Thursday, March 17, 2011

DAY 575 - Who Pass The Baton to You?













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:

http://discipler123.blogspot.com/


You can also listen to my daily podcast in English and Cantonese through this new site.



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 Kings 2
Please read 2 Kings 2 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 - The Potter's Hand

Please click the links below to 2 Kings 2:
But Elisha said, "As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel. 2 Kings 2

The company of the prophets from Jericho, who were watching , said, "The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha." And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him. 2
Kings 2: 15


You need a coach. Do you know that? Do you have a coach? If you don't have one, then you need to pray for one, at least one.

I see two stages of coaching here in this chapter:
1. Follow your coach closely - See how closely Elisha followed Elijah. That showed a teachable spirit and an intimate relationship.

2. Passing the baton to suitable leaders - See how Elijah passed the baton to Elisha so that he was recognized to be Elijah's successor(2: 15)

I see coaching as the passing of baton in a relay. We need someone to pass the baton to us and we need to pass the baton to other people because we are running a "spiritual race" for His Kingdom.

Do you have a coach so that you can receive the baton? Are you willing to coach other so that you can pass the baton?

I have some wonderful pictures of the 400 relay and a picture I took during my Fuller D. Min. class two weeks ago of an unspeakable intimate relationship with Rev. Andrew with his coach Dr. Terry Walling.

I am so grateful to the Lord that He sent Dr. Gil Stieglitz to be my coach six years ago when I was near the edge of burn-out. And last October God gave me a double blessing so that I have Dr. Terry Walling to be my coach helping me to find my major role and to have a breakthrough in quite a number of areas. Then a triple blessing came at the end of last year that I have Dr. Eddie Gibbs to be my mentor for my D. Min. Final Project.

I do pray and hope that you understand the importance of a Godly coach and that you really need to have at least one!

Who pass the baton to you? Who do you pass the baton to? Don't drop the baton.


Dear Lord Jesus,
Thanks you for sending coaches to raise me up and helping me to be a coach so that I can be able to pass the baton to other leaders. Help me to be a good coach so that I can be able to raise up others. In Jesus name I pray . Amen.


Please click this link to worship with us - You Raise Me Up

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. TJ Johnston, Jr. (Rees)

The Rt. Rev. Dr. Laurent Mbanda (Chantal)

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

St. Jude Apostolic Anglican Church, Indian Head, SK

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Tom Needham (Rosemary)



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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