Quiet Time today--John6:16-40

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John 6:16-40
Jesus Walks on the Water

 ¹⁶ When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, ¹⁷ where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. By now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them. ¹⁸ A strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough. ¹⁹ When they had rowed about three or four miles,^[a] they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they were frightened. ²⁰ But he said to them, “It is I; don’t be afraid.” ²¹ Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading.

Dawson Trotman's The Need of the Hour

Recently at the Nav camp in Malaysia, we went through a short booklet called The Need of the Hour by Dawson Trotman. It was based on one of his addressing speeches to the Navigators men to inspire them towards world vision. I've been looking for an online version but the Nav digital copyright policy doesn't allow me to share the material on the interwebz, so here's a link to the booklet you have to purchase =P

The Need of the Hour: http://www.navpress.com/store/search.aspx?q=the+need+of+the+hour 
(ooh, wait a minute, for personal use, feel free to Google it)

I listened to the audio version at the camp, and they edited out a lot of mentions from the booklet... I guess 'cos the original one had a lot more deviations from the main message, the need of the hour/moment.

Here's a snippet anyway: "Then it dawned on me in a way I had never considered before. When Jesus Christ sent the 11 out, He let a situation exist which was so bad that there could never be a worse one. No printing presses, no automobiles, no radios, no television, no telephone, no buildings, not one single church, no uniforms, nothing for the vestry. He didn't leave them a little emblem.

He left them only a job to do, but with it He said, 'All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.Go ye therefore...' (Matt 28:18-19)."

He wrote loads more interesting booklets.

 

The entire message Daws gave was simply that the disciples went out on a leap of faith. Not knowing what the future would bring, not knowing where they would go and whether there would be money or food or shelter, they only had faith. I guess God wants all his people to only be equipped with that when we do his work. Don't need the materials, or the literature, but just have faith and a mouth to proclaim Christ.

I dare not say I have a strong faith, but I have it nonetheless and I'm not afraid to use it! =P lol, I just need to learn when. In this camp, I thought I would start by giving myself and everything in daily prayer to God, and let him take control of everything. Let him use me and what I have. When Christ really is in the centre, I have to let him take the steering wheel of my life.

There's this job opening that has called me in for an interview. It's the same company I interned in, but maybe different boss. I want a full-time job but I didn't want the PR job. But I guess if God wants me there, I have to learn to submit. He didn't quite bless my previous time there, but I hope he would be with me here. So hopefully ultimately I can learn to be trained there in office while continuing the Great Commission. =))

Quiet Time today--Gen46

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 Genesis 46
Jacob Goes to Egypt

 ¹ So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

 ² And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, “Jacob! Jacob!”

   “Here I am,” he replied.

 ³ “I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. ⁴ I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph’s own hand will close your eyes.”

Quiet Time today--Gen41

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Genesis 41
Pharaoh’s Dreams

 ¹ When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile, ² when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds. ³ After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank. ⁴ And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.  ⁵ He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk. ⁶ After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—thin and scorched by the east wind. ⁷ The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream.

Quiet Time today--Gen40

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Genesis 40
The Cupbearer and the Baker

 ¹ Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt. ² Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, ³ and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined. ⁴ The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended them.    After they had been in custody for some time, ⁵ each of the two men—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison—had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own.

Quiet Time today--Gen35

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Genesis 35Jacob Returns to Bethel

 ¹ Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”  ² So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. ³ Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.” ⁴ So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem. ⁵ Then they set out, and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.

Quiet Time today--Gen34

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Genesis 34Dinah and the Shechemites

 ¹ Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land. ² When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and raped her. ³ His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her. ⁴ And Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as my wife.”  ⁵ When Jacob heard that his daughter Dinah had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his livestock; so he did nothing about it until they came home.