Lord’s Day Meeting – 9:30 AM
- In-Person at the Bellevue meeting hall: 1835 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA 98004
- Zoom
Announcements
- We will continue with week 3 in the Holy Word for Morning Revival from the Memorial Day conference on “The Preparation of the Bride”. Copies are available in the bookroom.
- FTTA trainees will be in Bellevue from January 17 – 24, with planned activities at Bellevue College.
- Conference outlines and message recordings are available at: https://pugetsoundblending.org/
- Please refer to the prayer meeting schedule below:
| DATE | PRAYER MEETING LOCATION (7:30 PM)Prayer Burdens, Zoom |
| January 6 | Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages) |
| January 13 | Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages)Redmond/Sammamish/Issaquah (English), TBD |
- We will read the Life-study of Ephesians messages 65 and 66 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) |
| January 4 | 98005 |
| January 11 | 98006 |
| January 18 | 98007 |
| January 25 | 98008 |
| USHERING SERVICE SCHEDULE | LORD’S TABLE SERVICE SCHEDULE | |||
| Date | Team | Date | Team | |
| January 4 | C | January 4 | 2 | |
| January 11 | D | January 11 | 3 | |
| January 18 | A | January 18 | 4 | |
| January 25 | B | January 25 | 1 |
Schedule
FTTA Gospel trip January 17 – 31
Prayer Meeting
THE WATCHMEN WHO REMIND THE LORD
There are three important passages of Scripture in the Old Testament concerning executing prayer. Isaiah 45:11 is one of these passages: “Thus says Jehovah, / The Holy One of Israel and the One who formed him, / Ask Me about the things to come concerning My sons, / And concerning the work of My hands, command Me.” We are to command not only other things but even the Lord. The Lord is waiting for our cooperation by giving Him the command.
S. D. Gordon once said that the Lord moves like a powerful locomotive, and our prayers are the rails upon which He moves. If we pray in an executing way, we lay the rails on which the Lord can move. He has accomplished everything already, but He needs the executors to execute what He has accomplished. We can even tell the enemy, “Satan, do you realize that even the Lord Himself is waiting for our command? How much more then can we deal with you! Get away from here!” We must see that all the negative things have been bound, and all the positive things have been released. We only have to give the command, even to the Lord Himself.
Another passage is Isaiah 62:6-7, which says, “Upon your walls, O Jerusalem, / I have appointed watchmen; / All day and all night / They will never keep silent. / You who remind Jehovah, / Do not be dumb; / And do not give Him quiet / Until He establishes / And until He makes Jerusalem / A praise in the earth.” We must be the watchmen who remind the Lord. We must never keep silent or give the Lord any quiet until He establishes and makes Jerusalem, that is, the church, a praise in the earth. The Lord is looking for such watchmen.
Ezekiel 36:37 says, “Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Moreover for this I will be inquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.” The Lord intends to increase His people with flocks of men, yet He will not do it until He is inquired of by them. He has done it already, but we need to proclaim and execute what He has accomplished.
I treasure these verses. We began the Lord’s work in Los Angeles simply by these three passages: Isaiah 45:11; 62:6-7; and Ezekiel 36:37. In the first prayer meeting we used these verses as the basis of our prayers. We all must learn how to use verses such as these in our service to the Lord. In 1962, at the end of the year, we prayed, “Lord, we claim all the seeking ones to be brought in.” We claimed a real increase. In the beginning we had only two Caucasian brothers, one Caucasian sister, and about thirty Chinese. We realized that to build up a local church, we had to have the local people, so we prayed and claimed. Praise the Lord that during the first winter conference in 1962, the number of Caucasians increased every night. In a short time the Chinese became only one-fourth of the total attendance. The number of Caucasians increased from ten percent to seventy-five percent within three months.
We must exercise our spirit in the name of the Lord Jesus, standing on all these verses to claim something for the Lord’s recovery. We must pray in a claiming way, not in a begging way. But we must be one with Him. If the work we are doing is not of Him, with Him, in Him, and for Him, we cannot claim anything. The only thing we can do in such a situation is beg. However, if we are doing something that is of Him and we are one with Him, it is not necessary for us to beg. We need only to claim and proclaim, “Lord, You have done all things; now we execute what You have already done. We bind what You have already bound, and we release what You have already released. We forgive what You have forgiven, and we retain what You have retained.” This is the proper way for us to pray in His service.