DAY 325 - Just A Small Test After A Big Miracle

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Today's Reading: Exodus 15

Please read Exodus 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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Please click the links below to Exodus 15:

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

NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus 15&version=NIV

ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus 15&version=ESV

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

So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "What are we to drink?"

Exodus 15: 24

Our Heavenly Father uses any possible opportunity to teach us to grow. After a big miracle for nearly two million Israelites, God gave them a small text. It was not even like a "mid-term" examination, not even a text but a quiz! How merciful God is as He had a "fast fix" for the first quiz. Like a good coach, God knew the limits of His athletes so that bitter water became sweet and later they came to twelve springs and seventy palm trees in the middle of a desert!

But wait, here in this chapter is recorded the "First grumble" of the Israelites. Why can we face our "quiz","test", "mid-term" or even "final" in a more positive way as the time to be promoted to the next level? We grumble, and grumble and more grumbling! Come on, grow up and face God's challenges!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help me not to grumble to you and can be able to teach others not to grumble but to take each challenge in a positive way. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

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Next Tuesday, July 13, will be our 25th Wedding Anniversary! So, could you pray for us that Michelle can enjoy this important day at home even that would be her weakest day and I can think out of something to make her day!

My son, Ignatius, is in Ethiopia for a three weeks mission. He has been accepted by Regent College to start his Master of Divinity degree program this coming September. Please click this link to read his wonderful sharing: http://21ethiopiandays.wordpress.com/

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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)

Clergy Formation Advisor: Rev. Ken Bell (Sonya)

Administrator: Mrs. Zenia Cheng (Clarence)

Pray for one AMiA bishop one day at a time

The Rt. Rev. Alexander Maury (Sandy) Greene (Gigi)

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

Church of Our Lord, Comox

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Dr. David Bowler (Jannice)

Priest: Rev. David Hollebone

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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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