Friday, March 11, 2011

DAY 569 - What Do You Do After A Spiritual Victory?







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 my second blog - 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 18
Please read 1 Kings 18 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 - Day of Elijah

Please click the links below to 1 Kings 18:
So Ahab went off to eat and drink, but Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees...The power of the Lord came upon Elijah and, tuking his cloak into his belt, he ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezree.
1 Kings 18: 42,46



Wow, Jesus asked me a very tough question: What do you do after a spiritual victory?

This question gives me lots of memories and this is usually what I did:
1. I thought of how great God was and how good I was.
2. I usually got invade by my pride and forgot to pray first and gave thanks to the Lord.
3. I usually experience a kind of burn out state or losing of focus to Jesus but too excited on my success.
4. I crashed!

I just had a spiritual victory last week after the whole week of Doctor of Ministry course at Fuller Seminary and came back last Saturday. I preached well last Sunday and just was about to think that I was so good. Then I crashed on Monday morning! I got so many discouragements pouring down on me within half an hour, and I was not ready for that especially after a spiritual victory without prayers! I picked myself up(I mean God picked me up) and then went up to the top of my mountain to open the Bible and prayed, then wrote my blog, made the recording and I was on track again! What went wrong? Ha, I think I slept too much on Monday morning and forgot to pray! So simple? Yes, so simple and I fell!

We need to learn from Elija to go up to the top of "your mountain", bend down to the ground and put your face between your knees and pray! It's the only way not letting your pride to control all of you pulling you away from Jesus!

What have you heard from Jesus today? How would that change you to be more Christlike?


Dear Lord Jesus,
Help me to remember to pray first especially after a spiritual victory. In Jesus name I pray . Amen.


Please click this link to worship with us - Day s of Elijah

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 Most Rev. Dr. Onesphore Rwaje (Josephine)

The Rt. Rev. Thad Barnum (Erilynne)

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

The Light of Christ Church, Nanaimo

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Kathy King



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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