Victory, oh victory...

I am so excited and grateful to our Lord Jesus Christ for all my victories in life. Never did regret I the day I surrender my life to Jesus Christ.

Jesus is...
   my rest
   my peace
   my hope
   my strenght
   my trust
   my abundance
   my wisdom
   my restoration
   my provision
   my victory
   my help
   my stronghold
   my rock and fortress...

Indeed, it is better to take refuge in God than to put confidence in man.

To all who have life, let us praise the Lord...praise to you Lord Jesus, blessed be your holy name, glory to you oh God...

MY GOD

My GOD...

  My only Lord

  King of all Kings

      Omniscient

      Omnipotent

      Omnipresent

  My creator

  Owner and controller of my life

  Most of all, my FATHER

       Loving without any conditions

      Graciously forgiving

      Great Provider

My GOD...

   Is NOT made of GOLD/SILVER

   Cannot be stolen or hidden

   Nor made of WOOD

                With EYES that CANNOT see

                With EARS that CANNOT hear

                With HANDS that CANNOT work

                With FEET that CANNOT walk

   Nor created by MAN

   

  

  

Salvation

I am used to be engrossed with my daily task as a wife, mom and a career woman that I keep on delaying on working on my salvation and my relationship with our Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ. But I realized that this is an important decision and needs my urgent response as I don’t know when I will bid goodbye.

I have learned the following basic truth about salvation:

a.       Salvation is receiving the gift of eternal life

b.      Only when I repent my sin, and believe and receive Jesus Christ as my personal saviour that I receive salvation

c.       My salvation is complete after I am baptize

d.      I will be together with God the Father and Jesus Christ in Heaven during the end of time

e.      Heaven is the Kingdom of God and is a definite place

f.        This is receive only by the Living person

g.       The dead has no more chance to receive eternal life

h.      Nor prayers of my love ones can save me

i.         Good works cannot save me also but only through Grace of God. (As emphasize by one of the pastor which struck me is that I should be grateful that I am save through Grace and not by good works. If by good works then it is very impossible that I can be saved because good works will be based on the standard or commandments of God and not based on our own definition of good works. As we all know that we could hardly follow God. Before, even I am already a Christian I cannot still give a definite answer of where I am going because I will always doubt because I still fall short and I am not doing good works all the time. And now the truth sets me free, I can definitely say to everyone that I am save and I am going to Heaven because of the grace of our God the Father and not because of my good works. )

If I ignore the free gift of salvation, then I will definitely receive eternal damnation in Hell where there is gnashing of teeth. Same with Heaven, Hell is a definite place also. Once a person is in Hell, he cannot cross over to Heaven and even he prays for help he will not receive such.

Don’t believe this? Then read the Bible. (Luke 12:20; Luke 16:19-31; Romans 3:23; John 3:16)

If you notice, all my message (since I started my blog) was all about salvation and relationship with my God the Father and Jesus Christ as I am aware that I am oblige to share the Gospel and not be ashamed of as what Paul encourages/motivates us to do.

Life is so precious

Life is so precious...Time is too short...

    To waste with living in idleness;

    To waste with carrying grudges and bitterness;

    To waste with indulging petty arguments;

    To waste with making up stories and spreading “tsismis”;

    To waste with keeping the “not lasting” treasures;

    To waste with giving the same mediocre performance;

    To waste without expressing your love to your beloved;

    To waste with living without Jesus Christ in your life;

Your passing is certain but uncertain the time of your passing.

And you will not want to get unprepared or caught by surprise.

FAITH or fear

FAITH is inversely related to fear;

As FAITH activated, fear immobilized;

Presence of FAITH is the absence of fear;

With FAITH, GOD is ABOVE ALL ELSE, with fear, God becomes smaller;

With FAITH, focus is on Jesus Christ, with fear, focus is on the storm;

FAITH sees the light at the end of the tunnel, fear looks into the darkness of the tunnel

FAITH is farsighted; fear is nearsighted

Live with FAITH and you choose LIFE over death, you choose TRUTH over lies, you choose LIFE over darkness.

Live with FAITH and everything will come to pass and divine destiny will be realized.

Live with FAITH and you set your eyes on the Kingdom of God.

Do you live with FAITH or fear?

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What I give up?

I permitted to have a dysfunctional family. For nine years of my marriage, we live apart with my husband. We are together only every weekend for 7 years and we see each other ones or twice a month for 2 years. This is all because I pursue my career. This is all because I want to have my own earnings. Most importantly I want to have my own name.

Since we live apart and we have our own earnings, most of the time we make decisions, big or small, on our own. Though we share it with each other and serve as FYI only (for your information).

As a couple, we don’t live as one which is in contrast with God’s teaching. We rarely indulge into a fight, though, since we treasure the limited time we have with each other and unconsciously we tolerate each other decision as long as it will not hurt the welfare of our marriage and family.

As parents, we have different style of disciplining the children. My partner is usually the type who spoils the children with shopping, mall hopping and food tripping to repay for his long absence. I am the type who didn’t splurge the children with such things. I am teaching them reward/punishment system. They have to earn every reward I am ready and willing to give them through good values, attitude and good works. I withhold it if they are not yet ready to receive such. Even how heavy and hurting my heart is I have to punish them also if their behavior is no longer tolerable. Most of the time I discipline them through one on one talk, explaining to them what’s right and wrong of what they have done.

It took us so long to break this set-up because we enjoy our freedom and we love the comfort zone we have.  Our good paying job is our security blanket and we cannot easily relinquish.

Then what’s the turning point?

After attending many sessions of Bible study, I cannot ignore the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ and most importantly I cannot disobey so I have been praying to God and aspiring that one day we will be together and live as ONE.

I accept that I am not promoting a healthy family. I accept that we as couple did not allow God to be the center of our marriage. I accept that we as couple did not build a healthy relationship and healthy home. I accept that we are giving a confusing way of disciplining the children. I accept that I allow space to grow between that may lead to coldness to the marriage. I accept that I no longer trusted God in our lives but rely on our job forgetful that He is the one who gave it to us.

The most prompting part of it, both I and my husband, experience struggles. My husband could no longer take to be away from his children. He has been missing the children so much. And He noticed the aloofness of my second child. He wants us to be together also. One day he just tells me that He’s going to resign. Without any apprehension I supported his decision.

On my part also, I am no longer happy with my work. I always grumble and complaint. And the long awaited aspiration of promotion in my work did not happen.

However, fear still rules my life and the pressure is getting harder and harder.

I strongly believed that God allows us to experience this struggle to get our attention and resolve immediately the issues at hand. I strongly believed that He orchestrate everything in response to my prayer.

Consequently, I pray harder and harder also. One Sunday I spent it watching Channel TBN after attending mass to discern and to ask guidance on what to do. All throughout the day out of my readings and watching television  the same message I got – To work on my marriage and my family in all aspects of life and especially our Spiritual life, our relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ; The bigger my fear the smaller my God (of course I cannot accept this); It’s my fear that will stop me from taking the BIG STEP.

After that without any doubt, I am resolved 100% to give up my career and fully surrender to God everything. I am determined to work on my marriage and my family and to let God the controller of our lives and lead us the path He wants us to take.

Right now, I have no regret of what I have given up. I am happy and at peace even we are still in the adjustment period. This is to be a long journey but worth taking and exciting.