Thursday, February 17, 2011

DAY 547 - Loyalty Tested



This newly designed key chains will be given to all members of ACiC/AI churches on the first Sunday of March (March 6, 2011). Please click this link to see a sample of my second blog to create a momentum for the launching of Discipler 123:
http://discipler123.blogspot.com/



What is Discipler 123?
A campaign starting on the first Sunday of March for three months. It is for one Discipler gathering two friends to meet once a week to have devotion with them and encourage them to have daily devotion all through the three months from March through May.


Praise the Lord that we completed our 500 days/24 hours Prayer Campaign! We have a new link for you to sign for the new stage. You really need to join us now to pray! The easiest way is to take one hour slot for the whole week. We need you to join us! Trust in the power of prayers!

Please sign up for the 6th stage - 600 days
**NEW link for the
6th 100 days 24 hours prayer campaign(January 3 to April 12, 2011)

Today's Reading: 2 Samuel 20
Please read 2 Samuel 20 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 this link to worship with us - On Eagle's Wings

Please click the links below to 2 Samuel 20:
Then the king said to Amasa, "Summon the men of Judah to come to me within three days, and be here yourself." But when Amasa went to summon Judah, he took longer than the time the king had set for him. 2 Samuel 20: 4-5


Our loyalty to the Lord will be tested constantly in our lifetime, just like with David's followers. Here in this chapter, what I heard from Jesus is to be ready for the test. And the test may come at any time. Today we see a kind of "report card" for David's followers as follows:

David's concubines- Fail
Amasa - Fail
Abishai - Pass
Joab - Pass
Benaiah - Pass
Adoniram - Pass
Jehoshaphat - Pass
Sheva - Pass
Zadok - Pass
Ahimelech - Fail (8: 17)
Abiathar - Pass
Ira - Pass

Most of those leaders were appointed in chapter 8. They were under severe trail and hardship with David; then they were reappointed in chapter 20. I do hope and pray that you will be reappointed after your 'severe trial'! How are you prepared for your next test?

Dear Lord Jesus,
Prepare me to pass the next test, Lord. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

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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 Rwanda and Anglican Mission bishop one day at a time:

The Most Rev. Dr. Onesphore Rwaje (Josephine)

The Rt. Rev. Thad Barnum (Erilynne)

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

St. Simon’s, North Vancouver

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Ed Hird (Janice)

Honorary Assistant priest: Rev. John Lombard (Beverly)

Deacon: Rev. Ron Gibbs (Beverly)



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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1 comment:

  1. On this 547th day of our Daily Devotions on Fire, let me share some research data from Dr. Ed Stetzer (who was a plenary speaker at AMiA Winter Conference) on the benefits of daily prayer as an indicator of children continuing as practising young adult believers: "#1 indicator of positive spiritual outcomes in young adults" By far the child 'regularly spent time in prayer' is the most powerful indicator of the Spiritual Condition Score (45% of young adult children are described by their parents as doing this as they grew up).59% of children are described by their parents as praying regularly as young adults. 42% of parents say their family spent time together praying as a family several times a week. Dr Ed Stetzer's hypothesis is that people who pray own their relationship with God.
    http://www.edstetzer.com/2011/02/the-myth-of-teenage-rebellion.html

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