DAY 273 - Life Is A Circle Game?

Today’s Reading: Genesis 13

Please read Genesis 13 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.)

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From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord. Genesis 13:3-4

Some people say life is a circle game. You go round and round but never can go to the destination. Is life a circle game to you?

Jesus told me today that life is not a circle game. It is a circle game when we do not listen to him going to where He wants us to go. Or, when we go to the place He leads us and then we lose faith on Him and go on our own way until we return to the starting point and start again.

Jesus showed me how Abram demonstrated this "circle game" mentality of human beings from Genesis 12 to 13. Abram listened and went to the destination Canaan right away, but something happened so that he seems lose faith. Because of just one sentence there "At that time the Canaanites were in the land." Troubles, troublesome people and worries. Then he went to the place Bethel on the west and Ai on the east(12:8), Negev(12:9), Egypt(12:10), Negev(13:1), the place between Bethel and Ai(13:3) and then at last Canaan again(13:12).

How sad! Why? I think it is so easy to lose our faith or be scared of all the challenges facing us so that we end up playing a circle game! Stop playing it now and start your faith journey. Be still and stand firm!

Dear Jesus,

Open my eyes that I can be able to see if I am going to play this circle game again. Help me to enter into this faith journey and go to where you tell me to. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

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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 discipler. 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 discipler to walk with you daily to enrich your spiritual journey. So, shall we start this journey with Jesus Christ our Lord now!

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