Fully Surrendered to Christ | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | January 31, 2024
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🗓️ 31 January 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:09.8 | Our Reading titled, Fully Surrendered to Christ, was written by Jasmine Go. |
| 0:16.0 | In 1920, John Sung, the sixth child of a Chinese pastor, received a scholarship to study at a |
| 0:23.6 | university in the United States. He graduated with the highest honors, completed a master's |
| 0:30.0 | program, and earned a Ph.D. But, while pursuing his studies, he had walked away from God. |
| 0:38.4 | Then one night in 1927, he surrendered his life to Christ and felt called to be a preacher. |
| 0:46.6 | Many high-paying opportunities awaited him back in China, but on the ship home, he was convicted |
| 0:53.1 | by the Holy Spirit to lay aside his ambitions. |
| 0:57.2 | As a symbol of his commitment, he threw all his awards into the sea, |
| 1:02.0 | keeping only his Ph.D. certificate to give to his parents out of respect for them. |
| 1:08.7 | John Soong understood what Jesus said about becoming his disciple. |
| 1:14.0 | What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? |
| 1:19.3 | As we deny ourselves and leave our old life behind to follow Christ and his leading, |
| 1:25.0 | it may mean sacrificing personal desires and material gain that distract us |
| 1:30.7 | from following him. For the next 12 years, John carried out his God-given mission wholeheartedly |
| 1:38.8 | preaching the gospel to thousands throughout China and Southeast Asia. How about us? We may not be called to be |
| 1:48.0 | preachers or missionaries, but wherever God calls us to serve by His spirit working in us, we may |
| 1:55.2 | fully surrender to Him. Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Service him. |
| 2:09.4 | Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Mark chapter 8, verses 34 through 38. |
| 2:14.7 | Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said, |
| 2:20.4 | Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. |
| 2:22.2 | For whoever wants to save their life |
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