Day 8 : 禁食日记 / Fasting Diary
第八天：10月10日(一)
今天教会没有午祷，所以自己在同样时段12:15-1:15pm在家也有一小段祷告和敬拜。敬拜时，有感动唱禁食第一天，即上个星期一，所写的新歌“欢迎你来”。。。唱着，唱着，忽然发现也能够很顺的以英语唱完整首歌！我感觉这意义重大，想必上帝真的是以这首歌提醒我们他同在的重要性，而且他真的渴想来到我们生命、家庭、教会、城市与国家中。。。
这以英语唱出，也能服事到及启示我们教会讲英语的族群，可见虽然歌的旋律不怎么样，但上帝确实是要透过这首歌跟我们教会说话！
Day 8 : Oct 10th (Mon)
We did not have noon-time prayer today, so I used the same time frame 12:15-1:15pm to have my own short prayer and worship time at home. During the worship, I felt to to sing the song “I Welcome You”, which I wrote last Monday, i.e on our 1st day of fasting… As I was singing and singing, suddenly I realized it could be sung in English smoothly as well! I feel this is very significant, God must be wanting to use this song to remind us of the importance of His presence, and to tell us how He longs to enter into our lives, families, church, city and country…
To sing it in English can also minister and speak to the English-speaking members of our church. This shows that even though the melody is not that great, God does really want to speak to our church through this song!
这首歌主要是以马太福音21章1－11节为背景，百姓们欢迎耶稣进入耶路撒冷的情景，愿我们也欢迎主来到古晋。
至于“众城门，抬起头来啊”则是诗篇24：7－10。。。当我又再看诗篇24的时候，突然又有灵感把诗篇24：1－6写成一首新的轻快赞美歌！这让我感觉到，这一次的40天禁食，上帝在我们当中一定会降下新的恩膏，做一些新的事情，给我们更多创意能力。。。
所以，昨天宣布的这40天内的诗歌创作比赛，绝对会有一些人从神领受创作的恩赐，阿们！
那你还在等什么？快动笔、动脑、动心写歌吧！
The background of this song is basically Matthew 21:1-11, the scene which the people welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem. May we also welcome Jesus into Kuching.
As for “Lift up your heads, O you gates!”, that is from Psalm 24:7-10… And as I was reading Psalm 24 again, I was suddenly inspired to write Psalm 24:1-6 into a lively praise song! For this I felt, for this 40-day fast, God will surely shower new anointing on us, He will do some new things, give us more creative power…
Therefore, with the announcement yesterday of the song-writing competition within these 40 days, definitely some will receive the gifting from God to compose new songs, Amen!
So what are you still waiting for? Move your pen, your brain and your heart to start writing!