tide over

For many years now, you did not come home
I sat beside a tree waiting
That someday you will come along
And forget the things that have gone wrong

The time you chose to walk away
I could not find any words to say
But, hey, I know it was hard for you
Giving away the memories are difficult to let go.

While you were gone
I found myself stuck in this tear-drenched pillow
Hoping that someday I have someone to rely on
Again waiting, staring at this window

Like a little girl, waiting to be rescued
From this crazy world of seasons and tide
One day I know you will come around
Like a daddy would, to his little one

Narnia Extravaganza

I have been a movie buff and will always be. Most of the time I watch movies for entertainment as everybody does. But that changed few years ago. As I become aware of the intricacies of it, i began to look deeper and find the very message of the movie.

Chronicles of Narnia has been widely known for its subliminal Christian message. Critics are at the peak of ostracizing the movie of it’s real agenda to the viewers. Regardless of the criticisms I continually look for kingdom message in the screenplay. And I was not disappointed at Narnia 3: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Lucy finds herself lured at vanity. She was looking at the mirror and Aslan appeared. He said “Don’t doubt your value”; “You can’t runaway from who you are”.

I was blown away by these lines from Aslan. These are kingdom principles obviously and it got me! Many times I fail in thinking that I will just do things on my way even if it cost me my identity. But God values me as I am and I should think and act that way. I am a daughter of the King and I will always be. As I was thinking about my future I kept on contemplating what am I going to be. But God said what you are now determines who will you be tomorrow. For now, I know I am a daughter of a mighty roaring lion-Aslan —- Jesus Christ. And I won’t and can’t runaway from that fact.

when God is silent – Kris Valloton

job 33
God is working when we do now know about it
Genesis 1:1
in God’s world there is no time

John 1:1
When He spoke everything becomes tangible.
language follows invention in our world today but with God its the other way around. woohoo!
God’s words first then things happen!

there are seasons in our life when we think God is silent
the greatest work in our life is when God is silent. taken from genesis. When he created things He spoke then things formed. But when He created man he took dirt and formed adam.
when he process us he form us with HIS OWN HANDS not with words. isn’t that amazing?

The nature of God is to do things in mystery.
He formed the man, but He fashioned the woman. woohoo!

Adam was co-creating with God.

psalms 91
isaiah 53:7

When He is working silently, he is working intimately.

worship is warship
psalms 149

its you offering yourself as a living sacrifice. when we offer our life or anything we do in life becomes God’s instrument.

1 Cor 12

spiritual gifts

Gen 11
tower of babel – made of bricks. its all the same. like religion. everybody becomes the same. church should be made of stones. it takes time to make a tower made from stones but it is made to reach the heavens.

He is encountering you all along and you just did not know it. Samuel’s story.

to my lover

One afternoon I woke up and in my subconscious i was talking to a future mate stating my vow:
The fear of loosing someone, and being alone terrifies me. Behind my sunny smile I hid all those emotions because I don’t want other people to see what’s inside of me. When my father left our family it scared me like hell. I began to think that people closest to me would soon leave. Until a man found me. a man like You.
in a moment, i was talking to a man but things shifted and the “man”

destiny @ 20

2010 marks the 20th year of Destiny Ministries International. Just two decades ago a group of young, radical University of the Philippines Los Banos students gathered for a bible study. That bible study gained more students. Soon the members were gathering for their daily dawn prayer meeting at the right side of the UPLB Main Library. Soon enough, Sunday services were held at ___________________. The congregation moved locations to accommodate the growing number of attendees.

The Sound of His Voice ( name then ) grew to ____ members in the span of ______ years.
The church has held many exciting activities in the past 20 years. Come let us have a glimpse of the mighty exploits

living from a place of dreaming

Living from a Place of Dreaming — Graham Cooke

the limit of your relationship is the limit of your request –

what is the place beyond creative thinking and creative imagination? — dreaming.

psalm 126

God hears the unspoken dreams that you can even imagine.
God is dreaming a house that you didn’t build. A well that you did not dig. He is dreaming about giving you vineyard that you never planted.

We dream of levels that are associated with our pain. But God dreams dreams that are associated with your significance.

identity – Paul Yadao

identity is who you are and whose you are.
even before we are born, we are already chosen.
genesis 32:22-25 wrestling with an angel
malachi 1:1-2

jacob was loved by God before he was born
God loves us from eternity
what overwhelms us will shape us
Jacob wrestled more than once.
God was able to change Jacob’s name into Israel
Jacob was crying out for blessing
Jacob is known for survival
Ephesians 1:3 He has BLESSED us with….
You were chosen before the foundation of time.
You should know your ETERNAL identity.

You have been blessed. And God is just waiting that we step out.
in your identity you have intimacy, in intimacy you have favor, promotion, wisdom, etc…
joel 3:10-16
in the midst of brokeness, warriors prepare their swords…
I am strong in the midst of weakness.

blackjaw

I am a dreamer and i’m certain about that. Most of it are freakishly scary that is why I have to write this down because it might slip away like the dreams i had. This is my first entry regarding dreams and i’m pretty sure more are coming.

setting: riverbank of a distant county

characters: myself, guy <unnamed>, a whole lot more i don’t know either

language: english

i was walking with this guy and some of his friends and he said : “look, the fishes are swimming against the current”. Curious at what the salmons look like, i tried to look at each of them swimming against the current. Thousands of them indeed swam in ‘reverse’ corresponding to the water. then within seconds i noticed the water runs in backward motion too! it looks like the water is ‘climbing’ up the slope. then we moved on to a body of water just near the river. this one looks like a pond, a bluish-grey stagnant body of water. “hey look, there’s something beneath the water” the guy said. he place his palm just inches from the surface and fishes from nowhere jerked up. I went near the pond and followed what he just did. i slowly placed my hand just slightly above the water and to my surprise a black shark-dolphin-like creature bit my palm, I pulled my hands as quickly as I can. the last thing I saw was a massive jaw just before it hit underwater. I got back up and went straight ahead, as if nothing happened.

pick

when everything’s crashing down, it is a time  when the Father picks it up for you and with you.

Rahab’s Red Cord

I came across this story in Joshua chapter 2 and at first glance i was never attracted to the verses. verse 6 says, ‘Rahab hides the spies on the roof and hid them with the stalks of flax‘. It may seem ordinary to hide people to safety but these two men are no ordinary people.                                                                                                                                                                            They were sent by the Almighty God and Rahab recognize it. She said it in verse 9 ‘ I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you’. she continued on verse 10 ‘ For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt and what you did to the two kings of the Amonites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction’. The succeeding verses continues with her recognizing the power of God.

Then she pleaded with the men saying in verse  12 ‘ Now then please swear to me by the Lord that, as I have dealt kindly, you also deal kindly with my father’s house and give me a sure sign 14 that  you will save alive my father and mother my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death.

I was never attracted to the verses until I realized  Rahab was a prostitute. That was  her profession. Her way of living was abominable to the Lord. However, she found favor in the eyes of God because she hid the spies on the rooftop. In those times it is unlawful to let a man get into a woman’s house without her permission. But he let the spies in because she feared God.  In return her household was spared from death when all the men of Joshua conquered Canaan ( Joshua 6:25 ) by tying a red

( scarlet ) chord in the window. (Joshua 2: 21).

I cannot understand why the Lord chose Rahab to hid the spies, He could have had chose another woman ‘worthy’ of the task. A little holy-er than her or anybody. But her? No way. It came into my mind that God designed  it to be that way for there will be a higher purpose for that. Or simply because God honors people who honors HIm in return. Rahab is a sinful woman but when she chose to hid the spies,  she  honored the Lord and let go of her past. In fact according to the bible scholars after the people of Israel conquered Canaan she left prostitution, joined the Jewish people and became a respectable married woman. Isn’t that awesome!?

Here is the catch. In the new testament, Rahab was mentioned as one of the ancestors of Jesus found in the first chapter of the book of Matthew.  She married Salmon of the tribe of Judah and was the mother of  Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David the king. How cool is that?? Was it just plain luck that brought this people from Rahab’s line? Well  I believe it is God’s way of orchestrating events. The things that can upset us are the same things that will place us in a position where God is honored and exalted. We may fail in our way of living just as with Rahab’s but the power of redemption is never to be neglected. We may never know in our line comes great men and women of faith!