the holy Word may be used to keep them away from the presence of the living Christ. If we read the Word properly, it should always bring us to the Lord. Whenever we come to the Bible, we must also come to Him so that we may have life.
GOD’S ECONOMY
God’s economy is so simple: it is just to work Christ into us so that He may live in us and we may live by Him. If we take the way of God’s economy, the church will eventually become glorious, for Christ, the glory of God, will continually burn His glory into us. We are not here for a particular practice or way of having the church life. We are here only for Christ. The church is the issue of the enjoyment of Christ. The proper church life is a matter of us all enjoying Christ and then coming together to express Him, without insisting upon any particular way of expressing Christ. What we need in the Lord’s recovery today is not a particular practice—it is only the living Christ.
Concerning the living Christ, we have pointed out that in His coming back Christ will come out from within us. He will spread within us, saturate us with Himself, and swallow up every part of our inward being. Then He will come out through us. When some hear of this, they may argue that the New Testament teaches that Christ will descend from the heavens. Yes, a number of verses tell us that the Lord is in the heavens and that in His coming He will descend from the heavens. However, for many, the teaching of the Lord’s coming from heaven has become a religious preoccupation. Therefore we must also pay attention to the verses which emphasize the fact that Christ is in us. For example, Colossians 3:4 says that when Christ appears we shall appear with Him in glory, but Colossians 1:27 says that Christ in us is the hope of glory. (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 501-506)