Wednesday, December 29, 2010

DAY 497 - Ask And It Will Be Given




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Today's Reading: 1 Samuel 1
Please read 1 Samuel 1 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 1 Samuel 1:
So in the course of time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, "Because I asked the Lord for him." 1 Samuel 1: 20


Jesus reminded me today of how Michelle and I finally decided to pray, asking God whether we should have a son 23 years ago. When we prayed together, in less than two months time we decided it was God's plan that we needed a son; then we knelt down and prayed before we went to bed that night. Michelle got Ignatius that night!

A similar thing happened 7 1/2 years later, for we forgot to pray whether we needed our second child. We prayed and then Michelle had Athanasius.

Were that two incidents coincidence? I don't think so. It was just we tried all human wisdom and methods but forgot to pray! Actually we taught this kind of simple prayer to quite a number of couples who wanted to have a child and for those who followed this simple way to pray, they got their children.

We know the importance of prayers but we often do not really pray, for sometimes we think it is to simple or too foolish to pray! Jesus says, "Ask and it will be given to you." We don't ask, so God let us use our own wisdom and method. Yes, you are right, sometimes even you ask you can not get because God will give you what He prepares. But, if you don't even ask, do you think you can do it alone? If you think so, then go ahead!


Dear Lord Jesus,
Teach me to be able to pray as often as I can and experience the power of prayers. 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. 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!
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