Thursday, December 23, 2010

DAY 491 - Why Brothers Killing Brothers?!




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Today's Reading: Judges 20
Please read Judges 20 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 Judges 20:
On that day twenty-five thousand Benjamite swordsmen fell, all of them valiant fighters. But six hundred men turned and fled into the desert to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months. The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put all the towns to the sword, including the animals and everything else they found. All the towns they came across they set on fire. Judges 20: 46-48


Can you believe that? Eleven tribes attacked and almost killed all the men of one tribe, Benjamites just for insisting on a minor issue! Why? They just gave them those wicked men? What kind of misunderstanding was that?

Many Christians have left the church because of too much misunderstanding, accusation, badmouthing, and all kinds of fights. Many nonbelievers do not want to become Christians because they have seen how bad their relatives and friends demonstrate their so-called "Christian life".

I don't know why Christians can do that, and sometimes in the name of God! Reading this chapter can cause quite some disturbance for a lot of people, for it is recorded here that God allowed that to happen(v. 18, 23 and 28). There are quite a number of things we will never understand until we are in heaven. Maybe at that time, there will be no need for us to understand anymore for we are really in Christ.

So the lesson we can learn today is: Please do not kill your brothers and sisters or do anything harmful to them. Who wins? It is always Satan who wins! Why cause disunity in your church?! Why badmouth your pastor? Why make accusations before you understand the whole picture? Why accuse? You know that one of Satan's names is the Accuser? Why not follow Jesus' footsteps to lay down your life to others, to forgive, to love, to accept, to appreciate, to help, to understand...


Dear Lord Jesus,
Oh, help me not to kill but to love and to sacrifice. 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. Charles Hunter (Chuck) Murphy, III (Margaret)


Pray for one ACiC/AI church one day at a time:Christ the Redeemer, Pender Harbout
Victoria Church Plant, the Table

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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