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Nicky Gumbel's Bible in one year today:
Bible in one year by Nicky Gumbel:
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)
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 Word, Time with Abba (Psalm 85:1-7, Ezra 8:21-9:15; 1 Corinthians 5:1-13; Proverbs 21:1-2)
Today's key passage:
There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions. I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies on the road, because we had told the king, “The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who forsake him.” So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer. Ezra 8:21-23
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: Fasting and Praying, you will experience signs and wonders!
Today's catch is a confirmation of what I received on July 27 and 28, then August 6 and 7. And, that is about how Satan try all his best to destroy God's people, especially to stop us to worship God in our church in the midst of this dark world.
Let me copy and paste what I wrote on July 27 in my blog:
"Fasting and praying, put on sackcloth and repent, cry out to God!
The whole world is being attacked by the vast army of COVID-19. Many super nations have been doing lots of research trying to solve this crisis but the pandemic is still there!
I strongly believe if we have Jahaziel in Jehoshaphat's time and Isaiah in Hezekiah's time to ask people to fast and pray, to put on sackcloth and repent, to cry out to God, God will act and COVID will be no more!"
That's what I wrote on July 27. Then, similar situation happened in today Ezra's fasting.
The first six chapters of Ezra records the first wave of the Israelites returning to Jerusalem after being captive to Babylon and that was 537-515BC. Ezra led the second wave to return back and that was 458-433BC. Ezra's main job was to bring a group of priests and Levites to serve in the temple and to teach God's law. He proclaimed a fast so that "God protected them from enemies and bandits along the way." (Ezra 8:31)
Well, we proclaim fasting for 100 days on July 1, 2022 for brothers and sisters of Richmond Emmanuel Church and many of us have joined this fasting. Praise the Lord that many miraculous signs and wonders have happened since then!
I believe if we fast and pray together, Satan will not succeed to use COVID-19 and other tricks to destroy God's people and to make us as captives inside the computer that we cannot go back to worship in our own churches! And, we will also kick out many Satan's attacks to God's people and His own churches.
Are you willing to join us to fast and pray? Dear Lord Jesus, Help us to be willing to fast and pray that Satan's plan to destroy God's people cannot succeed. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.
There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions. I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies on the road, because we had told the king, “The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who forsake him.” So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer.
Ezra 8:21-23
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: Fasting and Praying, you will experience signs and wonders!
Today's catch is a confirmation of what I received on July 27 and 28, then August 6 and 7. And, that is about how Satan try all his best to destroy God's people, especially to stop us to worship God in our church in the midst of this dark world.
Let me copy and paste what I wrote on July 27 in my blog:
"Fasting and praying, put on sackcloth and repent, cry out to God!
The whole world is being attacked by the vast army of COVID-19. Many super nations have been doing lots of research trying to solve this crisis but the pandemic is still there!
I strongly believe if we have Jahaziel in Jehoshaphat's time and Isaiah in Hezekiah's time to ask people to fast and pray, to put on sackcloth and repent, to cry out to God, God will act and COVID will be no more!"
That's what I wrote on July 27. Then, similar situation happened in today Ezra's fasting.
The first six chapters of Ezra records the first wave of the Israelites returning to Jerusalem after being captive to Babylon and that was 537-515BC. Ezra led the second wave to return back and that was 458-433BC. Ezra's main job was to bring a group of priests and Levites to serve in the temple and to teach God's law. He proclaimed a fast so that "God protected them from enemies and bandits along the way." (Ezra 8:31)
Well, we proclaim fasting for 100 days on July 1, 2022 for brothers and sisters of Richmond Emmanuel Church and many of us have joined this fasting. Praise the Lord that many miraculous signs and wonders have happened since then!
I believe if we fast and pray together, Satan will not succeed to use COVID-19 and other tricks to destroy God's people and to make us as captives inside the computer that we cannot go back to worship in our own churches! And, we will also kick out many Satan's attacks to God's people and His own churches.
Are you willing to join us to fast and pray?
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to be willing to fast and pray that Satan's plan to destroy God's people cannot succeed. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.
Reflect on these questions:
1. What inspiration have you received from today's catch and what have you heard from Jesus now?
2. What is your next step to be more closer to Jesus and to do what Jesus wants you to do and not to do what Jesus wants you not to do?
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:http://twa.pastoralcareschool.org/
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