DAY 88- Eat Me!!! (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

Today's Reading: John 6: 47-59

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Bible Study

We have the word "come to me" appears six times from verse 35 to 46 in yesterday's passage. Today we find out a very astonishing invitation of an action after coming to Jesus. It is "eat me", eat Jesus!

It's not talking about Jesus wants to turn us to cannibal. In fact, just the opposite. In reality, human eats human happen all the day. Why? Big business eating small business, relative and friends eating relative and friends for money, power or sex. So many people are eating their own lives because of money, power and sex.

N.T. Wright says,

Those who do this will be people of the true Exodus. In the original Exodus, the ancestors of the present Israelites had eaten the bread they were given, but they still died. This bread, this bread-of-life which is Jesus himself, is given, and given to be broken in death, so that those who eat of it may not die, but have eternal life in the present and the future and be raised up on the last day...

But it remains true that 'God so loved the world' (3:16), and that the world he loved, having once contained the Word made Flesh, is now waiting, like a beautiful crystal glass waiting to be filled with rich wine(the Eucharist), for the day when God will flood it completely with his own presence. John, like some other early Christian writers, was prepared to see the bread and wine of the eucharist as foretastes of that great moment.

Do you choose to eat Jesus and follow Jesus' example to be eaten or to eat money, power and sex and willing to be a "worldly cannibal' to eat other people?

Have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to God as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

What I heard from Jesus today is: Eat Me!!!

From 'come to me' to 'eat me', Jesus gives us a way to follow.

1. Eat Jesus rather than eat money, power and sex each day.

2. Follow Jesus example to give yourself, to take your cross daily, to sacrifice your time, money and everything for the Kingdom ministry but not to eat others like a cannibal.

Do you want to be a Christlike servant of God or a cannibal-like instrument of the world?

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help us to be able to eat you everyday that we can be more like you. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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DAY 87- Come to Me!!! (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

Today's Reading: John 6: 36-46

**For a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please click this link: Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf.

Please click this link to read John 6: 36-46

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Bible Study

Verse 35 Jesus says very clearly of those who come to him will never go hungry and thirsty because he is the bread of life. The word "come to him" appears six times from verse 35 to 46. Those who come to Jesus will be raised up at the last day and have eternal life(vv. 40, 44). And those who learns from the Father will come to Jesus.

"Come to Jesus"! This is a relational situation. Without the seeing and believing in Jesus you cannot come to him. Have you come to him?

Have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to God as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

What I heard from Jesus today is: Come to me!!!

I feel a very strong call from Jesus urging us to come to him each day. To look as him as your close friend, to believe in him as your Savior and to listen and obey him as your Lord and King.

Have you got that kind of relationship with Jesus that you can come to him everyday like that?

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help us to come to you each day and drag us out of those obstacles avoiding us to come to you. We will come to you, our Lord and our King. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Please click this link to worship with us - Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus
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Chinese praise song - 祢讓我生命改變 You Transform My Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbbsl9vP4uI

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DAY 86- Is Jesus standing in front of you? (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

Today's Reading: John 6: 26-35

**For a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please click this link: Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf.

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Bible Study

Following the thoughts of N. T. Wright the past two days we have a good 'catch" today. He says,

"The bread and the fish that Jesus had distributed to the crowds were there to lead the eye, the mind and the heart to the true gift of God to his people, then and there. They were there to open up their understanding to the fact that the new Passover, the new Exodus, was taking place right in front of them, and that Jesus was leading it...

Here his charge against the crowds is that the 'sign' of the feeding is meant to lead you to the true food: the food the son of man will give(v. 27), the food which is Jesus himself.(v. 35)...

Jesus doesn't answer their request for a further sign, but instead points out that the real answer to their question is standing in front of them. Moses was only God's agent."

I do hope you understand more and a little bit deeper of this chapter through N.T. Wright's help!

Have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to God as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

What I heard from Jesus today is: Is Jesus standing in front of you?

Yes, that's what I heard from Jesus today. Of course we can't see with our physical eyes that Jesus is standing in front of us. But, this is a "relational" question. This is really what Jesus meant when he said that to his disciples in this passage. They tried to find all their lives so many things but what they really needed for their lives was standing in front of them and they still wanted to look for other answer or source. What a waste!

I do hope and pray that you see with your spiritual eyes that Jesus is standing in front of you and that you can feel with your soul that Jesus is just beside you especially when you are having your daily devotion. If not, I don't think you are having a real daily devotion! Your are just reading the Bible, learning something but not having a daily intimate personal relationship with Jesus. Hope you know the difference!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Please tell us the difference whether we are having a true daily intimate personal relationship with you or just reading the Bible for a learning purpose. Be close to us each day Lord Jesus. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Please click this link to worship with us - Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus
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Chinese praise song - 祢讓我生命改變 You Transform My Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbbsl9vP4uI

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DAY 85- Jesus Is More Powerful Than Moses! Of Course!(請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

Today's Reading: John 6: 16-25

**For a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please click this link: Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf.

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Bible Study

As says by N. T. Wright, this passage is beyond "Do not afraid":

John has already made it clear that this chapter is to be all about the Exodus, and so when we have this scene of Jesus walking on the water we should be prepared to understand it as part of the same story. The children of Israel began their journey to freedom by coming through the Red Sea, with the waters parting before them but closing again of their pursuers. It was, of course, Moses who led the way through the Red Sea, and the crowds have just declared that Jesus is 'the prophet who should come into the world' - the prophet, that is, like Moses.

So, what N.T. Wright leads us to think is that Jesus is like Moses that the Israelites were being fed with manna and could walk on the sea to where God wanted them to go. It is just that Jesus was walking not on the bottom of the sea by on the surface of the sea.

Do you understand how importance is Moses to the Jews? If you understand, then you know what Jesus would like to demonstrate to the Jews in these two miracles. How does Jesus say to you through this?

Have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to God as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

What I heard from Jesus today is: Jesus Is More Powerful Than Moses! Of course!

If not for N.T. Wright's idea I would not link these two miracles with Moses. But, it does make a difference if I think in that angle! Jesus is more powerful than Moses! Wow! That's really is a big deal to the Jews! What are you afraid of if you have Jesus with you like that each day?

Dear Lord Jesus,

Thanks for giving us confirmation that you are our Provider and you can lead us through any wave and storm to the place you want us to go. Remove our fear away that we can follow you totally and freely. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Please click this link to worship with us - Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfr5rOfimnU&feature=related

Chinese praise song - 祢讓我生命改變 You Transform My Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbbsl9vP4uI

You can subscribe to my podcast feed here:http://feeds.feedburner.com/discipler123

You may choose to follow my first blog which I started in July 2009:http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/

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