OT DAY 253 - God Will Help You Quickly (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. 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

       
           Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
                  let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
7          For he is our God,
                 and we are the people of his pasture,
                 and the sheep of his hand.

                                  Psalm 95:6-7

        
 Confession and Repentance

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 gifts to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."

The Word (Deuteronomy 9:1-3)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 9&version=ESV

 “Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’ 3 Know therefore today that he who goes over before you as a consuming fire is the Lord your God. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the Lord has promised you.

                   Deuteronomy 9:1-3

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture 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

     Have you been in a situation like the Israelites with the city of Jericho blocking them to go into the Promised Land? Did God come to help you? Slowly or quickly? That's what the Israelites were thinking in today's passage.

Let's see how Professor John Goldingay tells us: 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

    

     The promise about speed is a promise assuring people of what God can do. Nothing and nobody can prevent God's will being fulfilled. The Canaanites will disappear as quickly as God decides they will.  

 John Goldingay. Numbers & Deuteronomy for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.128.

      It was disobedience of the Israelites causing them to wandering in the desert for 40 years. 

      Nothing can stop God to come to help you quickly. Nothing, except you, if you disobey God's command like what the Israelites did! 

Dear Lord Jesus, 
Help us to be willing to obey your command so that we can experience your speedy help.  In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
1. Have you been in a situation that you are angry at God that He did not come to help you, or He came too late? What have you learned from that experience? 

2. Do you believe that God will help you quickly? 

Praise and Thanksgiving

Let's give thanks for God with us. Let us praise Him:

10,000 Reasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXDGE_lRI0E

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