Praise the Lord, for He reigns!

  

 

Bishop Silas conducting Vancouver Oratorio Society, VOS Chamber and Schola Cantorum singing Parry's I was Glad:

https://youtu.be/Qr4RThsdEjY?si=wh3sT_i3QE8kTgX6

Bishop Silas conducting Schola Cantorum Emmanuel and Vancouver Oratorio Chamber Choir singing Palestrina's O Beata Trinitas:

https://youtu.be/O4wiyr8oa_Y?si=l_cp4aRfVMRzaL6b

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWuQ1tf2j8M

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 150:1-6,1 Chronicles 15:1-16:36; Romans 1:18-32; Proverbs 19:6-7

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 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 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: 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!

Let's use all we have to praise the Lord because He reigns in our lives, our family and our church!

    

     Dear Lord Jesus,  

     May you 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. 

       

       Please click this link to Old Testament Psalm 148 blog: 

      https://discipler123.blogspot.com/2021/07/day-148-2021-god-raises-up-good.html

       

     

       Please click this link to today's Old Testament 1 Chronicles 11:1-12:18 blog and video:

https://timewithabbaprayinglisteningenglish.blogspot.com/2025/07/fall-in.html

       Please click this link to today's Old Testament Proverbs 19 blog:  

       https://discipler123.blogspot.com/2021/07/day-169-2021-how-blessed-to-have.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