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/yYCZXybjtuc
Bible in one year by Nicky Gumbel:
Nicky Gumbel's Bible in one year today:
https://preview.mailerlite.com/y1n9l9m8a5/1997604152724691855/x5s2/
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 76:10-12, 2 Chronicles 1:1-3:17; Romans 6:1-22; Proverbs 19:20-21)
Today's key passages:
Then Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the place provided by David. He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
2 Chronicles 3:1-2
Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
Proverbs 19:21
2 Chronicles 3:1-2
Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
Proverbs 19:21
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: When we begin to build the temple for God, hope and pray that you will join us!
My catch today from Jesus is very special because He guided me to ponder on the word "begin to build", the words appears two times in 2 Chronicles 3:1-2!
Starting from King David wanted to build the temple for God recorded in 1 Samual 7:1-17 to today's passage of King Solomon really began to build the temple for God was 27 years. After that 27 years, King Solomon used 20 years to build the temple. Wow! A total of 47 years since David had the wish to the completion of the temple!
Dr. Sai Kui Lee of Toronto Emmanuel received a vision to build Vintage Garden Toronto senior condos project in 2002. We began to build in 2012, you can see the first picture of the ground breaking ceremony in 2012.
You can see the second picture of the first date of the moving in for residence of Vintage Garden 1 of 185 units in 2015 with a big and bright 180 degree rainbow covering the whole six acres land of Vintage Garden project!
Our Vintage Garden 2 completed in 2020, we had been waiting for 18 years from 2002 to 2020!
We, Richmond Emmanuel Church received from the Lord a vision to purchase a land and to build God's temple in 2002, but because of the leaving of the Anglican Church of Canada due to the blessing of same sex issue we were in "exodus" and could not do anything until in 2013 we receive "10,000 Reasons Campaign" that each member of REC make an offering of more than $10,000 , nine years ago. And, we had our building this month and we begin to design and renovate!
Today, Jesus gave me a revelation!
This revelation is that nine years to wait seems too long for us but in God, if he prepares for us to wait it is a time of preparation. Just like in David's 47 years time, or in the 18 years of Vintage Garden!
When can we begin to build depend on how we believe in God's word from today's Proverbs 19:21:
Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
May you have a part in our project when we begin to build the temple for Richmond Emmanuel Church now!
Dear Lord Jesus, Help us not to use human wisdom and plan to do your Kingdom project but to wait for your purpose and plan to reveal and we have a part in your building project. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen. Reflect on these questions: 1. What inspiration have you received from today's catch? 2. What is your next step?
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: When we begin to build the temple for God, hope and pray that you will join us!
My catch today from Jesus is very special because He guided me to ponder on the word "begin to build", the words appears two times in 2 Chronicles 3:1-2!
Starting from King David wanted to build the temple for God recorded in 1 Samual 7:1-17 to today's passage of King Solomon really began to build the temple for God was 27 years. After that 27 years, King Solomon used 20 years to build the temple. Wow! A total of 47 years since David had the wish to the completion of the temple!
Dr. Sai Kui Lee of Toronto Emmanuel received a vision to build Vintage Garden Toronto senior condos project in 2002. We began to build in 2012, you can see the first picture of the ground breaking ceremony in 2012.
You can see the second picture of the first date of the moving in for residence of Vintage Garden 1 of 185 units in 2015 with a big and bright 180 degree rainbow covering the whole six acres land of Vintage Garden project!
Our Vintage Garden 2 completed in 2020, we had been waiting for 18 years from 2002 to 2020!
We, Richmond Emmanuel Church received from the Lord a vision to purchase a land and to build God's temple in 2002, but because of the leaving of the Anglican Church of Canada due to the blessing of same sex issue we were in "exodus" and could not do anything until in 2013 we receive "10,000 Reasons Campaign" that each member of REC make an offering of more than $10,000 , nine years ago. And, we had our building this month and we begin to design and renovate!
Today, Jesus gave me a revelation!
This revelation is that nine years to wait seems too long for us but in God, if he prepares for us to wait it is a time of preparation. Just like in David's 47 years time, or in the 18 years of Vintage Garden!
When can we begin to build depend on how we believe in God's word from today's Proverbs 19:21:
Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
May you have a part in our project when we begin to build the temple for Richmond Emmanuel Church now!
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us not to use human wisdom and plan to do your Kingdom project but to wait for your purpose and plan to reveal and we have a part in your building project. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.
Reflect on these questions:
1. What inspiration have you received from today's catch?
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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