DAY 494 - Christlikeness in Action

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

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Please click the links below to Ruth 2:

• Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ruth 2&version=CUV
• NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ruth 2&version=NIV
• ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ruth 2&version=ESV
• Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ruth 2&version=MSG

Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "it will be good for you, my daughter, to go with his girls, because in someone else's field you might be harmed."

Ruth 2: 2

Jesus gave me a big Christmas gift this morning when I was leading our weekly Saturday prayer meeting at 9a.m., two hours before our Christmas Eucharist. When we were reading Ruth 1 as our daily devotion, I was on Ruth 2 for I finished Ruth 1 yesterday.

Jesus asked me one question? Why did Ruth follow Naomi in perfect obedience?

My eyes were opened at that time. Right, it was because Ruth saw God in her life that she said 'your God my God!

Our yearly sermon series next year will be: Christlikeness. Naomi is a perfect example of Christlikeness in action. It is such a blessing that we had 26 adults and 7 children baptized today in our Christmas service. I sincerely pray and hope that they can be an example of Christlikeness in action so that people can follow them to see Christ!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help me to be an example of Christlikeness in action that people can follow me for they can see you in me. 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. Alexander Maury (Sandy) Greene (Gigi)

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

St. Barnabas Mission, Waterford, Ontario

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Susan Zakamarko (Peter)

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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