Greetings

A Blessed Christmas !!!

Knowing God through Difficult Times

As I face another challenge at the moment, I received this message ...

My ears had heard You, but now my eyes had seen You.
Job 42:5

Many of us are like this. We know God second hand, through what other people preach. It is when we go through something, that we come to know God. We learn how good He is and how compassionate He is. He is not our problem. He is our answer.

Joseph Prince

Your Word is Spirit and Life

I have this desire to immerse myself in the Word ...

... that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the Word.
Ephesians 5:26

Thank you for Your "Charismatas" ... unmerited gifts ... the gifts of the Spirit ...

And the Spirit of the Lord will rest on him—
the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and might,
the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
Isaiah 11:2

Then comes the fruit ...

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23

Therefore, we are given the Spirit, the Helper, who is there when we face difficulties.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7 

Switching My Focus from Me to Them

The Lord tells me to be on the look-out in helping others instead of drowning in my worries.

A dose of inspiration from Joyce Meyer ...

If we tend to His business, He will tend to ours. We are to concentrate on representing Him properly, which is impossible unless we are walking in love. As we do that, He will give us wisdom to deal with our stresses and deliverance from our foes.

God does not always give us the ability to solve our problems, yet when we are powerless to solve our own, He does enable us to solve someone else's.

I needed to cast my care on the Lord, do what He showed me to do concerning my situations in life, but not get entangled with them. I needed to sow seeds in someone else's life by helping them, and then God would bring a harvest in my own life.

In His Presence

Even going to Him is not of my own endeavor but by His grace.
Here are some of the messages I received ...

Draw near to Jesus.
Know and practice the presence of Jesus.
In His presence, little becomes much ...
weakness becomes strength ...
disease becomes health and life ...
Joseph Prince

In Your presence is fullness of joy ...
Psalm 16:11

I learned to rejoice in God, not in what is doing or not doing for me.
I found it all in His "Presence", not His "Presents".
Joyce Meyer

Tired?

I must not tire of doing my tasks ... here is what Pastor Joseph Prince says ...

Do not look at the pulpit as a place that drains you but a place of empowerment.
You can preach your way back to life, health and wholeness.

17

I learned that the Number 17 (in the Bible) is the number of Victory.

What's On My Mind?

Yikes! 

Yes, yes, a sudden advise ... that whatever is lingering in your mind ... that is, what's get thought of most ... may not be good for me ...

Yup, Joyce Meyer shared:

Whatever we concentrate on in our life is the thing that will seem biggest to us. We need to magnify the Lord (Psalm 34:3-4), not what the enemy is doing.

God's Favor

By this I know that You favor and delight in me, because my enemy does not triumph over me. And as for me, You have upheld me in my integrity and set me in Your presence forever.
Psalm 41:11-12

You Got Mail

"Love walk" through obedience ...

Shalom

No peace = No power;
Know peace = Know power
Joyce Meyer

SHALOM!

I rejoice and in peace in this knowledge ...
"You are my Beloved daughter in whom I am well pleased."

This is not because  of me but because of Him, God who is cannot help but love for God Himself is love.

Blessed in the Midst of A Crisis

Today, I had to bring my son to the Heart Center for check-up due to chest pain he had on New Year's Day. He underwent ECG then the next day, 2D echo (as if I know much on these things, I just want the results to show "Negative" for anything).

We came early and we had to wait for more than an hour. Usually, I get so uneasy waiting, believing that my time is wasted. Today, I grabbed a book from the doctor's shelf and did not mind waiting. I was able to finish the whole book then the doctor arrived.

Am I not so blessed? This was running in my mind. The book was by one of my favorite authors, Bo Sanchez, God is Bigger Than Your Biggest Problems: Let Him Meet Your Deepest Needs in Five Specific Ways.