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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 105:1-7, Isaiah 25:1-28:13; Galatians 3:10-22; Proverbs 23:17-18)
Today's key passage:
In that day they will say, “Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us.
This is the Lord, we trusted in him;
let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.”
The hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain; but Moab will be trampled in their land
as straw is trampled down in the manure.They will stretch out their hands in it,
as swimmers stretch out their hands to swim.
God will bring down their pride
despite the cleverness of their hands.He will bring down your high fortified walls
and lay them low;
he will bring them down to the ground,
to the very dust.
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
We have a strong city;
God makes salvation
its walls and ramparts. Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter,
the nation that keeps faith. You will keep in perfect peace
those whose minds are steadfast,
because they trust in you. Trust in the Lord forever,
for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.
Isaiah 25:9-26:4
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 from Jesus is: Trust in the Lord! In that day, He will come to save you!
This morning I had a wonderful experience! Jesus asked me to count how many times the word "In that day" appears in the book of Isaiah. So, I counted from chapter 1 to 66 and I found out it appears 29 times, just from chapter 2 to chapter 28, but from chapter 29 this word has not appeared.
What I received from Jesus is that when crisis and suffering come, just like what the whole world has been facing the past three years, or the severe forest fire and serious air pollution the past few years, what we need to do is to trust in the Lord, wait for Him, be close to Him, and in that day, Jesus will come to save us in a very special way!
Dear Lord Jesus, As we are facing with the present calamity and suffering, help us to trust in you totally, wait for you and be close to you that you will come to save us in that day. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.o Reflect on these questions:
In that day they will say,
“Surely this is our God;
we trusted in him, and he saved us.This is the Lord, we trusted in him;
let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.”
The hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain;
but Moab will be trampled in their landas straw is trampled down in the manure.
They will stretch out their hands in it,
as swimmers stretch out their hands to swim.
God will bring down their pride
despite the cleverness of their hands.
as swimmers stretch out their hands to swim.
God will bring down their pride
despite the cleverness of their hands.
He will bring down your high fortified walls
and lay them low;
he will bring them down to the ground,
to the very dust.
and lay them low;
he will bring them down to the ground,
to the very dust.
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
We have a strong city;
God makes salvation
its walls and ramparts.
God makes salvation
its walls and ramparts.
Open the gates
that the righteous nation may enter,the nation that keeps faith.
You will keep in perfect peace
those whose minds are steadfast,
because they trust in you.
those whose minds are steadfast,
because they trust in you.
Trust in the Lord forever,
for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.
for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.
Isaiah 25:9-26:4
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 from Jesus is: Trust in the Lord! In that day, He will come to save you!
This morning I had a wonderful experience! Jesus asked me to count how many times the word "In that day" appears in the book of Isaiah. So, I counted from chapter 1 to 66 and I found out it appears 29 times, just from chapter 2 to chapter 28, but from chapter 29 this word has not appeared.
What I received from Jesus is that when crisis and suffering come, just like what the whole world has been facing the past three years, or the severe forest fire and serious air pollution the past few years, what we need to do is to trust in the Lord, wait for Him, be close to Him, and in that day, Jesus will come to save us in a very special way!
Dear Lord Jesus,
As we are facing with the present calamity and suffering, help us to trust in you totally, wait for you and be close to you that you will come to save us in that day. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.
o
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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