Time with Abba, Singing Praising 親親爸父，唱詩歌頌 : OT DAY 374 - The Danger of Husband And Wife Not on The Same Page (Please click here for English podcast)

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Silence

1. Put on your “brakes” and stop for a moment of silence

2. Wait for God. Breathe deep for God's peace and feel His presence. Exhale your worries.

Praise and Thanksgiving

1. Think through your day, all the times that made you smile

2. Thank God for all those moments, and for all those people

3. Open your heart to praise the Lord

Behold, how good and pleasant it is
when brothers dwell in unity![

It is like the precious oil on the head,

running down on the beard,
on the beard of Aaron,
running down on the collar of his robes!

It is like the dew of Hermon,
which falls on the mountains of Zion!
For there the Lord has commanded the blessing,
life forevermore.

Psalm 133 :1-3

Confession and Repentance (Subjective Shifting Devotion Method http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html)

1. Pray for the Holy Spirit to work in you:

“Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

2. Through the Holy Spirit, examine yourself for a short silence and then pray:

"Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sin to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gift to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."

The Word (Judges 13:1-23)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges 13&version=ESV

And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

2 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah.And his wife was barren and had no children. 3 And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son. 4 Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, 5 for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.” 6 Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name, 7 but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

8 Then Manoah prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us and teach us what we are to do with the child who will be born.”9 And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field. But Manoah her husband was not with her. 10 So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me.” 11 And Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to this woman?” And he said, “I am.” 12 And Manoah said, “Now when your words come true, what is to be the child's manner of life, and what is his mission?” 13 And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her be careful. 14 She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine,neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her let her observe.”

15 Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “Please let us detain you and prepare a young goat for you.” 16 And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “If you detain me, I will not eat of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the Lord.” (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the Lord.) 17 And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord,“What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?” 18 And the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?” 19 So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it on the rock to the Lord, to the one who works wonders, and Manoah and his wife were watching. 20 And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord went up in the flame of the altar. Now Manoah and his wife were watching, and they fell on their faces to the ground.

21 The angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the Lord. 22 And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, for we have seen God.” 23 But his wife said to him, “If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these.”

Judges 13:1-23

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

My Listening

Samson is perhaps the most famous judge among all the judges in the Bible. Long before Samson was born, the Bible tells us about how his parents acted differently to God's revelation. And, their different attitude towards God's revelation and their different relationship with God may give us some inspiration of our relationship with God and how we deal with people around us with different level of relationship with God.

Let's see how Professor John Goldingay tells us:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

The story stands oddly in the tension between God's vision of husbands and wives having the same status in relation to God, society, and one another and the patriarchal reality in the world whereby men count for more than women. The story never names the wife as it names the husband; she gains her significance in society from the son she bears and the man she is married to…
The angel tells his wife how they are to treat the baby, but that is not enough for Manoah. Can he believe that she got it right? He wants to hear it for himself.
Evidently God is not locked into that way of thinking, because it is indeed to her that the angel appears. ..But when Manoah asks God to send the angel to appear again to tell him directly what he has told his wife, the angel again appears to her but is then willing to hang about while she fetches Manoah.

John Goldingay. Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011, p.133.

What I received from Jesus today is the topic today "The danger of husband and wife not on the same page". What if Manoah did not do anything asking God for a confirmation and ignore what his wife got? I have seen too many similar situations happened. Either wife doesn't believe in what her husband got from God, or husband doesn't believe in what his wife got from God may cause lots of misunderstand, pain and suffering. Just a few days ago a wife complained to me about the suffering she had for a long time that she and her husband are not on the same page spiritually. I have been praying for their coming to the same page since last week.

Dear Lord Jesus,

Bring each couples to be close to you together so that they can be on the same page with you and each other. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
1. Do you have a similar problem that your spouse is not on the same page with you? What can you do?

2. How does today's message help you to bring people on the same page?

3. What have you got from Jesus today?

Today's Time with Abba daily reading that I recited loudly and copy the Bible is:

Psalm 119:169-176

Ezekiel 24:1-26:21

Hebrews 11:1- 16

Proverbs 27:14

Photos of my copying the Bible today using Time with Abba passages

Yesterday's Golden Verse