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, Time with Abba (Psalm 37:21-29; Proverbs 11:4; Numbers 14:1-15:16; Mark 14:53-72)
Bible link:
English(ESV):https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=列+王+紀+下+13&version=ESV
Bible link:
English(ESV):https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=列+王+紀+下+13&version=ESV
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"
My Listening
The assignment from the Lord to me today is that "Caleb has a different spirit, and follows me wholeheartedly".
Today's passages are quite scaring. What I received from Jesus is either good or evil.
Good - the message "Caleb has a different spirit" gives me lots of inspiration. It has to be the Holy Spirit that Caleb had to be different from all the rebellious spirit those Israelites had, or even what Simon Peter had when he denial Jesus and "began to call down curses and swore" to those people that he did not know Jesus. How can that be? That's Simon Peter! How could he do that? Well, without the Holy Spirit in him, what can you expect from a human during major crisis?
Bad - the message 'who disobeyed me and tested me ten times" is a big blow to me. Ten plages for the Egyptians is like ten last chance for the Egyptians. But, same as the Israelites, also ten last chance. Can you imagine that? That's God's bottom line, ten chances for you to get away from Satan's Kingdom to go back to God's Kingdom.
What I received is a kind of formular:
Disobey, then God not with you, then defeated and being destroyed. Turn away, then God not with you.
Obey, then God with you.
So simple, and yet so difficult for most people!
Today's passages are quite scaring. What I received from Jesus is either good or evil.
Good - the message "Caleb has a different spirit" gives me lots of inspiration. It has to be the Holy Spirit that Caleb had to be different from all the rebellious spirit those Israelites had, or even what Simon Peter had when he denial Jesus and "began to call down curses and swore" to those people that he did not know Jesus. How can that be? That's Simon Peter! How could he do that? Well, without the Holy Spirit in him, what can you expect from a human during major crisis?
Bad - the message 'who disobeyed me and tested me ten times" is a big blow to me. Ten plages for the Egyptians is like ten last chance for the Egyptians. But, same as the Israelites, also ten last chance. Can you imagine that? That's God's bottom line, ten chances for you to get away from Satan's Kingdom to go back to God's Kingdom.
What I received is a kind of formular:
Disobey, then God not with you, then defeated and being destroyed. Turn away, then God not with you.
Obey, then God with you.
So simple, and yet so difficult for most people!
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to obey to your next command so that we can experience God with us. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Reflect on these questions:
1. How can you have a new understand on God's bottom line?
2. How can you follow Caleb's model to have the Holy Spirit with you so that you have a different spirit with other people who do not obey and follow God?
2. How can you follow Caleb's model to have the Holy Spirit with you so that you have a different spirit with other people who do not obey and follow God?
3. What have you got from Jesus today?
Let us praise the Lord:
10,000 Reasons
10,000 Reasons