Lord’s Day Meeting – 9:30 AM
- In-Person at the Bellevue meeting hall: 1835 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA 98004
- Zoom
Announcements
- The July training will be held from June 29th – July 4th. Registration is due on April 26th
- Register using this link: https://www.lsmregistration.com/attendee-intake.php?i=10977&l=31EF02F2
- Submit registration payment using this link: https://www.cognitoforms.com/Churchinbellevue1/_2026JuneSemiannualTrainingPaymentLink
- Saints are invited to come for ongoing shepherding trips in Italy. See latest report here. More information is available at (tinyurl.com/ShepherdingApplic), which also includes a dynamic calendar (tinyurl.com/ShepherdingCalendar) of upcoming shepherding trips.
- Sister Joann Leng’s memorial will be held on April 11 at the Bellevue meeting hall at 2:00 pm.
- There is a Zoom link for those who cannot attend in person: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81631686387?pwd=zUYmx1jMHJfdT7edisXTWWeH8brnrV.1
- The Wednesday night ministry meeting starts at 7:30 pm (https://www.lsmwebcast.com/MinMeeting.cfm)
- We will continue with week 3 of the Holy Word for Morning Revival from the 2025 December Semi-Annual Training “Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (4)”. Copies are available in the bookroom.
- Please refer to the prayer meeting schedule below:
| DATE | PRAYER MEETING LOCATION (7:30 PM)Prayer Burdens, Zoom |
| April 14 | Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages)Redmond/Sammamish/Issaquah (English), Jeff & Sarah MacGillivray’s home |
| April 21 | Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages)Redmond/Sammamish/Issaquah (English), Brian & Gigi Morrison’s home |
| April 28 | Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages)Redmond/Sammamish/Issaquah (English), Ray & Liza Chen’s home |
- We will read the Life-study of Ephesians messages 93 and 94 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) |
| April 12 | Medina, Clyde Hill, Kirkland, Kenmore, Bothell, Woodinville, Marysville, Carnation, Mercer Island, Seattle, Newcastle, Renton, Federal Way |
| April 19 | 98004 |
| April 26 | 98005 |
| May 3 | 98006 |
| May 10 | 98007 |
| May 17 | 98008 |
| May 24 | 98052 |
| May 31 | 98074, 98075, 98027, 98028, 98029 |
| USHERING SERVICE SCHEDULE | LORD’S TABLE SERVICE SCHEDULE | |||
| Date | Team | Date | Team | |
| April 12 | A | April 12 | 4 | |
| April 19 | B | April 19 | 1 | |
| April 26 | C | April 26 | 2 | |
| May 3 | D | May 3 | 3 | |
Schedule
May 8-10 Puget Sound Conference
May 15-17 Conference in Prosser
May 22-25 Memorial Day Conference
Ministry Reading
Eph. 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil,
Eph. 6:18 By means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit and watching unto this in all perseverance and petition concerning all the saints,
Let us carefully look into different aspects of prayer according to the record of the Bible.
THE IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER
2. “Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil…by means of all prayer and petition” (Eph. 6:11, 18)
The devil, our enemy, always attacks us. We need to stand against him. We must put on the whole armor of God and have much prayer and petition to stand against him. We must rely on the armor of God to stand against the enemy through prayer and petition. Prayer and petition are the way to utilize the armor of God and to cause the armor of God to have an effect upon us. In order to withstand the enemy, we must put on the armor of God by means of all prayer and petition.
The devil is the enemy of God. However, God does not deal with the devil by Himself; He wants us to deal with him. He wants us to pray and ask Him to deal with the devil. God deals with the devil according to the prayers that we pray. God deals with the enemy to the extent of our prayer. If we do not pray, God will not and cannot deal with the devil. Therefore, the devil fears our prayer and hates our prayer to the uttermost. Brothers and sisters, the devil is afraid of our prayer! Our prayer causes the devil to tremble because our prayer can bind him and cast him out. When he sees us bend our knees to pray, he trembles in fear. He dislikes, even hates, our prayer to the uttermost.
Therefore, he uses every means to block our prayer and to disturb us while we pray. Many times he takes away our interest in prayer and even depresses our heart of prayer. He makes us unable to pray and causes us to have no desire to pray. He knows that once we pray, he will be dealt with and suffer loss. We should see through his stratagems and stand against our indifference, our depressed spirit, and any outward distractions in order to pray and petition so that he would be bound and suffer loss.
The work that God wants us to do on the earth today, whether it is preaching the gospel, saving sinners, building the church, or building up the saints, involves casting out the devil. In order to be effective, these must be carried out with much prayer and petition. We must pray to deal with and cast out the devil so that we can carry out these works for God. Spiritual work requires spiritual warfare. Spiritual warfare must be fought through prayer in order to be victorious. Prayer is necessary for spiritual warfare; it is also necessary for spiritual work.