DAY 712 - Why Still Babies? (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

Four years ago today, April 9, 2010, Michelle went to see her family doctor and was told that she got leukaemia. She was admitted to Vancouver General Hospital the next morning (http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/2010/04/day-234-my-wife-michelle-has-leukemia.html ). Michelle is not feeling well lately!  Her family doctor is now having a series of check-up for her to see what is happening. On this day, I would like to invite you to join us in a 100 days of prayer (From April 9 to July 17) for Michelle, our family and my ministry. Please click this link to join us to pray:
New 100 Days Prayer Campaign (2014.04.09-2014.07.17)

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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                               Today's Reading: Hebrews 5:11-14

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Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=希 伯 來 書 5&version=CUV

Bible Study

     Do you know a lot of Christians are still babies and never can grow up? Yes, that's what today's passage is about. 

Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
      What the writer here longs for is that people should become proficient in understanding and using the entire message of God's healing, restoring, saving justice.  He wants them to know their way around the whole message of scripture and of the gospel, to be able to handle this message in relation to their own lives, their communities and the wider world, and to see how all the different parts of God's revelation fit together, apply to different situations and have the power to transform lives and situations.
      In particular, he wants to see grown-up Christianity: people and communities who have learned, in the only way possible, how to tell right from wrong.

N.T. Wright. Hebrews for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.54.

     What does grown-up Christians mean? To be able to tell right or wrong. Do you think this is true? When we are just babies and not grown-up Christians we do not even know how to tell right or wrong? How sad!
     

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: Why still babies?

    The message I got from Jesus today is a warning to us not to stay in the stage as babies. Today, Michelle and I arrived in London to attend the Leadership Conference of Holy Trinity Brompton and have various meetings.

     I am so thankful to the Lord to give us a vivid testimony of what today's passage is about. Michelle and I met one of the welcoming team of Holy Trinity Onslow Church. She shared in a deep sense with us about her spiritual journey. She was from Brazil. She said she has been a Christian since a baby. She went to church every Sunday and knew lots of things about Christianity. But, never met Jesus, never had a relationship with Jesus. Until three years ago she came to England and HTB helps her to meet Jesus and have a close relationship with Jesus. She said now she knows Christian faith is so simple. And that's because she experiences lots of love in HTB. 

     Now she is preparing herself to be a missionary helping mainly Muslims and professionals in London to meet Jesus and receive Jesus as Savior, Lord and King. She knows what is right or wrong just three years ago and before that she was just a baby Christian. Now, she is grown-up and ready to be used by Jesus to do His Kingdom ministry! Glorious! Praise the Lord!

     Are you still a baby? Do you know how to tell what is right or wrong? Are you sure you can tell what is right or wrong? 
     
Dear Lord Jesus,
Lead us to be willing to establish a daily relationship with you so that we have a way to eat solid food and not just milk and be able to tell what is right or wrong.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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