Please click the link below to watch last Saturday's "Enter into the Promised Land Thanksgiving Celebration":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DD4-YTE4sM&ab_channel=RECFamily
Please click this link for the video version:
Bible in one year by Nicky Gumbel:
Nicky Gumbel's Bible in one year today:
https://preview.mailerlite.com/z1z3o0j2t8/1993980572417923838/m9x5/
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 74:1-11,1 Chronicles 22:1-23:32; Romans 3:9-31; Proverbs 19:13-14)
Today's key passage:
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
Romans 3:23-24
Romans 3:23-24
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: For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God!
Many years ago an experienced and senior pastor told me quite a number of time: "Every time when I read the Confession passage during worship I felt uneasy, because I have no sin to confess."
I was sad whenever he told me that! Because today's Romans tells us:
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God!
This verse does not use past tense but a present perfect tense which means sinning is never a past event but we keep on sinning!
Our problem is that usually we do not know our sins, or even we know we do not want to confess, or even we are willing to confess but we are not willing to change, to be totally being transformed by the Holy Spirit! The result is that we do not have Jesus as our Lord lording us each day! We take the lordship most of time!
Our sins take away the glory of Christ in us! Take away the light of Christ in our face and the glory of Christ cannot show forth because we are not willing to be used by Jesus! What a waste! How sad!
So, what should we do?
1. We need to ask the Holy Spirit to shine on us each day because we are not able to know our sins. Jesus tells us very clearly in John 16:8-11 that it is the job of the Holy Spirit to shine on us so that we can see our sins!
2. We need to confess our sins and ask God for His forgiveness because of His Grace. And we really need to repent with true repentance, real action!
If you can be that close to Jesus each day and are willing to do that, I am sure that your relationship with Jesus will be sweeter and sweeter each day, and the light of Christ on your face will be brighter and brighter each day and God will use you to show forth His glory!
Are you willing?
Dear Lord Jesus, Help us to be able to know that we are all sinners falling short of your glory. Lead us to be willing to ask the Holy Spirit to shine on us each day that we know our sins and be able to confess, repent and change so that you can send us out to show forth your glory. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen. Reflect on these questions: 1. What kind of inspiration have you received from today's message? 2. What is your next step?
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: For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God!
Many years ago an experienced and senior pastor told me quite a number of time: "Every time when I read the Confession passage during worship I felt uneasy, because I have no sin to confess."
I was sad whenever he told me that! Because today's Romans tells us:
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God!
This verse does not use past tense but a present perfect tense which means sinning is never a past event but we keep on sinning!
Our problem is that usually we do not know our sins, or even we know we do not want to confess, or even we are willing to confess but we are not willing to change, to be totally being transformed by the Holy Spirit! The result is that we do not have Jesus as our Lord lording us each day! We take the lordship most of time!
Our sins take away the glory of Christ in us! Take away the light of Christ in our face and the glory of Christ cannot show forth because we are not willing to be used by Jesus! What a waste! How sad!
So, what should we do?
1. We need to ask the Holy Spirit to shine on us each day because we are not able to know our sins. Jesus tells us very clearly in John 16:8-11 that it is the job of the Holy Spirit to shine on us so that we can see our sins!
2. We need to confess our sins and ask God for His forgiveness because of His Grace. And we really need to repent with true repentance, real action!
If you can be that close to Jesus each day and are willing to do that, I am sure that your relationship with Jesus will be sweeter and sweeter each day, and the light of Christ on your face will be brighter and brighter each day and God will use you to show forth His glory!
Are you willing?
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to be able to know that we are all sinners falling short of your glory. Lead us to be willing to ask the Holy Spirit to shine on us each day that we know our sins and be able to confess, repent and change so that you can send us out to show forth your glory. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.
Reflect on these questions:
1. What kind of inspiration have you received from today's message?
2. What is your next step?
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
Richmond Emmanuel Church has stepped into the Promised Land
We got the keys of our newly purchased three unites of 5,800 sq. ft. at President Plaza on June 30, 2022.
And, we have put in our Church Banner inside the front doors of two units on that day. A glorious day!
As Archbishop Yong shared with us a prophetic message seven years ago and we have been praying that his encouragement and prophecy will happen to us the past seven years, it happens!
When we asked him whether 9500 No. 5 Road is the Promised Land we have been waiting for since 2002, Archbishop Yong said, "The best has yet to come." Praise the Lord that the best has come to us now! Thank you, Archbishop Yong!
Thank you, Jesus!
"Church in a Mall" plan of the Anglican Church of Sabah
Bishop Melter (He becomes the Primate and Archbishop of the Anglican Province of South East Asia in 2021) took Michelle and me, Archbishop Yong and Julia and some leaders to the 5,000 sq. ft. unit
in a Mall of Marriott Hotel two times to pray and sing praises blessing that place and be ready to rent that
place to have a "Church in a Mall" there. Bishop Melter told me that he is going to be the Rector of this new church. Due to some complicated legal issues, they decided not to continue this new paradigm plan.
I believe Archbishop Melter's vision has become an inspiration from Jesus to me that I support our people to have "Church in a Mall" new paradigm vision. The place is very similar to Archbishop Melter's plan, on the third floor(2F in that Mall in the Marriott is actually 3rd floor), also around 5,000 sq. ft., and with Raddison Hotel in this twin towers building!
Praise the Lord to send Archbishop Melter as a pioneer to give us a confirmation to courageously step into the Promised Land we could never think of! How wonderful Jesus is!
The last photo is Archbishop Melter's message to me through WhatsApp last Friday by blessing us in entering into the Promised Land!
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