Saturday, December 28, 2013

DAY 588 - (English podcast click here)

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DAY 588 - More about Giving? Why? (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

Want to know why I have been writing and recording my blogs and podcast daily since August 10, 2009? Click these three links:

Confirmation from John Stott in 2009: 
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html
My MicroMacro Discipleship, A missing DNA in Discipleship Development: http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/07/introduction-micromacro-discipleship.html
Subject Shifting Devotion Method(Inspired by John Stott in 1991: http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html

                               Today's Reading: 2 Corinthians 9:1-5
** If you would like to learn a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please read my “Count Down 5” from my Devotion on Fire blog:
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html
To use this simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please click this link:
 .Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf

Please click this link to read 2 Corinthians 9:1-5

Bible Study

     We have been talking about giving for the past five days, feel boring? Well, that's how Paul wants to teach the Corinthians in details of how they should handle Christian giving. Why? Because it is very important!  
Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
      What we have in this passage is the sign that Paul cared deeply about every stage of his own planning, and thought hard about all the people involved and how they would be affected. 

 N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:2 Corinthians. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.97.
     
     To teach Christians to give is perhaps one of the most difficult task for pastors and leaders? What have you learned from Paul's teaching about giving? What have you been changed after being taught the past four days? 

Let's 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 Jesus 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: More about giving? Why?

    What I got from Jesus today is a question you might have after reading and listening to my blogs/podcasts the past four days. Everyday is talking about giving, giving and giving. Enough! I know what to do! Is that your voice deep down your heart?

     It might be a coincidence for those who are in Richmond Emmanuel Church or those who care about Richmond Emmanuel Church that the past four days is one of many confirmation that we need to do what Haggai says:

 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.  Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord."                     Haggai 1: 7-8

      Since we received a call to launch our "10,000 Reasons 123 Campaign" on December 1, 2013, (Please click this link to know that a miracle is happening to us: 
http://discipler123.blogspot.ca/2013/12/day-579-what-on-earth-made-you-do-that.html ) in three weeks time we have received a donation of around 1.3 millions dollars to support our church building project.

        I do think that the past four days is not a coincidence but a call from our Lord Jesus Christ for those who love and care about the future of Richmond Emmanuel Church to "go up to the hills and bring wood and build God's house". Last Sunday a sister came up to me after service and said, "Silas, I am going to join 10,000 Reasons 123. I am going to give an offering of $10,000." Four days ago I had a brother called me and said, "Silas, I went up to the hills and brought wood. I donated $10,000 already, do you know that?" There were lots of similar saying and calls I received the past three weeks that more and more brothers and sisters received confirmation from our Lord and joined in our 10,000 Reasons 123 Campaign.

       Please pray for us daily that the past three weeks is just a start of a WAVE of offerings from our Lord Jesus Christ so that we can experience REC theme of 2014 "Journeying to The Promised Land". May we feel the pleasure of our Lord Jesus Christ when more and more people join in our 10,000 Reasons 123 and His Mighty Name be glorified!

Dear Lord Jesus, 
Lead us to be able to offer what we are being called so that your Name will be glorified.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) Matt Redman
You may choose to follow my other daily blog: 
Daily Devotion on Fire 2(2 years plan -One year New Testament, one year Old Testament): 
http://bishopsilas2.blogspot.ca/
Daily Devotion on Fire (3 years and 3 months plan, one chapter a day to finish reading the whole Bible): 
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/
Break.Build (40 days daily devotion- For Renewal or First Step for new Christians): http://www.breakbuild.blogspot.ca/

Emmanuel330 (40 weeks First Step Bible Study): 
http://emmanuel330.blogspot.ca/

This blog:

Discipler 123 (Daily devotion using N.T. Wright's NT for Everyone as source)
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Friday, December 27, 2013

DAY 587 - (English podcast click here)

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DAY 587 - Show The Proof of Your Love (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

Want to know why I have been writing and recording my blogs and podcast daily since August 10, 2009? Click these three links:

Confirmation from John Stott in 2009: 
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html
My MicroMacro Discipleship, A missing DNA in Discipleship Development: http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/07/introduction-micromacro-discipleship.html
Subject Shifting Devotion Method(Inspired by John Stott in 1991: http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html

                               Today's Reading: 2 Corinthians 8:16-24
** If you would like to learn a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please read my “Count Down 5” from my Devotion on Fire blog:
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html
To use this simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please click this link:
 .Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf

Please click this link to read 2 Corinthians 8:16-24

Bible Study

     Paul continues to talk about sending the giving to the church in Jerusalem. He names three leaders who carry the offering, one was Titus and the other two had no names. Actually no one knows the names of that two leaders. Why? Their names are not important, but their act of faith and the proof of their love is important. 
Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
      The central point of this passage, though, comes in verses 20 and 21.  It isn't just that Paul is anxious for his own reputation - though, like many evangelists, he was surely aware that if anyone could ever say that he was silly doing it all to make money, that could be the kiss of death for his vocation and ministry.  It is, rather, that he is desperately concerned that the world will look at the young and small Christian movement and see it, not as a variation on a well-known theme (people travelling around teaching odd doctrines as a way of earning a living), but as the radical and challenging new thing it really is.  The gospel isn't about self-seeking, but self-giving. 

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:2 Corinthians. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.95.
     
     Are you on a path of self-seeking or self-giving? 

Let's 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 Jesus 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: Show the proof of your love

    What I got from Jesus today is a request for each one of us to show the proof of our love to Jesus. Here in this whole chapter, Paul's way of telling people the proof of our love to Jesus is only one thing, and that is your giving. This is what Paul has been talking about since the beginning of chapter 8.

     Well, if you tell your wife you love her but you do not share your wealth with her, do you really love her? What's your fear that you hold up your money?

     If you tell Jesus and everyone that you love Him but you give only "that much", do you really love Jesus?

     The change from self-seeking to self-giving is the first sign of the proof of your love. And, such proof is the pride for Paul to the Corinthians, and the pride of your church, and a good example and witness to other churches. Paul says:

      "Therefore show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our pride in you, so that the churches can see it."       2 Corinthians 8:24
Dear Lord Jesus, 
Lead us to be able to become a self-giving disciple of you and not self-seeking so that your Name will be glorified. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Please click this link to worship with us -


10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) Matt Redman
You may choose to follow my other daily blog: 
Daily Devotion on Fire 2(2 years plan -One year New Testament, one year Old Testament): 
http://bishopsilas2.blogspot.ca/
Daily Devotion on Fire (3 years and 3 months plan, one chapter a day to finish reading the whole Bible): 
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/
Break.Build (40 days daily devotion- For Renewal or First Step for new Christians): http://www.breakbuild.blogspot.ca/

Emmanuel330 (40 weeks First Step Bible Study): 
http://emmanuel330.blogspot.ca/

This blog:

Discipler 123 (Daily devotion using N.T. Wright's NT for Everyone as source)
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Thursday, December 26, 2013

DAY 586 - (English podcast click here)

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DAY 586 - A Jesus' Giving Lifestyle (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

Want to know why I have been writing and recording my blogs and podcast daily since August 10, 2009? Click these three links:

Confirmation from John Stott in 2009: 
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html
My MicroMacro Discipleship, A missing DNA in Discipleship Development: http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/07/introduction-micromacro-discipleship.html
Subject Shifting Devotion Method(Inspired by John Stott in 1991: http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html

                               Today's Reading: 2 Corinthians 8:8-15
** If you would like to learn a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please read my “Count Down 5” from my Devotion on Fire blog:
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html
To use this simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please click this link:
 .Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf

Please click this link to read 2 Corinthians 8:8-15

Bible Study

     Paul talks about it is the work of grace and not human effort that Christians give much. In today's passage, Paul points the Corinthians to Jesus as a perfect example of giving. 
Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
      Jesus, with all the 'riches'  of his life in the glorious mystery of God's inner being, became 'poor', both in the sense that becoming human was an astonishingly humbling thing and in the sense that the human life he took on was not royal, rich and splendid in the world's terms but instead poor, humble and eventually shameful.  Paul has modelled his entire life and work on this Jesus, and he longs, throughout this letter, that the Corinthians will do so as well…
     When Jesus, for the sake of us all, became poor, we became rich; now, when people who follow him are ready to put their resources at his disposal, the world and the church may benefit, not only from the actual money but from the fact that when the Jesus-pattern of dying and rising, of riches-to-poverty-to riches, is acted out, the power of the gospel is let loose afresh in the world, and the results will be incalculable. 

 N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:2 Corinthians. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.90-91.
     
     What have you learn from Jesus about giving? What is your respond to Jesus love to exercise a Jesus' giving lifestyle? 

Let's 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 Jesus 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: A Jesus' giving lifestyle

    What I got from Jesus today is an invitation to live out a Jesus' giving lifestyle. There are two things you need to know:
1. Most people's lifestyle is give less, take much. So, remember that you can't do it, you need God's grace work in you so that you are able to do it.

 2. You have the best model to follow, you just follow Jesus of how He gives His all to you. You just follow His daily prompting to you so that you know what and how to give. 

 Dear Lord Jesus, 
Lead us to be able to follow your good example to give.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Please click this link to worship with us -


10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) Matt Redman
You may choose to follow my other daily blog: 
Daily Devotion on Fire 2(2 years plan -One year New Testament, one year Old Testament): 
http://bishopsilas2.blogspot.ca/
Daily Devotion on Fire (3 years and 3 months plan, one chapter a day to finish reading the whole Bible): 
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/
Break.Build (40 days daily devotion- For Renewal or First Step for new Christians): http://www.breakbuild.blogspot.ca/

Emmanuel330 (40 weeks First Step Bible Study): 
http://emmanuel330.blogspot.ca/

This blog:

Discipler 123 (Daily devotion using N.T. Wright's NT for Everyone as source)
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