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 have started our 700 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.
The 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 your 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 much 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 18
Please read 1 Chronicles 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 listen and meditate with us - Chariots of Fire
Please click the links below to 1 Chronicles 18:
- Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 Chronicles 18&version=CUV
- NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 Chronicles 18&version=NIV
- ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 Chronicles 18&version=ESV
- Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 Chronicles 18&version=ESV
King David dedicated these articles to the Lord, as he had done with the silver and gold he had taken from all these nations: Edom and Moab, the Amonites and the Philistines, and Amalek.
1 Chronicles 18:11
The Lord gave David victory everywhere he went. 1 Chronicles 18:13
Everyone wants to have victory everywhere he or she goes. But do you know what's the secret? David's secret are in chapter 16 to 18, and it should also be ours:
1. To worship God as your first priority.
2. To honor God as your first purpose.
3. To dedicate to God your everything.
What is your response? I think it might just be the same as the rich young man:
"When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth." Matthew 19:22
Remember, victory doesn't always mean what you think (i.e. David's victory in this chapter, getting a promotion, winning the lottery). Jesus' greatest victory is when he died and was lifted up on the Cross. I have so much joy in receiving the most important Biblical passage for the mandate of daily devotion this morning, as I had been thinking of the message in my blog I got from Jesus yesterday. And Jesus showed me this morning:
Then Jesus said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me." Luke 9:23
Jesus demonstrated how He coached and mentored His twelve apostles by having them to follow Him daily for three years. Daily! Three years!
What is our cross that we have to take daily in order to follow Jesus? Those things that block our being with Jesus daily to listen to Him through the Bible! If we cannot have a daily personal intimate relationship with Jesus, then we have lost track already because that was how Jesus commanded His apostles, to you and to me. Only by following our coach, mentor, teacher, Savior, Lord and King can we have victory everywhere and that we can have the heart and willingness to dedicate everything to Jesus!
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to have a daily personal intimate relationship with you so that we can honor you, and experience victory everywhere, dedicating everything to you. In Jesus name we pray . Amen.
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Bishop Chuck Murphy teaching on Theology of Stewardship: