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公义和冠冕 (Crown & Righteousness)

耶稣说:我实在告诉你们,人为神的国,撇下房户或是妻子,弟兄,父母,儿女,没有在今世不得百倍,在来世不得永生的。(路加福音18 :29-30)。。。。。。。他是我所拣选的器皿,要在外邦人和君王并以色列人面前,宣扬我的名。我也要指示他,为我的名必须受许多的苦难。(使徒行传9:15-16)

在这夜深人静的凌晨,在异国的土地上,更想念在新加坡的家人,CKRM的弟兄姐妹。。。。。想啊想不知怎么切哭了。。。也不知哭了多久忽然想起昨天下午 Pastor Paul 问我:神要你翻译的那编见证你做好了吗?翻译好了这篇在新加坡祈祷院的日子,我感触很深,顺手提笔写下心中的感想:

感谢主对我特别的熬炼与塑造,藉身边的人物来磨练我。回顾这一切的发生,我感恩不尽,是祂用苦难来塑造我,以成为祂合用的器皿,太棒了。想起2000年前,您为我们设立的好榜样,是我们学习最完美的目标。您轻看这至至轻的羞辱,忍受一切有形无形的指责,被着承重的十字架,默默走上各各他。为要成就极重无比的荣耀。所以一切的痛苦和屈辱就不足齿了。感谢您给我这美好的经历,好让我能领会当年使徒保罗为什么会说:得赦免其过,遮盖其罪的,这人是有福的。

(罗马书4:7)彼得为什么会说:爱能遮盖许多的罪(彼得前书4:8)主耶稣为什么说:有人打你的右脸,连左脸也转过来给他打。(马太5:39)感谢主为我披戴厚厚的恩典,感谢您对我的拣选,对我的呼召。有谁能明白您无限的慈爱?有谁能测透您无穷的知慧?没有,一个也没有。您要怜悯谁就怜悯谁!您要恩待谁就恩待谁。赏赐的是耶和华,收取的也是耶和华,耶和华是应当称颂的。

主啊,我要对您说:从今以后,我不以性命为念,也不看为宝贵,只要行完我的路程,成就我从您所领受的职事,証明神恩惠的福音。我盼望将来有朝一日,我能象使徒保罗这样说:那美好的仗我已经打过了,当跑的路我已经跑尽了,所信的道我已经守住了。从此以后,有公义的冠冕为我存留。啊们

Pastor Esther Chow

Translation to English

Crown and Righteousness

I tell you the truth," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life." (Luke 18: 29-30)

“This man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before the Gentiles and their kings and before the people of Israel. I will show him how much he must suffer for my name" (Acts 9: 15-16).

The quietness of daybreak and living in a foreign land, made me miss my family, brothers and sisters in-Christ from CKRM even more ... and the more I thought of them, I began to weep ... I’m not sure for how long, but all of a sudden, I recalled yesterday Ps Paul asked me if I completed the article God wanted me to translate.

After translating the article ‘The Season for me to be at Singapore Christian Prayer House’, I also decided to pen down my thoughts and feelings:

I thank the Lord for His great endurance and for the way He used people around me to mold me. Looking back, I’m really grateful to Him for using trails and hardships to mold me into a vessel for His use. 2000 years ago, not only did the Lord set a great example for us, but He is also our perfect role model. Though faced with all kinds of humiliation and accusation, He did not utter a word. He simply carried the heavy cross all the way to Golgotha, for the ultimate glory of God.

Thus, the pain and humiliation we faced are nothing compared to His. Thank you for such a beautiful experience. It enable me to understand what Apostle Paul said about “Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered” (Romans 4: 7); why did Peter say: Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins (1 Peter 4:8); and why Jesus said: .. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also (Matthew 5:39).

I thank the Lord for His abundant grace, for having chosen me, and for my calling. Who can understand His infinite loving kindness? Who can examine thoroughly His infinite wisdom? Nobody can. He is the one who decides whom He wants to have mercy on and whom He wants to extend grace to. He is the one who rewards and He is also the one who retracts. He is greatly to be praised.

Lord, from today onwards, I do not want to worry nor treasure too much of my life. But what I want is to finish the race you have called me, to testify the gospel of God’s grace. I hope some day; I will be like Apostle Paul saying: I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness. Amen!

Translated by Sis Elizabeth Teo


得着仇敌的城门

我还要告诉你,你是彼得,我要把我的教会建造在这磐石上,阴间的权柄不能胜过他。

我要把天国的钥匙给你,凡你在地上所捆绑的,在天上也要捆绑,凡你在地上所释放的,在天上也要释放。(马太福音16:18-19)

回顾这几年的风风雨雨,从开始星期六几个人的祷告会,转换成双语的权能特会。到今日已增加到有三堂主日崇拜和既将展开的马六甲超自然事工训练学校,除了感恩,还是只有感恩。

我们的主耶稣是昨日,今日,至到永远永不改变的神。2000 年前主所做的,2000年后信祂的人也要做,且要做得更大。这是主的心跳,把祂那超自然的能力带回祂的教会。当年神用自己的大能,使用摩西拯救以色列人脱离埃及人的奴役。今日神也照样要使用祂的子民彰显祂的荣耀。

主耶和华的灵在我身上,因为耶和华用膏膏我,叫我传好信息给谦卑的人;差遣我医好伤心的人,报告被掳的得释放,被囚的出监牢(以赛亚书61:1)

我在默想出埃及记7-12章记载的十灾,心中深感十灾是神向他子民显明,祂是超越一切假神和人的独一真神,祂比一切假神和邪恶势力更有能力。(出埃及12:12)

放眼今日观看仇敌使用各种欺骗手段,用巫术,邪术,法术,通灵等等方法模仿真神的神迹奇事(不要害怕恶者最多只能达到三成能力(出埃及8:19)仇敌把人压制在黑暗中,使人受尽身体和精神的折磨。反观神的儿女们,原本有神赐于我们完全的能力:

我已经给你们权柄可以践踏蛇和蝎子又胜过仇敌一切的能力,断没有什么能害你们(路加福音10:19)但我们切无知可怜,不懂得使用这权柄和能力,白白受苦,让主焦急心疼,我们这些只有满头脑圣经知识,但缺乏圣灵的能力的儿女,要如何成就这末世的大使命,预备主的再来?

主说,因为这百姓亲近我,用嘴唇尊敬我,心切远离我。他们敬畏我,不过是领受人的吩咐。所以我在这百姓中要行奇妙的事,就是奇妙又奇妙的事。他们知慧人的知慧,必然消灭,聪明人的聪明必然隐藏。(以赛亚书29:13-14)

马六甲超自然事工训练学校的诞生就是为了装备主内肢体,在圣灵的恩膏下,成为神家中贵重的器皿,行使在马可福音16:17-18的应许中,就是信的人必有神迹奇事随着他们,就是奉我的名赶鬼,说新方言,手能拿蛇,若喝了什么毒物,也必不受害,手按病人,病人就好了。

神的儿女们啊 !起来吧 !让神来装备我们好得着仇敌的城门!啊们!

Ps Esther

Translation into English

Possess the Gate of the Enemy

“And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven” (Matthew 16:18-19)

Looking back at the trails and hardships we faced these few years, my heart is filled with only gratitude and thanksgiving. From a Saturday prayer meeting with only a few people, to now a bilingual Power Ministry. CKRM has also grown to incorporate 3 Sunday services, and very soon we will have a School of Supernatural Ministry in Malacca.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Today, those who believe in Him shall do far greater things than what our Lord did 2000 years ago. For it’s the Lord’s heartbeat to restore the supernatural abilities to the Churches. Those days, through His great might the Lord used Moses to deliver the Israelites out from under the slavery of the Egyptians. Likewise, God will use His people mightily in this present time, that His name be glorified.

“The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners” (Isaiah 61:1)

While I was meditating about the 10 plagues recorded in Exodus 7-12, I felt deeply that God is trying to reveal to His people, that He is the sovereign God, that His power far supersede all false gods and evil forces (Exodus 12:12).

The enemy tries to imitate God by using various means of deception, trickery, witchcraft, evil techniques and magic etc. The enemy uses these to oppress people to live in darkness, causing them to suffer both in the body and spiritually (Fear not as the devil could only achieve until 30% of the ability (Exodus 8:19)). As children of God, He has originally bestowed complete ability to us:

“I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you” (Luke 10:19). Unfortunately, we are so ignorant and pitiful, as we do not know how to use this authority and power to fight the enemy. Hence, we end up suffering in vain, and causing our Lord to be anxious and His heart aches for us. Our heads are only full of bible knowledge, but we lack the might of the Holy Spirit. How can we then achieve the great commission He has given us, and prepare for our Lord’s return?

The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and
honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men. Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish" (Isaiah 29: 13-14).

The birth of School of Supernatural Ministry in Malacca, is to equip the Body of Christ. Under the anointing of Holy Spirit, we become a precious instrument of God, walking in the promises of Mark 16:17-18, that “...these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

Arise! Sons and daughters of God! Let us allow God to equip us well, so that we can possess the gate of the enemy! Amen!

Ps. Esther
Founding Director