Scattered Thoughts: Foolishness

Foolishness is something we-most people are afraid to be labeled of. Sometimes it is really the hardest part with surrender, trusting that God is at work on our favor. 

But there is nothing more fulfilling than to know that God is on our side and that His presence is with us rather than to keep doing things we thought to believe we are on God’s side. 

And yes I agree with what Keri Wyatt Kent said in one of her blogs, when she said that God’s wisdom is more than just theoretical knowledge, because Paul said further in 1 Corinthians that “Knowledge puffs up, but Love builds up” (1 Corinthians 8:1b NIV). 

Sometimes other people are just too technical with the word of God that they end up pouring personal judgment on others. They just don’t realize that “For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.” (1 Corinthians 1:25). 

Rhema: James 1

I realized, though not fully yet, that “pressures”, “challenges” and “testing’s in life” happens to us with the intention of bringing our FAITH into exposure. Makikita natin saan nga ba or kanino nga ba tayo NANANAMPALATAYA.

FAITH, FAITH, FAITH.

James 1:3 (The Message) – The testing of our faith will produce in us the STRENGTH TO CONTINUE.

Here when it said “strength to continue”, it speaks of perseverance. The GOAL of “challenges” in our life is to make us ALL WE SHOULD BE. Ibig sabihin LALABAS ang TRUE IDENTITY natin, what is real about us.

James 1:12 – Blessed is the man who keeps on going when times are hard.

Now let us break it down.

A. Blessed – the rest of the verse says, when you are blessed, you will receive a crown. And the CROWN we gain is LIFE. and it is promised to those who LOVE God. The question is, do we love God the way He commanded us in Matthew 22:37-38, to love Him “WITH ALL” we have and “WITH ALL” we are?

*This truth will only hurt those in pride, those who are half-hearted, and those who believed they have loved God but is unwilling to give all. And sadly, I’m not an exemption to this vulnerability.

B. Keeps on going – this simply means persevering, having the strength to continue, having the determination to push through no matter what. And it also speaks of those who are “loyally in-Love with God”.

C. When times are hard – TIMES ARE HARD! what could be a better explanation of this than to give my own example! Here is when I can say times are hard in my life:

*no money

*no funds or resources

*no projects to work on

*people around me are crazy (at least crazy in a way dysfunctional, things are out of order, out of place)

*sick brother, sick parents, sick me. that no matter how many prescriptions we take, we are not getting better, and when I pray, I started to ask what could I have been doing wrong all this time? So I took it all on me.

*a family in NEED and IN DEMAND of me. (you have an idea of when you are the only person who works to provide for the whole family)

*times when there are no other means to make ends meet.

*sleepless nights, headaches, and pressure out of all this and at the surface you can still see a smiling me. that’s not pretense, but trying to be strong inspite of…

*and the list can go on as long as it takes but you get the whole picture, right?

James 1:16-18(The Message) – Don’t let anyone fool you. God chose to give us NEW BIRTH through the message of TRUTH. He wanted us to be the FIRST and BEST of everything He created.

*it says “DON’T GET THROWN OFF COURSE”. Keep track with God. Is our heart still right with God?

*to KNOW the heart of God is to know this truth.

James 1:19

PAY ATTENTION: Be quick to listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. It is my JOB DESCRIPTION today to listen and listen well. To hear and not much to speak. To slowly chew out every word that comes out of my mouth, to always listen first.

James 1:21

Get rid of everything DIRTY and SINFUL. Don’t be proud to accept the Word that is planted in you. In simple humility, LET.

*LET – mean let’s allow God, submit to God, surrender to God, permit God, and be willing to listen and follow God.

If you don’t know what you are doing, pray to the Father. ASK BOLDLY, believingly, without SECOND THOUGHTS. Never, ever “WORRY YOU PRAYERS”.

Don’t ever count on what your hands are producing. Our efforts and own methods are only short-lived. Panandalian lng yan. Our own ways will NEVER give us satisfaction and will never attain what we intend to goal.

Now, what do I hear from God today? Don’t be just hearer. ACT on what you hear or else you might just well be good as deaf.

This is what the voice of God tells me personally today: Guard your heart and your people from the corruption and pollution of the Godless world.

Right now, my life is completely in a great challenge of FAITH. My prayer is that God will bring out in me an extraordinary FAITH, something i cannot think or imagine. I ask God to amaze me. My life, my future, my career, my family... all of me is in God's hands.
There's so many "EVEN-though's" in my life today that STILL i want Jesus above everything and STILL I know fully that God is my confidence. 


Live well. Live wisely. Live humbly. Live IN CHRIST.

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Lord, if i don't feel or encounter the depths of Your Love today in a most  tangible way, then i don't want Love from anyone else. I want Your presence alone.

Loved, not Lost: He is Jealous.

I stumbled upon this blog  post from one of my favorite blogger, and was encouraged greatly by her heartfelt love for God. I was amazed and immediately felt the need to share it.

Loved, not Lost: He is Jealous.: "He is a holy God; he is a jealous God." Joshua 24:19

 The Lord is jealous for us and our affection. We sing it over and over, that ...

Life Verse

Philippians 1:21 – “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain”

Short verse but says it all. 

Live, love and die for Jesus. 

He is the only One worth living for, and worth dying for.

Romans 14:7-8

“For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone.  If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.”

AMAZING!

At The Cross (Remembering the Encounter with My Saviour)

Lord, thank You for showing me and once again allowing me to see the very reason, Your very reason why You go through the Cross. You can choose to give up when the road gets rough and the cross gets heavier even more because of the wounds and pains You are carrying through, BUT YOU CHOOSE NOT TO GIVE UP ON ME. You know very well Your CAUSE and You have overcome them all. Thank You again Lord, for allowing me to get a glimpse of Your heart again, and I’ve seen again with a different feeling of bond, how Your blood flows for each of my sins. You already died for them. Right now, I don’t want to be phlegmatic from all these things, I just want to soak everything and be saturated again in Your loving presence. I want to fall in love with You in such a way that You have loved me. You become everything to me because You loved me so much You have given me Your life and accept a painful death on the cross. And in all those time, You were just thinking of me, praying for me to come back and see what You have done for me. You have not blamed me for all I have done that cost You everything. You have loved me and I felt that love. It’s overwhelming me.  

Thank You Jesus. 

Crossover Insights

Another Thursday night is over. Although the whole day was tiring, I resolved to be at the Crossover gathering not because it was necessary for me to received a fresh Word from the Lord, but because my heart is expectant that God will meet me there, that I’m gonna be with His presence again for another night of worship. God never fails to show up, He never fails me. I won’t keep these thoughts long today. I was so tired and needed real time rest. It will be a Sabbath weekend for me again.

Surely there is so much to share because God has poured out His love and I am filled again.

Pondering on these:

If a man is filled with anger, then anger controls his life.

If a man is filled with greed, then greed dominates his life.

If a man is filled with lust, then lust governs his life.

If a man is filled with love, then love influences all he does.

If a man is filled with the Holy Spirit, then the Holy Spirit is in control of his life.

Let us decide whose we are letting to take control over our lives. The whole future that God promised us depended on it.

Numbers 20:13, God will proved himself Holy among us, the question we have to consider is that, Do we trust Him ENOUGH to honor Him Holy in the sight of all the people around us?(Numbers 20:12). Yes indeed we can say we trust Him, but is that “trust” ENOUGH for us to just obey without delay, obey without complaining, and obey fully and completely?