DAY 28 - What Kind of Fruit Have You Received? (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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Today's Reading: Matthew 7

Please read Matthew 7 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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"A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them." Matthew 7: 18-20

Jesus asks us today, "When people see you who do they see? Do they see Jesus from the fruit of Spirit in you or do they see just you?"

The fruit is in singular number which means that it is about the fruit of the Holy Spirit. As in Galatians 5: 22 the fruit of the Holy Spirit is in singular number and when you have the fruit then all nine come as a total package: "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. It's about your real and inner spiritual life. It's about how you can be recognized because of those lifestyle of Christlikeness? And, by this lifestyle of Christlikeness that you are able to bear much fruit by leading more people to Jesus.

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help us to be filled by the Holy Spirit so that we can have the fruit of the Holy Spirit and that we can be recognized as your disciples. 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:

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!