DAY 588 - He Brings Kings to Nothing!

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.

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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 15

Please read 2 Kings 15 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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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rRea9qnjK4&feature=related

Please click the links below to 2 Kings 15:

• Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2 Kings 15&version=CUV


• NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2 Kings 15&version=NIV


• ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2 Kings 15&version=ESV


• Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2 Kings 15&version=MSG

Jesus led me to visualize how God sees this chapter. I saw God standing there seeing the history in this chapter unveiled. King after king being killed without any record of doing good things except the two kings of Judah Azariah and Jotham. These two kings had just a line mentioning that they did what was right in the eyes of the Lord but still offering sacrifices to other gods. All the other six kings of Israel were described as did evil in the eyes of the Lord. And then we know that the Northern kingdom Israel was finished and was conquered by Assyria. They were finished without saying a word, "Help us Lord!"

Jesus led me to read Isaiah 40: 15, 21-23:

¹⁵Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.

²¹ Do you not know? Do you not hear?

Has it not been told you from the beginning?

Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? ²²It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in; ²³ who brings kings to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.

Do you have some kind of dream to be on top of something, someone. Like CEO, President, top sales, top ... so what! Even those people were kings and God was watching them one by one falling down because of their ignorance and pride!

May the words from Isaiah 40: 27-31 give you some inspiration:

²⁷Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, ^(AJ) "My way is hidden from the LORD, ^(AK) and my right is disregarded by my God"? ²⁸Have you not known? Have you not heard?The LORD is^(AL) the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; ^(AM) his understanding is unsearchable. ²⁹He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. ³⁰Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; ³¹but^(AN) they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings^(AO) like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help us to know how to wait for you so my strength can be renewed and that I can mount up with wings like eagles. In Jesus name we 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)

Bishop's Assistant: Mrs. Michelle Ng (Silas)

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. Doc Loomis (Ellen)

The Rt. Rev. Augustin Mvunabandi (Virginia)

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

Mountain Valley Mission, Squamish

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

Young Adult Pastoral Intern: Mark Hird

Twitter version:http://twitter.com/bishopsilasng

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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• **NEW link for the 6th 100 days 24 hours prayer campaign (January 3 to April 12, 2011)


• Our 5th phase of 100 days of prayers (September 25, 2010 to January 2, 2011).


• Our 4th phase of 100 days of prayers (June 17 to September 24, 2010).


• Our 3rd phase of 100 days of prayers (March 9 to June 16, 2010).


• Our 2nd phase of 100 days of prayers (November 29, 2009 to March 8, 2010).


• Our 1st phase of 100 days of prayers:


• Part 2: 60 days (September 29 to November 28, 2009)


• Part 1: 40 days (August 20 to September 28, 2009)