“Today we must prepare ourselves to be the Bride [of Christ] by taking in the element of Christ’s riches as our nourishment. Christ is the food for the church. Therefore, as she prepares herself to be presented to Christ, the church must eat Christ. There is no other way to be prepared. Eating Jesus is the way.” (Witness Lee, Life-Study of Ephesians , pp. 799-800, Living Stream Ministry) This week we conclude the series titled, “Time with the Lord,” with speaking from brother Minoru Chen on the ...
Jul 22, 2024•21 min
Write Thou on me Thy treasured name, Mingled with Thee—my blessed aim; Thy Spirit [seals] my every part, Thy word inscribes Thee on my heart. Make home in me, thus I in Thee! 'Til I am Thee and Thou art me! (Minoru Chen, Write Thou on Me, Dear Lord, Thy Name , Stanza 7) This week we continue the series titled, “Time with the Lord,” with a new hymn from brother Minoru Chen on the Lord’s name being written on the believers. The singing cannot be heard in the original audio, so for this podcast, a ...
Jul 15, 2024•23 min
“And it was given to her that she should be clothed in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of the saints. And he said to me, Write, Blessed are they who are called to the marriage dinner of the Lamb” ( Rev. 19:8-9a ). “And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband” ( Rev. 21:2 ). This week we continue the series titled, “Time with the Lord,” with testimonies and speaking from brother Jim...
Jul 08, 2024•24 min
“The Lord will search us, purge us, cleanse us, anoint us, and speak to us in our morning watch. He will accomplish much with us in a living way. Our contact with the Lord depends on our cooperation with Him. We cooperate with Him by loving Him, consecrating ourselves to Him, and standing on the ground of our consecration to contact Him day by day. The best time to read the Word and pray in a living way is early in the morning.” (Witness Lee, The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1961–1962 , vol. ...
Jun 24, 2024•26 min
“Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her that He might sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing of the water in the word, that He might present the church to Himself glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that she would be holy and without blemish” ( Eph. 5:25b-27 ). This week we begin a new series titled, “Time with the Lord,” with testimonies from brothers and sisters on their fresh experiences with the Lord. These testimonies were given during a gather...
Jun 17, 2024•25 min
“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. For where there are two or three gathered into My name, there am I in their midst” ( Matt. 18:19-20 ). This week we conclude the series titled, “Being Engaged in the Lord’s Service,” with testimonies that follow brother Minoru’s speaking. This fellowship was given during a gathering for working saints at the 2016 Memorial D...
Jun 11, 2024•23 min
“The ministry of the priests is engaged especially in the service of God; their responsibility is to serve God. Their main function is to draw near to God and to wait and remain in His presence.” (Witness Lee, Truth Lessons Level 3, Volume 2 , p. 126, Living Stream Ministry) This week we continue the series titled, “Being Engaged in the Lord’s Service,” with speaking from brother Minoru Chen on maintaining an overcoming living through healthy practices in our Christian and church life. This fell...
Jun 03, 2024•19 min
“Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, This is what applies to the Levites: From twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to perform the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting. And from the age of fifty years they shall retire from the service in the work and shall serve no more. But they may minister to their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to keep the charge, but they themselves shall do no service” ( Num. 8:23b-26 ). This week we begin a new series titled, “Being Engaged in the L...
May 21, 2024•30 min
“ A proper Christian life has three aspects: fighting the good fight against Satan and his kingdom of darkness for the interests of God’s kingdom; running the course for the carrying out of God’s economy according to His eternal purpose; and keeping the faith for participation in the divine riches in God’s economy. In this Paul set up an adequate pattern for us. ” (Witness Lee, Holy Bible Recovery Version , 2 Tim. 4:7 , note 1, Living Stream Ministry) This week we conclude the special series tit...
May 13, 2024•1 hr 5 min
“ Whatever one loves, his whole heart, even his entire being, is set on and occupied and possessed by. This is crucial! Whether there would be a day of glory in the church’s victory or grievous days of the church’s decline depends altogether on what kind of lovers we are... ” (Witness Lee, Holy Bible Recovery Version , 2 Tim. 3:2 , note 2, Living Stream Ministry) This week we continue the special series titled, “Becoming a Timothy for the Lord’s Recovery,” with speaking from brother Ron Kangas o...
May 07, 2024•1 hr 8 min
“ But in a great house there are not only gold and silver vessels but also wooden and earthen; and some are unto honor, and some unto dishonor. If therefore anyone cleanses himself from these, he will be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, useful to the master, prepared unto every good work. ” ( 2 Tim. 2:20-21 ) This week we continue the special series titled, “Becoming a Timothy for the Lord’s Recovery,” with speaking from brother Ron Kangas on the importance of the word vessel . To become a Timot...
Apr 30, 2024•1 hr 30 min
“ And the things which you have heard from me through many witnesses, these commit to faithful men, who will be competent to teach others also. ” ( 2 Tim. 2:2 ) This week we continue the special series titled, “Becoming a Timothy for the Lord’s Recovery,” with speaking from brother Ron Kangas on the need for Timothys to not only continue the line of recovery, but also perpetuate the line through faithful ones until the Lord comes. This is message three of six given at a college conference in Tuo...
Apr 23, 2024•1 hr 22 min
“For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of sobermindedness.” ( 2 Tim. 1:7 ) This week we continue the special series titled, “Becoming a Timothy for the Lord’s Recovery,” with speaking from brother Ron Kangas on the need for thousands to be raised up as today’s Timothys. These ones stand in the gap as the bridge between the apostles with their ministry and the churches for the reality of the Body of Christ. This is message two of six given at a college confe...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 12 min
“ You therefore, my child, be empowered in the grace which is in Christ Jesus; And the things which you have heard from me through many witnesses, these commit to faithful men, who will be competent to teach others also. ” ( 2 Tim. 2:1-2 ) Starting this week for the next six weeks, we bring you a special series titled, “Becoming a Timothy for the Lord’s Recovery,” with speaking from brother Ron Kangas in Tuolumne, California from October 19-21, 2001. By going through Second Timothy verse by vers...
Apr 09, 2024•1 hr 27 min
“And the glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as We are one; I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me” ( John 17:22-23 ). This week we conclude the series titled, “The Goal of Our Christian Life,” with speaking from brother Andrew Yu on having a new beginning for the practice of the church life. This is part four of message six from a confere...
Apr 01, 2024•25 min
“A person who knows how to work will always seek to perfect others. This does not mean that he does less work. Rather, he works more than the rest of the saints, because most of his work is to perfect the saints. After he has served for three to five years, the saints can do and are doing whatever he can do. This is the way for us to build up the church.” (Witness Lee, The Collected Works of Witness Lee , 1958, vol. 1 , p. 131, Living Stream Ministry) This week we continue the series titled, “Th...
Mar 25, 2024•22 min
“The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Prisca greet you much in the Lord, with the church, which is in their house” ( 1 Cor. 16:19 ). “Greet the brothers in Laodicea, as well as Nymphas and the church, which is in his house” ( Col. 4:15 ). “And to Apphia the sister and to Archippus our fellow soldier and to the church, which is in your house” ( Philem. 2 ). This week we continue the series titled, “The Goal of Our Christian Life,” with speaking from brother Andrew Yu on the importance of ou...
Mar 18, 2024•23 min
“The Lord is living and purposeful. But what is His ultimate move? To say that the Lord Jesus will come back to clear up things on earth is true… but clearing up things is not His ultimate move… God’s ultimate move is to work Himself—Father, Son, and Spirit—into us and to become our life, that we may live Him out and express Him as His Body, the church.” (Witness Lee, The World Situation and God's Move , p. 324, Living Stream Ministry) This week we begin a new series titled, “The Goal of Our Chr...
Mar 11, 2024•24 min
In our spiritual experience there is a beginning, a course, and an ending, after which we experience another beginning with another course and another ending. This cycle repeats itself, and each repetition takes us forward. The beginning, course, and ending are a spiritual metabolism. This is also a law of revival. Every new beginning is a new revival and is followed by a course. When the course reaches its fullness, the experiences in that stage come to an end. Then another beginning will ensue...
Mar 05, 2024•15 min
“If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and are not practicing the truth” ( 1 John 1:6 ). “This Greek verb [for practicing ] denotes doing (things) habitually and continually by abiding (in the things); hence, it has the sense of practice . To practice the truth is to live the truth habitually, not merely to do it occasionally.” (Witness Lee, Holy Bible Recovery Version , 1 John 1:6 , note 5, Living Stream Ministry) This week we continue the series titled...
Feb 26, 2024•24 min
“Eating, drinking, and sleeping cause our physical life to grow. Similarly, our spiritual life grows by eating, drinking, and sleeping, that is, by our being revived. In 2 Corinthians 12:10 the apostle Paul says, ‘I am well pleased in weaknesses...; for when I am weak, then I am powerful.’ Paul knew how…to touch the joy of Christ when he suffered. He also was able to apply the law of revival; hence, he was always being revived.” (Witness Lee, The Collected Works of Witness Lee , 1960, vol. 2 , p...
Feb 19, 2024•16 min
“Our work today is to perfect others to do the work themselves. We are not here to work in place of others. Paul produced Timothy as his disciple, and then Timothy committed the work to faithful ones (2 Tim. 2:2). These faithful ones then went out and perfected others. This is the way of our work today.” (Witness Lee, The Collected Works of Witness Lee , 1932-1949, vol. 2 , pp. 406-407, Living Stream Ministry) This week we conclude the series titled, "The Age of Intensification," with speaking f...
Feb 12, 2024•26 min
“What is our burden? What is our responsibility? We must not just preach the gospel. We must bear the testimony of Jesus...Our responsibility is to live Christ, to bear a living witness to Him in our daily life, to know nothing but Christ, the all-inclusive One revealed in the completing ministry of Paul and the mending ministry of John.” (Witness Lee, The Collected Works of Witness Lee , 1981, vol. 1 , p. 354, Living Stream Ministry) This week we begin a new series titled, "The Age of Intensifi...
Feb 05, 2024•27 min
This week we conclude the series titled, "The Vital Groups," with testimonies, public consecrations, and brother Andrew Yu’s responses to questions from conference attendees. This is part four of message three from a conference hosted by the church in New York City in November 2015. The original recording can be found at: https://livingtohim.com/2016/02/conference-in-new-york-with-andrew-yu-november-2015/...
Jan 29, 2024•22 min
This is a special fellowship for the New Year given by Brother Minoru Chen on January 12th, 2024. Drawing from Song of Songs, he encourages us to start the new year with a dedicated time to open to the Lord. He describes our Christian journey as an ultramarathon with many new beginnings, new courses, and new endings. May we all take time before the Lord to have a new beginning that results in new dealings and a new consecration. The video can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdoZiqtG...
Jan 23, 2024•1 hr 5 min
This week we continue the series titled, "The Vital Groups," with testimonies, public consecrations, and brother Andrew Yu’s responses to questions from conference attendees. This is part three of message three from a conference hosted by the church in New York City in November 2015. The original recording can be found at: https://livingtohim.com/2016/02/conference-in-new-york-with-andrew-yu-november-2015/...
Jan 15, 2024•19 min
“You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and I set you that you should go forth and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He may give you” ( John 15:16 ). This week we continue the series titled, "The Vital Groups," with speaking from brother Andrew Yu on vital relationships and practical examples of bearing fruit and perfecting one another in the church life. This is part two of message three from a conference hosted by the church in New York...
Jan 08, 2024•27 min
This episode was originally aired in January 2021. In this special new year fellowship, brother Minoru Chen shares with us his personal experience and practice of spending a longer period of time with the Lord at the beginning of each new year. During such a time with the Lord, our brother encourages us to practice 6 things: recall, rehearse, reflect, repent, renew, and reset. He also encourages us to gather our family together for a dedicated time in the Lord's presence and reaffirm that our ho...
Dec 31, 2023•39 min
“Out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love” ( Eph. 4:16 ). This week we begin a new series titled, "The Vital Groups," with speaking from brother Andrew Yu on the need for vital groups in the church life. This is part one of message three from a conference hosted by the church in New York City in Nov...
Dec 18, 2023•30 min
Finally, be empowered in the Lord and in the might of His strength. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil, For our wrestling is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenlies. Therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Ephesians 6:10-...
Dec 14, 2023•14 min•Season 2Ep. 17
