Prayer Burdens

1. The saints’ personal fellowship with the Lord–That all the saints, from the youngest to the oldest, would have some experience of prayer in their “private room”, contacting their heavenly Father in secret, experiencing some secret enjoyment of the Father, and receiving some secret answer from Him

Matthew 6:6 – But you, when you pray, enter into your private room, and shut your door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you.

2. The salvation of the children in grade 5–The children’s meeting serving ones will be presenting lessons regarding salvation to the children in grade 5 over the next few months; let us pray for their first citywide Gospel Activity Day which will be held this upcoming Saturday in Hall 3

3. The Chinese-speaking conference in New York to be held at Camp Penuel over the weekend of March 21-23

4. The Citywide Senior Saints’ Conference which will be held on Saturday, March 29, in Hall 1

5. Prayer for all the responsible brothers in the churches throughout the earth and the International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones (ITERO) being held in Anaheim, CA over the weekend of April 4-6

6. The various needs of the saints both locally and in other localities (e.g. physical and emotional, health-related, job-related, family-related, etc.)

1. Serving in the priesthood (1 Pet. 2:5, 9)–That all the practical services in the church would be spiritual services, part of the holy and royal priesthood, for the building up of the church, the house of God

2. Thanksgiving to the Lord for His blessing on the Spanish-speaking conference this past weekend and prayer that the Lord would grow in all these saints, bring them all into their organic function in the Body and that through them the gospel would go out and reach many seekers in the Hispanic community

3. The salvation of the children in grade 5–The children’s meeting serving ones will be presenting lessons regarding salvation to the children in grade 5 over the next few months; let us pray for the preparation of the hearts of the children, for the attendance of the children, for the families of all these children, and for the serving ones

4. The international blending conference in Puerto Rico this upcoming weekend for the churches in the Caribbean

5. The Lord’s move in Europe:
a. 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 contacted over the past several months
b. That by this summer there will be a team of 20 full-time serving ones in Paris to take care of the Lord’s needs throughout France and French-speaking Europe
c. That many students, families, and mature saints will migrate to France within the next several years for the Lord’s interest

6. Meeting Hall in Riga, Latvia–Let us pray that the funds needed to remodel a newly acquired property in Riga would be provided through the Body (Latvia is the central of the three Baltic States and because of its strategic location, the church in Riga serves as a blending center between the Russian-speaking world, Eastern Europe and the Nordic countries)

1. The strengthening of all the meetings unto the building up of the church–Let us pray for the prayer meeting, the Lord’s table meeting, the prophesying meeting and all the small group meetings

1 Corinthians 14:26 — What then, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.

2. The Spanish-speaking conference for the churches in the Northeast which will be held at Camp Penuel (KPCC) this upcoming weekend

3. The salvation of the children in grade 5–The children’s meeting serving ones will be presenting lessons regarding salvation to the children in grade 5 over the next few months; let us pray for the preparation of the hearts of the children, for the attendance of the children, for the families of all these children, and for the serving ones; there are over 30 fifth graders among all the nine halls of the church and the church in Rosendale

4. The corporate truth pursuit–Let us pray for the participation of many saints in the truth pursuit this year in the book of Genesis and that the truth pursuit would result in the saints coming to the full knowledge of the truth personally (1 Tim. 2:4) and the church being the pillar and base of the truth corporately (1 Tim. 3:15)

5. The spring term of the Full-Time Training in Anaheim (FTTA) and the training extension in Boston (FTTA-XB)–There are currently 5 trainees from NYC in Anaheim: Esther Chai, Lily Fang, Michelle Quin, Miguel Carbajal, Michelle Wang

6. The Lord’s move in the United States–The strengthening of all the genuine believers in this nation and of all the local churches, and the spread of the gospel throughout the nation

7. The various needs of the saints both locally and in other localities (e.g. physical and emotional, health-related, job-related, family-related, etc.)

1. Maturing in life (Col. 1:28-29)–That we all would grow in life daily unto maturity

2. Thanksgiving to the Lord for His speaking in the International Chinese-speaking Conference (ICSC) held last weekend; let us pray that the burden of the word on Chapters 5 through 8 of Romans—The Kernel of the Bible would impact all the saints in the recovery

3. Thanksgiving to the Lord for His blessing and speaking in the Young People’s Winter Retreat; let us pray for the going on of all the young people, that each one will develop an intimate, firsthand relationship with the Lord; let us also pray for the monthly citywide young people’s meeting which will be held this upcoming Saturday at Hall 1

4. The Lord’s move in France:
a. 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 contacted over the past several months
b. That by summer 2025 there will be a team of 20 full-time serving ones in Paris to take care of the Lord’s needs throughout France and French-speaking Europe
c. That many students, families, and mature saints will migrate to France within the next several years for the Lord’s interest

5. Meeting Hall in Riga, Latvia–Let us pray that the funds needed to remodel a newly acquired property in Riga would be provided through the Body (Latvia is the central of the three Baltic States and because of its strategic location, the church in Riga serves as a blending center between the Russian-speaking world, Eastern Europe and the Nordic countries)

6. The various needs of the saints both locally and in other localities (e.g. physical and emotional, health-related, job-related, family-related, etc.)

1. Magnifying Christ (Phil. 1:20)–That all the saints would have the aspiration to magnify Christ in every aspect of their daily lives and in any situation they pass through

2. The International Chinese-speaking Conference (ICSC) being held in Anaheim, CA and also being viewed online locally this upcoming weekend; the general subject of the conference will be Chapters 5 through 8 of Romans—The Kernel of the Bible

3. The College Conference for the students in the churches in the Northeast which will be held in Ivoryton, CT this upcoming weekend

4. The Winter Retreat for all the young people in the church in NYC which will be held at Camp Penuel (KPCC) beginning this upcoming Lord’s Day (February 18-20)

5. The follow up of the FTTA gospel trips which took place in the United States and Europe over the past two weeks–Let us give thanks for the hundreds that were saved through this endeavor and let us pray for the strengthening of the saints in all the localities which hosted gospel trips, that the local saints would rise up to shepherd the many seekers among those who were contacted and the newly saved and baptized ones; let us pray specifically for the follow up here in NYC and in Upstate NY

6. The corporate truth pursuit this year in the book of Genesis

7. The various needs of the saints both locally and in other localities (e.g. physical and emotional, health-related, job-related, family-related, etc.)

1. Numbering our days–That we all would learn to number our days and redeem the time so that every day would have eternal value before the Lord

Psalm 90:12 – Teach us then to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Ephesians 5:16 – Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

2. The going on of the young people and college age saints this semester and the upcoming Winter Retreat for all the young people in the church in NYC which will be held at Camp Penuel (KPCC) from February 16-18

3. The FTTA gospel trips–Let us pray for the gospel outreach of the trainees this week in Upstate NY (Albany and Rosendale), as well as the ongoing outreach in more than 30 cities on the east coast of the United States and 18 countries in Europe; let us also pray for the follow-up by our local saints with those who were contacted in NYC last week

4. The corporate truth pursuit this year in the book of Genesis

5. The saints in the church in Los Angeles and the community at large in the wake of the wildfires in the LA area; let us pray for the saints and the people of LA, and stand with the church in LA for their burden for the gospel at this time

6. The International Chinese-speaking Conference (ICSC) to be held in Anaheim, CA over the weekend of February 14-16