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SIM1 Operation Seeking - Day 1 [2 Corinthians 3:7-11]
Posted on Monday, October 19, 2009
Show Me Your Glory
Jasmine says:
1) Reflection Points: One question that came to my mind after reading today's prayer point was "Am I in the ministry of Moses?" or "Am I in the ministry of Spirit?". It is something like "do i serve because my leader told me to do so or do i serve because this is what God wants me to do?". What if one day, my leader stops asking me to serve, will I stop serving? Ministry of Moses is like ministry to the law, which is engraved on the stone while the Ministry of Spirit is like ministry to the spirit, tablet of human hearts. Stone can broken but spirit cant. It will not be broken by all physical means. It is important for us to have a transformed heart that is fully cleansed. Ultimately, the most important thing is to have a heart that is after God and not after people.
2) Prayer points: Pray that my mum is touched by what I've done for her today. And that I can be salt and light in the family.
Maurise says:
1)Reflection points: After my 1st reading, the first thing that came to my mind was that Jesus' death was confirmed and that Hope came along together with His resurrection.
the ministry of God are no longer just words engraved on tablets and unreachable to us but when Jesus redeemed our sins, the ministry of God becomes 'flesh' in our hearts. This makes us even more victorious that what was victory in the past!
2)Prayer points: stop slacking, study harder for the upcoming jap exams!
Junyao says:
1) Reflection points: The passage really reminds abt how we human beings will look to things on the outside like how successful our ministries are, as a leader or a shepherd am i that zai and as a followers, we would also prefer to follow or submit to leaders that are zai or at least be 'similar' like us. But today's message really spoke to me and humble me in this particular aspect of whosw ministry am i really building on? My ministry? Your ministry? or ultimately really God's ministry?
I think nothing wrong with being zai or competent or charismatic, in fact if we have that is really a bonus to the KOG! but at the end of the day for myself, i really think i need to build this SIM ministry with the Spirit of God.
2) Prayer points: going thru exam period is definitely not easy man! Pray for me to be strengthened by God's power to stay awake for at least 16 hrs each day! pray for wisdom to understand concept easily.
Pray with me to see this SIM ministry to be built in God's way to please Him and not any one of us. pray with me that more and more pple will rise up to be GENERATION to take up God's call to be strong and biblical people.
Bentay says:
1) Reflection points: The ministry of Moses was of the old covenant where Jesus wasn’t born yet. The ministry of the Spirit symbolize the covenant where Christ had come.
In the old covenant, no one could see God face to face and still live. No one could go to God directly without the priests or God appointed prophets. God would reveal Himself hiding His face and He would write on stone tablets which show the distance of God and Man. This isn’t the case of the new covenant whereby we can approach God on a personal level and present to Him our petitions and requests as Jesus has died for us, tearing the curtains of the Holy of Holies from top down suggesting the barrier between God and Man as broken and nonexistent anymore.
While the stone is a dead object, the Spirit is alive and moving.
This passage reminds me of Nehemiah, where there was a promise that the glory of the later house will surpass the glory of the present house. In Christ, we shine His glory for than ever as compared to the older times where people couldn’t come to God straight.
One question that I ask myself is “Am I leaving trails of glory along the way to the people I meet?”
2) Prayer point: A generation that will rise to answer God's calling.
My mum to be able to gain strength in her limbs
My dad to stay fit under harsh weather conditions
Struggle past this peak time of studies with all my senses working to notice God's glory in the midst of them all
Li Ping says:
1) Reflection points: Moses physical ministry that is temporal compared to the ministry of the spirit that is eternal ...From the ministration of condemnation to the ministration of righteousness, all the more God's glory prevails in this passage and I'm encouraged to seek the future glory that will indeed last after the letters on the stone. How bright was the glory that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses and I do hope that as I serve, I'll focus on the ministry of the spirit that last and outshines.
2)Prayer point: I pray that operation s.e.e.k.i.n.g can help me take a step back as I search within me the areas that I need to rely on God's strength and I hope that even in the midst of school in this coming week, I can find solitude in him.
Si Yuan says:
1) Reflection points: The condemnation in layman's thinking summons an image of a draconian, bloodthirsty and sadistic being. This is not the case for these verses. In this case, "condemnation" is an act of justice, exhortion and objectivity. It serves to reveal our flaws and demostrate that indeed all Man have sinned and fallen short of the perfect standard. In some sense, the ministry of Moses and ministry of the Spirit are consecutive - if the ministry of Moses had not operate to show the futility of Man's self-righteousness and depravity, where is the need for forgiveness, reconciliatory role of the ministry of the Spirit? The ministry of Moses -of condemnmation - is paradoxically not in its objective to condemn, but to expose our folly and pave the way for the saving grace by Jesus (and sanctification by the Spirit).
http://alexanderhope.blog.friendster.com/2009/10/uni-ya-sim-operation-seeking/
collated and posted by bentay
Jasmine says:
1) Reflection Points: One question that came to my mind after reading today's prayer point was "Am I in the ministry of Moses?" or "Am I in the ministry of Spirit?". It is something like "do i serve because my leader told me to do so or do i serve because this is what God wants me to do?". What if one day, my leader stops asking me to serve, will I stop serving? Ministry of Moses is like ministry to the law, which is engraved on the stone while the Ministry of Spirit is like ministry to the spirit, tablet of human hearts. Stone can broken but spirit cant. It will not be broken by all physical means. It is important for us to have a transformed heart that is fully cleansed. Ultimately, the most important thing is to have a heart that is after God and not after people.
2) Prayer points: Pray that my mum is touched by what I've done for her today. And that I can be salt and light in the family.
Maurise says:
1)Reflection points: After my 1st reading, the first thing that came to my mind was that Jesus' death was confirmed and that Hope came along together with His resurrection.
the ministry of God are no longer just words engraved on tablets and unreachable to us but when Jesus redeemed our sins, the ministry of God becomes 'flesh' in our hearts. This makes us even more victorious that what was victory in the past!
2)Prayer points: stop slacking, study harder for the upcoming jap exams!
Junyao says:
1) Reflection points: The passage really reminds abt how we human beings will look to things on the outside like how successful our ministries are, as a leader or a shepherd am i that zai and as a followers, we would also prefer to follow or submit to leaders that are zai or at least be 'similar' like us. But today's message really spoke to me and humble me in this particular aspect of whosw ministry am i really building on? My ministry? Your ministry? or ultimately really God's ministry?
I think nothing wrong with being zai or competent or charismatic, in fact if we have that is really a bonus to the KOG! but at the end of the day for myself, i really think i need to build this SIM ministry with the Spirit of God.
2) Prayer points: going thru exam period is definitely not easy man! Pray for me to be strengthened by God's power to stay awake for at least 16 hrs each day! pray for wisdom to understand concept easily.
Pray with me to see this SIM ministry to be built in God's way to please Him and not any one of us. pray with me that more and more pple will rise up to be GENERATION to take up God's call to be strong and biblical people.
Bentay says:
1) Reflection points: The ministry of Moses was of the old covenant where Jesus wasn’t born yet. The ministry of the Spirit symbolize the covenant where Christ had come.
In the old covenant, no one could see God face to face and still live. No one could go to God directly without the priests or God appointed prophets. God would reveal Himself hiding His face and He would write on stone tablets which show the distance of God and Man. This isn’t the case of the new covenant whereby we can approach God on a personal level and present to Him our petitions and requests as Jesus has died for us, tearing the curtains of the Holy of Holies from top down suggesting the barrier between God and Man as broken and nonexistent anymore.
While the stone is a dead object, the Spirit is alive and moving.
This passage reminds me of Nehemiah, where there was a promise that the glory of the later house will surpass the glory of the present house. In Christ, we shine His glory for than ever as compared to the older times where people couldn’t come to God straight.
One question that I ask myself is “Am I leaving trails of glory along the way to the people I meet?”
2) Prayer point: A generation that will rise to answer God's calling.
My mum to be able to gain strength in her limbs
My dad to stay fit under harsh weather conditions
Struggle past this peak time of studies with all my senses working to notice God's glory in the midst of them all
Li Ping says:
1) Reflection points: Moses physical ministry that is temporal compared to the ministry of the spirit that is eternal ...From the ministration of condemnation to the ministration of righteousness, all the more God's glory prevails in this passage and I'm encouraged to seek the future glory that will indeed last after the letters on the stone. How bright was the glory that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses and I do hope that as I serve, I'll focus on the ministry of the spirit that last and outshines.
2)Prayer point: I pray that operation s.e.e.k.i.n.g can help me take a step back as I search within me the areas that I need to rely on God's strength and I hope that even in the midst of school in this coming week, I can find solitude in him.
Si Yuan says:
1) Reflection points: The condemnation in layman's thinking summons an image of a draconian, bloodthirsty and sadistic being. This is not the case for these verses. In this case, "condemnation" is an act of justice, exhortion and objectivity. It serves to reveal our flaws and demostrate that indeed all Man have sinned and fallen short of the perfect standard. In some sense, the ministry of Moses and ministry of the Spirit are consecutive - if the ministry of Moses had not operate to show the futility of Man's self-righteousness and depravity, where is the need for forgiveness, reconciliatory role of the ministry of the Spirit? The ministry of Moses -of condemnmation - is paradoxically not in its objective to condemn, but to expose our folly and pave the way for the saving grace by Jesus (and sanctification by the Spirit).
http://alexanderhope.blog.friendster.com/2009/10/uni-ya-sim-operation-seeking/
collated and posted by bentay
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