Monday, February 14, 2011

DAY 544 - Power of Love Over Love of Power!














Please click link to see a sample of my second blog to create a momentum for the launching of Discipler 123 on the first Sunday of March, March 6, 2011:
http://discipler123.blogspot.com/



What is Discipler 123?
A campaign starting on the first Sunday of March for three months. It is for one Discipler gathering two friends to meet once a week to have devotion with them and encourage them to have daily devotion all through the three months from March through May.


Praise the Lord that we completed our 500 days/24 hours Prayer Campaign! We have a new link for you to sign for the new stage. You really need to join us now to pray! The easiest way is to take one hour slot for the whole week. We need you to join us! Trust in the power of prayers!

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: 2 Samuel 17
Please read 2 Samuel 17 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 - Unfailing Love

Please click the links below to 2 Samuel 17:
Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Arkite is better than that of Ahithophel." For the Lord had determined to frustrate the good advice of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom. 2 Samuel 17: 14


Happy Valentine's Day!

To read this chapter on Valentine's Day is very painful. How much David loved and forgave Absalom for his sin and how much Absalom and many elders of Israel hated David, so much that they wanted to kill David with everything they could think of!

Today as I was waiting for Jesus to give me a message, He reminded me of a very powerful sentence in N.T. Wright's Following Jesus - Biblical Reflections on Discipleship, page 105:

Because God's power is not manipulative, does not crush or squash human beings, but rather ennobles and fulfils them, God now longs that we, his children, should take our own part in implementing his victory, the victory of the power of love over the love of power, throughout his creation. Those who commit themselves to following the ascended Lord Jesus are thereby signing on for this task.

If you are under the oppression of the love of power of someone or a group of people, don't worry because the Lord will frustrate those people in His good plan and time. Dare to sign on for the task of "the victory of the power of love over the love of power"!

Let me share with you some photos I took in this year's Winter Conference in Greensboro, North Carolina. We surely experienced the power of love there!
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help me to overcome the love of power with your power of love. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Please click this link to worship with us - Power of Your Love


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 and Anglican Mission bishop one day at a time:

The Rt. Rev. John Miller (Joyce)

The Rt. Rev. Emmanuel Ngeendahayo (Victoria)

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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