Daily Devotion

JANUARY 25, 2009
NATIONAL BIBLE WEEK CELEBRATION
(Ariel A. Santamaria)


Jos 1:1 And it happened after the death of Moses the servant of Jehovah, Jehovah spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
Jos 1:2 My servant Moses is dead. Now, therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people to the land which I give to them, to the sons of Israel.
Jos 1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, I have given that to you, as I said to Moses.
Jos 1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.
Jos 1:5 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
Jos 1:6 Be strong and of good courage. For you shall divide for an inheritance to this people, the land which I swore to their fathers, to give it to them.
Jos 1:7 Only be strong and very courageous so that you may be careful to do according to all the Law which My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may act wisely wherever you go.
Jos 1:8 This book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it by day and by night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall act wisely.
Jos 1:9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid, neither be dismayed. For Jehovah your God is with you in all places where you go.

1. Tungkulin v.2
a. Kumilos – Tumindig Ka, Magkaroon ng malinaw na pangitain
b. Magsiyasat – Kumilos Ka, Tingnan ang iyong kakayahan at sukatin ang mga Gawain sa hinaharap
c. Makipagtulungan – Gumawa kasama ang iba

2. Pangako v.3,4,5
a. Mga Pag-aari – Ibinigay ng Diyos ang lahat ng mayroon tayo
b. Hangganan – Ibinibigay ng Diyos ang mga tiyak nating Gawain at tungkulin
c. Pagpapala – Secured of His empowerment

3. Motivation v.6,7,8,9
a. Confidence – The confidence that God will work through us
b. Authority – specific mandate what to do
c. Sensitive – being cautious of our action
d. Righteous – living a life in the guidance of the word of God, Intimacy with God starts with the knowledge of His Words.

Being Intimate with God starts with a simple step of committing to read.... read the Word of God. The intention is easy to reach; the decision to do it is quite easy too. However, starting to do the actual reading and continuing to do it is rather harder than most people thought it would be. The involved commitment in this process is the reason why our specific time to be intimate with God is called a Personal Daily Devotion. The quality of our personal devotional times or quiet times significantly shapes the rest of our lives. The joy or peace of our Christian lives is either given to us by meeting with God or absent because we either don't meet with God or don't properly conduct our time with God.


Struggling with our Personal Daily Devotions and Quiet Times

One of the most common suggestions for new Christians is to have daily devotions or quiet times. Spending time each day with God is crucial to the normal development of a Christian. However, many of us have not clearly thought through their importance or the reasons consistent devotions are so difficult to establish and maintain.

Unfortunately, the word 'devotions' for many does not create any emotional appeal. It only creates blank faces. Other word or phrases like quiet times or Bible study are sometimes used to mean the same thing. Whatever word or phrase used, must be clearly defined and distinguished from other Christian terminology.

We usually end up telling people what devotions include. We tell them that they should pray and read the Bible. We rarely sit down with them and show them how to have an effective quiet time.

When we neglect to properly train them, their distorted concept of devotions resort to their predefined concepts of prayer and Bible reading. This is not enough.
More seriously, however, we have left undescribed the purpose of devotions. The purpose of devotions reveals the importance they are to play in our daily lives. Without understanding this, devotions usually ends up being low on the priority list. Maybe these believers will spend time with the Lord, but they will struggle. These struggles often lead people into legalism, meaning we just do it for the sake of doing it.
Before we go on, though, we realize it is really God at work in us. So let us pray and devote this time to Him.
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.(Philippians 1:6).

Catching the Excitement of Personal Devotions & Quiet Times

Before we understand how to have good devotions and quiet times, let us first catch a greater excitement for devotions. Most Christians consider their quiet time as something to be endured rather than something to look forward to.

Exodus 33:7-11
7-8 Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, a good distance from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And it came about, that everyone who sought the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting which was outside the camp. And it came about, whenever Moses went out to the tent, that all the people would arise and stand, each at the entrance of his tent, and gaze after Moses until he entered the tent.

9-10 And it came about, whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent; and the LORD would speak with Moses. When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would arise and worship, each at the entrance of his tent.

11 Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

1) Moses met regularly with God.
"Whenever Moses went out to the tent"
God can meet with people closely even in the Old Testament. Would God meet with me this way? How often would He meet me? Why would He meet me? What would we do if we did meet?
2) Outside the camp.
"Outside the camp, a good distance from the camp"
God wants to meet with me alone. Privately. He especially doesn't want me to bring the dust of the world into my meeting with Him. The whole reason to meet with Him is to get away from the world with all its sin. I need to live with a cleansed conscience. God doesn't want me to get close to Him with my sin. I need to regularly turn from any sin in my life.

3) Moses meets God.
"Whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend"
There is not much sense having a meeting with God (devotions) if God is not there. Why am I not very conscious of Him some times? Is it my doubt? My sin? Or just my stupid ignorance? Have I had devotions so long and never thought God's presence to be the most critical aspect of that time?

4) God talked with Moses.
"The LORD would speak with Moses."
I want God to speak with me. It might be scary or delightful, but what is the sense living if God would be quiet? What wisdom would I have if He kept quiet? Who else do I have? I want to be close to Him and Him with me. I greatly need Him to be my God.

5) People's response.
"When all the people saw the pillar of cloud"
I want to meet with God each day. I want to hear Him. Like Solomon's prayer, may His presence so influence me that those around me would grow in their love and knowledge of God's glory! May God raise up holy leaders around me through my times together with God.



Preparing Your Heart to Meet God In Your Quiet Time
Psalm 130
Where do you want to go in your relationship with God?

Where did you put your circle next to the thermometer? In a sense we will get what we desire. "And I say to you, ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you." (Luke 11:9).

1. Desperate for the Lord's help (Psalm 130:1)
Those that want to meet with the Lord have been touched by God in the past. This experience has been impressed on them and helps serve them as to what we can expect from God in the future. We know from our past experience of salvation that He can help us despite our difficult situations. Salvation will always stand out as the greatest work God has done for us.
2. Dependent on God for daily needs (Psalm 130:2).
We desperately need the Lord for salvation - for life itself, but we also need Him for daily living. If a person thinks that he can get by a day without the Lord, then he will not sense a need to meet God. We find this need of the psalmist in Psalm 130 as well as in Jesus' own life.

3. Sensitive to our sin (Psalm 130:3,4)
We need to obey God. We have lots of excuses, but there are no good ones! Every conscious sin demands immediate repentance and turning back to God's way. We must have a zero tolerance for disobedience.
Our life is in the Lord's hand, not our own. The psalmist knew that if God would mark his iniquities (open disobedience), then he would be in dire trouble.

4. Confident of forgiveness (Psalm 130:4)
Some people get hung up on whether they feel forgiven. They condemn themselves and even though forgiven, they still act as if they are not. They have allowed a wrong perception of God and themselves to destroy their faith. The psalmist says, "But there is forgiveness with Thee, That Thou mayest be feared."

5. Waiting for the Lord (Psalm 130:5-6)
The Lord wants us to wait for Him. This is the way He tests our hearts. Remember how King Saul got impatient with God's ways when things were not done in his own time (cf. 1 Samuel 13:10)? God hated that. He doesn't like it when we cram devotions in and really do not wait for Him to speak. God wants us to wait for Him because only He has the answer. We can't do without Him. So we wait.
The Lord fully understands there are times that we cannot have regular meetings with Him because of emergencies or sickness. God is not being legalistic at these times. One should not feel guilty. God uses what we have stored within us to strengthen us at those times.
But laying sick on your bed, do you cry out to Him for help or does one complain and fuss about being there? Even here you and I display our heart attitudes.


6. Hope and expectation from God (Psalm 130:7-8)
We need to be honest as to what we expect when we meet with God. Positive thinkers are wrong in thinking their thoughts control events. They are right, though, in linking the faith of a person with what he in the end receives. Read the psalmist's response in verses 7-8.
He does not just think the Lord will make things okay, but He has such confidence in the Lord about his situation that he encourages everyone around him to hope in God. His hope does not make God do anything. Instead his hope tunes him in to God's purpose and ways.
Do you come a bit disgruntled because He asks you to get up early or stay up late? Are you despondent as you open the pages of His Word? This reveals a needy heart. Let us put aside our critical hearts and get excited with the Psalmist in the way he anticipates God's work in his life.

Great Expectations from Our Devotional Times with God

What we expect from our times with God largely determines what we receive.

FOUR areas that God specially works in through our daily meetings with Him. Each area is crucial to healthy Christian living.

1. Delight in God – Fellowship, Sustained by His presence and goodness
There is no doubt that one of the chief purposes of meeting with God is simply to delight in Him. It is the acknowledgement of who He is as our Provider, Sustainer, Lover, etc. We simply dwell in His presence. We express thanks in word, song or praise.

2. Die to self – Loyalty, Separated from the world; alive to God
We can think of devotions as a time we renew our pledge to the Lord. Think of it as a time the wife looks at her wedding ring. She belongs to her husband. The church's strength has to do with the degree she affirms her separation from the world and her total allegiance to her Lord.

3. Discover God's truth – Strengthened, Sanctified by His Word; guided and empowered
Jesus said, 'The truth shall set you free!" We sharpen our sword (Ephesians 6) by knowing and applying God's Word to our lives (1). As we meditate on His word, the Spirit comes and applies it to our lives. He strengthens us through His Word in faith and wisdom to be able to live rightly through all of the day's difficulties.

4. Discern the day – Protected, Secured by the Lord; kept from temptation

The Lord teaches us to say, "Lead us not into temptation." This means that we need the Lord's help to stand well guarded. By staying close to His side, He alerts us to the schemes of the evil one. Without Him, we will fall.

Good devotional times with God, unleash a consistent and powerful ministry because it is rooted in the power, purpose and love of God.

“A WELL CHURCH”
(Kap. Ariel A. Santamaria)
ACTS 2:41-47

41“Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. 42They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 46Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47praising God and enjoying the favour of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. “

Sinabi ni Pastor Greg Laurie na ang isang Iglesia nasa mabuting kalagayan, walang sakit, malusog sa madaling salita ay malusog o “Well Church” kung ang Iglesiang ito ay ginagawa ang nga sumusunod na Gawain:

W - WORSHIP (Sumasamba)
E - EVANGELIZE (Humahayo at Nagbabahagi ng kaligtasan ng Panginoong Hesus)
L - LEARN (Nag-aaral/Bukas sa Pagkakatuto)
L - LOVE (Tunay na Umiibig/Nagmamahal)

WORSHIP (SUMASAMBA)

Mahalaga po sa isang Iglesia ang palagiang nagsasama-sama upang magbigay ng karampatang pagsamba sa ating Diyos. Dito ay nagkakaroon ng mabuting ugnayan ang bawat mananampalataya sa pamamagitan ng sama-samang pananalangin, sama-samang pag-aalaala at pagsasagawa ang Banal na Hapunan at sama-samang nagpupuri sa Diyos. (Acts 2:42, 47) Ang Diyos ang dapat na sentro ng lahat ng Gawain sa loob ng Iglesia. Sinabi sa Romans 12:1 – “... to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual act of worship.” Minsan po ay mayroong isang maliit na Iglesias a isang Baryo sa Cavite. Katulad din po ito ng ibang mga Iglesia sa panahon niya na ang mga kaanib ay mga magsasaka, tindera sa palengke, manghahabi, labandera, anluwagui, tubero, mason at iba pa. Myroon ding ilan na pinalad na nakapag-aaral sa Maynila. Tumakbo ang panahon na ang mga magulang ay nagkaanak at ang mga anak ay lumaki. Subalit sa mga panahong iyon ay patuloy ang ginagawang pagsamba at pagtitipon tipon ng mga magkakapatid sa pananampalataya. Sinimulan nila ang minsan isang linggong pulong panalangin bukod pa sa Lingguhang pananambahan. Gayon din ang mga pag-aaral ng Biblia sa mga purok. Lalong naging masigla ang mga kapatiran maging ang mga kabataan. Nagsimula nang maging huwaran ang Iglesiang ito sa kanilang baryo. Ang bahay sambahan noon na yari sa pawid ay naging maliit na kapilya na yari sa bato at yero. Di naglaon ay patuloy na dumadami ang kaanib kaya’t minabuti na pagpulungan na magpatayo ng isang mas malaking Kapilya. Sinimulan ang gabi-gabing pagsasama-sama ng mga magkakapatid at pulong panalangin. Dito ay dinala nila ang patuloy na pagpupuri at pagsamba sa Diyos at ang kahilingan na ipakita ang kanyang kalooban. Sa pagpapatuloy ng mga kapatiran sa Baryong ito ay biniyayaan sila ng Diyos ng isang magandang kapilya, isang malaking gusali para sa paaralan, isang kooperatiba na naging malaking bahagi sa pagunlad ng komunidad. Ang pangyayaring ito ay hindi po exclusibo para sa Iglesiang ito sa isang baryo sa Cavite... marami na din pong Iglesia natin ang dumaan sa ganitong pagpapala... ang Iglesia po nating ito sa Rosario ay hindi po kaiba... ang atin pong buong pusong pagsamba at pagpupuri sa Diyos ay walang kaibahan sa ibang Iglesia. . . Ang mga Kristiyano sa Iglesia na nagsuko ang kanilang sarili sa Diyos ay lubos na pagpapalain ng ating Panginoon.
EVANGELIZE (NAGBABAHAGI NG SALITA NG DIYOS)

Sinabi ng ating Panginoon ang ganito sa Matthew 28:19 at 20 “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I will be with you always, to the very end of the age.” Sa patuloy po nating pagbabahagi ng salita ng Diyos sa Salita at sa Ating Buhay ay binanggit po sa verse 47 ang ganito, “ ...And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved”. Kasabay po ng habilin ng ating Panginoon ay ang patuloy na buhay ng mga mananampalataya sa magulong mundo. Kung saan ang di pagkakaunawaan maging ng mga magkakapatid sa pananampalataya ay bumabagabag sa pagsamba at pagpupuri ng iglesia. Maging ang mga nagkalat na tukso ay patuloy na sumisira sa ugnayan o relasyon ng mga mananampalataya sa Diyos at maging sa kapatiran. Ang pagtaas ng bilihin ay patuloy nating nadarama na parang wala na yatang katapusan. Sa verse 44 po ay sinabi, “... All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.” Isang paraan po ng evangelisasyon ay ang buhay natin bilang isang Kristiyano. Bilang mga anak ng Diyos, tayo po ay tinitingnan kung paano natin isinasabuhay ang katuruan ng Biblia. Minsan po ay akala natin na kapag nag-share po tayo ng salita ng Diyos gaya ng Four Spiritual Laws, Mahal ka ng Diyos gospel tract o kaya ay iba pang pamamaraan ay nagawa na natin ang ating Gawain sa evangelisasyon. Malaking bahagi po ng pagbabahagi ng Salita ng Diyos ay kung paano natin ito isinasabuhay. . . Isang naging paraan ng binanggit ko na Iglesias a Cavite ay ang pagtatayo ng isang Kooperatiba para sa Baryo. Una itong naging Credit Cooperative hanggang sa lumaon ay naging Multi-Purpose Cooperative. Nang sinimulan ito sa kanyang unang mga taon ay mga kapatiran muna ang mga kaanib hanggang sa unti-unti ay dumami ang kaanib ng kooperatiba. Dahil sa patuloy na pagpapala ng Diyos, marami sa mga kaanib ng kooperatiba na dating katoliko at iglesia ni kristo ang nakakilala sa ating panginoong Hesus. Sa pamamagitan ng maliit na Day care center na naging isang paaralang elementary, high school at kolehiyo at maraming mamamayan ang nakakilala sa ating panginoon Hesus. Ganun din naman po ay may malaking pagkakataon ang Iglesia nating ito sa Rosario na magkaroon ng malaking bahagi sa komunidad na ating kinabibilangan. Ang simpleng pakikipag-kaibigan sa ating mga kapitbahay ay isang mabisang paraan upang sila ay madala natin sa paanan ng ating Panginoon.


LEARN (MAG-ARAL AT MATUTO)

Paano po natin makikilala at madadama ang kadakilaan ng ating Diyos? Ang Biblia po ay puno ng mga salita, kasaysayan, mga aral upang magamit natin sa ating buhay. Ang Lumang Tipan ay puno ng kasaysayan, mga tuntunin, mga tula at kasabihan na makapagbibigay lakas at panuntunan sa ating buhay. Ang bagong tipan ay katatagpuan ng mga kasaysayan at turo ng mga unang mga Kristiyano at ng mga bagay ukol sa muling pagbalik ng ating Panginoon. Marami pong paraan upang tayo ay makapag-aral ng Salita ng Diyos. Andyan po ang mga Bible Studies, sa mga Pulong Panalangin, sa Pananambahan. Marami din mga pagkakataon na ang ating Pamunuan sa Kalipunan ay nagtataguyod ng mga pag-aaral o pagtuturo para sa ikauunlad ng ating pananampalataya. Subali’t kailangan po sa ating paglago ang ating personal na pagbubulabulay ng Salita ng Diyos. Sa pamamagitan po nito at tuwirang magkakaugnay ang ating espiritu sa banal na Espiritu na ating tinanggap mula ng tayo ay maging isang kristiyano. Mahirap po na malaman natin ang kalooban ng ating Diyos sa ating buhay bilang isang Kristiyano o bilang isang Iglesia kung di natin pinagbubulaybulayan ang Kanyang Salita. Ang patuloy po na pag-aaral ng Banal na Tipan o ng Biblia ay kinakailangan. Anu-ano po ba ang dapat nating matutunan? Una po ay kinakailangan nating matutunan kung sino ang Diyos na ating sinasamba. Ang Diyos ni Abraham, ni Isaac at ni Jacob.Ang alpha at ang omega, ang simula at ang wakas, ang lumalang ng langit at lupa at ng lahat ng mga halaman at hayop, ang lumalang sa atin mula sa alabok. Ang iisang Diyos na nagkatawang lupa at nagligtas sa atin mula sa kaparusahan ng kasalanan, ang iisang Diyos na nagbibigay aliw sa sa ating espiritu. Ikalawa ay matutunan nating isuko an gating buhay sa Diyos, Ikatlo ay ang makilala natin ng lubos ang ating sarili. Ikaapat ay ang matutunan natin ang maglingkod ng may pag-ibig at ang huli ay ang pag-iwas at pagpuksa sa tawag ng laman sa ating buhay sa pamamagitan ng biyaya ng Diyos.


LOVE (PAG-IBIG O PAGMAMAHAL)

Malimit banggitin ni Harold Sala ang mga katagang “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving”. Sa madaling salita, ang pag-ibig o ang pagmamahal ang siyang susi kung bakit tayo at nagkakaloob. Ang pagkakaloob ay isang manifestation ng pag-ibig o pagmamahal. Sinisukat ang isang kaloob hindi sa halaga ng ipinagkaloob kundi sa kung gaano ito pinahalagahan ng pinagkalooban. Halimbawa, sa kaarawan ng ating anak ay maaaring napakamahal ng ating biniling regalong laruan tulad ng isang set ng baseball na sa paagay natin ay magugustuhan n gating anak. Subali’t sa pagbukas ng kanyang regalo ay nakita natin na sumimangot ang bata na parang disappointed sa natanggap. Anuman ang kanyang dahilan, sa pagkakataon na iyon na nakita natin ang kanyang reaksyon, di ba’t parang nawalan ng halaga an gating ibinigay. Ang mga unang kristiyano ay buong pusong nagkoloob ng panahon sa worship, fellowship kasama ng mga iba pang mananampalataya, at pananalangin. Pagkakaloob ng anumang kaya para sa mga may pangangailangan. Ang dalawa na pinagkalooban ng talento ay pinagyaman nila ito bilang pagpapahalaga sa nagkaloob nito. Sa pagmamahal at pag-ibig sa loob ng Iglesia ay gayun din, ito ay pinagyayaman at kinakalinga. Ang pagkakaunawan ay dapat pinangingibabaw, ang hustisya ay pinapahalagahan, ang pagkakampi-kampi ay kinakalimutan, ang pagmamataas ay iwinawaksi. Ang pagibig ay nararapat na tapat at busilak sa puso. Ang wika sa Romans 12:9 at mga sumusunod na talata.... “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil, cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with god’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality. Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. Do not repay evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the site of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge my friends, for it is written, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay” says the Lord.... “


Ang isang Iglesia ay matatag kung ang Diyos ang sinasamba. Ang Iglesia ay tumatatag kunga nag mga kaanib ay sumasamba, humahayo at nagbabahagi ng salita ng Diyos at ng kaligtasang mula sa Anak, matiyagang nag-aaral ng Salita ng Diyos at walang kondisyong umiibig at nagmamahal. Ang iglesiang ito ay magiging epektibo ay magbibigay ng impact sa kanyang pamayanan at magkakamit ng pagmamahal ng karamahan. Pagpalin po tayo ng ating panginoong Hesus.

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