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Friday, November 19, 2010
团契集体灵修时刻 - 约翰福音 第四章

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@ 9:00 PM :: 团契集体灵修时刻 - 约翰福音 第四章! by LSTQ 6 shared


The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” [John 4:15]

indeed, this one verse alone speaks to me again and again and again.. to me, it speaks about "are we using God?".. do we accept Christ because of the benefits, or do we genuinely SEEK GOD?? and indeed, this is easy to accept but difficult to do.. it might be easier when life's going well and we're doing fine for us to seek God, but when we're at wits end, how do we still "seek God's face and not God's hands"??

Commented @ November 19, 2010 at 9:07 PM Blogger benji


The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) [John 4:9]

this totally reminds me of the thursday church history class..

Commented @ November 19, 2010 at 9:12 PM Blogger benji


“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.” [John 4:34-38]


Jesus said "I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor". and i think this is the attitude that we should be having when we share about our faith to others.. i think it's of utmost importance to remember that no one will accept Christ unless Christ has chosen him first.. therefore, we can only boast of God's grace that the person can be saved.. and it also applies both ways - when we fail and someone rejects the faith, do not be disheartened because in that case we are the sower.. we tend to the field, and someone else might be there to harvest it.. it doesn't matter cos eventually, it's a soul saved and that's the most important..

i've shared this with seth's cell group last sunday, about how we - by faith - nominated people to pray for and to bring to the christmas event.. we probably have zero confidence in that person actually turning up, in fact, we might even be quite sure that the person will not be turning up.. but by faith, we pray; and it's a very bold step to take.. but let us not be discouraged, because the field and the harvest is not determined by us but by God.. so let us continue to pray, for the Christmas event, and for our lives, that we will share the gospel with courage and wisdom from God..

Commented @ November 19, 2010 at 9:14 PM Blogger benji


“Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.” [John 4:48]

indeed yet another reminder to seek God's face and not God's hands.. to seek God himself and not His miracles..

Commented @ November 19, 2010 at 9:17 PM Blogger benji


God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. ~John 4:24

Just a thought: Does it every strike you when you read an imperative coming from Jesus?
Jesus Himself said "and those who worship Him MUST worship in spirit and truth". I always wonder the deeper implications of such a sentence like why He didn't say worship in duty and in speech... Everytime before we go before God, let's ask ourselves, are we doing this as an obligation or even a habit? Are we measuring our worship to God using our the amount of service we have done or the amount of church activities we take part in as a yardstick of something we do to earn or repay God in any way? Which we can't anyway as it has already been paid for at the Cross. May God help us always examine ourselves before Him that we may truly worship Him in spirit and in truth and may God, as the Psalmist writes in Psalms 51, restore in us the joy of our salvation.

Commented @ November 19, 2010 at 11:54 PM Blogger Edmund


Amen bro!! and for me the driving force love as a commandment..

One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” [Mark 12:28-30]

and it's about this commandment that is there; but yet God giving us a choice whether we want to follow it or not.. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength... and yet the driving force behind our desire to Love God should be to stand in awe of what He has done for us, and to really say "God, it's the least i can do for You".. indeed, God died on the cross for us, it's the least we can do for Him..

so let us love in worship in Spirit and in truth. Let our deeds, our thoughts be sincere, because people may not see it, but God can..

Commented @ November 20, 2010 at 7:29 PM Blogger benji


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