DAY 209 - Milk Or Solid Food

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Today’s Reading: Hebrews 5

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 disciple. 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 disciple to walk with you daily to enrich your spiritual journey. So, shall we start this journey with Jesus Christ our Lord now!


Please read Hebrews 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.)

Please click the links below to Hebrews 5:

Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%205&version=CUV

NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%205&version=NIV

ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%205&version=ESV

Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%205&version=MSG

Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good food from evil. Hebrews 5: 13-14

I was reading Professor Eddie Gibbs' "Churchmorph" today and he says:

In the past five decades, however, churchgoers have shifted from being conformers to being consumers. They attend a particular church as a matter of personal choice and can just as easily decide to leave and go elsewhere-or to drop out altogether.

The critical situation is really painful: Lots of Christians are drinking milk and they are babies but they think they are having solid food and mature adults. Paul says mature Christians will not be slow to learn, they ought to be teachers who acquainted with the teaching about righteousness and can distinguish good from evil.

Are you drinking milk or having solid food? Are you still a baby or an adult?

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help me to have solid food and to provide solid food to others so that teachers can be raised to glorify your Name and extend your Kingdom. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Prayer items today:

For ACiC/AI

Bishop: Rt. Rev. Silas Ng

Network Leader: Rev. Peter Klenner

Network Leadership Team: Rt. Rev. Silas Ng, Rev. Peter Klenner, Rev. Ed Hird, Rev. Simon Neill

Bishop’s Chaplain: Rev. Ed Hird

Clergy Formation Advisor: Rev. Ken Bell

Administrator: Mrs. Zenia Cheng

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

Richmond Emmanuel Church

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rt. Rev.SilasNg

Evangelist: Pastor Marcus Ho

Teaching Pastor: Pastor Eliza Poon

English/Children: Mr. Jim Kelly

Music Ministry: Miss Emily Yeung

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