Thursday, March 3, 2011

DAY 561 - The Most Wise Became The Most Foolish!



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:
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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 10
Please read 1 Kings 10 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 Kings 10:
The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,not including the revenues from merchants and traders and from all the Arabian kings and the governors of the territories.

King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three minas of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon. 1 Kings 10: 14-17


Solomon accumulated chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses, which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills. Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue—the royal merchants purchased them from Kue at the current price. They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. 1 Kings 10: 26-29

When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,” 15 be sure to appoint over you a king the LORD your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite.16 The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the LORD has told you, “You are not to go back that way again.” 17 He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.
Deuteronomy 17:14-17


RED light! RED light! RED light!

Can you believe that? This is the chapter to show the peak of Solomon, of his wisdom, his wealth and his every kind of success. Is that what you want?

RED light! RED light! RED light!

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1: 27

It is in God's image that we need to return. Wait, why do we need to return to God's image? Why do we need to repent first before we can even return? It is because we were created in God's image, and everyone of us want to be God! When Solomon was on top of the world, then he did all the three things God commanded Moses to tell his people not to do after that 40 years of painful journeying in the desert :

1. No gold - Deuteronomy 17: 17 to 1 Kings 10: 14-17
2. Not going back to buy horses from Egypt - Deuteronomy 17: 16 to 1 Kings 10: 26 - 29
3. Not taking many wives - Deuteronomy 17:17 to 1 Kings 11: 1-3

Ha, ha, ha! You might laugh at Solomon and think, "You fool, how can you do that? Why did you do that?" But what Jesus told me today to warn you and me is, "If even Solomon the most wise man ever on earth did that, who are you? Do you think you can get away from this temptation and not fall on all those traps like Solomon did?"

If even Solomon failed and fell into those traps, do we have any hope?

Yes, the only hope is in the daily intimate personal relationship with Jesus. Only He can open your eyes to see those hidden traps in your life and warn you: RED light! RED light! RED light!

Only He can win over Satan when this cunning Deceiver tempts you, traps you and wants to kill you. Only Jesus can win over him! If you do not have a daily intimate personal relationship with Jesus, then you will follow Solomon's path. Be with Jesus each day and only follow Jesus' path.

Jesus says, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." John 8: 12


Dear Lord Jesus,
Lead me Lord, and help me so that I can follow you each day of my life. 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 and Anglican Mission bishop one day at a time:

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

The Rt. Rev. Dr. Jered Kalimba (Perpetue)

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

All Saints Community Church

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Peter Klenner (Jenny)



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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