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Enjoy!GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.comBlogger678125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-24016196911734895972024-01-09T05:58:00.000-08:002024-01-09T06:27:45.980-08:002023: 50 Reasons To Be Thankful!<div><h2 class="css-b1xorh e1tmud0h8" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Kepler, Kepler-fallback, Helvetica, Arial, serif; font-size: 1.875rem; grid-area: title; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0rem 1rem; order: 0; padding-left: 0rem; padding-right: 0rem;"><span style="font-size: 1.875rem;">Psalm 9:1-2</span></h2><div class="css-11nrx17 e1tmud0h7" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: sans-serif; grid-area: dek; padding: 0rem;"><span class="text Ps-9-1" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">I will praise you, <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>, with all my heart;</span></div><div class="css-11nrx17 e1tmud0h7" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: sans-serif; grid-area: dek; padding: 0rem;"><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="font-size: 16px;"> I will tell of all the marvelous things you have done.</span></div><div class="css-11nrx17 e1tmud0h7" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-area: dek; padding: 0rem;"><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">I will be filled with joy because of you.</span></div><div class="css-11nrx17 e1tmud0h7" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-area: dek; padding: 0rem;"><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Noto Sans, sans-serif, Arial"> </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">I will sing praises to your name, O Most High.</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Noto Sans, sans-serif, Arial"><br /></span><p class="css-x6js8g et3p2gv0" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.6;">Thank you 2023! <span style="font-size: 1.1875rem;">Let's welcome 2024's endless potential as we claim God's promises and blessings.</span></p></div></div><div>1. Provision for a new rental place in Tampines West before our Feb due date from the previous rental place.</div><div>2. Comfortable commute to office</div><div>3. Release of Axis Condo Title documents</div><div>4. Staycation with family - Manila Hotel, Ascott, Alpha Suites, and Casa Sentosa </div><div>5. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;">One-on-one</span> 'The Purpose Driven Life' sessions with Joan</div><div>6. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;">One-on-one</span> Sessions with Laiza, Marie, Kaye and Kytin</div><div>7. Being able to go home for Tatay's death anniversary</div><div>8. Visa Installment releases that we have signed off</div><div>9. Monday, Thursday, and Saturday badminton sesh</div><div>10. Weekly Sunday online family devotion</div><div>11. New phone - Samsung S23 Plus</div><div>12. Meet and tour my niece Richie Jane here in SG</div><div>13. Friend's and Dgroup's birthday celebrations</div><div>14. New work laptop and the increased productivity after setup</div><div>15. Accumulated kettlebell squats </div><div>16. IPL sessions</div><div>17. Healing from my skin rashes</div><div>18. New cuisines and food I get to try </div><div>19. Lunch and dinners with friends</div><div>20. Friday discipleship group meetings</div><div>21. CCF Sunday services with friends in Suntec</div><div><div>22. CCF online Sunday streaming</div><div>23. JP Morgan and 2XU run š</div><div><div>24. Singapore holidays </div><div>25. Wellbeing Fridays till September</div><div><div>26. Surabaya hike</div><div>27. Waterfalls and volcanoes </div><div><div>28. Solitude walks at night</div><div>29. Answered prayers and time with the Lord.</div><div>30. Hybrid work setup in Visa</div><div><div>31. Performance bonus and VIP! š°</div><div><div>32. Trying out new investment - Pagibig MP2 and treasury bills</div><div>33. Shoulder tap progression</div><div><div>34. Annual health screening favorable results</div><div>35. ActiveSG corporate games - 1st runner-up in WD</div><div><div>36. IREB and PMI trainings c/o Visa</div><div>37. Three weeks of work from the Philippines</div><div><div>38. Two weeks PTO in Philippines</div><div>39. Safe completion of QC house back in August. Tatay you must be proud. Praise God!</div><div>40. Provision and family support for building our QC house</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div>41. Renewal of my PRC license</div><div><div>42. Wisdom and provision on how to carry out Amaresa's outstanding loan</div><div>43. Being able to bless my family during my PH December vacation</div><div><div>44. Netflix time with my Nanay - Replacing Chef Chico, Can't Buy Me Love, Monday First Screening</div><div>45. Playtime with Adam, bonding time with my nephews, and niece</div><div><div>46. Time with my sister š§”</div><div>47. Dgroup friends and relatives I met in the Philippines</div><div><div>48. Dishes I get to cook for my family - bak kut teh, salted egg prawn, Vietnam fresh spring roll, pansit canton, lechon paksiw, and kinamatisang baboy.</div><div>49. Love and quality time I received from my favourite people</div><div>50. God for walking with me and through me in 2023</div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp3JxCdDXlTU8M-RrN4f8AtLpZIe-tSkGofBCPH76pXXQGAmuWdhy1IUTbRN2BUEk4qSqeGl8gPUBmXsZjmXjP3yVUe4l0A4hTgalOH1pnXYw5c9H97O0lof5rBTIkxdWNR2bqN3mSrgkFdXngCXV4Mp9EpapdnN0Rp4d25gykhg5XkQ5QezwmzxGjfPM/s1400/mdlaw-thank-you.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="849" data-original-width="1400" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp3JxCdDXlTU8M-RrN4f8AtLpZIe-tSkGofBCPH76pXXQGAmuWdhy1IUTbRN2BUEk4qSqeGl8gPUBmXsZjmXjP3yVUe4l0A4hTgalOH1pnXYw5c9H97O0lof5rBTIkxdWNR2bqN3mSrgkFdXngCXV4Mp9EpapdnN0Rp4d25gykhg5XkQ5QezwmzxGjfPM/w400-h243/mdlaw-thank-you.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>Image courtesy of https://mdlaw.com.au/</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-72181559351727899292023-11-24T08:15:00.000-08:002023-11-24T08:15:31.389-08:00CCF: Spiritual Gifts - Who Needs Them?<div><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgUvJXRBRL20Bodg91ippZGFF_Ke7NaugsvN-FUr6dpOY5xFUgcdFA9xr4UYYJhk4IhnUV0pfpsUQG7dBK8ZgPRNzYDMwJIiCJe0c-9YPh4TJIegGWmVl-F-IJe6LsryLNCCvpc9B4N_eOGZktkX4CxIpYRHDJHEZxm1F98TMT8q2iL2DiV4GNkL3bfBM/s2000/spiritualGifts.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgUvJXRBRL20Bodg91ippZGFF_Ke7NaugsvN-FUr6dpOY5xFUgcdFA9xr4UYYJhk4IhnUV0pfpsUQG7dBK8ZgPRNzYDMwJIiCJe0c-9YPh4TJIegGWmVl-F-IJe6LsryLNCCvpc9B4N_eOGZktkX4CxIpYRHDJHEZxm1F98TMT8q2iL2DiV4GNkL3bfBM/s320/spiritualGifts.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />1 Corinthians 12<p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">By Dr. Keith Shubert</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Preaching is disturbing those who are comforted. Teaching is comforting those who are disturbed. In this chapter Paul is trying to teach the believers in Corinth.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Corinthian church faced difficulties and problems with spiritual gifts which is accounted in 1 Corinthians chapters 12-14. Chapter 12 deals with the theology of spiritual gifts, how it work, how its designed, and its purpose. Chapter 13 teaches us the right attitude as we exercise our spiritual gifts. Chapter 14 talks about the exercise or how to apply our spiritual gifts in the church.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Every Christian has a spiritual gift given by the Holy Spirit so we can help each other and we can see that in 1 Corinthians 12 verses 7, 11, and 18. We receive those spiritual gifts at salvation, the moment we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>A spiritual gift is a God-given ability for service. ā Charles Ryrie, Basic Theology, 367</i></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>A spiritual gift is a spiritual capacity for development. ā Earl Radmacher, Sermon on Gifts</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Spiritual Gifts are NOT:</p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">a.)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">A Place of Service: the gift is the ability, not where the ability is used. Itās not a location.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">b.)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">Age Group Ministry: the gift is the ability, not who benefits from it.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">c.)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">Natural Talents: the gift is the ability, not whether it came at birth.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Spiritual gifts are only those mentioned in the Word of God.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">New Testament spiritual gifts include teaching, evangelism, pastor-teacher, encouraging, administration, faith, giving, service, showing mercy, apostleship, wisdom, knowledge, prophecy, discerning spirits, tongues, interpretation, miracles and healings.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>I. Theology of Spiritual Gifts</b></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><b></b><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>A. Introduction: Seeing Christ as God (verses 1-3)</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Understanding gifts begins with seeing Christ as God.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">God the Father is God, the Holy Spirit is God, and Jesus Christ the Son is God. But the Father is not the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is not the Son and the Son is not the Father. The Holy Trinity.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>B. Unity of Spiritual Gifts (verses 4-11)</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Holy Spirit gives each of us spiritual gifts.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Believers are given varieties of gifts, ministries, and effects by the same Spirit, Lord and God<b><i>. But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.</i></b> The purpose of the spiritual gifts is not to enhance you but to enhance others.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Our different gifts are united in the triune God.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">God the Spirit <b>gives</b>(distributes) the spiritual gifts (verse 4).</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">God the Son <b>appoints</b> the place or location of the ministry of the gifts (verse 5).</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">God the Father <b>empowers</b> or gives the energy operative through the gifts in the place of ministry (verse 6).</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Holy Spirit alone chose the gift that you got. He alone decides which gift each person should have because He knows best. One evidence of the Spiritās work in your life is your spiritual gift (verses 7-11).</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Using your spiritual gifts can highly encourage you but that is not the purpose of spiritual gifts that is the result.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>C. Diversity (verses 12-31)</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">1. Reason for Diversity (12-13)</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For we (Christians) were all baptized by one Spirit into one body (verse 13), the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">2. The Illustration of Diversity (14-26)</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Believers with less-honored gifts should not feel unneeded (verses 15-16).</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There is no spiritual gift that all of us have. God has arranged the parts, each one of them in the body, just as He desired.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">3. The Application of Us (27-31)</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All are not apostles, but we are to earnestly desire the greater gifts.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Emphasize the gifts that edify the most members (verse 31).</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">God wants us to know our spiritual gifts and to use our gifts for His glory.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Image courtesy of gbfclife.com</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-77183087443911848632023-11-24T08:10:00.000-08:002023-11-24T08:10:34.921-08:00CCF: Forward in Faith<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">by Pastor Ricky Sarthou</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Philippians 1:6</i></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Bible says we are Godās masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus for good works that He prepared in advance for us to do. Moving forward in faith, becoming more like Jesus. The end goal is to make us like Jesus in the way we live our lives on the outside because we are being changed to be more like Jesus on the inside.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><i>When are we most like Jesus? </i></b>Some would say,<b> </b>we are most like Jesus when we are ā holy, prayerful, compassionate, humble, kind, gracious, forgiving, selfless, loving, and generous. But hereās another answer that we should not miss, we are most like Jesus when we <b>make disciples. </b>(Matthew 28:18-20)</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEin8TSNIdKv17Rorm2x-c0EldYXXDpux4tzOqxhYl4h2pYdaXGd3Ije34HzdDOKqH-aZMrlxS2OKlQ8ewfX-SPPle9hgsbmALwLkgujS-OjtDTwTGtlX1kU75fqucVQWfkNw-Mq5s14BKyex5kHPWCBiJMiYGEsMN3SmgLkyr9fQHYtzVcrwnpUX6INqm0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="244" data-original-width="451" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEin8TSNIdKv17Rorm2x-c0EldYXXDpux4tzOqxhYl4h2pYdaXGd3Ije34HzdDOKqH-aZMrlxS2OKlQ8ewfX-SPPle9hgsbmALwLkgujS-OjtDTwTGtlX1kU75fqucVQWfkNw-Mq5s14BKyex5kHPWCBiJMiYGEsMN3SmgLkyr9fQHYtzVcrwnpUX6INqm0=w400-h216" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Reading from the book of Luke 4:16-30, we will look into the three aspects of the amazing journey of moving forward in faith:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Power</b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> (Luke 4:16-18)</span><br /><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We need the power of the Spirit to go on and complete this journey.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Apart from the power of the Holy Spirit working in your life, we can do nothing of true eternal value. This is also true even in the life of Jesus Christ when the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in the form of a dove (Luke 3:21-22).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As we venture out and move forward in faith, we need to be constantly filled, empowered, and led by the Holy Spirit. (Luke 4:1-2) Just like Jesus, when we move forward in faith we will face opposition. For we are in a spiritual battle fighting against the temptations of this world as mentioned in 1 John 2:15-16 - the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Bible commands us to be filled with the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 5:18). How do we know if we are filled by the Holy Spirit? Galatians 5:22-23, teaches us that the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We cannot move forward in faith without the power of the Spirit of God.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Privilege</b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> (Luke 4:18-19)</span><br /><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We have the immense privilege of walking closely in the footsteps of Jesus, becoming more like Him, in His character and in His focus on the mission to make disciples.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We have the privilege of moving forward in faith as disciples and disciple-makers.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Luke 12:16-21, accounts for the parable of the rich fool and teaches us to be rich in God and to have Jesus as our greatest possession in life. We have the privilege of helping people know Jesus so that they would not meet eternity just like the rich fool.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We were all once captives of sin, but Jesus bought us to set us free. We are free in Jesus, free to be His slaves not because we are forced to do it but because we want to live our lives for His pleasure. We have the privilege of being Jesusā representatives and ambassadors in this world.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">While there are people who are broken, crashed, and shattered, including us, Jesus came to set the oppressed free. It is Jesus who put our lives back together. And in the midst of those scars is the golden signature of the finger of God (Romans 8:28-29).</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Apart from God, we can do nothing. It is a privilege to move forward in faith, to be an instrument of the prophecy of Jesus.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Peril</b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> (Luke 4:22-30)</span><br /><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Just like any adventure, there are challenges along the way. Similarly, there are perils in making disciples.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Wherever we are in the discipleship journey, the challenge is to move to the next level. If you are a small group member, itās time to start a discipleship group. If you are a small group leader, itās time to inspire your members to start their own discipleship group.</p></div><br /><br /></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-44571820683225167902023-09-25T06:57:00.000-07:002023-09-25T06:57:07.036-07:00Happy 18th Raizelle!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEircJMUDcLNnCUgYgMT8_8cuo7sfXDEHjkV62J1R-RlJHN_GzUy2dBO-ko0n5c1yV59T9lpvD_LfSG8We1MiR0Fg-AL8qGdfud8eVIg-9waiQQymuTj607LwF1posK-0ioRhgntNccQg7gSWyuDO4PELOGGk4yaXq7zeLpkJV2-rxeB9H7Zbcq17xW_zeg/s2048/raizelleDebut1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEircJMUDcLNnCUgYgMT8_8cuo7sfXDEHjkV62J1R-RlJHN_GzUy2dBO-ko0n5c1yV59T9lpvD_LfSG8We1MiR0Fg-AL8qGdfud8eVIg-9waiQQymuTj607LwF1posK-0ioRhgntNccQg7gSWyuDO4PELOGGk4yaXq7zeLpkJV2-rxeB9H7Zbcq17xW_zeg/w400-h268/raizelleDebut1.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Happy birthday Aizel, sabi ng mama mo part daw ako ng 18 treasures mo, but the truth is ikaw talaga, you are one of our greatest treasures that God has given us.<br /><br />Thank you for all the joy and love that you have brought into our family, 18 years ago, when you were still little, and up until now kahit mas matangkad kana samin ng mama mo. <br /><br />Today I want to honour you by your nameās acronym and some of the behaviors that we are very proud of you, so here we go <b>RAIZELLE</b>:<div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><b>R</b> - <b>Responsible</b> - For being reliable and accountable in everything that you do.<br /><br /><b>A</b> - <b>Appreciative</b> - Because you are grateful mostly for everything.<br /><br /><b>I</b> - <b>Intelligent and Independent</b> - Because you are.<br /><br /><b>Z</b> - <b>Zealous</b> - For being passionate of the responsibilities entrusted to you - just like your studies.<br /><br /><b>E</b> - <b>Efficient</b> - For being capable of accomplishing your tasks.<br /><br /><b>L</b> - <b>Limitless</b> - Because we believe in you! You have boundless potential and opportunities ahead of you.<br /><br /><b>L</b> - <b>Lovely</b> - Because we all know you are beautiful inside and out, along with your grace and charm.<br /><br /><b>E</b> - <b>Exceptional</b> - Because you stand out and do your best in everything that you work on. <br /><br /><br /><div>I am beyond blessed to be your Tita and have an obedient, responsible, kind, and of course beautiful niece like you.<br /><br />You may not realize it now but <b>you are stronger than you think you are</b>. Not only physically but mentally, emotionally, and spiritually because you have Jesus watching over you and your family backing you up. Solid tayo! No matter what challenges youāll face in life, remember that you will never be alone, we will be there.<br /><br />Just like what I told you before, </div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>You are fearfully and wonderfully made.</b> Don't let other people's opinions of you define you. Stop proving yourself to other people. </li><li>You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with, <b>so choose your inner circle wisely.</b></li><li><b>You are loved by God. </b>If you fail at something, (don't worry everyone does) just come to God and surrender it to Him. There's nothing you can do for God to love you less or more.</li></ul>Finally, my prayer is that you will grow to be the woman that God designed you to be. That as you mature, you will get to know the Lord and His character in a personal way. I pray that the Lord will protect you from all harm and distractions in life and that He will give you the discipline that you need to achieve all your goals according to His will. And that God will bless everything that your hands will do.<br /><br />I love you Aizelle from 1400 miles away and beyond. Happy birthday! </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a></div></div>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-14672704709476286642023-03-11T21:13:00.001-08:002023-03-11T21:13:13.973-08:00Music: In Christ Alone<div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">My heart goes for every word and lyric sung in this worship song. </span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">Thank you, Lord, for that timely reminder that You are more than enough. </span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">Thank you for that humble and gentle nudge that Christ alone is my ultimate source of strength and hope. </span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">No more no less.</span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">Thank you, Lord, that every victory and success is only by Your grace and perfect will.</span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">Thank you for that subtle, precious moment alone with You.</span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">Praise Jesus!</span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">*****</span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">In Christ Alone</span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">By Natashia Midori</span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">In Christ alone will I glory</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">Though I could pride myself in battles won</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">For I've been blessed beyond measure</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">And by His strength alone I'll overcome</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">Oh, I could stop and count successes like diamonds in my hands</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">But those trophies could not equal to the grace by which I stand</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">In Christ alone</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">I place my trust</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">And find my glory in the power of the cross</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">In every victory</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">Let it be said of me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">My source of strength</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">My source of hope</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">Is Christ alone</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">In Christ alone do I glory</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">For only by His grace I am redeemed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">For only His tender mercy</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">Could reach beyond my weakness to my need</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">And now I seek no greater honor in just to know Him more</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">And to count my gains but losses to the glory of my Lord</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">In Christ alone</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">I place my trust</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">And find my glory in the power of the cross</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">In every victory</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">Let it be said of me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">My source of strength</span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">My source of hope</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">In Christ alone</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">I place my trust</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">And find my glory in the power of the cross</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">In every victory</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">Let it be said of me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">My source of strength</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">My source of hope</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">Is Christ alone</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; 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color: #222222; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-4063591223088266182023-02-08T06:56:00.006-08:002023-02-08T06:57:13.029-08:00CCF: Godās Great Salvation<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9-XIelnAPZ1UIxSj3Gkfw5A5aRLo048TFF-_i8VtYY5-SUS81cFoq_cMY-SbbVwkyJf2h1cgL-e36bB6tfIyyzxcTlnr3P_0hZ3aQ2XHohABWzYst4Du_ktF6G_mrzm2nTmpIrCURgXyyy9iOJjsmUtAbYKjbXTE51HkbsMXbSIAtwgaQuMMxYwjY/s1688/Salvation.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1688" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9-XIelnAPZ1UIxSj3Gkfw5A5aRLo048TFF-_i8VtYY5-SUS81cFoq_cMY-SbbVwkyJf2h1cgL-e36bB6tfIyyzxcTlnr3P_0hZ3aQ2XHohABWzYst4Du_ktF6G_mrzm2nTmpIrCURgXyyy9iOJjsmUtAbYKjbXTE51HkbsMXbSIAtwgaQuMMxYwjY/w400-h266/Salvation.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">1 Peter 1: 10-12</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">By Brother Kidit Afable</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>ā</i><b><i><sup>10 </sup></i></b><i>As to this </i><b><i>salvation</i></b><i>, the prophets who prophesied of the </i><b><i>grace</i></b><i> that would come to you made careful searches and inquiries, </i><b><i><sup>11</sup></i></b><i>seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.ā -- </i>1 Peter 1:10-11</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Godās great salvation is the deliverance and rescue of the human race from the eternal punishment for sin (death and separation from God). Godās salvation is so great because we are saved by grace through a Savior. It is a living hope through Jesus. Granted Godās mercy, caused to be born again to a living hope, given an eternal inheritance, protected by Godās power (1 Peter 1:3-5). It spurs us to joy amidst trials and sufferings (1 Peter 1:6-9). <b>We have a great salvation from God that meets our greatest need.</b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We need compassion. We need a hero. We need saving.<b> </b>We need something to hold on to.</p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><b></b><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It was so great the prophets carefully studied it with intense longing for future grace.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It was so great the apostles gave testimony with intense passion for the Gospel.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It was so great the Holy Spirit divinely inspired with intense power from God Himself.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It was so great the angels long to look at it with intense appreciation of glory.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We are privileged. The Bible is a treasure. The Bible is Godās very Word. Read it and live it. The prophets carefully studied it. Godās chosen messengers in the Old Testament were intensely passionate about salvation. They placed faith in God, longing for the day the Messiah would come and complete salvation. They had intense longing for future grace.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Godās grace is unmerited and underserved favor. It is one of the overarching themes of the Bible, Godās love story with us (the human race). Godās grace is glorious enough to favor us and call us beloved (Ephesians 1:6). Godās grace is rich enough to forgive us our sins (Ephesians 1:7). Godās grace is abundant enough to sustain us through suffering and amplify our testimonies (Acts 4:33). Godās grace is multifaceted enough to spur us in serving one another and being good stewards (1 Peter 4:10). Godās grace is sufficient enough to overcome our weaknesses (2 Corinthians 12:9).</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Salvation is by Godās grace. Godās grace is personified through Jesus.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>We need compassion - Salvation is by grace.</b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There are more than 300 predictions about the coming of Christ in the Old Testament. Jesus fulfilled all of them: the cradle ā birth of Christ (Micah 5:2), the cross ā sufferings of Christ (Isaiah 53, Zechariah 11:12, Isaiah 53:5, Psalm 22:16, Isaiah 53:12) and the empty tomb - glories of Christ (Psalm 16:10, Isaiah 9:6-7).</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Salvation is through Jesus Christ. Momentary suffering lead to eternal glory.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>We need a hero ā Salvation is through Christ.</b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Salvation is for us. We are privileged. We can endure current sufferings and trials because of the great salvation given to us. Christ died for us. Christ triumphed for us. It is the ultimate expression of Godās love.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>We need saving ā Salvation is for us.</b></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><b></b><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The angels are witnesses to the greatest love story in history. Salvation is most precious even to the angels who long to look with an intense appreciation of glory.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>We need something to hold on to ā Salvation is most precious.</b></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><b></b><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Finally, the apostles preached the Gospel, they endured momentary suffering in light of the eternal glory. They had the very heart of Jesus and God ā to seek and save the lost. They had intense passion for the Gospel through the power of the Holy Spirit.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That same mission exists today. Preach the Gospel through the power of the Holy Spirit that empowers us (1 Thes 1:5, 1 Cor 2:4-5). <b>Share the privilege of salvation. Pass it forward!</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Image courtesy of worldrevivals.org</b></p></div><p style="height: 0px; text-align: left;">Subscribed by:</p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><br /></a><br /></p>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-57079550200483701232023-02-08T06:47:00.006-08:002023-02-08T06:47:51.183-08:00The Power of Now: Waiting<div><div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiKcIETMRVQEEecqfD_HACxNgvBxvwZxyw2mgdkPKqNKfPlUMIfyxk63AcEYHhnhbZVG0C8zL9SzcNijn1NJ-QzHsqWksw_B6Yp9It-AqAx8d37nYlz6QEibmq7T1VBI7osY5BAKw_2cLZ-q7pBKHUlLP4hg7lCQC4gHTs9k-3VAZM2yR2ZT57u-fo/s1783/now.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1783" data-original-width="1160" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiKcIETMRVQEEecqfD_HACxNgvBxvwZxyw2mgdkPKqNKfPlUMIfyxk63AcEYHhnhbZVG0C8zL9SzcNijn1NJ-QzHsqWksw_B6Yp9It-AqAx8d37nYlz6QEibmq7T1VBI7osY5BAKw_2cLZ-q7pBKHUlLP4hg7lCQC4gHTs9k-3VAZM2yR2ZT57u-fo/w260-h400/now.jpeg" width="260" /></a></div></div></div><div>*****</div><div><br /></div><div>Are you worried? Do you have many "what if" thoughts? There is no way you can cope with such a situation because it doesn't exist. You can always cope with the Now, but you can never cope with the future -- nor do you have to. The answer, the strength, the right action, or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after.</div><div><br /></div><div>"One day I'll make it." Are you waiting to start living? If you develop such a mind pattern, no matter what you achieve or get, the present will never be good enough; the future will always seem better. A perfect recipe for permanent dissatisfaction and nonfulfilment.</div><div><br /></div><div>Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got and you want what you haven't got. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.</div><div><br /></div><div>There is nothing wrong with striving to improve your life situation. You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life. Life is primary. Life is the deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, and perfect. Your life situation consists of circumstances and your experiences. There is nothing wrong with setting goals and striving to achieve things. The mistake lies in using it as a substitute for the feeling of life, for Being. The only point of access for that is the Now.</div><div><br /></div><div>Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is true prosperity. It cannot come in the future. Then, in time, that prosperity manifests for you in various ways.</div><div><br /></div><div>So give up waiting as a state of mind. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything.</div><div><br /></div><div>Image courtesy of brunomiranda.com</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-5417625406806987252023-02-08T05:18:00.004-08:002023-02-08T06:40:29.526-08:002022: 50 Reasons To Be Thankful!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc9aZp8KvgbjEb81KmMk13KIgfc8YWmBvkIFpTKlJWaLXixoaPzxJTN4dnRckdA_TBoqZ2wcT2n4O_InHOkmzvT6rXIcYHB4OeYiP9sut6OfskoiiRb8YSk_09P3liU63i3u0_zHQ0mOkESRGjwC_VlgiaSw11scpTd5v6BwZyEMeE4kZVVo185aKa/s4032/20230115_115000.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc9aZp8KvgbjEb81KmMk13KIgfc8YWmBvkIFpTKlJWaLXixoaPzxJTN4dnRckdA_TBoqZ2wcT2n4O_InHOkmzvT6rXIcYHB4OeYiP9sut6OfskoiiRb8YSk_09P3liU63i3u0_zHQ0mOkESRGjwC_VlgiaSw11scpTd5v6BwZyEMeE4kZVVo185aKa/w300-h400/20230115_115000.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div>1. Sunday family devotions</div><div>2. IPL home sessions</div><div>3. Safe Moderna booster shot courtesy of Singapore government</div><div>4. Office days</div><div>5. One-on-one sessions with Joan studying The Right Kind of Strong by Mary Kassian</div><div>6. One-on-one sessions with Raizelle studying The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren</div><div>7. Saturday badminton games</div><div>8. Thursday badminton games via Visa</div><div>9. Dinner with friends. Both planned and random.</div><div>10. One-on-one accountability sessions with Kaye, Marie, and Laiza</div><div>11. Employment pass renewal</div><div>12. Discipleship group birthday celebrations </div><div>13. Picolaser sessions</div><div>14. Two-week (literally) work from home(Philippines)</div><div>15. First flight after the pandemic</div><div>16. One month vacation in Pinas with family</div><div>17. Shopping, pampering, and hair day with my girl squad - Nanay, sister, and niece</div><div>18. Celebrating 10 years in Singapore last Aug 26</div><div>19. First balikbayan box sent to Pinas</div><div>20. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner I get to spend with my family</div><div>21. Home-cooked meals by Tatay </div><div>22. Friends I get to meet during my April to May vacation</div><div>23. Holidays </div><div>24. Blessing us with 70 years of Tatay's life</div><div>25. Provision for Tatay's hospitalization </div><div>26. Family, relatives, and friends who reached out and came to show their love and support for our family</div><div>27. CCF's pastoral care ministry</div><div>28. Pastor Arvi and the opportunity to share the gospel with our family and friends</div><div>29. Emotional, physical, and spiritual strength for our family as we went through the loss of my father </div><div>30. Less rigid traveling restrictions during this time</div><div>31. Pleasant weather on Tatay's burial</div><div>32. Safe wake and burial in the midst of the pandemic</div><div>33. Eternal life for my father with Jesus Christ</div><div>34. Divine peace that God provided during this difficult time</div><div>35. For my company - Visa and the job that God blessed me with</div><div>36. Spending Christmas and New Year at home</div><div>37. 5km walk/run around the neighborhood</div><div>38. Prayer and fasting week with Nanay and Glaiz</div><div>39. Family, friends and loved ones I get to meet during my PH vacation</div><div>40. Safe construction of our QC home renovation</div><div>41. Opportunity to cook for my family</div><div>42. Two weeks work from Philippines </div><div>43. "Maria Clara and Ibarra" teleserye and Netflix times with Nanay</div><div>44. Easy and laidback days with family</div><div>45. Nephews and niece šš</div><div>46. My sister, my friend, shopping/errand buddy, and my driver š Glaiza</div><div>47. Provision to bless my family with staycation, travels, and dining out</div><div>48. Healing from covid for me and Nanay </div><div>49. Errands I get to accomplish during my December vacation</div><div>50. New place in Singapore</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-59430053511363393452022-10-13T07:59:00.002-07:002022-10-13T07:59:27.741-07:00Book: Ten Times Happier<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiucExeawmDnwzYv9KbA9iAutaDsV4aZG709zVXuu5SqBePGHzR6HDXmYJ9-XwyiBakPEmyLSlMmfBNXMa0DUI_oPuvzqEJ1QsgBaOByrl0VfxRrTpNiWUric8Q_50o2sp-WCMpJIzSZ5X3CL4ngD8wnRHt5aP3qkHc-KzxufyCdEAHbCfM5-q19CU/s1332/Screenshot%202022-10-13%20at%2010.57.45%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1332" data-original-width="886" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiucExeawmDnwzYv9KbA9iAutaDsV4aZG709zVXuu5SqBePGHzR6HDXmYJ9-XwyiBakPEmyLSlMmfBNXMa0DUI_oPuvzqEJ1QsgBaOByrl0VfxRrTpNiWUric8Q_50o2sp-WCMpJIzSZ5X3CL4ngD8wnRHt5aP3qkHc-KzxufyCdEAHbCfM5-q19CU/w266-h400/Screenshot%202022-10-13%20at%2010.57.45%20PM.png" width="266" /></a></div>Written by psychotherapist, speaker, and bestselling author Owen O'kane, "Ten Times Happier" will guide you on how to let go of what's holding you back. A practical guide to take control, change your life, and choose happiness no matter what life throws at you.</div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><b>Stop looking back, you are not going that way.</b></i></div><div><br /></div><div>Imagine a window and wall opposite each other. The window represents the future that looks more hopeful, while the dark wall represents all the difficulties of the past. Which view do you want to focus on? Which view do you usually spend most of the time in your everyday life? What do you think could be a problem with spending a lot of time focusing on the wall? If you stay stuck looking at the wall, you have your back turned away from the window.</div><div><br /></div><div>The dark wall would always be there but rather than ignore or deny it, you can learn from those dark past experiences and help you move forward.</div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>Managing your past</b></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>Here are five alternative options for managing the past:</div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>1. You don't need to replay the event over and over again, that achieves nothing rather than keeping you stuck in the past.</div><div>2. Ease up with your self-judgment, self-blaming or punishment is never helpful.</div><div>3. Remember whatever happened it's over now and you have survived.</div><div>4. Taking care of yourself is of utmost importance. Do this with compassion.</div><div>5. None of what happened can be changed now. You deserve a happier future.</div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>The human mind and thought patterns</b></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>Your thoughts are just thoughts, not facts. </div><div>Here are four simple techniques to help you change your thought patterns.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Acknowledge an unhealthy thought.</div><div>2. Create space. When the mind is creating negative or unhelpful content, you have a choice on how engaged you become with it. Do not accept your thoughts as true. Direct your mind, not your mind directing you.</div><div>3. Examine the evidence. Challenge thoughts like "you are not good enough", "you are a failure", etc.</div><div>4. Let go of unhealthy thoughts.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-21108627300562303602022-10-06T08:15:00.002-07:002022-10-06T08:15:23.862-07:00CCF: Let Brotherly Love Continue<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUbB90-T1DzVp-YvEcuaZ6TQK7IH6bFmwd-9wmkmHcfVMzjpZzyg3Zld0U9ysoR3ucTVX7RiqNGLmwUbwOoqF8QOnCBrssE7QrkdACriw83imZ7TcK7lNEniTJ_aonc4ti-ldHfx9gQ-Y-9j8zaBDxIk35IaFy5KpdK_trJwRQQ6L05TIgJn9mM3S0/s1127/Hebrews.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1127" data-original-width="1127" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUbB90-T1DzVp-YvEcuaZ6TQK7IH6bFmwd-9wmkmHcfVMzjpZzyg3Zld0U9ysoR3ucTVX7RiqNGLmwUbwOoqF8QOnCBrssE7QrkdACriw83imZ7TcK7lNEniTJ_aonc4ti-ldHfx9gQ-Y-9j8zaBDxIk35IaFy5KpdK_trJwRQQ6L05TIgJn9mM3S0/s320/Hebrews.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Hebrews 13:1-6<p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Bro. Matthew Dela Serna</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The final chapter of the book of Hebrews offers instructions for Christian living expounding on love, charity, purity and contentment. The author reinforces what the believers have already been doing in Hebrews 10:22-25 ā to draw near to God with a sincere heart, with full assurance that faith brings, to hold unwaveringly to the hope that they profess and to spur one another in love and good deeds.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Why brotherly love is very important?</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">1.</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Itās a Command, the second greatest command.</span><br /><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus said that the second greatest law is to love your neighbour as yourself. This is not an option for believers, we are commanded to love one another (John 15:12-17, 1 John 4:7-8).</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">2.</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Itās a Confirmation, evidence of being a disciple of Jesus.</span><br /><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In John 13:34-35, Jesus confirms that people will know that you are His disciple if you love one another.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">3.</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Itās the Fulfilment of the Law.</span><br /><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Romans 13:8-10, says the one who loves his neighbour has fulfilled the Law.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now that we established that brotherly love is very important, how do you show love to one another? 1 Peter 2:17 tells us to honour all people, love the family of believers, fear God and honour the king. We show love by honouring one another. Hereās how we can show love to one another according to Hebrews 13:</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Honour the strangers by showing hospitality </b>(Hebrews 13:2). There are three things to remember why showing hospitality is important:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is a mark of being a true believer (Acts 6:15, Acts 16:34),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is one of the qualifications of an elder (1 Timothy 3:2),</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Because it is the right thing to do (Proverbs 3:27-28).</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Honour the prisoners by visiting and remembering them</b> (Hebrews 13:3). Let us remember our brethren in other countries who are being persecuted because of their faith.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Honour your marriage by keeping your marriage bed undefiled</b> (Hebrews 13:4). The word honour means precious, expensive, or of great value. Marriage is precious because it is instituted by God (Genesis 2:23-25). We honour marriage as Christians when both husband and wife honour (treasure) their God-given mates as a gift of great value. (With reference to Christ and the church ā Ephesians 5:22-23).</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Honour your brothers and sisters by showing respect to one another</b> (Hebrews 13:4). God designed sex within the context of a marriage between male and female. We honour our brothers and sisters by showing respect, knowing that their bodies donāt belong to you unless within the blessing of marriage. For God will judge all sexually immoral. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-9, says that Godās will for you is that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality and that you know how to possess your own body in holiness and honour.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Live an honourable life by not being covetous</b> (Hebrews 13:5). Covetous means having a great desire to possess something belonging to someone else or showing an intense or selfish desire for wealth or power. The antidote for not being covetous is to keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have. Ecclesiastes 5:10, King Solomon, the richest man who ever lived tells us that the one who loves money will never be satisfied, this is meaningless. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil (1 Timothy 6:6-10).</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Be content with what you have</b> (Hebrews 13:5b-6). Donāt worry about anything for God knows your needs. God assures us that He will not leave or abandon us. We can confidently say that God is our helper and we should not be afraid.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">Image courtesy of hosannachapel.com</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">Transcribed for CCF SG by:</p></div><br /></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-70774173127537488462022-10-06T06:23:00.001-07:002022-10-06T06:23:18.993-07:00Book: The Right Kind of Strong Summary<div><b><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaGZi4JJ4_jJ3Jru-i9n-Ubsc_AG22pAub3c7tBOiM3Oth5FaDkkz9c9OnEx44SdwT880kDkzTwhH-7RzbiKJRozSFc1ZflNBuvNTyAuZZLu79kf8XRBFRaZ2Bf8lkKy3f8zIaF9yBNGKF4dbh3GNXH0SwEAkNc4K9Uifi9vyzU2MurwzMg0HF5_2a/s1050/the_right_kind_of_strong_tn.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="1050" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaGZi4JJ4_jJ3Jru-i9n-Ubsc_AG22pAub3c7tBOiM3Oth5FaDkkz9c9OnEx44SdwT880kDkzTwhH-7RzbiKJRozSFc1ZflNBuvNTyAuZZLu79kf8XRBFRaZ2Bf8lkKy3f8zIaF9yBNGKF4dbh3GNXH0SwEAkNc4K9Uifi9vyzU2MurwzMg0HF5_2a/w400-h400/the_right_kind_of_strong_tn.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Habit 1: Catch the Creeps</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>A weak woman tolerates creeps (creeps into households). She doesn't know how to spot them, nor does she have the strength to resist their advances. A strong woman remains on the lookout. She knows that sin does not advance by leaps; it advances by creeps -- one tiny compromise at a time.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Habit 2: Master your Mind</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>A weak woman fails to guard her mind(capture). She is captivated and ensnared by patterns of thinking that are not in line with the truth. A strong woman aligns her thinking with the truth. She seeks to take every thought captive for Christ.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Habit 3: Ditch the Baggage</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>A weak woman is loaded down with sin, guilt, and shame (burdened with sins). She doesn't deal with her accumulating baggage. A strong woman makes a habit of confessing quickly, honestly, openly, and with godly sorrow. She delights in the freedom and joy in Christ's forgiveness.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Habit 4: Engage your Emotions</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>A weak woman is governed by emotions (led astray by various passions). She suppresses her emotions, or she puts her brain in the park and lets her emotions drive her around. A strong woman gets a grip on her emotions. She doesn't let Satan use them against her. Instead, she offers them up to God as weapons for righteousness.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Habit 5: Walk the Talk</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>A weak woman doesn't apply what she learns (always learning and never able to arrive). A strong woman understands that nothing is learned until it is applied. She examines her heart for signs of hypocrisy and consistently takes small steps of obedience.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Habit 6: Stand your Ground</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>A weak woman doesn't have solid convictions (knowledge of the truth). She is swayed easily by new, popular ideas pushed by religious celebrities and Facebook friends. A strong woman exercises discernment. She holds fast to sound doctrine even when it is unpopular or seems old-fashioned.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Habit 7: Admit your Need</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>A weak woman embraces the wrong kind of strong (weak women). A strong woman knows that constantly learning about Jesus is what will make her strong. She acknowledges that all she is and has comes from Him. She is strong even when she is weak, for God's power is made perfect in her weakness.</div><div><br /></div><div>Image courtesy of christianaudio.com</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-10030253085093500892022-09-23T22:01:00.007-07:002022-09-24T02:07:46.248-07:00Music: Resignation<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morissette_(singer)" target="_blank">Morissette Amon</a> raised the bar when she sang her English, Filipino and Korean rendition of "Resignation" a Korean song originally sung by the powerhouse singer Lee Young Hyun of Big Mama, a South Korean female vocal group. So proud of you Asia's Phoenix Morissette. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">One word for this performance, Goosebumps! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Be ready with your tissue before watching the video. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ycLc8mLiEkQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="ycLc8mLiEkQ"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ENGLISH</b><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Through all those times</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">I felt a happiness with you</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Even though you never</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Felt the same wayā too</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">It'sā not that Iā didn't know</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">What you felt in yourā heart</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">'Cuz I felt it too</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Letting go</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Letting you leave it all behind</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Is something I'll never</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Get used to</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">And it hurts to know</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">That you may never look my way again</span></div><div><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Why didn't you tell me</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">What held you back</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Did you ever think of</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Everything I'd feel</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">You fell for me</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">And said I had your heart</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">But you just let me fall</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Never tried to catch me at all</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Should I hate you</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">And try to just forget</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Should I blame myself</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">And live with this regret</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">If I could only do it all again</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">I would turn back time</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Back when I was yours</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">And you were still MINE</span></div><div><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">FILIPINO/TAGALOG</b><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Sanay narinig sa iyong labi</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Di ganun iyong nadarama sakin</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Hinayaan mong pusong nahuhulog</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">At nasasaktan na nga ngayon</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">May magagawa pa ba</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Malilimot pa bang mga sakit</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Nagkulang ba at di</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Nadama ang pag ibig</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Kung maibabalik ang nagdaan</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Nung akoy iyong angkin</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">At doo'y may'rong</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Ako't ikaw pa rin</span></div><div><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Since you decided to walk out the door</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">I won't question your choice anymore</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Just please don't ever look my way again</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">I'll try to hold in the tears with a smile</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">And hope that it could last me a while</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Watching all of these fading memories</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">And it's finally clear to me</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">We were never meant to be</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">KOREAN/HANGEUL</b><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Neol manhi geuriweohal geotgata</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Chamayaman hagetji</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Ijhyeojilsu itdorok</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Dashin saranggateungeo</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Haji anheulrae</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Nae majimak sarangeul</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Doraseon noeoege jugo</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Shipeoseo</span></div><div><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ENGLISH</b><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Hoping one day she could be</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">All the happiness</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">You never felt with ME</span></div><div><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Video from Morissete Amon Youtube channel.</span></div><div><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-52830011095617159702022-09-05T10:41:00.000-07:002022-09-05T10:41:03.777-07:00Book: The Right Kind of StrongIn this book <i><b>"The Right Kind of Strong: Surprisingly Simple Habits of a Spiritually Strong Woman"</b></i> award-winning author Mary A. Kassian examines Paul's exhortation in 2 Timothy about the women of the church in Ephesus and brings to light the warnings and truths about seven habits that can drain women's strength.<br /><br /><div><i>Habit 1: Catch the Creeps</i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj83BwdipJDuDl9t9BST76NwFBGGlE9eSrO_8tXdgtL32t5pQj6wnR480MsrQClC3av8ic0aTcFU3SA5MV1NTTnsN4RQcvpAzh2WLzaAJAyPE0YiqPe0J7kSYvxVskQ9i6F8HNkcpQT-r_J9W1iGstx-ZJN1IRXZBXlWA3TCgEkqVbOfLd9cV4vVqB1/s1050/the_right_kind_of_strong.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="1050" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj83BwdipJDuDl9t9BST76NwFBGGlE9eSrO_8tXdgtL32t5pQj6wnR480MsrQClC3av8ic0aTcFU3SA5MV1NTTnsN4RQcvpAzh2WLzaAJAyPE0YiqPe0J7kSYvxVskQ9i6F8HNkcpQT-r_J9W1iGstx-ZJN1IRXZBXlWA3TCgEkqVbOfLd9cV4vVqB1/w320-h320/the_right_kind_of_strong.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div>Sin does not advance by leaps, it advances by creeps -- one tiny compromise at a time.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Habit 2: Master Your Mind</i></div><div>If you struggle against sin, the victory will be won or lost on the battlefield of your mind.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Habit 3: Ditch the Baggage</i></div><div>Unresolved sins and issues will weigh you down and impair your ability to navigate through life.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Habit 4: Engage Your Emotions</i></div><div>When aligned with your mind and will, emotions can be used as a tool to help you move in the right direction.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Habit 5: Walk the Talk</i></div><div>You haven't really learned until you've put your knowledge into practice.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Habit 6: Stand Your Ground</i></div><div>Without solid doctrinal convictions, you will be weak and will slide away from the truth.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Habit 7: Admit Your Need</i></div><div>True strength is a paradox because it occurs when you reject the wrong kind of strong and embrace the right kind of weak.</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-15844459603717084802022-09-04T07:54:00.001-07:002022-09-04T07:54:15.120-07:00Music: Today by CCF Exalt<div>Heard this Christian song instrumental in today's CCF Main service and my heart was drawn to it. Had to check with friends for the title. My heart was delighted when I finally knew the title, searched the lyrics, and was able to sing with it. Praise God! We are truly grateful that You are faithful and that You hold our future, today and forever. Thank you, Lord, for your music and the joy to worship you through songs.</div><div><br /></div><div>Found my new favorite song. I am soo kilig. š</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8jVy8yaNUXU" width="320" youtube-src-id="8jVy8yaNUXU"></iframe></div><div><div><p><br /><br /></p>Intro</div><div>Today</div><div>Today</div><div>Today </div><div><br /></div><div>Verse 1</div><div>Today, Your love will break through </div><div>Your mercies are new </div><div>They never fail </div><div>And all Your promises are true </div><div>Today, Your power displayed </div><div>Will not be restrained </div><div>Our God You reign </div><div>With one voice we proclaim </div><div>You are... </div><div><span style="background-color: #181818; color: white; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div>Chorus 1 </div><div>Faithful, You have been so gracious </div><div>Through the storms, our refuge </div><div>We find our strength in You Lord, in You </div><div>We are grateful that You hold our future </div><div>Sovereign God Your purpose will prevail </div><div>Believing this truth today<br />Today </div><div>Today </div><div>Weāll live out this truth today</div><div><span style="background-color: #181818; color: white; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span>Verse 2 </div><div>Today, the Spirit will guide </div><div>And open blind eyes </div><div>That they may see </div><div>There is no greater truth but Christ </div><div>Today, as always Youāve been </div><div>Forever Youāll be </div><div>The one who saves </div><div>Jesus, thereās no other name </div><div>Youāre... <span style="background-color: #181818; color: white; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<br /></span></div><div>Chorus 2 </div><div>Faithful, You have been so gracious </div><div>Through the storms, our refuge </div><div>We find our strength in You Lord, in You </div><div>We are grateful that You hold our future </div><div>Sovereign God Your purpose will prevail </div><div>Weāll live out this truth today</div><div> <span style="background-color: #181818; color: white; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span>Chorus 3 </div><div>Faithful, You have been so gracious </div><div>Through the storms, our refuge </div><div>We find our strength in You Lord, in You </div><div>We are grateful that You hold our future Sovereign God </div><div>Your purpose will prevail </div><div>Believing this truth today </div><div>Today </div><div>Weāll shout out this truth today <span style="background-color: #181818; color: white; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<br /></span></div><div>Ending </div><div>Today </div><div>Today</div><div><a href="#"></a><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px;" /></a></div></div>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-82978434358624611112022-08-24T09:12:00.009-07:002022-08-24T09:17:34.013-07:00The Gift: Forgiveness<div>*****</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO7jRVp4k5banesJqgNM4LwtoXO-TRQHKzVBevG8pkfPF6A3qirUbdQpIwSTWPg_LHj7yQtUlfNLGVF-LUrRgOXy_lsbWMIvwwl9Kk0KnsqhM9L8f1JF3N2GQDj3I9He4uIhLHS6RCykYV97lBiLSRH_muXWi1zR2ZJs9ikl-3So8zUDQYM1Cm5GVN/s1650/Screenshot_20220825-000446_Storytel.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="886" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO7jRVp4k5banesJqgNM4LwtoXO-TRQHKzVBevG8pkfPF6A3qirUbdQpIwSTWPg_LHj7yQtUlfNLGVF-LUrRgOXy_lsbWMIvwwl9Kk0KnsqhM9L8f1JF3N2GQDj3I9He4uIhLHS6RCykYV97lBiLSRH_muXWi1zR2ZJs9ikl-3So8zUDQYM1Cm5GVN/w215-h400/Screenshot_20220825-000446_Storytel.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There is no forgiveness without rage. Prison of not forgiving. </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Forgiveness is not something we do for the person who has hurt us, it's something we do for ourselves.</b> So we are no longer victims or prisoners of the past, so we can stop carrying a burden that harbors nothing but pain. It is not about cutting someone out, it's about letting go. As long as you say you canāt forgive someone you are spending energy being against rather than being for yourself and the life you deserve. To forgive isnāt to give permission to someone to keep hurting you, it's not okay that you were harmed but it's already done. No one but you can heal the wound.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Your life does not depend on what you get or do not get from someone else, your life is your own.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The opposite of depression is expression. What comes out of our bodies does not make us ill, what stays in there does. Forgiveness is release.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Silent rage is self-destructive. If you are not intentionally releasing it, youāre holding unto it. And thatās not gonna do you any good. Neither is vending anger, thatās when you blow your top. It might feel cathartic at the moment, but others put the bill and it can get addictive. Youāre not really releasing anything, you are just perpetuating a cycle, a harmful one. The best thing to do with anger is to learn to channel it and then dissolve it.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Guilt is in the past, worry is in the future.</b> Our freedom lies in the power to choose what we do in the present. You canāt choose what happens to you or what other say or do but you can take charge of your thinking, feeling, and behavior.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I canāt say that everything happens for a reason, that thereās purpose in injustice or suffering but I can say that pain, hardships, and suffering are the gifts that help us grow, learn and become who we are meant to be.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The opportunity to decide what kind of life you want to have. To discover the untapped potentials lying in the shadows. To reveal and reclaim who you really are. May you also choose to give up the prison and do the work to be free. Find in your suffering your own life lessons.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times;">*****</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">And for my one-liner takeaways:</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>The problem is not what people tell you, the problem is that you believe them.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Instead of dying for your dead, you can live for them and for all your loved ones who are still here.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>We are born to love, we learn to hate.</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">No one can take away what you put in your mind.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If you survive today, tomorrow youāll be free.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Image courtesy of storytel application.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-10202458298338121142022-08-24T08:56:00.002-07:002022-08-24T08:58:02.300-07:00The Gift: Are you evolving or revolving?Another set of my favourite life gems and excerpts from the book The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life by a psychologist and holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eger.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG9DG2M9MQeU96RBcq2NLWRcNWJi8QofRqZ4bDy4cWb_-HaVkeKs5y1z1Bu0SGFy_-WrQETFqH8-xOZVLvF4OohPzPygAWtff7O1VAIGYbFrgbUAzEjHI-h1DyHTDvPIFyXcbszkVyqqXPNqqSclYa7IffZpQZd356cJwUSFxEUBi9ungatPg0jKYA/s1240/drEdithEger.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1240" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG9DG2M9MQeU96RBcq2NLWRcNWJi8QofRqZ4bDy4cWb_-HaVkeKs5y1z1Bu0SGFy_-WrQETFqH8-xOZVLvF4OohPzPygAWtff7O1VAIGYbFrgbUAzEjHI-h1DyHTDvPIFyXcbszkVyqqXPNqqSclYa7IffZpQZd356cJwUSFxEUBi9ungatPg0jKYA/w400-h226/drEdithEger.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">****</span></div><div><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Youāre gonna be 40, 50, 60 anyway. Might as well take a risk. Do something youāve never done before. Change is synonymous with growth. To grow you have to evolve instead of revolve. Times are changing and we are changing with the times.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We have a choice how much of our lives we give over to fear. Fear uses the most relentless, provocative words, āWhat if.ā When fear comes like a panic storm and your body shakes and your heart races, say āThank you fear for wanting to protect me, that was then, this is now.ā over and over again.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Fear does not have to rule your life. Releasing the fear starts with you.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>What ifās donāt empower us, they deplete us.</b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When we say āI can't mean Iām helpless and unless youāre an infant that simply isnāt true. <b>When we say āI canāt what we are really saying is āI won't - I wonāt accept it,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I wonāt believe it.</b> The language of fear is the language of resistance, and if weāre resisting we are working very hard to ensure that we go nowhere. We deny growth and curiosity. We are revolving not evolving.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I need to versus I want to. Needs are things without which we canāt survive - breathing, sleeping and eating. You donāt need to trust your husband, you want to. And if you want to you can choose to.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Replace your I canāt, I'm trying, I need with I can, I want, I'm willing and I choose.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Be curious. Curiosity is vital.</b> Itās what allows us to risk. When we are full of fear, we are living in past that already happened or in future that hasnāt arrived. When we are curious, weāre in the present eager to discover whatās going to happen next. Itās better to risk and grow and maybe fail than to remain imprisoned never knowing what could have been.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Identify your fears, and make a list of your fears. For each realistic fear, decide if it causes you distress or stress. Distress is chronic danger and uncertainty. If you are living in distress your formal responsibility is to tend to your safety and survival need. Do whatever is in your power to protect yourself. If the fear is causing you stress, acknowledge that stress can be healthy. Notice how stress can be giving you an opportunity to grow. Make a list of things that you could do on your behalf to strengthen yourself and build a life you want.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We never know whatās ahead. Hope is not the white paint we use to mask our suffering, itās the investment in curiosity. A recognition that if we give up now, we never get to see what happens next.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Celebrate each precious moment without waiting for someone elseās permission or approval. To choose hope is to choose life. Hope does not guarantee what will happen in the future but choosing hope whatās gets your attention every day. You can choose what you do to fill your day with passion, to dance, to re-read books that are meaningful to you or go to movies, operas, and theatre. To savour good food, to spend time with people who are kind and have integrity. <b>Remember that loss and trauma donāt mean you have to stop living fully.</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">People would say, how can you hold hope when there is still genocide in the world when there is so much evidence to the contrary. To ask how hope is possible in the face of dire realities is to confuse hope with idealism. Idealism is when you expect that everything in life is going to be fair or good or easy. It is a defence mechanism just like denial or delusion. Donāt cover garlic with chocolate, it doesnāt taste good. Likewise, there is no freedom in denying reality or trying to cloak it in something sweet. Hope isnāt a distraction from darkness, it's a confrontation with darkness.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Conversation between survivor to survivor. This experience is always going to be with you. The flashbacks and panics usually donāt go away, but what we call post-traumatic stress disorder is not a disorder, itās a very normal reaction to loss, violence and tragedy. <b>Though youāll never overcome what you witness that day, you can come to terms with it, and even use it as you can use everything in life to fuel your growth and purpose.</b> That's the hope Iād offer you. You could have died too somehow. Hope is the conviction that you survived all that you survived so that you can be a good role model and ambassador for freedom. A person who focused not on what youāve lost but on what is still here for you, on the work youāre called to do.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">***</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Credits to the owner of the image: independent.ie</p></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a></div>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-70218497783533997202022-08-24T08:37:00.003-07:002022-08-24T09:18:19.405-07:00The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life<div>An inspirational and true-to-life book written by Dr. Edith Eger, a holocaust survivor of Auschwitz. In spite of all the atrocity and near-death experiences Dr. Eger had during the Nazi invasion, chosed hope, forgiveness, and life.<br /><br />Truly a gift for mankind.<br /><br />Here are excerpts from the book that are worth to reflect on and share with others.<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">***</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3rX7Rvda71K8r7Cr_twJMCvk3847UbbrM9zAyL7KewvZX-liuvB1Zzv8L32ZwMZfA8mJuMdhNEPjRxDeX7cBVL_YBnNhZulZea7MGlPmM7dRty1NdYWuydV0C_M3l8tTmO_EeskPKP6BFwJDg3Hft6Rw6Jhk9Kf9J6a8-UfuFoRpOqEOiQ7hoaRb3/s2159/The%20Gift.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2159" data-original-width="1400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3rX7Rvda71K8r7Cr_twJMCvk3847UbbrM9zAyL7KewvZX-liuvB1Zzv8L32ZwMZfA8mJuMdhNEPjRxDeX7cBVL_YBnNhZulZea7MGlPmM7dRty1NdYWuydV0C_M3l8tTmO_EeskPKP6BFwJDg3Hft6Rw6Jhk9Kf9J6a8-UfuFoRpOqEOiQ7hoaRb3/w260-h400/The%20Gift.jpeg" width="260" /></a></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The worst prison is not the one the Nazis put me in, the worst prison is the one(mental prison) I built for myself.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Hope allows us to live in the present instead of the past and to unlock the doors of our mental prison.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There is no freedom in minimizing what happened or trying to forget(traumas) but remembering and honoring are very different from remaining stuck in guilt, shame, anger, resentment, or fear about the past. I can face the reality of what happened and remember that although I have lost, Iāve never stopped choosing love and hope.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Respond not react.</b> When nothing helpful or nourishing is coming from the outside, that is precisely the moment when we have the possibility to discover who we really are. Itās not what happens to us that matters most, itās what we do with our experiences.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Readiness does not come from the outside and it canāt be rushed or forced. Youāre ready when youāre ready. When something inside shifts and you decide. Change is about interrupting habits and patterns that no longer serve us. If you want to meaningfully alter your life, you donāt simply abandon a dysfunctional habit or belief, you replace it with a healthy one.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When we stay a victim or put someone else in that role, we reinforce the harm, focusing on what we have not had, undermining the survival strength and the capacity to see any experience as an opportunity for growth.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There are many good reasons why we avoid our feelings. Theyāre uncomfortable, theyāre not the feelings we think we should be having, or afraid of how they might hurt others, what they might reveal what the choices weāve made. But as long as you are avoiding your feelings, you are denying reality. When you say āI donāt want to think about itā you will surely think about it. <i>So invite the feeling in, sit down with it, keep it company and then decide how long you are going to hold on to it.</i><b> A feeling is just a feeling, itās not your identity.</b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When a couple never fight, they donāt have intimacy either. Conflict is human. When we avoid conflict we are moving closer to tyranny than peace. Freedom is when you embrace your power to choose your own response. You cannot want something from another person, you can only discover whatās right for you. Stop denying someone elseās truth. Freedom comes in letting go of the need to be right. You canāt change the situation, you canāt someone elseās mind but you can look at reality differently. You can accept and integrate multiple points of view. This flexibility is our strength. It allows us to be assertive, not aggressive or passive or passive aggressive. When we are aggressive we decide for others. When we are passive we let others decide for us. When we are passive-aggressive we prevent others from deciding for themselves. When you are assertive you speak in statements.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The key to maintaining your freedom during conflict is to hold your truth while also relinquishing the need for power and control. <b>It helps when we can meet others as they are not as what we expect them to be.</b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We do not empower others or ourselves when we launch into complaints.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>No one grows with criticism so eliminate it. </b>Be selective on whose getting your anger. When you are angry, youāre the one who suffers. An unhealthy conflict has everything to do about getting locked in a better than - less than mindset.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Every human is fallible, every human makes mistakes. You are not helpless, you are not a saint either. You donāt have to prove your worth. You can just embrace it, and celebrate that you are imperfect and whole. That there will never be another you. <b>If you have something to prove, you are still a prisoner.</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Image courtesy of Amazon.com</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-41284941159232393212022-08-14T09:33:00.015-07:002022-09-18T08:30:15.270-07:0070 Things that I am Thankful for Tatay<div>This will be the longest list of "Things that I am Thankful For" posts that I've made and posted on my blog. I initially doubted if I would be able to complete this list but it turned out there's so much more to be thankful for the life of my Tatay.</div><div> </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKK9KT9EjivrTiOOeNkrxoF5imATtb1cdYhn9_IKQO_5Ny2rmAnhKgtU89DiL6JLfniwplnnmDhTE_E7cLZMidYFTKtkGTly5D-y-Q30HBbBHNMjioohZ4V2aBXSpiw_BF6C0lDLVjslIv8VuR5QOvV-4hdNcMYU5Gu0MdsijjCQxdG3NsoGCQuoaz/s4032/20190302_174211.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="1960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKK9KT9EjivrTiOOeNkrxoF5imATtb1cdYhn9_IKQO_5Ny2rmAnhKgtU89DiL6JLfniwplnnmDhTE_E7cLZMidYFTKtkGTly5D-y-Q30HBbBHNMjioohZ4V2aBXSpiw_BF6C0lDLVjslIv8VuR5QOvV-4hdNcMYU5Gu0MdsijjCQxdG3NsoGCQuoaz/w195-h400/20190302_174211.jpg" width="195" /></a></div>1. For your life. </div><div>2. For your jokes.</div><div>3. For not complaining about how difficult our life was when we were kids.</div><div>4. For not complaining when you needed to stay home and be the house-husband while Nanay worked(for some time).</div><div>5. For working hard to provide for our basic needs.</div><div>6. For prioritizing our studies and making sure we finish school.</div><div>7. For taking care of Nanay.</div><div>8. For taking care of us your kids. </div><div>9. For taking care of your grandchildren.</div><div>10. For your loyalty to Nanay.</div><div>11. For loving Nanay and sticking with her until the end. </div><div>12. For your willingness to prepare and cook meals at home. </div><div>13. For being a low-maintenance father who seldom asks from your children.</div><div>14. For your servant heart.</div><div>15. For your tough exterior but softcore.</div><div>16. For all your pasalubong to us especially when we were kids.</div><div>17. For giving all your salary to Nanay, and just asking her for a daily allowance to work. This showed me how you truly trusted her with everything and how selfless you are.</div><div>18. For saving your money for our needs.</div><div>19. For trying your best to give us a better life. We didn't have the best life but seeing you try is enough for me.</div><div>20. For sacrificing to work overseas for your family.</div><div>21. For your laughter.</div><div>22. For your great appetite, even the simplest ulam would look so enjoyable to eat when we eat it with you.</div><div>23. For your simplicity and modest way of life.</div><div>24. For your detailed stories of the past.</div><div>25. For your strict upbringing to us.</div><div>26. For teaching us to play cards - pusoy dos and tong its.</div><div>27. For coming to church with us on Sundays.</div><div>28. For being part of our family devotion every Sunday for the past two years since pandemic.</div><div>29. For overcoming your fear of sharing/talking.</div><div>30. For becoming more open and expressive with your thoughts and emotions during our family devotion.</div><div>31. For your opening prayers when Nanay facilitates during our family devotion.</div><div>32. For supporting us in our decisions as grown-up adults.</div><div>33. For being the proudest father to us.</div><div>34. For giving us a safe place to go home.</div><div>35. For not arguing or fighting with Nanay. To be honest, growing up I don't have any memory of you and Nanay fighting at home.</div><div>36. For not giving up on life, especially when your agency scammed you to work overseas.</div><div>37. For helping Nanay with the laundry every single week.</div><div>38. For not demanding too much from us.</div><div>39. For being present when we were growing up.</div><div>40. For always prioritizing your family in every decision you make.</div><div>41. For your yearly Christmas gifts(usuallyš°š°š°) to your grandchildren.</div><div>42. For your humor and always trying to make things light.</div><div>43. For being a dependable father and provider.</div><div>44. For your humility.</div><div>45. For my favorite homecooked meals every time I'm in the Philippines.</div><div>46. For your resolute outlook to be well after you got a stroke.</div><div>47. For diligently taking your maintenance meds.</div><div>48. For not being irritable even though you have a few medical conditions.</div><div>49. For making sure there's always food on the table.</div><div>50. For being our handyman at home.</div><div>51. For being a domesticated father to us.</div><div>52. For accepting Jesus as your Saviour.</div><div>53. For stopping your vices of smoking more than 2 decades ago.</div><div>54. For all your small but special treats like merienda, ice cream, etc.</div><div>55. For cooking my favourite ginataang tulingan. It will remain my favorite but I don't think anyone can cook it the same way as yours.</div><div>56. For waking up in the morning to prepare our breakfast at home.</div><div>57. For improving on your temper.</div><div>58. For forgiving other people who hurt you.</div><div>59. For showing that you're doing fine, in spite of the pain after your operation, to prevent us from worrying.</div><div>60. For your composure.</div><div>61. For your generosity to other people.</div><div>62. For your good genes and the height haha.</div><div>63. For reading the Bible. It was very encouraging to see you read even though you always find excuses to look for your glasses.</div><div>64. For being appreciative of the things we give you.</div><div>65. For your tough love.</div><div>66. For fetching and sending me from/to the airport. All the time.</div><div>67. <b>For being contented with your life, and making us feel that we are your life.</b></div><div>68. For the seventy years that the Lord has given us to share with you.</div><div>69. For making us believe that there is true love through your love for Nanay.</div><div>70. For watching over us, even though you are no longer here.</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-77734232940585752372022-08-14T09:21:00.003-07:002022-08-14T09:21:57.706-07:00CCF: The Hall of Faith<div><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Hebrews 11:7-28</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Bro. Julius Resulta</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Faith is confidence in God that results in our obedience regardless of consequences.</b> In Hebrews chapter 11, we will examine three heroes of faith to show us how living in faith looks like.</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAIbmpP3OUEKiuYLpOOeFQYq8QysCmso5PzHKtrRW5Te96NrA2y9OFe3LefVZNwMST1g54pltnMsSgDOpFpyfZgz5S1Qw7ALtxRWZXlLp9V3mkxtNzMTvqkZF1Nkf8nVeInamK4BjBqwjwnSAaUENiQiMTu0z0RNcJOPkTY4Uinu3aI3qm80_CzTH_/s3230/noah.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3230" data-original-width="2480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAIbmpP3OUEKiuYLpOOeFQYq8QysCmso5PzHKtrRW5Te96NrA2y9OFe3LefVZNwMST1g54pltnMsSgDOpFpyfZgz5S1Qw7ALtxRWZXlLp9V3mkxtNzMTvqkZF1Nkf8nVeInamK4BjBqwjwnSAaUENiQiMTu0z0RNcJOPkTY4Uinu3aI3qm80_CzTH_/s320/noah.jpeg" width="246" /></a></div><br /><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b>Noah: The Obedience of Faith.</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>By faith Noah being divinely warned of things not yet seen(rain), moved with Godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household.</i> <b>Faith for Noah is confidence in God, that resulted in him building an ark despite of the unknown.</b> A gigantic ark that measures 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high or about one and a half football feet long and three-storey high. With his obedience in building this massive ark, Noah condemned the world, the message was clear ā judgment is coming and people should repent. Unfortunately, no one believed other than his family, and people rejected the warning. This tells us that when you and I decide to live a life of faith, people may laugh and reject you, but the question is āWill you continue to live in faith?ā</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiGrEu6opBrUyKBJUpPY9KzvQIX8Z1O5zMHLtlHyU81mCYrh3JQUkxaCt1kPjoAZpAj4n_ImUtknD-aoDyf_WyGkW1WV2vdhWDe7td7995RTCVUibx_6RsiP6CvSHzUAV3DC0cY70Gx80RLt0dNKxU2zMyQuN1DVeV2ydyknX31CxqYtNGCllQjQmT/s1238/abraham.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1238" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiGrEu6opBrUyKBJUpPY9KzvQIX8Z1O5zMHLtlHyU81mCYrh3JQUkxaCt1kPjoAZpAj4n_ImUtknD-aoDyf_WyGkW1WV2vdhWDe7td7995RTCVUibx_6RsiP6CvSHzUAV3DC0cY70Gx80RLt0dNKxU2zMyQuN1DVeV2ydyknX31CxqYtNGCllQjQmT/s320/abraham.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Abraham: The Life of Faith</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called out to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance.</i> When God called Abraham to this journey, he was already 75 years old. Not knowing where he was going and until when. But without delay, Abraham instantly packed his belongings and obeyed Godās instructions. He left everything familiar and everything he knows in exchange for uncertainty. He left his homeland, had to cut family ties, he abandoned comfortable things in embracing total uncertainty.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When every step is planned and prepared before you, it doesnāt take much faith. Abraham, when instructed to go, he did not know all the details but trusted God and obeyed. <b>Faith for Abraham is confidence in God, that resulted in his journeying regardless of the unknown. </b>His obedience does not guarantee him comfort instead Abraham lived like a stranger in a foreign country dwelling in tents. He settled on a temporary dwelling for hundred years. In spite of this Abraham was not discouraged for he looked forward to the future, his heart is in heaven. He acknowledges that his citizenship lies not here on earth but in heaven where God dwells.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Furthermore, <i>by faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac.</i> Abraham without any hesitations or doubt, was determined to offer his only son Isaac as God commanded him. For Abraham, God has a promise that through Isaac, he will be a great nation, but God wanted him to offer and kill Isaac, but because God has a promise to fulfill and He is a promise-keeping God, therefore, God will resurrect Isaac. <b>Faith for Abraham is confidence in God, that he was willing to offer his only son, as a form of sacrifice. </b>Faith is not whether you like it or whether it makes sense but that you know and trust that God will be faithful.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCJRUUuBQclXOq8VQEZGlQD1H-HdF0RzZ27DXC2oHnCPIlQvu4S8dUp7Qx79IRQm4s6k3W6ox3qrrmogACshPhigFW37hpJhgJP4A71t9w4ihXryeoqOfEJxonwOm1stawzLiqhS01iqh7igzFdzDvJR-HWSF73qB8vqO7hpXjrLi1oaBGYka-rwpl/s1313/moses.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="909" data-original-width="1313" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCJRUUuBQclXOq8VQEZGlQD1H-HdF0RzZ27DXC2oHnCPIlQvu4S8dUp7Qx79IRQm4s6k3W6ox3qrrmogACshPhigFW37hpJhgJP4A71t9w4ihXryeoqOfEJxonwOm1stawzLiqhS01iqh7igzFdzDvJR-HWSF73qB8vqO7hpXjrLi1oaBGYka-rwpl/s320/moses.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Moses: The Choices of Faith</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaohās daughter, choosing rather to suffer the affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.</i> Moses grew up with all the prestige, wealth, and privilege in Pharaohās palace. He was the crowned prince and a mighty general but one day as he saw the burden of his people, made an important decision by faith to renounce his identity as Egyptian and embraced his true identity as an Israelite. With this decision, Moses made a conscious choice to suffer affliction with the people of God rather than the pleasures of the world. With this decision, Moses chose the wrath of the King. He went from someone who can be the next Pharaoh with limitless power to be a slave, from someone who had all the possessions to be a nobody. Moses chose the path of slavery because he chose God. He knew that this is what God wants him to do and understood who he is living for.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Dr. Vance Havner said, āMoses chose the imperishable, saw the invisible, and did the impossible, all by faith.ā <b>Faith for Moses is confidence in the promise of God, which resulted in him choosing his identity, regardless of the persecution.</b></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><b></b><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To end, there are three principles that we can learn from Hebrews 11 with regard to living a life of faith:</p><ul class="ul1"><li class="li1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><b>The heroes of faith are normal men.</b> They are not superheroes with unique and special qualities, they are your average ordinary people like you and me who have flaws and imperfections. But because they exercise exemplary faith in terms of obedience their names are recorded in this hall of faith. By Godās grace, we too are able to live a life of faith.</li><li class="li1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><b>The object of biblical faith is God. </b>Itās not faith on faith, not faith on results, not faith on themselves rather it is faith on God. We can have faith on God because He created the heaven and the earth, He is the alpha and omega, He holds the universe on His hand, He is holy, He is righteous and He is sovereign.</li><li class="li1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><b>Biblical faith leads you to act.</b> If we profess that we love God and we have faith in Him, we must be willing to act and obey.</li></ul><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Images courtesy of owner:</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://scripturelady.com">scripturelady.com</a><br /><a href="https://dadsteachthebible.blogspot.com/">dadsteachthebible.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://wallpaper4god.com">wallpaper4god.com</a></span><div><br /></div><div>Message transcribed for CCF Singapore by:<br /><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a></div></div>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-60603363993975232002022-08-10T07:43:00.006-07:002022-08-10T07:56:03.079-07:00Eulogy for Tatay by Aizel<div>It takes courage and bravery to summon yourself to stand in front of people and deliver one of the most painful speeches you have to make in your life, not to mention finding the right words, carefully crafting the sentences, and writing the laments of your heart.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thank you Aizel for this heartfelt message not only for Tatay but also for us listening to you, for allowing us to have a peek at your pure heart. You made most of us cry that day but you also made us so proud to see how you have matured beyond your age and reminded us that we have a choice to be grateful.</div><div><br /></div>****<div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBWfO5r1Y198VQr4RPefbe6Rxeggiv7NzyUaJggjCtdsApwWuHpxALmgkH9Ng4CihEOkPI4bWfZbndiwa4shXooBxPq4FuUG1WszdgdzkTR7OCZVwnaJ4ymQZduo709oGy5ZIJP7xXIrS9Y4Y1SNNxbcyEwp0aDSXC44ujaIW6gQYDm-5O89tvzPQm/s1646/tatay2.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1646" data-original-width="1171" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBWfO5r1Y198VQr4RPefbe6Rxeggiv7NzyUaJggjCtdsApwWuHpxALmgkH9Ng4CihEOkPI4bWfZbndiwa4shXooBxPq4FuUG1WszdgdzkTR7OCZVwnaJ4ymQZduo709oGy5ZIJP7xXIrS9Y4Y1SNNxbcyEwp0aDSXC44ujaIW6gQYDm-5O89tvzPQm/s320/tatay2.jpeg" width="228" /></a></div>Hello everyone, I just want to express my gratitude for having tatay in my life. Hi tay. Si tatay yung tipo ng tao na mahirap ma-gets. Maraming nakaka-misinterpret sa kanya kasi minsan hindi mo alam kung biro lang ba yung sinasabi niya or totoo. Minsan naman parang galit siya pero hindi naman pala talaga. <div><br /></div><div>Nung bata pa ako, ayaw ko talaga kay tatay. Nagagalit ako pag pinapagalitan niya kami. Naiinis ako pag pinapatulog niya kami ng tanghali. Natatakot ako kasi magreready pa siya ng pamalo with matching lock ng gate pag makulit kami or nag aaway kami ni Buboy. </div><div><br /></div><div>Pero, as I grow up, nung unti-unti nang nagmamature yung utak ko, dun ko narealize na yun pala yung way niya ng pagshow ng love and care sa amin. Habang lumalaki ako mas nagegets ko yung ugali ni tatay. Mas nagets ko kung pano makikisama sa kanya at pano siya ihandle. Kaya naging maganda yung relationship namin at napansin ko na mas hindi na siya nagagalit at ganon din ako. </div><div><br /></div><div>Kahit na wala si papa, si tatay yung naging father figure sa akin. Siya yung nagtreat sa akin na parang prinsesa kaya never kong naramdaman na may kulang. </div><div><br /></div><div>Sobrang mami-miss ko yung masasarap niyang luto. Yung paglagay niya ng maraming carrots at patatas sa ulam kasi alam niyang favorite namin yon. Yung paglibre niya sa akin ng meryenda kila ate Jean. Tapos pag hindi nagtitinda si ate Jean dadayo pa siya sa bakery para bumili ng tinapay para may meryenda kami. </div><div><br /></div><div>Nakakalungkot lang na hindi na namin siya kasama sa pag achieve ko ng mga milestones and goals ko sa buhay. Yung debut ko next year, yung priority kong kasayaw wala na. Hindi niya na naabutan yung grades and awards ko this school year. Gusto ko pang makita ako ni tatay na grumaduate, pero sobrang unexpected talaga ng mga pangyayari sa buhay. </div><div><br /></div><div>Pero, Iām sure na kahit wala na siya dito physically, he will forever remain in our hearts. Iām sure sinusuportahan niya parin kami mula sa heaven. </div><div><br /></div><div>Goodbye, Tay. After all those hardships na naranasan mo, you deserve to rest in paradise together with Jesus. It will take some time bago namin ma-accept yung fact na wala ka na kasi kahit saang sulok ng bahay naalala ka namin. Ang sakit kasi wala na nga akong papa, mawawala pa yung tatay ko. Pero kakayanin ko āto, tay. </div><div><br /></div><div>We love you. I love you. Youāll always be the best man in my life, Tatay.</div><div><div><br /><div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a></div></div></div></div></div>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-68158614299743592892022-07-30T00:56:00.003-07:002022-07-30T09:47:45.387-07:00CCF: Jesus the Perfect Sacrifice and our Right Response<div><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Hebrews 10:1-25</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Bro. Fred Magbanua</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As we continue our study in Hebrews 10, we will look into four main points:</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Law cannot perfect believers (vv. 1-4)</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When the author describes the law of Moses as only a shadow of the good things to come, he means that it foretold about blessings of the new covenant that Jesus would bring but the ritual of the repeated sacrifice pointed to the need for something more. Why? Because the law can never perfect the worshipers, then provided the following points:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">a.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The sacrifices were repeated again and again;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">b.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Those who offered sacrifices continued to have a consciousness of sin;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">c.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The law could not take away the consciousness of sin. In fact, under the law with the system of sacrifices, there is a reminder of sin every year thru the annual day of atonement. This reinforced to people that they have to continually offer up sacrifices and sacrifices offered before having no lasting effect. But followers of Christ who are growing in the Lord have experienced forgiveness of their sins and have that light feeling inside, knowing they are forgiven. <i>Have you experienced the lightening of your burden?</i> Seek Jesus and truly understand Him and what He has done for you, that He is the perfect sacrifice, and let that burden fall away.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The consequence of sin is eternal death, we can find this in a few Bible verses like Ezekiel 18:20, Romans 6:23, and Revelations 20:10,15. The law requires a sacrifice of an unblemished ram, bull or goat. But these sacrifices are just substitutions for the demands of the law. The blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins because (1) the demand of the law was the death of the man, not the animal, and (2) God desires obedience and attention to His will more than the animal sacrifices.<br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The perfect sacrifice: Christ Himself (vv. 5-10)</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The author here quotes from Old Testament Psalm 40:6-8, a prophetic psalm of David that tells us Jesus came not only to offer sacrifice but to do Godās will fully and to be completely in obedience to God the Father. The author sums up what Jesus did: <i>He does away with the first to establish the second.</i> This means Jesus abolishes the Old Testament system of sacrifices in order to establish a new one. Jesus' perfect sacrifice is the reason why we no longer need to offer bulls and goats. The sacrifice of Jesus was final, fully effective, and therefore no need to be repeated over again.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The question we can ask ourselves is, <i>āAre you still trying to add to the perfect sacrifice of Jesus?ā<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jesusā sacrifice perfected the believers (vv. 11-18)</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A sharp contrast is made between Priests who stand and offer sacrifices repeatedly versus Jesus our Supreme High Priest who sits at the right hand of God after making one perfect sacrifice for all time. Here we can see that the Priests stand in an earthly tabernacle; They sacrifice repeatedly; With imperfect sacrifice and Cannot perfect the worshipper. While Jesus sits in the heavenly tabernacle; He was sacrificed once for all time; He is the perfect sacrifice and He is made perfect forever.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Jesusā one perfect sacrifice has made complete or finish forever those who are being made holy or sanctified. To become perfect does not promise sinless perfection but it promised believers the full realization of Godās saving purpose. We become considered by God as perfect because of what Jesus did but it doesnāt mean that we no longer sin.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In verses 15-18, the author quotes from Hebrew 8 on how God found fault in Israel because they did not continue in the covenant so a new covenant was needed to replace the first covenant. In Hebrews 10, an abridged version of Jeremiah 31:31-34, the focus is that in the new covenant, God will no longer remember their sins and lawless deeds. This also applies to believers today, God will no longer remember our sins and lawless deeds.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In contrast with our first point - The law cannot perfect believers, this set of verses tells us Jesusā sacrifice perfected the believers:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">a.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>One sacrifice was offered once for all time!</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">b.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The annual reminder of sin was removed, and the guilt and heaviness of sin is removed!</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">c.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A perfect life in perfect obedience to the Father</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>If you have already come to Christ as your Lord and Savior have you also forgive yourself and others? Are you still punishing yourself for something that God has already forgiven you? Are you still remembering your and others' past sins when God is no longer remembering yours and others?</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Our right response: Draw near, Hold fast, Love others (vv. 19-25)</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Verse 19 onwards is a transition from doctrine to duty or from precept to application. The author gave us three reasons why he is asking us to do his instructions: because we have the confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus; by a new and living way (new covenant) which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh and lastly because we have a great priest over the house of God.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As our right response let us:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>a.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Draw near</i> with a sincere heart.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Donāt stay at the outer courts, when you now have access to the holy place. We should have full confidence in Christās perfect sacrifice and be reminded that we now have access to the very presence of God under the new covenant.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>b.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hold fast</i> the confession of our hope.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Be strong in the Lord without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. Stand firm in your faith, we are to hold fast amidst the temptations, challenges to our faith, false teachings that cast doubts, difficult circumstances, and even difficult people.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>c.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Love others.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Consider how to stimulate one another to love and good works.<i> </i>Spur others to care and do good deeds, because you love them enough not to be stagnant in their faith but for them to be vibrant in their walk with God. We can do this by meeting together through bible study, sharing burdens and blessings, praying, and encouraging one another. We should do all these with anticipation of the return of Jesus Christ.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFNshgpPiiqzbryLd9x5q8WxbgDuSUHcl98XUns__Gf6ZVuJhH98DSjFqCYRgNICQNJAyKNoSHFS4dM7-twSVz0BWQlKnNn7DhLWZfBEGS1jF5jLnfVwfW-NHkr1Q_i6LVkEmG3hHez4NKUbAc01Cx3F44ZfBAp9X2Nfjy3-TRmUUERDITjzhYsYhY/s1200/jesus.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFNshgpPiiqzbryLd9x5q8WxbgDuSUHcl98XUns__Gf6ZVuJhH98DSjFqCYRgNICQNJAyKNoSHFS4dM7-twSVz0BWQlKnNn7DhLWZfBEGS1jF5jLnfVwfW-NHkr1Q_i6LVkEmG3hHez4NKUbAc01Cx3F44ZfBAp9X2Nfjy3-TRmUUERDITjzhYsYhY/w400-h209/jesus.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image courtesy of iBelieve.com</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Message transcribed by:</p></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-19292955889949656942022-07-29T07:01:00.003-07:002022-07-30T09:49:58.443-07:00CCF: Jesus the High Priest that We Need<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">Hebrews 7:1-28</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">Bro. Marco</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><b><i>Melchizedekās priesthood is like Christ. (v1-10)</i></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">The first few verses of Hebrews chapter seven introduced us to who Melchizedek is. He is the King of Salem and Priest of God Most High; his name means āKing of Righteousness;ā King of peace (Salem means peace); he is the first priest mentioned in the Bible; Abraham recognized his priesthood is from God; and he has no record of genealogy in the Bible.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">The author also points out that Melchizedek is superior to Abraham, superior to the Levitical Priests and his existence points us to the person of Christ.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><b><i>The Priesthood of Christ is More Effective. (v11-19)</i></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">To show that the priesthood of Christ is more effective than the Levitical priesthood, the author listed several limitations of the Levitical priesthood such as perfection was not attainable; it was weak and useless; it was insufficient to bring us as near to God as God desired; there was no oath from God regarding this priesthood; and not permanent, prevented by death from continuing in office.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">The priesthood of Christ is more effective because it gives us a better hope that brings us nearer to God.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><b><i>The Priesthood of Christ is Firmly Established. (v20-22)</i></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">In this set of verses, Jesus is described as our guarantor of the new covenant on our behalf. And he did not wait for us who live now to fail Him, He paid for our failures in advance. He made himself like us to fulfill the requirements of the law in His perfect life. Jesus became not only the payment for us but also the mediator on our behalf. He became the High Priest that would offer the sacrifice by becoming a sacrifice. What He gives us is the freedom to come before God knowing that we have been fully cleansed and cleared of all wrongdoing. When we come to God in our sinfulness the Father looks to his right hand and sees Jesus sitting there.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">The covenant is better because it is guaranteed by the Son of God to be eternally effective. The priesthood of Christ is firmly established by the oath of God.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">Knowing that Godās plan for redemption transcends the old and new testament, the question for us is, how should we respond? May we respond to God in worship and in faith and trust God even more especially when we encounter difficult problems in our life.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><b><i>The Priesthood of Christ is Eternal. (v23-25)</i></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">Jesus is the high priest that we need, an enduring priest. The Levitical priest could not accomplish the deepest desire of God for His people. We need a high priest that is radiantly holy, completely innocent, and eternally effective to bring us to be with the Father, and Jesus is that perfect high priest. Verse 25 says he is able to save forever ā the more our need is, the more Christ's ability is to save us. There is not a time or a season or a second in our life that Jesus is not able to save us. His power to save is limitless. The grace of God in Christ extends further than you can imagine to the deepest most outrageous sin that you have ever committed. Never believe the lie that you are beyond saving. Satan brings guilt but Jesus saves. He lives to make intercession on our behalf ā past, present, and future sins.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">The priesthood of Christ is eternal. An unchanging priesthood means lasting salvation.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><b><i>The Priesthood of Christ is What We Need. (v26-28)</i></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">In this set of verses, the author is drawing a comparison between the Levitical priest and Jesus. The Levitical priests ā many in number, prevented by death from continuing to office, temporary, sinful, weak, and offers sacrifices daily. On the other hand, Jesus ā is alone, overcame death to continue in office, permanent, sinless, perfect, and offered sacrifice once and for all.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">The priesthood of Christ is exactly what we need because he is the perfect fit to represent us before God and to secure our acceptance with God.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">When the author of Hebrews wrote the book, there were Christians from Jewish backgrounds who were interested in Jesus as their High Priest, but they have a significant intellectual objection to the idea because Jesus did not come from the priestly tribe of Levites. The author wanted to remove this intellectual problem that the Jewish Christians had with the gospel. These intellectual hang-ups kept them from their maturity. In the same way, maybe some of us have intellectual issues that are preventing us to mature in Christ. If we do, we should continually seek God and ask God how to resolve these issues.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">Ultimately, what we believe about Jesus Christ makes a huge difference.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">The most important question in the world is Jesusā question to His disciples, and that question is, <b>āWho do you say that I am?ā </b>Our eternal destiny hinges on our response to that question. Like the author of Hebrews, letās seek God continually and fervently in His Word to give us a greater knowledge of the beauty and the glory of Jesus. Let us also follow the example of Apostle Paul whose lifeās long quest as a believer was to count all things to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRjm6qmLRL_z8PU66UaO3c9HbhMO-L4Cq4tSC_ZGmrmDOekBtiAhoC9sCO6CVugOQndqlTixdAwFo9Lj_HwJmwIT9vjhRKBm-VXAk42xapRcz06CyrLnOuJUNXq-_JIRBrvb_hlsK-guEL22x1frC-5zosu5Q3RNhY7_2IkBIT39TiISBMyj8kaYho/s600/jesusHighPriest.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="600" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRjm6qmLRL_z8PU66UaO3c9HbhMO-L4Cq4tSC_ZGmrmDOekBtiAhoC9sCO6CVugOQndqlTixdAwFo9Lj_HwJmwIT9vjhRKBm-VXAk42xapRcz06CyrLnOuJUNXq-_JIRBrvb_hlsK-guEL22x1frC-5zosu5Q3RNhY7_2IkBIT39TiISBMyj8kaYho/w400-h200/jesusHighPriest.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image courtesy of activechristianity.org</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><br /></p></div></div></div><div>Message transcribed by:</div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-27796144825477599732022-07-20T06:56:00.001-07:002022-08-10T07:55:37.422-07:00Be still, and know that I am God.God doesnāt just give us strength, He is our strength.<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtz5sCcmu4BdhoI4JIPYP2R2AKGDdk9WVrUYrvFyXPo1bBCW9C6KdOhUIa9Qjaw7meEGEbt6PLCuWa07L_SxUGw26LpS3fxi78xmndmpM5yw6w5A4F8A668mdXC7qKt3rj-lbegRpa0J24z8X5XFTiVc2J3-1gxqExoHruGPj4yvmZlO5R5CqmRNac/s1080/FB_IMG_1657772970518.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtz5sCcmu4BdhoI4JIPYP2R2AKGDdk9WVrUYrvFyXPo1bBCW9C6KdOhUIa9Qjaw7meEGEbt6PLCuWa07L_SxUGw26LpS3fxi78xmndmpM5yw6w5A4F8A668mdXC7qKt3rj-lbegRpa0J24z8X5XFTiVc2J3-1gxqExoHruGPj4yvmZlO5R5CqmRNac/w400-h300/FB_IMG_1657772970518.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div>July 03, 2022</div><div>Tatay's burial at Forest Park Cemetery</div><div><br /></div><b>Psalm 46 </b>(NIV)<br /><br /><i><b>God is our refuge and strength,<br /> an ever-present help in trouble.</b><br /></i>Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way<br /> and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,<br />though its waters roar and foam<br /> and the mountains quake with their surging.<br /><br />There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,<br /> the holy place where the Most High dwells.<div><i><b>God is within her, she will not fall;<br /> God will help her at break of the day.</b><br /></i>Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;<br /> he lifts his voice, the earth melts.<br /><br />The Lord Almighty is with us;<br /> the God of Jacob is our fortress.<br /><br />Come and see what the Lord has done,<br /> the desolations he has brought on the earth.<br />He makes wars cease<br /> to the ends of the earth.<br />He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;<br /> he burns the shields with fire.<br /><i><b>He says, āBe still, and know that I am God;</b><br /></i> I will be exalted among the nations,<br /> I will be exalted in the earth.ā<br /><br /><i><b>The Lord Almighty is with us;</b></i><br /> the God of Jacob is our fortress.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a></div></div></div>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-46756864978157806512022-07-12T09:58:00.016-07:002023-04-08T21:29:05.693-07:00Eulogy for Tatay<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ-xn_e3rDEL0IN2P_X449Kwd5LCXqIzG_34BMED0_zMCYpAhX370y2K_SGJxX4AB1jNwKfZwmg_qRtcLuQYMwM9UbBS8VAN1xzPcwZasat68l0j1GklMvEEYRi6MsDrjQ_x_Amp2Bv92cuPlIbq-mr9QvdiJTkA4SZGGF9osnVjdWcPY1vGZDnsBt/s816/20220629_024312.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="601" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ-xn_e3rDEL0IN2P_X449Kwd5LCXqIzG_34BMED0_zMCYpAhX370y2K_SGJxX4AB1jNwKfZwmg_qRtcLuQYMwM9UbBS8VAN1xzPcwZasat68l0j1GklMvEEYRi6MsDrjQ_x_Amp2Bv92cuPlIbq-mr9QvdiJTkA4SZGGF9osnVjdWcPY1vGZDnsBt/w236-h320/20220629_024312.jpg" width="236" /></a></div>Reading from Job 1:21 -- He[Job] said,<div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">āNaked I came from my motherās womb,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">And naked I shall return there.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> gave and the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> has taken away.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Blessed be the name of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.ā</span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Although my mind knows this truth, my heart tells me otherwise but to cry, mourn, and grieve. Pero Tay, pagbigyan mo na kami, we might not know how long this grieving moment will be, but one thing we know is that you are now in a much better place with Jesus Christ watching over us.</span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Malungkot lang kami because we will definitely miss you Tay:</span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">I will miss watching "Ang Probinsiyano" with you every night sa Pinas and how you try to patiently explain to me the backstory and who the characters were, diyan mo nalang panoorin sa langit ung finale ni Kardo Tay;</span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">I will miss the way you snore at night, tahimik na sa gabi, wala na kaming music;</span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">I will miss how you clear your throat before you read the bible verses assigned to you during our Sunday family devotion;</span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">I will miss your super detailed kwento na may kasamang monologue ng mismong sinabi ng tao, yung puro kami tanong ng "O tapos, o tapos" dahil hindi matapos tapos ung kwento mo;</span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">I will miss you asking me what I want to eat so you can cook them for me pag umuuwi ako ng Pinas;</span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Wala na ding magrerequest ng lechon or crispy pata during special occassion kahit alam nating bawal sayo yun, atleast now pwede mo na silang kainin diyan Tay.</span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Don't worry about Nanay Tay, we will look after and take care of her the best way we know how just like how you modeled it to us.</span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">And we will draw strength in the promises of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ knowing that this is just temporary and soon we will see each other again and that we will be together for eternity.</span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJxXaqGpkzH2tysSP_TtPeOlKxdPUHVVE-ByboR27E_qB3C_dJO1tNy_0D1exeFzVh3YZwtkR3POTDn4aWtap0ajKufa9Ko25DxGbkCkjeRpiivnqYZJzYrw10Vock17WQPoMJgjSPxeaUDVlW_XIoyJ7FfD9D09Sd-81sDAdWi-cCKs7AO1BckfrU/s1080/FB_IMG_1656827890661.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJxXaqGpkzH2tysSP_TtPeOlKxdPUHVVE-ByboR27E_qB3C_dJO1tNy_0D1exeFzVh3YZwtkR3POTDn4aWtap0ajKufa9Ko25DxGbkCkjeRpiivnqYZJzYrw10Vock17WQPoMJgjSPxeaUDVlW_XIoyJ7FfD9D09Sd-81sDAdWi-cCKs7AO1BckfrU/s320/FB_IMG_1656827890661.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />In 2015, I wrote a blog post entitled "<a href="https://girliemangalo.blogspot.com/2015/06/dear-tatay.html" target="_blank">Dear Tatay</a>," where I tried to compare Tatay to other fathers. In that post, I mentioned hindi enough ang isang blog post to describe my father, but if I need to sum it up in one sentence:</span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><b><i>Tatay is a man of few words but a man of great love in action.</i></b></span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">The night before I flew back to the Philippines while summarizing Sunday's message in our church, the pastor said, that the most important question in the world is Jesus' question to His disciple, and that question is, <i><b>"Who do you say that I am?"</b> </i>That question hit me hard, it's like God asking me, in the midst of everything that is happening to me right now, Girlie who do you say that I am</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">[God]</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> now?</span></div><div><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">And I choose to say -- <b><i>Jesus is good and faithful. He is sovereign and true to His promises. He is an all-knowing God, who makes all things beautiful in His time even in seemingly dark moments like this.</i></b> And as your children Lord, we choose to respond in worship and in faith to trust You even more.</span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">To God be all the glory!</span></div><div><span class="text Job-1-21" face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a></div>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247004637819463338.post-83537612825223002022022-06-22T09:11:00.000-07:002022-06-22T09:11:07.934-07:00CCF: Press Forward: Never Give Up!<b>Warning Against Carnality<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnV_dH_PAL03Lxb02ftI_ySn96l0yEAfGxmY5X9ddA0VYc24uC6kemcrcuqKXNyFTg6-0yE9kZkfjfduBl5yRG_nKBnJF2PPEf90hIeNrBDTeM_eN9akHPl1dXQaopDpgrZ4JGWXMcG8-kNpqs4Sau0tVH6RPNlsaiJlvjEudmPxjPB8dpKVZjUOdq/s2048/pressForward.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnV_dH_PAL03Lxb02ftI_ySn96l0yEAfGxmY5X9ddA0VYc24uC6kemcrcuqKXNyFTg6-0yE9kZkfjfduBl5yRG_nKBnJF2PPEf90hIeNrBDTeM_eN9akHPl1dXQaopDpgrZ4JGWXMcG8-kNpqs4Sau0tVH6RPNlsaiJlvjEudmPxjPB8dpKVZjUOdq/w400-h266/pressForward.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></b><div>Hebrews 5:11 ā 6:3<br />(Bro. Jun Ferrer)<br /><br />Hebrews chapter five poses another warning, the third of the five: warning against carnality. The author is compelled by his love for the flock as the original audience of the book is in great danger. The audience is marked with spiritual immaturity and sluggishness. They may have been in danger of returning to Judaism (The Law) in order to avoid persecution.<br /><br />The verses started with a concern pertaining to Melchizedekās relationship to Christ since the audience become dull, which meant the people were once attentive to the word. In the Greek translation, the same word also means hard to move. The audience was also considered to be long-time believers and expected to be mature enough to teach or share the gospel.<br /><br />In the book āPreachingā by Timothy Keller, the author enumerated Three Levels of the Ministry of the Word:<br /><br />Level 1: Informal and usually one on one. Where every Christian needs to understand the message of the Bible well enough to explain and apply it to other Christians and to his neighbors in formal and personal settings.<br /><br />Level 2: May include writing, blogging, teaching classes, and small groups, mentoring, and moderating open discussion forums on issues of faith.<br /><br />Level 3: Formal ā Sermon or Preaching. The ministry of the word or the public sermons and exposition of the bible to assemble Godās people in gathering.<br /><br />As the writer of Hebrews says, the Christians to whom he is writing have more than enough time invested. They should be able to teach others by now, but instead, they are still spiritual infants. As they still need someone to teach them the basic truth of Godās word again. They are still like infants, dependent on milk instead of solid food. Because they have been slow-moving and lazy in their approach to the faith: "dull of hearing." Instead of teaching, they still need to be taught, as if they were only new converts to the faith.<br /><br />The author continues that spiritual infants are not accustomed to the word of righteousness, meaning not acquainted or unskilled or inexperienced to discern. Paul described infants as carnal believers from his letters in 1 Corinthians 3:1-4, still worldly and not ready, there is jealousy and quarreling, and there is division.<br /><br />The goal of every Christian is to grow and press forward toward spiritual maturity. A matured believer as described in Hebrews 5:14 is someone who can take solid food referring to having an intimate relationship with the Lord always ready for more revelation from God; someone who hears the word of God puts it into practice and makes it a habit to follow God. A matured believer is someone who has strong spiritual discernment of good and evil through constant practice. To be a matured believer means we are ready to listen and obey; we develop a habit through the time of practice and we train to discern good and evil. <br /><br /><i>āWe must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.ā ā Jim Rohn</i><br /><br />A matured believer is someone who has spiritual muscle in times of persecution, trials, sorrow, and pain. Not easily giving up because of his intimacy with the Lord.<br /><br />So, we ask ourselves, āDo you want to grow?ā If we do, we should press forward to maturity. Let us leave (the elementary doctrine about God) and let us go on (to maturity).<br /><br />The problem is not knowledge but application. Spiritual maturity is not avoiding persecution or turning your back on God in times of trials. Godās desire is for everyone to grow in humility before God and reliance on Jesus.<br /><br />Jesus is our ultimate model of maturity. Jesus didnāt just tell us to press on toward maturity, He modeled it for us. He came down from heaven to suffer and go through persecution and died on the cross so He can save us from sins.</div><div><br /></div><div>Image courtesy of atlanticuniongleaner.org</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;">Transcribed for CCF Singapore by:</span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/182/B3BC0D9129CD383EE6C07EDD378E3686.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px;" /></a></div>GiRLiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06759704388995991539noreply@blogger.com0