DAY 348 - Where Did All The Gold And Silver Come From?

Today's Reading: Exodus 38

Please read Exodus 38 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 38:

Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus 38&version=CUV

NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus 38&version=NIV

ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus 38&version=ESV

Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus 38&version=MSG

The total amount of the gold from the wave offering used for all the work on the sanctuary was 29 talents and 730 shekels(about 1 metric ton). Exodus 38: 24

Where did all the gold and silver come from? One metric ton of gold and 3.4 metric tons of silver. According to this chapter, each one of the chosen one offered 5.5 grams. I found out that 3.4 metric tons equals to 3,400,000 grams and that if each one offered 5.5 grams, then there were 618,181 men twenty years old or more who offered those silver. That is just as this chapter says: 603,550 men. And these men represented all two million there with women and children.

They were in "exodus" and what they received might be their little amount of gold and silver; yet they offered what they had.

Can you guess how complicated it was and how much team was required to carry everything in the tabernacle in order to walk around the desert for 40 years? That is why almost everything, no matter small or large, had rings so that people could carry them.

Total offerings and team work is what I heard from Jesus today if we want our church to enter into the "Promised Land". Shall we start this Journey?

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help us to start this journey of total offerings and team work that we can enter you Promise Land. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Michelle will go to VGH at 9:30a.m. this morning to receive the report. Please pray!

My son, Ignatius, completed his three weeks mission in Ethiopia yesterday.We are so joyful to welcome him home and know that he experienced God mightily in that three weeks. His one word of experience is "JOY"! 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. Dr. Doc Loomis (Ellen)

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

St. Barnabas Mission, Waterford, Ontario

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Susan Zakamarko (Peter)

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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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