DAY 56 - Jesus' Secret of Not Burning Out (Cantonese Podcast click here)

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Today's Reading: Mark 6

Please read Mark 6 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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Jesus said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest." So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place.

Mark 6: 31 - 32

What I received from Jesus today is his secret of not burning out.

Burn out is so common to many people especially to leaders. We work, and work and work just like a rubber band and then it breaks! The symptoms are usually tired, purposeless, easy to angry, blaming others fault, guilty of our own fault, not able to sleep, discouraged, dissatisfied...I can have more but I think that's enough and you should know it. How can we prevent that?

Jesus says it loud and clear:

"Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest."

You know what that means but many Christians are unable or unwilling to do.

Well, the most important point I receive in this chapter about why they tended to burn out. It was because they were sent by Jesus to do His ministry and they were all so joyful to report to Jesus what they had experienced but they didn't know that they need to rest.

Spiritual burn-out is not a bad thing because usually it followed some spirit-filled ministries. The point is after those wonderful ministries to serve the Lord do you know how to be with Jesus to a quiet place and get some rest with Him? That is the question!

Let's use me as an example, I should be more busy after I was consecrated as a bishop almost two years ago. But you know what happened, Jesus led me to step into a "supporting net" that I need to have at least two hours of rest in His Word to finish my two blogs and two podcasts. Without these two hours daily, I think I would be stepping into a "trap" set up by the Deceiver to be more and more filled with anger, discouragements, dissatisfaction, burn out and quit! Thank you Lord for leading me to experience your secret of not burning out!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help us to know that we need to come to you when you call us to rest so that we will not burn out. 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!