One of the amazing experiences and learning you can ever have while in Africa is to be one with the people and how to do that? You must go where they are, and it can only be made possible through village visitation. This is where you will be exposed on what is happening in the community. I do not have photographs of every visit that we made but all are very special.
Every village visit has it’s own story and I love them all.
Hello. It’s me again. Have you read my previous blog about my unforgettable memories from my Pemba trip? If you did I hope it served as an eye opener to you and if you have not read it yet it’s in this link : http://wilmiepaguntalan.weebly.com/journals/next-page-have-a-look-in-my-life-in-pemba-africa
Shall we continue? Ok, here’s more:
Hi there! Ready for the next page of me bringing you all the way back to my trip in Africa? Well, ready or not, here we go! So what’s next? I thought of uploading some random photos of my daily journey in Pemba Since it’s over two months of stay over there It will be difficult for me to share with you a detailed story of how my life goes by back there and my memory might not be that reliable anymore by now. So I decided to write about some unforgettable experiences that I had when I was in Pemba. Experiences that may not be that encouraging at all, funny, embarrassing and of course those inspirational and life changing one. In short, it is a mix of both good and bad experiences? But I believe you will learn a lesson from both. So are you ready to have a glimpse of my daily life in Pemba? Well then, let’s begin!
Basically, we all need to learn not just the Theology but to do simple things to survive and stay alive while on a mission trip. We need to learn how to work and partner with different sets of people whom you will not always agree with. Not everyday is a bed of roses. You get frustrated sometimes and disappointed, not with the same page with everyone, be on an argument and just be human. Things can get too much at times but over all I had the best time in Pemba!I hope you get some enlightenment from the stories I have shared. I experienced all of that for a couple of months but the locals of Pemba they suffered with all of those their entire life. You may be in lack right now but some have not even tasted the life that you have. You lost your phone or something valuable some may not even know that gadget exists. You keep on wasting water? Some may need that badly. I know life can be hard sometimes but do your best to always appreciate whatever you have. Live a life of contentment. God bless you!
Ok. Let's stop here for now and let’s save the FOOD stories next time! Thank you for reading! Until next time! God Bless you! Ok. I saw my post back in Oct 2nd of 2016 and I actually said about sharing a certain photograph from my Trip in Pemba Mozambique Africa that “the Album might take a while so I will just share some photos randomly”, 4 years later I still have not uploaded the album, haha. Well, you can’t blame me, I got thousands of photos from that trip and I really don’t know where to begin my posts with. Plus, after my trip in Mozambique I really had a hard time settling back in Singapore. Like what they said in our debriefing after graduation it will take a while to adjust back in. While trying to settle in I faced back home the responsibilities that I’ve left in the Church. Then after that trying to settle back and go on with the responsibilities that I have, I began to get that call from God to go outside Singapore. Imagine the feeling of you still in the process of trying to get your head back in your normally daily life after such a life changing trip then God is already stirring your heart up, gearing you to move out and be somewhere else? What an absolutely indescribable and tormenting feeling and you only got you and God to figure all that out. How am I supposed to share my memories and learning from the trip with that condition? Not possible at all. I can’t even process all my emotions back then. So, time passed by, God really moved me out from Singapore and I have to process loads of emotion along the way and life goes on. So now, with the ample of time I got because of the pandemic, I would like to take you all back, all the way to my life changing trip in Pemba Mozambique Africa in 2016.
Are you ready? Here we go! So, I decided I’ll start with my arrival journey...:) From Singapore I flew a total of 11 hrs to get to Johannesburg South Africa. Like the usual I don’t sleep in the plane, so I got to watch a couple of movies again on the way. I travelled via Singapore Airlines (https://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/ph/home#/book/bookflight), they have a good service. I have a little trivia about my flying. I have this travel bucketlist of trying to fly different flag carrier airlines to get to experience their services and just compare it and take the pleasure of getting serve by them. That’s one form of pleasure I want to experience while on board. Yup! I do have that thing! Now you knew it! I’ll write a blog about it some other time. So, let’s get back on my arrival journey. I landed in Johannesburg TAMBO Airport; fabulous SG Airlines they did a point to point pick up for my baggage since I do not have a visa for South Africa, super hassle free. Spent a couple of hours going around the airport, went to the designated lounge for my next flight and It was an amazing experience. I didn’t expect that actually. Then went on to my next destination à Maputo Mozambique. I flew via LAM (https://www.lam.co.mz/en) Mozambique Flag carrier. Oww my gosh, they got good food on board. It was another over an hour flight to get to Maputo Mozambique from Johannesburg and took a domestic flight from Maputo to Pemba Mozambique of the same airline with good food again. Thank you Lord! Then I finally arrived to Pemba Airport unknowingly with bunch of other mission students as well. All my luggage arrived safely, Thank God! I heard heaps of stories of lost baggage from my fellow missionary students. Then they picked us up and drove us to the school quarter. Settled in. Then one of my room mates orient me and showed me around! Thank you Katie! You’re the best! I got to witness the amazing sunset of Africa on my first day! What an amazing day to start my journey in Africa! And there it is! I finally arrived to my destination and it was 180 degrees turn from my bit of over the top journey to get there and I can already imagine the days to come, far away from the comfort of life and I am very excited about it! Bring it On! Thank you for reading and see yah on the next page of my JOURNEY ALL THE WAY BACK TO AFRICA! God bless you! "BLESSES 33 MIE"Yay! It’s September 13, this is the day God decided to get me out of this world, what a crazy idea, right? Haha..so this is something to really be thankful for. That day that I was born I became a gift for my lovely parents (I do hope so! Haha) and I feel pretty amazing already by the fact that on my first day on earth I am already a precious gift. Now, I am already 33, I know right? I have been in this earth for quite some time already and still get amazed and surprised by the awesomeness of God. There was one birthday that I had, that I really did not get to celebrate it with the people I love, I cried that night and got an encouragement from a friend that says “It’s ok! you don’t really need to celebrate just on your birthday, celebrate each day.” I will never forget that line. Well, while there’s some truth with it I really feel that it’s special to remember each year the day You came to life and of course continue to do so each day. I am truly blessed! Thank you, Lord, for an EXTRA ORDINARY LIFE you got for me.
Today I celebrate my life not just for me. I celebrate my life with the rest of other lives who have walked with me. I am truly thankful with an amazing life God gave me. It was not always bed of roses, it's a life filled with ups and downs but it was an incredibly exciting and purposeful life, scary sometime (haha). I am so thankful to God for the many lives you have brought into my life, life of different colours, nations, tongues, age, gender and social status. This is what I am celebrating for, a LIFE NOT JUST FOR MY OWN. A life that has been part of many other lives. Thank You for teaching me and giving me a life that doesn’t only exist for it’s own good but for the benefit and good of others, strangers or not. I am no perfect. It’s not always a happy story with each lives I have been with but good or bad it’s a piece of my puzzled life. The mix and blend of happy and sad, ups and downs, good or bad brings spice and colours and I am thankful for all of it. Today I want to encourage you. Whether your celebrating with me or not if you get to read this, I hope you’ll choose to live a life not just for you or the people you love. Stop looking at the mirror too long and have goals that only include “me, myself and I”, It’s not bad to have goals for yourself I do have my own. What I am saying is that it should not always be about you or what you want. I know it’s too cheesy to say that we can all be part of the better world but I believe that if only we can all stop living our life so full of ourselves this world can really be a better place. And since it’s lockdown here in Coron and we can’t get out of our own houses since we had our community transmission of COVID-19 last August (which I pray won’t get worst anymore) I did not get to plan a celebration that can include reaching out for more and blessing others, so I thought “WHY NOT ASK YOU FOR A PRAYER REQUEST”. So, if you are reading this right now and you have a prayer request. Just comment below or send me a private message. I may not reply at all but I’m surely going to take time to read all and pray about it. In this way I can still be part of all of you, get to celebrate with you and bless you as my joy overflows. God bless everyone! (photo: compilation of my mission trips, family, spiritual family) #blessed33mie #LiveNotforYouAlone #lockdownbirthday I was listening to that interview of Ps Steven Furtick with Bishop TD Jakes few days ago and he was telling Ps Steven that “God, for many years of being God did not really do a table or a chair, He just created a TREE, and whatever comes next is all up to us. When God gave you a tree you must imagine what you can do from it. Imagine a chair, a table, a room, a house. You have to be creative and not just take an opportunity but think of what you can do with that opportunity.” That’s exactly how I felt seeing the plans we made last year for Suai Timor-Leste coming to life. Seeing the plans one by one come to pass is an amazing thing to see. Again, being a dreamer is ok but we have to be a Visionary. When ever God gave us a task to do or an opportunity to bless people we can’t just grab that opportunity and do what is just obvious but we have to think forward and to see what can be done for a longer time. When we were all discussing what we need to by the beach last year, I was so humbled seeing the church leaders in Suai so humble and excited of what we can help and bring in Suai. I discussed with them that we need to solve first, the urgent matters first, what’s obvious and possible at that time. I told them we need coloured mats where children can sit and be in a group so we can train older Children to lead and by November last year we already done that. Next one is the transportation to the church and before I left last year we already did that and until now every month we are doing it every first Sunday of the month. Praise God for the provision. Soon we will have it every Sunday. I proposed to have a Christmas celebration as a church as well and invite the people from Fatulor and Salele and the neighbourhood because they never had a church celebration ever since and last year December 28, 2018 for the very first time they were able to do it and the children were so happy and finally they got to celebrate the birth of Jesus as a family. Then in the early days last year, I told them we need NOTEBOOKS and pens to be given to the children and flip papers so we can write the lessons and the children can copy the lessons and write to their notebooks and read back when they go home, for the meantime this will serve as their bibles but ONE DAY WE WILL BE GIVING OUT BIBLES. Thank God for the supports we have in Singapore we were able to get notebooks and I was able to buy materials as well for teaching from the funds given by the people God sent to support the work in Suai. And finally, that day we are all praying for has already happened. Praise God we already purchased bibles and already distributed some to the children who can already read and some adults as well. Isn’t it amazing to see all the plans God has put in our hearts be fulfilled in His own time? Truly nothing is impossible to God but again God will only hand over a tree to us and what we can do about it is really up to us. He will definitely guide us every step of the way but FAITH and LOVE is an ACTION WORD so we can give HOPE for the future of the PEOPLE of GOD, So words will never be enough to prove how serious you are about the things you want to do for the Kingdom of God. What are you waiting for? Is there anything God has put in your heart to do? What are you doing about it? When do you plan to start? Praise THE NAME OF JESUS! ALL GLORY TO GOD! Next project is our Children Center. We need a shed because it’s already a rainy season in Timor-Leste and we can’t have it like the usual outside just under the tree. If God is touching your heart to help, your contribution will be very much appreciated. God Bless! Thank you. THIS IS A LONG TESTIMONY With my emotions on up and down momentum! (In short: TODAY I STARTED TO SERVE IN WORSHIP TEAM WHILE ON MISSION TRIP AND LOST MY IPHONE WITH MY CREDIT CARD AT THE SAME DAY!) What happened before that, in between and after, is the reason why you need to read this until the end!) You will be blessed!
Today was an exciting and crazy day for me! First thing, this is the day I started serving in the mission church here in Timor-Leste Dili. It is always an honour to serve the Lord through serving in the church and today I got the privilege to sing for Him again in the stage! When the church had that ministry sign up thing and reminding us that this is an international congregation wherein people come and go and regardless of how short or long is the stay what matter is how you can you contribute to bless this Nation. I prayed about it for over a week and I signed up! It was a privilege to be in the stage and sing for my One Audience and to bless the church. And my goodness how I miss "My Redeemer Lives" song! Haha. Then I got the opportunity to share my testimony and hear the testimony of our worship leader as well on the way home when they drop me home. It was a powerful moment. This was supposed to be the main thing I wanted to share today to bring encouragement to other people out there, but I guess God has His own message to deliver through this. So, when I was about to get my iPhone to see the photograph of the song sheets in the song stand I took after the last song at the end of the service so I can share about my journey on this new ministry and I realized I don't have my IPHONE!!!! I freeze for a while and searched again and none! Then I started to call the worship leader and asked if he can find my phone in the car and it's not to be found! I borrowed my housemates iPhone to track it and we failed so. I went outside and call again and also look around on the street. Failed! I went back in my room calm down and squat and close my eyes and think back! I REMEMBER WHILE BROTHER MATTHEW WAS SHARING HIS STORY ABOUT HIM GETTING SICK CLOSE TO DEATH AND MENTIONED ABOUT GETTING STATEMENT OF NOT GETTING HEALED BECAUSE OF A LACK OF FAITH I SHAKE MY HEAD A BIT AND REACHED OUT ON MY BAG TO GET MY IPHONE TO SHOW A PICTURE I GOT IN MOZAMBIQUE PEMBA AFRICA WHERE I SAW LOADS OF MIRACLES AND SET IT ON TOP OF MY BAG WAITING FOR THE MOMENT. SO, I TOLD HIM IT'S NOT ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF OUR FAITH WE GET THE HEALING. BECAUSE MIRACLES ARE NOT MEANT FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF THE BELIEVERS ITS FOR THE CONVICTION OF THE PRE-BELIEVERS AND WE DON'T NEED A MIRACLE ANYMORE TO BELIEVE IN GOD. WHETHER THERE'S ONE OR NOT WE ALREADY BELIEVE, AND IT IS UPON GOD'S JURISDICTION, LIKE WHAT'S BEEN SAID IN JAMES 4:12-17. IT IS A BONUS TO HAVE ONE AND A PRIVILEDGE TO WITNESS ONE! But we finally got to my place before I can even show my phone. And since I remember I put it just right on top of my bag I now fully acknowledge that I absolutely dropped it when I went down the car so I closed my eyes and asked God and just prayed, "God please bring back my phone" a couple of times around 7 or 8 maybe (all i can think of are the memories I had inside the phone) and stand up and went outside and look around again. This time there was a girl maybe in the age of 12 her mother in the gate and a guy in his 20's and I was looking around and the guy asked me if I need help. So I told them i lost my phone and I couldn't find it and asked them if they found any phone in the street. To my shock the girl answered and said, "YES WE DID! WE FOUND IT HERE IN THE STREET." I was shocked for a moment and answered back "REALLY?" And the guy took out a phone from his pocket and hand it over to me and said, "I SAW YOUR PICTURE WITH THE AFRICAN KIDS!" The very picture why I brought out my phone which I planned to show to bro Matthew.(crying while typing this part) God want to show it to somebody else. I thank them asking if I can do something in return and they could not understand at first. So i asked in TETUN if they understand english he answered back just a little bit in Tetun so I tried to asked, "Ita Komprende 'Miracle' iha ingles?" he shoke his head and I said, " Miragro! The girl shouted to the guy "oh milagre! I said "sim! Milagre!" so the guy said, oh, God! And pointed up! I said yes! And i thank them and said I will return the favour soon! It was indeed a miracle. Can you imagine the probability of anyone not from around to be the one to pick up my phone? I am absolutely sure they were not around when I arrived home! Can you imagine if it falls to somebody else? Timor Leste is not a developed country. It is still moving on from captivity from Portugal of almost 400 years and the Indonesia afterwards! The Nation is still overwhelmed with poverty but the people are nice and good. Well of course you will encounter different sets of people but i admire how most of the people worked under the heat of the sun to sell and work and not to choose the easy bad way of life. Well, thank God my phone did not fall to the wrong one. AND IT IS CERTAINLY NOT A COINCIDENCE! God has a plan! God just made it more interesting! I was sharing to Bro Matthew why I am in Dili. I told him God send me here for something, but I got no concrete Idea how it will play so I just take every opportunity to share to the people I come across! So, the moment i got in I shared that moment to the tenants in the house I am staying in and I called bro Matthew again to assure that I got the phone back and call the church that there is no need to look for it in the church anymore. And I told him what happened and guess what? HE SAID, "I BELIEVE OF ALL PEOPLE THEY GOT YOUR PHONE FOR A REASON! THEY SAW YOUR PICTURE AND THEY WERE TOUCHED BY IT. GOD ALREADY STARTED SOMETHING! I BELIEVE GOD IS AFTER THEM. GOD IS GIVING THEM IN YOUR HANDS I THINK THE NEXT STEP IS TO REACH OUT ON THEM!" Mind blowing! Isn't it? Amazing! Exactly what I am thinking! So now the next part is to pray for the next step and i wanted to share this story to everyone just to have that closer view of how The God of the entire Universe, my Daddy God in Heaven!!! My Jesus, the lover of my soul works! For all who says Christian life is boring, well not for me certainly! God is always dramatic on His ways with me. I love art and He approach the same way it's always like a puzzle thing, He gives me bits of pieces to solve. It is always exciting to work with my Father in Heaven! Amazing how many souls He already brought for me to share my life and testimonies of how God has been working in my life since I arrived here, and it keeps on getting exciting!!! God just gave me an exciting open door, it will be easier to tell them that God has a purpose for my phone to be on their hands and I am excited to start with that as soon as possible! Praise the Name of the Lord!! I got my phone back with my credit cards and identification card at the back but more than that I believe God gave me more souls to reach out around here! Praise Jesus! Super thankful of what He has been doing in my life. I WILL NEVER TRADE THIS LIFE HE GAVE ME FOR ANOTHER LIFE. THIS IS THE BEST LIFE TO LIVE! TO LVE FOR JESUES! I WILL NEVER TRADE BACK DYING FROM MYSELF FEW YEARS BACK AND GIVING MY LIFE TO JESUS! BECAUSE IF I DID NOT I MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO EMBRACE AND MEET THIS MUCH OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE’S LIVES IN MY LIFETIME! THIS IS A LONG TESTIMONY With my emotions on up and down momentum! (In short: TODAY I STARTED TO SERVE IN WORSHIP TEAM WHILE ON MISSION TRIP AND LOST MY IPHONE WITH MY CREDIT CARD AT THE SAME DAY!) What happened before that, in between and after, is the reason why you need to read this until the end!) You will be blessed!
Today was an exciting and crazy day for me! First thing, this is the day I started serving in the mission church here in Timor-Leste Dili. It is always an honour to serve the Lord through serving in the church and today I got the privilege to sing for Him again in the stage! When the church had that ministry sign up thing and reminding us that this is an international congregation wherein people come and go and regardless of how short or long is the stay what matter is how you can you contribute to bless this Nation. I prayed about it for over a week and I signed up! It was a privilege to be in the stage and sing for my One Audience and to bless the church. And my goodness how I miss "My Redeemer Lives" song! Haha. Then I got the opportunity to share my testimony and hear the testimony of our worship leader as well on the way home when they drop me home. It was a powerful moment. This was supposed to be the main thing I wanted to share today to bring encouragement to other people out there, but I guess God has His own message to deliver through this. So, when I was about to get my iPhone to see the photograph of the song sheets in the song stand I took after the last song at the end of the service so I can share about my journey on this new ministry and I realized I don't have my IPHONE!!!! I freeze for a while and searched again and none! Then I started to call the worship leader and asked if he can find my phone in the car and it's not to be found! I borrowed my housemates iPhone to track it and we failed so. I went outside and call again and also look around on the street. Failed! I went back in my room calm down and squat and close my eyes and think back! I REMEMBER WHILE BROTHER MATTHEW WAS SHARING HIS STORY ABOUT HIM GETTING SICK CLOSE TO DEATH AND MENTIONED ABOUT GETTING STATEMENT OF NOT GETTING HEALED BECAUSE OF A LACK OF FAITH I SHAKE MY HEAD A BIT AND REACHED OUT ON MY BAG TO GET MY IPHONE TO SHOW A PICTURE I GOT IN MOZAMBIQUE PEMBA AFRICA WHERE I SAW LOADS OF MIRACLES AND SET IT ON TOP OF MY BAG WAITING FOR THE MOMENT. SO, I TOLD HIM IT'S NOT ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF OUR FAITH WE GET THE HEALING. BECAUSE MIRACLES ARE NOT MEANT FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF THE BELIEVERS ITS FOR THE CONVICTION OF THE PRE-BELIEVERS AND WE DON'T NEED A MIRACLE ANYMORE TO BELIEVE IN GOD. WHETHER THERE'S ONE OR NOT WE ALREADY BELIEVE, AND IT IS UPON GOD'S JURISDICTION, LIKE WHAT'S BEEN SAID IN JAMES 4:12-17. IT IS A BONUS TO HAVE ONE AND A PRIVILEDGE TO WITNESS ONE! But we finally got to my place before I can even show my phone. And since I remember I put it just right on top of my bag I now fully acknowledge that I absolutely dropped it when I went down the car so I closed my eyes and asked God and just prayed, "God please bring back my phone" a couple of times around 7 or 8 maybe (all i can think of are the memories I had inside the phone) and stand up and went outside and look around again. This time there was a girl maybe in the age of 12 her mother in the gate and a guy in his 20's and I was looking around and the guy asked me if I need help. So I told them i lost my phone and I couldn't find it and asked them if they found any phone in the street. To my shock the girl answered and said, "YES WE DID! WE FOUND IT HERE IN THE STREET." I was shocked for a moment and answered back "REALLY?" And the guy took out a phone from his pocket and hand it over to me and said, "I SAW YOUR PICTURE WITH THE AFRICAN KIDS!" The very picture why I brought out my phone which I planned to show to bro Matthew.(crying while typing this part) God want to show it to somebody else. I thank them asking if I can do something in return and they could not understand at first. So i asked in TETUN if they understand english he answered back just a little bit in Tetun so I tried to asked, "Ita Komprende 'Miracle' iha ingles?" he shoke his head and I said, " Miragro! The girl shouted to the guy "oh milagre! I said "sim! Milagre!" so the guy said, oh, God! And pointed up! I said yes! And i thank them and said I will return the favour soon! It was indeed a miracle. Can you imagine the probability of anyone not from around to be the one to pick up my phone? I am absolutely sure they were not around when I arrived home! Can you imagine if it falls to somebody else? Dili is not a developed country. It is still moving on from captivity 15 years ago! The Nation is still overwhelmed with poverty but the people are nice and good. Well of course you will encounter different sets of people but i admire how most of the people worked under the heat of the sun to sell and work that to choose the easy bad way of life. Well, thank God my phone did not fall to the wrong one. AND IT IS CERTAINLY NOT A COINCIDENCE! God has a plan! God just made it more interesting! I was sharing to Bro Matthew why I am in Dili. I told him God send me here for something, but I got no concrete Idea how it will play so I just take every opportunity to share to the people I come across! So, the moment i got in I shared that moment to the tenants in the house I am staying in and I called bro Matthew again to assure that I got the phone back and call the church that there is no need to look for it in the church anymore. And I told him what happened and guess what? HE SAID, "I BELIEVE OF ALL PEOPLE THEY GOT YOUR PHONE FOR A REASON! THEY SAW YOUR PICTURE AND THEY WERE TOUCHED BY IT. GOD ALREADY STARTED SOMETHING! I BELIEVE GOD IS AFTER THEM. GOD IS GIVING THEM IN YOUR HANDS I THINK THE NEXT STEP IS TO REACH OUT ON THEM!" Mind blowing! Isn't it? Amazing! Exactly what I am thinking! So now the next part is to pray for the next step and i wanted to share this story to everyone just to have that closer view of how The God of the entire Universe, my Daddy God in Heaven!!! My Jesus, the lover of my soul works! For all who says Christian life is boring, well not for me certainly! God is always dramatic on His ways with me. I love art and He approach the same way it's always like a puzzle thing, He gives me bits of pieces to solve. It is always exciting to work with my Father in Heaven! Amazing how many souls He already brought for me to share my life and testimonies of how God has been working in my life since I arrived here, and it keeps on getting exciting!!! God just gave me an exciting open door, it will be easier to tell them that God has a purpose for my phone to be on their hands and I am excited to start with that as soon as possible! Praise the Name of the Lord!! I got my phone back with my credit cards and identification card at the back but more than that I believe God gave me more souls to reach out around here! Praise Jesus! Super thankful of what He has been doing in my life. I WILL NEVER TRADE THIS LIFE HE GAVE ME FOR ANOTHER LIFE. THIS IS THE BEST LIFE TO LIVE! TO LVE FOR JESUES! I WILL NEVER TRADE BACK DYING FROM MYSELF FEW YEARS BACK AND GIVING MY LIFE TO JESUS! BECAUSE IF I DID NOT I MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO EMBRACE AND MEET THIS MUCH OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE’S LIVES IN MY LIFETIME! I was packing my things last night and as I was putting my journals in the box I saw my journal back in Africa and I remember the letter we did as an exercise how to hear God by Mama Pamela. I remember crying out the whole day that day because I couldn’t believe God will say that to me. So, Kirsten came to visit me and I was just sharing to her the story and then I said, actually I did that exercise earlier before in our prophetic elective class and Adrienne gave us a couple of minutes to find a place where we can meet God and write down our conversation. We were all shocked for a moment and totally got no idea how to start. So, I went to the big Balboa “Elephant” tree, sat down under it and looked at the sky. Lie down a little bit and started thanking God for the sky and the words just came and my hands just kept on writing like I don’t even have the control of my own self. It’s funny that it was written at the very back of the same journal and I shared it to Kirsten and I was thinking should I share this? After our conversation last night and my devotion this morning I felt I need to share it. So, my conversation with God goes like this, Me: “That is super weird God! You are just so awesome! I was just lying down here thinking if You will protect me from the ants that can bite me, then You instantly comforted me with those gorgeous clouds, it is moving so graciously and beautifully with this patterns, peace and calmness! God: “This is how am I moving in your life. No hurry my chid! Take it slow! It is ‘I’ that will move you.” Me: “But God sometimes I just want to be like those birds and fly and see until where I get.” God: “But you will surely get tired! Yes, you can fly as long as you can and as high as you want but you will get tired! Wait until I move you.” Me: “I’m sorry Lord! Forgive me! Soak me with the tenderness of Your Love and stillness of Your voice.” And suddenly Lord I can only see clear sky, so BLUE! It’s awesome! And those leaves are so beautiful. How come I never see that before? God: “Because you only see what you chose to see.” Me: “So, what else I should expect Lord?” God: “Sometimes you just need to be like that TREE, standing still there, waiting for me to provide and pour out, because I will.” Me: “God I know that Your thoughts are higher. Do it Your way, Lord! I surrender! I give to You all my expectations! All Yours Lord!” I need to go back! As I was sharing that to Kirsten last night when she visited me I stand up and look outside the window and suddenly the Holy Spirit just crashed in and I opened my mouth and said, it’s cool and weird that God gave me a comparison of a tree and why I suddenly read this conversation today? (looking outside) The tree when it’s newly planted in the backyard it’s life and growth depends on watering it every day but as it grows as a tree nobody water it anymore but fully dependent on the natural source of food from God himself. The sunlight and rain that comes from God. When a tree is healthy from the inside you will see the outcome from the outside. You will see rich green leaves. But when a tree is not healthy and dry from the inside, you will see it as well in the outside. It will be covered with brown leaves and dry trunk fighting for survival. When a tree is healthy it will bear fruit when the season is right. But if a tree is not healthy from the inside it will not bear fruit even the season already came. I sat down and I realized that it’s biblical. There is verse in the bible about a tree planted in the riverside I told Kirsten. Instantly in mind I was reminded that whatever experience and encounter we had it has to be evaluated by the scripture. The encounter must match the bible. I realized as well that it is very symbolic. Jesus is the tree of life and we have to be imitators of Him. This morning I resume to where I Stopped in the Gospel of Mark and surprisingly it is the interpretation of the sower and the types of the soil and the parable of the growing seed in Mark 4:13-32. When I got to v26-28, “The Parable of the Growing Seed 26 And He said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground, 27 and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how. 28 For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head.” I was remined that once our responsibility is to scatter the seed but God will do the rest. I remember my conversation with Kirsten last night. I was reminded both that when I was new, my mentor put a seed on me and watered it for a while but then afterwards I have to be that tree in full knowledge of what God can do on His own. So, I searched for the verse I mentioned to Kirsten and here it goes, Psalm 1:3 (NKJV) 3 He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper. When I had that conversation with God I totally did not meditated back what He meant. I also got no idea back then that He will move me somewhere else after more than a year now. But I guess God always knew the right time I need to process His word. I decided I will paint Psalm 1:3. Art is one form of worship and I am so glad that God gave me this moment today to reflect on what kind of tree I want to be. I want to be the tree in Psalm 1:3. When you read the full context of it you will love even more to be that tree. 😊
#NoToShortcuts Psalm 57:2 "I cry out to God Most High,to God who fulfills his purpose for me." #GodFulfillsNotMe #GodsPromiseGodsWay
I was watching the 3rd in the #bArsandBattles series of Ps Steven which is #CuttingCorners and it speaks about God fulfilling His promise to us in His own way and His own time. It's not our responsibility to make it happen but to be faithful and faith-filled in serving to where we are NOW. It is awesome to get a Promise from the Lord but we don't take a partial promise or a piece of the bible and claim it as a promise without understanding the context, situation and the process the promise came about. It is very true. Nowadays we love doing cherry pick verses wherein we just take something out from the bible because it sounds good but did not read the whole thing. David got a promise to be the next King but he don't need to climb to get there. God #Pick him up #SERVING where he is at the moment, in a #shepherds #pen. When God gives us a #promise #itDoesNotMatterWhereWecameFrom #WhatWearecalledForMattersMore but there is more that where we came from and where we are going that is #HowWegetThere! In 1 Samuel 24:1-6 It showed how #David Honoured the promise of the Lord by doing the right thing and not taking the matter to his own hands to get where he is called to. I am thankful how God spoke this at this time because I need to hear it. When David felt guilty of cutting the corner of the robe of King Saul when he is in his vulnerable situation David felt guilty about it. That is not the kind of man he is. He will not become someone he is not in the pursuit of what he wants to be. It is Gods' job to get us there. V3-6 3 He came to the sheep pens along the way; a cave was there, and Saul went in to relievehimself. David and his men were far back in the cave. 4 The men said, “This is the day the Lordspoke of when he said[b] to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hands for you to deal with as you wish.’” Then David crept up unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul’s robe. 5 Afterward, David was conscience-stricken for having cut off a corner of his robe. 6 He said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the Lord’s anointed, or lay my hand on him; for he is the anointed of the Lord.” He knew to honour authority despite of how cruel King Saul maybe and despite the fact that King Saul wants to kill him. He leave that to God. Anyways he will still be a king at the end as we all know but David have not seen it yet that time but he believes on what God can do and it has proven his character. #ItIsnotJustaboutGettingTherebutHowyouGetThere. #NotEveryOpportunityisFromGodbutsomeAreTest. #SomeThingsWeshouldnotDoJusttoGetsomething. #WhyjustcutAcornerWhenGodWantsToGiveTheWholeThingInTheRightTime? I can totally relate. There is such powerful peace from within when you know God is working out everything. When you can see God in every process. When you have sought the blessings of your elders, of your church when you got a promise from the Lord. There is something special about honouring the process for God to schedule the promise. When I shouted a Nation when we were asked in Africa and got a land stick or marker, i wanted to return it because I didn't want the Nation that came out from my mouth. It was never me, at first I did not want to go. It took me more than a year. But God knows what He is doing. God knows when and how. It was all just right in time and place. If I look back 6 years ago I never thought I will be in Mission Field but God knows so He trained and equipped me. I am thankful I did not fully know until 2014 because I might freak out if I got the whole picture while I'm just a new believer. But it's 2017 now. Did I already knew what I need to do back in 2014? God knows I need to prepare my WHOLE BEING FOR IT. He always know. There is no rush with God. He put things all in sequence. We can't put God in our own time schedule. I have gone through a lot while in preparation but God made me through it. When I got sick again last month and got to go for my 4th surgery, did I question God? Yes I did. Did I cry? Yes I did. Was it painful? Absolutely! But I knew I am just in the right track because like what is in verse 1-2, 1 After Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the Desert of En Gedi.” 2 So Saul took three thousand able young men from all Israel and set out to look for David and his men near the Crags of the Wild Goats. "When God has a purpose for you to do something so significant expect for the enemy to send out his special forces. That might be why your life is so hard, not because God is not with you but because God is so distinctively with you, maybe His plans for your life is so intimidating and threatening to the devil that no way that the devil will let you ascend to your purpose without an attack. That might be why you are fighting right now." - Ps Steven Furtick It is one thing to know what you are called for but another thing to know what do to about it. Let God be God. It is Gods' purpose He will make it happen. When you feel so stressed out making it happened tendency is God did not asked you to do it to be stressed out! When you know you are just right where you need to be in just the right time you will rejoice in the midst of suffering! I know that for a fact. Because God is good All the time but we will only be able to know that when we are in His presence. It will hurt but it's worth it! #Escape! Everyone has their way to escape. We all do. But to where we go when we escape may get us into greater captivity. The Best place to Go is in the secret place where God is. He is our refuge! He is our strength! I was watching the series of Ps Steven about #barsandBattles & today it's about #SetUpInStrongHold The place, the #strongHold where we choose to hide in times of #troubles will never protect us that Long. The stronghold is just good for a season. It is a Setup! But we can't stay there. Ps Steven said, "Don't stay in the stronghold! It #protects you but it also #TRAPS you." We may have ways to protect ourselves to get hurt again from all the experiences from the past but God never wants us to stay away from those and bypass our emotions! We need to process it & GO THROUGH IT,not hide from it or play the blame Game of what's truly going through from within. We need to take the right fight. The fight that only involves ourself & God first. We can't fight the enemy in the same ground! We need to elevate it to the level where GOD IS! I love when I heard this,"some of the best expression of your relationship with GOD will be born NOT when you are crowned in victory but When you are hiding in despair."It is true! Most of my most authentic, unforgettable & remarkable experience,encounter,learning & shift was when I was in the #valley and not in the #mountaintop! But God never taught me to stay hiding in the valley where the mountains can #COVER ME UP! He always teaches me to get it all together while i'm there and start gearing up because we need to climb up together again even the climb can be painful and EVEN THE HEIGHTS MIGHT BRING MORE TROUBLES AGAIN. Davids' reward of winning the battles were more battles and that is very true in our Christian life. It never ends but God as well will never Leave! His presence will never change! So as what He thinks of each and everyone of us! No matter how much we can mess up that will never change His love for us. I am no perfect, nobody is! We are all guilty but God continues to love us perfectly. So we can't hide that long! We need to get up, leave our stronghold and go to JUDAH! 📸in #australia #hotairballoon #1SAmuel22 #Psalm142
I was watching the movie 42 "the story of Jackie Robinsons" and when Mr Ricky asked Jackie Robinson what will he do when the world cursed him or shout you don't belong here and all the bad stuff to upset you will you be able to hold your temper? People will do everything to make you react. What will you do about that? Jackie Robinson stood up angrily and said "Are you asking for a player who doesn't have the guts to fight back?" Mr Ricky to Robinson:
"No. No. I need a man who have the guts not to fight back! I want the world to know two things, that you are a fine gentleman and you ARE A GOOD BASEBALL PLAYER! Can you do that? I need to know if you can do that? LIKE OUR SAVIOUR, YOU NEED TO HAVE THE GUTS TO TURN THE OTHER CHEEK. CAN YOU DO THAT??" The movie was about the first American African who have played in international baseball league on 1947 with the Dodgers. It was a bold and courageous act to break across racism. Obviously it was an eye opener to the whole world and Jackie just fulfilled his calling. I believe God has given that talent to him for the exact reason. But everything comes with a price. He needs to take all those criticism and life threats. But what was amazing was his relationship with Mr Ricky! How their mentorship and father and son relationship was. He honoured the discipline and the advises. It was spectacular. Apart from the great display of humility and self control and to be able to bring change to the world Jackie Robinson did, I love the Man behind the scene. I love how in his old age Mr Ricky never stopped doing what he is called for irregardless if it will shame his own Name. He was called for a purpose. He loves baseball and he wants EVERYONE to be able to be given a fair chance to fall in love with the game. I love how funnily he said when he chose Robinson, "He is a methodist, I am a methodist, I believe God is a methodist. What can possibly go wrong." From the start it's more than just a political issue or just to play smart. It was more than that. One manager called him saying they will not let the Dodgers be in Philadelphia. When they get in a heated conversation Mr Ricky said, "Do you know space jam? What do you mean? said the other manager. Then Mr Ricky continues, I mean when you get to see God face to face and hold an account to you why you did not let Robinson play in your field, your reason of him being a Negro might not be good enough!" Mr Ricky stand for what he believe is right based on the bible. He was also asked why are taking Robinson to the Dodgers and he answered, "God said love your neighbours as yourself. It is Gods' most repeated commandment." I was inspired that against all odds he chose to prove the world what it is to live right in the eyes of God. I was amazed of his faith and determination. He once said "I have a plan. Everybody in baseball is gonna be against me but I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna bring a Negro ball player to the Brooklyn Dodgers, there is no written law about getting a Negro to join a baseball league and a colleague said, "Yes there's no law about that but there's a code, if you break along and get away with it some people will think your smart but after awhile and you did not you will be an OUTCAST. He answered : "SO BE IT." John 15:18-21 The World’s Hatred18 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.
Jesus is so amazing! Last night I had experienced a spiritual attack. I planned to go to sleep early so around 8:30 I was already preparing to go to sleep but before that I saw the video "The forbidden Isaiah 53" and I watched it. I was amazed and once again broke my heart for the Jews. So, I began to see related study about it and suddenly I couldn't breathe. So, I stopped. I went to the toilet to check myself in the mirror. I took my nose spray and sprayed twice to each nose holes. I tried breathing through my nose but I can feel the air is not passing through. It's like the air was being blocked. Then I said, fine I will breathe through my mouth and lied down. But then suddenly I can't breathe through my mouth anymore and I sit up again trying to cough so I can take out what is blocking then it irritates my throat and I begun coughing continuously. I went out this time to drink my left over cough syrup and drank two glasses of water. Then Finah asked why I looked so pale but I did not explain it. I went back inside the room and tried to breathe but I can only breathe a little from my nose. I can totally feel the difference. I googled what might be causing it, tried dry drowning, acid reflux, and whatever I can think but I can't do anything and I can't explained it. I was not coughing the whole day. I am actually perfectly fine. So I decided to try to sleep. I turned on my worship songs, put another level of pillow behind my head, lied down and I remembered the passage I read that morning about a leper who asked Jesus to heal him if Jesus is willing and the centurion who asked for the healing of his servant in Matthew 8:1-9. So I began laying hands on myself and praying in tongues and I did pray, "I know God you are willing, help me Lord. I don't know what's going on but I rebuke every work of the devil right now under Your authority Jesus! I pray by Your Name Jesus every cells, every tissues that is not working properly right not will be healed. I give to You my lungs, my throat, my nose, my whole nasal system, respiratory system and everything in my body. I will wake up tomorrow fully restored like nothing happened and no signs of what happened and better than ever. In Jesus Name! and I just continued to pray in Jesus Name repeatedly and pray in tongues and I fell asleep. I woke up in dawn time and I am happily surprised that I'm alive and breathing perfectly fine!!!!!!! The last thing I remembered before everything went blank was I was just repeatedly praying and I guess I fell asleep in my prayers. God is so Good. My breathing today is extraordinary. You know the feeling of breathing a super fresh air like there's a mint. Something like that!..Amazing and as I continued reading Matthew 8:9-17. My eyes went so big and happy. His word is just awesome! It's still about His greatness, goodness and faithfulness in healing. I am so thankful that I know His promises. I know He got many more in stored for me someday and I will live to fulfill that. He is Faithful! Thank You Jesus!!!!!!! I woke up with so much thankfulness! ☺️
Matthew 7:13-14
The Narrow Way 13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because[a] narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. I believe most of us know these verses but I think we ALL need to be reminded of these verses from time to time. We all know that this world, this life can offer us many things. While walking in the woods earlier, taking my time, moving, meditating, listening to the worship songs playing from my phone while the only thing I can hear are the noise of the forest and praying in tongues I appreciate more what God has done to my life. We can easily he moved by what is happening around us. There's this taught, do we really hold life or does life hold of us? I am once again thankful that the Holy Spirit is so powerful in my life that I don't end up choosing what this world can give for my life to look so cool but the Holy Spirit has given me a heart that is ready to leave what can be offer in a fleshly lust of our eyes, in terms of material and relationships. I am thankful how God can really change one heart. To end my day with riding the flow and managing to get up, fall down and get up again, While riding the bus once again, and reading the book of Matthew I smiled and said, No matter what, I WILL CHOOSE THE NARROW ROAD! I will choose the hard way and seems difficult choices of life than to just simply cruise through life, than choosing the comfort of life, than holding on relationships not pleasing to God, holding on memories of people who have hurt us. People around who don't truly understand that feeling and contentment may think we are craZy or may oppose us but if you believe that what you do is what pleases the God of heaven and earth might as well DO IT! ☺️❤️💪🏻🙌🏻🙏🏻 Because at the end of the day not everyone will understand or agree with you but what matters most in life is what We have done for God and WHAT GOD HAS DONE IN OUR LIFE THROUGH OUT THE TIME. NO OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS IN LIFE CAN EVER SURPASS THAT! ☺️❤️ I know I will never be fully ready about anything but I AM READY LORD TO TRY AND KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE FOR ME ON THE OTHER SIDE OF CHALLENGE AND OBEDIENCE AND SACRIFICE. #THENARROWROAD#lifesurrenderedbacktoGod #simpleLife #laydown #thankful #timetoponder#LovebyMyFather #HisWordforMeToday Have you seen Favour in an Unfavourable circumstances?
Well, it may sound as weird as it is but 3rd or August 2017 was one of my unforgettable day and 4th which by the way is today is so far one of the happiest. Amazing how God can show His goodness out of unfavourable circumstances and taught me HUGE amount of wisdom at the same time and planned it all. He is always the best! Well, what's the story? So, I already know I am leaving Singapore on the last quarter of the year. The project I am involved "SUPPOSED" to end around August and I initially applied for volunteer work for East Timor for September but changed along the way to trip to Canada around March and my East Timor trip was moved to January of 2018. I felt like God wants me to spent time with my family first before going for mission. Around May I am so blessed to get a round trip ticket to Canada for 990 dollars(USD). That was a miracle. But June 28th my visa was not approved. Out of many circumstances I re-applied adding up more info I never thought necessary but one of those was my certificate of employment from my Australia trip that I just changed to Canada and changed the date of travel. In one sense I told myself I am really just going to have a vacation and I already booked my ticket which by the way is a requirement for the visa application. I hesitated but, I still send it anyways. The next few days was not really peaceful. I know it's not that big of a deal but my heart and prayer changed from "God I pray for my visa to be approved to God I don't mind just end the agony of waiting. All I want is a peace of mind. Somehow we can do very radical actions or taught thinking it will not be much of a harm but in the spirit it's a huge deal. I did shared it instantly to my best of friends Ella and Charity and they prayed with me. I had those moments when I hear a phone rang I felt anxious. I prayed then one Saturday I wrote a blog about the courage of Daniel and It brought me to a decision to do what is rightful, less damage is to actually just asked my Boss for that leave or inform him about me leaving. In that way it also moved me to inform him as well for my resignation. Thank God he allowed me and I also had given the chance to ask him if he wants me to stay until end of October to compensate and it turn out to be a huge favour for them. I may have turned down my promotion but increase still came along in the midst of this. I instantly message Ps Hong Teck about informing my Boss about me leaving and He said, "God will honour that. Break the contract but not the relationship. Leave the company with good relationship with the people because someday in our call we need that influence." Exactly my prayer. I want to leave a footprint of God in my workplace so after a week my site manager disapproved my leave and I never argue for it and just prayed that the visa application turn to which is best but I knew already what God will do. The turnover of our project was moved to 2nd week of September which clashes to my Canada trip and I sincerely asked and prayed the other way this time. I want to leave the project smoothly and those crucial dates are very important to maintain that good relation to the people I have worked for this past 4 years. August 2 one of the leaders shared about the bible study of certain books that I am interested but clashed with Canada trip again, but unlikely and unusual that he wrongly booked through my account and end up I was the one registered as I got a confirmation in my email. That moment I already had a feeling and August 3 came and I guess you already know the end my visa was still not approved and I was happy about it. Was the application not part of God's plan? I think it is included. Apart from it I will not have the strength and courage to finally make a decision. Somehow booking that Canada trip pushed me to both have a final decision for the church and my workplace. Because of that as well I was extended to October instead of the September original plan. Extra time with my spiritual family in Singapore and I had my salary increase just this July and I believe an extra full 3 months will be very helpful for my saving instead of using an unpaid leave and expenses in Canada and I have the budget for the trip I promised for my sister because on top of everything I was able to refund about 85% of the flight ticket. The exact day I called they cancelled my flight as well. I received an email receiving an amount as a refund and I was fine with it until I called POSB late night to actually realized the amount is in USD. God has never failed to surprise me. I was like, "what? It seems like the deduction was just 100over dollars plus cancellation fee. It felt like God made me save that money for a reason. I couldn't explain the joy that I had. Amazingly the book I am reading testified about Ps Steven Furtick grandpa who was a faithful man of God but the last 10 years of his life he was just praying for his wife to recover from Alzheimer's disease. It never happened. In fact he died 18 months earlier than his wife but what matters most is that he remain faithful until the end even the prayer did not seems to come to pass. That was incredible that God actually made me read that early in the morning. It made my bad news so small compare to that situation. But the most important lesson is that I realized that as followers of Christ, small or simple what may not be pleasing to God is already a huge deal, we may not be perfect, we fail, we sin but what will matters most already is not about us but about the God we worship and I am thankful that God is gracious enough to hear my prayers and honestly all I have in my heart was to protect the NAME behind my name. That NAME is JESUS. Somehow I am always amazed how God works behind the scene. Truly a "ROMANS 8:28 MOMENT". Romans 8:28 (NIV)28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, according to his purpose. Then as for today 04 Aug. 2017 I am just so amazed how God back it up with more revealation throug the verse, 1 John 5:14-15New King James Version (NKJV) Confidence and Compassion in Prayer 14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. "When you ask God to do the impossible, He usually instructs you to do something uncomfortable and inconvenient."
"And before God can do an impossible work in your world you need to let Him do a deep work in your heart." "It's tempting to want to skip right to the sun-stopping , river-crossing stuff - the increased influence, answered prayers and electrifying experiences of God's presence. But that stuff won't be genuine and certainly can't be sustained if it isn't cultivated out of a heart that has been formed by the Spirit of God." (All from Sun Stand Still Book) These three statements were from different pages I have read in two different days but i specifically highlighted and took it out to form one flow that I felt speaks so loud. Most of us wants to see the greatness of the Spirit of God and a revival to sprout out from somewhere, but again, I remember back in Pemba Mozambique it was in one class I forgot who said it but I remember it was taught, "Miracles are not meant for the entertainment of the believers but for the CONVICTION of the Pre-Believers." In many setting of Miracles someone from the crowd of witnesses will surely be drawn to God the Miracles worker! The great Healer!!! His Name is Jesus! 3000 was saved out of one Miracle outside the temple back in Peters' days. But before all these impossibilities can happen right in front of our eyes a "Circumcision of the Heart" is very important. The right mindset, motives and intentions are very important in all we do. Let our prayers be before getting to anything in our ministry, "Jesus strip us off with anything that we don't need to fulfill your calling to our lives! Lord take away every excess that we have from down deep in our souls that is not necessary for our growth in our Spiritual walk. Father, turn our heartbeats like yours. Let no ego or pride hinder us from doing what You have asked us to do. Let no pain or hurt or brokenness steals us away from our destiny. Let humility flows naturally from our veins that no platforms can take us away from Your presence and intimacy. May You be our First and last priority that no business of ministry can take us away from You Lord. Let our hearts be in the palm of Your hands today and for the rest of our days. In Jesus Name! Amen! Romans 2:28-29 28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. Hi,
I am writing to all the Women of God every where!!! 📢📢📢☺️🙏🏻 Let this be our Goal as Women of God : "BOYFRIENDS don't get the privileges of a HUSBAND!" For those who have stand firm against the pressure of the world norms well done!!! Daddy God is surely so pleased. If you think it's too late, I already have given it away. There is no too late..☺️ we all have the chance to regain what was taken, what the devil has stolen and stand with a Pride that from now onwards, I am a new creation by Jesus Christ's grace and I will protect what He has paid in the cross for me to gain back my womanhood. This is my platform of Purity! #BeABetterEveMovement #womenOfGod #purity "Believing God for the impossible begins with seeing the invisible-understanding who God is and what He wants to accomplish through you." - #SunStandStill
Reading this part brought me again to the thought that We will never know exactly what lies ahead. I will never know for sure, but taking one step toward the journey God have ahead of us even we don't exactly know what will happen with the next steps we still need to take is what we call audacious FAITH.. I believe that is the kind of Faith God has invested in our hearts to be able to somehow believe the BIG dreams, visions and passion He have put in our life will come to pass, even we only see 1%. I guess that one step is very important to eventually discover the remaining 99%. ☺️😏😉 #ThoughtsToPonder #JustSharing #Faith #reading #wisdom Many People ( I said many, not all but many) thinks that Christian Life can be so boring, but I don't think so. My life has never been so much exciting, well, it is already exciting before, but it even gets more fun and exciting after I fully surrender back my Life to Jesus. It might be a different type of risk and excitement but I'm sure the adrenaline feels more than conquering new mountains, crossing dangerous paths and so on and so forth. It is so much fun to Journey this course of Life with Jesus. I have travelled as far as where Jesus led and took me. I have seen, witnessed, experienced and encountered as much as what my Father has shown me because I chose to go and chose to say YES. My Life with Jesus has never been boring at all, plain or simple. Hahahahah😂 It is A Life Full Of Adventure Worth Living and Dying For! 😉😏☺😍🙏🏻🙌🏻❤️ How About You? #LifeWithJesus #WorthLiving #LifetotheFullest
As i was meditating with our lenten devotion today in the passage of Psalm 22:1-11 the verses in 9-10 hits me.
Psalm 22:9-10 (NKJV) 9 But You are He who took Me out of the womb; You made Me trust while on My mother’s breasts.10 I was cast upon You from birth. From My mother’s womb You have been My God. From the inside of me some stirring happened and I suddenly pondered IF ONLY people will recognize this truth and fully understand what the verses really says we will see how Great You have been unto us Lord. You are the reason we are here on earth, the mere fact that we were born and was alive is already an evidence of Your love and miracle through our lives. When we were just babies and still fully dependent on our parents I can't even remember what I was thinking, I might just be waiting for the next day to come, i believe I trust You and have more faith on You about my daily survival when I was an infant. I wonder why things changed? When we all started to be grown ups we slowly, little by little started to put our trust and faith on ourselves and life gets too complicated, guilt and shame and spirit of condemnation easily gets in and people started to do the blame game! Lord today help us to see You like how we see you when we were still babies, Lord help us to surrender back our life unto you like how we trust you before with our daily survival. Truly what has been written in Matthew 6 is so true! Lord remind us! Put us back to where it all started, Lord I pray that our hearts will remember Your great love from the beginning up to this day and for the rest of our lives. In Jesus Name. Amen! Good morning. We are created in Gods' image so i pray that day by day we will be more like Christ in our words and actions. Let's be more like Christlike. We lost that feature when the humankind fell but through the cross we are getting that most expensive surgery to be back in this image but it is not us that went through the painful process. Someone else did. His name is Jesus. He went through that process of pain not for His own transformation but for us to get transformed through his suffering! ☺ are you ready to get new features of yourself be transformed today? Little by little we will look like more of Christ again! Scrap off that part of yourself which is still worldly and replace it with Jesus transformation formula.☺
Lord help us to have a RENEWED HEART, Mind and Soul today and everyday that will come out from our physical features. Help us to look more like You and not of this world. In Jesus Name! Amen! Mental Power from Spiritual Power : Pioneering I want to write something about what just happened out there. What do I mean by "out there"? It's the mission field. Singapore is my mission field for now but for others it can be a different place. I have one leader under my care who went home because he lost his JOB here in Singapore. He tried to come back but still wasn't able to get a new job but I was amazed how He remained connected. He never gave up. So, one random conversation on the 18th of January 2017, "JULZ DO YOU LIKE TO START A LIFE GROUP THERE IN BAGUIO?" He even have questions and some doubts of course but eventually said the common Christian excuse, "I WILL PRAY FOR IT." Hahahah... So time flies while I'm in Australia and seeking Gods direction for this year. After a week I came back never that I know that God is already doing something in the backstage. I knew it, God has put that question in my heart that day for a reason. It was very random and that day that's the initial message I texted to Julius. I can imagine his shock reading my message but God already planned it all. From just a desire to be part of Hope Baguio to actually starting a new group when he felt the need in that workplace he is working. He just initially want to attend a church in the new place he will be working but when he saw the need there he remembered that random question I asked and WHY NOT, so he started. The mind shift is very important. How healthy we think can overturn situations in life. When the way we think is so influence by our spiritual belief truly we can have faith that can move mountains. (Matthew 17:20) When I attended the wedding we all got reunited again, and Julius has been wanting to talk to me and we never get the chance to so the following day after I came back to Singapore he then shared what has happened in Baguio City. He got a job and he felt so comfortable in the place and there were two people his spirit recognized and very real, they are both of the same faith. They started a bible study on the 10th of February just 3 of them and followed on the 11th with already 5 of them. So I told him I will keep in prayers and just keep doing what he is doing I will check how can we help from here in SG. (Matthew 18:20) This week they were about 10 who joined the bible study and it's so incredible. God has opened a new door, a new place to conquer for JESUS, another opportunity to share the GOSPEL and another mission to accomplish! Way to go JESUS ARMY, we have new work to do! AJAH! WE ARE ALL TOGETHER IN THIS. So this week we already started the team! Yahoo! So excited JESUS! Hope Sitel Baguio It is.. Yesterday I read one post of a friend from FB, "In that age (early church) every Christian was a missionary." - John Foxe (BOOK OF THE MARTYRS). That is very true, long time ago EVERY CHRISTIAN is a MISSIONARY willing to risk to spread and protect the GOSPEL, so what happened? Since when it became an option? It's never too late. Every day is an opportunity to be part of this lifetime mission as a follower of CHRIST. (MATTHEW 28:19-20) TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!
What is the BOOK OF GENESIS?
It's the first book of the bible. It's the book of the beginning; but the book of Genesis is also the first book of the unending GRACE of God. Justice and punishment was made but grace overwrite it all. God told adam and eve that surely they will die whe they eat the forbidden fruit, they were punished but not death penalty. Cain received grace. The flood came but humanity was preserved through the family of Noah. That is grace after all the shame brought by men. From the very beginning GOD has been showing grace in the Wickedness of Humankind. If you will take time to read the first 5 book of the bible you will even wonder, "this thing really happened? This is really in the bible? This cruelty of men had been happening since then and not just in the modern society?!" You will surely see how many times God has been hurt by US but He chooses to Love and Forgive until egiving His own Son! Amazing! "Jesus has been concealed in the old testament long time ago and new testament is the revelation of old testament." Genesis is more of God giving us the opportunity to have a fresh start, new beginnings and chance to get another chance to change what is needed to get changed and appreciate what we have. It's about God not just giving us that beginning of life but chances to remember how He originally created us over and over again whenever we forget. |
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