The
Readings
Before
reading The Heavenly Man and before using the notes, pray
and ask the Lord to impact
your
life through the book and the readings.
Day
46:
Chapter 25 – Reflecting on Four Years in the West
(p.293-296)
(Coldness)
(first
third of chapter)
1.
Why did the Lutheran church service seem strange to Yun? (p.293)
2.
Why did the New York
church bless him? (p.294)
3.
What initially were his primary concerns in Frankfurt?
(p.294)
4.
What did he find in many churches in the West? (p.295)
5.
How did he consider the church in China
differed? (p.295)
6.
What two things did he consider the church in the West needs for revival?
(p.296)
Prayer:
- Ask
the Lord to help you lower your defensive barriers to be able to
receive Yun's words in this first part of the chapter, and to be
honest about your state and the state of the church.
- Ask
the Lord to send His word and His Spirit and His fire to set the
church in the West on fire.
- Submit
yourself to Him as fully as you are able, asking Him to fill you
afresh with His word and His Spirit, committing yourself to His
will.
Bible
Reading
:
Rom 12:1-21
Additional
Point to Ponder: Keep
your spiritual fervour, serving the Lord? Overcome evil with good?
Before
reading The Heavenly Man and before using the notes, pray
and ask the Lord to impact
your
life through the book and the readings.
Day
47:
Chapter 25 – Reflecting on Four Years in the West
(p.297-300)
(Need in the West)
(second
third of chapter)
1.
How important does Yun consider our sharing the Gospel is? (p.297)
2.
What does he say about giving? (p.297, 298)
3.
What common characteristics did he see in the strong churches in the
West? (p.298)
4.
What two things did he reiterate Christians in the West need to do?
(p.299)
5.
Why does he consider signs and wonders are rarely seen in churches
in the West? (p.299,300)
Prayer:
•
Confess to the Lord your fears or
doubts about sharing the Gospel. Ask the Lord to equip you with
His love to share it with others.
•
Ask the Lord to help you be honest
about your giving and your finances. Ask the Lord to release faith
in you to be a generous giver.
•
Similarly ask Him to show you the
reality of your feelings about reaching out to other countries.
Ask Him to give you a new vision for this.
Bible
Reading
:
Acts 5:25
-32
Additional
Point to Ponder: God
gives the Holy Spirit to……?
Before
reading The Heavenly Man and before using the notes, pray
and ask the Lord to impact
your
life through the book and the readings.
Day
48:
Chapter 25 – Reflecting on Four Years in the West
(p.300-304)
(Mother & Family)
(final
third of chapter)
1.
In her early seventies how was Yun's mother wonderfully healed? (p.300)
2.
How did her second healing in 1996 come about? (p.300,301)
3.
How did her third healing in 1998 come about? (p.301)
4.
How was her eventual funeral such an event? (p.301,302)
5.
What point does Deling make in her testimony in the closing part of
this chapter? (p.303,304)
Prayer:
- If
you are a mother, ask that you may have the Lord's blessing to bless
your children and bring them up in the real knowledge of the Lord.
- Observe
those who are sick that you know and ask the Lord to bring healing
to them in such a way that He will be glorified.
- Ask
that you may be clearly used to bring life transformations by the
Lord's enabling, first to your family, then to those around you,
and finally to others further afield.
- Commit
your children to the Lord, seeking His blessing on their lives.
Pray for them daily.
Bible
Reading
:
Prov 31:10-31
Additional
Point to Ponder: Who
can I bless today with the Lord's enabling?
Before
reading The Heavenly Man and before using the notes, pray
and ask the Lord to impact
your
life through the book and the readings.
Day
49:
Chapter 26 – A New Kind of Persecution
(p.305-309)
(Persecution warned & experienced)
(first
half of chapter)
1.
Where was Yun speaking in later 2000? (p.305)
2.
What three forms did the demonic spirit come in, in his dream? (p.305,306)
3.
How did he interpret the first spirit (the rat) and its activity?
(p.306)
4.
How did he interpret the second (rooster) and third (woman) spirits?
(p.306)
5.
What then happened to cause upset? (p.306,307)
6.
What were the specific accusations made by the ‘Chinese informant'?
(p.307)
7.
How were these accusations able to be refuted? (p.308)
Prayer:
- Dare
you ask the Lord to search your heart against wrong things said
against brothers or sisters in Christ?
- Where
you recognise you have indeed spoken negative or hostile words about
other Christians, ask God for forgiveness.
- Ask
the Lord to teach you to guard your lips to avoid speaking negatively
about any brother or sister in Christ.
- Ask
the Lord to give you wisdom and grace to gently correct others who
speak negatively about their brothers and sisters.
Bible
Reading
:
1 Pet 3:13-16. Jas 2:12,13
Additional
Point to Ponder: Lord,
guard my mouth today!
Before
reading The Heavenly Man and before using the notes, pray
and ask the Lord to impact
your
life through the book and the readings.
Day
50:
Chapter 26 – A New Kind of Persecution (p.309-313)
(Suffering for the
Gospel)
(second
half of chapter)
1.
How was Brother Xu able to speak of Yun? (p.309)
2.
How did he sum up Yun? (p.310)
3.
What did Yun say about suffering and the Christian? (p.310)
4.
What different ways did he say Christians try to cope with suffering?
(p.310,311)
5.
How does he say we should deal with suffering and opposition? (p.311)
6.
What sort of ‘seminary' does he say Chinese Christians go through?
(p.311,312)
7.
What does he say is a worse form of suffering than prison? (p.312)
8.
What was his attitude about Christians in prison? (p.312,313)
Prayer:
- For
those of us in the comfort of the West, if we are to be real, we
need to confess that we probably find much of what Yun says in the
second half of this chapter difficult.
- Thank
the Lord for your freedom and ask that He may be able to teach you
and use you and develop you without persecution.
- Thank
Him that if persecution comes in the West, His grace WILL be sufficient
for you.
- Ask
for grace and wisdom to know how to be a light where you are, not
giving people cause to oppose you, beyond your goodness and grace!
Bible
Reading
:
Jas 1:2-8, 1 Pet 2:11
-17
Additional
Point to Ponder: By
God's goodness I may live in a persecution free period. May I not
take it for granted.