士师记6:34-40
耶和华的灵降在基甸身上，他就吹角，亚比以谢族都聚集跟随他。 35 他打发人走遍玛拿西地，玛拿西人也聚集跟随他。又打发人去见亚设人、西布伦人、拿弗他利人，他们也都出来与他们会合。
神在不同的世代选召人来完成祂所托付的使命，被选召的人纵使推托，但终究无可推诿、无处可逃，需要领命前行。
耶和华差遣基甸去从米甸人手里拯救以色列人，基甸说：「主啊，我有何能拯救以色列人呢？我家在玛拿西支派中是至贫穷的。我在我父家是至微小的。」他向神寻求证据，神用杖头挨近肉和无酵饼，火从磐石中出来，烧尽了肉和无酵饼。（士师记6:11-24）
当耶和华的灵降在基甸身上，他聚集众人，再次向神寻求证据，神用「禾场上羊毛干湿」的神蹟叫基甸无可推诿。（士师记6:34-40）
圣经里另一个逃避神选召的人是先知约拿。他被神召唤去尼尼微城宣告神的信息，但他选择逃避。在一场暴风雨中，约拿被丢进海里，被一条大鱼吞下。在鱼腹中三日三夜，约拿祈祷、悔改，神就吩咐鱼把它吐在旱地，得以存活。
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is 1 Kings 20:1-12. 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 20:1-12 (NIV)
1 Now Ben-Hadad king of Aram mustered his entire army. Accompanied by thirty-two kings with their horses and chariots, he went up and besieged Samaria and attacked it.
2 He sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel, saying, “This is what Ben-Hadad says:
3 ‘Your silver and gold are mine, and the best of your wives and children are mine.'”
On verses 1-12: Ben-Hadad king of Aram, together with his entire army and 32 other kings (most likely rulers of smaller neighbouring city states), besiege Israel’s capital city of Samaria. Ben-Hadad tells Ahab in verse 3, “Your silver and gold are mine, and the best of your wives and children are mine.” (In the Nintendo International Version, Ben-Hadad says “All your base are belong to us.” I’m kidding.)
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).
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）
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。」
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.
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）
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.
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。
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.
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