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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 147:1-11,1 Chronicles 7:1-8:40; Acts 27:1-20; Proverbs 18:22)
Today's key passage:
He who finds a wife finds what is good
and receives favor from the Lord.
Proverbs 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 is: Love and cherish your wife then you know what is good!
Yesterday's Proverbs 18:20-21 gives us a very important warning and advice that we need to be careful when we speak, to use our tongue wisely.
Today'a Proverbs 18:22 gives us another advice on using our tongue wisely, but this time is to our spouse. We need to use our tongue wisely in order that we can listen more, accept more, forgive more, build up more and to establish a more intimate relationship with God and with each others.
Especially in this pandemic, lots of people cannot control their tongues and have brought quite a number of serious damages to their marriage.
According to some statistics, the rate of divorce has been rising drastically the past two years since the beginning of the pandemic. The destruction force of the tongue is beyond we can estimate and can think of!
One of Satan's main job is to destroy the relationship of husbands and wives. How can we as human beings be able to win over Satan's power!
So, the only way is both husband and wife be willing to be close to God so that they can be more closer together. Then, Satan has no way to jam in!
We need to start our first step to get rid of Satan's pursue. The catch I received from Jesus today is for the couple to hold hands to pray before they go to sleep. Just this simple act will bring protection and lots of blessings!
Then, if you want to have the second step, my catch today is that both husband and wife start to have Time with Abba scribing God's word from the Bible and then pray together. Wow! If you can do that, I do not think Satan will have any way to sever your relationship with your spouse!
Dear Lord Jesus, Help us to cherish and love our spouse that our marriage will bring much blessings. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen. Reflect on these questions: 1. Have you learned a good way today to love and cherish your spouse? 2. What is your next step to begin living out this kind of successful lifestyle?
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: Love and cherish your wife then you know what is good!
Yesterday's Proverbs 18:20-21 gives us a very important warning and advice that we need to be careful when we speak, to use our tongue wisely.
Today'a Proverbs 18:22 gives us another advice on using our tongue wisely, but this time is to our spouse. We need to use our tongue wisely in order that we can listen more, accept more, forgive more, build up more and to establish a more intimate relationship with God and with each others.
Especially in this pandemic, lots of people cannot control their tongues and have brought quite a number of serious damages to their marriage.
According to some statistics, the rate of divorce has been rising drastically the past two years since the beginning of the pandemic. The destruction force of the tongue is beyond we can estimate and can think of!
One of Satan's main job is to destroy the relationship of husbands and wives. How can we as human beings be able to win over Satan's power!
So, the only way is both husband and wife be willing to be close to God so that they can be more closer together. Then, Satan has no way to jam in!
We need to start our first step to get rid of Satan's pursue. The catch I received from Jesus today is for the couple to hold hands to pray before they go to sleep. Just this simple act will bring protection and lots of blessings!
Then, if you want to have the second step, my catch today is that both husband and wife start to have Time with Abba scribing God's word from the Bible and then pray together. Wow! If you can do that, I do not think Satan will have any way to sever your relationship with your spouse!
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to cherish and love our spouse that our marriage will bring much blessings. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.
Reflect on these questions:
1. Have you learned a good way today to love and cherish your spouse?
2. What is your next step to begin living out this kind of successful lifestyle?
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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