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Friday, September 18, 2015

OT DAY 324 - Just A Little Sin, Affect The Whole Clan (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

15 Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,
who walks in his ways!

Psalm 128:1

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 (Joshua 7:1-5)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua 6&version=ESV

But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the Lord burned against the people of Israel.

2 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai. 3 And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are few.” 4 So about three thousand men went up there from the people. And they fled before the men of Ai, 5 and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six of their men and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water.

Joshua 7:1-5

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
Did the spies underestimate the force of the city of AI so that they lost the battle to just a small group of enemies? What do you think Joshua and his people feel? Do they know what was really happening? No, they don't, up to this point, verse 5. What they felt was that their hearts "melted and became as water" as described in verse 5. They don't know what was happening until God speaks in verse 10.

Lots of time we are down and troubled we get worry, we get angry and we can't sleep, we can't eat. We ask God, "Oh God, why you do this to me?" You won't know what is really happening until you repent of your little faith and ask God to tell you what is really happening. Until He tells you directly or through some of His servants, you would never know and you will stay in that pitiful state for a long, long time!

Just a little sin, affect the whole clan!
Just a little sin, affect your whole being, your family, your church, your community, your nation!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Speak to us each day so that we can walk with you and be with you in that intimate relationship that we won't ask why but just how. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
1. Are you in a kind of similar situation like the Israelites asking God why, or even angry with Him?

2. What is your trust level with God? Can you start to ask Him how and not why? Do you know the difference?

3. What have you got from Jesus today?

Today's Time with Abba daily reading that I recited loudly

Psalm 105:8-15

Isaiah 28:14 - 30:11

Galatians 3:23-4:31

Proverbs 23:19-21

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

Today's Golden Verse