DAY 16 - A Mercedes Without The Engine! (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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Today's Reading: John 16

Please read John 16 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 16&version=CUV
• NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John 16&version=NIV
• ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John 16&version=ESV
• Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John 16&version=MSG

"When the Holy Spirit comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment." John 16: 8

"But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come." John 16: 13

the Rev. Nicky Gumble to have a one-on-one chat in his home this January, we talked about the problem of some churches having Alpha but not using the three sessions about the Holy Spirit, instead replacing them with their own ideas and talks. Nicky gave a very good example, "Doing Alpha without the three Holy Spirit sessions is like having a famous brand like Mercedes without the engine! You can only put it in the showroom but you can't drive!"

Jesus explains in this chapter two main duties of the Holy Spirit:

1. Show us those sins which we are unable to see as human beings.

2. Guide us and tell us all those we are unable to understand as human beings.

So without the Holy Spirit then:

1. We do not know what to repent.

2. We never understand those things which we need to understand.

Come Holy Spirit come! Fill us, pour down your fresh anointing on us, strengthen us and empower us that we can be able to know what to repent and be able to understand. Come Holy Spirit so that our hearts can be changed and that we can have a lifestyle of Christlikeness. 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!