Speaker: Ivan

• Follow in Christ's steps (1 Pet 2:21, 4:1–2), so that for the rest of our time we live by the Spirit always, not only at meetings.

• The desire to lose your own soul doesn't arise in a person by itself: God put it there ("I was found of them that sought me not").

• "Trying to be like Christ" is not enough: outwardly you can train yourself, but inside dislike and envy remain. The sinful nature must die, and only God does that, at our request.

Speaker: Igor

• A vegetable garden: what you plant is what you reap.

• "With open face beholding as in a glass…" (2 Cor 3:18): in this mirror we see not ourselves but the Spirit of Christ within. The inner man is transformed first, then the outer.

• "He that ministereth seed to the sower…" (2 Cor 9:10): only God gives the right seed from which the needed fruit will grow.

Speaker: Mikhail

• "Take heed therefore how ye hear" (Luke 8:18). Martha and Mary: you can "rattle the pots" and listen with half an ear, which is sowing into busyness. "Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear" (Eccl 5:1): prepare for the meeting in advance, instead of switching over late from a movie. Phone calls and stepping out of the sanctuary are distractions. 

• We prophesy "according to the proportion of faith" (Rom 12:6), that is, according to the word the spirit has absorbed. When the foundation of faith is laid and God gives a gift, a "word of authority" is joined to it. Total obedience is required: "a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump"; a single fly spoils the whole ointment.

• From two petitions of the Lord's Prayer ("Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done") you can build a whole prayer life, and no other requests are needed. Wordy prayers about "wants" are an abomination to God.

• 1 Cor 2 (the whole chapter): "Eye hath not seen…" is not a description of heaven — heavenly things can't be explained, like color to a blind person, and even Paul couldn't retell the "unspeakable words". It is the mind of Christ, which God reveals by the Spirit here on earth. Paul says "we have the mind of Christ" about himself and the spiritual believers, not about every believer. A natural person can be highly moral and yet have no spirit. Psychologists achieve such results too.

• "The Spirit, and the water, and the blood" (1 John 5:8) are three ways God reveals His depths: the Holy Spirit, the word, and communion. The human spirit came from God and returns to Him (Eccl 12:7). Coming alive through the word, it "remembers" heavenly things, and the person rejoices.

• The spirit is tender: grieved by neglect, it "curls up".

• The "333" testimony: God pointed (me) to Jer 33:3, then told me to read the verse above it, about the name "the LORD". At the time it seemed insignificant, but later it opened up: acknowledging Him as Lord is the path to everything else. Prayers of "Thy kingdom come" are gathered into the saints' "golden vials" (Rev 5:8) and will be poured out on the thirsty.