Jesus waiting for your desiring to love Him!

    

 

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87IH18gCIdY

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

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 101:1-8, Song of Songs 1:1-4:16;  2 Corinthians 8:16-24; Proverbs 22:22-23

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:  

    Tell me, you whom I love,

    where you graze your flock
    and where you rest your sheep at midday.
Why should I be like a veiled woman
    beside the flocks of your friends?

If you do not know, most beautiful of women,
    follow the tracks of the sheep
and graze your young goats
    by the tents of the shepherds.

I liken you, my darling, to a mare
    among Pharaoh’s chariot horses.

Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings,
    your neck with strings of jewels.

We will make you earrings of gold,
    studded with silver.

                                 Song of Songs 1:7-11

      Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you

    by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
Do not arouse or awaken love
    until it so desires.

                                       Song of Songs 2:7

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: Jesus waiting for your desiring to love Him!

     Lots of people cannot understand Song of Songs and many Christians even do not want to read Song of Songs because they cannot find meaning to read it.

   Actually Song of Songs is a love song which is so easy to understand. At first sight you can easily find the intimate and deep love of a husband and his wife, but then your eyes might be opened by the Holy Spirit to find the intimate and deep love of God and His people, the love of Christ and the Church as described in Revelation.

     

    We can see in 1:8 the desperate desire to see each other and in 1:9-11 to see the husband can spend everything he has to purchase the most expensive pearl, gold and silver to his wife!

    We can see this kind of extravagant spending in quite a number of weddings, so called dream wedding! Some husbands need to use more than ten years to pay off the loan for that kind of wedding! But, that's love, love is for someone to sacrifice whatever he or she can sacrifice!

    The sad thing is that many husbands and wives lost this kind of sacrificial love after their wedding because of children, family, work, money, busyness ....! 

    The most important verse I received is from 2:7, Jesus is always waiting for us to have that intimate and deep desire to love Him and not loving other people or other things more than loving Him!

    If we can enter into that intimate and deep love with Jesus than we are willing to sacrifice everything we have to enhance this love! We will love our spouse more, willing to sacrifice more for our spouse, we will love our church more and willing to sacrifice more for our church, because that is love!

    Jesus is waiting for you to have this desperate desire to love Him so that your marriage, your family, your church and many relationships will be richly blessed!

    

     Dear Lord Jesus,  

     Help us to understand that you are waiting for us to have this desperate desire to love you and be willing to enter into your love so that our marriage, our family, our church and many relationship will be richly blessed.  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 101 blog: 

       https://discipler123.blogspot.com/2021/05/day-100-2021-why-we-need-to-shout-for.html

       

     

       Please click this link to today's Old Testament Ecclesiastes 10:1-12:14 blog and video:

https://timewithabbaprayinglisteningenglish.blogspot.com/2025/09/come-back-to-jesus-before-its-too-late.html

       Please click this link to today's Old Testament Proverbs 22 blog:  

       https://discipler123.blogspot.com/2021/08/day-172-2021-childrenyouth-ministry.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