DAY 727 - Stay in Your Church (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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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Confirmation from John Stott in 2009: 
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                               Today's Reading: Hebrews 10:19-25

** 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 10:19-25

English(ESV): http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews 10&version=ESV

Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=希 伯 來 書 10&version=CUV

Bible Study

     The author takes us from the beginning message of Jesus is superior than the angels, Moses and the Law and all other things to focus on Jesus to todays passage leading us to the presence of God. Yes, we can enter into the Most Holy Place into God's presence through the blood of Jesus. It's talking about worshipping God, in private and in public as well. 

Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
      We are to come to worship God - not just in private, though private worship and prayer is enormously important, but in public as well.  The danger of people thinking they could be Christians all by themselves was, it seems, present in the early church just as today, and verse 25 warns against it…
     Every Christian needs the encouragement of every other Christian. Everyone who comes through the door of the place of worship, whether it be a house in a back street or a great cathedral in a public square, is a real encouragement to everyone else who is there. 
     

N.T. Wright. Hebrews for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.117.

      How well do you experience the presence of God when you worship in your home church lately? How long have you been staying in the same church worshipping God? 
     

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: Stay in your church

    The message I got from Jesus today is the way to break the mentality of consumers' attitude of going to church. The modern consumers'  attitude leads people to have a throw-away habit. We throw away quite a lot of things we do not like but still can use for a long time, shoes, shirts, computers, cellular phones, cars and almost everything. Even marriage and church!

    Lots of Christians stay in one church for less than five years or at most ten, then something happens and they throw away their church and go to other church. 

     That's why the author wants to warn us today. Stay in your church and worship the Lord with everything you have got. Build up your home church and not to break your church, throw away your church or burn your church by misunderstanding, hatred and bitterness.

     Stay in your church to learn and experience Worship and Obey! 
    
Dear Lord Jesus,
Lead us to be abel to stay in our own church to experience worship and obey.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Rev. Nicky Gumbel and Mrs. Pippa Gumbel's greetings to the Anglican Mission Canada's National Conference May 15-16, 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHpAEv_kl3c&feature=youtu.be

Please click this link to worship with us -

從心合一

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

Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbe7OruLk8I&noredirect=1

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