Live in peace, be holy, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken!

   

 

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGwvjW1zRmU

The lyrics of the famous anthem "I was glad" is from today's Psalm 122. The anthem was composed by Sir Charles Henry Parry and is one of my favourite choral pieces. 

Every time I listened my soul was being lifted up to a joyful state looking forward to worship God in His temple with tears pouring out my eyes. Every time I conducted this piece(and most of the time I conducted that in a church) I felt the powerful presence of God in that church and my joy to lead all the worshippers to have that JOY to worship Him! 

Please click the link below to watch the video of my conducting three choirs to sing 

"I was glad":

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 122:1-9, Ezekiel 31:1-32:32; Hebrews 12:14-29; Proverbs 27:18-20

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:  

 “   14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. 

      27 The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, 29 for our “God is a consuming fire.”

                                                                 Hebrews 12:14, 27-29

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: Live in peace, be holy, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken!

      Lots of sudden disaster of this world and our lives have shaken everything, just like many times in human history facing earthquake, tsunami, famine and war. The reality is that all God's creation can be shaken anytime and any place. Admit it or not, God is a consuming fire who can destroy anything in this world or any mighty kingdom!

      But, God's Kingdom is never to be shaken! 

      When we are being shaken by those sudden disaster, it is a time of examination, a time to test if we have already entered into God's Kingdom that cannot be shaken. If we have entered into His Kingdom then those disaster cannot pull us away from God or other people. Instead, we can be used by God to lead many into His Kingdom that cannot be shaken and that we can live in peace and be holy!

   

     Dear Lord Jesus,

    Help us to be willing to be used by you to bring more people into Your Kingdom that cannot be shaken by this dark world. 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 122 blog: 

       https://discipler123.blogspot.com/2021/06/day-122-2021-dont-be-late-for-worship.html

       

       Please click this link to today's Old Testament Ezekiel 31:1-32:32 blog and video:

https://timewithabbaprayinglisteningenglish.blogspot.com/2025/11/even-pharaoh-could-not-escape-that-day.html

       Please click this link to today's Old Testament Proverbs 27 blog:  

       https://discipler123.blogspot.com/2021/08/day-177-2021-jealousy-can-destroy-you.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