The Church in Spokane
TestimoniesComing out of a ComaI was saved in Korea after resisting the Lord for 10 years. A year later I met my husband, got married and came to the United States. Because my husband was in the Air Force, we were living on a military base and were very active in the base chapel. Since the Lord had brought me to the United States, I told Him to delay His second coming and give me enough time to pursue my purpose and enjoy what the US would offer. As time went on I realized human life is the same here as in any other place and man’s basic joy and satisfaction come from the Lord alone. At the same time, I was increasingly sickened by the politics, social nature, and worldly mixture of the group with which we were meeting. I started to cry to my husband to find a Christian group that would only fellowship about the Lord and nothing else. One evening, in our desperation, we knelt down together and prayed, “Lord, should we stay where we are or should we go somewhere? If we go, how shall we pick where to go? Lord, lead us to the church.” A few days later a couple with whom we had been having a Bible study were invited by some friends to a conference given by the local church in Spokane. They asked us to go along. In that meeting many Christian brothers and sisters stood and shared their experiences and enjoyment of the Lord. As I was listening, all the spiritual senses which had been planted in me when I was saved began to return. I had gradually lost them over the years and had been unable to recover them. I was coming out of a spiritual coma! The speaking and the atmosphere of the meeting awakened my inner being! I was hearing and seeing and touching the spiritual things again! Fresh love for the Lord, the desire to read the Bible and to speak for the Lord, and much more, was coming back. Through the sharing of all the members in the meetings as well as from reading the books of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee we saw God’s eternal purpose—to build a corporate expression of Himself by dispensing Himself into His chosen and redeemed vessels. What could we do when we glimpsed such a heavenly vision? We abandoned our plan for my husband to become a youth minister and Bible teacher in the warm South and consecrated ourselves and our future to the Lord to be built and knit together with others as the local church in Spokane to be a testimony of Jesus. We experience inward joy and satisfaction by responding to the Lord’s calling in this age to be prepared for His return so He can close this age and bring in the Kingdom age. I thank the Lord for His precious death on the cross which saved me from my sin and I worship the Lord for the Spirit’s operation in my heart to bring me and to show me His purpose. Jin Blair |