Friday, October 8, 2010

DAY 415 - 12 Days of Fasting/Day 5: Real Secret of Success


Praise the Lord that we have completed 400 days/24 hours Prayer Campaign! Without this prayer shield I think I might not be able to face the storm of Michelle's leukemia. You really need to believe in this kind of power of prayers! You really need to join us! This is how the Lord commanded me more than a year ago to teach as many people as I can to pray as never before and to experience the power of prayers! Have you experienced yet?

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5th 100 days 24 hours prayer campaign (September 25, 2010 to January 2, 2011

Today's Reading: Deuteronomy 2
Please read Deuteronomy 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.)

Please click this link to worship with us - This Is Our God
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2D0g4Kizto&feature=related

Please click the links below to Deuteronomy 2:
From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The Lord our God gave us all of them. But in accordance with the command of the Lord our God, you did not encroach on any of the land of the Ammonites, neither the land along the course of the Jabbok nor that around the towns in the hills. Deuteronomy 1: 32- 33


Today's passage talks about 40 years earlier when God wanted them to go and they did not. Then when God told them not to go, they did. Forty days later they learned at last the real secret of success:

Obey God when you do not want to!

Today I am so joyful. This morning I received a call from a member of our church telling me that she listened to my advice to fast for 40 days discerning a major move of her life. This evening when I was in the Awana leaders thanksgiving dinner, four brothers and sisters came to me telling me that they have joined the 12 days of fasting since the 1st day(This Monday). Wow! That was such an encouragement! Praise the Lord!

When the Lord calls us, what we need to respond is: Yes Sir! Aye aye Sir!


Dear Lord Jesus,
Help me to practice this real secret of success so that I can follow you and obey all your calls. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.


My son, Ignatius, completed his three weeks mission in Ethiopia this past summer.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/

Please click this link to watch Athanasius' violin recital(June 7, 2010) with myself playing the piano:
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DBxm_gFosQOY&h=7ba22


Please click this link to worship with us - All to Jesus


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 Anglican Mission bishop one day at a time:

The Rt. Rev. Charles Hunter (Chuck) Murphy, III (Margaret)


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

Toronto Emmanuel Church

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Edmund Ho (Cecilia)


version: http://twitter.com/bishopsilasng

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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