Saturday, June 19, 2010

DAY 304 - A Change of Heart


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Today's Reading: Genesis 44


Please read Genesis 44 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 44:


Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis 44&version=CUV

NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis 44&version=NIV

ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis 44&version=ESV

Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis 44&version=MSG


Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord's slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers. How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come upon my father."

Genesis 44:33-34


What I received from Jesus today is how Judah changed his heart:

Here are some of Judah's sins

1. Winner of a family struggle - Reuben was the eldest son and Judah was the fourth under the same mother Leah. Starting from Genesis 37: 26, Judah took over Reuben's place as No. 1 among the brothers. I counted how Reuben from Chapter 37 to 44 only appeared 4 times but Judah appeared 14 times. The whole chapter of 38 recorded how much Judah's family suffered.


2. The one (Judah) represented all ten brothers in selling Joseph. This showed hatred to Joseph and showed how he did not care about the pain of his father.


Judah's change of heart

1. He pleaded for his younger brother Benjamin. In fact he should have the same kind of jealousy and hatred to Benjamin but he learned a lesson through his own sin.


2. He felt the pain of his father as shown in the whole chapter 44 so that he vividly saw and experienced how much he had been hurt.


3. Genesis 44: 33- 34, as shown above, clearly shows the total change of heart from selling his brother to pleading to sacrifice himself to save his brother, from not caring how much his father would be hurt to trying all his best not to let his father to have misery.


Jesus draws me to the message of Malachi 4: 5-6:


" I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse."


I have seen too many curses in families. A friend shared with me today that she did not see or talk to her parents for 18 years because of some major misunderstanding. She talked to her parents again two days ago. We gave thanks to the Lord for this major change in her heart and her parents hearts as stated in Malachi 4: 5-6. I told her that I was so joyful for I had a most moving and wonderful dinner with four of my very close relatives whom we had not met or talked for 43 years because of a major family fight of our parents. How many 43 years do I have? None! We are the 2nd generation and most of us are now devoted Christians serving the Lord in various areas. We made a decision to break the "family curse", meeting yesterday. We prayed together asking our Lord Jesus Christ to cut the tie of the curse in our Ng's family! It was so wonderful!


Do you have a similar "family curse"? If you do, this is the time for you to ask our Lord Jesus Christ to help you to make a change of heart.


While I just finished writing this blog, I clicked open an e-mail from one of my cousins. She had lunch with my brother in Hong Kong yesterday. The same time as I had lunched with other four relatives... Two are my cousins. She and my brother have not met for 43 years! Wow! This is such a miracle that our family chains have been gone and we are set free! My father passed away 14 years ago and I know that he is so joyful now in heaven!


I was so moved that I knelt on the floor of the hotel room in Toronto (I am having my overseeing trip as a bishop to our five churches from two days ago to next Thursday. Three in Ontario, one in Calgary and one in Regina) singing the Amazing Grace using the link below. Oh, it was so good! Yes, our chains have gone! We are free! Please pray for our families, we have quite a big family, more than 30 people! 30 disconnected relatives! How about you?



Dear Lord Jesus,

Help me to see all those things that I need to change so that I can bring reconciliation to many broken relationships. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.




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Michelle told me today through long distance call that after her going to VGH on Wednesday that she does not need to go to VGH anymore till next Monday. Wow! This has never happened before! Praise the Lord!


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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. John Engle Miller, III (Joyce)


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


Immanuel Church

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Simon Neill (Jo)


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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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