Monday, September 16, 2019

DAY 258 (2019) - You foolish people, bewitched by others! (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

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 shine on you that you are able to discover your sins and be willing to repent:

     “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 104:31-35, Isaiah 22:1-24:23; Galatians 2:17-3:9, Proverbs 23:15-16)


Today's main passage:
You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?     Galatians 3:1-3

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.

My Listening
The topic I received today is: You foolish people, bewitched by others!

Paul explains clearly in the last two chapters that non-Jews do not need to have circumcision because being Christians is not being justified as righteous by law, not by work but by faith. That means not working and using your own effort to be justified as righteous and can go to heaven later, but to be with the Lord and to walk with the Lord each day that you are already in heaven(God's Kingdom) at presence and you will surely be in heaven on high when you die.

Paul in today's Chapter 3 explains more clearly that if we really experiencing justification by faith, really believe in Jesus, really having Jesus in our life each day as Lord and King, then we will be filled with the Holy Spirit each day and have the fruit of the Holy Spirit and the gift of the Holy Spirit! That's a natural changing of our lifestyles and character and can exercise various gift of the Holy Spirit.

It is what John Stott told me and my son Ignatius when we visited him in England in 2009. He looked at us and told us very seriously, "If I want to conclude my whole life using one word and that word is "Christlike"! 

But, Paul says the Galatians are being "bewitched"! Wow! Cast a spell on someone by a witch!

Wow! For two thousands years many Christians have been bewitched by this world as being bewitched by witches! Terrible! 

We so often live each day's life by means of flesh and not by faith! "Me", "I" as lord and not "Jesus is Lord"!

World-like but not Christlike!

If you have not been bewitched, then just as Paul says in today's Galatians that you will begin your new life in Christ by the Holy Spirit and being filled with the Holy Spirit each day. Your life should be more and more Christlike! Agree?

Dear Abba,
Help us not to be bewitched and that we will be more and more Christlike each day. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
1. What kind of inspiration and invitation have you received from today's message ?

2. What is your next step not to be bewitched and that you will be more and more Christlike each day?

Family Corner:
Find an opportunity to share with your family the importance of today's message.

Praise and Thanksgiving
Let's give thanks for God with us. Let us praise Him:
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