Receive From God in Times of Prayer

“In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians‬ ‭4:6-7‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

If you are handling stressful situations, remember to pray in tongues and cast that stress unto the Lord.

We have a tendency to be lazy to pray, and to just power through by our fleshly strength. Prayer is often seen as nice to have, or as a last resort. This is not the best way.

Back then, Jesus had many demands placed on Him. He had to minister to multitudes, and in the natural, that is very tiring.

We know that even Jesus got tired because He fell asleep in the boat, amidst the storm.

Jesus had a special way to recharge after dealing with highly-demanding situations. He spent a lot of time alone in the mountains to spend time with the Father in prayer.

“In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God. When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was called the Zealot; Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor. He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed. All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.” (Luke‬ ‭6:12-19‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

I believe that Jesus loved going to the mountains so that He could be ever so slightly closer to the Father. He missed being next to the Father in Heaven.

Another reason is that the mountain is desolate and with no distractions.

Spend time with God in many hours of prayer, away from your smartphone, and you will see amazing transformations happen.

When Jesus came down from the mountain, He was fully recharged, able to make right decisions quickly, and the power of the Holy Spirit easily flowed out from Him. Everyone who heard Jesus and touched Him received healing.

When handling stressful situations, if you do not pray, you will be drained. Even if you do not feel like it at first, spend time praying in tongues and with the understanding. Wake up an hour earlier if you have no time.

You will emerge from these sessions full of the anointing upon you, enabling you to handle the demands easily by God’s power and wisdom.

“But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel: ‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams. Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.” (Acts‬ ‭2:16-18‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

I believe we are in the tail end of the last days, and God is definitely pouring out His Spirit on all flesh. Position yourself to receive prophecy, dreams, and visions from the Lord. Make time to pray!

How do we receive more miracles from God? How does receiving by faith work under the New Covenant of Grace? These questions and more are answered in my book “Messiah’s Miracles: The Power of Having Faith in Jesus Christ” which is available in both digital and paperback formats. Some readers who read it gave great feedback, and I’m excited for you to get it and read too: https://bit.ly/messiahs-miracles

Distance is Not An Issue

“For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.” (Colossians‬ ‭2:5‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

At that time, there was no Internet technology. There was no way to hop on a Zoom online conference call to speak to the churches. Instead, the apostle Paul saw visions of the churches in his spirit, and that is how he could see their order and steadfastness of faith. Having the Holy Spirit in us is like being connected to the Internet. We are connected to all the knowledge and power that God has.

Nowadays, the local church that I attend is not allowed to hold in-person church services due to government regulations. As a result, all services are held through online broadcast instead.

Although I miss sitting in the physical services, worshipping the Lord together with other believers, I believe that online services are no less powerful than in-person ones.

Many people are more comfortable with ‘the human touch’, such as receiving prayer in person, having a pastor to place his hand upon them while praying, but this physical contact is actually not absolutely necessary.

In His second miracle, Jesus demonstrated that the power of the Holy Spirit is not limited by distance.

“Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.” The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!” So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.” So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house. This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.” (John‬ ‭4:46-54‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

Jesus was in Cana, while the sick boy was in Capernaum. Just by speaking the words “your son lives” in faith, the power of the Holy Spirit healed the boy from a long distance away. Jesus did not have to lay hands on the child in order for him to be healed.

The nobleman initially thought that Jesus had to go to his house before the son could be healed. However, when Jesus released the words, “Go your way, your son lives,” the nobleman believed, and that was enough to receive the healing in proxy for his son.

We know that the nobleman believed because he met Jesus at the seventh hour (between 1 - 2pm). Cana and Capernaum are about 25 miles apart (about 6 - 8 hours walking distance) so if the nobleman set off immediately, he could be back home the same day at night to check on his son.

However, we see that the nobleman only spoke to his servant the next day. This means that the nobleman stayed at an inn or something for a night, and trusted that his son had been healed. If he had been unbelieving, he would have rushed home right away so as not to miss his son’s last moments, since he was “at the point of death”.

There are other long-distance healing miracles like this one, such as Jesus healing the Roman centurion’s servant, and Jesus healing the Syrophoenician woman’s demon-possessed daughter.

Continue to feed on the rhema word that God is releasing in season. Whether online or in-person, God’s power is still fully effective, and is not limited by the distance or channel.

As long as you hear or read, believing it, you shall experience the manifestation of the rhema word.

In the nobleman’s son’s case, the word in season was “your son lives”.

Earlier this year, I felt like I was coming down with a flu. I was sneezing repeatedly and my nose was dripping. I felt weak and irritable.

As I was praying in tongues and also asking Jesus to heal me and make me well, suddenly I heard these words in my spirit: “he grew strong through faith”.

Instantly, I knew that the Holy Spirit was talking about the apostle Paul’s description of Abraham in “Romans”.

“Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.” (Romans‬ ‭4:21‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

This was a rhema word for me to be healed. I grabbed it and repeatedly confessed and meditated on this, that I was growing strong through faith.

Abraham grew physically stronger through faith. He was already old and weak, but because he believed in the rhema word which God spoke to him, he and his wife Sarah experienced drastic youth renewal.

Their saggy skin, old internal organs, weak muscles, and dry bones were all renewed miraculously, allowing them to be fit for childbearing and even raising a child.

As I kept confessing “he didn’t consider the deadness of his own body, but he grew strong through faith,” I felt physically better and I did not sneeze or have runny nose anymore.

It was just a few words, but I emphasized on the “grew” and “strong”. Suddenly, each word was pregnant with life-giving power for my situation.

Faith comes through hearing the rhema word of Christ. What is He saying to you? As you are listening to a sermon video online, what is the key message or statement that jumps out at you and makes a strong impression in you heart? Sometimes the Lord whispers a verse or passage to you from within. Grab it and declare it for yourself because it carries the miracle-working power of God to turn your situation around!

Actionable Steps:

1. Get yourself plugged in to a ministry that preaches the Gospel. Listen to the new messages released by the pastor or preacher. If the Holy Spirit led you there, then you will benefit from believing the rhema words that is released through that ministry.

2. Train your mind to believe in the limitless reach of prayer. Pray for people who are far away from you, knowing that God will answer your prayers of faith, regardless of the distance between you and them.

3. When you receive a word in season (rhema word), write it down in your notebook or somewhere so that you do not forget. Revisit these words often and declare them, so long as you are still waiting for the manifestation.

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推薦給經理人的AI 主題書單

這一份參考書單，目標是提供給中高階經理人, 數位長, 資訊科技，人資主管的朋友，推廣企業讀書會或組織共讀，在AI主題上的選書有所幫助，主要區間從2017年到2020年末，選書原則是可讀性高，具備觀念與認知的代表性:

I. AI 科普:
1. 李開復 (2017)。人工智慧來了
2. 李開復 (2018)。AI 新世界
3. 陳昇瑋、溫怡玲 (2019)。人工智慧在台灣
4. 古明地正俊, 長谷佳明 (2020)。AI大局：鳥瞰人工智慧技術全貌，重塑 AI 時代的領導力

II. 資料科學:
1. 車品覺 (2020)。大數據的關鍵思考（增訂版）：行動╳多螢╳碎片化時代的商業智慧
2. 車品覺 (2020)。數據的商戰策略：建立以數據驅動為核心的營運關鍵

III. AI 經濟趨勢與商業思想:
1. Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb (2018)。AI經濟的策略思維：善用人工智慧的預測威力，做出最佳商業決策
2. Tim O’Reilly (2018)。未來地圖：對工作、商業、經濟全新樣貌， 正確的理解與該有的行動
3. Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne (2020)。未來科技的15道難題：面對世界最關鍵的轉折，微軟總裁最前瞻的預測與洞察
4. Amy Webb (2020)。AI未來賽局：中美競合框架下，科技9巨頭建構的未來
5. Carl Benedikt Frey (2020)。技術陷阱：從工業革命到AI時代，技術創新下的資本、勞動力與權力

IV. 數位轉型:
1. Satya Nadella (2018)。刷新未來：重新想像AI+HI智能革命下的商業與變革
2. Daugherty, Paul R., Wilson, H. James (2018)。Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of Ai
3. Thomas M. Siebel (2019)。Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction
4. Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani (2020)。Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World

V. 演算法：
1. Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths (2019)。決斷的演算：預測、分析與好決定的11堂邏輯課
2. Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie (2020)。因果革命：人工智慧的大未來
3. 劉峻誠, 羅明健 (2020)。深度學習：硬體設計

VI. 智慧製造:
1. 簡禎富 (2019)。工業3.5：台灣企業邁向智慧製造與數位決策的戰略
2. 李傑, 劉宗長, 高虹安, 賈曉東 (2019)。工業人工智慧
3. 松林光男, 川上正伸（2020）。圖解智慧工廠：IoT、AI、RPA如何改變製造業

VII. 智慧醫療:
1. 李友專 (2018)。AI醫療大未來：台灣第一本智慧醫療關鍵報告
2. Eric Topol (2019)。Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
3. 蔣榮先 (2020)。從AI到智慧醫療

VIII. AIOT:
1. 彭昭 (2020)。智聯網．新思維：「智慧＋」時代的思維大爆發
2. 裴有恆 (2020)。AIoT數位轉型策略與實務—從市場定位、產品開發到執行，升級企業順應潮流

市場上還有很多的好書，這份清單只是知識補充或是觀念啟發的小部分，無法涵蓋所有AI知識，內容好與壞每人也有其主觀看法不再做延伸，分享給大家在學習閱讀上參考。

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上一集我們以一種不嚴密但直觀的思考方式大致走完了本系列的第一個論證：「時間」可能並不存在──或者至少可以確定，時間是個「怪怪的」，很不尋常的物理量。它和長度、重量等其他物理量是截然不同的東西。然而問題來了：這和「因果律」或《天能》又有什麼關係呢？

有的。讓我們再次回到《天能》主角的受訓時刻──面對主角的質疑（「**因果律**該怎麼說呢？原因不是應該先於結果嗎？」），女科學家並未正面回答，反而莫名其妙地強調了兩件事。一是，「別試著理解它。去感受它」；二是回應主角，「自由意志還是很重要的」。

何謂「自由意志還是很重要的」？這是最初當主角尚未掌握將逆轉子彈由桌上「吸回」手中的技巧時，女科學家的指點──「你心中要想像自己正意圖將子彈放下」。而類似心法則重複出現於主角練習射擊時──對的，逆行物質的正確用法是，你同樣必須「想像將子彈射出」；而當你如此想像，亦即試圖**實現個人射出子彈的自由意志**時，子彈便會由牆上硬生生地「時間逆行」回到原本空空如也，什麼也沒有的手槍彈匣中。

換言之，作者諾蘭是毫無保留地高舉了自由意志的重要性。這是大白話了。而女科學家的文不對題也同時洩漏了《天能》的斧鑿痕跡──沒錯，這對話不太自然，是以雖然情節上那是一場「教學」，但實際上，我們也可將之理解為作者自己的個人看法。否則你怎麼老答得有些牛頭不對馬嘴呢？

但讓我們暫時忘卻這些對話的生硬（且認定確實就是諾蘭的斧鑿與失誤吧），回到關於時間與因果律的討論。如前所述，於上一講中，我們論證了**時間並不存在**。伊格言說，事實上，關於此一命題，我們還有個旁證──相對論。愛因斯坦的狹義相對論其實也早就證實，時間是相對的。換言之，時間是「有觀點」的；先後次序也並非絕對。對你而言，A事實先於B事實發生，但對另一個人而言，A與B的先後次序卻可能並無意義（而其中最關鍵的原因，就是資訊的傳播需要時間，並非瞬間完成，而且無法快過光速這件事）。

在此讓我們稍作整理：首先，時間並非絕對──至少不是傳統的線性時間觀所預設的那樣，有個固定的、不可更易的先後次序。時間甚至可能並不存在，而自始至終只是人類意識中的想像。當時間變得如此曖昧難定，因果律也就變得無比可疑；因為你總該先有個固定的次序（先有因而後有果），才好判定因果關係吧？

這正是諾蘭之所以藉主角之口「摧毀因果律」的原因。記得電影結尾Neil對主角的真情告白嗎？永別之前，Neil將演算器的一部分交給主角（且後續即將逆行回到戰場坑道中迎接死亡）時，告訴他，「這是我們美麗友情的結束。我們的友情，對我來說是很久以前的過去；但對你來說，卻是很久以後的未來」──毫無疑問，這正是時間逆行所導致的「因果律的崩毀」。事實上，根據邏輯學家朱迪亞・珀爾（Judea Pearl）著作《因果革命：人工智慧的大未來》（The Book of Why：The New Science of Cause and Effect）書中闡述，人類對因果關係的判定，來自於「人類意識的主觀預設」與「人類對客觀事實的實質體驗」二項因素的彼此互動、彼此修正。這並不代表因果關係是不理性的，而是指，因果關係顯然無法脫離人的主觀預設；它必然帶有主觀色彩。換言之，這個世界上並不存在絕對客觀的因果。但這是另一大題了，有機會我們會另做一組影片來討論 （ ←老高上身 ）......
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伊格言，小說家、詩人，《聯合文學》雜誌2010年8月號封面人物。
著有《噬夢人》、《與孤寂等輕》、《你是穿入我瞳孔的光》、《拜訪糖果阿姨》、《零地點GroundZero》、《幻事錄：伊格言的現代小說經典十六講》、《甕中人》等書。

2021年5月即將於台灣（麥田）與中國（中信）同步出版最新長篇小說《零度分離》。

作品已譯為多國文字，並於日本白水社、韓國Alma、中國世紀文景等出版社出版。
曾獲聯合文學小說新人獎、自由時報林榮三文學獎、吳濁流文學獎長篇小說獎、華文科幻星雲獎長篇小說獎、中央社台灣十大潛力人物等；並入圍英仕曼亞洲文學獎（Man Asian Literary Prize）、歐康納國際小說獎（Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award）、台灣文學獎長篇小說金典獎、台北國際書展大獎、華語文學傳媒大獎年度小說家等獎項。

獲選《聯合文學》雜誌「20位40歲以下最受期待的華文小說家」；著作亦曾獲《聯合文學》雜誌2010年度之書、2010、2011、2013博客來網路書店華文創作百大排行榜等殊榮。
曾任德國柏林文學協會（Literarisches Colloquium Berlin）駐會作家、香港浸會大學國際作家工作坊（IWW）訪問作家、中興大學駐校作家、成功大學駐校藝術家、元智大學駐校作家等。

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☞ Readmoo專訪1：如果在YouTube，一個小說家
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☞ Readmoo專訪2：那些關於孤寂的問題，以及......
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☞ 神性之人，無邊之愛：伊格言的失戀講座
https://www.commabooks.com.tw/article/378

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小說是什麼？我認為，好的小說是一則猜想──像數學上「哥德巴赫的猜想」那樣的猜想。猜想什麼？猜想一則符號系統（於此，是文字符號系統）中的可能真理。這真理的解釋範圍或許很小，甚至有可能終究無法被證明（哥德爾的不完備定理早就告訴我們這件事）；但藝術求的從來便不是白紙黑字的嚴密證明，是我們閱讀此則猜想，從而無限逼近那則真理時的智性愉悅。如若一篇小說無法給我們這樣的智性，那麼，它就不會是最好的小說。
是之謂小說的智性。───伊格言

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