Then God said to Jacob, "Go yp to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appreaed to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau." So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone."
Genesis 35: 1-3
What I received from Jesus today is: To purify! To go! To give!
If you have read my other blog on this Christmas Day then you might be able to receive two Christmas from our Lord Jesus Christ today. The first gift is from my Devotion on Fire blog of your understand of the most important thing in life is the Word of God. The second gift is from this chapter that from God's Word you will keep on receiving God's message and direction to you just as what Jacob received in this chapter.
What I received today from Jesus is a very important three steps that you have to do if you wish to be blessed by the Lord and that through you God can bless many others.
1. To purify: When God gives you a direction or destination to go the first thing for you to do is to purify yourself and your people. Without getting rid of those things impure you cannot go to where God calls you to go and you will be "stuck" in some place.
2. To go: You need to go right away to the place God calls you to go in faith. When God called me to go to seminary in 1982 I wasted one year to argue with Him until I got some clear signs from Him to go. When God called me to leave Hong Kong to go to Canada I wasted another year to argue with Him until I got more clear signs. Each of these two stage I went through a "purifying" period of my personal life and to get rid of some idols and bad habits. Now I have been trained by the Lord to go to wherever He wants me to go with "less" arguments and more on discernment.
3. To give: When you arrive at a new place God calls you to be He would usually challenge you to make a significant offering. A big "giving" to Him alone, a kind of offering only those who have experienced Him would know what I mean.
So, on Christmas Day I encourage you to enter into this Godly journey to purify, to go and to give!
Merry Christmas!
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to enter into this Godly journey to purify, to go and to give. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Please click this link to worship with us - Create in Me A Clean Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPmMcDeRpM
祢讓我生命改變
Chinese praise song - 陶造我生命 Mold My Life
Pray for our retired primates who are giving us spiritual oversight and our chairman bishop:
The Most Rev. Emmanuel Kolini (Freda)
The Most Rev. Moses Tay (Cynthia)
The Most Rev. Yong Ping Chung (Julia)
The Rt. Rev. Chuck Murphy, III (Margaret)
The sermon "The power is from within" by Rev. Eric Liddell(Chariots of Fire)
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