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Are You Feeling Depressed?

2025-03-17 in /by

Hi GAMErs,

Do you struggle with feeling depressed?  In today’s passage we learn four powerful steps you can take to help you when you are depressed.  Let’s go!

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 19:1-21.  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 19:1-3 (NIV) 
1 Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 
2 So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.” 
3 Elijah was afraid and ran for his life…

On verses 1-3a:  Elijah has just been used by God to accomplish one of the most impressive miracles ever recorded in the Bible: fire from heaven has come down upon Elijah’s sacrifice (1 Kings 18:38-39).  The prophets of Baal are seized, silenced and killed, and Elijah is riding a spiritual high, literally outrunning King Ahab’s chariot (1 Kings 18:40-46). 

与神相处/怒气不成就义

2025-03-17 in , /by

民数记20:1-13 

正月间，以色列全会众到了寻的旷野，就住在加低斯。米利暗死在那里，就葬在那里。

2 会众没有水喝，就聚集攻击摩西、亚伦。 3 百姓向摩西争闹说：「我们的弟兄曾死在耶和华面前，我们恨不得与他们同死。 4 你们为何把耶和华的会众领到这旷野，使我们和牲畜都死在这里呢？ 5 你们为何逼着我们出埃及，领我们到这坏地方呢？这地方不好撒种，也没有无花果树、葡萄树、石榴树，又没有水喝。」 6 摩西、亚伦离开会众，到会幕门口，俯伏在地。耶和华的荣光向他们显现。

摩西带领以色列人出埃及约三个月，经过汛的旷野到达利非订安营，百姓因没水喝向摩西发怨言，耶和华嘱咐摩西拿杖击打磐石，磐石必有水流出，使百姓可以喝。摩西就在以色列的长老眼前这样行了。（出埃及记17:1-7）

出埃及两年后，以色列人来到寻旷野的加低斯，派遣探子去窥探迦南地。由于他们不信神的应许，引起民众的恐慌和叛乱，因此，神宣布那一代的以色列人（二十岁以上的）不得进入迦南地。（民数记14:20-35）于是，以色列人在旷野中漂泊38年，大部分时间在加低斯附近度过，旧一代以色列人逐渐过世。

新一代以色列人在加低斯，再次因没有水喝，聚集攻击摩西、亚伦。耶和华晓谕摩西拿杖，和亚伦招聚会众，吩咐磐石出水，给会众和他们的牲畜喝。摩西、亚伦就招聚会众，摩西说：「你们这些背叛的人听我说：我为你们使水从这磐石中流出来吗？」摩西举手，用杖击打磐石两下，就有许多水流出来，会众和牲畜都喝了。那时，耶和华对摩西、亚伦说：「因为你们不信我，不在以色列人眼前尊我为圣，所以你们必不得领这会众进我所赐给他们的地去。」（民数记20:1-13）

与神相处/谦卑的仆人

2025-03-16 in , /by

哥林多后书12:9    祂对我说：「我的恩典够你用的，因为我的能力是在人的软弱上显得完全。」所以，我更喜欢夸自己的软弱，好叫基督的能力覆庇我。

摩西的一生，年少在埃及法老王宫享受富贵40年，接着因杀人而避难到米甸旷野牧羊忍受艰辛40年，最后蒙神选召领导以色列民出埃及，在西乃沙漠中帮助看顾以色列人40年，耶和华称摩西为「我的仆人」（民数记12∶7-8）。我们看这位神的仆人在旷野荆棘中，如何面对神的呼召？（出埃及记3∶1-4:18）

神从荆棘里呼叫说：「摩西！摩西！」他说：「我在这里。」

神说：「以色列人的哀声达到我耳中，我要打发你将我的百姓从埃及领出来。」

摩西说：「我是甚么人，竟能去见法老，将以色列人从埃及领出来呢？」

神说：「我必与你同在，这就是我打发你去的证据。」

摩西说：「我到以色列人那里，要对他们说祢是谁？」

神说：「你要对以色列人这样说：『那自有永有的打发我到你们这里来。』」

接着，神细说了祂与以色列人的立约，以色列人当时的光景和祂所要施行的拯救。（出埃及记3∶15-22）

摩西说：「他们必不信我，也不听我的话。」

How To Experience the Fire of the Holy Spirit

2025-03-16 in /by

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 18:30-46.  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 18:30 (NIV) 
30 Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come here to me.” They came to him, and he repaired the altar of the LORD, which was in ruins. 

On verse 30:  What does the writer of 1 Kings mean when writing that Elijah “repaired the altar of the Lord, which was in ruins”?  It means that Elijah was re-establishing a culture of worshiping the Lord, a culture that had disappeared in the face of rampant and ongoing idolatry in Israel.  

与神相处/成为祂的朋友

2025-03-14 in , /by

创世记18:16-19    三人就从那里起行，向所多玛观看，亚伯拉罕也与他们同行，要送他们一程。 17 耶和华说：「我所要做的事，岂可瞒着亚伯拉罕呢？ 18 亚伯拉罕必要成为强大的国，地上的万国都必因他得福。 19 我眷顾他，为要叫他吩咐他的众子和他的眷属，遵守我的道，秉公行义，使我所应许亚伯拉罕的话都成就了。」

亚伯拉罕在幔利橡树接待天使，天使即将启程离开，望向所多玛，神说：「我所要做的事岂可瞒着亚伯拉罕呢？…所多玛和蛾摩拉的罪恶甚重，声闻于我。…」（创世记18:16-21）

亚伯拉罕近前来，说：「无论善恶，你都要剿灭吗？假若那城里有五十个义人，你还剿灭那地方吗？不为城里这五十个义人饶恕其中的人吗？将义人与恶人同杀，将义人与恶人一样看待，这断不是你所行的。审判全地的主岂不行公义吗？」耶和华说：「我若在所多玛城里见有五十个义人，我就为他们的缘故饶恕那地方的众人。」（创世记18:23-26）

Don’t Play the Blame Game + When Sincerity Is Not Enough

2025-03-14 in /by

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 18:16-29.  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 18:17-18 (NIV) 
17 When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?” 
18 “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father’s family have. You have abandoned the LORD’s commands and have followed the Baals. 

On verses 16-18:  Ahab meets Elijah and contemptuously calls him “you troubler of Israel”.  Ahab was blaming the famine on Elijah, thinking, “This famine is all your fault, all because you prayed.”  Elijah retorts the root cause of the famine was not Elijah but rather Ahab and his family, and how they had led Israel to abandon the LORD’s commands and fall headlong into idolatry.

与神相处/小信也无妨

2025-03-13 in , /by

创世记18:9-15 他们问亚伯拉罕说：「你妻子撒拉在哪里？」他说：「在帐篷里。」 10 三人中有一位说：「到明年这时候，我必要回到你这里，你的妻子撒拉必生一个儿子。」撒拉在那人后边的帐篷门口也听见了这话。 11 亚伯拉罕和撒拉年纪老迈，撒拉的月经已断绝了。 12 撒拉心里暗笑，说：「我既已衰败，我主也老迈，岂能有这喜事呢？」 13 耶和华对亚伯拉罕说：「撒拉为什么暗笑，说：『我既已年老，果真能生养吗？』 14 耶和华岂有难成的事吗？到了日期，明年这时候，我必回到你这里，撒拉必生一个儿子。」 15 撒拉就害怕，不承认，说：「我没有笑。」那位说：「不然，你实在笑了。」

希伯来书11章谈到古人在信心上得到美好的证据，这许多见证人如同云彩围绕着我们；然而想到自己，就有点担忧自己的小信，甚至有些时候的不信，不禁会问：「神啊，祢能悦纳小信的我吗？」

撒拉听到天使对她丈夫亚伯拉罕说，明年，撒拉会生一个儿子！她面对现实：亚伯拉罕已经99岁，她也89岁，而且月经已断绝了；于是心里暗笑，说：「我既已衰败，我主也老迈，岂能有这喜事呢？」撒拉的小举动，当场被天使抓包，她害怕，不敢承认，但天使没有责备，只坚定地告诉他们：在神岂有难成的事吗？（创世记18:9-15）结果，神改变现实成为真实：亚伯拉罕100岁，撒拉90岁，生了以撒。

Do THIS if you want God to move powerfully in your life

2025-03-13 in /by

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 18:1-15.  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 18:1-2 (NIV) 
1 After a long time, in the third year, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land.” 
2 So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab…

On verses 1-2a:  God used Elijah to perform some of the most incredible miracles you will read about in the Bible.  Why Elijah?  I believe Elijah’s secret is not just that he was gifted, but that he was obedient.  Whenever God told him to do something, in faith he would obey.  As verse 2 says, “So Elijah went…”.  Remember that in this case God is telling Elijah to present himself to King Ahab, the very person who had been trying to kill Elijah for years.  Yet Elijah goes in faith and obeys God’s Word.  

How’s Your “Miracles Memory”?

2025-03-12 in /by

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 17:17-24.  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 17:17-18 (NIV)
17  Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing.
18  She said to Elijah, “What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?”

On verses 17-18:  A mother experiences her worst nightmare: the death of her child.  In this case it wasn’t a sudden death but an illness which took her son’s life, one where his sickness got worse and worse until he was gone.  It’s not clear why the woman would blame her son’s death on Elijah, the prophet who was staying as a guest in her house.  Sometimes when we can’t understand why something is happening to us, we can be tempted to blame God for what we’re going through. 

勇于承认犯错

2025-03-12 in , /by

创世记3:14-19    耶和华神对蛇说：「你既做了这事，就必受咒诅，比一切的牲畜野兽更甚！你必用肚子行走，终身吃土。 15 我又要叫你和女人彼此为仇，你的后裔和女人的后裔也彼此为仇，女人的后裔要伤你的头，你要伤他的脚跟。」 16 又对女人说：「我必多多加增你怀胎的苦楚，你生产儿女必多受苦楚。你必恋慕你丈夫，你丈夫必管辖你。」 17 又对亚当说：「你既听从妻子的话，吃了我所吩咐你不可吃的那树上的果子，地必为你的缘故受咒诅，你必终身劳苦，才能从地里得吃的。 18 地必给你长出荆棘和蒺藜来，你也要吃田间的菜蔬。 19 你必汗流满面才得糊口，直到你归了土，因为你是从土而出的。你本是尘土，仍要归于尘土。」  

面对神的询问，亚当将罪责推给夏娃，夏娃又推卸给蛇，这就是我们常经历的犯罪三部曲：人犯罪、逃避神、推诿卸责。人犯罪违背神，人与神间有了裂痕，逃避神和推诿卸责更加深人神间的鸿沟，使得人离神愈来愈远，因此，神的惩罚随即依序临到蛇、夏娃、亚当（创世记3:14-19）。

耶和华说：「谁告诉你赤身露体呢？莫非你吃了我吩咐你不可吃的那树上的果子吗？」那人说：「你所赐给我、与我同居的女人，她把那树上的果子给我，我就吃了。」耶和华神对女人说：「你做的是甚么事呢？」女人说：「那蛇引诱我，我就吃了。」（创世记3:11-13）