By Mario Liu
Part Two: The Seven Stages of the Lord’s Prayer
 One sunny Sunday in July 2010 I was driving up the steep hill towards Robert Holmes’ house. I was on my way to our weekly prayer time together. While I was driving, I felt the Lord ask me, "Mario, do you remember that there are seven stages of Christian growth?" referring to the teachings of Professor Wan I had heard in the 1980's. I said, "Yes Lord." Then he said, "And there are seven sentences in the Lord’s Prayer. Actually they map one to one." Robert and I discussed this, reviewing the Lord's Prayer together, and later with a few other friends. The following is a summary of what we have learnt:
1. Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
The focus of attention for stage Seven Christians is to dedicate their lives to worshipping, fellowship with and praising God. They are a model and a mirror of the twelve elders and the angels in heaven in the Book of Revelation. They bowed down and worship God continuously.
"The twenty-four elders fall before the one who is seated on the throne and worship the one who lives forever and ever; they cast their crowns before the throne, singing" (Revelation 4:10)
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Photograph: S Lowry/University of Ulster/Getty Images
There has been quite a spate of new diseases arise in recent months. Most concerning among them are the truly drug resistant "superbugs". Next most concerning are the viruses that mutate - old-bugs-made-new.
According to Time Magazine blog "wellness" the Lancet of Infectious Diseases reported the spread of a new drug-resistant superbug spreading from South Asia. The new superbug bacteria -- members of the family Enterobacteriaceae carry a gene that makes them resistant to a wide number of drugs, including "carbapenem antibiotics," generally considered an antibiotic of last resort.
Writing last week in the British newspaper the Guardian, Sarah Boseley asserted: "The era of antibiotics is coming to a close. In just a couple of generations, what once appeared to be miracle medicines have been beaten into ineffectiveness by the bacteria they were designed to knock out. Once, scientists hailed the end of infectious diseases. Now, the post-antibiotic apocalypse is within sight." She cites several super-killers including NDM 1-producing bacteria and an enzyme called KPC which has spread in the US (and in Israel and Greece). Then there's XDR-TB (extremely drug resistant TB); superbug MRSA (prevalent in Asia), Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile. Yikes!
SOURCE www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/12/the-end-of-antibiotics-health-infections
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by Chad Taylor
Green Wheat Head
Copyright 2009 © Adrian Young
It engraved itself in my consciousness as I preached on the streets of Seattle at the age of 18 with only the homeless and the gutter as my congregation. I have seen the same vision while ministering in the sultry south on the mean streets of Atlanta where racism and religion still prevail. Over and over the past 22 years this panoramic vision of "the harvest" has left its enduring mark on my soul, and finally I am to make it plain. Make it plain so that those that read it can run-run into this field the Bible calls, "The Harvest."
Vision of the Field
I saw a field going on endlessly as far as the eyes could see. It reminded me of the gravity of Abraham's vision in Genesis when God said, "Then He brought him outside and said, "Look now toward Heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them" (Genesis 15:5). That's how boundless this harvest field was. It stretched on in every direction, until it left you dizzy with the sheer magnitude of it all.
As I continued to look down the endless rows of wheat, I saw as it were a figure far off in the distance, working. The heat waves coming from the hard-packed ground made it difficult to see, so I stepped into the field to look closer. I glanced down at the furrows and rows and I noticed much of the ground was hard-packed and fallow, yet other smaller parts were dark with fertile soil and tilled. Large sections of the field that I could see from my vantage point were unharvested, and the ground showed signs of neglect-fallow, hard and dry.
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Session 2 Seven Signs in John.mp3
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