Sunday, October 24, 2010

DAY 431 - Wrong Imitation





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Today's Reading: Deuteronomy 18
Please read Deuteronomy 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 Deuteronomy 18:
When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Deuteronomy 18: 9


How many kinds of detestable ways of the nations are we having in this modern age? How can we not imitate those worldly ways but instead imitate Christ? Christlikeness or World-likeness?

Do we really know what are the things which God considers as detestable? Without the filling of the Holy Spirit and His fresh anointing, I don't think we can be sensitive to those things which we should not imitate.

Dear Holy Spirit,
Fill me so that I am be more sensitive to those things which I should not imitate, and that I can have a lifestyle of Christlikeness! In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.


There is no better teaching I have heard than what our Chairman bishop, Rt. Rev. Chuck Murphy, teaches about tithing. So you really need to see all the clips now from his talk of Theology of Stewardship last Saturday in our 1st ACiC/AI Regional Conference. That way at least, you will know why you need to tithe, though like many people you might still do what you want to do and not what God wants you to do:



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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 Anglican Mission bishop one day at a time:

The Rt. Rev. Philip Hill Jones (Claudia)

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


The Light of Christ Church, Nanaimo

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Kathy King



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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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2 comments:

  1. Dear Bishop Silas, this is exactly what I heard from Jesus today. I wonder why there are so many Christian parents who know we should not celebrate Halloween but still encourage their kids to go trick or treat? Is it me who is being stubborn?
    In HIM,
    Lucy.

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  2. The lifestyle of Christians can influence or even change culture. But culture can also influence or change the lifestyle of Christians. it really depends who we are following? We are following Jesus or the world culture?
    Thanks Lucy!

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