OT DAY 49 - Do Trust God's Personal Promise (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

Today's Reading: Genesis 15:6-7

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Please click this link to read Genesis 15:6-7

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis 15&version=ESV

Chinese: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=創 世 記 15&version=CUV

Bible Study

      You may say, "Just two verses today?" Yes, just two verses, and in fact, we have the first part of the first verse yesterday. So, it should be 1.5 verse. But, this 1.5 verse is very important. 

Let's take a look at what Professor John Goldingay says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

    

     For Jews and Christians, faith is not merely a matter of trust, but of trust in a particular person.  We sometimes refer to "people of faith" or to someone "going to faith." as if it is the faith that matters.  It is not the faith that matters but the person in whom you have faith…
     In his account of the development of Christian witness in China and of the demands it placed on his faith, the nineteenth-century missionary pioneer Hudson Taylor commented on how people pray, "Lord, increase our faith" despite Jesus' rebuke of his disciples for that prayer.  In effect, he observes, Jesus said it is not great faith you need but faith in a great God.  Faith as small as a grain of mustard seed is sufficient if correctly located. Abraham did not merely believe; "He believed the Lord." 

John Goldingay. Genesis for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.173.

      Have you experienced God's personal promise? 

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: Do trust God's personal promise

    What I got from Jesus today is an important statement. Why? Let me tell you why. 

     You may say, "Well, I have not experienced any personal promise from God." Then I would like to ask, "Do you have any personal relationship with God? If you have personal relationship with God, then you can hear him speak to you, willing to be led by Him and occasionally He will give you promises so that you are being encouraged and have faith to go on some difficult task, right?" 

     You need to know that you got to experience God's personal promise. And, do trust God's personal promise! 
     

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help us to trust your personal promise. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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Rev. Nicky Gumbel's daily devotion: Bible in One Year

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