个人成长：顺服神

第二天：认识神

阅读：申十12-13

概览一下以色列的历史，就会得知神的受约子民的基本问题，是他们重复多次违背神的命令。他们顺服神，神就祝福他们；但他们经常悖逆是痛苦及最终衰落的根 源。显然，这里没有基本的原则可以同样应用在我们的生活中。请翻阅今天的阅读材料，看看神出于爱而对他子民发出的要求。

Obedience to God and Who God Is

Read: Deuteronomy 10:12-13

• In one sense, God’s requirements of us are quite simple: fear Him, walk in His ways, love Him, serve Him, obey His commands.

• All these things are facets of one thing: a growing personal relationship with the God who has already demonstrated his unflinching commitment to our best interests.

• The more we realize in our thinking and experience that God always seeks our good, the more we will be willing to trust and obey Him in what He asks us to do and to avoid.

个人成长：顺服神

第一天：开始思考

阅读：撒上十五1-23

领袖在付出代价的同时，也有很多机会－有正面的，也有负面的。不少领袖利用资讯和财政资源的使用权，去谋取个人的利益；有的领袖到处游历，悄悄行动，容让自己的圣洁生活松懈；还有领袖利用他们的地位，不道德的打垮内部或外面的竞争对手。面对金钱、美色和权力的诱惑，许多领袖出卖了自己。我们速览一下每天报纸的标题，就能看到领袖堕落的各种案例。

每隔一段时期，领袖就应该问问自己：“我付出的代价是什么？”敬虔领袖对神的委身，应该是无条件的顺服神，不管需要付出什么代价。不幸的是，扫罗身为民族领袖，集民族的希望于一身，却缺乏这样的委身。当重压在身的时候，扫罗没有顺服神的命令把亚玛力人完全毁灭，却保留亚玛力王的性命，并留下最好的牲畜（9节）。这就是扫罗的“付出”：向败阵的君王耀武扬威，凭借占有牲畜而扩张财富（在那个年代，牲畜是财富的最主要标志）。后来，当撒母耳谴责扫罗王的时候， 他竟用站不住脚的托词宣称，他留下了最好的给耶和华。扫罗不但不承认自己的罪，而且把它合理化。

神如此回答他呢？他说：“听命胜于献祭”（22节）。神不需要我们的所有，他需要我们自己。因为神有了我们，也就拥有我们的一切。扫罗王既厌弃耶和华，耶和华也弃绝他作以色列的王。

因此，请你扪心自问：“我付出的代价是什么？悖逆神，我会失去什么？”但愿你的委身是忠贞不渝的。这样的委身是领袖品格里的重要元素。重读扫罗悖逆神的悲惨故事，从他失败的悲惨收场中，我们得到什么启发？

Personal Development: Obedience to God

Read: 1 Samuel 15:1-23

• A godly leader’s commitment to God should be such that he or she will obey Him no matter what he or she is offered to compromise.

• To obey is better than sacrifice.

• God doesn’t want ours, He wants us. Because when God has us, He also has ours.

• Ask yourself, “What’s my price? What would it take for me to disobey God?” Hopefully, your commitment is nonnegotiable.

• Such commitment is crucial element in the character of a leader.

Passage to memorize this week 本周背诵经文:

诗篇 Psalm 119:97-101

Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.  I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word.
我何等爱慕你的律法，终日不住地思想。你的命令常存在我心里，使我比仇敌有智慧。我比我的师傅更通达，因我思想你的法度。我比年老的更明白，因我守了你的训词。我禁止我脚走一切的邪路，为要遵守你的话。

个人成长：诚信

第十天：深入反思

阅读：代上二十九10-19

诚信问题对领袖而言有多大的重要？大卫是历史上十分敬虔的领袖，在历代志上二十九章10至19节中，他阐述了自己对这个问题的观点。通过这段对人生的丰富 诠释，默想你自己的情况，然后阅读巴克斯特（Richard Baxter）的精辟论述，那段论述记在今天的阅读材料中。

Integrity and What I Do

Read: 1 Chronicles 29:10-19

• Take heed to yourselves, lest your example contradict your doctrine, and lest you lay such stumbling-blocks before the blind, as may be the occasion of their ruin; lest you unsay with your lives, what you say with your tongues; and be the greatest hinderers of the success of your own labors. It much hindereth our work, when other men are all the week long contradicting to poor people in private, that which we have been speaking to them from the Word of God in public……but it will much more hinder your work, if you contradict yourselves, and if your actions give your tongue the lie, and if you build up an hour or two with your mouths and all the week after pull down with your hands……He that means as he speaks, will surely do as he speaks. (Baxter, Richard. The Reformed Pastor)

• This old English “pastor to pastors” has a wise word for any leader who wants to encourage his or her followers to “do it right.” Read his quote again and think about the implications for your own life as a leader with integrity.

因为搬家和迁网络的事情耽搁了许久，希望尽快回归到规律的学习和生活！求主带领！

A New Apartment, A New Start! 新的房子，新的开始！

个人成长：诚信

第九天：学习领导

阅读：“人物剪影：撒母耳”

撒母耳的诚信是摆在每个领袖面前的挑战。概览撒母耳的品格，对我们每个人都有指导意义。阅读今天的阅读材料，可更深入了解那激励这位伟大领袖的价值体系。

Integrity and How It Works

Read: Samuel

• Samuel’s life life reflects the story of an intimate God-with-man relationship.

• Samuel realized the importance of servant leadership and warned against the dangers of a leadership that defines itself by its privilege and power to live off the efforts of those who are led.

• Samuel was a great leader because he understood leadership as an opportunity to serve people and add quality to their life. He abhorred a leadership that used its power to exploit the led for personal gain and position.

• Leadership for Samuel was a stewardship, a responsibility, and honor. He demonstrated integrity because it was not his intention to demonstrate integrity. He was honest because his intention was not to be known as an honest man. He was fair and just because he wasn’t thinking about developing his reputation as an honest and just man. He was thinking about honoring God and serving God’s people. He wasn’t living to build a reputation. His higher calling and focus resulted in those things.

今天的敬拜歌单：

1. You Are Holy (Prince of Peace)

2.  主你是我的力量

3. Run

4. 主祷文

5.  In Christ Alone

至爱的语言

当我们为别人祷告时我们的心里发生奇妙的改变。刚硬融化了，我们也不再感到受伤害，也能原谅了。我们甚至开 始爱那被祷告的人。这真是奇迹！这是因为在祷告时我们来到神的面前，他用圣灵的爱充满了我们。当你为丈夫祷告时，神对他的爱开始在你心中滋长。不仅如此， 尽管丈夫根本就不知道你在为他祷告，你会发现他的心里也开始爱着你。这是因为祷告是至爱的语言。它用我们无法表达的方式来沟通。我曾看到有的妻子对丈夫毫 无爱意，但祷告慢慢地引出爱情。有时甚至于在第一次诚心祷告后，她们就有了不同的感觉。

向神倾诉关于你的丈夫的事情，是一种爱的表示。祷告带来了爱，爱又生出了更多的祷告，这样不断循环。即使 最开始时你的祷告不是完全无私的，但随着祷告的深入，你的动机会越来越无私的。你会发现自己更喜欢祷告的回复，你也会注意到那先前将你们二人分开的事由没 什么大不了的。你们会毫不困难地达成共识。这个联合是至关重要的。

当夫妻间不统一时，每件事都是支离破碎的。耶稣说：”凡一国自相分争，就成为荒场，一城一家自相分争，必 站立不住。“（太十二25）即便你们不是一起祷告，但祷告也会把你们带到一起来。仅仅靠着我为他的代祷，我看见丈夫和我之间那剑拔弩张的紧张高兴逐渐缓 和。同时，我也会他：”我该如何为你他祷告？”，这个问题也会带给他爱和关心。他通常会停下来很详尽地回答这个问题，如果我不问的话他可能根本不会提起。 我也知道有些根本不信的丈夫很积极地回答他们妻子的这个问题。

这关键在于作为夫妻我们都不想各行其事。我们想一直风雨同路，做一辈子的伴侣，永远恩恩爱爱。祷告，作为最好的爱的语言，可以让这一切发生。

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带着抑制不住的泪水和同样抑制不住的微笑，看完了这个视频。那是和看99个气球时，同样的，因着主白白赐下的恩典而满溢出的感恩的泪水。

此时此刻，心中所想只有一句：我们一切的好处，从来不在神以外。

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