Love the Single Chapter of Your Life!

 Singleness- even our temporary singleness is a gift from our Heavenly Father to secure a deep and undivided devotion to Him. - Ben Stuart @ Desiring God.

Can Singleness Separate Us from the Love of God?

What can separate us from the love of God? " Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?" (Romans 8:35)

Shall singleness? No! John Piper has emphasized the biblical and wonderful truth about this issue. He said that Nothing- certainly not our marital status-can keep us from receiving and fulfilling all that God has become for us in Jesus. His favor already rests on you. His power is at work in you. His word will lead you. His grace is able to sustain you. God is really can satisfy you and make you very, very fruitful right now. Yes, even single you. (John Piper, Desiring God).

Pastor John Piper cited the nine lessons for building and loving others when Christians end a not-tey marriage.







1. Its okay to cry- and you probably should.
    Because dating is only a means to marriage, God' design for our marriage speaks to His design for our dating relationships. Dating that dives in too quickly or dumps to carelessly does not reflect God's intention. (Desiring God, John Piper).
 
When i understand His love for me even in my single years, i started to think something beautiful because of His undying love for me.  Maybe you've been together for years or maybe you love her/his family and friends.

I cried on the first night. Maybe it hurts very bad that it caused my heart to ache and my tears to fall from my eyes. I prayed in that same night to God and asking Him to lead and write my love story. I asked sorry for grabbing His pen and make my own story. I know God will not erase this experience in my love story because He uses it for a good purpose and it helps me a lot to become more mature in spirit.

But God intends to use you, your faith, your time, and your "singleness" in radical ways right now, as you are. -J.P.

God engineered romance to express itself in fidelity and loyalty - in oneness (Genesis 2:24)


2. Don't try again too quickly.
   
    Pastor John Piper said that "its a lie to think that you're not moving toward marriage if you're not dating someone right now. Sometimes the best thing you can do for your future spouse is to not date. If your history looks serial, you might need to break up with dating for a while. It can be a regroup, grow, and discover a new rhythm for your future relationship."
 

 3. You may have failed, but God didn't.

    God didn't have a break from loving you in your breakup - even if you're the reason it's over. His purpose are bigger that your blunders. - Desiring God
     

4. You are better having loved and lost.

   You feel like damaged goods, like you've been ruined in God's eyes or in the eyes of others. The hard-to-believe, but beautiful truth is that broken-up you is a better you. If in your sorrow you turn to the Lord and repent of whatever sin you brought to this relationship, you are as precious to your Heavenly Father as you have ever been, and He is using every inch of your heartache, failure, or regret to make you more of what He created you to be and to give you more of what He created you to enjoy- Himself. (Desiring God)



5. Even if you can't be friends now, you will be siblings forever.

  For Christian relationships, breakups are never the end. Whether it sounds appealing now or not, you will be together forever (Revelations 7:9-10).

 6. "It's not you, it's God" is not enough.

   It's wise to be alone in your opinion about the need to break ups. Yes, your boyfriend or girlfriend may not agree, but you need to share and confirm your perspective with someone who loves Jesus and both of you. Go to someone you know can assess your heart in wanting to get out.

 7. Your Father knows your needs.

   You're probably questioning this in the wake of your breakup, but God does know what you need, and He's never too slow to provide it. He might reveal things to you about the things you thought you needed. Or He might simply show you how much more you need Him than anything or anyone else.

 8. Learn from love lost.

    After the emotional tidal wave has crashed and passed, take some time alone ad then with close friends to assess where God's carrying you - who He's making you to be- through this. Identify an area or areas where you want to strive to be more gracious or more discerning or more faithful - more like Jesus - moving forward.
    
 9. Jesus will help you find joy in the shadows of heartbreak.

    When we're left alone and feeling abandoned, it's really hard to believe anyone knows what we're going through. That may be even be true of the good-intentioned people around you. It is not true of Jesus.
    This Jesus came and was broken to give hope to the broken. " A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not quench, until He brings justice to victory, and in His name the Gentiles will have hope " (Matthew 12:20-21)


    John Piper says,

" If you believe that, then make the most of this breakup, knowing God has chosen this particular path to grow and gratify you in ways that last. No relationship you have in this life will last forever, but the good things that happen through them in you - even through their sorrows, yes even through their collapses- will. "

  Singleness is not a disease =) Single and yet Satisfied!

 

There is no family without a house, right? Certainly! Our family is recently praying for a new house since we are just renting and paying for it every month. 

As we pray for this, will you lead us Lord to the place where You want us to live for good? A place where there is a nearest Christian church and accessible to daily needs and have a happy and joyful surroundings.

We ask to You God for Your supernatural blessings and intervention on how we can be able to have this new house.  I know You have many things that is store for our family. We come to You Lord in the throne of Your grace!

The Bible says in Matthew 7:7 " "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."

Lord,
You know what we need even our wants in life. I know you have store many things for us individually and for my family. Right now, i ask you to give us a strong desire and passion to really hold on to your promises that whatever we ask in Your Name, it will be given to us.

We know You we're going to give us a new house, a beautiful house that display Your glory this year, In Jesus Name Amen.

Do the Move for Jesus!

Two of my office mate's in Beta Electric Corporation.

So happy i was able to invite them to attend church at CCF Main Building. 

 
    How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
ROMANS 10:14

Hendrix Sulit on the Pursuit of Success

I took Electrical Engineering in Bicol University because it is and was my desire to become an Engineer and no one forced me to take up this course. Our early year in college life was seems good. New circle of friends from different provinces in Bicol Region. It is very odd and peculiar to think that there are only three (3) girls in our group among 40+ boys. Sounds hilarious, right?

Everyone in the group has a desire to excel in everything. Sometimes this kind of mindset drag most of us into the kind of many things we don't usually do before- cheating!

Everyone is doing this that's why for some, its all right to do such thing. When i came to know the Lord Jesus Christ, He began to convinced me not to do the latter. For me it was a hard decision. It took me a discipline, faith and sometimes an irritation. I must admit this that i cheated!

When we are in the 4th year of our journey in college, majority of my classmates decided to take Registered Master Electrician Licensure Examination.

In our mind, if you passed this examination given by the PRC, many students will admire you, look up to you, respect you and some will follow your steps. Your parents may boast to some other parents or brag your achievement. So what i did is i also filed all the requirements to the PRC and received my NOA (Notice of Admission).

I failed the Licensure Examination. That's it! I was so upset and very disappointed for myself. I can't imagine how to face and talk to my mom and to my siblings about my failure. I remembered the day when some of my classmates who passed the examination and i overheard them

talking about their results. 

I was so shy and embarrassed for myself knowing that a believer and a follower of Jesus like me failed the examination. I even concluded before saying" Baka mas madami ang nagpray sa kanila compare sakin, or mas pinakinggan ni Lord prayers nila than mine. " 

We become bitter to the degree we don't give thanks to God. Purpose to focus on what He has given rather than what is gone. Choose with your will, not your feelings, to form a habit of giving thanks often remembering that He is in control and is working and which will not fade away but will last for eternity.

Last September of 2013, i passed the Licensure Examination for Registered Master Electrician. After an outcry for God, He allowed me to have this licensed.

1. GOD ALLOWED FAILURES TO FALL US UP.
    God intended failures to happen in His children. For me, this failure build my confidence in Christ         Jesus. The Bible says " that we are more than conquerors in Christ Jesus. " Romans 8:37. 

I need to believe that this particular situation is His special way of performing His refining work in my character.

2. THERE IS A PURPOSE IN PETER'S FAILURE.

As a believer and a follower of Jesus, we all know how Peter failed our Master. He failed Him not one but three (3) times. Luke 22:31. But what is amazing is how Jesus responded to the failure of Peter in the future.

" Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat; but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned again, strengthen your brothers."

Notice here how Jesus loves Peter more than he can imagined. The same thing with us, our failures will not and can not separate us from the love of God. We have different kind of failures in life but we have one in common - Grace!

Peter's failure has to do with a purpose - " ...strengthen his brothers." . How about yours?

Consider this excerpt from Christian Fellowship Church:
" What did Jesus pray for Simon Peter? That when Satan tempted him, his faith would not fail. He didn't pray that Peter should not fall in temptation, but that when he did fall, his faith in God's perfect love would not fail him - so that even when Peter reached the bottom of the pit of failure, he would confess, " God still loves me". That is faith and that is the confession we must always have on our lips and in our hearts - no  matter how low we may have sunk or fallen- that God still loves us, JUST AS WE ARE. "

If God did not allow failures in my life, i don't see any force or motivation to write this blog. God intended my failure to drag me in His purpose and to know the fact that without Him, i am completely nothing.

Because i failed, i see God's goodness in my life
Because i failed, i experience His amazing love
Because i failed, i have a daily grace from Him
Because i failed, i see my worth and identity in Christ
Because i failed, i learn to trust in His promises
Because i failed, i discovered that i am a child of God
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Failure is a failure. That's it! Checkmate? I doubt so and i don't think so! Why? 

I have a BIG GOD who is BIGGER than my failures! 

She is so beautiful!

Being a mother is a very important role that the Lord chooses to give to many women. A Christian mother is told to love her children (Titus 2:4-5), in part so that she does not bring reproach on the Lord and on the Savior whose name she bears.

Thank you Mama for taking care of us in every turns of life. Your smile every time you see is a manifestation of your love for us.

We prayed for you Mama :) May the Lord bless you with more years here on earth, wonderful health, provision, expand our Ukay2x in Legazpi and most of all, a full-filled life that embraces Christ above all. HUGSS! MWAH MWAH :)

Me and Mama

How Significant is Your Life?

Answering the question, “What is my life’s purpose?” isn't easy for most people. We all want to be successful and feel important; yet being successful is much different than living a life of significance.

The Bible says that we are wonderfully and fearfully made by Him.

 ( Psalm 139:14)

Knowing these truths allowed me to think more wider and higher with regards to my identity in Christ. People may not like you the way you speak, you smile, you laugh, you made jokes or even the way you speak. It doesn't matter, what matter is my identity before God. 

1. Significance doesn't mean Enjoyment. 

     "Its not always about how much fun we have or how much we enjoy what we're doing, but is instead about how we have expanded and progressed, and what we have gained or learned. (shakeofthegrind).

Global Leadership Conference at CCF: ALL HIS!

2. Significance comes from Relationships not Possessions.

    The Bible is very clear and active with regards in relationships. The greatest Person that I've ever known in terms of relating with other people is the Lord Jesus Christ. He came to this world not to condemn us, judge us or insult us but to save us from our sins. He relates His heart to the sinners like you and me. A heart that is ready and willing to love, forgive, heals and pick us up every time we fall from our disobedience.

How do we use our Finances, Time, Talents/Abilities, Relationships, Personal Goals and etc to make our life significant to others?

I am saved by God's grace to bring significance and make difference to other people.

I am not a mist or a vapor that leave no mark when it disappear. 

We are created by God for a purpose. To bring honor to Him, worship Him and serving others by sharing our faith to them. 

Jesus taught us, “But he that is greatest among you, shall be your servant.” (Matthew 23:11). 

Significance gives meaning to our life. Each of us can have a noteworthy impact on the world around us. 

Lastly, people leading significant lives know they have gifts. However, they know those gifts have been given to them by God; so there is no place for pride. In addition, they know God has given those gifts to them for the service of others; so, they want to be diligent in their stewardship of these gifts. A person who is leading a significant life is unimpressed with himself.

Lets make the most of the time we have left.

It's easy to slip through life without taking any risks-without making your life count. But life ought not be wasted. You don't need to know a lot of things to make a lasting difference in the world, but you do have to know the few, great, unchanging, and glorious things that matter and be willing to live and to die for them.       -  Pastor John Piper

"You only get just one time around 
You only get on shot at this 
One chance to find out the one thing that you don't wanna miss 
One day when it's all said and done 
I hope you see that it was enough 
This one ride, one try, one life to love"
-One life to love by 33 Miles

Life Is Short. Eternity Is Long. Live Like It.

Life is a precious gift from our Creator. He sent His only begotten Son Jesus Christ to give us a wonderful, meaningful and an abundant life (John 10:10). 

Time is precious. We are fragile. Life is short. Eternity is long. Every minute counts. Oh, to be a faithful steward of the breath God has given me. Three texts resound in my ears: “Redeem the time” (Ephesians 5:16 ); “It is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy” (1 Corinthians 4:2); “His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me” (1 Corinthians 15:10 ).

Life is Jesus! Live everyday for Him because He gave everything just to have you, a new you!