Wednesday, April 6, 2011

DAY 595 - Is Your Heart Responsive to God?


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 my second blog - Discipler 123: http://discipler123.blogspot.com/ You can also listen to my daily podcast in English and Cantonese through this new site.

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!

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Today's Reading: 2 Kings 22

Please read 2 Kings 22 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 - Change My Heart














Please click the links below to 2 Kings 22:

"Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I have spoken against this place and its people."

2 Kings 22: 19



What I got today from Jesus is: Is your heart responsive to God?


There was a big "BUT" in this chapter. God was about to pour His wrath to his "non-reponsive" people. BUT what if there was a king with a responsive heart who led his people to responsiveness to God's holy Word, humbled themselves, repent and wept in God's presence? Then God would hear them and give them a chance.


Well, remember the title two days ago is "God is negotiable but we are not"?


Have you tried to help someone, sending emails, trying all your best to deliver what God wants you to deliver to them to tithe, to quit smoking, to have daily devotion, to stop spreading rumours, to appreciate pastors more, to look at things more positively... but, NO RESPONSE! How do you feel? What could you do? That's how God feels when so many of us are not responsive to His Holy Word! We sometimes 'listen and do not obey'! God said, "they would become accursed and laid waste."


Is your heart responsive to God?



Dear Lord Jesus,


Help me to humble myself so that my heart can be responsive to you and that I can help others to be responsive to you. In Jesus name we pray . Amen.


Please click this link to worship with us - Purify My Heart





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)

Bishop's Assistant: Mrs. Michelle Ng (Silas)

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 Rt. Rev. Nathan Gasatura (Florence)


The Rt. Rev. 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








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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