DAY 528 - How The Mighty Have Fallen

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Today's Reading: 2 Samuel 1
Please read 2 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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"How the mighty have fallen!

The weapons of war have perished!" 2 Samuel 1: 27

Jesus gave me two very important messages:

1. How the mighty have fallen.

Why did Saul become the mighty? Because he was chosen by God and he walked with God.

Why did Saul die like that? Because he chose to be away from God.

2. Be merciful to those who harm you!

Jesus says, "Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy." Matthew 5: 7

How could David still have mercy and honor Saul and his family after how Saul wanted to kill him many time giving him many painful experiences. Because David was after God's heart and he was one of the merciful. Can you do that? The answer is NO! You can't in your own strength, because it is beyond our limitations as human beings. Only if you ask God to help you and to experience He in you "Emmanuel", then you have a chance to be the merciful! That is the essence of the Beatitude (Matthew 5: 1 - 10). "Repent, for the Kingdom is near!" Only if we repent and return back to His Kingdom, then we can be one of the mighty and merciful!

Only if we fall down before God, then we will not fall down because of the Deceiver, the Separator and the Destroyer!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help me to be more closer to you so that I can be one of the mighty and merciful. 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 Rwanda or Anglican Mission bishop one day at a time:

The Rt. Rev. Dr. Todd Dean Hunter (Debbie)

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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