DAY 13 - If You Do Not Want to Burn Out Then...(請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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Today's Reading: John 13

Please read John 13 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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"Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you." John 13: 14-15

I know lots of Christians who are willing to serve but refuse to be served. Most of them burn out or have all kinds of problems and become unable to serve.

I know lots of Christians who are not willing to serve. They stay in the church like a baby in a family or a club member in a club, but they can not grow up.

Jesus knew what would happen to his disciples and all those who belong to him including us. He wanted to show us the full extent of his love (v. 1). You know what that is? It is that we are willing to serve and also to be served. Don't play a superman, superwoman's role and take it all onto your shoulders. It's not healthy and will kill you, kill your family and kill your church!

If you do not want to burn out, then you need to be willing to be served. Open some doors so that those people prepared by Jesus can come into your life to serve you so that you can serve the Lord and others in joy!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help me to know this secret of never burning out. In Jesus' name I 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!