The wickedness of Men and the ever faithfulness of God...
May our hearts be captured by the love of God. This CHRISTmas is not just a season of festivity and holidays. The main purpose is for us to remember the goodness of God, that even we are sinners and wicked He died for us! 😊❤ Psalm 36[a] For the director of music. Of David the servant of the Lord. 1 I have a message from God in my heart concerning the sinfulness of the wicked:[b] There is no fear of God before their eyes. 2 In their own eyes they flatter themselves too much to detect or hate their sin. 3 The words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful; they fail to act wisely or do good. 4 Even on their beds they plot evil; they commit themselves to a sinful course and do not reject what is wrong. 5 Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. 6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, Lord, preserve both people and animals. 7 How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. 8 They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights. 9 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light. 10 Continue your love to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart. 11 May the foot of the proud not come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away. 12 See how the evildoers lie fallen-- thrown down, not able to rise! 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (The Blood and Love of Jesus made us all BRAND NEW. Brand new life, brand new perspective, brand new mindset and BRAND NEW HEART. Enjoy this new life God has offered while waiting to be back home. If ever you happened to look back on the OLD YOU, smile and tell the devil for reminding you of who you are before that, nah! That is the old me that i will never go back again. Enjoy yourself with that old fella devil. I am a NEW ME with my Saviour!) 😊🙏🏻❤ have a great day..😊 #brandNew #newYou #Christ #reborn #BornAgain #saved #trasformed #love #thankful #NOTURNINGBACK #NotAllowingtheDevilToTurnYouBack #newCreation #SAVED (past tense) "Generation Curse and Blessings."
Last Night I was reading in 2 kings 22 about the wrath of God that will take place not because of One Offense but an accumulation of continious offense. I wrote down in my notes, "GENERATION CURSE" is really for real, so it reminds me of what we do today will truly impact and affect our next generation, we might not receive the judgement we deserve in our days but our children with inherit it. "11And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes. 12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying, 13 Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great isthe wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us. 14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her. 15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me, 16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, evenall the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read: 17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched." Then today, i was reading Psalm 132 and it speaks as well of passing to the next generation and this time is is "GENERATION BLESSINGS". Truly it means again that whatever good deeds and righteousness we do today, regardless if people see or not our children will surely inherit the blessings and favours of the Lord. We might not receive the reward of that good deeds in our lifetime but truly our children will benefit from it. Psalm 132 10 For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed. 11 The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne. 12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore. 13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation. 14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it. 15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread. 16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy. 17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed. 18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish. It leaves me with these thought, what do you really do today for God that you can leave to your children or the children of your children? Will it be a curse or a blessing? What are we really depositing and investing in the kingdom of God today that our children can actually get someday? 🤔🙏🏻🙌🏻 After being back in Singapore where my mission field currently is, I had encountered lots of testing after the mission school. It's like, after the school God immediately send me for a test, haha.. but anyways among all of the challenges and trials encountered both in ministry and personal life the greatest one is what happened to my family last November 15,2016. That tuesday night around 10:30 in the evening somebody broked in our house in the influence of drugs. My Dad was attacked pretty badly that night he got 7 stabs and my sister and law and my cousin both got stabs in the head and chest as well. That night while walking home with one of the church leader I had a chest pain and asked her if we can both pray and I am not even aware what's going on back home with my family in the Philippines. But of all that happened thank God they are all safe nOw. They all thought my Dad might not survived but miracles did happened that night. It's hard to believe for those who have not seen how Jesus protect us and our loved ones. When my Dad was stabbed in the face the knife blade broke. The blade penetrate pretty deep but my Dad got no injury inside his mouth and nobody can explain why. Then the guy went to our kitchen to get more knives and he attacked my sister in law trying to get in the kids room and he stabbed her in the head and again a miracle happened. The knife broke again so it was not that deep. Then he attacked my cousin and he stabbed her in the chest because she's helping out my sister in law. For the 3rd time the knife broke. He was able to scape out from our house but got caught by the neighbourhood. It was a scary news when I got it wednesday morning. So I flew back home friday night and seeing them all fine and well despite of the injuries and trauma to get recovered from, I am so thankful and amazed of how God have protected my family. Worst thing could have happened but by prayer and petition to God all things are possible. He honoured my prayer. My main concern as I do ministry away from my family is for God to keep them safe. God is indeed faithful and it was an amazing testimony of His divine protection and faithfulness. Nothing can ever snatch and take us away from our calling. In obedience there is fruitfulness.
6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. - Phil. 4:6-7 Learning In Mcdonalds! Hahhahah I was really intrigued of Proverbs 25 this morning, so I find time tonight to have this serious study. So I read it again and finally searched some commentaries. What King solomon said in v2-3 won't go away from my mind. So, here are some commentaries,
Proverbs 25:3. The heaven for height, &c. — As no man upon earth can exactly discover the height of heaven, or the depth of earth, or discern what is contained in them; so, the heart of kings is unsearchable — Though wise kings will search out other men and things, yet their inward thoughts and purposes are hardly to be discovered, not only because every man’s heart lies out of the sight of others, but because it is the practice of kings industriously to conceal their intentions. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 25:1-3 God needs not search into any thing; nothing can be hid from him. But it is the honour of rulers to search out matters, to bring to light hidden works of darkness. 4,5. For a prince to suppress vice, and reform his people, is the best way to support his government. 6,7. Religion teaches us humility and self-denial. He who has seen the glory of the Lord in Christ Jesus, will feel his own unworthiness. 8-10. To be hasty in beginning strife, will bring into difficulties. War must at length end, and might better be prevented. It is so in private quarrels; do all thou canst to settle the matter. 11,12. A word of counsel, or reproof, rightly spoken, is especially beautiful, as fine fruit becomes still more beautiful in silver baskets. 13. See what ought to be the aim of him that is trusted with any business; to be faithful. A faithful minister, Christ's messenger, should be thus acceptable to us. 14. He who pretends to have received or given that which he never had, is like the morning cloud, that disappoints those who look for rain. 15. Be patient to bear a present hurt. Be mild to speak without passion; for persuasive language is the most effectual to prevail over the hardened mind. 16. God has given us leave to use grateful things, but we are cautioned against excess. At the end point, I was down with this question, "Do you think God intentionally hide things from our knowing as leaders or not even if it will cause damages to test us?" Well, i think yes. In His word God said, "but the glory of the king is to search out." I believe God is not playing hard to get but He have the intention of teaching us to give value of something. It is like the value we give on things that we really worked hard, it's the value we give for the man and woman once we find them and they are the one. It goes with the value we give for everything that took time for us to receive, achieve and to discover. And as a good leader of any type i believe it's also an added value if we end up searching what is the root of every problems and circumstances that has been happening under our leadership and able to give it the best Godly solution we can give. We might not always gonna make the perfect decisions in life but the moment we tried to seek, soak and solve problems with God we will surely gonna make that tight bond with God that will never be replaced with any hardship in life. Life many says, "CHARGE TO EXPERIENCE." 😊 Then we will surely moved on with the flow of Gods' grace and finally God will reveal it. He is a Father. He will surely let us seek things to teach us, but He will surely give the answer at the right time, we just need to be patient and faithful. 😊 Thank You Daddy God! A well spent Night @ Mcdonalds. Hahaaha I believe the next thing is to pray v4-5. It's the prayer of my heart right now, Lord Jesus, like when you take away the dross from silver, so it can go to silversmith and be a jewelry, Take away the wickedness from our heart and surely evrything under our dominion will be established in righteousness. Thank You Jesus! In Your mighty Name! Amen! I don't do things because I just thought of something crazy to do, hahaah... I do things that i believe and I am sure God wants me to do. It is the process of learning that I am not in control of this little life of mine but I am not a robot as well. God gave me a choice. I could have chosen to stay and choose a carefree and free and easy lifestyle. But I know for the fact that my life is not mine at all. It was never my choice and my decision to be born in this world, that very thought will already give you a clue that there is something, SOMEONE so Big and Sovereign behind our birth. God created me as an adventurous person and a fighter for a reason. It's also not an overnight thing to figure out who we really are and what ourself made of. I was created with such adrenaline flowing in my veins for a reason, of course thank God I figured that out, the next step is for God to show me how to divert that natural adrenaline in my bloodstreams and craziness and adventure spirit to something worth doing for the kingdom of God. Again thank God, He made me want to be who He created me to be. I love how He created me. I am exactly who I am now the way God planned it from the very first day..😊 The day He had me in His mind before He even put me in my mothers womb.
I know! I am crazy most of the time! I'm a risk taker! I may seems to be brave but believe me Most of the times I am not I am just so in love with my Jesus. So who are you? (Picture with mama Maria the day after we had an intense deliverance for her.) #calling #passion #IamWhoIAm #FollowerOfChrist #CreatedToWorship #OneGod #OneLife #Onepurpose Today marks the end of my jourNey with the 2nd book of Samuel and hello to the new beginning with the 1st book of Kings, but what's very significant in todays' message of God is how amazing that He led me to read about DAVIDS' MIGHTY MEN when today is the scheduled day for me to meet the leaders for Q4 planning then towards the end i will never forget Davids' answer in 2 Sam 24:24 about him not offering something to God that cost him NOTHING. That's the same thing when we follow Jesus. It's gonna cost us something. Last night I was pondering and praying as I received an email from one of Iris Base and seeing the email I told myself, "This is not easy, this is not simple, this will need much preparation of the heart and all sort of and I NEED TO COUNT THE COST!" It's gonna cost me my life, the life that i have right now, the mission life i already adopted and embraced through the years and it is tough!
Thank You God for always letting me know that You know. 😊 Thank You for comforting me with Your Words. As I listen and worship in the song "Simple Gospel" of United Pursuit before reading and on and on these words hits me, "I use to think that I could box you in But I’m laying down I want to know you, Lord I’m laying down all my religion I’m laying down I want to you know you, Lord I’m laying down all my religion I’m laying down I want to know you, Lord I want to know you, Lord I will rejoice in the simple gospel I will rejoice in you, Lord" "LAYING DOWN OUR LIFE IS NOT very easy but when Gods Love hit us it will not be that hard to return back this life we thought our own and invested on to its rightful owner. It's gonna be painful to withraw something we thought we work on but Jesus paid a full price long time ago in a much more painful way to redeem back our life and hand it over to us and leave the choice to us to hand it over back to him. What's gonna be your choice? #bookofSamuel #bible #saturday #morning #journal #devotion #conversationWithGod #cost #countTheCost #message #thankful #passion #calling #IAMCALLED #ponder #FathersHeart #David "For the most part in our culture we don't do the right thing; we do what we feel like doing. We don't do the wise thing; we do what we feel like doing. We don't even do what we committed to doing; WE DO WHAT WE FEEL LIKE DOING." - FEEL GOOD FAITH from Resilient Book of Ron Luce
When I was starting my walk with Jesus as a new believer I already have a spiritual discipline of talking to God first thing in the morning. Today, I wonder and so thankful to God ever since the beginning I have been journaling my prayers to God and my devotion and nobody told me to do so, I just felt that writing down prayers makes it more solid, it's not just an uttered prayer in the air. Now I look back and see my old journals and it made me laugh! Silly Me but amazing what it did to my faith. Along the way of the busyness of the ministry when I started serving in the leadership in that course I reasoned out and told myself, "You can always talk to God in any hour and things started to get swayed and I knew something is not very right. True, I do talk to God like every now and then..😂 I sound crazy sometimes but there is still different with that discipline I have and sunddenly i missed it when I watched war room. I brought it back and thank God I did. It got deeper when I was in Africa! So, Intimacy with God has always been what my Father has been teaching me from the very beginning. I believe in my heart I knew that the world can take all that I have, ministry, title, position but not the intimacy that I have with my Father. It will feel like operating a machine without fuel. It's empty. ❤️🙏🏻...
I love reading His word and talking to Him when I wakes up in the morning because my principle long time ago is I don't want to start my day going out in the battle not prepared for war, go out without direction. The voice of God is our compass in life. Start your day with the direction pick up from the word of God.😊 don't just get a verse but linger in the presence of His word. I don't want to go without hearing Him, what He wants me to remember in a day to day basis... Good morning world..😊 #FathersHeart #devotion #reading2samuel19 #bookofSamuel #bible #wordOfGod #David #reflections #morningthoughts #journal #PSALM23 #prayer I was just listening to Will Hart teaching back in Pemba the other night from my recordings from Iris HARVEST SCHOOL. I laugh from the top of my lungs once again but... Hearing him once again say that, "THIS IS NOT A ONE NIGHT STAND WITH GOD. You don't just desire to be touch by the Holy Spirit for a night, here, but what will you do after that."
It's NOT a one night stand with God! It's a commitment of a lifetime to Follow Jesus! That left me wondering again, what should I do next? What lies ahead of me? What am I doing now? I have been touched by God so radically in those days to do what? Sometimes I know the answer but most of the times it's scary to move forward. God you are my strength and you are my Daddy God. I know You Know all things and I just want to pray, if I am holding back anything at the moment I seek of Your never ending grace and give me that enough courage to be who I needed to be, where I need to be and what I should do eventually. Thank You for all the love and I do pray please Help me to remain in Your hand with full of passion and fire for the rest of my Life despite of all circumstances of life. In Jesus Name! Amen! #PSALM23 #love #grace #forever #lifetime #FollowerofChrist #wondering #challenge #calledtoMissions #calling #passion #ponder #seeking #praying #still #inHisPresence #InHisTime #psalm23 "When the Sun sets free, it's free indeed, it's free indeed." 🎶🎵🎵🎶🔥
Missed singing the song. Last night i remember Kenny's question during bush outreach again. "Why some people don't want to get drunk in the Spirit of God? Is it because they are not in CONTROL?" Mama Heidi also says that one of the best thing that can happen to you is to be in full control of the Holy Spirit where in you are in a dimension of spiritual realm that there's no more you but only of Him. I was once one of those people that Kenny was saying about being afraid to be drunk in the spirit. (Good thing i'm not anymore during the conversation) it was shocking at first but the moment i felt to be fully taken over by the spirit the first time I knew why, i feel free. Those were the times I felt closer to heaven where in the glory of God is so tangible, those were the moments i am more and more of Him and super less of me, those were the times i receive direct revelations from the father. Those times that I am most vulnerable and need others' help even to stand and walk which i don't really like at most times.😂The feeling is burning and embarassing at times, i still try to stop myself from laughing, still have not learn that the more i try the more He will remind me He is stronger. So just go in the flow of the Spirit , relax and be FREE...😊😊😊❤️🔥🔥🔥🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 #ACTS2:14-18 14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: 15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. 16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy; #HolySpirit #FIREOFGOD #GLORYOFGOD #presenceofGod #theBookOfActsIsAlive #FREE This is a picture of a beautiful family. I cried while leaving their house last thursday afternoon. It's amazing how you learn from the people in many ways. These mozambican family of Papa Joao is a picture of Jesus Love. The moment you enter the house and see the family instantly you will feel it. I'm overwhelmed of their heart and generosity. They don't have much in life but they are willing to share whatever they could, wherein many of us got choices of food to eat and choices of clothes to wear but still have a hardened heart to give. The love of Jesus is overflowing in their entire family. From Papa Joao who's so kind to write some portuguese and makoa sentences for me to learn, Mama Elisa who gave us an oppostunity to cook shimah and matapa together with natalia her daughter. What's more awesome is, natalia who's now 9 months pregnant wants to name her baby after me..😭😍 I'm so overwhelmed and honored at the same time. Brother Jeremias (jeremiah) has been very helpful as well in translations and all that because mama elena kinda not also speaking much of portuguese but the tribal dialect. They laugh whenever i try my very little portuguese/spanish conversations. And Mama Elena, the reason why I'm in there house, she's the first mama i get connected when Mama Heidi asked us in our cross-cultural class to be paired with one mozambican mama. She's absolutely so sweet. I might not have much to give this time around unlike when i bought some grocery last time but my 100met was able to buy "kampala" for them to make some beds, i couldn't even buy her flip flops and hers was already broken when we are walking to her house so i end up walking back home barefoot, i left my flip flops with them since i can't buy her one but that taught me alot about Love. I actually enjoyed walking in the dirt barefoot walking for more than 10min knowing she will have something to wear. They don't have much richness of this world but they are super rich of love, generosity and kindness. My Amiga Mama Elena even made me a skirt as a gift for a friend. That totally wrecked me and broke my heart. Because I'm so amazed of their love and generosity. I'm not sure if I will be back in this place but if I do, I will definitely gonna see their family. Their family is full of joy and love, full of Jesus. Amazing! They even called us "FAMILY". One thing we can offer for them is prayer. One of the child have malaria so we prayed for her and by faith she will be healed, I know Jesus is healing her right now, one has fever and back pain and by Faith my Jesus is powerful enough and He will be healed by now and my mama Elena, her heart will be healed from the death of her husband! If you are reading this, it will be awesome to say a little prayer for their family. Speak a prayer of blessing and healing. 😊🙏🏻
It's so nice to have another Joao from bible school to actually accompany me and my friend Katie. I'm so thankful katie went with me to make things possible. It's nice to see two of the siblings are also going to Iris Bible school and they are so helpful as well. What a lovely family full of Jesus. Thank You Jesus for letting me experience this. You are always awesome! Go Low and Slow! Stop for the One! Love looks like something! These lines are the guidelines of Mama Heidi. God made me experienced it all with this lovely family. What can you give? Everyone has something. Choose to love today! 😊😊😊 Love not when it's easy but because of the fact that God loves you and me when we actually sinned against Him. #oneofthebestvillageexperienceofmine #love #lovelookslikesomething #family #friend #relationship #travelforJesus #thankful #blessed #africa #pemba #mozambique #hs24 #iris #onelife #Lifetothefullest #testimonyofGodslove #treasure #capturingthemoment #creatingmemories #followerofJesus How much does it takes to see this long time ago "unreached village" to be reached? Well it takes one "laid down life" to make it happen. Isn't it wonderful to witness such life transformation by the Grace of Jesus Christ only because someone laid down their lives in following Jesus. It's not even a duty but truly an expression of "Love". That's what it takes to follow Jesus.
John 14:15 says, "If you follow Me, keep My commandments." John 14:21/ 23-24 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” 23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. And what is the commandment? Luke 10:27 27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’[a]; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b]” There's not even the first and second but it's together. If we really love Jesus with all of our being we will lay down our personal agendas for the sake of the Gospel and love. L.O.V.E is a four letter word that will cause you EVERYTHING. So be careful on saying " I Love You." You might not know what it fully means. Be careful on saying YOU LOVE GOD. Because He will take that seriously and what it means to Love God? Do what He says in His commandment. Is it hard? Well, it only gets hard if you're doing things for a person you are trying to love but it will not feel so hard to do something for someone we really love. When you fall in love you can cross the ocean for the person without taking it as an obligation but an act of LOVE. 😊 #Love #waterbaptism #pemba #africalife #transformed #followerofChrist #thankful #Jesus #africa #Iris #OneLife #Onepurpose #oneGod I'm posting this photo out of many photos to be ahead of all the uploading stuff because this is a very powerful photo of testimony. The story can never get so alive but only to be said in a personal sharing but the story behind this photo and behind this Mama "Maria's" smile is life changing. You wouldn't understand how i thought i'm gonna be hunted for the rest of my life of a flat face with so much death in a person's eyes until God showed up! 😊 let's fast forward the whole day moment that came to pass only the next day in a very brief explanation and let me try a short story.
She was brought in the church, thinks she's crazy, we knew she got demon, prayed for healing, JESUS showed up, we all thought she'S already part of the church, she speaks out without us asking, she's a muslim and it's her first time now she feels better she wants to receive Jesus, we are all shocked, we prayed the sinners prayer, we don't know what to do with her, water baptism is about to happen, we considered asking her to come, right at the moment she fell in the spirit, we prayed and boom she manifested, cried, shout, shake, rattle and roll and everything! Name it! Haha..the demon can't stand the glory of God. The demon tried a good fight but i tell you the victory is with Jesus Always! We kept on waiting for the Pastor but i believe God gave that fight for us. Skip the details, she felt weak rested, we prayed again she throw up but just an air three times, we sang praise of thanksgiving to Jesus in portuguese, makoa and english. The peace of the Lord fell upon her, she slept, still woke up flat face without any smile at all. We did all that we could with wholeheart and faith. i knew she is saved now. I knew Jesus will do the rest and we leave it all to my Jesus. We carry on in the evening activities. I hardly slept that night, i kept on seeing her lifeless expression. So i woke up every now and then. I finally woke up, prayed to God because i knew i will forever be tormented and just worshipped i thought i woke up the whole village, hahaha, but God showed up again and surprise after taking down our tents we saw a new person walking towards us beaming with joy. 😭😍🙏🏻 I cried! She said thanks and ask for more prayer. Jesus is so awesome!!!!!!! I have never been that brave and vulnerable at the same time but it was all worth it. For the Glory of my King and Lord, for the glory of my SAVIOIR who saves. This Mama will never be the same again, why? Because Jesus is now her King. No witch craft anymore, no moslem thing anymore and she's finally going to the church! Awesome!!! Jesus is so awesome! She's so special. Jesus brought her there. I know Jesus brought her there to be delivered and be a testimony for the village, many saw what happened and many knew her. Her family brought her to witch doctors but they can't do anything about it because it is demon. Jesus is the only one that can heal her and my Precious Saviour did exactly what He want to show to His children! All glory to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 It's amazing watching the sunrise today while we are in 4 to 6am prayer schedule. We can get to see the sunrise while we are in the prayer hut. Looking at the photos i took it just hit me how time flies. How in just few minutes it's dark and all of a sudden i can see some shade of blue then orange and then the brightness of the sky. I love how the sky moved in transition. It made me feel the awesomeness and greatness of God. I felt that in the transition of the sky it represent the transition of life as well. I suddenly feels that the darkness of life should also be replace with the brightness of the light of the Lord that takes just in a while. Don't linger in the dark side of life. God made all things so beautiful. Open your eyes and see. Open your heart and feel. Time says, tick tack tick tack! It is time! Turn to God and turn to light! Jesus is the One who makes things bright even in the darkest, hardest and lowest time of life. Smile! There's always a new day with God. 😊
John 1:5 "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." Don't ever let the devil take hold on you. God overcame the world! He is in you! Therefore you are as well an overcomer! Let our life be light and bright that cast away every bit of darkness that the enemy tries to poison our life and even the darkness of other peoples's life. You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. - 1 John 4:4 #sunrise #blog #life #nature #prayertime #love #light #sun #pemba #africa #mozambique #HS24 #africatrip2016 #photography #passion #calling #Lifetothefullest #livinglife #life #onelife #onepurpose #oneGod #traveler #travelforacause #missionschool #missiontrip #travel Herbert, one of the speaker said, "I thought i knew how to love until I went to mozambique. And I realized I really don't know. I thought I have figured it out to follow Jesus but I really have not."
It hits me so much. I basically feels the same thing when arrived in this small but such an eye opener province of mozambique, PEMBA. When we serve in various ministries, have our own ministries, gave up most just to follow Jesus; we might think that we already figured it out, but Jesus is alot more complex than that. We really can't figure Him out because it's a process until the day we meet Him face to face. Every new journey He will take us or ask us to do He will require us to die from the old us and old ways. Jesus will say, time for a new thing! Drop it all. All those old ways! It wont really wort out for your new assignment and you will see yourself struggling to start a new you and new perspective. All along I thought, somehow I have figured it out but not, and I am learning day by day of intimacy with the Lord! I knew He is so tangible in my life ever since but there is always more. I thought I have known how to love from all that I have seen, from all the nations I have learned to love until God gave you a woman with total skin desease to be prayed for ans lay hands and all I knew about loving a stranger just totally crashed! I realized I have really not known what it feels to really love a person beyond your own benefit and totally none in return and with total risk just to follow Christ. I found out it's not easy what Jesus do to those bunch of people that comes for help in His presence. God showed me I knew just so little about how it is to have that compassion and eventually showed me how! He breaks me! All that i know; but right away build me up! What an amazing God we have! He will bring you somewhere to break you and make you complete again by His love and grace! That is the God that I serve! That is my Saviour Jesus! My redeemer! The perfector of faith! The Lover of my Soul! Every experience and time spent for the Lord counts! I would rather be in a place God called me and let His name reign than a place where people only knows my name. Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. - Psalm 84:10 Thank You Lord! Show me Your ways! Show me Your heart Lord! Let me die to live again! 😊 I am alive because You DIED. I am here because You ROSE! Ok. So alot of Miracles are going on here and it's just the beginning. But I guess let's start with just a simple one and It's awesome when you realized that God is already making it happen before you even get here. I just want to thank those who helped me to get here! Amazing people! You all know who you are. Papa rolland said, to call it faith then something must have happened. There should be an outcome. If you put your faith that you will be here then you will be here if you are not here then you not here. God is not really sending you here. It's a faith to what God really will do actually! Not base on our own faith and demand after God. Faith is a gift from God and from God! Faith should have an outcome in a sense that it's an evidence of the things hope for. Things you don't see but you believe can happen because God put it in your heart because it is His will. So, it takes lot of those faith to get here in pemba, mozambique. 😂 but one thing is to BELIEVE COMPLETELY that this is what God wants you to do. Believing What God want to do even it seems impossible. Nothing will be impossible and there's no way anything can stop it. So i guess, it's cool to share this so simple story. So I packed all my things, crazy packing. All those who really knew me will feel me. Haha... (I don't pack early) so this is a struggle plus there's a conference coming up. Ok. So the night in the airport when nesh brought all my things his first line was "what did you put on that bag? So heavy! Did you put gold? So, i was like, "i don't have any idea since i have not really carry the trek pack since i packed all the stuff, with the sleeping bag on, tents and everything. I tried to estimate the pink luggage though but have not carry the trek pack at all. I don't have gauge, all i have is faith. Charity asked me, did you weigh your bags. And i said, nope! Just hoping for the best with all the stuff needed and required for the outreach. I don't have any choice though so, having faith that it wont exceed. So singapore airlines have 30kg allowance! It was super cool! When they weighed my bags. The pink luggage was 21kg and the trek pack was 10kg. Hahahaha😂😂😂 awesome! That was so amazing! I thank God! But i even think, yep! Just estimate it nicely like i used to do with all my travels. Then, i told myself i just carry on the back pack since LAM (my next flight) only allows 20kg from Johannesburg to Pemba. But then thank God!!! SA said, they will transfer it on directly, aircraft to aircraft. It was like cool.. Because i don't want to be delayed for my next flight waiting for my bags to be collected and i only have 2 hours buffer. Then when I finally get to Pemba my prayer was I hope my bags and guitar make it to the right country. So, amazingly my bags, both bags where amongst the first 5 except the guitar that went a bit at the end which made me worried a bit. Then my gosh!!!! For the very first time i carried the trek pack and now i understand what nesh is talking about and oww my God this is definitely more than 10kg. I know how to estimate bags in my shoulders. I carry like about 20kg with my purple trek back. I know definitely it's more than that and wow! That is miracle in many sense. God do cool stuff, big or small just to make things happen for us. So don't you dare think that God don't care! God care regardless if it's a small or big deal for us. He knows us by name and numbered our hairs. He cares Anything about us, His children is a big deal for daddy God. I'm just so thankful He never leave me nor forsake me! Isn't God super cool...😍😍😍
Well, some groups here from their bush outreach just raised one kid from dead. So awesome for starters, made me excited what God will do for our group bush outreach. 😊 Can you guess what is he thinking? I remember how my professor in photography said, the most powerful subject is the eye of the subject. I took it last sunday after church during water baptism. He was not part of those getting baptize but he is one of the supporters or just one of the watchers maybe. I am not so sure but after taking his photo, I suddenly thought what is he thinking? I have been wanting to share this photo for a long time but besides the fact that I can't go online anytime I want and I actually don't want to be distracted by the online world as well, I guess God always pick up His own timing. This place that I have been for some weeks now is where I felt the heart of God closer, maybe because of so much brokenness and my heart breaks seeing this kid eyes. I asked God, what is he feeling right now Lord?
I remember, they said, "the eye is the window of our soul." I believe so. What do you think God sees from your life at the moment? What message do you think your eyes are conveying? Is it the joy and love from God? Is it a joy and love that comes from this world? Is it a love planted by God? Or a deceit planted by the enemy? Is it pain brought by the past, present and the fear of the future? Or is it that satisfying peace brought by the blood of Jesus in the cross? I don't know. We all have our different stories. But what I want my eyes to tell is the "love story of Jesus in my life." I want my eyes to tell the world how loving my saviour is, despite of the pain and disappointment this world can bring. I want only the Love of Jesus to be conveyed by these precious eyes God gave me. So what is your story? What is the story behind your eyes? Matthew 6:22-23 "The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. "But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! #passion #calling #africa #pemba #photography #africatrip2016 #Africanboy #story #Lifetothefullest #eyes #waterbap #art #emotion #thestorybehindtheeyes #sundayentry #thankful #Godscreation #onelife #oneGod #WordofGod So, I guess I missed sharing some good stuff ha.. Good photos and great stories behind it. Well then, this is just one of the amazing sunrise I have took while I'm in or around or on my way from or to the prayer Hut. How Glorious it looked like here in Africa! Gazing in this amazing view while having my moment with God just made it perfect! It might be really late now in singapore but it's about 8pm here now. It's saturday so, It's a sabbath day, so welcome to the online world. I finally get to the town. So I guess I need to post as much as I can.. But wait, no hurry. Digest how God talk through this photo. Today His message was from Lamentation 3:22-41
But let me give just this, "Through the Lords' mercies we are not consumed, because His compassion fail not. They are new EVERY MORNING; great is your faithfulness." The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I hope in Him." #sunrise #hope #newbeginning #newday #kainosexperience #naturelover #morningprayerphoto #5:30am #mozambique #africa #Lordscreation #africatrip2016 #sun #photography #Godspromise God promised! He is a promise keeper! There will always be a new day! No worries you still got your chance. Chance to fully turn away from your old life and turn to God! You still got chance! To wake up another morning and let God make a change through you. Hope! Live! Believe! 😊😊😊 The sun will always rise every morning! Jesus Christ is the Bridegroom and we are His Bride. Only when a deep love for Jesus burns within our hearts are we able to love others and love ourselves. Only when we are truly in love with God are we able to go to the nations and make disciples of Jesus. Everything starts with a love affair with God Himself. When we have learned to obey the Great Commandment, then we can fulfill the Great Commission. - "Keeping The Fire"
I guess this part of the book really hits me so well, if we have not died from our selfish intentions and personal goals as a christian then we are still not loving others above us and if that is the case we are also not putting God first above all else. That is not a wholehearted love for the Lord. Going for extra mile for the Lord can only happen when we truly believe from the bottom of our hearts that we are in partnership with the persona of Jesus; that what we do is a lifetime covenant, a commitment and a love vow for the Lord. There is no way we can sustain to do the GREAT COMMISSION IF WE HAVE NOT LEARNED TO OBEY AND EMBRACED THE GREAT COMMANDMENT. Have you? What keeps you going in doing the great commission? Why are you doing it? What does it takes for you to fulfill the great commission and go to every nation and make disciples and baptize them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. And teach them to obey all that Jesus have commanded? LOVE....the unexplanable and unconditional love Jesus made us all feel when He died for us in the cross. The exact love that drives me to love more and give more and forgive more and do what I do today. That perfect Love of God empowers an imperfect person like me to strive more to bring Him Glory! We will never love like God does, but it never disqualifies us from the race to bring love more in this world. Choose to obey the greatest commandment though it's never easy and let's all together fulfill the great commission. I was reading "Keeping the Fire" over lunch and God immediately brought me to these wonderful passage. I will forever remind myself of these very words of Jesus Christ. All I have was, is and will always be from Him. We are just channels of blessings. God blessed us to flow the blessing to many. WORRY NOT! For God knows. 😊
Matthew 6:25-34New International Version (NIV) *Do Not Worry* 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]? 28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 3:11 "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire"
I still remember when I had that "FIRE BAPTISM" I couldn't explain exactly what had happened but it seemed impossible but possible. It's beyond words but I can still remember how it felt like. Since then, there was something new to me that I can't deny. I even had the moment that my spirit is rebuking even movies I watched. But as time goes by I also know that there are times that I will be weak again, but when my spirit is weak there was this refueling moment within me that my spirit seems to figure out on His own. All I am sure of is this, "THERE IS SO MUCH DIFFERENCE ONCE YOU GET BAPTIZED WITH FIRE AND WHEN YOU WERE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT." There's this explainable but tangible power of the Holy Spirit within from within. I pray that all of us will seek to have that kind of feeling within us, the unstoppable flow of fire in our veins. Brothers and Sisters, ASK FOR MORE OF THE LORD! When I just recovered from that fire baptism I remember my body was still shaking when I stood, I was in breeze, I can't stop myself from crying, my knees can't sustain my own body but I tried to line up from the rest of the people to get "MORE" and my focus was fixed, "I want more of your anointing Lord", desperate enough I even boldly ask Evangelist Todd White to bless me with the same anointing that he has, and graciously enough he pulled me aside and he laid hand on me and blessed me. "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." -Matthew 7:7 Have An ON FIRE 24/7 Spiritual Life Brothers and Sisters..:) Who says learning is just for the young people trying to figure out life. Every year we had this goal of a #newskill goal. I remember playing guitar was my goal last time. Then I really prayed what do I want to learn for 2016, and God quickly answered my prayer. Learning is beyond time! You can learn as long as you live. It is a lifetime process. It's never too late for us to learn new things or aspire to do new things in life. God gave us plenty of opportunities but it will still depend on our choice. Today ask yourself what do you like to learn? What else do you want to achieve? What skills you want to improve? What else do you want to do for God? Do you have any old dreams you have set aside? Anything you love to do but hindered by so many priorities in life? Of work? You have a choice. God gave us the gifts, talents, skills and desire and passion over something for a reason. Find it! Cultivate it! And enjoy learning all the days of your life!!! 😊 Do some treasure hunt! There's those hidden gems within you waiting to be unleashed! You are God's masterpiece designed to be someone great for Gods' glory.
Thank you Lord! 😊 I owe you everything! You created me exactly how I needed to be and I am so thankful for who I am and who will I be for your kingdom. "For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." - Ephesians 2:10 Isn't funny when we missed so much in life because of our own doing? In life Change is inevitable. Nothing is permanent in this world and no matter how much we tried to hold on something or someone there will always be that danger of an end. We People sometimes dwell much on our lackness and incapabilities that we end up doing nothing at all or accomplish little because we think so little. We tend to focus on what we lost rather than what is about to come. They say, "life is like a gift that comes with a wrapper waiting to be open by YOU..." But how will you open it if you don't even see it.
Today, don't waste your time and energy thinking of what you don't have, what you have lost, what you can't do and what you have not done. Rather, look on the brighter side. Think of what you can still do, think of the endless possibilities that you can accomplish, of the things you can still have and look forward. God made you for something. God created you for a reason and purpose only intended for you. He closes one door to direct you on a better one. Stop staring at the close door! Turn around and start to do something about the new one. God gave us a new life when He died in the Cross don't waste it by staring at your old self and old life! Everyday is a MIRACLE! Be thankful! Be happy! Love radically! Make your daily life worth the cross.. Good morning...😊 When I fly in the sky I'm excited for both.
Excited to be in the place of destination to learn again, to experience again, to discover, to love once again, to embrace culture and people and to be able to make a difference in a world full of chaos but I'm also excited to go back where I came from to be able to deliver the message of encounter, looking forward that the learning I've carried with me in those days of the journey and many hours of travel will be able to change somebody's perspective of life, that the testimonies and memories to be shared will change someones' heart so radical. Flying up in the sky while you're thousand feet off the ground is not something very comfy to be with but the idea of enduring many flights and travels that you were able to get through just to reach your hands, just to make someone smile, just to make some kids feel loved, just to bring joy and love to other peoples lives, just to uplift one spirit, encourage a person, pray for the person and embrace and make a great conversation will be all worth it. Life is a journey we are all got no choice but to go through #whynot choose to go through the process by giving life a whole lot of meaning and not just merely passing by... A life without risk is like not living at all. Risk to give, to share, to know, to love for the sake of the glory and salvation we get from God who gave our life. Why do you need to choose to protect your life when it doesn't belong to you at all, Your life and mine belongs to GOD alone He will be the one to make the choice when to protect and take it back. CHOOSE TO LIVE THE MOST OF WHAT GOD GAVE YOU! Don't waste it for selfish desires or self preservation! Things we do for ourselves won't last, but things we do for others and for JESUS ALONE will last for a lifetime. .😊 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. - Luke 9:24 #Lifetothefullest #travel #ilovetraveling #passion #callinglife #livinglife #thankful #onelife #onepurpose #travelforJesus |
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