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Today's Reading: Genesis 30
Please read Genesis 30 and listen to what the Lord Jesus Christ would like to tell you before reading my Spiritual Journal below. If you would like to learn a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method you may click this link directly for the method:Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf.
Please click this link to worship with us - Worthy Is The Lamb/Amen (Handel's Messiah - Schola Cantorum Emmanuel)
Chinese praise song - 歡欣 Give Thanks
Please click this link to read Genesis 30
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!” Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?” Genesis 30: 1-2
What I received from Jesus today is: From "I want" to "I give"!
The most difficult lesson for a human being to learn is from I want to I give. We as human being want so many things and in the process of always "wanting" we are in prison. In prison by jealousy, bitterness, discouragement, failure, darkness, hopeless and lifeless!
Well, it never happened here in this chapter showing any example from "I want" to "I give". Instead, what a pity were the continuous "wanting" of Rachel, Leah. Leban and Jacob!
Are you in prison by such kind of "wanting"? If you want to get rid of this "curse", you need to ask Jesus to teach you to give. "Giving" is the only way to free you from being a prisoner of "wanting"!
Dear Lord Jesus,
Free us from the bondage of the never ending "wanting" and that we can give, love and sacrifice. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
**Two days ago(Sunday) Michelle and I were having lunch with our church choir members. Our Music Director, Edmund Cheung said, "Silas, I understand what you said about the best thing in last night's Schola Cantorum Emmanuel's concert was "life". I really experienced a powerful outburst of life in all of us when we sang especially when we sang "Hallelujah" and "Worthy is the Lamb/ Amen"." Yes, it was indeed a powerful concert yesterday night. Please click the two links in this post to listen to how we praise God yesterday. The recording was just taken from a small camera and not a good recording. I'll give you the link of our official recording once Andy Li is done for the whole concert.
When we praise the Lord like that spirit in this psalm we will know the "life" and power right away of the joy we received when we praise Him! All of our Schola members and those who attended yesterday's(Saturday's) concert felt the same way that we were richly blessed when we richly praised our Lord!
Thanks to our son Ignatius who took a wonderful and powerful photo of me capturing the "life" in this concert and with his comment on his face book:
Live fully. Live passionately.
You know that feeling when you do something you love, and time seems to stand still?
It's not quite clear, but you've lost in the moment of it.
Congrats to Schola Cantorum for singing Handel's Messiah today!
Please click this link to worship with us - Hallelujah (Handel's Messiah - Schola Cantorum Emmanuel)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-bh9_dP9MI&feature=youtu.be
祢讓我生命改變
Chinese praise song - 陶造我生命 Mold My Life
Pray for our retired primates who are giving us spiritual oversight and our chairman bishop:
The Most Rev. Emmanuel Kolini (Freda)
The Most Rev. Moses Tay
The Most Rev. Yong Ping Chung
The Rt. Rev. Chuck Murphy, III (Margaret)
The sermon "The power is from within" by Rev. Eric Liddell(Chariots of Fire)
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