主题： 火窑四影

17／6／2012
主题： 火窑四影
但以理书 3： 8－30
Grace
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1)
你是否相信圣经故事？你是否相信神在火窑里守护着但以理和他的两个朋友？
Do you believe in bible stories? Do you believe that God was the one protecting Daniel and his friends in the fiery furnace?

－ 即使大多数的圣经故事与我们的日常生活没有直接的关联， 这并不代表圣经所记载的故事不真实
Just because we cannot relate to most of the stories in the bible doesn’t mean that they are not true.

- 我们必须用信心去相信这些圣经故事
We need to have faith in believing all these bible stories

- 圣经故事所要带出来的信息就是神时时刻刻都与我们同在，而神是我们的救赎者。
What all these bible stories seek to tell us is that God is always by our side and that he is our savior.

2)
你是否经历上帝的奇妙作为？
Have you ever experienced God?

- 我们常常质疑自己是否有曾经历过神的奇妙作为，因为我们认为要在生命里经历大奇迹才算是经历到神的奇妙作为。
We always question if we do experience God, because we define ‘experiencing God’ as experiencing big miracles in our lives.

- 我们往往等到自己有困难的时候才寻求神，期待着神给予我们帮助，在我们的生命中行奇迹
We usually only seek God whenever something bad happens to us. We then commit all our difficulties to God and expect Him to perform some form of miracle in our lives.

- 但其实，不论是顺境还是逆境， 神依然与我们同在， 而我们时时刻刻都在经历神的同在 － 当神聆听我们的祷告和崇拜，或当神赦免我们的罪孽。可是， 我们常常都把这些怜悯当作是理所当然的， 不好好去珍惜。
However, in actual fact, we experience God all the time- when he listens to our prayers and worship, and when he forgives our sins. Most of the time, though, we do not treasure such mercy and take them for granted.

3)
你是否能够信心充满上帝时时刻刻与你同在；同行以及同工？你对神有着100％ 的信任吗？
Are you certain that the Lord is with you all the time? Do you have absolute trust in the Lord?

- 信心 Faith
有时候在生活中，即使我们再努力，也并不一定得到我们迫切想要得到的东西。但这并不意味着神不在聆听我们的祈祷。当一切事情都不按照自己的计划发生时， 事实总是难以接受，而且我们也很难相信事情总会好转起来。这时，我们就必须用信心相信一切都会按照神的计划发生。
Sometimes in life, we do not necessarily get what we desperately hope for or even what we work hard for, but that does not mean that God is not listening to our prayers. It’s always hard to accept it whenever something doesn’t go according to how you wanted it to be, and it’s hard to believe that things will eventually turn out well when it is not going according to your plans. That’s when we have to have faith and believe that everything happens in His time.

- 不论环境如何，都得感谢上帝 Thank the Lord for everything
我们总是会有理由感谢上帝。 即使我们在生活中面对着使我们觉得无助的困境， 我们也可以感谢上帝让我们能够从这些困境中学习到如何去依靠以及相信他。
There’s always a reason to thank God for everything. Even if we are facing some difficulties, and feel that we are being rendered absolutely helpless by those circumstances, instead of complaining, we can be thankful that God made us experience these hardships so that we can learn to believe in Him and trust that He will lead us in the correct path