God is testing your heart! Do you know that?
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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
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10,000 Reasons
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.”
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)
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"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 132:1-5, 1 Kings 9:1-10:29; Acts 8:14-40; Proverbs 17:2-3
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Key passage:
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold,
but the Lord tests the heart. Proverbs 17:3
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: God is testing your heart! Do you know that?
Today's all four passages is about how God tests human hearts through sufferings:
1. Psalm 132:1-5 King David in his sufferings and self-denial always planned to build a temple for God in Jerusalem. He is being described as "a man after God's own heart" as in Acts 13:22.
2. 1 Kings 9:1-10:29 King Solomon completed his father King David's wish to build the temple and in the peak of his kingship. But, it is so sad that he started to live on his own and sat on God's throne to do things God forbidded all kings to do according to Deuteronomy 17:16-17. He collected lots of silver and gold, he went to Egypt to purchase the best horses and he had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. He failed in the test of "Money, Power and Sex"! At the end of 1 Kings 11 records his death!
3. Acts 8:14-40 Because of the death of Stephen as the first martyr of Christians, the early Church was under great persecution. And because of this great sufferings, disciples of Jesus were being scattered to Samaria and many Samaritans accepted the Word of God and then being baptized by the Holy Spirit. Also, the power of the Holy Spirit led Philip to bring Gospel to an important official from Ethiopia and the eunuch was being baptized! The great persecution and sufferings tested the disciples hearts and the Kingdom of God is being extended!
4. Proverbs 17:3 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart.
Do you know that God is testing your heart now?
Let us be willing to be tested by God to have a spiritual revival and to bring more people back to Jesus that His Kingdom being extended, His Name be glorified!
Dear Lord Jesus, Help us to be willing to be tested by you through this dark world that Your Kingdom being extended and Your Name be glorified. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.
1. Psalm 132:1-5
King David in his sufferings and self-denial always planned to build a temple for God in Jerusalem. He is being described as "a man after God's own heart" as in Acts 13:22.
2. 1 Kings 9:1-10:29
King Solomon completed his father King David's wish to build the temple and in the peak of his kingship. But, it is so sad that he started to live on his own and sat on God's throne to do things God forbidded all kings to do according to Deuteronomy 17:16-17. He collected lots of silver and gold, he went to Egypt to purchase the best horses and he had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. He failed in the test of "Money, Power and Sex"! At the end of 1 Kings 11 records his death!
3. Acts 8:14-40
Because of the death of Stephen as the first martyr of Christians, the early Church was under great persecution. And because of this great sufferings, disciples of Jesus were being scattered to Samaria and many Samaritans accepted the Word of God and then being baptized by the Holy Spirit. Also, the power of the Holy Spirit led Philip to bring Gospel to an important official from Ethiopia and the eunuch was being baptized! The great persecution and sufferings tested the disciples hearts and the Kingdom of God is being extended!
4. Proverbs 17:3
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold,
but the Lord tests the heart. Do you know that God is testing your heart now?
Let us be willing to be tested by God to have a spiritual revival and to bring more people back to Jesus that His Kingdom being extended, His Name be glorified!
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to be willing to be tested by you through this dark world that Your Kingdom being extended and Your Name be glorified. 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.
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 132 blog: Please click this link to today's Old Testament 1 Kings 9:1-10:29blog and video: Please click this link to today's Old Testament Proverbs 17 blog:
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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):
Please click this link to Old Testament Psalm 132 blog:
Please click this link to today's Old Testament 1 Kings 9:1-10:29blog and video:
Please click this link to today's Old Testament Proverbs 17 blog:
For the Chinese version of this daily blog and video, please click this link (中文版請按此連結):
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):
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