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Saturday, November 7, 2015

OT DAY 369 - What You Need Is to Be Filled by The Holy Spirit (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

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 (Judges 10:17-11:33)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges 10&version=ESV

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah. 2 And Gilead's wife also bore him sons. And when his wife's sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You shall not have an inheritance in our father's house, for you are the son of another woman.” 3 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob, and worthless fellows collected around Jephthah and went out with him.

4 After a time the Ammonites made war against Israel. 5 And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob. 6 And they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our leader, that we may fight against the Ammonites.” 7 But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and drive me out of my father's house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”8 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight against the Ammonites and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.” 9 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight against the Ammonites, and the Lord gives them over to me, I will be your head.” 10 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The Lord will be witness between us, if we do not do as you say.” 11 So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord at Mizpah.

28 But the king of the Ammonites did not listen to the words of Jephthah that he sent to him. 29 Then the Spirit of the Lord was upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites.

Judges 11:1-11, 28-29

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

Jephthah was a mighty warrior but the son of a prostitute. How could he be trusted and led the Israelites to fight the Ammonites?

Let's see how Professor John Goldingay tells us:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

The man to whom the clans turn is a complicated person with a background rather like Abimelek. The translations describe him as the son of a prostitute, but the words require only that he be the son of a woman who breaks the society's sexual codes, and he may thus simply be a boy born of an affair between his father (who is also called Gilead) and a single girl in the village. Either way, he has a status not so different from Abimelek's. His father accepted responsibility for him, but everyone knew he was illegitimate, and when all Gilead's sons were grown up, they threw him out…
The Ammonites accuse the Gileadites of appropriating their land; Jephthah argues that they did no such thing…
When the Ammonites are unconvinced, the Spirit of God comes on Jephthah as it once came on Gideon (though not on Abimelek).

John Goldingay. Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011, p.127.

When Jephthah was being filled by the Holy Spirit, then he could lead the Israelites to win a big victory.
Lots of time we try so hard to do God's work but we forget to be filled by the Holy Spirit is the first thing before we can do God's work. And people burn out, depressed and make a big mess.
What you need is to be filled by the Holy Spirit and God will empower you to do His Kingdom work.

Come Holy Spirit come,

Fill us with your fresh anointing that we can be able to do God's work joyfully and mightily. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
1. Do you feel burn out, depressed or weary recently? Why?

2. Are you being filled with the Holy Spirit each day? Is so, how well are you doing God's work? If not, how are you doing?

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 119:129-136

Ezekiel 16:43-17:24

Hebrews 8:1-13

Proverbs 27:7-9

Photos of my copying the Bible using Time with Abba passages

Golden Verse