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Saturday, November 14, 2015

OT DAY 376 - The 1st Trap for Samson (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 14:1-3)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges 14&version=ESV

Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines. 2 Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.” 3 But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”

Judges 14:1-3

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 we start to read how powerful Samson was and how foolish he was to step into those traps prepared by Satan to destroy his life.

For Samson, it all starts with "I want it." It seems nothing wrong with "I want it", but what Samson wanted was not what God commanded to all the Israelites. God did not allow His people to marry people from other nation. Samson knew that but he did not care!

The 1st trap to Samson and to us to fall and getting farther and farther away from God is to do those things God commands us not to do but we insist and say, "I want it. So what!"

Dear Holy Spirit,

Shine your light on us that we can see whether we are doing those things we should not do. Lead us to repent so that we can be back to the Kingdom of God and not running astray. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
1. Have you ever stepped in this trap pulling you away from God? How about now?

2. How can you help those who have stepped into this trap? Do you have someone God prepares for you to pull them out from sin and darkness to be back into His Kingdom?

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 121:1-8

Ezekiel 29:1-30:26

Hebrews 11:32- 12:13

Proverbs 27:17

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

Today's Golden Verse

Other passages

DAY 20 of 40 Days Prayer for REC Promised Land, 7a.m. We had 54 people today. Rev. Dr. Paul Ng came to pray with us and gave us a powerful message.