於2017-12-29發佈


回顧這一年——得著你的應許之地
"A Year in Review – Getting to Your Promised Land"
日期:2017年12月28日
作者:雷克. 喬納
中譯:榮耀國度。
來源:AP. Media。蒙允刊載。轉載,請註明出處。


謝謝你們加入這一次的啟示錄學習之旅(本周的信息Word for the Week)。我們將會在下一年裡繼續此內容學習,由於我們正在學習此卷書裡最有趣的一部分,其中的許多內容可以使得一些在我們未來生命裡所要展開的事情更加清楚明朗。然而,我喜歡使用那年的最後的WFTW(the last WFTW the year)作為來年的一個特別的信息。

不會再有另外一2017年了。在過往的一年裡有太多要感恩的,同時我們也準備開始新的一年,但是2017年也是恩典滿滿的一年。其實每一年都是為那些愛神的並按他旨意被召的人所定的。神應許我們他要使萬事都成為我們的益處(萬事互相效力,為要叫愛神的人得益處。)

苦澀變成甘甜——得著你的應許之地

提到以色列人在曠野之裡,一些發生在他們身上事情時,哥林多前書10:11如此說:“它們遭遇這些事都要作為鑒戒,並且寫在經上,正式警戒我們這模式的人。”

對每一個要得著應許之地的信徒而言,以色列人在曠野所經受的每一次試探就是一張預言性的地圖,他們也必須經歷這一切的試探。以色列人所面對的最大的試探就是“瑪拉之水”或者 “苦水”

如果以色列人定意要得著應許之地,他們所要學習的第一件事情就是如何使苦水變甜,換句話說就是他們要如何忍耐以致那些困苦變成美好。我們也必經歷這一切。

為使我們2018年一開始的時候就行在正確的路上,我們必須要為2017年和在這一年裡發生在我們身上的事情來感謝主—不論是好的事情還是壞的事情,因為這一切都是為著我們的益處而發生的。如果我們繼續的朝著應許之地進軍,每一次的困苦必變成甘甜之水,神所賜給我們的應許也必實現。

光必得勝!傳揚福音的絕佳時機

每一年,我都會發送信息給我們的國際出版社們。以下是我從這份信裡的一些節選的內容,我感受到這些話是給我們每一個人的。

每一年,我們似乎都要去回顧,並且說今年要比上一年更加有趣更富有挑戰性。當我開始去提起多年之前,並繼續時—這就意味著每一年都是傳揚福音的絕佳時機。

福音就是“好消息。” 這是普世已經聽見並且要繼續聽見的最好的消息。比起其他的宗教或者哲學流派的信徒來,我們擁有更大的盼望。現在我們是這個世界的希望的傳遞者(purveyors),並且我們也會合而為一,正如我們在以賽亞書60章和其他的先知信息裡所看見的一樣:看哪,黑暗要遮蓋大地,耶和華的榮耀要彰顯在他的子民身上,萬民都要來就這光。正如以賽亞書60:3:“萬國要來就你的光,君王要來就你發現的光輝。”

光必得勝!我們定不會忘記:當黑暗加劇時,我們更應當鼓足勇氣— 因為我們已越發的接近神所啟示的榮耀了。

我的目的,也是晨星事工的最主要的目的就是:知道神的時候,並且知道神為要預備他百姓正在做著什麼。我們尋求可以參與到這個預備之中的一個主要的方式就是—為即將要開始的大收獲準備好我們自己。

最主要的一個方式就是:教會要變成聖潔無瑕疵的新婦—我們的大君王配得的。教會是一切,因為她是進入大收獲的最重要的一把鑰匙。她也是一把很關鍵的鑰匙,可以開啟我們進入生命之中的最高呼召——幫助預備大君王的新婦。

在過去的兩個月裡,我領受了兩個大型先知性預言啟示,這兩個都很大,以至於我覺得一生都無法完全的消化這些信息。後來我明白了這兩個啟示是與“永恆福音”相關聯的。

我曾經一直認為這只是一個簡單的且一直以來被不斷重複描述福音而已,但是現在我明白了耶穌基督的福音是如此之無限永恆,以至於我們可以一直去學習這份福音,而且也被永遠地吸引著。在一切的受造之物之中,再沒有比這更有趣更永無止境的了。我們也為此被召,要去傳揚耶穌基督這份永恆的福音。我們怎能不熱愛我們所領受這份恩典(工作)呢?

我為你們今年如此禱告:願你在這份呼召上更加長進——盼望和異象將會成為你今年特別的靈糧(special diet)。無論你往何地去,總要去傳播這份永恆的福音。

這也是為所有學習這次啟示錄(本周話語)的所有弟兄姐妹們的禱告。我祈求神:願這盼望和異象在你們裡面倍增,也願它們可以使你們無論何往,加倍努力的去傳揚我們的再來大君王盼望和異象。



"A Year in Review – Getting to Your Promised Land"
Rick Joyner, Fort Mill, SC

Thank you for joining us on this journey of studying the Book of Revelation (in our Word for the Week). We will continue this study next year as we are just getting into some of the most exciting parts of it, many of which give great clarity on what is unfolding in our times. However, I like to use the last WFTW of the year as a special message for the coming year.

There will never be another 2017. Many are thankful for that and are ready to start another year, but 2017 was an awesome year. Every year is for those who love God and are called according to His purpose. He has promised to turn all things into good.

Bitter Into Sweet - Getting to Your Promised Land

As we are told in 1 Corinthians 10:11, which speaks of the things that happened to Israel in the wilderness, "Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come."

Every trial that Israel went through in the wilderness was a prophetic map of what every Believer must go through to get to their Promised Land—the fulfillment of their promises. The first major trial they faced was at "the waters of Mira," or the waters of bitterness.

The first thing Israel had to learn if they were going to make it to their Promised Land was how to turn the bitter waters into sweet, or how to turn every bad thing they endured into a good thing. We must do the same.

To begin 2018 the right way, we need to thank the Lord for 2017 and everything that happened to us in it—both the good and the other that will work for our good.Every bitter thing must be turned into sweetness if we are to continue toward our Promised Land, the fulfillment of the promises we've been given. (Photo via Pixabay)

The Light Will Win! Greater Opportunity for the Gospel

Each year, I send a letter to our international publishers. The following are excerpts from this letter that I feel is for all of us:


Every year it seems that we look back and say that the current year was more interesting and challenging than the previous one. As I began to say many years ago, this will continue—meaning that every year is a greater opportunity for the Gospel.

The Gospel is "good news." It is the best news the world has ever heard or ever will hear. We have been given a hope greater than any other religion or philosophy. We are now the main purveyors of hope for the world, and soon we will be the only ones. As we see in Isaiah 60 and other prophecies, when darkness covers the earth, the Lord's glory will appear on His people. As we read in verse 3 of that text, the nations will then come to the light: "Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn."

The light will win! We must never forget that, and we should become even more encouraged as darkness grows—we are closer to the glory of the Lord being revealed.

My purpose, and a main purpose of MorningStar, is to know the times and what God is doing to prepare His people for the times. A main way we seek to help this preparation is to prepare ourselves for the great harvest, which is already unfolding.

The main way to prepare for this is for the Church to become the pure, spotless Bride that she is called to be—and that our King deserves. The Church becoming all it is called to be is a main key to the harvest. It is also a key to the highest calling we have in this life—helping to prepare the King's Bride.

In the last two months, I have had two of the most expansive prophetic revelations I have had yet. Each was so expansive that I felt that a lifetime would not be long enough to process them. I was then shown that they are linked to the "eternal Gospel."

I always thought this was the simple Gospel being recounted for eternity, but now I see that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is so expansive that we will be learning about it, and be perpetually fascinated by it, for eternity. No other subject in all of creation is as interesting and expansive as that which we are called to publish (the Gospel). How can we not love this job? (Photo via The Gospel Tract)

My prayer for you this year is that you grow "in the hope of His calling"—that hope and vision would be a special diet for you this year, and that you convey it to others wherever you go and through all that you publish and distribute.


This is also my prayer for all of you doing this study (Word for the Week). I pray that hope and vision will be multiplied to you and that you will be contagious with it, spreading hope and vision in the coming King wherever you go.