Weekly fellowship
International
- Pray that the Lord will release a word that conveys the burden in His heart for His recovery in these days.
- Pray for the Lord’s covering and protection of the speaking brothers and their families, and for the brothers’ oneness with the Lord in preparing and speaking the messages.
- Pray for the blending of the attendees in all the meetings, study sessions, and times of fellowship.
- Pray that there would be the intensified spreading and building up of the churches throughout the earth as a result of the operating of this word in the elders and responsible brothers and in all the saints.
- Pray that after the March 21-23 European University Students’ Conference, the Lord’s hand will follow His word and be living and operative in all those who attended.
- Pray that concerning the things they saw and heard in the conference, each attendee would receive mercy and find grace to “practice these things” and “be in them” in their daily life and in the church life.
- Pray that a number of saints will receive the Lord’s burden to serve in French-speaking Europe for one to three months to meet the urgent need for continued shepherding of the new ones the Lord has put into our hand.
- Pray that the Lord will increase the team of full-time serving ones in Paris to take care of the Lord’s needs throughout France and French-speaking Europe, and pray for the release of long stay visas for these saints.
- Pray that many students, families, and mature saints will migrate to France within the next several years for the Lord’s interest.
- Pray that the Lord will raise up new lampstands in Rouen, Lille, Versailles, Mertzig (Luxembourg), Geneva (Switzerland), Marseilles, Toulouse, Caen, Nantes, and Montpellier.
- Pray for brother Frank Prano from Irvine, who has gone to France for a multi-month shepherding trip, that the Lord will preserve and strengthen his entire tri-partite being, and release his function in serving with the other saints to feed and raise up the many new ones in Toulouse, where he has now been sent.
Brother Frank Prano’s March 2025 update from France has been excerpted and may be accessed via this link.
(Reports concerning the ongoing short-term shepherding trips can be found on: https://www.amanatrust.org.uk/page/reports. An invitation letter to participate in ongoing short-term shepherding trips to care for the seeking ones in French-speaking Europe is available at: https://www.lordsmove.org/reports.html. Those who are burdened for the migration to France can find information at https://www.lordsmove.org/application.html.)
- Pray for the seekers of the truth to be gained in North India for the Lord’s testimony.
- Pray that the Lord will protect the tripartite being of all the saints and will bring an end to this conflict so that His move in Russia, Ukraine, and Europe will advance.
- Pray that the Lord will continue to bless the saints and the churches in the Russian-speaking world, and that there would be a good situation for the spreading of the truth and the building up of the churches.
National
- Pray that the leaders of the United States, in every branch and level of government, would cooperate with God so that the atmosphere and situation in this country would be the best for the preaching of the gospel, the spreading of the truth, and the raising up of local churches.
- Pray that the saints would be intensified in their experience of God’s organic salvation to overcome the distractions of this age and any environmental difficulties to bear the Lord’s testimony in each locality and to labor to raise up others who will become part of God’s building.
- Pray for remaining fruit from the college campuses so that the next generation of young adults will be prepared for the continuation and advance of the Lord’s recovery.
Regional
- Pray that the Lord will meet all the needs for the purchase and renovation of an office building to serve as the meeting hall for the church in Ontario, California, especially that the remaining needed funds of $325,000 for the purchase of the property and another $100,000 to $200,000 for its renovation and furnishing, will be provided through the fellowship of giving in the Body.
Local
- Pray that, according to the speaking in brother Minoru’s fellowship in the recent sisters’ meeting, the sisters would coordinate and cooperate with God by exercising their praying function while remaining in the line of life.
- Pray that through the sisters’ prayers as an echo of the heart’s desire of God, many “Samuels” will be brought forth to bring in Christ the King with His kingdom in the church today, so that this dark age of chaos could be turned to the coming age of the kingdom.
- Pray that the Lord’s speaking from the recent Southern California young people’s conferences will operate in our young people, including the junior high brothers returning from their conference this weekend, and that the high school brothers will have their hearts prepared for their conference on April 11-13.
- Pray for the gospel truths to be received by the sixth graders and for a personal subjective experience of the Lord Jesus leading to each one’s salvation and baptism.
- Pray for the Niu family, following the passing of our dear sister Sylvia Niu, less than two months after her husband George Niu went to be with the Lord.
- Pray that all of George and Sylvia’s children and their spouses, and all the grandchildren, would be comforted and sustained by the Lord and in the Body as they are grieving their loss.
- Pray that the patterns of George and Sylvia would encourage and instruct their succeeding generations, and all the saints who knew them or have heard the testimonies concerning them, to live a life of absoluteness, simplicity, and faithfulness to the Lord.
- Pray that the Lord will continue to solidify the college students who have joined us this year, as UC Irvine heads into its spring quarter.
- Pray that the college students will see a vision of God’s economy, realizing that God wants to build the church, and make a definite consecration to live for this.
- Pray that the Lord will continue to use the small groups and the Lord’s Day meetings to shepherd the students, as well as the upcoming Spring College Conference to uplift and deepen their vision.
- Pray that all the saints in the church would lift up their eyes to see the “white fields” in Irvine and be moved with compassion for the people here, praying that they would find the Lord and realize the meaning of their human life.
- Pray that, like Hannah, the saints will pray to beget spiritual children who would be raised up to meet God’s need to have His kingdom among us today.
- Pray that through their prayer, the saints will also be made one with the Lord to receive the Lord’s burden for specific ones in whom the Spirit is now doing His sweeping and sanctifying work, and to know how to contact and invite them to the gospel dinner.
- Pray for the Lord to give us a living message that will penetrate the hearts of the guests and cause them to have a strong, definite and dynamic salvation, so that they would begin a new life in Christ for God’s purpose.
The above are some of the current prayer burdens that the saints may bring to the Lord in their personal or corporate prayer; however, the saints should be exercised to follow the leading of the Spirit in their prayer.