Wednesday, September 18, 2013

DAY 487 - God's Grace Is More Than Your Problems (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)


**NEW link for the  14th: 13th 100 days 24 hours prayer campaign (We are going to use this 13th list leads up to the 14th. 13th from March 15 to June 22, 2013. 14th from June 22 to August 31, 2013)


Today's Reading: Romans 11:1-6


** If you would like to learn a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please read my “Count Down 5” from my Devotion on Fire blog:
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html

To use this simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please click this link:

 .Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf



Please click this link to read Romans 11:1-6





Bible Study
      There are so many people being pulled into depression due to all kinds of problems they cannot tackle with. Paul could be one of the victims because his problems should be more than anyone you know of.  Here in this passage Paul explains to us that he did not fell into that depression as Elijah experienced. It is not how good he was or how much he did for Christ. It is purely God's grace! 

Bishop N.T. Wright's says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright):
     Despite universal sin, God has found a way, through unmerited grace alone, to do once more, only now on a grander scale, what he did in the time of Elijah.  There is, ultimately, no need to plunge into gloom over what seems to have happened.  it is serious; but God's plans, God's power and God's grace are more than equal to the problem.  

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:Romans: Part 2. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.12-13.

     Do you think you can get away from the darkness of depression because you know that God's grace is more than your problems? 

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"


Spiritual Journal

     What I heard from Jesus today is: God's grace is more than your problems

    What I got from Jesus today is such a relief to all my problems. No one can imagine how much problems each one of us have. It is just too many! That's why there are so many people in depression, and too many in mental hospital if not commit suicide, just like what Elijah wanted to do when he was in deep depression as describes in 1 Kings 19: 1- 18. 

     Elijah came to a broom tree, sat down under it and prayed that he might die.                                        1 Kings 19:4

      Even Elijah, the greatest prophet in history of mankind could be pulled into deep depression. How can we escape? Right? NO! We can!

      We can because God's grace is more than your problems! 

 Dear Lord Jesus,
When we are depressed, help us to remember that your grace is more than our problems. Pull us out of that darkness that we can receive the fresh anointing from the Holy Spirit each day to joyfully walk with you to extend your mighty Kingdom. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.


Please click this link to worship with us - 

10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) Matt Redman

-

不要被困難及災難拆散夫婦的關係!

  楊平忠大主教領受 "使命113"異象之見證 Archbishop Yong’s MISSION 113 videos, October 16, 2022: https://youtu.be/Mp0-JPx4Vac https://youtu.be/MyO6...