Announcements
- In preparation for the Puget Sound conference, we will have a church-wide hall cleaning on Thursday night (November 13) at 7:00 pm
- The schedule for the Puget Sound Conference is:
- Message 1: Friday (11/14) at 7:30 pm
- Message 2: Saturday (11/15) at 10:00 am
- Message 3: Saturday (11/15) at 1:30 pm
- Message 4: LD (11/16) at 9:30 am (Greenlake)
- Conference outlines and Zoom information can be found at: https://pugetsoundblending.org/
- The December video training registration is now available at: https://www.cognitoforms.com/Churchinbellevue1/Bellevue2025DecemberVideoTrainingRegistrationDueByDecember15th
- The Thanksgiving Conference will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana from November 27-30. More information can be found at: https://www.lsm.org/pdfs/2025-Thanksgiving-conf/2025ThanksgivingConferenceInformation_en.pdf
- Families with children going to the Thanksgiving conference should register for child care at: https://form.jotform.com/251444161206144
- We will continue with week 32 in Volume 6 from the Holy Word for Morning Revival from the July training on “Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3)”. Copies are available in the bookroom.
- Please refer to the prayer meeting schedule below:
| DATE | PRAYER MEETING LOCATION (7:30 PM)Prayer Burdens, Zoom |
| November 18 | Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages) |
| November 25 | Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages)Redmond/Sammamish/Issaquah (English), TBD |
| December 2 | Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages) |
- The Wednesday night ministry meeting starts at 7:30 pm (https://www.lsmwebcast.com/MinMeeting.cfm)
- We will read the Life-study of Ephesians messages 51 and 52 this week.
- The website (https://500lifestudies.org/) provides great resources for how to get into the Life-study messages; the Life-Study mobile app is available for download
- To join a Life-study reading group, use the link below: https://www.cognitoforms.com/Churchinbellevue1/LifeStudyReadingGroupSignUpChurchInBellevue
- The Life-Study of the Bible radio broadcast is every Lord’s day at 8:30 pm, KGNW 820 AM
- Please refer to the table below for the cleaning schedule.
CLEANING SCHEDULE
| TIME PERIOD | CLEANING GROUP (Zip Codes/Cities) |
| November 16 | Puget Sound Conference |
| November 23 | 98007 |
| November 30 | 98008 |
| December 7 | 98052 |
| USHERING SERVICE SCHEDULE | LORD’S TABLE SERVICE SCHEDULE | |||
| Date | Team | Date | Team | |
| November 16 | PS Conference | November 16 | PS Conference | |
| November 23 | A | November 23 | 4 | |
| November 30 | B | November 30 | 1 | |
| December 7 | C | December 7 | 2 |
Schedule
Puget Sound Conference, November 14-16
Thanksgiving Conference, November 27-30
Prayer Meeting Reading (Prayer Ministry of the Church)
Matt. 18:19 Again, truly I say to you that if two of you are in harmony on earth concerning any matter for which they ask, it will be done for them from My Father who is in the heavens.
2. The Harmony in the Holy Spirit
God’s power cannot exceed the prayer of the church. The power of God today can at most be as great as the prayer of the church. This does not mean that God’s power is limited in heaven. In heaven, God’s power is unlimited. But on earth, God’s power is manifested to the degree that the church prays. The amount that the church prays will be the measure of the amount that God’s power is manifested. Consequently, the church has to learn to pray big prayers and make big requests. The prayer of the church is often very small; it prays only for ordinary problems. This is not enough. The church needs to have big prayers and make big requests. Since the church is coming to such a rich God, there must not be small prayers and small requests. Since the church is coming to such a rich God, there must be great things happening. If the capacity of the church before God is small, it will restrict the power of God from being manifested. We know that the question of the overcomers is not quite resolved, and Satan is not yet thrown into the abyss. God must gain a vessel for His testimony before He can accomplish what He has set out to accomplish. The church must have big prayers to manifest our God. This is the ministry of the church. Brothers and sisters, I do not know whether God can say to us that this church has a ministry of prayer when He passes by our prayer meeting. It is not a question of how often we pray. It is a question of the weight of our prayer. If we see the church’s responsibility of prayer, we will see that our prayers are not big enough; we are limiting God and frustrating His work. The church has forsaken its duty! What a sad situation this is!
The issue at stake is this: Can God gain a church that is faithful to its ministry? This depends on whether we are those destined to be disqualified, or whether we are the real vessels of God who will fulfill God’s goal. Brothers and sisters, we have to cry out loudly that God is watching to see whether the church is faithful to its ministry. The ministry of the church is prayer—not small prayers, but prayers that pioneer the way for God. God is accomplishing His work. But the church first prays and prepares the way before God finds the way. The church must have big prayers, serious prayers, and strong prayers. Prayer cannot be small before God. If prayers are centered around ourselves, our personal difficulties, and our small losses and gains, it will be difficult to open a way for God’s eternal will. Many things should drive us to dig deep. But above all, prayer should drive us to the utmost depth.
For two to be in harmony is not an empty word; it is not a slogan. If we do not know what the Body of Christ is and have not taken this ground, it will be useless even if two hundred people are praying together. If we know the Body of Christ and stand on the proper ground of this Body to deny the flesh, if we do not ask things for ourselves but ask for God’s will to be done on earth, we will see that our prayer is in harmony. When this happens, God in heaven will fulfill our prayer on earth.
Heaven binds as much as earth binds and looses as much as earth looses. The capacity in heaven is controlled by the capacity on earth. We should not be afraid that the capacity on earth is too large, because the capacity in heaven is always larger. The capacity on earth can never match the capacity in heaven. Heaven always wants to bind more than the earth binds, and heaven always wants to loose more than the earth looses. This kind of binding and loosing is not done by individuals; it is done when “two of you are in harmony on earth concerning any matter.” Any matter that they ask will be done for them from the Father who is in the heavens. Brothers and sisters, God’s power will be forever greater than our power.