It's time for you to join our Monday to Friday 7am to 7:30am Morning Prayer!

 

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.”

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 sins 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."

    

    The link to today's Time with Abba passages:   http://api.pastoralcareschool.org/twa/

    Time with Abba passages: (Psalm 55:16-23, Joshua 15:1-63; Luke 18:18-43; Proverbs 13:9-10)

    Today's key passage: 

    

     As for me, I call to God,

             and the Lord saves me.
1    7.           Evening, morning and noon
        I cry out in distress,
            and he hears my voice.
18         He rescues me unharmed
            from the battle waged against me,
            even though many oppose me.

        Cast your cares on the Lord

             and he will sustain you;
             he will never let
              the righteous be shaken.

     Psalm 55:16-18, 22

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 today from Jesus is:  It's time for you to join our Monday to Friday 7am to 7:30am Morning Prayer! 

    
    Psalm 55 is David's prayer and his cry to God. He experienced the whole world was turning upside down and he was being attacked by his own beloved people and enemies outside, his life was in severe danger!

    The wonderful thing is that David had his prayer time with God in the morning, at noontime and in the evening. That is why he trusted that God will surely save him out of those attack!

     Actually the tradition of the Church also have morning prayer, noontime prayer and evening prayer. But, because people are more and more busy, so this wonderful tradition is being lost and you can find that only in monastery, seminary or retreat.

     It's time for us to restart this wonderful tradition to have a time to be with the Lord and to cry out to him in the morning, at noontime and evening. Because the whole world is being turned upside down and we need to cry out to God to turn everything right side up again!

     I believe that God will listen to us just as He listened to David's prayer and that He will destroy the cunning and wicked plan of Satan to destroy this whole world using COVID-19!

    Richmond Emmanuel Church has a daily Morning Prayer from 7am to 7:30am. We have the first 15 minutes to sing a song to praise the Lord and I share that day's catch from the Time with Abba readings. Then we are having six breakout rooms to pray in small groups. I am leading an English group. You are welcome to join us!

    

     Dear Lord Jesus,  

     Help us to be willing to be with you through our morning, noontime and evening prayer so that we can experience your deliverance for us out of Satan's plan to destroy the whole world. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

     

      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:

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

     

Please click this link for the video version of this blog:  https://youtu.be/olBsOkEEbls

  

     To know, learn and practice the method of Time with Abba, please click this link: https://www.pastoralcareschool.org