DAY 734 - Worst Time in The History of Canada (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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                               Today's Reading: Hebrews 11:32-40

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Bible Study

     The author provides us with more names of those faithful servants of God, and with those who have no names at all who suffered to the utmost limits of a human beings can suffer.  What does the author wants to tell us? 

Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
      The fact that they suffered such things, and that they demonstrated that the world wasn't worthy of them, was a sign both that they believed that God was making a new world in which everything would be better, and that this belief was in fact true.  They were out of tune with their times because they were living by faith in God's future world while society all around them was living as though the present world was all there was or ever would be;  and God was giving them strength to live like that, thus proving the truth of their claim.  They were, in their own lives and sufferings, living beacons of hope, pointers to the fact that the God who had made the world was intending to remake it, and that they were the advance guard of that great moment. 

N.T. Wright. Hebrews for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.145.

      Are you one of those advance guard of that great moment just like those faithful servants of God in the list today?  

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: Worst time in the history of Canada

    The message I got from Jesus today is a revelation and warning from Dr. Bob Kuhn, President of Trinity Western University. Dr. Kuhn invited me to have a time of sharing in his office last Thursday with the Vice President of TWU, Dr. Paul Weme and two of Dr. Kuhn's interns. As in the downfall of religious freedom at present and in the very near future, Dr. Kuhn told me that we are in the worst time in the history of Canada as in the spiritual realm.

    We might not face with those horrible suffering to the point of severe death, but we might be facing with lots of similar sufferings if we as Christians do not gather together in unity, stand firm to protect religious freedom. The window is closing and we may have no time in we cannot get the strategy our Lord Jesus Christ gives us to fight this spiritual warfare.

     Today in our two Cantonese services I called our people, member of Richmond Emmanuel Church, to fast by not having a meal on every Wednesday and Friday till the end of July. Fasting and praying is the most powerful spiritual weapon to fight this spiritual warfare which already started in Canada many years ago. 

     Please click this link to watch Dr. Kuhn's sharing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ4tk08Gsz8&feature=youtu.be

Dear Lord Jesus,
Lead us to be abel to stand firm and fight this spiritual warfare together in unity in this worst time in the history of Canada. 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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