Friday, December 23, 2011

DAY 856 - The Most Important Thing You Need to do!








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Today's Reading: Psalm 117

Please read Psalm 117 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 - Worthy Is The Lamb/Amen (Handel's Messiah - Schola Cantorum Emmanuel)


Chinese praise song -
我的心你要稱頌耶和華 Praise the Lord, O My Soul


Please click the links below to Psalm 117:

Praise the Lord all you nations; extol him, all you peoples.
For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
Praise the Lord!
Psalm 117: 1-2

What I received from Jesus today is: The most important thing you need to do!

This is the shortest psalm with only two verses and after next psalm is the longest psalm with 176 verses!

Although this is the shortest psalm but perhaps it is one of the most important psalm because even Paul quotes this psalm in Romans 15: 11 to prove that the Old Testament projected and anticipated the coming salvation to the gentiles.

There is a very special pattern I notice from Psalm 111 to this one.
Psalm 111, 112 and 113 all starts with "Praise the Lord" and that is Hallelujah in Hebrew.
Psalm 115 to 117 all ends with "Praise the Lord"!

What I got from Jesus today is the most important thing we need to do in our lives should be to praise the Lord all the days of our lives and when we are in heaven it's also the same thing, praise the Lord in eternity!

I do hope and pray that you can praise Him more often rather than wasting time to do those things pulling us away from praising Him!

Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us, lead us, anoint us, love us and carry us that we can praise you all the days of our lives. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.


**Five days ago(Sunday) Michelle and I were having lunch with our church choir members. Our Music Director, Edmund Cheung said, "Silas, I understand what you said about the best thing in last night's Schola Cantorum Emmanuel's concert was "life". I really experienced a powerful outburst of life in all of us when we sang especially when we sang "Hallelujah" and "Worthy is the Lamb/ Amen"." Yes, it was indeed a powerful concert yesterday night. Please click the two links in this post to listen to how we praise God yesterday. The recording was just taken from a small camera and not a good recording. I'll give you the link of our official recording once Andy Li is done for the whole concert. Don't know when yet.

When we praise the Lord like that spirit in this psalm we will know the "life" and power right away of the joy we received when we praise Him! All of our Schola members and those who attended yesterday's(Saturday's) concert felt the same way that we were richly blessed when we richly praised our Lord!

Thanks to our son Ignatius who took a wonderful and powerful photo of me capturing the "life" in this concert and with his comment on his face book:

Live fully. Live passionately.
You know that feeling when you do something you love, and time seems to stand still?
It's not quite clear, but you've lost in the moment of it.

Congrats to Schola Cantorum for singing Handel's Messiah today!




Please click this link to worship with us - Hallelujah (Handel's Messiah - Schola Cantorum Emmanuel)

Chinese praise song -
我知誰掌管明天I Know Who Hold The Future


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 our retired primates who are giving us spiritual oversight and our chairman bishop:
The Most Rev. Emmanuel Kolini (Freda)

The Most Rev. Moses Tay (Cynthia)

The Most Rev. Yong Ping Chung (Julia)

The Rt. Rev. Chuck Murphy, III (Margaret)


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

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rt. Rev.SilasNg (Michelle)

Teaching Pastor: Pastor Eliza Poon (Harry)

English & Youth Pastor: Pastor Joshua Siu (Rachel)

Children Ministry: Mr. Jim Kelly (Margaret)

Music Ministry: Miss Emily Yeung




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