This book is intended as an aid to believers in developing a daily time of morning revival with the Lord in His word. At the same time, it provides a limited review of the Memorial Day weekend conference held in Seattle, Washington, May 24-27, 2019. The general subject of the conference was “The Experience of Christ.” Through intimate contact with the Lord in His word, the believers can be constituted with life and truth and thereby equipped to prophesy in the meetings of the church unto the building up of the Body of Christ.
Witness Lee (李常受, pinyin Lǐ Chángshòu) was a Chinese Christian preacher associated with the Local Churches movement and the founder of Living Stream Ministry. He was born in the city of Yantai, Shandong Province, China, in 1905, to a Southern Baptist family. He became a Christian in 1925 after hearing the preaching of Peace Wang and later became a close coworker of Watchman Nee. Witness Lee moved to Taiwan in 1949 as the Communists were advancing in mainland China. During the 1950s, his ministry extended throughout Southeast Asia and in 1962 Lee moved to the United States, relocating the base of his ministry to Southern California. He gave his last public conference in February 1997 at the age of 91. Many of Lee's spoken messages have been published in over 400 books and translated into more than fourteen different languages. Lee's major work is Life-study of the Bible, comprising over 25,000 pages of commentary on every book of the Bible from the perspective of the believers' enjoyment and experience of God's divine life in Christ through the Holy Spirit. Lee was also the chief editor of a new translation of the Bible entitled the Recovery Version.
Praise the Lord for His fresh and new speaking concerning our need to experience Christ!
The 2018 Memorial Day Conference was on the topic of, The Experience of Christ. We may have heard this many times, we even have books on this matter, but we need to touch something fresh and new from the Lord concerning this.
Our experience of Christ is what builds up the church and causes us to grow in life. Nothing is more important than our experience of Christ; nothing preserves us more in the Christian life and in the church life than our experience of Christ.
Like Paul, we need to pursue Christ, seek to be found in Him, magnify Him, live Him, and experience Him in whatever circumstances we’re in. Amen, may the Lord continue to speak to us on this matter and bring us into a daily experience of Christ!