Today’s passage is 1 Kings 8:41-53. As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first. See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below. Let’s go!
In today’s passage, as Solomon continues to pray for the newly constructed temple, we catch a glimpse of God’s heart for His church. Yesterday we learned that God wants His church to be a place of hope for the broken and hurting. In today’s passage we see four other ways God sees His church.
1 Kings 8:41-43 (NIV)
41 “As for the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your name–
42 for men will hear of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm–when he comes and prays toward this temple,
43 then hear from heaven, your dwelling place, and do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.
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Today’s passage is 1 Kings 8:31-40. As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first. See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below. Let’s go!
1 Kings 8:31-40 (NIV)
31 “When a man wrongs his neighbor and is required to take an oath and he comes and swears the oath before your altar in this temple,
32 then hear from heaven and act. Judge between your servants, condemning the guilty and bringing down on his own head what he has done. Declare the innocent not guilty, and so establish his innocence.
33 “When your people Israel have been defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you, and when they turn back to you and confess your name, praying and making supplication to you in this temple,
On verses 31-40: Here Solomon prays that when people in Israel encounter various problems — whether it’s having wronged a neighbour (v31), being defeated by an enemy (v33), suffering from famine (v35) or some other form of disaster or disease (v37) — they will find hope, healing, and help whenever they prayed to God “in this temple” (v31, 33) or even “toward this temple” (v35, 39).
引言:今天我要介紹的是我非常喜歡的一首詩歌;它不但內容充滿了屬靈的亮光,而且旋律也非常溫柔悅耳。當我最初聽到這首詩歌時就有這樣的猜想,詩歌的創作人可能是一位女性。果然,當我準備動手要寫這篇文章時,我了解到不但詩歌的文字和作曲都是出自一位了不起的女性之手,而且這位女性之所以創作這首詩歌的激情和靈感還是來自另一位更為傑出的女性!詩歌的名字叫《當轉眼仰望耶穌》(Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus )。
在倫敦她除了積極參加教會的各種事工外,還加入了當地的世界基督教女青年會(World Young Women’s Christian Association),從兼職做到全職秘書。具有愛心的她經常晚上獨自一人在街頭尋找那些流浪街頭的妓女,說服她們接受職業技能培訓,或者住進青年會提供的庇護所接受幫助。期間她幫助協會開設了倫敦第一家面向女性的平價公共餐廳。由於長時間的艱苦付出和精神壓力她患了某種疾病,需要做一次手術;可就在後來進行的手術過程中發生了意外,導致她的心臟受到永久性的傷害。
Today’s passage is 1 Kings 8:22-30. As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first. See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below. Let’s go!
1 Kings 8:22-30 (NIV)
22 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven
23 and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth below–you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way.
On verses 22-30: Here we see King Solomon leading the entire assembly of Israelites in prayer at the dedication service for the newly constructed temple. This was Solomon’s most glorious moment where he steps into his role not only as a ruler but as a spiritual leader and priest for the people he is leading.
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Today’s passage is 1 Kings 8:12-21. As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first. See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below. Let’s go!
1 Kings 8:12-16 (NIV)
12 Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud;
13 I have indeed built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever.”
14 While the whole assembly of Israel was standing there, the king turned around and blessed them.
On verses 12-16: After a cloud of God’s presence has miraculously filled the temple (v11), Solomon tells God that this temple is for Him to dwell in (v12-13). He then blesses the entire assembly of Israelites (v14) and tells them about how God faithfully fulfilled the promises He made to Solomon’s father David (v15). Then in verse 16, Solomon quotes God as saying:
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每一天忙碌的生活中,各式各樣的人事物不斷呈現在眼前,手中的咖啡攪拌著焦急、憂悶、煩躁…,咖啡的味道淡了,顏色混濁了,我需要被提醒「我想留給祢空間,讓祢進入這空間;讓永生神的靈重新降臨,再次臨到我們身上 (I just wanna give you the space, to move in this place; Spirit of the living God fall afresh and fall on us.)」
Today’s passage is 1 Kings 8:1-11. As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first. See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below. Let’s go!
1 Kings 8:1-5 (NIV)
1 Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD’s covenant from Zion, the City of David.
2 All the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the time of the festival in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month.
3 When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests took up the ark,
On verses 1-5: Here King Solomon holds a dedication service for the newly completed temple. He decides to hold it “at the time of the festival in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month” (v2). Why is that significant? It’s because this festival was the Israelites’ Feast of Booths, a festival which annually celebrates the end of the Israelites’ wanderings in the wilderness and how God had brought them to their own land. King Solomon strategically thought, “The Feast of Booths would be a perfect time to dedicate the temple, since all the Israelites will be gathering anyway and their hearts will be expecting celebration and renewal.
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