Praise the Lord, for He reigns!

 

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:   

https://youtu.be/owz9JlMwrA0

Bible in one year by Nicky Gumbel:

https://bibleinoneyear.org/en/

Nicky Gumbel's Bible in one year today:

https://preview.mailerlite.com/c8x0f1p6v8/1993256807321049283/j5f3/

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 150:1-6,1 Chronicles 15:1-16:36; Romans 1:18-32; Proverbs 19:6-7)

    Today's key passages: 

     Praise the Lord.

  Praise God in his sanctuary;
    praise him in his mighty heavens.

   Praise him for his acts of power;
    praise him for his surpassing greatness.

   Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,
    praise him with the harp and lyre,

   praise him with timbrel and dancing,
    praise him with the strings and pipe,

   praise him with the clash of cymbals,
    praise him with resounding cymbals.

    Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

    Praise the Lord.

    Psalm 150:1-6

   Sing to the Lord, all the earth;
    proclaim his salvation day after day.

   Declare his glory among the nations,
    his marvelous deeds among all peoples.

   For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise;
    he is to be feared above all gods.

   For all the gods of the nations are idols,
    but the Lord made the heavens.

   Splendor and majesty are before him;
    strength and joy are in his dwelling place.

   Ascribe to the Lord, all you families of nations,
    ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

   Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;
    bring an offering and come before him.

    Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness.

   Tremble before him, all the earth!
    The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.

   Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;
    let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!”

   Let the sea resound, and all that is in it;
    let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them!

   1 Chronicles 16:23-32

                      

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passages we have just read. Offer this time to Jesus as you listen to him.

    My Listening

    The topic I received today is: Praise the Lord, for He reigns!

    Today's Psalm is the last one in the book of Psalm. What I feel is like the last 10 seconds of a firework, highest, largest, most beautiful and colourful! Usually when that happen, everyone standing there will cry out loudly:
    Wow! Wow! Wow!

    Yes, that's how David wanted to tell everyone in his last song of Psalm that the most beautiful, most powerful and the best thing in life for us to do is to use all we have to praise the Lord!

     Why? We can find the answer in today's 1 Chronicles: because the Lord reigns!

     I am so thankful with all my heart and lots of tears to the Lord today because today is the 37th Wedding Anniversary of Michelle and me! Wow! Wow! Wow!

     I have to use all I have to praise the Lord because He reigns in our marriage and in our family!

     Could you use one minute now to give thanks to the Lord for us and bless us, please?

    

     Dear Lord Jesus,  

     Thanks you for giving me Michelle who is really a very, very good wife. And giving me an anointed family. May you bless all husbands and wives and their families and to lead more people to know the best in life is to use all we have to praise you. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.

       

     Reflect on these questions:

     1. What is your respond to learn that the best in life is to use all you have to praise the Lord?

       

      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!