DAY 390 - No Challenge Is Too Big for God

Today's Reading: Numbers 13

Please read Numbers 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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Please click the links below to Numbers 13:

Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers 13&version=CUV

NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers 13&version=NIV

ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers 13&version=ESV

Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers 13&version=MSG

"We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them." Numbers 13: 33

God commanded Moses to send some men to explore the land of Canaan. He confirmed Moses that that was the land he was giving to them. So, what's the big deal?

It is just like a father who told his son, "Go to various car dealers and explore the difference on service and price and choose one you like. Don't worry, I promise you that I am going to give a good car to you." And then the son didn't come back to talk to his father but locked himself in his room crying, "Oh, I don't have money to buy. It's beyond what I can afford. Those salesmen were so tough. Oh, I can't deal with them. Oh, I want to die."

That is the picture Jesus gave me today. We as human beings always forgets God's promise. He promise to give us life and that we have it to the full. (John 10:10) When we face with challenges, so often we are being taken over by fear and forgetting that there is no challenge too big for God! Trust Him! Ask Him! Be with Him! Then you can experience that there is no challenge too big for you when Jesus is your Lord! Is He your Lord? Really?!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help me to be very sure that there is no challenge too big for me when you are my Lord and my King. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Michelle had two wonderful and powerful testimonies in our 11 a.m. Sunday service and the evening banquet of our 14th Anniversary celebration. There were so many tears, laughter and joy. Yes, joy poured down as a gift from the Holy Spirit to each one of us today from her testimony. Praise the Lord!!!

My son, Ignatius, completed his three weeks mission in Ethiopia a few days ago.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. Dr. Todd Dean Hunter (Debbie)

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

Church of Our Lord, Comox

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Dr. David Bowler (Jannice)

Priest: Rev. David Hollebone

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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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