Thursday, May 22, 2014

DAY 730 - With Faith, Nothing Is Impossible (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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                               Today's Reading: Hebrews 11:1-6


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Bible Study

     Here we come to one of the most famous chapters in the Bible. We know the Chapter of Love and that is 1 Corinthians 13, here we have the Chapter of Faith.  


Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
      Hebrew 11 thus offers two things which go together: on the one hand, a description of 'faith' itself, the key asset which the readers will need; on the other hand, a brief history of God's people, particularly the key figures in the early period, and especially Abraham and Moses. The story then continues in the next chapter, coming all the way to the writer's own time: it reaches its climax with Jesus in 12.2.
     Faith, for Hebrews, is always closely linked to hope.  Faith is looking at God and trusting him for everything, while hope is looking at the future and trusting God for it.  As we see in verse 1, Hebrews actually defines faith in relation to hope: it's one thing to have a hope, but when you have faith underneath it gives it assurance.  I may hope for a better world, for a new bodily life beyond the grave; but unless I believe in the God who raised Jesus, my hope may degenerate into mere optimism. 

N.T. Wright. Hebrews for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.128.

      What are you hoping for lately? Do you have faith that what you hope for can become a reality? How can you have such kind of assurance? 


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: With faith, nothing is impossible

    The message I got from Jesus today is a very important assurance to me as well as all of you. Jesus reminds me of two things:
1. Mark 9:23
    "If you can?" said Jesus. "Everything is possible for him who believes."

2. A plate on the wall of my sitting room

    


 


   Have you got what Jesus wants to say to you now?

Dear Lord Jesus,
Lead us to have faith so that we really can experience with faith, nothing is impossible. 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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