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Friday, August 28, 2015

OT DAY 303 - You Will Die, Could Your Teaching Endure? (Please click here for English podcast)

Please click the link below to my new 40 days Break.Build site any time you like to having a 40 days "Break.Build" daily devotion with one to two people as a discipler to help those Jesus prepares for you to disciple. You need to know that the call and purpose of my Break.Build and this Discipler123 blog/podcast is for you to become a discipler to help more people to have a daily intimate relationship with Jesus and then they can become disciplers too:
http://www.breakbuild.blogspot.ca/

Please click these links to the app. Andy Ng wrote if you have an Android cel.:

Discipler123: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ideal.rec.app

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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

   Praise the Lord!
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
    for his steadfast love endures forever!

Psalm 106:1

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 33:1-29)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 32&version=ESV

This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death. 2 He said,

“The Lord came from Sinai
    and dawned from Seir upon us;
    he shone forth from Mount Paran;
he came from the ten thousands of holy ones,
    with flaming fire at his right hand.
3 Yes, he loved his people,
    all his holy ones were in his hand;
so they followed in your steps,
    receiving direction from you,
4 when Moses commanded us a law,
    as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.
5 Thus the Lord became king in Jeshurun,
    when the heads of the people were gathered,
    all the tribes of Israel together.

6 “Let Reuben live, and not die,
but let his men be few.”

7 And this he said of Judah:

“Hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah,
and bring him in to his people.
With your hands contend for him,
and be a help against his adversaries.”

Deuteronomy 33: 1-7

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

What could be your last words to your children? What could be your last words to those you have coached and mentored, if there is any? How can we learn from Moses last words, his blessing to all his people, to prepare our short ministry on earth?

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

There is a sense in which Moses work is done. The point is implicit in the opening to his final blessing on the twelve clans, paralleling Jacob's blessing (Genesis 49). It first describes God's awesome appearance to the people, bringing "the teaching Moses commanded us, the possession of the congregation of Jacob" (33:4). Usually it is Israel that is God's distinctive and valued possession; here the teaching is Israel's distinctive and valued possession. It expresses the way God "became king over Jeshurun when the heads of the people assembled, the clans of Israel together" (33:5). Laying down the teaching marks God as Israel's king and Israel as God's people (Jeshurun is another term for Israel). The really important thing about Moses is his mediating God's teaching. Even if Moses accompanies Israel into Canaan, eventually he will die. What matters is that his teaching will endure…

John Goldingay. Numbers & Deuteronomy for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.195.

We will die, sooner or later. But, would our lives and work lead people to worship God as King and we are His people? Would our teaching endure just like Moses, even after we die?

There are lots of people asking me why I spend each day with so much time to write and record my blog/podcast, and to copy the Bible now. My answer is that it is a command by God before I became a bishop. When I asked God what did He want me to do mainly when I become a bishop. He asked me to turn to Acts 6:4. He said,"Read." I read, "But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” And God said, in May 2009, "This is what I want you to do mainly. To teach my people to pray so that they have a daily personal intimate relationship with me. And, to teach them the power of my Word." You can click this link to my testimony in my first blog, July 18, 2009 to read what I've got from God and my spiritual father Rev. Dr. John Stott:
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/2009_07_01_archive.html

I will die, sooner or later. But, I would like my teaching endure! That's not my teaching, that's God's teaching!
How about you?

Dear Lord Jesus,

Lead us each day just like Moses to follow you as your humble and faithful servant so that we can be ready anytime if you take us home, we can finish well and that our teaching endure. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
1. How does today's message touch your soul? Do you think your teaching will endure after you die?

2. What have you got from Jesus today?

Time with Abba daily reading

Psalm 94:12-23

Job 28:1 - 30:31

2 Cor. 2:12-17

Proverbs 22:7

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