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Today's Reading: Matthew 9
Please read Matthew 9 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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Please click the links below to Matthew 9:
- Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew 9&version=CUV
- NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew 9&version=NIV
- ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew 9&version=ESV
- Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew 9&version=MSG
Matthew 9: 37 - 38
Something very good happened this morning. You really need to go to my first blog to take a look there. It was a wonderful encounter with Jesus. I invite all of you to go there and read it. The easiest way to go to my first blog is very simple. Go to google and type my name "Silas Ng" and you can see on top is my first blog "Devotion on Fire". You will be richly blessed because the message today is really very wonderful.
So, how about this post? What I received from Jesus today after reading Matthew 9 several times is: Don't say NO to Jesus! He needs you!
Do you know what is the hardest feeling for me? It is when I ask someone to do something for Jesus and the answer is NO, not yet, I don't have a call, I am not ready, it is not for me, I don't think so, may be later... That was exactly how Jesus felt as He called for more workers in this chapter!
Jesus did a lot of miracles in this chapter and called Matthew to follow Him. Don't forget that this is the Gospel of Matthew written by Matthew. So after all those hard works of Jesus, He called for more workers to do His work. Matthew said YES to Jesus and joined His team. What about you?
The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few!
First, you need to pray for more workers for Jesus to work the harvest field. After I read Neil Cole's Organic Church I followed his method on page 174 to set an alarm in my cell phone everyday at 10:02a.m. (Luke 10: 2 Jesus told them. "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.). I started to do that on April 6, 2010 until now. Lots of things happened after this kind of daily prayer. It's just for may be 15 seconds or one minute but I have seen more brothers and sisters from the churches of ACiC/AI to come forward to serve. And I don't know how many who come forward to serve the Lord's harvest field through my two blogs and two podcasts for I have around 400 hundreds people daily using these two blogs and two podcasts as their daily devotion and they are from 30 countries all over the five continents.
Second, try to set an alarm in your cell phone at 10:02a.m. daily to pray for more workers for His harvest field. You will be richly blessed by that!
Third, next time you are being invited to serve the Lord by God's servants, don't say NO but say YES. Of course you need to pray and discern before you say YES. For some people, saying YES is easy; for the others it is not. For some, saying NO is easy but for the others, it is not. Well, the point is "Don't say NO to Jesus! He needs you!"
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to know that you need us to say YES to you. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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Trading my Sorrows
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
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