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.”
"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."
“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 13:1-6, Genesis 42:18-43:34; Matthew 13:47-14:12; Proverbs 4:7-10)
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Today's main passage:
47 “Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. 48 When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away. 49 This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous 50 and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 13:47-50
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 from Jesus is:
"A merciful Kingdom Vs a cruel world"
3. Two times concerning with how cruel Jacob was as he was willing to give up Simeon rather than to let Benjamin to go to Egypt!
4. Two times concerning how cruel Herodias and her daughter were to put John the Baptist to death!
This cruel world is to destroy our foundation of "Jesus is Lord" as the centre of our lives, then to have us brain washed making us to be cruel and merciless persons!
What can we do?
If you were Joseph who saw your ten brothers who wanted to kill you and sell you to Egypt, what would you do to revenge? You were the Prime Minister and you could do anything now!
But, because the foundation of Joseph was so firm and secure he already left that cruel world and entered into the Kingdom of God, His merciful Kingdom. Bitterness and hatred being changed to be meek and merciful! His tears tell us that he was a merciful servant of God in His merciful Kingdom. He is the "good fish" in today's Jesus parable!
How about you? Are you a merciful servant of God in His merciful Kingdom, a good fish?
Today's topic seems the second part of the topic two days ago. Two days ago, the topic was "The foundations are destroyed, what can you do?". Today's topic allows us to leave this cruel world to walk into God's Kingdom, his merciful Kingdom!
I felt a very strong feeling of cruelty in today's passages from Genesis and Matthew. Actually I felt it seven times when I was scribing those passages:
1. Two times concerning with how cruel Joseph' ten brothers were who wanted to kill him and sold him to Egypt!
2. One time concerning with how cruel Reuben was to tell his father that he could kill his two sons if Reuben could not bring back Benjamin!
4. Two times concerning how cruel Herodias and her daughter were to put John the Baptist to death!
This cruel world is to destroy our foundation of "Jesus is Lord" as the centre of our lives, then to have us brain washed making us to be cruel and merciless persons!
What can we do?
If you were Joseph who saw your ten brothers who wanted to kill you and sell you to Egypt, what would you do to revenge? You were the Prime Minister and you could do anything now!
But, because the foundation of Joseph was so firm and secure he already left that cruel world and entered into the Kingdom of God, His merciful Kingdom. Bitterness and hatred being changed to be meek and merciful! His tears tell us that he was a merciful servant of God in His merciful Kingdom. He is the "good fish" in today's Jesus parable!
How about you? Are you a merciful servant of God in His merciful Kingdom, a good fish?
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help me to remember to be with you each day so that we can be in your merciful Kingdom to be a righteous servant of you, blessed by you and used by you to bring your healing, freedom and salvation to many people. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Reflect on these questions:
1. Are you a merciful servant of God in His merciful Kingdom, a good fish?
2. What is your next step to be a merciful servant of God in His merciful Kingdom?
Family Corner:
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