Tuesday, October 19, 2010

DAY 426 - God Is Testing You




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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Today's Reading: Deuteronomy 13
Please read Deuteronomy 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 Deuteronomy 13:
The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul. It is the Lord your God you must follow and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. Deuteronomy 13:3-4


What's the use of tests in school? What would happen if you cannot pass those tests? Are those tests to build you up or to destroy you? What if there is no test and anyone can get a driver's license? What if there is no test and anybody can be a Medical Doctor? What if...

Today Jesus told me that He has lots of tests on me and on you too! All the tests are pointing to train you to be able to follow him, to revere, to listen and obey, to serve him more and hold fast to him. It is so easy to follow other people or things, to not revere God and his servants, to listen and obey to many bosses but not God, to serve many people, money, power and more but not to serve him, to hold fast to other people, money, power and more but not to him, to... Oh! Have mercy on us Lord!

Our Chairman bishop, Rt. Rev. Chuck Murphy, just had a very wonderful and powerful teaching on the Theology of Stewardship in our Regional Conference last Saturday morning. It is the best talk about Stewardship and Tithing I have ever heard. Thanks to Rev. Ed Hird who put a link to his talk, I have put it here and hope that you can take this rare opportunity to learn from Bishop Chuck:


Dear Lord Jesus,
Help me to pass all those tests that I am and will not be able to pass. I am so weak but you are strong; carry me through all those things which I cannot not bear, those humiliations, judgements, accusations, misunderstandings and mistrust. Help me Lord! In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.


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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. Thaddeus Rockwell (Thad) Barnum (Erilynne)

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

Christ the Redeemer, Pender Harbour

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Jen Morgan (Ken)

Pastoral Assistant: Rev. Carolyn Spence

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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