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Friday, November 13, 2015

OT DAY 375 - The Tragedy of Not on The Same Page with God (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

Come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord,
who stand by night in the house of the Lord!

Lift up your hands to the holy place

and bless the Lord!

May the Lord bless you from Zion,
he who made heaven and earth!

Psalm 134 :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 13:24-25)

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

24 And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. And the young man grew, and the Lord blessed him. 25 And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

Judges 13:24-25

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

Today the Holy Spirit led me to focus on just two verses in a very special way. Samson was being blessed by God since he was born. His parents experienced God's revelation and an angel told them how to nurture their boy long before Samson was born. The Holy Spirit began to stir him when he was still a young man. How glorious his life and family history truly is! But, why his life is just a tragedy?

Let's see how Professor Herbert Wolf(The Expositor's Bible Commentary, Volume 3) tells us:

God gave him a sound mind and a strong body as he grew to maturity. For a while at least he lived in Mahaneh Dan which means "camp of Dan."
More than any other judge, Samson was moved by the Spirit of God(v.25; also 14:6,19; 15:14). On this occasion an unusual verb describes the Spirit's activity. Elsewhere the word is used of men whose spirits are disturbed by dreams, such as Pharaoh(Gen 41:8) and Nebuchadnezzar (Dan 2:1,3). Perhaps the Lord used the same means to speak to Samson and to stir him to "begin the deliverance…from the hands of the Philistines" (v.5).
Contrasted with Jephthah, Samson had every advantage as a boy. His birth was predicted by an angel; he had godly parents who loved him greatly; he was uniquely dedicated to God as a Nazirite; and he experienced the power of God's Spirit as a young man. Despite all these favourable factors, Samson's life as it unfolds in the next three chapters is marked by tragedy.

Herbert Wolf. The Expositor's Bible Commentary, Volume 3 - Judges. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1992, p.464-465.

What I received from Jesus today is the topic "The tragedy of not on the same page with God". The coming few days we will read how Samson ruined all kinds of "spiritual savings" he had because of his lust and self-centredness.

When were you being stirred up by the Holy Spirit? How do you keep your step with Jesus as your Lord and King so that you are on the same page with God? Don't let blessings to become tragedy!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Bring us closer to you each day so that they can be on the same page with you experiencing blessings and not tragedy. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
1. When were you being stirred up by the Holy Spirit?

2. How do you keep your step with Jesus as your Lord and King so that you are on the same page with God?

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 120:1-7

Ezekiel 27:1-28:26

Hebrews 11:17- 31

Proverbs 27:15-16

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

Yesterday's Golden Verse