DAY 288 - Awareness and Tithing

Today's Reading: Genesis 28

Please read Genesis 28 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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When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it." He was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven." Genesis 28:16

Our awareness of the presence of God and our willingness to tithe has a direct relationship to each other according to what Jacob experienced. There are quite a number of passages in the Bible stating very clearly that we need to tithe - to give a tenth of everything we have. What Jesus told me today through this chapter is very important: We will tithe and offer more than ,once we are aware of God's presence and have a personal relationship with God, no other way.

I challenged a brother a year ago why he did not tithe. His reasons are many, such as he has too many things to take care of and not enough money to pay for all those things so he is not able to tithe. Since then, I have been praying for him so that he can tithe, for I know that the real reason should be his relationship with God. Yes, once we are aware of the presence of God in our lives and we enter into this presence daily, then we will tithe and offer more than tithe. God does not need our money. What He does not want is when we claim that He is Lord but in fact "MONEY" is our real Lord!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Thank you for your daily presence. Help me to help more people to understand the significance of tithing and to offer to you more than we can offer, for you are our provider, our Savior and our Lord of life. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Michelle is good today. She is starting to do more housework now to enjoy her day at home everyday. She spends more time in having daily devotion to cherish an intimate time with the Lord than she has before. That is so wonderful!

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St. Simon’s, North Vancouver

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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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