Thursday, April 14, 2011

DAY 603 - The Destruction Force of Sexual Immorality








Today's Reading: 1 Chronicles 5

Please read 1 Chronicles 5 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.)















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 600 days/24 hours Prayer Campaign yesterday and start our 700 days/24 hours Prayer Campaign today! 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.


What you need to do is very simple. Choose one dayThe easiest way is to take one hour slot for the whole week then prayerfully remembering the ministry of ACiC(ACiC has two Networks: ACiC, Anglican Coalition in Canada and AI, Asian Initiative). You may use the whole hour in prayer or you can still do you work in your office but use as much time as you can to pray and the other time work prayerfully that hour to pray for our ministry. I deeply believe that this is a way to draw as many participation as we can in prayers. I encourage you to participate. We need you to join us! Trust in the power of prayers!

Please sign up for the 7th stage - 700 days **NEW link for the 7th 100 days 24 hours prayer campaign (April 13 to July 21, 2011)



Today's Reading: 1 Chronicles 5

Please read 1 Chronicles 5 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 Chronicles 5:


























Genesis 35:22


22 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it.


Genesis 49:3-4





































3 “Reuben, you are my firstborn,



my might, the first sign of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power. 4 Turbulent as the waters, you will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father’s bed, onto my couch and defiled it.

1 Chronicles 5:1
Reuben
1 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (he was the firstborn, but when he defiled his father’s marriage bed, his rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel; so he could not be listed in the genealogical record in accordance with his birthright,







What I received from Jesus today is very important: Don't underestimate the destruction force of sexual immorality.




Money, sex and power are the three major areas where Satan wants to take control on us so that we cannot have Jesus as our Lord.




These two days I am in Chicago having a special meeting with quite a number of AMiAs bishops and leaders; Rev. Gary Hoag is our guest speaker on Teaching Biblical Stewardship and Encouraging Christian Generosity in the AMAs.




Today is the first day and it was a powerful day to see how Gary taught us Stewardship and Generosity in the Scriptures. How to unlock the power of money which is the Lord of so many people. I have put some of the power-points we had (to share with you) so that you can taste a little bit of what we got today. Gary showed us in a picture he drew that 80% of Christians are being tied with an iron ball on their feet financially so that they cannot use their money wisely and cannot give according to the standard of what the Bible teaches us. Well, according to some statistic I know only 10% to at most 20% of Christians tithe. I hope you are one of those 20% and if so you need to pray that you can give more. If you are not tithing, then you need to repent and start tithing right away!




I put in some highlight of what I read from his book The Sower in the post of my Discipler123 blog yesterday. If you have not yet read that, you can go to that blog now by click on the link on top of this post.




In this chapter it is so clear of the destructive force of sexual immorality to Jacob's firstborn, as was told in the Bible. He had sex with his father's concubine! How painful it was for Jacob when he knew that! What would Reuben feel as his sin been revealed to everyone in human history! How much destruction he did to his family!


Watch out for all kinds of temptations in this area because the destruction of sexual immorality is beyond what we could face!







Dear Lord Jesus,


Help us to be holy so that we can walk with you daily. In Jesus name we pray . Amen.


Please click this link to worship with us - Holy, Holy, Holy God Almighty




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), Mr. Andy Li(Amy)

Bishop's Chaplain: Rev. Ed Hird (Janice)

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

Clergy Formation Advisor: Rev. Ken Bell (Sonya)


Treasurer: Mr. Andy Li(Amy)

Administrator: Mrs. Zenia Cheng (Clarence)



Pray for one Rwanda and Anglican Mission bishop one day at a time:



The Rt. Rev. Geoffrey Rwubusisi (Mary)


The Rt. Rev. Josias Sendegeya (Dorothy)




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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