Wednesday, March 2, 2011

DAY 560 - Why "IF"?




This newly designed key chains will be given to all members of ACiC/AI churches on the first Sunday of March (March 6, 2011). Please click this link to see a sample of my second blog to create a momentum for the launching of Discipler 123:
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: 1 Kings 9
Please read 1 Kings 9 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 - If You Love Me

Please click the links below to 1 Kings 9:
"But if you or your sons turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name."
1 Kings 9: 6-7



Many people including some Christians ask this question: Why is God's love conditional? If there is a God, then His love should be unconditional, right? So your God is not God or there is no God.

The message Jesus gave me today is that we should understand why there is a "if" of his love and protection. To 'Listen and obey' is the only thing God requires us to do so that we can be in His Kingdom doing His Kingdom ministry. But if we "turn away" from God and serve other gods, then He is not our King and we use our free will to be slaughtered by the other gods who is reality is Satan. It is Satan, the Deceiver, who tempts us to intentionally or unintentionally offer our gifts to other gods like worshiping idols, spending lots of money in buying things other than offering to God, losing our character of Christlikeness and become a 'horrible creature' full of anger and bitterness. If we choose this route of self-centeredness, then we have to suffer the consequence of our rebellious nature. Jesus says, "Repent, for the Kingdom is near."

Some wonderful thing just happened. Jesus asked me to search for Thomas Tallis' motet "If you love me" from John 14: 15-17:

Jesus says, "If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counsellor to be with you forever - the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you."

Yes, this is the answer. If you listen and obey, then the Holy Spirit is with you and you are able to be transformed into Christlikeness. If you turn away from God, then the Holy Spirit cannot flow in you and you are sooner or later running out of "fuel" and everything! "Burn out", "Depression", 'quit"...

Come Holy Spirit, shine on us that we can see our sins and confess our sins so that the blood of Jesus can cleanse us and that you can live in us. Come, Holy Spirit, we are not able to listen and obey to live our a lifestyle of Christlikeness. Come, come Holy Spirit!

Oh, our Lord Jesus Christ asked me to kneel down again on the floor of this hotel to confess my sins and to taste the sweetness of the presence of the Holy Spirit. Oh, the presence of the Holy Spirit is so intense and wonderful! I am speechless! Thank you Lord! Thank you! Oh Lord, bless this hotel room that whoever come in can have a chance to be touched by your love, to know you, to repent of their sins, to receive you as their Savior and Lord of Life and to be able to taste the sweetness of 'listen and obey'. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.


Please click this link to worship with us - In Christ Alone


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. Nathan Gasatura (Florence)

The Rt. Rev. Sandy Greene (Gigi)

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

Mountain Valley Mission, Squamish

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Barclay Mayo (Mary)

Intern: Mark Hird (Young Adult Ministries)



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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