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Today's Reading: Mark 12

Please read Mark 12 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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At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. Mark 12: 2

What I got from Jesus today is the first line in Rick Warren's purpose driven life: It's not about you.

This chapter begins with reminding us we are just tenants and stewards, have the greates commandment of the most important thing in life is to love God and His people and ends in the widow offering what she got to God. Do you understand what you have now does not belongs to you but God lends all that to you. He wants you to wisely use everything you have got and be fruitful. Let me challenge you what kind of things can you take when you die? Nothing? Yes or no, it depends on how you use those things you borrow from God.

Actually you really can't take anything but you can see the fruits you bear when you are on earth and that are those who will be in heaven because of you. Saved souls are the only thing you can take to heaven!

It's time for you to have a prayer now and ask God to give you the wisdom as the widow to wisely use your time, energy, money and everything to the honor of God. Because "it's not about you"!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help us to be a wise steward. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Praise the Lord that we had two men received Jesus the first time yesterday in our new ministry to the restaurant workers. Since I became a bishop in September 2009 I have launched or help to initiate quite a number of Bishop's Pioneer Ministry:

1. A yearly National Conference - this year will be from September 15(Thu)7 p.m. to September 17(Sat) 9p.m.

2. A yearly leaders conference - this year will be from May 25 2p.m. to May 27 noon led by Dr. Terry Walling at Richmond Emmanuel Church.

3. A monthly coaching for young clergy, youth pastors and seminarians. We are having six people now, one from Vancouver Emmanuel, one from St. Simon, one from Mountain Valley Mission, Squamish and three from Richmond Emmanuel.

4. Helping ACiC/AI clergy and leaders to courses and conferences.

5. A online ministry of two blogs(Devotion on Fire and Discipler123) and two podcasts(in Cantonese and English)daily. We have now hundreds of people from 41 countries including you to use these two blogs and two podcast to enjoy a daily intimate personal relationship with Jesus.

6. A ministry targeted to restaurant workers

Every Wednesday 3:30p.m. to 5p.m. at Empire Chinese Seafood Restaurant. We just started this new vision(hopefully as a new church plant)three weeks ago with a 15 weeks Alpha. Yesterday was the 3rd session "Why Jesus die?" and we had two restaurant workers received Jesus as their Savior and Lord of life! You can see the two of them.

I hope and pray that I can baptize them in this restaurant with others after this 15 weeks of Alpha and turn this ministry into a new paradigm church service. Those people cannot go to church on Sunday but we will invite their family to go to Richmond Emmanuel Church for worship, small groups and Sunday school and those restaurant workers or those who are working on Sundays go to this new church plant.

I tried this ministry for the restaurant workers in 2005 on Thursday 3:30p.m. to 5p.m. having a complete Alpha course for 15 weeks. But, I made a major mistake by closing down that time slot and asking them to go to Richmond Emmanuel Church from then on. All restaurant workers could not make it but only one who was not a restaurant and he becomes a gifted and anointed leader now in REC and his wife in now helping this new ministry to lead one of the two groups.

Thanks to Mr. Tony Wong, the owner of this restaurant, who make this new vision happened. He brought his whole family of seven people to join our Alpha at REC two years ago. All seven were baptized after that and now members of our church. One of the two new Christians who received Jesus yesterday is his brother.

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The sermon "The power is from within" by Rev. Eric Liddell(Chariots of Fire)

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