1. We can maintain the one accord by prayer, the Spirit, and the Word for God’s move; we must be those who are toiling in the Word, laboring in prayer, and being diligent in dealing with the Holy Spirit:
1. Prayer, the Spirit, and the Word are the three substances of the power in the Lord’s recovery—Acts 1:8, 14; 4:31; 6:4, 7; 12:24; 19:20.
2. We must pray that we might have the Spirit as the power to spread the Word—Acts. 6:7; 12:24; 19:20; cf. 1 Tim. 5:17-18:
1. We must get ourselves saturated, constituted, and even soaked with the holy Word; if we are burdened to preach the gospel, we must get into the Word and be persons who know the Word—Col. 3:16.
2. We should ask the Lord to bring our entire being into the light and be dealt with by Him to become persons of power, who are full of the Spirit within and without, essentially and economically—Eph. 5:18; Acts 2:38; 5:32b; 4:8, 31; 13:9, 52.
3. The early disciples could not have maintained the one accord if they had had different ways, means, agents, or substances for them to carry out the Lord’s move on this earth; in order to maintain the unique one accord, we all must learn to do the same thing by the same way—Acts. 1:14; 4:31.
4. We must not think of taking a way other than prayer, the Spirit, and the Word; any other way will cause dissension and division.
2. Sanctification through the Word results in oneness by dealing with the factors of division; truth sanctifies, and sanctification issues in oneness—John 17:14-24:
1. The sanctifying word, the sanctifying Spirit, the sanctifying life, and the sanctifying God are all one; therefore, if we are being sanctified, we are one spontaneously because all the factors of division are taken away.
2. In John 17:17-23 we see that sanctification issues in the genuine oneness because this sanctification keeps us in the Triune God; verse 21 says, “That they all may be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us”:
1. In order to be one, we need to be in the “Us,” that is, in the Triune God.
2. The only way to be in the Triune God is by the sanctifying truth that deals with all the factors of division.
3. By being kept in the Triune God, we are one, but whenever we are out of the Triune God, we are divided immediately.
4. We need to contact the Lord every morning, touch the living Word, and have the divine reality infused into our being; as we contact the Lord in this way, the factors of division are overcome.
5. When the factors of division in us are put to death by the sanctifying truth, we are brought into the genuine oneness, for sanctification keeps us in the Triune God.
6. Sanctification through the word of the truth results in the oneness of the Body of Christ, which is the enlarged oneness of the Triune God—John 17:21.
3. There are four factors of division:
1. The first of these factors is worldliness; as long as we love the world in a certain aspect, that aspect of worldliness becomes a cause of division—John 17:14-16, 18; 1 John 2:15-17; 5:19.
2. Another cause of division is ambition; when we contact the Lord through the Word and allow Him to infuse Himself into us, the truth thus imparted into our being kills our ambition—cf. Isa. 14:13.
3. A third cause of division is self-exaltation; we should be willing to be nobody and to exalt Christ as the only Somebody, the One who has the universal preeminence—Col. 1:18; 2 Cor. 4:5; 3 John 9-11.
4. The fourth factor of division is opinions and concepts; we should not hold on to our opinion but simply pursue the Lord’s goal: the recovery of Christ as life and as everything for the building up of the church—Matt. 16:21-24; cf. Rev. 3:14.

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3. When we move out of ourselves and into the Triune God, we are one and are even perfected into one to be in the one accord—John 17:11, 17, 21-23; Eph. 4:1-6:
1. To be sanctified is to move out of ourselves and into the Triune God and to allow Christ to live in us; in this way we are perfected into one—John 17:21-23.
2. This sanctification takes place by the Word, which is the truth, and by the Spirit, who is the Spirit of truth:
1. As we come to the Word every morning, outwardly we touch the Word, but inwardly the Spirit touches us; by the Word and by the Spirit, both of which are the reality, we are sanctified.
2. The more we touch the Word and the more the Spirit touches us, the more we move out of ourselves; we move from one dwelling place, the self, to another dwelling place, the Triune God.
3. Every day we need to make this move, for in the self there are worldliness, ambition, self-exaltation, and opinions and concepts.
4. If we continually touch the Word and allow the Spirit to touch us day by day, we will be sanctified; that is, we will move out of ourselves, our old lodging place, and into the Triune God, our new lodging place.
5. Once we are out of ourselves, we are sanctified, separated from the factors of division and separated not only unto God but also into God.
6. To have the genuine oneness and the one accord, we must first move out of ourselves and into the Triune God; then we must allow Christ to live in us so that we can be one with the saints in any locality—John 17:17, 21, 23a.
3. “I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one”; this perfected oneness is the real building; it is the growth in life—John 17:23; Eph. 4:16:
1. To be perfected into one means to be rescued from worldliness, ambition, self-exaltation, and opinions and concepts.
2. “I in them”—this means that the Son is living and moving in us.
3. “You in Me”—this means that the Father is living and moving in the Son.
4. In other words, while the Son lives and moves in us, the Father lives and moves in Him; by this twofold living and moving, we are perfected into one, and we express the Father in glory.
4. Ambition is implied in John 17:21; self-exaltation, in verse 22; and concepts and opinions, in verse 23:
1. In the Triune God there is no ambition, in the glory of the Father there is no self-exaltation, and in the place where Christ lives and reigns there are no opinions and concepts.
2. In the divine and mystical realm of the processed Triune God, ambition is swallowed up, self-exaltation disappears, and concepts and opinions are killed; here there is no evil of division in the Satan-systematized world (v. 15); instead, there is genuine oneness.
5. Genuine oneness is living in the Father, allowing Christ to live in us, and living in the Father’s glory, His expression—John 17:22, 24:
1. We need to move out of ourselves and into the Triune God and remain in Him for the Father’s expression, His glory.
2. The real building, the oneness, and the one accord as the practice of the oneness is possible only in the Triune God, and it is prevailing only when Christ lives in us; then we can express the Father in glory and experience the genuine oneness.

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4. The book of Acts shows the prayer that we need in order to be filled with the Spirit essentially and economically so that all our activities would be the activities of the acting God—Acts. 1:14; 6:4; 13:1-4:
1. The prayer that we need is the prayer that brought in the outpouring of the Spirit—Acts. 1:14; 2:1-4, 16-17a.
2. The prayer that we need is the prayer that shook the earth and empowered the disciples with the Holy Spirit to speak the word of God with all boldness—Acts. 4:24-31.
3. The prayer that we need is the prayer of the apostles to match the ministry of the word—Acts. 6:4.
4. The prayer that we need is the prayer that brought Peter into a trance and brought a heavenly vision to him—Acts. 10:9-16.
5. The prayer that we need is the prayer that opened the prison gate for Peter—Acts. 12:4-14.
6. The prayer that we need is the prayer that brought the five prophets and teachers into the Lord’s commission—Acts. 13:1-4.
7. The prayer that we need is the prayer that brought in a great earthquake and shook the foundations of the prison house—Acts. 16:23-26.
8. The prayer that we need is the prayer that brought Paul into a trance and into the Lord’s speaking to him—Acts. 22:17-21.
5. The book of Acts shows that our working together with God to build up the church is a spiritual warfare and that prayer is the secret to accomplish God’s work—Acts. 4:24-31; Psa. 2:1-2; Eph. 6:10-20:
1. The prayers that we utter before the Lord must stand against and resist “counter-prayers” that are directed particularly against the church and the work we are carrying out to build up the church—John 17:15; Matt. 6:13; cf. Psa. 31:20.
2. In order to maintain the one accord, to practice the oneness, we need to “persevere in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving”; we need to pray without ceasing, keeping ourselves intimately connected to the Lord—Col. 4:2; 1 Thes. 5:17; Matt. 26:41; Col. 2:19.
3. Prayerlessness is a sin; all in the Lord’s recovery must be prayerful and stand against the sin of prayerlessness—1 Sam. 12:23; Col. 4:2.

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1. We can maintain the one accord by prayer, the Spirit, and the Word for God’s move; we must be those who are toiling in the Word, laboring in prayer, and being diligent in dealing with the Holy Spirit
1. Prayer, the Spirit, and the Word are the three substances of the power in the Lord’s recovery. If we are burdened to preach the gospel, we should pray and ask the Lord to bring our entire being into the light and be dealt with by Him to become persons of power, who are full of the Spirit within and without, essentially and economically; get ourselves saturated, constituted, soaked with the holy Word and be persons who know the Word. The early disciples maintained the one accord by taking the way pf prayer, the Spirit, and the Word for them to carry out the Lord’s move on this earth. Likewise we all must learn to do the same thing by the same way to maintain the unique one accord; any other way will cause dissension and division. [Acts. 1:14] These all continued steadfastly with one accord in prayer… [Acts. 4:31] And when they had so besought,…, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.
2. Sanctification through the Word results in oneness by dealing with the factors of division; truth sanctifies, and sanctification issues in oneness
1. The sanctifying word, the sanctifying Spirit, the sanctifying life, and the sanctifying God are all one. In order to be one, we need to be in the Triune God by the sanctifying truth that deals with all the factors of division. Whenever we are out of the Triune God, we are divided immediately. Therefore, we need to contact the Lord every morning, touch the living Word, and have the divine reality infused into our being to overcome and put to death the factors of division. Sanctification keeps us in the Triune God and brings us into the genuine oneness, the oneness of the Body of Christ, which is the enlarged oneness of the Triune God. There are four factors of division: ①worldliness— any aspect of worldliness that we love will cause division; ②ambition— the truth that imparts into our being by our contacting the Lord through the Word kills our ambition; ③self-exaltation—we should be willing to exalt Christ as the only Somebody who has the universal preeminence; ④opinions and concepts—we should simply pursue the Lord’s goal without our opinion: the recovery of Christ as life and as everything for the building up of the church. [John 17:17] Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. [John 17:21-23] That they all may be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that You have sent Me. And the glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as We are one. I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me.
3. When we move out of ourselves and into the Triune God, we are one and are even perfected into one to be in the one accord
1. To be sanctified is to move out of ourselves and into the Triune God and to allow Christ to live in us; in this way we are perfected into one. As we come to the Word (the truth) every morning, outwardly we touch the Word, but inwardly the Spirit of truth touches us; by the Word and by the Spirit, both of which are the reality, we are sanctified. The more we touch the Word and the more the Spirit touches us, the more we move out of ourselves and into the Triune God. If we continually touch the Word and allow the Spirit to touch us daily, we will be sanctified, separated from the factors of division and separated not only unto God but also into God. Genuine oneness is living in the Father, allowing Christ to live in us, and living in the Father’s glory, His expression, and be one accord with the saints in any locality. This perfected oneness is possible only in the Triune God, and it is prevailing only when Christ lives in us; then we can express the Father in glory and experience the genuine oneness that is the real building, it is the growth in life. [John 6:63] …the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. [John 6:57] …so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me. [Eph. 4:16] Out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together…, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love.
4. The book of Acts shows the prayer that we need in order to be filled with the Spirit essentially and economically so that all our activities would be the activities of the acting God
1. The prayer that we need is the prayer that: ①brought in the outpouring of the Spirit; ②shook the earth and empowered the disciples with the Holy Spirit to speak the word of God with all boldness; ③is of the apostles to match the ministry of the word; ④brought Peter into a trance and brought a heavenly vision to him; ⑤opened the prison gate for Peter; ⑥brought the five prophets and teachers into the Lord’s commission; ⑦brought in a great earthquake and shook the foundations of the prison house; ⑧ brought Paul into a trance and into the Lord’s speaking to him. [Acts 4:31] And when they had so besought, the place in which they were gathered was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness. [Acts 22:17] And when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I went into a trance.
5. The book of Acts shows that our working together with God to build up the church is a spiritual warfare and that prayer is the secret to accomplish God’s work
1. The prayers that we utter before the Lord must stand against and resist “counter-prayers” that are directed particularly against the church and the work we are carrying out to build up the church. We need to persevere in prayer, pray without ceasing, and keep ourselves intimately connected to the Lord to maintain the one accord, to practice the oneness. All in the Lord’s recovery must be prayerful and stand against the sin of prayerlessness. [Eph. 6:18] By means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit and watching unto this in all perseverance and petition concerning all the saints. [1 Sam. 12:23] Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I would sin against Jehovah by ceasing to pray for you… [Col. 4:2] Persevere in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving.

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To handle the gospel is a most holy thing…We need to come to the Lord and open our entire being to Him to be dealt with, to be enlightened, to be exposed, to be checked, and to be humbled. The power comes from this kind of prayer.

When you pray, do not be occupied with your work or with other things. Do not even be occupied with gospel preaching. You have to keep yourself absolutely free and open to the Lord. Leave yourself open to the Lord. Let Him come in for at least ten minutes to speak to you, to enlighten you, to point out to you all your shortcomings, sinfulness, evil, and impure thoughts. Ask Him to bring your entire being into the light for a full and utter exposure of your real condition. This kind of prayer would make you prevailing.

<Excerpts from “Elders’ Training, Book 07 One Accord for the Lord’s Move”, Chapter 2, “The Three Substances Of The Power In The Recovery”>

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Let us toil in the Word, labor in prayer, and be diligent in dealing with the Holy Spirit. This is worthwhile. We have to spend much time to get into the Word; we have to get ourselves saturated, constituted, and even soaked with the holy Word. We must also get ourselves constituted with our contact with the Lord. We have to contact Him day by day and hour after hour; then we will be the right person.

You should be one with the church, one with your co-workers, one with all the brothers, and one with all the sisters. You should mean business with the Lord. If you are such a person and if you are not carrying out something on your own and for yourself in the Lord’s recovery, the impact will surely be there.

< Excerpts from “Elders’ Training, Book 07 One Accord for the Lord’s Move”, Chapter 2, “The Three Substances Of The Power In The Recovery”>

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