Tuesday, December 28, 2010

DAY 496 - The Fruit of Total Obedience




Praise the Lord that we have almost completed 500 days/24 hours Prayer Campaign! We have a new link for
you to sign for the new stage. Please join us now!

Please sign up for the 6th stage - 600 days
**NEW link for the 6th 100 days 24 hours prayer campaign(January 3 to April 12, 2011)

Today's Reading: Ruth 4
Please read Ruth 4 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 - Breathe

Please click the links below to Ruth 4:
Then Naomi took the child, laid him in her lap and cared for him. The women living there said, "Naomi has a son." And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David. Ruth 4: 16 - 17


This chapter shows the fruit of total obedience. Jesus asked me a question? Whom do you think is more important in this chapter, Naomi or Ruth?

This is the Book of Ruth; of course Ruth should be the most important person in this book. But, without Naomi who was Ruth's godly coach, nothing would have happened. It seems to me that Naomi had a harder role to show her godly character(Christlikeness in Christian terms) so that Ruth had a coach and mentor to follow. A coach is to pull out what you have inside to bring you to the next level. A mentor is to 'put in' so that you can be equipped to be ready for the next level. Naomi did both things! She did a good job and because of her faithfulness, King David and Jesus Christ could be born in her genealogy. Wow, that is such a great and blessed fruit of total obedience from both Naomi and Ruth.

Do you have a Naomi in your life? Are you willing to be a Ruth to exercise the total obedience so that God can work things through you in a mighty way?

Dear Lord Jesus,
Help me to exercise total obedience to you and to taste the fruit of total obedience. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.


Please click this link to worship with us - I Give You My Heart

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:
Mountain Valley Mission, Squamish
Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Barclay Mayo (Mary)


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!
-----------------
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)