DAY 210 - Being Blessed Or Burned

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Today’s Reading: Hebrews 6

Welcome! The purpose of this blog is to encourage Christians to have daily devotion - a wonderful and intimate time with Jesus. There are three reasons for you to use this blog as your daily devotion:
1. A healthy spiritual diet - One chapter of the Bible daily. We really need at least one chapter of Bible daily so that we are well fed.

2. A good example of Spiritual Journaling - What I have committed for 1,189 days(the Bible has 1,189 chapters)to write this daily post is not for teaching purposes but this is my daily spiritual journal - I write down what I hear from Jesus and how I experience His intimate relationship with me each day.

I have launched a wide-spectrum research on daily devotion and have found out that there are less than 10% of Christians that are having daily devotion. Out of that 10%, many having daily devotion are doing so because of guilt (they know that they are Christians and need to have daily devotion and feel guilty if they don’t do that), duty (they need to fulfill their duty as a Christian) or study(lots of Christians primarily use their daily devotion as a time to study the Bible). I do pray and hope that you will make up your mind to have a relational daily devotion so that you can have an intimate time with Jesus. I pray that you will write your own spiritual journal as well.

3. An online discipler – One of the reasons that so many Christians do not have daily devotion is because they do not have a disciple. A discipler can help them build up this basic element of discipleship when they first become Christians. The best way for you is to have a discipler to walk with you for a certain period of time so that daily devotion become a good habit. Or, you may have a small group of two to three people to encourage and be accountable to each other so that you won’t stop your daily devotion. I offer myself as your online disciple to walk with you daily to enrich your spiritual journey. So, shall we start this journey with Jesus Christ our Lord now!


Please read Hebrews 6 and listen to what the Lord Jesus Christ would like to tell you before reading my Spiritual Journal below. If you would like to learn a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please read my “Count Down 5” from this blog. You may click this link directly for the method:Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf . (You may begin with a song to praise the Lord and complete you devotion by singing another praise song.)

Please click the links below to Hebrews 6:

Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews 6&version=CUV

NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%206&version=NIV

ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%206&version=ESV

Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%206&version=MSG

It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. Hebrews 6: 4-6

I was about to write my daily blog and I got an e-mail from a friend that I have not seen for a while. It says "Please help me pray for my spiritual life also, since I have put down God for a long while and wish that I can pick up again. I wish that I could find someone to really support / encourage me in church also, since somehow I do feel lonely!"

What Hebrews 6 says is so true. For those who have enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift and the goodness of the Word of God if they fall away, it is quite difficult for them to "come home"! I have seen many burning in anger in their personal life, work, family, marriage, church and many places.

On the contrary, two weeks ago a young adult came to me thanking me for leading him to Jesus and for being his discipler/follow-up leader. He recalled the memory when I went to his home for 13 weeks to do the follow-up works. And he told me that now he know that was a very important moment of his life.

Yes, as Hebrews 6: 10 tells us, "He will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them." Let us be willing to be disciplers so that no one would be lonely again!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help me to be able to teach more disciplers and be a good discipler so that no one will be lonely again. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Prayer items today:

For ACiC/AI

Bishop: Rt. Rev. Silas Ng

Network Leader: Rev. Peter Klenner

Network Leadership Team: Rt. Rev. Silas Ng, Rev. Peter Klenner, Rev. Ed Hird, Rev. Simon Neill

Bishop’s Chaplain: Rev. Ed Hird

Clergy Formation Advisor: Rev. Ken Bell

Administrator: Mrs. Zenia Cheng

Pray for one ACiC/AI church one day at a time

Church of Our Lord, Comox

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Dr. David Bowler

Priest: Rev. David Hollebone

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