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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 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."
“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 139:13-24, 2 Kings 9:14-10:31; Acts 17:1-34; Proverbs 17:27-28)
Today's key passage:
Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139:23-24
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 is:Lord Jesus, search me, test me, lead me!
This morning I had a wonderful experience of how the Holy Spirit opening my eyes to see how detailed Psalm 139 describes the intimate loving relationship of God with us.
Try to imagine in a wedding when the newly wedded couples are being asked to describe the love they have been experiencing to each others, most of them cannot give more than five to six examples, somewhat like: love me, care for me, take care of me, endure me, encourage me, protect me ...
The Holy Spirit guided me this morning to find out all those description of how God loves us and I found 18! 18!!!
I am so moved and feel so safe and secure!
These are that 18 descriptions I've got: Search me(x2) Know me(x4) Perceive me Discern me Familiar with all my ways Hem me Lay hand on me Guide me Hold me Around me Shine on me Cover me Test me Lead me When you know that's how God loves you now and always, do you feel safe and secure?
Are you willing to cry out to God to search you, test you and guide you so that there is nothing hindering His love to you?
Dear Lord Jesus, Thank you for loving us so much, Lord. Help us to be willing to cry out to you each day to search us, test us and guide us that there is really nothing hindering and blocking your love from us and that we can be with you and in your love each day. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen. Reflect on these questions: 1. How do you feel now, knowing that God loves you so, so much? 2. What is your next step to make this happen?
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 is:Lord Jesus, search me, test me, lead me!
This morning I had a wonderful experience of how the Holy Spirit opening my eyes to see how detailed Psalm 139 describes the intimate loving relationship of God with us.
Try to imagine in a wedding when the newly wedded couples are being asked to describe the love they have been experiencing to each others, most of them cannot give more than five to six examples, somewhat like: love me, care for me, take care of me, endure me, encourage me, protect me ...
The Holy Spirit guided me this morning to find out all those description of how God loves us and I found 18! 18!!!
I am so moved and feel so safe and secure!
These are that 18 descriptions I've got:
Search me(x2)
Know me(x4)
Perceive me
Discern me
Familiar with all my ways
Hem me
Lay hand on me
Guide me
Hold me
Around me
Shine on me
Cover me
Test me
Lead me
When you know that's how God loves you now and always, do you feel safe and secure?
Are you willing to cry out to God to search you, test you and guide you so that there is nothing hindering His love to you?
Dear Lord Jesus,
Thank you for loving us so much, Lord. Help us to be willing to cry out to you each day to search us, test us and guide us that there is really nothing hindering and blocking your love from us and that we can be with you and in your love each day. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.
Reflect on these questions:
1. How do you feel now, knowing that God loves you so, so much?
2. What is your next step to make this happen?
Family Corner:
Find an opportunity to share with your family the importance of today's message.
To know, learn and practice the method of Time with Abba, please click this link: https://www.pastoralcareschool.org
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