DAY 352 - Secondhand Offerings

Today's Reading: Leviticus 2

Please read Leviticus 2 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 Leviticus 2:

Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus 2&version=CUV

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Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus 2&version=MSG

"When someone brings a grain offering to the Lord, his offering is to be of fine flour."

Leviticus 2:1

Why did God command the Israelites to offer animals without defect Lev. 1: 3,10) and fine flour for the grain offering? Fine flour means the finest wheat flour. It was beaten to a fine grain so that it had no lumps or imperfection. God teaches His people to offer the best to Him for He is God!

But, we have so many secondhand or even thirdhand, fourthhand offerings:

Buying furnitures for the church - let's get the cheapest.

Buying new TV, computers and other household items - let's give the used one to the church.

Salary for God's servants - the lowest as possible

Hospitality for God's servants from other countries - the cheapest as possible.

And .......

If we do not know and are not willing to offer the best to God, then ...!!!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help me to offer the best to you and that your Name will be glorified. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Thanks for all your prayers! Michelle and I are quite disappointed for the report has not arrived yet. So, we need to wait again. The next VGH appointment is next Monday and this time will be seeing the doctor in charge. Patience is one of many lessons we have been learning the past four months!

My son, Ignatius, completed his three weeks mission in Ethiopia yesterday.We are so joyful to welcome him home and know that he experienced God mightily in that three weeks. His one word of experience is "JOY"! Please click this link to read his wonderful sharing:http://21ethiopiandays.wordpress.com/

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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), Rev. Ken Bell (Sonya)

Bishop's Chaplain: Rev. Ed Hird (Janice)

Clergy Formation Advisor: Rev. Ken Bell (Sonya)

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

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!

New Link for the 4th 100 days 24 hours prayer campaign(June 17 to September 24, 2010)!!

Our 3rd phase of 100 days of prayers (March 9 to June 16, 2010).

Our 2nd phase of 100 days of prayers (November 29, 2009 to March 8, 2010)

Our 1st phase of 100 days of prayers

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