THANK YOU 2014

This year  I didn't wish for anything else for myself,  but still God has blessed me with so much more than I think I ever deserve,  Its more than the  material blessing , it is an  intangible blessings.  He gave me the gifts of family, friends and relationships.  He surround me with people who have been a channel of  blessings to me and allowing me to see a glimpse of heaven because of them, some of them unfortunately  come and stay for a while yet  leave lasting  lesson that  I  will carry on for  life  while others definitely sure will be with me throughout my lifetime.  But life is not always smooth and  straight  sometimes along my  way there are people who misjudged me  ,doubted my capabilities,  sometimes  utter bad things about me,  they even manipulate other people to believe that am are the bad one but it is still the power and protection  of God that  shield and protect me from them  and I  thank God  for teaching me understand things that is beyond  my thinking.

Thank you for those who have been with me through this year's journey, you have seen my ups and downs, my joys and sorrows, my dreams and apprehensions, my strengths and weaknesses.   You have made my 2014  something to be remembered for , I become wiser, stronger  and  happier because  of all of you.  There's still a long journey ahead for the coming 2015   and I expecting  that you will still be all  part of it.  

Abundant blessings  to everyone.    

loveliest birthday ever...

Prayers really do answered and wishes do come true.  It may not come as much as we want too but in the end its worth waiting for. Ànd what we are right now is the true manifestation of that. 

 As you celebrate another year of life and love I pray nothing but what your heart's desire. another year, to savor life to the fullest and continue exploring life. May God abundantly blessed you (both tangible and intangible), so that you can aways be a blessing to others. You have touch so many lives because of your kindness, generosity, and unselfish love and thats what I admire most about you.

 For these past few months you have been my constant companion, my comforter, my listener,  the reason of my every smile. To you I was able to show off the real me without hesitation, without even thinking of judging me.  Thank you for allowing me to enter and be part of your life.  Thank you for all the laughter, for your care and your love.

You're one of the most precious blessings that I ever have and I'll be forever thankful to  God for allowing me to know you and share life with you.

Again may you have the loveliest and happiest birthday ever....Looking forward to spend more years of  love and friendship with you....

Pull the weeds

“Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering: (for he is faithful that promised;)” Hebrews 10:23

There I was standing in our garden looking around. Was I looking at all the beautiful flowers that the recent rains have watered? Yes, the flowers were in bloom and colorful, but there was something else growing right next to them. What were they? Weeds! Where did they come from? How did they get there? The weeds just didn’t appear out of thin air. They planted themselves and grew. If I would be honest, those weeds have been there for a long time. Oh, I saw them when they were small intending to pull them up, but I never did. The weeds continued to grow. I continued to walk past them everyday thinking to myself, “I must pull the weeds,” but I did not do it. The next thing I knew, the weeds were tall and their roots deep. Finally, I had enough. I put my gardening gloves on and set out to pulling the weeds. If I would have pulled them up when they were smaller, the job would have been easier. But my unwillingness to act, made pulling them now hard work. The same is true for the weeds of doubt, unbelief, worry, concern or anxiety that grow in our hearts. We know they are there, but refuse to pull them up. When we do this we are leaving the weeds unattended to choke our faith. I say, “NO MORE!” Don’t allow weeds to grow in the garden of your heart unchecked. It is allowing doubt, unbelief and the like to grow in our hearts that cause us to waver in our faith in God. God always has been and will continue to be faithful to us and we must be the same toward Him. Hold on to your profession of faith! Take inventory of the garden of your heart and quickly pull any weeds you find trying to grow there. You will be glad you did!

Prayer: Dear Heavenly Father, I take inventory of my heart before You right now. Any doubt, unbelief, worry, concern and anxiety I pull up from my heart and cast them aside. I trust You! My faith is in You and You alone! I hold on to my profession of faith and I thank You for being so faithful to me! In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.

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Daughters of King

REJECTION

Rejection -  refusal, spurning, dismissal, elimination

 

It happens all the time and it hurts more than we ever imagine. All of us for sure experienced rejection in one point of our life. Even at young age  we experienced being  rejected by our playmates, classmates and even friends and as we grow older and became more mature rejection becomes more intense and hurtful. Rejection varies but the feeling of being rejected stays the same. It leaves us being hurt and broken.  Rejection is like a truth.  Its cause us to questioned our self and measure our degree as a person.  It makes us feel unlovable, worthless and un needed. Suddenly everything just stopped in our life. Its like a song that was  put on pause. But then God came and pressed the play again. He brings back again our identity. He let us smile again and see how colorful the world is. The pain will heal along the way. Eventually you will again be able to stand up, respect and love yourself just  like before and you will learned to forgive others who made wrong to you. And yes, by all means you will learn and accept the fact that rejection is just a part of life. The pain that you went through and all the negative experiences that bring tears and heartache will be an iron that sharpens you and not as a mirror that cause you to rethink of who you really are.  God's word is our  only mirror where we see and look ourselves as the most precious and most  love workmanship of God. He allow us to go on this phase so that what we went through will make us better,stronger and wiser. And in the middle of all those hurtful emotions and experiences that  we've gone through God knows what we feel and He alone is the perfect remedy  we have, He  is able to ease the pain easily.  Remember we may experienced rejection but in God's eyes we are not rejected, we are sought, love beyond measure and bought in a very high price. 

As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious.   1 Peter 2:4 (ESV)

  

FINAL DECISION...NO TURNING BACK..

They said that  the difficult thing a person could do is to come up with a decision that will affect  his life later on.  A decision that will dictate his future. It needs a thorough study and preparation because once you said no or yes you cant take it back anymore.  But decision will be much more easier when our will to please God outweights our will to please the world.  We will experience peace amidst of uncertainty if we know we please God with our decision. At this time am in the crossroad of my life. My journey will be crucial for the coming months. There will be a lot of bumps and curve roads ahead and  I dont know where it is leading me but one thing I know for sure His plan is much more better than all of my plans.  My plans and wants may fail but His good and perfect plan will never ever fail.  May your prayers be with me at this point of my life cause nothing I trust more than God.  He will not fail us, never will ever He will not fulfill His promise to us of a good and  better future. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MORNING GIRL......

Today our dear mother is celebrating her __th birthday (secret)...She looks younger than her age that's for sure, and I think it runs in the blood.... Seriously speaking, I would love and long to be with her today just like last year but unfortunately that is not possible for now.  But I hope  my love and prayer adds joy and happiness to her today.

I may not anymore be the little girl that you used to carry  before  but I hope I grown up to be the lady you dreamed me to be. I may failed and disappoint you so many times, I made wrong decisions in life  that cause you pain, I may have my own dreams and ambitions that I need to pursue which lead me to  leave your side  and tried to live on my own.  But it doesn't mean that I love you less.  Always remember that I love you more and more each day. And now that it is your special day, the best gift that I can ever give to you is a prayer asking God to give you a wonderful day because that's what you truly deserve.   And here's my birthday prayer for you. 

   Dear Heavenly Father

I thank you for blessing me a loving mother

I thank you for all the things she done and still doing for me

Now that she's celebrating her birthday 

I pray that on this day,  filled her with good thing and happy moments that will last a lifetime

Lord, always put a smile on her face so that no matter how hard or difficult her day 

she can still be able to bring cheers to those she will met.

Let her face shine Your love.

May Your grace and mercy magnifies

 so that people will draw closer to You because of her.

I thank you for the promises you have in her life

Thank you for gracing her with your beauty and charm 

that despite of old age the youthfulness that comes from you

 will always be reflected on her.

Thank you for being her rock, her deliverer, her fortress.  

As she is our refuge in times of difficulties.

Thank you for being her healer, her shield and her strength.  

That when everybody fails, we know you will always be on her side to comfort and embrace her.

Filled her everyday with your love, peace, joy and strength.

Renew her each morning like an eagle so that she may able to finish the race well.

Thank you that you are with her and promise to take care of her always..

In Jesus loving and precious name..AMEN...

Ma, God rejoices in your life..He loves you..believes in you, care and watches over you.  He tenderly keeps you in His constant care because you are His PRECIOUS creation. 

YOU ARE VALUED AND FOREVER BE LOVED

May God continuously reveal His many blessings He has in store for you...

I LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK....

GRUMBLING WILL GET YOU NOWHERE…

As we about to end our Friday school lesson for this month about complaining and

grumbling,  I make it to the point that the kids understand our lesson well.  Didn't I realize am the one who doesn't fully understand the truly meaning of it.  It struck me down into realization that me too was complaining too much about everything that is happening around me.  Instead of seeing the good in every situation I find nothing but the other and awful side of it.  These past few weeks I’d been complaining  almost  every day, specially about the way one of my colleague performs at work, never  did I realized I was in the same shoes like her before. A room for improvement doesn't not come into my mind.  Nor her ability to prove herself but I focused to every single details of her mistakes.  I didn’t trust her ability to do more and even better. 

 It is same with the Israelites before when they were in the wilderness, instead of praising and thanking God from delivering them from slavery, they complained for not having food to eat and sweet water to drink.  Didn't they realize that the God who leads them out of Egypt is the same God who will be with them through out their journey in the wilderness to the Promised Land? It is same with our situation right now; complaining is part of our life and for some I   think it is their way of life.  We complained when it’s hot and even when it’s cold. If we are plenty and when we are in need.  As Paul said in Philippians 4: 12 – I know what is to live in need and I know what is to have plenty.  I have learned the secret of being content in any situation.  Whether well fed or hungry, whether being in plenty or in want.

Grumbling is easy for most us to do.  We live in a world of “instant gratification” , we often complain when things go wrong and aren't immediately made right.  Grumbling or complaining really doesn't help.  It will get us nowhere.  But instead we should learn to turn to God and trust Him always for He is the one truly cares for us.

Dear God, sometimes it  is easy to complain, we focus on what we don’t have or like instead of talking with you about our need, Lord help us to remember that we don’t need to crumble because you know our needs and gives us what we need as well as many gifts.  In Jesus Name.. Amen.

“ Those who are wayward in spirit will gain understanding, those who complain will accept instruction. Isaiah 29:24”.