OT DAY 420 - Don't Mess with God or His Servants. You might Be in Big Trouble! (Please click here for English podcast)

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

       Great is our Lord, and abundant in power;
          his understanding is beyond measure.

                    Psalm 147:5

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 (1 Samuel 5:1-12)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+5&version=ESV

When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. 2 Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon. 3 And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place. 4 But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the Lord, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off on the threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon was left to him. 5 This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.

6 The hand of the Lord was heavy against the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory. 

   

                                 1   Samuel 5: 1-6

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

        Quite a number of Christians have a habit to humiliate or even bully God's servants. But, do you know the consequence of messing with God's work and His servants? 

Let's see how Professor John Goldingay tells us: 

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

    

      God sends judgment on the Philistines by giving them boils on an uncomfortable part of their anatomy  and the Philistine religious experts get them to make amends to God by making models of hemorrhoids and rats. 

          

John Goldingay. 1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011, p.39.

      It is just so funny and yet so severe that God did that to the Philistines. Do you think God would do similar things to those who mess with God or His servants?

Dear Lord Jesus, 

    Help us to honour your work and your servants so that we will be blessed by you. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:

1. Do you think God really would do that kind of punishment to those who mess up with His work or His servants?

2. Do you think you have taken part in messing up with God's work and His servants? Have you suffered from this kind of sin? What kind of suffering? 

3. What have you got from Jesus today?

Today's Time with Abba daily reading:

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

Yesterday's photo of our daily 8a.m. to 9a.m. Copying Bible session

Today's photos of our daily 9a.m. to 9:30a.m. Prayer Meeting and Soaking Prayer from 9:30a.m. to 10:30a.m.

Michelle and Zoe in Richmond Centre shopping yesterday morning

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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