DAY 639 - Times Up (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

Want to know why I have been writing and recording my blogs and podcast daily since August 10, 2009? Click these three links:

Confirmation from John Stott in 2009: 
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html
My MicroMacro Discipleship, A missing DNA in Discipleship Development: http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/07/introduction-micromacro-discipleship.html
Subject Shifting Devotion Method(Inspired by John Stott in 1991: http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html

                               Today's Reading: 2 Thessalonians 1:7b-12

** 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 2 Thessalonians 1:7b-12

English(NIV): http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2 Thessalonians 1&version=ESV

Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=帖 撒 羅 尼 迦 後 書 1&version=CUV

Bible Study

     Paul gives encouragements and assurance to those who are persecuted in the last passage. In this passage, Paul gives the last warning to those who are persecuting God's servants and those who have not received Jesus as Lord and Saviour.  

Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
     When that day comes they must not appear as people who began to believe but never got around to working out what it might mean in practice.  They must be people who have lived up to their initial 'call'; in other words, they must allow the saving lordship of Jesus to have its way in their lives. 

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:Galatians and Thessalonians. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.145.

      When that day comes, are you prepared and ready to meet our Lord Jesus Christ face to face? 

      
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: Times up

    What I got from Jesus today is a warning or may be the last warning to those who do not have Jesus as their Lord. The fact is, we can drop dead any time! 

    Jesus says, "Times up!" And we are done, whether we have finished well or not, we are done!

    Jesus says, "Well done, good and faithful servant!" Do you think this would happen to you when you are done? This is Jesus' message to you today! 
    
Dear Lord Jesus,

Lead us to be prepared and ready that that day will come in any moment.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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/