DAY 8 - The Devil, Your Father? (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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Today's Reading: John 8

Please read John 8 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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• ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john 8&version=ESV
• Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john 8&version=MSG

"You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies." John 8: 44

"He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God." John 8: 47

Think about what those teachers and scholars of the Bible (8: 3) thought when they heard Jesus said that their father was the Devil. How angry they were? But that was a reality which Jesus was talking about because those people did not listen to what God said, and instead did what the Devil did.

Who is your father? God or the Devil?

Why not have a spiritual body check-up through the "spiritual health check-up list" according to Galatians 5: 19 to 26.

If your father is the Devil, then you would have these characteristics:

sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, provoking and envying each other.

If your father is God, then you would have these characteristics:

love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Christlikeness is not just by thinking or saying. Christlikeness is by living out those Spirit filled fruit daily.

Dear Holy Spirit,

Come and fill me so that I can live out a life of Christlikenss. 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!