DAY 368 - Do You Want to Live?

Today's Reading: Leviticus 18

Please read Leviticus 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.)

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Please click the links below to Leviticus 18:

Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus 18&version=CUV

NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus 18&version=NIV

ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus 18&version=ESV

Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus 18&version=MSG

"You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices. You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the Lord your God. Keep my decrees and laws, for the man who obeys them will live by them. I am the Lord." Leviticus 18: 3-5

What I heard from Jesus today is a very simple but life or death warning: Do you want to live?

If we want to live, then we cannot follow those practices in this world especially concerning with sexual issues like having sex with close relatives, animals, same sex or abortion (just like those people sacrificed their children by burning them alive to their gods).

The key is "I am the Lord". If we can establish an intimate daily relationship with God, then we live in His Kingdom standards. If we have an intimate daily relationship with other things on earth, then those things are lording over us and we are living in those defiled practices. Yet lots of people don't know or don't care. But the consequence is that the land will vomit them out. Do you believe that?! ...vomit them out!

Do you want to live? Are you willing to help others to live too?

Dear Lord Jesus,

You are my Lord, my Savior and my King. Help me to obey your lordship faithfully and totally. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

We went to Whistler to have some quality time with Michelle's house group "Experiencing". They are having a three days retreat there. And then we went to a BBQ gathering of our Beta group in a Richmond Park late evening. Seeing the smiles and feeling the joy of how they enjoy the "togetherness" in our Emmanuel family is a hugh blessing! Thank you Lord!

My son, Ignatius, completed his three weeks mission in Ethiopia a few days ago.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/

Please click this new link to watch Athanasius' violin recital(June 7, 2010) with me playing the piano:

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寶貴十架 (Precious Blood)

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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. John Engle Miller, III (Joyce)

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

All Saints Community Church

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Peter Klenner (Jenny)

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Twitter version: http://twitter.com/bishopsilasng

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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