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Today's Reading: John 17
Please read John 17 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 you may click this link directly for the method: Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf.
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- Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=JOhn 17&version=CUV
- NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=JOhn 17&version=NIV
- ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=JOhn 17&version=ESV
- Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=JOhn 17&version=MSG
Wow! Today Jesus asked me to read this chapter very slowly many times and then asked me to count the number of appearance of three words "glory (glorify)", "one" and "unity". There are nine "glory", five "one" and one "unity".
What I receive today from Jesus is there is no glory without unity.
I still remember that my spiritual 'father' Dr. John Stott told Christians many times in his talks that he believed John 17 is the most important chapter in the whole Bible. He said because Jesus knew it very well that Satan's main strategy and attack would be on "UNITY". And Jesus prayed for unity and taught his disciples to pray for unity so that God's glory may come and God's name may be glorified. And the secret of unity is in this chapter: only as we are in Jesus can we be in unity as Jesus says, "I in them and you in me."
The pictures in this post was taken in 1991 and 2009. I was young when I first knew Uncle John. Then I took my son Ignatius to visit him in July 2009 in his Seniors home 40 miles south of London. As you can see, they have a beautiful chapel there. We are honored that we have another chance to visit Uncle John again in June 10, less than three months from now.
That's how John Stott taught me about the importance of unity in Christ. So the next time you want to think something or say something to cause "disunity" in your family, church or elsewhere, you need to stop and pray to remove the Spirit of Separation.
Remember, no glory without unity!
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to be in you daily so that we have a chance to taste the sweetness of unity in our family, our church, our society, our nation and the world. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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Welcome! The purpose of this blog is to encourage those who join our Disciplers 123 to have a place to start their daily devotion - a wonderful and intimate time with Jesus.
There are three reasons for you to use this blog as your daily devotion:
There are three reasons for you to use this blog as your daily devotion:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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