Praise the Lord, for He reigns!

  

Please click this link for the video version of today's blog :

https://youtu.be/Df34fo6NKX8?si=1knCsO51mIAwj-gw

Please click this link for today's Time with Abba one year Bible four passages:

http://twa.pastoralcareschool.org/

Nicky Gumbel's Bible in one year today:

https://evoturi-zcmp.campaign-view.eu/ua/viewinbrowser?od=3zd157131b6d471dd26510cd1848ef8722&rd=119344be60e275c1&sd=119344be60e20ae7&n=11699e4bfc22033&mrd=119344be60e20ad3&m=1

Bible in one year by Nicky Gumbel:

https://bibleinoneyear.org/en/

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 Word, Time with Abba (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 39th 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,  

     Thank 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 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, to be holy - that is 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/

        My first blog started in July 2009, one chapter a day to read through

     the whole Bible link:

https://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/08/day-1-i-am-blind.html

         

  

Anglican Mission in Canada and Richmond Emmanuel Church have launched MISSION 113 Campaign starting January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026. We have received the baton from Archbishop Yong to continuous the call His Grace received in 1993 to bring more souls to God's eternal Kingdom! Please watch the two videos below to know from Archbishop Yong how Jesus used him to bring MISSION 113 to the Anglican Diocese of Sabah and beyond:

Archbishop Yong’s MISSION 113 videos, October 16, 2022:

https://youtu.be/Mp0-JPx4Vac

https://youtu.be/MyO6hMcOMOI

Please click this link for the videos of May 7 and 14 Workshop by Bishop Page:

     May 7: https://youtu.be/RgVc5KnPpe0?si=6Ot2WoGqqmsR2e0z

        May 14: https://youtu.be/v1BmK2yiveQ?si=uHJObsDdIdTNhr5N

        Anglican Mission Global Society:

Archbishop Melter’s 1st Connecting Workshop video, September 5, 2023: https://youtu.be/0lL8xNrgJb8

Archbishop Melter’s 2nd Connecting Workshop video, September 12 2023:  https://youtu.be/SM39qX0Q5XM

Please click this link to go to my "Break.Build" 40 days of Lenten daily devotion:

http://breakbuild.blogspot.com/2024/03/silence-1_29.html

Please click this link for the video recording of the 1st Connecting Workshop of MISSION 113 on Knowing, February 27, 2024. We had bishops, pastors and leaders from Africa, India, Sabah, Thailand, USA and  Canada. Thanks to Canon Philip Tse giving us a wonderful, warm and useful talk and Bishop Page Brooks as facilitator.

https://youtu.be/eepDh1Lqqxw?si=CB5KzyWKBL0SQvW1

Please click this link for the video recording of the 2nd Connecting Workshop of MISSION 113 on Knowing. We had Archbishop Melter from Sabah, Bishop Sospeter from Tanzania, Bishop William from Congo, Bishop Ivan from India, Bishop Page from USA, pastors and leaders from Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Thailand, USA and  Canada. Thanks to Canon Philip Tse giving us another wonderful, warm and useful talk and Bishop Page Brooks as facilitator.

https://youtu.be/GFyFWiZEY0U?si=K-ONwQ79jmdcgs81

Archbishop Yong’s MISSION 113 videos, October 16, 2022:

https://youtu.be/Mp0-JPx4Vac

https://youtu.be/MyO6hMcOMOI

Archbishop Yong's born again testimony

1st part: https://youtu.be/eogu1rMpvTQ

2nd part: https://youtu.be/BhyUU1ov1RM

Powerful testimony of Mr. Lu of All Saints Cathedral, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Jesus lay hands on him while I asked members of Golden Saints Fellowship to raise up their hands to receive healing and blessings in October 2022. His 4th stage cancer being healed:

https://youtu.be/9TMSj_CJK9s?si=hGZ0sywgCCwD6-Vd