How to live out God's will for you in Christ Jesus?

 

 

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eopnoMnhe4

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 115:1-8, Jeremiah 19:1-21:14;  1 Thessalonians 5:4-28; Proverbs 25:8-10

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:  

 “  Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard among you, who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you. Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other. And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone. Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

                                                           1 Thessalonians 5:12-18

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: How to live out God's will for you in Christ Jesus?

      We always want to seek for God's will for our lives, right? Today's 1 Thessalonians 5:12-18 is the concluding message for Paul of this book and that is exactly what we need. Paul teaches us what does it means by living out God's will for us and what do we need to treat our brothers and sisters in our home church:

    1. We need to acknowledge and hold the highest regard in love to those servants sent by God to care for us and admonish us.

    2. Live in peace with each other.

    3. To warn those who are lazy and disruptive.

    4. To encourage the disheartened, help the weak and be patient with everyone.

    5. Alway strive to do what is good.

    6. Always joyful.

    7. Pray continuously.

    8. Always thankful.

     

    But, we really can't do that because we are human! Without the last sentence of those verses we can't do it, and that is:

       "for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."

    If we are not in Christ Jesus each day, those eight points won't happen. Without Christ Jesus each day, may be we'll live out the opposite lifestyle!

    

     Dear Lord Jesus,  

    Help us to be in you each day that we can live out that eight points as our life testimony. 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 115 blog: 

       https://discipler123.blogspot.com/2021/06/day-115-2021-trust-is-key-word-please.html

       

     

       Please click this link to today's Old Testament Jeremiah 19:1-21:14 blog and video:

https://timewithabbaprayinglisteningenglish.blogspot.com/2025/10/be-teachable-not-stubborn.html

       Please click this link to today's Old Testament Proverbs 25 blog:  

       https://discipler123.blogspot.com/2021/08/day-175-2021-how-to-have-more-gold.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

Archbishop Yong’s MISSION 113 videos, October 16, 2022:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp0-JPx4Vac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyO6hMcOMOI

    Archbishop Yong's born again testimony:

    1st part: https://youtu.be/eogu1rMpvTQ

   2nd part: https://youtu.be/BhyUU1ov1RM