Shalom Aleichem
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Grace and peace to you from our Lord, Saviour and King.
God has an urgent word for His people today so that, like the men of Issachar, we understand the times and know what we should do. What He wants to speak to us is apparent in the Bible when we consider it through the perspective of the 7 Days of Creation - hence the title Bible through the 7 Days of Creation or B7D in short.
And His word is this - we are fast approaching the end where we will be tested in unprecedented ways. We therefore need to equip ourselves now in our fellowship groups so that we can uphold one another and others in the Body of Christ to keep the faith, persevere in hope, and love the Body, until our Lord returns.
The Issachar B7D Fellowship is our response in obedience to His word. Through it, God equips us by His people, Word and Spirit. Together with our website and YouTube channel, this book seeks to equip those whom the Lord calls so that they understand the times and know what they should do. The material in this book is based on our YouTube podcasts and is similarly organised into 50 short weekly readings covering the entire Bible in a year, making it conducive for personal or group study and reflection.
As you study God's Logos together in your own fellowship groups in whichever local church or denomination you belong to, may His Rhema and Spirit transform you into such future and Christ-ready fellowships in His Kairos.
For His Glory,
Stephen Lim
Issachar B7D Fellowship
20 February 2020, Singapore
Visit us at www.issacharb7d.com or on YouTube (search for "Issachar B7D")
Contact us at: issacharb7d@gmail.com
I am a lay believer like many of you. Although I have been engaging in some form of personal Bible study for many years, it was only in 2001 that I started to do it intentionally and systematically. However, I gave up after 7 years and threw away all my writings and materials. I felt empty and exhausted because I had tried to understand God's Word by my own human effort but was going nowhere.
After a long time, God slowly restored me from the ground up. This started with my first fast when He taught me to pray in the Spirit, and then the gift of worship when my playing of the guitar improved tremendously. Then in May 2016, while at a Friday fellowship meeting, an anointed pastor who spoke that evening released a prophetic word to Wei Ling and me. He saw a big clock and all he could think of were the words, "the time has come." The time has come for us to move forward out of the wilderness into His plans and purposes for us. Turning to me, he said he saw a scroll and a quill, which meant revelation - that God wanted to speak to me, to tell me things - and that I needed to write them down. I restarted my Bible study and through it, God opened my ears to what He wanted to say to His people through His Word.
Although I didn't know then when or where this journey would end, God knew and in His Kairos exactly two years later (May 2018) I completed my study. It was only a year later that I realized how prophetic God's timing was. God ensured that I finished putting down His word for His people in the year that Israel celebrated 70 years of nationhood since its rebirth in May 1948. It is my personal belief and deep conviction that God's final countdown started from that Kairos moment - meaning that some of us will live to witness Christ's return.
Stephen and Wei Ling worship at a local Anglican church in Singapore. Their daughter Gwyn is currently in university in Australia. Stephen works in a middle management position.
