DAY 298 - Watch out! Sins can devour you and your family!

Today's Reading: Genesis 38

Please read Genesis 38 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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Please click the links below to Genesis 38:

Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis 38&version=CUV

NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis 38&version=NIV

ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis 38&version=ESV

Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis 38&version=MSG

About three months later Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant." Judah said, "Bring her out and have her burned to death!"

Genesis 37: 35

Among all the brothers of Joseph who wanted to kill him first and then sold him later to the Ishmaelites, Judah was the only one named in chapter 37. It seems that he was the one to whom the other brothers listened. What I see in chapter 38 is the tragic consequence of sin into which Judah led his family. God put to death two of his elder sons because they were wicked and then his 'dirty' affair with his daughter-in-law to make her pregnant and then wanted to burned her to death. He and his family was in a mess and that's the consequence of sin.

Watch out! Sins can devour you and your family!

Dear Holy Spirit,

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Thanks for your fervent prayers that Michelle is a lot better today. All her reading have risen up and she has more strength today.

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Prayer items today:

For ACiC/AI

Bishop: Rt. Rev. Silas Ng (Michelle)

Network Leader: Rev. Peter Klenner (Jenny)

Network Leadership Team: Rt. Rev. Silas Ng, Rev. Peter Klenner, Rev. Ed Hird (Janice),

Rev. Simon Neill (Jo)

Administrator: Mrs. Zenia Cheng (Clarence)

Pray for one AMiA bishop one day at a time

The Rt. Rev. Alexander Maury (Sandy) Greene (Gigi)

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

Church of Redemption, Calgary

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Ikechukwu Chukuka (Wife, Courtney)

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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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