Announcements for June 25, 2023

  • The registration link for the video training is: https://www.cognitoforms.com/Churchinbellevue1/Bellevue2023JulyVideoTrainingRegistrationDueByJune18th
  • Bible Camp will be held July 24 to July 28 from 9:30 am – 12:45 pm each day for children entering 1st to entering 5th grade. Registration is due Saturday, June 24.
    • Children: https://www.cognitoforms.com/Churchinbellevue1/BibleCampChildren2023
    • Serving ones: https://www.cognitoforms.com/Churchinbellevue1/BibleCampServing2023
  • The North American Chinese Speaking Training will be held from July 26-30 (details can be found at https://na-csw.org/)
  • Summer School of Truth (SST) registration is now open and is due by June 30th. There is a registration link for both the young people and serving ones. Summer School of Truth will be held in Bellingham from August 15-20.
    • Students: https://www.cognitoforms.com/Churchinbellevue1/_2023SummerSchoolOfTruth
    • Serving ones: https://www.cognitoforms.com/Churchinbellevue1/_2023SSTServing
  • We will continue our church reading schedule of the Life-Study of Romans this week with messages 45 and 46. You can purchase a set of the Romans Life-studies from the bookroom.
    • The website (https://500lifestudies.org/) provides great resources for how to get into the Life-study messages.
    • The new Life-Study mobile is now available
  • Anyone with an LSM Webcast subscription can view the Wednesday Night Ministry Meeting from home.
  • If you have ministry books in good condition that you would like to donate, please bring them to the bookroom.
  • We will continue week 2 from the Holy Word for Morning Revival from the Thanksgiving conference on “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy”.
  • Please pick up a copy in the bookroom.
  • The brothers serving in Europe expect significant growth in the Full-Time Training in London and have plans to increase the facility to support up to 400 trainees and up to 1000 saints in a conference setting. Plans have been drawn up and there is a need for $6 million US dollars to construct the needed buildings. Donations can be marked for “London Training Center”.
  • 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 PeriodFirst FloorSecond Floor
Clean before June 25CrossroadsCentral Bellevue, Chinese-speaking
Clean before July 2Korean speaking saintsOverlake/Factoria
Clean before July 9Young PeopleKirkland, Chinese-speaking
Clean before July 16East BellevueSomerset, Chinese-speaking
DateTeam
June 25C
July 2D
July 9A
July 16B
USHERING SERVICE SCHEDULE
DateTeam
June 252
July 23
July 94
July 161
LORD’S TABLE SERVICE SCHEDULE

Schedule

  • July Training, July 4 – 12
  • College Training, July 16 – 22
  • Bible Camp July 24 – 28
  • Camp Canby, August 10-13
  • Summer School of Truth, August 15 – 20

Burdens for Prayer

  • World situation/Ukraine and China
  • GTCA migration
  • College work (Bellevue college and Puget Sound Area)
  • The prayer ministry of the church

Prayer Meeting Ministry Excerpt

God’s intention is to accomplish His own will through the believers’ prayer. This does not mean that believers should not ask God to fulfill their needs. It only means that believers should first understand the meaning and principle of prayer. Every time believers have a lack, they should first ask whether or not such a lack will affect God. Is it God who ordains that they have such a lack? Or is it God’s will that they be supplied? Only after one has seen that it is God’s will that his needs be met, should he pray for God to accomplish His will (with regards to meeting his need). Only after one has understood God’s will, should he pray for the will of God which he has understood and ask that God’s will be accomplished. The question now is not whether or not you have a lack or that you need to be supplied. The question now is whether or not God’s will is accomplished. Although your prayer may be the same as before, your attention is turned to the accomplishment of God’s will in such matters and not to the fulfilling of your own needs.

Here lies the failure of many. Believers think that their own needs are the priority. Even after they have understood that God’s will is to supply their need, they still pray tenaciously for their own needs. We should never pray for our own needs. There is only one legitimate prayer in the whole universe—only one prayer that pleases God—the prayer that asks for the accomplishment of His will. Our needs must be lost in God’s will. Whenever we see God’s will concerning our need, we have to drop our need immediately to seek after the accomplishment of God’s will. A direct prayer for the fulfilling of needs (whatever kind of need it may be) is never the noblest prayer. All prayers for personal needs should only be made indirectly while one is seeking for the accomplishment of God’s will. This is the secret to prayer, and this is the secret to victory in prayer.

God’s goal is that we be filled with His will to such an extent that we forget our own interest. God wants us to work together with Him to accomplish His will. The way to work together with Him is to pray. For this reason He wants us to abide in Him to learn His will in various matters and then ask according to His will.

CWWN, Vol. 8, “What is prayer?”
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