DAY 428 - From Take to Give

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Today's Reading: Deuteronomy 15
Please read Deuteronomy 15 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 14:

• Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 15&version=CUV
• NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 15&version=NIV
• ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 15&version=ESV
• Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 15&version=MSG

However, there should be no poor among you, for in the Land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you, if only you fully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today. Deuteronomy 14:22-23

Give, give, give! Cancel debts, to be openhanded and give!

Every time God's people returned to God and started a renewal relationship then God asked them to tithe, to make offerings and to give as much as they can to other people. That is what loving God and His people really means.

Too many Christians are trying to take, take and take. What can I get from the sermon today? How much people and joy can I get if I go to next week's conference? How much help can I get if I join this house group? How....

It's a paradigm change from 'take' to 'give'. But once you start to give, and give and give more, then you will know what God means in this chapter. If you do not try to start to give, then you'll never understand how blessed it could be!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help me to give more to you and to other people! In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

There is no better teaching I have heard than what our Chairman bishop, Rt. Rev. Chuck Murphy, teaches about tithing. So you really need to see all the clips now from his talk of Theology of Stewardship last Saturday in our 1st ACiC/AI Regional Conference. That way at least, you will know why you need to tithe, though like many people you might still do what you want to do and not what God wants you to do:

1. Why Bishop Chuck Murphy avoided Tithing
2. When I Write the Check, it Stings
3. Tithing
4. In the Garden of Eden
5. A new willing heart is needed
6. Stewardship insights on Abraham
7. Joseph's Dreamcoat Stewardship
8. Jesus' Kingdom insights on stewardship
9. Stewardship insights on Joseph & Moses
10. Stewardship through Jesus' Parables
11. Prayer on getting out of the boat financially

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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. Dr. Todd Dean Hunter (Debbie)

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

Church of Redemption, Calgary

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Ikechukwu Chukuka (Wife, Courtney)

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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!

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