DAY 167 - Like A Mother in The Pain of Childbirth! (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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Today's Reading: Galatians 4

Please read Galatians 4 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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• Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians 4&version=MSG
• Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians 4&version=CUV
• NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians 4&version=NIV
• ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians 4&version=ESV

Do you know how I feel right now, and will feel until Christ's life becomes visible in your lives? Like a mother in the pain of childbirth. Oh, I keep wishing that I was with you. Then I wouldn't be reduced to this blunt, letter-writing language out of sheer frustration. Galatians 4: 19-20

What I heard from Jesus today is: Like a mother in the pain of childbirth!

Why Paul needed to use those difficult and blunt words to write to the Galatians? Paul says it was because he was like a mother in the pain of childbirth. Why? Because to train disciples of Christ until Christ's life becomes visible in their lives is "mission impossible". Even if you feel like a mother in the pain of childbirth!

That's why Uncle John(John Stott) told me and Ignatius two years ago in London that the most important word in his life is "Christlikeness". To have Christlikeness to become visible in people's life used up Uncle John's whole life! And that's worthwhile!

Come Holy Spirit, come and fill us that Christlikeness can become visible in our lives. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.

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

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