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. Sing a song to praise God (you are welcome to use "Father, I adore you" which I have been singing every morning for the past 20 years or your own choice to praise God)
Father, I adore You, lay my life before You, how I love You.
Jesus, I adore You, lay my life before You, how I love You.
Spirit, I adore You, lay my life before You, how I love You.
Confession and Repentance (Subjective Shifting Devotion Method https://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/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 and having Jesus as my Lord. 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 gifts 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 and having Jesus as my Lord. 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 gifts to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."
3. John Stott's daily prayer of Christlikeness (Christopher J.H. Wright, Cultivating the fruit of the Spirit. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2017, 13)
(Please click this link to see how God used John Stott to change my life:https://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/07/
"Heavenly Father, I pray that this day I may live in your presence and please you more and more.
Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you.
Holy Spirit, I pray that this day you will fill me with yourself and cause your fruit to ripen in my life: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control."
Bible link: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%207&version=NIV
Time with Abba one year Bible reading: http://api.pastoralcareschool.org/twa/
Today's passage:
John 8
They all went home, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.
They all went home, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.
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 to Jesus as you listen to him.
My Listening
The topic I received from Jesus is: Jesus didn't go home!
“They each went to his own home. But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.”
John 7: 53 – 8: 2
Everybody went back to their own home but Jesus went elsewhere.
Why?
Was Jesus home in the Temple? No and Yes.
His earthly home was not but His heavenly home was where He could enjoy the intimate relationship with His Heavenly Father.
There he could be strengthened again after all the oppositions and discouragements described in John 7. He was able to go back to the Temple for the “second round” to teach God's Word and to be in His Heavenly home again!
Most of the time when I met with obstacles and discouragements, I did not know this secret method but was eaten up by those discouragements and being pulled into darkness or a pause mode.
Jesus told me this morning that I need to go to my Temple which is the Sanctuary of my home church more often like what He did. Not only worshipping on Sundays but to have more time to pray at church more often.
“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” John 8: 12
Let’s go home more to meet our Father as Jesus does.
That is why it is so important to go to your home church to worship God and not stay at home to worship God online. If you have a chance, go back to worship God in your Temple, that is your home church.
But, if you cannot due to some important reasons like your health forbidding you to go back to church, then your Heavenly home is your daily devotion time at your own home to be with God each day.
Dear Lord Jesus,
Lead me home to enjoy the intimate relationship with our Heavenly Father just like how you enjoy staying in the Temple. In Jesus name we pray,
Reflect on these questions:
1. What inspiration have you received from today's catch and what have you heard from Jesus now?
2. What is your next step to be more closer to Jesus?
Family Corner:
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