Time with Abba, Singing Praising 親親爸父，唱詩歌頌 : OT DAY 380 - The 4th Trap for Samson - Misuse of God's Power (Please click here for English podcast)

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

OT DAY 380 - The 4th Trap for Samson - Misuse of God's Power (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

Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good;
sing to his name, for it is pleasant!

Psalm 135 :3

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 14:16-20)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges 14&version=ESV

16 And Samson's wife wept over him and said, “You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?”17 She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people. 18 And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down,

“What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?”

And he said to them,

“If you had not plowed with my heifer,
you would not have found out my riddle.”

19 And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father's house. 20 And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.

Judges 14:16-20

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

When we read the first part of verse 19, it says the Spirit of the Lord came upon Samson in power. Then the second part we read Samson killed all those thirty men of the town. Why? Because they got Samson's wife to tell them the answer of his riddle. So what? What's the big deal?

Did the Spirit of God empower Samson because God wanted Samson to kill the thirty men? No! Samson's anger pushed him to the edge and he misused the power God gave him to kill those he should not kill.

It is so easy to misuse God's gift to do things not in God's way. Especially Samson's lifestyle is "Me first, God last".

Only if you are willing to repent not to live in that "Me first, God last" mentality anymore then you can rightly use God's gift to do God's mighty work!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help us to follow you as our Lord and King so that we can use the gift you give us to glorify your Holy Name. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
1. Do you think you have misused God's power to do things not in God's way but in your own way?

2. When you are angry, do you think you have a high possibility to misuse God's gift to do things in Satan's way to steal, kill and destroy?

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 124:6-8

Ezekiel 37:1-38:23

James 1:19- 2:17

Proverbs 28:1

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

Yesterday's Golden Verse