The Living to Him Podcast

In forming a [vital] group, the first step is to get a companion. The second step is to pray together and fellowship together in order to know each other in a thorough and intimate way. After this, the Lord may lead you to pray for a period of time. After praying for two weeks, you may be ready, and the Lord may lead you to go out to visit people. (Witness Lee, Fellowship concerning the Urgent Need of the Vital Groups, p. 377, Living Stream Ministry) This week we continue the series titled, “Vital Companions,” with additional testimonies and sharing from brother Andrew Yu on building up proper companionships in the church life. This meeting was held during the 2013 International Thanksgiving Conference in Schaumburg, Illinois. The original recording can be found at: https://livingtohim.com/2013/12/working-saints-fellowship-2013-thanksgiving/

“We should not try to always work by ourselves. We should go to others to fellowship and receive help from them. Even if we feel assured that we can do something, we should still fellowship with someone else, because there is always something new for us to learn from others. Two are better than one, and three are better than two (Eccl. 4:9-12; Mark 6:7). We must learn the lesson of always keeping the principle of the Body.” (Witness Lee, Bearing Fruit in a Living and Coordinated Way for the Building Up of the Body of Christ, pp. 279, Living Stream Ministry) This week we continue the series titled, “Vital Companions,” with brothers and sisters testifying of their experiences of the church life in different localities. This meeting was held during the 2013 International Thanksgiving Conference in Schaumburg, Illinois. The original recording can be found at: https://livingtohim.com/2013/12/working-saints-fellowship-2013-thanksgiving/

“For you can all prophesy one by one that all may learn and all may be encouraged” (1 Cor. 14:31) This week we begin a new series titled, “Vital Companions,” with brothers and sisters testifying of their experiences of the church life in different localities. This meeting was held during the 2013 International Thanksgiving Conference in Schaumburg, Illinois. The original recording can be found at: https://livingtohim.com/2013/12/working-saints-fellowship-2013-thanksgiving/

“And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, Now has come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ, for the accuser of our brothers has been cast down, who accuses them before our God day and night. And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they loved not their soul-life even unto death” (Rev. 12:10-11). This week we conclude the series titled, “Necessary Experiences, Important Lessons, and a Crucial Decision,” with speaking from Brother Ron Kangas on the final three lessons and on a crucial decision that we have to make to be an overcomer. This meeting was held in August 2012 in Anaheim, California. The original recording can be found at: https://livingtohim.com/2012/08/ron-kangas-working-saints-anaheim-2012/

“He who loves father or mother above Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter above Me is not worthy of Me; And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his soul-life shall lose it, and he who loses his soul-life for My sake shall find it” (Matt. 10:37-39). This week we continue the series titled, “Necessary Experiences, Important Lessons, and a Crucial Decision,” with speaking from Brother Ron Kangas on a number of necessary experiences and important lessons. This meeting was held in August 2012 in Anaheim, California. The original recording can be found at: https://livingtohim.com/2012/08/ron-kangas-working-saints-anaheim-2012/

This is message 4 of an international blending conference held in Baarlo, Netherlands in October 2022. The general subject for this conference is “Growing in Life from Transformation to Maturation” and the title of this message is “The Lord's Awaiting Our Growth in Life unto Maturity So That the Bride Will Make Herself Ready.” The speaker is Brother Ron Kangas. The original recording can be found at: https://amanatrust.org.uk/page/conference-audios-baarlo-2022

“If therefore you have not become faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you what is true? No household servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon” (Luke 16:11, 13). This week we continue the series titled, “Necessary Experiences, Important Lessons, and a Crucial Decision,” with speaking from Brother Ron Kangas on learning how to work, how to manage money, how to live a consecrated life, and how to live in the world but not of the world. This meeting was held in August 2012 in Anaheim, California. The original recording can be found at: https://livingtohim.com/2012/08/ron-kangas-working-saints-anaheim-2012/

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 6:10-13. As believers who love the Lord and who are standing for His testimony, we must not be ignorant of the schemes of God’s enemy in his attacks on the church. In order to help educate and inoculate us against such attacks, the co-workers in North America have released a series of articles on ShepherdingWords.com, which expose the stratagems of the devil. This week, we have a narration of the article entitled “Assailing the Ground of Oneness (2): Diligently Keeping the Oneness Requiring a Local Ground,” originally published on October 26, 2020. The New Testament emphatically teaches that the church is one and that this oneness should be preserved by and practiced on the ground of locality, which is the ground of one church in one city. By invoking the oneness of the Spirit and of the Body in Ephesians 4, some Christians question whether the ground of locality is truly necessary for the oneness of the church. By expounding Ephesians 4 in the greater context of the New Testament, this article shows how the ground of locality is indeed vital and necessary for the oneness of the church, enabling the believers “to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace” (Eph. 4:3). May the Lord supply us through this speaking and equip us to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. The original article can be found at: https://shepherdingwords.com/assailing-the-ground-of-oneness-2-diligently-keeping-the-oneness-requiring-a-local-ground/. The copyright for this material belongs to shepherdingwords.com and is used with permission.

This is message 3 of an international blending conference held in Baarlo, The Netherlands in October 2022. The general subject for this conference is “Growing in Life from Transformation to Maturation” and the title of this message is “The Meaning of Maturity.” The speaker is Brother Ron Kangas. The original recording can be found at: https://amanatrust.org.uk/page/conference-audios-baarlo-2022

“If the Holy Spirit has not put a real dissatisfaction with a general relationship and a pursuit for personal affection within a believer, he can never expect to have an intimate experience of the Lord. This pursuit is the basis for all future experience.” (Watchman Nee, The Collected Works of Watchman Nee, volume 23, chapter 1, Living Stream Ministry) This week we begin a new series titled, “Necessary Experiences, Important Lessons, and a Crucial Decision,” with speaking from Brother Ron Kangas on developing a personal love relationship with the Lord and learning to live in the divine economy as a vessel open to the Lord. This meeting was held in August 2012 in Anaheim, California. The original recording can be found at: https://livingtohim.com/2012/08/ron-kangas-working-saints-anaheim-2012/