DAY 419 - 12 Days of Fasting/Day 8: Bring Your Children to Jesus

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Today's Reading: Deuteronomy 6
Please read Deuteronomy 6 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 - I Give You My Heart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWDU8rBBIJs&feature=related

Please click the links below to Deuteronomy 6:

• Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 6&version=CUV
• NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 6&version=NIV
• ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 6&version=ESV
• Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 6&version=MSG

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door-frames of your houses and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6: 4-9

This is perhaps the most important chapter in the Bible for all Israelites. All of them can memorize verses 4 to 9. Jesus greatest commandment is from verse 4. This is how the Israelites teach their children until this very day.

What I heard from Jesus today is: Bring your children to Jesus

For Christians we need to grasp every opportunity to bring our children to Jesus. This is not only the responsibility of our pastors, Sunday school teachers, small groups leaders but us. We need to start having daily devotions with them when they are still very young. When they are over seven or older, then you may have a chance. I almost lost this chance but started to teach our younger son Athanasius and his best friend Vance daily devotion since last January. It's been one year and ten months now and I am still doing this at least once every week with them. I started a program similar to Alpha with them two weeks ago. It's called "Christianity Explored". There is no better way for parents to bring their children to Jesus!

Michelle and I went to visit one of our couples Mathew and Jenny and their daughter Cindy and their new born baby(one month old) . When I looked at little Joseph and Cindy, I prayed that Mathew and Jenny can bring them to Jesus!

Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to be good parents to bring our children to you. 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


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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 Anglican Mission bishop one day at a time:

The Rt. Rev. Thomas William (TJ) Johnston, Jr. (Rees)

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

St. Simon’s, North Vancouver

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Ed Hird (Janice)

Honorary Assistant priest: Rev. John Lombard (Beverly)

Deacon: Rev. Ron Gibbs (Beverly)

Twitter 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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