The Meetings and Spiritual Exercise of the Local Church

Praying

2. Praying

Both Watchman Nee and Witness Lee were men of prayer. In the excerpts below, Witness Lee shares that prayer is the means by which a believer contacts and absorbs God as well as the channel through which God accomplishes His work on the earth. Through our prayer we cooperate with the Lord in the heavens to execute God’s New Testament economy on earth.

In this section, Witness Lee elaborates on the essential practice of intimate prayer in fellowship with the Lord (Eph. 6:18):

When you are in the spirit, the matters of the local church will come to you, and this will cause you to pray for the situation of the church. These prayers are the real, prevailing prayers because you pray in your spirit and because, in spirit, you are moving in the Lord’s move. Your prayer is the Lord’s move in you. You and the Lord, the Lord and you, are two moving together and praying together. This is quite sweet and is very different from the prayer that is out of responsibility, obligation, or some kind of duty. This is a prayer in sweet fellowship with the Lord.

(Witness Lee, LS of Job, 145-146)

Elsewhere, in encouraging the leading ones in the local churches to pray according to 1 Tim. 2:8 (“I desire therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and reasoning”), Witness Lee says:

In a local church the leading ones must have a prayer life, as charged in vv. 1-2, to set an example of prayer for all the members to follow by praying always in every place.

(Witness Lee, Footnotes, 976)

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Prayer

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Praying

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