OT DAY 275 - You Need to Be Blameless (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

        
         Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!
2                   Serve the Lord with gladness!
                 Come into his presence with singing!

                          Psalm 100:1-2

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

The Word (Deuteronomy 18:1-22)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 18&version=ESV

9 “When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer 11 or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, 12 for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. 13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, 14 for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this.

                   Deuteronomy 18:9-14

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

      This chapter talks about priests, Levites and prophets who work for God building up God's people to be blameless. And, Moses also talks about those people who work for the Devil to tear apart God's people.
      Who are we listening to? Are we able to discern who are God's people and who are not? Are we willing not to do those evil practices in our culture? 
      
Let's see how Professor John Goldingay tells us: 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

    

     Yet how do we know if a prophet is really prompted by God? Raising the question again reflects how the Holy Spirit in enabling people in a later century to work out what Moses would say if he were here now. 

John Goldingay. Numbers & Deuteronomy for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.156-157.

      
     So, we are talking about the work of the Holy Spirit and the gift of the Holy Spirit now. There is no way for us to be blameless unless we are willing to allow the Holy Spirit to work in us and for those people who are anointed by the Holy Spirit to help us. 

Dear Holy Spirit, 
Come and fill us that we can receive your fresh anointing to do your Kingdom work and be able to discern where to go to and who to go to. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
1. What can you do to be blameless? Do you think you can do that?

2. How much are you willing to be filled by the Holy Spirit each day?

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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