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The Part You Play in God’s Plan

2025-01-26 in /by

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 2:1-12.  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 2:1-3 (NIV)
1  When the time drew near for David to die, he gave a charge to Solomon his son.
2  “I am about to go the way of all the earth,” he said. “So be strong, show yourself a man,
3  and observe what the LORD your God requires: Walk in his ways, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and requirements, as written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you go,
 
On verses 1-3:  Here David is on his deathbed.  David’s last words to King Solomon his son are “be courageous, be a man, and obey God’s commands.” (v2-3)  After all the experiences David had accumulated over his lifetime — his unprecedented victories, his heartbreaking losses, and all the lessons he learned from both his successes and his mistakes —

人生的智慧

2025-01-26 in , /by

敬畏耶和華是智慧的開端；認識至聖者便是聰明。（箴言9:10）

有聰明，沒有智慧，即使成功，也會後悔；

有財寶，沒有親情，即使享樂，也是乏味；

有美貌，沒有美德，即使愛情，也會破碎；

有生命，沒有努力，即使青春，也是浪費。

人生的智慧，在於學習謙卑；敬畏上帝，認識生命的尊貴。

奇妙的預備

2025-01-24 in , /by

詩篇 139:13-16

13 我的肺腑是祢所造的，我在母腹中，祢已覆庇我。
14 我要稱謝祢，因我受造奇妙可畏；祢的作為奇妙，這是我心深知道的。
15 我在暗中受造，在地的深處被聯絡，那時我的形體並不向祢隱藏。
16 我未成形的體質，祢的眼早已看見了；祢所定的日子，我尚未度一日，祢都寫在祢的冊上了。

我們的神行「奇妙」的作為，耶穌的名稱為「奇妙」；我受造，「奇妙」可畏，祂為我預備的是「奇妙」，是眼睛未曾看見，耳朵未曾聽見，人心也未曾想到的。

祝福你擁有「奇妙」的一天，這是與主同行的一天。

我要一心稱謝耶和華；我要傳揚祢一切奇妙的作為。（詩篇9:1）

因有一嬰孩為我們而生；有一子賜給我們。政權必擔在祂的肩頭上；祂名稱為「奇妙策士、全能的神、永在的父、和平的君」。（以賽亞書9:6）

When You Know Who Your True Friends Are

2025-01-24 in /by

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 1:41-53.  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! 

1 Kings 1:41-49 (NIV)
41  Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they were finishing their feast. On hearing the sound of the trumpet, Joab asked, “What’s the meaning of all the noise in the city?”
42  Even as he was speaking, Jonathan son of Abiathar the priest arrived. Adonijah said, “Come in. A worthy man like you must be bringing good news.”

On verses 41-49:  Having heard that King David has officially made Solomon king instead of Adonijah, all of Adonijah’s guests — who were supposedly Adonijah’s closest friends and supporters — disperse and flee from Adonijah.

What can we learn from this?  It’s in the tough times when you can especially tell who your real friends are.  When things are going well for you, everyone is happy to be your friend. 

You Got The King On Your Side

2025-01-23 in /by

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 1:28-40.  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 1:28-31 (NIV)
28 Then King David said, “Call in Bathsheba.” So she came into the king’s presence and stood before him.
29 The king then took an oath: “As surely as the LORD lives, who has delivered me out of every trouble,
30 I will surely carry out today what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.”
31 Then Bathsheba bowed low with her face to the ground and, kneeling before the king, said, “May my lord King David live forever!” 
 
On verses 28-31:  Despite the fact that many people had already sided with Adonijah, David decides to install Solomon as the new king in place of David.  By doing this, David was fulfilling a promise he had made to his wife Bathsheba to make Solomon the next king (v29-30). In response, Bathsheba bows before David and blesses him.

我心切切渴慕祢

2025-01-23 in , /by

詩篇 42:1-2

1 神啊，我的心切慕祢，如鹿切慕溪水。
2 我的心渴想神，就是永生神，我幾時得朝見神呢？

詩人說他的心渴想神，切慕神，渴想神的院宇，渴想神的救恩和應許，如同在乾旱疲乏無水之地盼雨一樣。

耶穌說：「人若喝我所賜的水就永遠不渴。我所賜的水要在他裡頭成為泉源，直湧到永生。」（約翰福音4:14）

我的心渴想神，就是永生神；我幾時得朝見神呢？（詩篇42:2）

神啊，祢是我的神，我要切切地尋求祢，在乾旱疲乏無水之地，我渴想祢；我的心切慕祢祢。（詩篇63:1）

我羨慕渴想耶和華的院宇；我的心腸，我的肉體向永生神呼籲。（詩篇84:2）

How to Approach Jesus Your King

2025-01-22 in /by

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 1:1-14.  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 1:1-4 (NIV) 
1 When King David was old and well advanced in years, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him. 
2 So his servants said to him, “Let us look for a young virgin to attend the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm.” 
3 Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. 
4 The girl was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no intimate relations with her. 

On verses 1-4:  By this time King David is almost 70 years old and is not in good health.  To help keep him warm, they find a beautiful girl called Abishag to lie beside him and to serve him as his nurse, but not to have sexual relations with him. 

「賜平安」的意念

2025-01-22 in , /by

耶利米書29:11-14

11 耶和華說：我知道我向你們所懷的意念是賜平安的意念，不是降災禍的意念，要叫你們末後有指望。 12 你們要呼求我，禱告我，我就應允你們。 13 你們尋求我，若專心尋求我，就必尋見。 14 耶和華說：我必被你們尋見，我也必使你們被擄的人歸回，將你們從各國中和我所趕你們到的各處招聚了來，又將你們帶回我使你們被擄掠離開的地方。這是耶和華說的。

先知耶利米從耶路撒冷寄信給被擄到巴比倫，飽受屈辱且深陷危難的以色列百姓，說：耶和華說：我知道我向你們所懷的意念是賜平安的意念，不是降災禍的意念，要叫你們末後有指望。你們要呼求我，禱告我，我就應允你們。你們尋求我，若專心尋求我，就必尋見。耶和華說：我必被你們尋見，我也必使你們被擄的人歸回，將你們從各國中和我所趕你們到的各處招聚了來，又將你們帶回我使
你們被擄掠離開的地方。這是耶和華說的。（耶利米書29:11-14）

信主的人應該明白，人陷在「降災禍」事實的背後是神所懷「賜平安」的意念，為叫我們未來有盼望。而這盼望來自我們親近祂，向祂呼求、禱告，且專心尋求祂；祂也歡然應允，必然讓我們尋見。我們親近神，神就必親近我們（雅各書4:8）。

Whoever Exalts Himself Will Be Humbled

2025-01-21 in /by

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 1:1-14.  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 1:1-4 (NIV) 
1 When King David was old and well advanced in years, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him. 
2 So his servants said to him, “Let us look for a young virgin to attend the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm.” 
3 Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. 
4 The girl was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no intimate relations with her. 

On verses 1-4:  By this time King David is almost 70 years old and is not in good health.  To help keep him warm, they find a beautiful girl called Abishag to lie beside him and to serve him as his nurse, but not to have sexual relations with him. 

在祢光中

2025-01-21 in , /by

約翰福音3:19-20

19 「光來到世間，世人因自己的行為是惡的，不愛光倒愛黑暗，定他們的罪就是在此。 20 凡作惡的便恨光，並不來就光，恐怕他的行為受責備；

人在光中無法隱藏自己的影子，或是達官顯要、或是市井小民、或是窮兇惡煞，眾人皆有自己的影子。影子大小會因胖瘦高矮而有差異，然而不變的事實是，距離光愈遠，人的影子一定被拉長，距離光愈近，影子自然就會縮短。

從另個角度來看，影子或許可代表人的陰影，不為人知的黑暗面；人因自己的行為是惡的，不愛光，倒愛黑暗，因為可以將影子隱藏在黑暗中，陰影不被人發現，而免於罪責（約翰福音3:19-20）。

信主的人需要面向光，定睛前方，讓影子落在後面，我們因此可以忘記背後，努力就光；愈靠近光，背後的影子愈小，當光正照我們頭上，影子就縮到最小。