1. 停下來. 靜一靜
2. 等候主. 深呼吸經歷主之平安, 感受主的臨在, 呼出你的憂慮
讚美及感恩
1. 思想最近使你開心歡笑的時刻
2. 為那些時刻及有關的人感恩
3. 敞開心懷讚美主
耶 和 華 是 我 的 力 量 ， 是 我 的 盾 牌 ； 我 心 裡 倚 靠 他 就 得 幫 助 。 所 以 我 心 中 歡 樂 ， 我 必 用 詩 歌 頌 讚 他 。
詩篇 28:7
1. 求聖靈在你生命中工作
"親愛的聖靈, 求你光照我心靈的深處, 使我看見我的罪, 我和主耶穌的阻隔,
求你幫助, 奉主耶穌基督名求。阿們。"
2. 透過聖靈的工作, 安靜一刻, 省察自己, 之後祈禱:
「親愛的主耶穌，感謝你為我的罪釘死在十字架上，我願意在你面前承認我的罪（凡聖靈光照到的，請逐一說出），求你用你的寶血赦免我的罪，我願意打開心門讓你作我的救主，求你救贖我，我願意一生跟隨你讓你作我生命的主，求你帶領我。聖靈，求你充滿我，使我得著恩賜及力量去事奉主、見證主。奉主耶穌基督名求，阿們。」
聆聽主話 (列王紀上 19:8)
Chinese (Union): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=列 王 紀 上 19&version=CUV
8 他 就 起 來 吃 了 喝 了 ， 仗 著 這 飲 食 的 力 ， 走 了 四 十 晝 夜 ， 到 了 神 的 山 ， 就 是 何 烈 山 。 列王紀上 19:8
現在讓你有一段安靜的時間, 給聖靈一個空間, 讓主耶穌可以藉着你剛才讀過的經文, 對你說話:
我的聆聽
What is Rule No. 4? After Elijah's sleep, eat and drink, he fasted for forty days and traveled forty days to meet God, the same place Moses met God.
讓我們聽聽 John Goldingay 教授的教導:
At some point Elijah becomes set on traveling through the wilderness for another week or so to get to where God had long ago appeared to Moses. It is the only occasion in the Bible when someone makes such a pilgrimage. God intends to deal with him there and sustains him, so as to be able to do so. On almost any theory of the location of Mount Sinai or Mount Horeb (both names are used in the Old Testament) it wouldn't take a literal forty days to get there, but it sounds like a symbolic number, and it was the time Moses himself spent on Mount Sinai.
John Goldingay. 1 and 2 Kings for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011, p.90-91.
Have you taken that forty days to meet God? With fasting too?
Actually I helped quite a number of people to break their bad habits like smoking, gambling and pornography. I told them if they could stop that sinful lifestyle for forty days and they had a better chance to get rid of that forever. Almost all of them stop their bad habit after that forty days.
I helped quite a number of people to build a lifestyle of Chrislikeness like forty days of non-stop daily devotion, fasting or coming to our daily morning prayer. Almost all of them successfully build up their lifestyle after that forty days.
That's how God tested Elijah and Moses! That's how God tests you and me! So, are you going to start a non-stop forty days daily devotion? Are you going to come to our morning prayer for forty days non-stop? If you can do so, I am very sure that you can meet God in a very special way! God commanded me many, many times of this "forty days" invitation. Each time I listen and obey, I have a better and closer relationship with God and be abel to listen to Him more easily and to act on His command more naturally.
Actually I helped quite a number of people to break their bad habits like smoking, gambling and pornography. I told them if they could stop that sinful lifestyle for forty days and they had a better chance to get rid of that forever. Almost all of them stop their bad habit after that forty days.
I helped quite a number of people to build a lifestyle of Chrislikeness like forty days of non-stop daily devotion, fasting or coming to our daily morning prayer. Almost all of them successfully build up their lifestyle after that forty days.
That's how God tested Elijah and Moses! That's how God tests you and me! So, are you going to start a non-stop forty days daily devotion? Are you going to come to our morning prayer for forty days non-stop? If you can do so, I am very sure that you can meet God in a very special way! God commanded me many, many times of this "forty days" invitation. Each time I listen and obey, I have a better and closer relationship with God and be abel to listen to Him more easily and to act on His command more naturally.
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to follow Elijah's example to use forty days to be ready to meet you. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Help us to follow Elijah's example to use forty days to be ready to meet you. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
省察問題
1. Do you think that forty days is really so important to break or build?
2. Are you willing to try your forty days no matter daily devotion, fasting, going to daily worship or anything God invites you to do so?
2. Are you willing to try your forty days no matter daily devotion, fasting, going to daily worship or anything God invites you to do so?
3. What have you got from Jesus today?