於2023-01-03發佈


最偉大的一年 
雷克-喬納 
2023.1.3 

今年可以成為我們最偉大的一年!在世界上,這將是最具挑戰性的一年,但沒有大爭戰,我們就不可能有大勝利。挑戰即將到來,我們可以透過我們的信心、遠見和決心來選擇它們在我們生活中的結果。因此,在前幾篇的"每週的話"中,我們將回顧什麼能幫助我們做出正確的選擇,使這一年真正成為我們生命中最好的一年,並為使此後的每一年變得更好奠定基礎。

隨著世界形勢繼續朝著越來越多問題的方向發展,神的國度正在成長。正如但以理書第2章所預言的,代表人類帝國的雕像正在崩潰,而神的國度正在成長為一座大山。山在聖經和預言的象徵意義中代表權柄或政府。我們看到神的政府了嗎?我們是成為正在成長為地上最偉大力量的一部分,還是成為正在崩潰的一部分?

這一年對我們來說是好是壞,並不取決於世界所發生的事,而是取決於我們心中發生的事。那些跟隨和服事萬王之王的人擁有比這個世界上發生的任何事都大得多的現實。今年,我們可以而且必須更多地生活在這個更大的現實中。透過這一點,我們可以成為這個世界迫切需要的大光之一。

去年的最後三十二個 "每週的話 "的副標題是 "選擇"。每一個選擇都有一個明確的方向,指向我們的正確選擇。這些 "每週的話的主要目標是使基督的門徒在越來越多的光、平安和喜樂中行走。我們的平安、亮光和喜樂不是來自這個世上的外部條件,而是不顧這些條件。它們是越來越多地生活在神的國度裡,不受制於這個世界的國度的明確證據。它們也是建立在任何風暴都無法撼動的磐石上的生命的證據。

如果教會似乎正在與世界其他地方一起崩潰,我們可以放心,正在崩潰的不是主的教會,而是世界的教會。在啟示錄中,這個假教會被稱為"大淫婦",因為它與這個世界的靈結婚,而不是像貞潔的處女一樣等待主。這是一個我們將看到每一個不是由祂建立的教會被連根拔起的時候。

我們不應該為此感到氣餒,然而在那個系統中還有許多上帝的真子民。我們即將聽到祂說:"我又聽見從天上有聲音說:我的民哪,你們要從那城出來,免得與他一同有罪,受他所受的災殃;因他的罪惡滔天;他的不義神已經想起來了。"(見啟示錄18:4-5)

如果神的國度的公義、平安和喜樂還不是我們生活的記號,我們仍然可以走上正確的道路。箴言4:18勸誡我們:"但義人的路好像黎明的光,越照越明,直到日午。" 如果我們容易做出新年決定,我們應該把走上這條增加光明的道路作為我們的第一個決定,以便今年可以成為我們生命中最好的一年,並使所有未來的一年更加光明。

也許我們一直在世界的教會中,並且仍然做得很好,因為我們把個人的生活建立在神的國度上。或者,也許我們在一個由主建立的教會中,但做得不是很好,因為我們仍然將我們的生活建立在這個世界的方式上。今年,號角即將吹響,讓我們的個人生活和教會生活對齊。新約聖經對神所建立和領導的教會與祂沒有建立的教會做出了明確分別。我們將不時地回顧,不僅僅是為了讓我們記得,而是為了讓我們能夠活出它們。

隨著到這個時代結束的時間越來越短,我們在一切事上順服主的時間也會越來越短。因此,今天是開始的最好日子。


雷克-喬納 2022


WEEK 1
The Greatest Year
Rick Joyner
Jan 3 2023

This can be our greatest year! In the world it will be one of the most challenging, but we cannot have great victories without great battles. Challenges are coming, and we can choose their outcome in our lives by our faith, vision, and resolve, or lack thereof. Thus, for our first few Words for the Week (WFTW) we will review what will help us make the right choices, so this truly becomes the best year of our lives and lays a foundation for making each year thereafter even better.

As world conditions continue to move toward increasing trouble, the kingdom of God is growing. As prophesied in Daniel 2, the statue that represents man’s empires is crumbling, while the kingdom of God is growing into a great mountain. Mountains in Scripture and in prophetic symbolism represent authority or governments. Do we see God’s government? Are we becoming part of what is growing into the greatest power on earth, or are we becoming part of what is falling apart?

Whether this becomes a good or bad year for us is not dependent on what happens in the world but what happens in our hearts. Those who follow and serve the King of kings have a far greater reality than anything that happens in this world. This year we can and must live more in that greater reality. By this, we can become one of the great lights this world so desperately needs.

Last year’s last thirty-two Words for the Week were subtitled “Choices.” A choice was presented in each with clear directions pointing us toward the right choices. The primary goal of these WFTW is to make disciples of Christ who walk in increasing light, peace, and joy. Our peace, light, and joy do not come from external conditions in this world but despite them. They are clear evidence of lives lived increasingly in the kingdom of God without subjection to the kingdoms of this world. They are also evidence of lives built on the Rock which cannot be shaken by any storm.

If it seems the church is crumbling right along with the rest of the world, we can rest assured what is crumbling is not the Lord’s church but the world’s church. In Revelation, this false church is called the “great harlot,” because it married the spirit of this world rather than waiting for the Lord as a chaste virgin. This is a time when we will see every church not planted by Him uprooted.

We should not be discouraged by this, yet there are many of God’s true people in that system. We are about to hear Him say, “Come out of her my people, so that you do not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities” (see Revelation 18:4-5).

If the righteousness, peace, and joy of God’s kingdom are not yet the hallmarks of our lives, we can still get on the right path. We are exhorted in Proverbs 4:18, “But the path of the righteous is like the light of the dawn that shines brighter and brighter until the full day.” If we are prone to making New Year’s resolutions, we should make it our first resolution to get on this path of increasing light so this can become the best year of our lives and make all future ones even brighter.

Perhaps we have been in the world’s church and are still doing well because we have built our personal lives on God’s kingdom. Or perhaps we are in a church planted by the Lord but not doing so well because we are still building our lives on the ways of this world. This year, a clear trumpet call is coming to get our personal lives and church lives aligned. The New Testament makes a clear distinction between the churches God has planted and leads and those He has not. All these things we will review from time to time, not just so we can remember them but so we can live them.

As the time until the end of this age grows shorter, so will the time we have to obey the Lord in everything. Therefore, today is the best day to get started.