Hi there! Happy Friday, my name is Amber Murtagh, I am the DB Café Manager here at Desert Breeze, and I will be leading you through today's DB Devotional. During our current Praying Like Jesus teaching series we're following the ACTS prayer model for our daily devotionals: A for Adoration, C for Confession, T for Thanksgiving, and S for Supplication. This week we’re focusing on Thanksgiving: expressing gratitude to God for what he’s done. For our devotional we will be reading a portion of the one-hundred and thirty-ninth Psalm, a Psalm of David, but first we’re going to take a minute of silence for prayer. Take this moment to calm down, remove, just for a second, the distractions of the day, and connect with God. Ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you through this passage, ask Him to lead you, ask Him to give you something to take with you for the rest of the day. Let’s do that now.
Let’s begin our devotional. First, we are going to read the Scripture, listen, and if you have a Bible with you feel free to read along.
Psalm 139:13-18
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.
Now, we are going to move to reflection. We will re-read the same passage, but this time taking mental notes of anything that stands out to you. If you have a Bible with you, read along once again, and highlight those things. After the reading take a moment to ponder why those things stood out to you. Ask questions. Meditate. Let’s read.
Perfect, we are now going to move to response. We will re-read the passage for a third time; focus on those words or phrases that stood out to you. When this is finished go to God in prayer. Talk to Him about these words or phrases. Ask Him how you can apply these things to your day. Let’s read.
Good, now we are going to move to the final part of our devotional: rest. We will re-read the passage one final time. When we finish, use the silence to rest with God. Take what God has spoken to you through this Scripture, and pray it back to God. Let’s read one more time.
16 окт 2024
