Welcome! The purpose of this blog is to encourage followers of Jesus Christ to have daily time in which they intimately connect with the Lord Jesus. It includes an aspect of praise to God, some of how I sense the Lord speaking to me, and then a topic for prayer. My hope is that this blog will help you in three ways;

1. A balanced spiritual diet of Scripture reading - Using the lectionary readings for the day, this will give you a balance of passages from the Psalms, the Old Testament, the New Testament Epistles and the Gospels.Don't feel obliged to read all the passages ... unless you have the time and the inclination!

2. An example of Spiritual Journaling - I have committed to write this daily post, not for teaching purposes but as my daily spiritual journal, sharing what I hear from the Lord and how I experience Him with me each day.

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 group of 2 or 3 people to encourage and be accountable to each other so that you won’t stop your daily devotion. I offer myself as your online disciple to walk with you daily to enrich your spiritual journey, trusting that you will in time, offer yourself to others.

So let us start this journey with Jesus our Lord . . . click here for today's readings

Monday, April 26, 2010

Work heartily, as for the Lord

Praise: God the Liberator. "I will praise You because 'you are my help and my deliverer, O LORD'" (Psalm 70:5)

Scripture: 'Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men .. You are serving the Lord Christ.' [Col 3:23-24] This is a good reminder for me this morning that my whole life belongs to the Lord. He is interested in everything I do and knows that whether I am home with my family, at work with business colleagues, or playing with friends, I am a Christ-follower and a Christ-'glorifier' (if there is such a word) ... or at least I have the chance to be such. This is because being a Christian is primarily about who I am, my identity. I am not meant to have multiple identities depending upon who I am with or what I am doing.

As I seek to develop this consistency and integrity in my life, by the grace of God and the inner working of the Holy Spirit (i.e. renewing my sense of 'sonship'), then I am most free and God is most glorified. That is important - to me and to Him. This is our worship and this will bring the greatest blessing into the lives of my family at home, my colleagues at work and my friends at play. That is also important to God.

Prayer: Pray for the strengthening of marriages. Pray that couples will honor and care for one another in the love of Christ. Ask God to bless and heal those whom he has joined together, that nothing would drive them apart.
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