Thursday, September 13, 2012

DAY 157 - Are You in This Chain Reaction? (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

























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Today's Reading: Matthew 3: 11-17

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Bible Study

Yesterday's passage talks about John the Baptist, his baptism and the preparation for God's Kingdom to come. Today's passage talks about Jesus' baptism and the coming of God's Kingdom. When Jesus comes, when Jesus is there, God's Kingdom come.

As N.T. Wright says:
Israel came through the water of the Red Sea and was given the law, confirming their status as God's son, God's firstborn. Jesus came up from the water of baptism and received God's spirit, God's wind, God's breath, in a new way, declaring him to be God's son, Israel-in-person.
Those who in repentance and faith follow Jesus through baptism and along the road he will now lead us will find, if we listen, that the same voice from heaven speaks to us as well. As we learn to put aside our own plans and submit to his, we may be granted moments of vision, glimpses of his greater reality. And a the centre of that sudden sight we will find our loving father, affirming us as his children, equipping us, too, with his spirit so that our lives may be swept clean and made ready for use.

Are you being made ready for use?

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: Are you in this heavenly chain reaction?

What I got from Jesus today is a personal question as well as invitation to each one of us. Just as John the Baptist said baptism is nothing without repentance and life changing. With Jesus' baptism we can see that our repentance leads us into a personal intimate relationship with God just as how Jesus experienced. This relationship leads us to be filled with the Holy Spirit so that our lives can be changed more and more like Jesus and we can stay in god's plan and do His Kingdom ministry.

It's like a chain reaction: Repentance-Baptised- Relationship-Holy Spirit- Christlikeness
Are you in this heavenly chain reaction?

Yesterday we had our 2nd baptism for our new Restaurant ministry church plant - Emmanuel 330. 330 means a church starts at 3:30p.m. Emmanuel 330 is our first one in this special ministry for restaurant workers who can not go to church on Sunday. We are having weekly services now on Wednesday 3:30p.m. since last March. We baptized five adults last December and yesterday three more adults. From their sharing yesterday, all of the members of Emmanuel 330 experienced this heavenly chain reaction! Praise the Lord!

Please see pictures from our 1st Baptism last December and then yesterday's baptism. See those joyful and wonderful smile and you know that Jesus was there with us! Please pray for this very special ministry and church plant.

Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to experience this heavenly chain reaction that we can be changed to be more and more like you and that we can be able to do your Kingdom ministry. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.


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