Tuesday, September 4, 2012

DAY 148 - When Jesus Says NO! (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)



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Today's Reading: John 21: 1-8

**For a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please click this link: Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf.

Please click this link to read John 21: 1-8

Bible Study

This chapter is a very important chapter to all of us. It shows how weak we as a human really can become and how great God really is.

After Jesus commissioned His disciples and breathed in them God's breath in the last chapter, suddenly they went back to their previous job. Why? It is impossible!

N.T. Wright has a catch for us today:
Peter wanted to get on with life. To do the next thing. This was the world they knew. It would feel strange, giving back to it, but they had families who needed looking after, who must have been bemused to have them back again after all their adventures, and might well have been suggesting that they should settle down and do something sensible for a change. Like earning some money. Like catching some fish.

But, what they did not know is that they had been commissioned by Jesus. They worked for Jesus. They were filled with God's breath and be sent to the world to do Jesus job, God's job. If they wanted to do it their own way and they failed!

N.T. Wright says:
The only way is for them to admit defeat, to listen afresh to Jesus' voice, and to do what he says.

What is you "catch" today?

Have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"



Spiritual Journal

What I heard from Jesus today is: When Jesus says NO!

Today Jesus gives us a very important message to think over and over again. Yes, when he says NO then no matter how we want to do our things in our own ways we can not success.

How are you doing your job lately? Going nowhere? Listen to what Jesus says to you now and do whatever He tells you to do! That's the only way for you to go ahead!

Let go! Let God! Let's go!!!

Dear Lord Jesus,
Thank you for your NO to us. Help us to listen to you carefully and to enter into a daily intimate personal relationship with you that we can be able to listen to your NO or YES so that we can do whatever you tell us to do. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.


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Monday, September 3, 2012

DAY 147- (English podcast click here)

DAY 147 - Stop Asking Stupid Questions to Jesus Please! (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)



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The easiest way is to take one hour slot for the whole week. What you need to do is very simple. Choose one dayThe easiest way is to take one hour slot for the whole week to pray for me, my family and my ministry, remembering the ministry of ACiC(ACiC has two Networks: ACiC, Anglican Coalition in Canada and AI, Asian Initiative). You may use the whole hour in prayer or you can still do you work in your office but use as much time as you can to pray and the other time work prayerfully that hour to pray for our ministry. This campaign is also to teach you that you need somebody to pray for you daily. I have been prayed for hourly the past 1,100 days and I have never experienced this kind of peace and protection before. It's just beyond words can express. If I did not listen and obey to Jesus call 1,100 days ago to start this prayer movement, I think I would be pulled into darkness and discouragement already! I deeply believe that this is a way to draw as many participation as we can in prayers. I encourage you to participate. We need you to join us! Trust in the power of prayers!



Today's Reading: John 20: 24-31

**For a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please click this link: Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf.

Please click this link to read John 20: 24-31

Bible Study

This is the famous passage about Thomas who always doubted. After he experience Jesus appeared in front of him he finally believed everything.

There are lots of people who really like Thomas want to have all kinds of facts so that they can believe in Jesus. What kind of fact do you still want to believe that He is the living God? What kind of facts can you give to your relatives and friends that they can believe in Jesus at last? How can you experience Jesus' daily presence that you don't need to ask confirmation anymore like you don't have to have a proof that your parents are your parents, your wife is you wife, your husband is your husband and your children are your children! It is such a stupid question?!

Have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"



Spiritual Journal

What I heard from Jesus today is: Stop asking stupid questions to Jesus please!

Today Jesus gives us a very funny message that is is such a stupid question that we always question His existence. This is purely a relational question! If you have that daily intimate personal relationship with Jesus then you don't need to ask! If you don't then it's useless for you to ask, ha, ha!

Dear Lord Jesus
Please help us to stop asking those stupid questions to you trusting that you always want to be with us and that you are our Lord. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.


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Sunday, September 2, 2012

DAY 146- (English podcast click here)

DAY 146 - How to Do Jesus Mission Impossible Job? (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)



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The easiest way is to take one hour slot for the whole week. What you need to do is very simple. Choose one dayThe easiest way is to take one hour slot for the whole week to pray for me, my family and my ministry, remembering the ministry of ACiC(ACiC has two Networks: ACiC, Anglican Coalition in Canada and AI, Asian Initiative). You may use the whole hour in prayer or you can still do you work in your office but use as much time as you can to pray and the other time work prayerfully that hour to pray for our ministry. This campaign is also to teach you that you need somebody to pray for you daily. I have been prayed for hourly the past 1,100 days and I have never experienced this kind of peace and protection before. It's just beyond words can express. If I did not listen and obey to Jesus call 1,100 days ago to start this prayer movement, I think I would be pulled into darkness and discouragement already! I deeply believe that this is a way to draw as many participation as we can in prayers. I encourage you to participate. We need you to join us! Trust in the power of prayers!



Today's Reading: John 20: 19-23

**For a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please click this link: Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf.

Please click this link to read John 20: 19-23

Bible Study

In yesterday's passage, Jesus gave a new relationship to His disciples that He is their brother, His Father is their Father and His God is their God. Here in this passage of Jesus' second appearance after he was resurrected, Jesus gave them a new job. A mission impossible job! That's God's job to forgive someone and that's God's job to retain someone's sin. How could they do it? Impossible!

Now you may come into an understanding that Jesus wants you and me to do what He wants us to do are something impossible for a human to do. He wants us to do God's job! Really? That's what N.T. Wright says:
Jesus' mission to Israel, reaching its climax in his death and resurrection, is thus to be implemented by the disciples' mission to the world. That's why they need the Holy Spirit: Jesus breath, God's breath, to enable them to do the job they could otherwise never dream of doing.

Jesus' breath to His disciples is just like God's breath to Adam when He created him. This day is a new creation, Jesus breathed into His disciples to make a new creation happened. And this new creation is us, we need Jesus' breath, the Holy Spirit filling in us each day that we can do Jesus mission impossible job.

Are you ready to be filled by the Holy Spirit to do Jesus mission impossible job?

Have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"



Spiritual Journal

What I heard from Jesus today is: How to do Jesus mission impossible job?

Today Jesus gives you and me a very important question with a very simple answer. We need Jesus to breathe in us His breath so that we can be a new creation. That should be our born again experience. And, we need to be filled with the Holy Spirit each day so that we are able to do Jesus mission impossible job. Many Christians say NO to Jesus because they think the job is too difficult so many Christians are not doing Jesus job but their own jobs making the world darker and darker! How about you, are you willing? Start with filling with the Holy Spirit each day and you will know what Jesus means!

Dear Holy Spirit,
Fill us now that we can do Jesus mission impossible job. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.


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Saturday, September 1, 2012

DAY 145- (English podcast click here)

DAY 145 - New Relationship Begins! (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)



**1100 DAYS of prayers now!!!
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The easiest way is to take one hour slot for the whole week. What you need to do is very simple. Choose one dayThe easiest way is to take one hour slot for the whole week to pray for me, my family and my ministry, remembering the ministry of ACiC(ACiC has two Networks: ACiC, Anglican Coalition in Canada and AI, Asian Initiative). You may use the whole hour in prayer or you can still do you work in your office but use as much time as you can to pray and the other time work prayerfully that hour to pray for our ministry. This campaign is also to teach you that you need somebody to pray for you daily. I have been prayed for hourly the past 1,100 days and I have never experienced this kind of peace and protection before. It's just beyond words can express. If I did not listen and obey to Jesus call 1,100 days ago to start this prayer movement, I think I would be pulled into darkness and discouragement already! I deeply believe that this is a way to draw as many participation as we can in prayers. I encourage you to participate. We need you to join us! Trust in the power of prayers!



Today's Reading: John 20: 11-18

**For a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please click this link: Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf.

Please click this link to read John 20: 11-18

Bible Study

N.T. Wright points out a very important change of relationship happened in this passage. He said Jesus never described his relationship with his disciples as "my brothers" and their relationship with the Father as "your Father" and "your God".

When Jesus was resurrected a new relationship happened! Are you in this kind of most intimate and loving relationship now?

Have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"



Spiritual Journal

What I heard from Jesus today is: New relationship begins!

What I got from Jesus is a challenge to you that whether you are in this kind of new relationship. A new relationship that Jesus is your dear brother and Jesus' Father is your Father and Jesus' God is your God.

How wonderful it is to enter into this new loving relationship!
Would you spend some time now to experience this intimate and loving relationship with Jesus your brother and God your Father now?

Dear Lord Jesus,
Thank you for giving us this new relationship. Help us and lead us into this new relationship everyday. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.


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Chinese praise song - 愛是不保留 Unreserved Love


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