Lord, we look to your hand. Have Mercy on us! Save us!

  

 

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrKeKwuevZE

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

      Please click this link to worship with us - 

      

       Be with You: City Harvest Church, Singapore

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epkh71WTUFs&list=RDEpkh71WTUFs&start_radio=1

      10,000 Reasons

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3K3roEF36k

      

     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 read 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."

Today's Time with Abba: Psalm 123:1-4, 2 Samuel 15:23-16:23; John 18:25-19:22; Proverbs 16:10-11

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

To know, learn and practice the method of Time with Abba, please click this link:http://twa.pastoralcareschool.org/

Key passage:

I lift up my eyes to you,
    to you who sit enthroned in heaven.

As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,
    as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to the Lord our God,
    till he shows us his mercy.

     Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us,

    for we have endured no end of contempt.

We have endured no end
    of ridicule from the arrogant,
    of contempt from the proud.

                              Psalm  123:1-4

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through today's TWA passages we have just read. Offer this time to Jesus as you listen to Him.

The topic I received today from Jesus is: Lord, we look to your hand. Have Mercy on us! Save us!

     Today's Psalm 123 gives us a painful situation of the Psalmist of being insulted to the most extreme state. The situation is somewhat like how David was being betrayed by his most trustworthy friend and adviser Ahithophel and his own son Absalom who wanted to kill him. Or, today's passage in John of how Jesus was being insulted when he was being crucified.

        The past few years of the pandemic, the crisis in the Middle East and Ukraine, all kinds of natural disaster lead us to understand the limitation of human effort. 

        What we can do should be like what the Psalmist says:

        Lord, we look to your hand. Have Mercy on us! Save us!

       How close we need that we can look at God's hand?

       Dear Lord Jesus,  

 Lead us to be close to you that we can look to your hand and cry out to you, trusting that you will listen to our prayers. 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. 

       

       Please click this link to Old Testament Psalm 123blog: 

       https://discipler123.blogspot.com/2021/06/day-123-2021-when-you-are-being-bullied.html

       

     

       Please click this link to today's Old Testament 2 Samuel 15:23-16:23 blog and video:

https://timewithabbaprayinglisteningenglish.blogspot.com/2025/05/those-are-just-challenges.html

       

       Please click this link to today's Old Testament Proverbs 16 blog:  

       https://discipler123.blogspot.com/2021/07/day-166-2021-you-are-out-of-your-own.html

   For the Chinese version of this daily blog and video, please click this link (中文版請按此連結):

    https://timewithabbaprayinglisteningchinese.blogspot.com

     

     

       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

 

 

Connecting Workshop 2025(Session 2)

Bishop Silas Ng on Three Streams

 https://youtu.be/xiSOSFF9Iw0?si=puDWFD9Cx01ADm-o