Guard Your Heart

Many would say that one of the saddest stories in the Old Testament revolves around King Saul’s younger daughter, Michal. She fell head over heels in love with David right after he slew Goliath. So Saul decided to give Michal to David in marriage.

However, David’s increasing popularity threatened Saul, and to make matters worse, Michal angered her father by seeking to protect David from Saul’s murderous moods. One time, she even risked her own life to save David from her Dad! Saul got so angry he used his authority as king to force Michal to marry another man—just to spite David!

In the coming years, Michal went through numerous tragedies—she saw her father and brother, Jonathan, die in battle, her other brother murdered, and her family’s kingdom ripped away from her. Then, all of a sudden, David forced her to come back to him after a 12-year separation!

Unfortunately, David probably only wanted her back for political reasons. And surely she must have been shocked to find that David had married at least six other women during the time they were apart. Michal became so disappointed with David, with life, and with God that she became an angry, resentful and critical woman. And the unforgiveness and bitterness in her heart caused her not to be able to live a fruitful life.

“Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.” ~ 2 Samuel 6:23

Michal’s life is an incredibly sad example of how people can be unjustly used by others. Yet it is also a powerful illustration of how disappointment, resentment and unforgiveness can cause you and I to live barren, empty and unproductive lives—just as Michal’s subsequent years were. We may not be able to control the situations that we encounter in life, but through it all, God does expect us to guard our hearts so that the springs of life will never stop flowing from us (Prov. 4:23)!

Prayer for the day:

Give your disappointments and pain to God and pray that He will heal you of past pains and injustice. Ask Him to soften your heart and refresh your vision for a wonderful future in Him!

Quote it from Pst. Kong Hee

一個有目的的人生旅程

未來的四十天

現代人的平均壽命是二萬五千五百五十天。若你在這平均值裡，這就是大約你活著的時日。在這些日子中，分別出四十天去思考神要你在餘下的光陰中做些什麼事，豈非明智之舉？

聖經清楚指出，神認為四十日是具有特別屬靈意義的時段。每當神要預備人去成就他的目的時，他往往使用四十天的時間：

挪亞的生命被四十天的雨所改變。
摩西在西乃山上四十天的經歷改變了他的一生。
以色列探子四十天在應許之地，生命被改變。
大衛因著歌利亞四十日的挑戰生命被改變。
以利亞仗著神的一頓飯走了四十天，生命更新而改變。
尼尼微城的人因著神給予的四十天機會而悔改，生命得改變。
主耶穌在曠野經歷四十天的考驗，得著力量。
使徒因著復活的主向他們顯現並同在四十天，生命被改變。

在未來的四十天，你的生命也會被改變。

讓我們一起來經歷奇妙的40天轉化之旅吧！

摘要自標竿人生~華理克牧師

認識自我活動

認識自我活動

一、認識自我曲線

1.     家中排行老大到老么

2.     我最喜歡的數字

3.     我是一個勇於冒險的人或不喜歡冒險的人

4.     我喜歡與人接觸VS喜歡獨處

5.     我認識自己的程度

6.     我喜歡自己的程度

二、請選擇一輛車子代表你自己，

例如：我是Stephen，

我像一輛跑車。

因為我是一個充滿熱情的人，我熱情如火

而且我的反應迅速靈敏

我喜歡競賽與冒險

生命就是應該充滿新的旅程

身為跑車，我可以跑得很遠、也很有趣。

0407奉獻信息-上好的福分

路加福音10:41 耶穌回答說：「馬大！馬大！你為許多的事思慮煩擾，

路加福音10:42 但是不可少的只有一件；馬利亞已經選擇那上好的福分，是不能奪去的。」

這禮拜當我在靈修的時候，神告訴我，馬大思慮煩擾，是因為他想要做很多的事情來使神對他印象深刻，他的自我認同建築在那些成就上。而馬利亞唯一的目標就是坐在耶穌的腳前來聽他的話語。

馬利亞生命的認同，是從耶穌的話語來的，所以他充滿安全感、平靜與安穩。

今天我們每一位神的孩子，當我們聆聽神的話的時候，當我們在敬拜神的時候，當我們在奉獻的時候，我們正以神兒女的身份來親近他，而不是僕人，或者我們帶著任何其他目的，想要透過服事或奉獻來得到想得到的東西。

我們只是因為愛他，所以我們給予奉獻。表明我們是他的孩子，今天讓我們再次透過奉獻，選擇那上好的福份，讓我們的安全感從與神連結開始。