DAY 720 - Worship and obey (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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What you need to do is very simple. Choose one hour slot for the whole week to pray for Michelle, our family and my ministry. You may use the whole hour in prayer or you can still do you work in your office but use as much time as you can to pray and the other time work prayerfully that hour to pray for us. I encourage you to participate. We need you to join us! Trust in the power of prayers!

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Confirmation from John Stott in 2009: 
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                               Today's Reading: Hebrews 8:7-13

** 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:

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Please click this link to read Hebrews 8:7-13

English(ESV): http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews 8&version=ESV

Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=希 伯 來 書 8&version=CUV

Bible Study

     Today we come to a relational message after seven chapters of step by step revelation of who Jesus, the Messiah really is. 

Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
      Jesus is the Messiah, God's son, superior to angels and hence to the law; he is the truly human being, and he offers the true 'rest' which goes far beyond what the Israelites were expecting after the Exodus. In fact, as Messiah, he is the true high priest, who has accomplished what the ancient priesthood was never able to.
     Now, as a result of all this, we see that in him God has fulfilled one of the most central and vital promises of all: he has established, in Jesus, the new covenant spoken of by Jeremiah(Jer. 31: 31-34).
     

N.T. Wright. Hebrews for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.88-89.

      I am still thinking of yesterday's "big catch" when I read today's passage. If you have not read or listened to yesterday's blog/podcast, please do so now. Why? Because I have a major paradigm shift from "listen and obey" to "worship and obey". That's why, and you really need to know what is the difference. Are you in that "worship and obey" relationship with God as described in today's passage? 
     

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

    The title I heard from Jesus today is: Worship and obey

    The message I got from Jesus today is a message to deepen what I have got yesterday. Please read today's passage carefully and you will find out there are so many important relational descriptions to the New Covenant:

I will put my laws into their minds,
    and write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
    and they shall be my people.
11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor
    and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
for they shall all know me,
    from the least of them to the greatest.

     This is a truly "worship and obey" relationship. Are you in this kind of daily intimate personal relationship with your Lord and King? If those hundreds of dignities had a kind of most respected and obedience attitude to their Queen by waiting for her arrival at least one hour before, what should be our attitude to our Heavenly King, King of kings and Lord of lords?    
    
Dear Lord Jesus,
Lead us to be willing to worship and obey you as our King and our Lord. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Please click this link to the News that day: http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/474912/Queen-pulls-out-of-part-of-her-duties-at-historic-Westminster-Abbey-ceremony

Please click this link to worship with us -

從心合一

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJWZQyLzDRQ

10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) Matt Redman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXDGE_lRI0E

You may choose to follow my other daily blog: 

Daily Devotion on Fire 2(2 years plan -One year New Testament, one year Old Testament): 

http://bishopsilas2.blogspot.ca/

Daily Devotion on Fire (3 years and 3 months plan, one chapter a day to finish reading the whole Bible): 

http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/

Break.Build (40 days daily devotion- For Renewal or First Step for new Christians): http://www.breakbuild.blogspot.ca/

Emmanuel330 (40 weeks First Step Bible Study): 

http://emmanuel330.blogspot.ca/

This blog:
Discipler 123 (Daily devotion using N.T. Wright's NT for Everyone as source)

http://discipler123.blogspot.ca/


Rev. Nicky Gumbel's daily devotion: Bible in One Year
http://www.htb.org.uk/bioy