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Bible in one year by Nicky Gumbel:
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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 143:7-12, 2 Kings 20:1-22:2; Acts 21:17-36; Proverbs 18:9-10)
Today's key passage:
16 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord:17 The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord. 18 And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
19 “The word of the Lord you have spoken is good,” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?”
20 As for the other events of Hezekiah’s reign, all his achievements and how he made the pool and the tunnel by which he brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? 21 Hezekiah rested with his ancestors. And Manasseh his son succeeded him as king.
21 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother’s name was Hephzibah. 2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, following the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites. 3 He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he also erected altars to Baal and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them.
2 Kings 20:16-21:3
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: If you do not take root below and bear fruit above, you will suffer severe consequences!
Yesterday we read one of the most powerful miracle in the Bible. King Hezekiah led the whole nation to repent, and God sent just one angel and 185,000 Assyria soldiers died and in a short while Sennacherib, king of Assyria was being killed by two of his own sons!
But, King Hezekiah did not listen to the command of God through Isaiah the prophet to take root below and bear fruit above, in the last stage of his life he flattered the envoys from the kingdom of Babylon thinking that Babylon might be able to save them from Assyria.
God sent Isaiah to give King Hezekiah warning and prophesied that his descendants will be tortured by Babylon. He did not believe and he did not repent, saying that if in his life time nothing happened would be OK. At last, he ate his own fruit of not taking root below and bearing fruit above that his son Mannasseh and his grandson Amon were both very bad kings!
May we pondering about the fall of king Hezekiah that we won't follow his bad example!
Dear Lord Jesus, Help us to be willing to take root below and bear fruit above, not to step into king Hezekiah's bad example. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen. Reflect on these questions: 1. What kind of lesson have you learned from king Hezekiah's fall? 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: If you do not take root below and bear fruit above, you will suffer severe consequences!
Yesterday we read one of the most powerful miracle in the Bible. King Hezekiah led the whole nation to repent, and God sent just one angel and 185,000 Assyria soldiers died and in a short while Sennacherib, king of Assyria was being killed by two of his own sons!
But, King Hezekiah did not listen to the command of God through Isaiah the prophet to take root below and bear fruit above, in the last stage of his life he flattered the envoys from the kingdom of Babylon thinking that Babylon might be able to save them from Assyria.
God sent Isaiah to give King Hezekiah warning and prophesied that his descendants will be tortured by Babylon. He did not believe and he did not repent, saying that if in his life time nothing happened would be OK. At last, he ate his own fruit of not taking root below and bearing fruit above that his son Mannasseh and his grandson Amon were both very bad kings!
May we pondering about the fall of king Hezekiah that we won't follow his bad example!
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to be willing to take root below and bear fruit above, not to step into king Hezekiah's bad example. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.
Reflect on these questions:
1. What kind of lesson have you learned from king Hezekiah's fall?
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.
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