This issue of The Ministry contains a complete record of the twelve messages given during the 2004 winter training on the Crystallization-study of 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus, held December 20-25 in Anaheim, California. The crucial truth and burden embodied in these twelve messages may be summarized in four statements: (1) God's economy--His household administration--is to produce and constitute the Body of Christ by dispensing Himself into our being to make us the same as He is in life and nature but not in the Godhead. (2) The church of God is the house of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth, and the great mystery of godliness--God manifested in the flesh. (3) We must be inoculators, those who inoculate others against the decline of the church, by exercising our spirit and remaining in the healthy teaching of God's economy. (4) We must be inoculators, those who inoculate others against the decline of the church, by being a man of God with the breath of God. These messages are being published immediately following the training in order that they might benefit the saints participating in the many video trainings that are held throughout the earth. Because of the particular nature and length of this issue, the usual section of reports concerning the Lord's move throughout the earth has been omitted. We have, however, included a calendar, giving the dates and locations of the seven Living Stream Ministry conferences and trainings--the seven annual feasts--for 2005. One cannot measure the benefits derived during these feasts from the Lord's rich speaking in His ministry and the mutual blending and building up of the saints and the churches in the Lord's recovery from every continent.

The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1991-1992, volume 3, contains messages given by Brother Witness Lee from March 9, 1992, through April 19, 1993. Brother Lee ministered in Anaheim, California, from the beginning of 1992 until the end of the third week in May 1992. From there he traveled to Irving, Texas, for the Memorial Day weekend conference. He returned to Anaheim and remained there until the beginning of September, at which time he visited Seattle, Washington, for a weekend conference. He then returned to Anaheim and remained there until the end of the third week in November. During the last week in November he traveled to in Atlanta, Georgia, for the Thanksgiving weekend conference, after which he returned to Anaheim and remained there until early September 1993. The contents of this volume are divided into eleven sections, as follows: 1. Thirteen messages given in Anaheim, California, on March 9 through September 22, 1992. These messages are included in this volume under the title Elders' and Co-workers' Meetings in Anaheim. 2. Twenty-eight messages given in Anaheim, California, on April 5 through November 22, 1992. These messages are included in this volume under the title Various Anaheim Meetings. 3. Three messages given in Anaheim, California, on May 15 and 16, 1992. These messages are included in this volume under the title Caring for the Church by Taking the God-ordained Way to Contact People. 4. Five messages given in Irving, Texas, on May 23 through 25, 1992. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Satanic Chaos in the Old Creation and the Divine Economy for the New Creation and are included in this volume under the same title. 5. A message given in Irving, Texas, on May 25, 1992. This message is included in this volume under the title The Overcomers, the Situation on the Earth Today, and the Present Need in Russia. 6. A message given in Irving, Texas, on May 26, 1992. This message is included in this volume under the title Overcoming to Conquer the Satanic Chaos in the Old Creation and Accomplish the Divine Economy for the New Creation. 7. Two messages given in Anaheim, California, on June 20 and August 17, 1992. These messages are included in this volume under the title The Purpose and Content of the Full-time Training. 8. A message given in Anaheim, California, on July 4, 1992. This message is included in this volume under the title Being Refined and Purified and Practicing the God-ordained Way. 9. Two messages given in Anaheim, California, on July 6 and 7, 1992. These messages are included in this volume under the title Knowing the Ground of the Oneness of the Church to Be the Testimony of the Church's Oneness. 10. A message given in Anaheim, California, on August 2, 1992. This message is included in this volume under the title All Saints Needing to Learn to Prophesy in the Meetings. 11. Twenty-five messages given in Anaheim, California, on August 18, 1992, through April 19, 1993. These messages were previously published in a book entitled Fellowship concerning the Urgent Need of the Vital Groups and are included in this volume under the same title.

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 semiannual training held December 24-29, 2018, in Anaheim, California, on the “Crystallization-study of Numbers.” 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.

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 International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones webcast from Anaheim, California, on April 1-3, 2022. The general subject of the training was “God’s Economy in Faith.” 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.

This issue of The Ministry of the Word contains the first eight messages given during the spring 1998 term of the full-time training in Anaheim, California. The first two messages serve as an introduction to the general subject of this series, which is "The Overcomers." Message 1 speaks of our need to see a vision of Zion. According to Revelation 14:1, the overcomers, the firstfruits, stand on Mount Zion. In typology the city of Jerusalem signifies the church, but Mount Zion in the city of Jerusalem signifies the overcomers, who are the strength, the uplifting, and the supply of the church. The highest peak in God's economy is Zion, the reality of the Body of Christ, and we need to endeavor in the church life to reach this high peak. The Lord's recovery today is to build up Zion, the reality of the Body of Christ, by gaining the overcomers, who are the vital ones in all the churches. Message 2 shows that the work of the overcomers is to allow their self to remain in the place of death so that they can be channels of life to dispense life into others to meet God's need. The Lord's selection is not according to our concept. God has a way to gather a sufficient number of self-denying, idol-crushing followers to be one with Him as a blended barley loaf in resurrection to roll over the tents of His enemy. These overcomers are particularly selected to fight in one accord to defeat the enemy, with the result that the whole Body is revived. The remaining messages in this issue begin a detailed consideration of the epistles in Revelation 2 and 3 to the seven churches. These epistles issue a call for overcomers to respond to the speaking Spirit to overcome particular items of degradation in the churches. Messages 3 through 8 speak of the Lord's call for the overcomers in Ephesus, Smyrna, and Pergamos. The Reports and Announcements section at the end of this issue contains a report regarding the Lord's move in Brazil and the full-time training in Caacupe, Paraguay and a list of upcoming conferences and trainings sponsored by Living Stream Ministry.

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 Thanksgiving weekend conference held in San Antonio, Texas, November 27-30, 2014. The general subject of the conference was “The Vision and Experience of Christ in His Resurrection and Ascension.” 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.