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
"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."
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.”
“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 (Psalm 11:1-7; Proverbs 3:33-35; Genesis 39:1-41:16;
Matthew 12:46-13:23)
Matthew 12:46-13:23)
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
There seems no way to do anything if the foundations are being destroyed!
The assignment I received today to restore the foundations is first to go to His Temple as often as we can and worship Him as describe in today's Psalm.
The wonderful thing is that He will test us as He tested Joseph. And, when we pass the test, He promise that we will see His face!
What Jesus tells us in Matthew's passage is that most people are blind and deaf. Most people do not want to be healed. Healing would be too costly. Changing is often too costly.
To sacrifice you time to be with God even for half an hour is too costly! To tithe is not only too costly but impossible for so many Christians! So, what can we say!
If you are willing, then you will live a fruitful life and bear fruit, a hundred, sixty or thirty folds!
Do you know thirty folds is nine zero after one, that is 1,000,000,000 and a hundred fold is thirty zero after one, that is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
The wonderful thing is that He will test us as He tested Joseph. And, when we pass the test, He promise that we will see His face!
What Jesus tells us in Matthew's passage is that most people are blind and deaf. Most people do not want to be healed. Healing would be too costly. Changing is often too costly.
To sacrifice you time to be with God even for half an hour is too costly! To tithe is not only too costly but impossible for so many Christians! So, what can we say!
If you are willing, then you will live a fruitful life and bear fruit, a hundred, sixty or thirty folds!
Do you know thirty folds is nine zero after one, that is 1,000,000,000 and a hundred fold is thirty zero after one, that is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us not to have more time to be with you each day so that we can restore the ruined foundations and bear much fruit. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Reflect on these questions:
1. Do you know the foundations are being destroyed?
2. How can you take part in restoring the foundations?
2. How can you take part in restoring the foundations?
3. What have you got from Jesus today?
Let us praise the Lord:
10,000 Reasons
10,000 Reasons