God gives you a new beginning in 2025!

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    Time with Abba, Praying Listening (Psalm 1:1-6, Genesis 1:1-2:25; Matthew 1:1-2:12; Proverbs 1:1-6)

      Please click this link for today's Time with Abba one year Bible four passages: http://twa.pastoralcareschool.org/

    Today's main passage:

       Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."                                                      Genesis 1: 26

     The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.                                                                                     Genesis 2: 7

     

    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: God gives you a new beginning in 2025!

    Happy New Year!

    Today we start the first Word of the Bible - In the beginning God created. I pray that God will make today a new beginning for you on this New Year Day bringing you to a new ground of believing and experiencing that Jesus is your Lord and King, He is Lord of lords and King of kings. 

When God said we would be created in his own image and likeness and that we could rule over things, we miss something really important! God never said that we should rule over each other. Human beings are being created to love one another and live in unity to make heaven on earth. But the history of mankind shows the pain of our trying to be God, sitting on God's throne to judge and rule other people. 

In this non-Godly lifestyle, we have been destroying the goodness of God's creation! Everything is "I said" but not "God said"!

And, God formed us and breathed into our nostrils the breath of life so that we become a living being. How harmonious and relational it was, as described in Genesis 2! 

It was all so good! Beautiful and living scenes everywhere and Adam living in harmony with all living creatures. The only thing God saw as no good is loneliness and God created a helper, companion, a wife for Adam.

I see each breath that Adam and Eve took was a holy breath, enjoying the wonder of creation and the harmony of living together to make a better world, a new beginning!

But, as we can see in today' Psalm 1.

Psalm 1:1 teaches us a sure win way for life, a sure win way for this new year and for every year. Because that is the way of our Triune God! And, that's how Satan wants to try all his best to kick us out of this way from our Triune God!

Jesus tells me that Satan wants to try all his best to forbid us not being able to walk in step with God, instead we walk in step with the wicked! 

The consequence is that we stand in the way sinners take!     

Let's have a new beginning to follow what God said and walk in step with God to lead a life of Christlikeness so as to bring goodness to God's creation.

Dear Lord Jesus,

Thank you for creating us in your own likeness and breath in us that we become a living being, your holy children. Help us to listen more carefully to what you said and not rule over others but to be under your Lordship to follow you and to walk with you that we can be fruitful. 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. 

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     If you would like to follow my "Subject shifting Devotion Method" from the "Time with Abba, Praising Singing", you are welcome to follow the direction below and then go back to the top of this blog to read today's key passage and my listening and sharing:

        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 the Lord

      

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."

     Time with Abba (Psalm 1:1-6, Genesis 1:1-2:25; Matthew 1:1-2:12; Proverbs 1:1-6)

      Please click this link for today's Time with Abba one year Bible four passages: http://twa.pastoralcareschool.org/

        My first blog "Devotion on Fire"  was written in English only  (July 17, 2009年7月17日至November 22, 2012年11月22日). Each day one chapter of Bible, from New Testament and then Old Testament. Completed in four months and three years:

http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/07/blessings-from-rev-dr-john-stott.html

My second blog "Discipler 123"  was written in both Chinese and English (March 6,2011to December 31, 2016 ):

https://discipler123.blogspot.com/2011/02/day-1-choose-light-away-from-darkness.html

and "Time with Abba" blog and video (January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2024): 

https://discipler123.blogspot.com/2017/01/1-2017.html