Sunday, January 2, 2011

DAY 501 - Oh God, What Are You Doing?






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Today's Reading: 1 Samuel 5
Please read 1 Samuel 5 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 5:
So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. As the ark of God was entering Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, "They have brought the ark of the god of Israel around to us to kill us and our people." 1 Samuel 5: 10 - 11


For a whole day, I was waiting for Jesus to give me a message for this chapter. I received a message after quite a few hours time. Jesus led me to see a picture of how those Israelites reacted to what was happening in this chapter: "Oh God, what are you doing?"

At first they thought that the ark should have super-power as in Moses and Joshua's time, but the ark did not give them victory. And the ark was captured by the Philistines. Right after the Israelites lost their hope and thought that the ark was useless, God used the ark to strike all those cities receiving the ark. Everybody was so frightened of the ark, and no one wanted to be near the ark.

What really happened? What I received today is that the ark is not God. God is God! The ark could do nothing when God does not want to do anything. But when God acts, no one will be able to confront.

Do you have that kind of trust that God can always be so powerful in your life? If you want to experience His power, then you need to know how to use spiritual bullets to fight spiritual warfare. Today the Anglican Province of Rwanda and Anglican Mission in the Americas start the 40 days fasting and prayers. During our weekly Saturday prayer meeting, I learned that quite a number of brothers and sisters, including myself, have started our 40 days fast today. Are you going to join us?


Dear Lord Jesus,
Help me not to challenge but to trust you totally. 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. John Engle Miller, III (Joyce)

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

St. Timothy’s, North Vancouver

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Ken Bell (Sonya)


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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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