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Bible in one year by Nicky Gumbel:
Nicky Gumbel's Bible in one year today:
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 106:13-23, Isaiah 43:14-45:10; Ephesians 3:1-21; Proverbs 24:1-2)
Today's key passages:
But they soon forgot what he had done and did not wait for his plan to unfold. In the desert they gave in to their craving; in the wilderness they put God to the test.
They forgot the God who saved them,
who had done great things in Egypt,miracles in the land of Ham
and awesome deeds by the Red Sea. So he said he would destroy them—
had not Moses, his chosen one,
stood in the breach before him
to keep his wrath from destroying them.
Psalm 106:13-14, 21-23
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:14-19
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 from Jesus is: May we be willing to kneel before the Lord to pray more often and not always forget what He had done for us and do not wait for His plan to unfold!
Today's Psalm makes me very sad! Because even those more than two millions people of Moses experienced God in such a miraculous way, they kept on forgetting what God had done to them. If not Moses cried out to ask God's mercy, they would have died and vanished!
Today's Ephesians 3:14-20 is a prayer of Paul to the church of Ephesus and is one of the most important prayers in the Bible. Paul knelt down to pray to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit that the Christians in Ephesus could experience God is a deep, deep way!
Brothers and sisters, may we build up a habit to kneel down to pray for your church that we may experience God greatly!
Dear Lord Jesus, Help us to build up a habit like Mose and Paul to kneel down to pray for our church that we may experience God greatly. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen. Reflect on these questions:
But they soon forgot what he had done
and did not wait for his plan to unfold.
In the desert they gave in to their craving;
in the wilderness they put God to the test.They forgot the God who saved them,
who had done great things in Egypt,
who had done great things in Egypt,
miracles in the land of Ham
and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
So he said he would destroy them—
had not Moses, his chosen one,
stood in the breach before him
to keep his wrath from destroying them.
had not Moses, his chosen one,
stood in the breach before him
to keep his wrath from destroying them.
Psalm 106:13-14, 21-23
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:14-19
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 from Jesus is: May we be willing to kneel before the Lord to pray more often and not always forget what He had done for us and do not wait for His plan to unfold!
Today's Psalm makes me very sad! Because even those more than two millions people of Moses experienced God in such a miraculous way, they kept on forgetting what God had done to them. If not Moses cried out to ask God's mercy, they would have died and vanished!
Today's Ephesians 3:14-20 is a prayer of Paul to the church of Ephesus and is one of the most important prayers in the Bible. Paul knelt down to pray to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit that the Christians in Ephesus could experience God is a deep, deep way!
Brothers and sisters, may we build up a habit to kneel down to pray for your church that we may experience God greatly!
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to build up a habit like Mose and Paul to kneel down to pray for our church that we may experience God greatly. 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?
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
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