DAY 729 - Have Faith (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 10:32-39

** 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 10:32-39

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

     Yesterday's passage tells us that people of God might face with the most severe attack up to the point that they want to be avengers. The author reminds his readers that God will repay those who persecute and attack God's servants in His own way and time. Here in this passage the author takes us back to the theme of faith before diving into the famous chapter of faith, Hebrews 11.  

Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
      The troubles you're going through at the moment, he says, are just what you should expect, granted the fact that the promised new age has already broken in to the present time through Jesus himself - or, if you like, that Jesus has gone on ahead of us into God's future world, and is already there on our behalf - and that we are therefore out of tune with the present world because we are in tune with the future one.  Once you realize that, you have every possible motive to hold on in faith, not to hesitate and waver (verse 39). 

N.T. Wright. Hebrews for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.125-126.

      Are you in some kinds of troubles you do not know how to handle or to the point of collapse? If so, pray now that the Holy Spirit pours down the gift of faith to you.  
     

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: Have faith

    The message I got from Jesus today is a comfort and assurance to those who are in big troubles. Have faith! Don't hesitate to go back your old path and don't waver.

    Have faith! Is that easy to do? No, not easy, when you are in real distress or in some kind of condition that you cannot control. The discomfort, insecure, anger and bitterness might want to burst out like the explosion of a volcano. The author of Hebrews says, "Just a little while, He will come to save you. Just a little while!"

    Have you heard that from Jesus that He is coming to save you?

    Have faith!   

Dear Lord Jesus,
Lead us to have faith to wait for your coming to save us out of our struggles. 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:
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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): 

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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)

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