There is nothing new under the sun! Everything becomes new forever above the sun!

  

 

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   "Connecting Workshop - Archbishop Melter "MISSION 113":

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

https://youtu.be/zfeuQTEouT8?si=JVhJyiO_08RfidWJ

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

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Nicky Gumbel's Bible in one year today:

https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?e=590b90010b&u=607cd553028b55c8cfb706e8a&id=fae554cc77

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 97:7-12, Ecclesiastes 1:1-3:22;  2 Corinthians 6:1-13; Proverbs 22:15)

    Today's key passages: 

      The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:

     “Meaningless! Meaningless!”

    says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
    Everything is meaningless.”

      Ecclesiastes 1:1-2

     All things are wearisome,

    more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
    nor the ear its fill of hearing.

What has been will be again,
    what has been done will be done again;
    there is nothing new under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:8-9

I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
    I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
    and this was the reward for all my toil.

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
    and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
    nothing was gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:10-11

There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

a time to be born and a time to die,
    a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,

Ecclesiastes 3:1-4

 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.  He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Ecclesiastes 3:10-11

 

    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:  There is nothing new under the sun! Everything becomes new forever above the sun!

    When I read Ecclesiastes today, Jesus asked me to count how many times does the word "under the sun", "meaningless", "chasing after the wind", "a time". When I started to count, tears came out nonstop:

    under the sun - 10

    meaningless -14

    chasing after the wind - 5

    a time - 28

    Then Jesus said, "If King Solomon, the man with wisdom and had all the money, power and desire he wanted to have but was being pulled in the darkness of dissatisfaction, life is meaningless like chasing wind, who can live a life of satisfaction under the sun?"

     Wow! I was trembling as Jesus told me that!

     Yes, we cannot be satisfied under the sun which means under our own control, under the system of the world. Only we are willing to be led by the Lord each day and that is above the sun, we will understand God controls everything! In His time, everything comes into being and no matter how clever we are or how powerful we can be, we cannot get out of God's timing!

     The most important catch I have today is that God "set eternity in the human heart"! "Eternity" means our "born again" life that we can have a relationship with God eternally when we receive Jesus as Saviour and Lord of Life. When we are still living in this world and after we die, we are in this eternal life, eternal relationship!

    If we can live each day above the sun to see Jesus and chat with Jesus each day, worship God, then everyday is a new day and a joyful day! Satisfied!

   

     Dear Lord Jesus,  

     Help us to live each day above the sun to see you and chat with you each day that everyday is a new day and a joyful day. 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