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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
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Just awhile ago, on my way to my girlfriend's place, I rode a jeep with a nut driver. I mean, really nuts. He actually tried to bump a taxi along Osmena Blvd. The taxi driver who is also nuts also tried to bump back and they almost got into collision. I don't know who started it but the buttomline is, they tried to scare and bump each other with passengers on board. Wow!!! These morons almost got us killed!! Man, the conductor justified the bumping by saying the the taxi cut the jeepney first. Man, he didn't even realized that they have a pregnant woman on board! They seemed to enjoy this whole thing while putting all of us at risk. They acted like kids on wheels. I forgot to note their plate numbers(I wish I would have).Sayang!

Anyway, I realized that we sometimes act like these moron drivers. We put up unnecessary risk and neglecting our responsiblities. As a result, we put people at risk. Sometimes, we get nuts and become emotional on the little things that irritate us. Then we tried to justify our actions by saying, "he/she cut me first". Duh! We act like kids just to keep our flesh (ego) satisfied. We do these things without even realizing that we put some stupid risk to pregnant subjects that are around us. Sometimes, the result of this is miscarriage; dream-miscarriage; future-miscarriage;relationship-miscarriage;life-miscarriage;

I learned that in driving, even though you are right and your "opponent" is wrong you have to give way, or you will be right and dead (dead-right). In life, there are times were we have to give up our egos or we will end up a roadkill.
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I am not a theologian so I could be wrong and any of may correct me with this article.

I found that there are 3 kinds of death mentioned in the Bible.

1. Physical death - the common death that we know; the separation of the spirit from the body.

2. Death to sin - this happens when we receive the Lord Jesus Chist in our hearts and make Him our Lord and Savior. As a result, His gift of salvation, we will receive and we are now save. Being dead to sin means death to the world. Sin no longer has the authority over us and we are now a free being. A lot of believers stop here. After accepting the Lord Jesus Christ, they just go to church and stay there. Nothing more, nothing less. I admit that I, myself fall into this stagnation. I enjoyed being dead to sin. I enjoyed the forgiveness of he Lord every time I sin against Him. But later in my walk with Him, I discovered another death that should happen to me. The third kind of death - Death to self.

3. Death to self - even though we are dead as far as sin and this world is concerned, we still have self to fight against. Our flesh and ego is still fighting against God. Even though, we have accepted the free gift of salvation, we still have our flesh that wants to rule our lives. I realized that my motives and decision are clouded by self. When I discovered from the Word of God that I need to die to self - I begun to understand what the New Testaments said about "putting to death self" and Paul's famous statements, "to live is Christ and to die is gain" and "No longer I who live but Christ who lives in me"

I don't want to be very theological about this but to simply put, Jesus needs to be at the driver seat.
We need to die to self.

I want to discuss more on this but I don't have the luxury called time.'Till next time.
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Monday, November 28, 2005
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Yeah... you guessed it right, this post is going to be corny so just hold on. In Bisaya, "untong lang mu ky bidli ni".

She's 18 Y.O. now.. at long last.:) After 2(?) years of waiting, my girl finally turned 18. [BIG yeah!!!]

At last, her parents can no longer charge me of kidnapping every time we go out on a date.:)

This lady rocked my heart from top to bottom. I mean, for the past 1 plus years, I had a lot of different emotions with this lady; from sadness to gladness and from madness to greatness.
She is Proverbs 31 with the beaty unerased.:)
I praise the Lord for this lady. I love her with all my heart.:)
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Thursday, November 24, 2005
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yesterday was a blast. i went to sleep about 7:30 pm and woke up around 10pm. then went back to sleep til 4am(today). prayed and read the Word of God till 5am then went back to sleep til 7:30am.
All in all i had about 12hrs and 30 min of sleep...:) How's that?

jUst a thought...
two days ago, I rode with a very old man in the jeepney. He is a very old, around 80+ to 90 years old. He said that he is on his way to veteran's bank. He wore a cap with the texts : USAFFEE World War II Veteran (I'm n0t sure if I got the right letters - but something like that). And when we stopped somewhere in SSS building (btw, we started from Ayala; route 14D), he said, that during the '30s this place are all woods. I just thought, wow this guy is ancient.:) I was thinking, "man, I just rode with somebody who fought during WWII and lived." I remember by grandPa and he is around that age; also fought in the battle but probably not as old as this guy. We'll no leasson from that experience but I just want to take a note of this guy.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005
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I used to pray only when I feel like praying, only when somebody asks me to pray and only whenI have emergencies in life and I need God to help me out in my situation.

One Friday afternoon, I had one of the normal suddenlies in life. Its not life threatening but I could say that it stirred me a bit. I don't know why it stirred me but I just feel a bit sad. So I prayed and ask the Lord for... nothing in particular just His presence and some comfort. I got what I asked for and the Lord assured me that everythings going to be alright.

Since my prayer, I felt confident that the Lord took care of me but I'm a bit hungry for more of the Lord's presence and comfort. I feel the need to get serious with my prayer life.

That night, I met my pastor-friend and she brought with her a book. I didn't read the title just the looks of it made me think that its not about leadership or anything of kind of genre so I just look at the back cover and then my eyes caught the statement, "If you've been too busy, too tired, or too lazy to pray, this book is for you." After reading that statement, I quickly said "WOW!!! This book is for me." After hearing those words my pastor-friend then asked for the book back then removed the book marker and then gave the book to me. Wow!!! What a surprised!

That night, I read the book and found a lot of things that I miss as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. Prayer is very essential to a Christian. One part of the book says it is a sin for a Christian not to pray. I'm not talking about just any prayer or prayer time, I'm talking about setting a time with the Lord like you meeting your boss 1 hour everyday. And talking to Him like you are talking to a Father who cares for you and who is concerned about anything that happens in your life.

This book called "Let Prayer Change your Life" by Becky Tirabassi is a book about prayer and answered prayers. She said that after making a committment to pray 1 hour every single day, she saw God's hand move in her life. Her faith grew in the Lord and she never stopped praying for 11 years. For 11 years, she saw her life moved by the Lord simply because every single day, she would talk to the Lord about anything that happens to her.

When we pray, we unleashed a very strong POWER from the Lord. We go with the flow of God and just get fall afresh in His presence.

I made a decision to do the same; to pray for an hour everyday because I want to experience a deeper relationship with God.

For the past days, the devil has been tying to get me down with my decision and he is just trying to stop me; tempting me to do other things to quit and just go on without praying. Becky, never mentioned experiecing a lot of distractions when she begun her committment but I have a lot of them. I mean, it's just like bombs are being dropped in my feet but because of these I can feel now that I'm on the right track and I'm just excited on what God will do in my life.
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Saturday, November 19, 2005
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When is death a good thing?

Death is inevitable. In the natural, death is a consequence of life. People mourn in times of death. Few people really rejoice over death of a love one.

So is there a good thing in death? When is death ever good?

Someone told me that people resists change. I believe that death is a kind of change or a change agent so people resist death. People know that things will never going be the same after someone dies.

Death means change and that change is different for different people and different family.

To our family, the death of my father means our lives are going to be tough. Being tough means financial lack, flat poverty and flooding debt. My sisters told me times when we don't have any money to buy food and they have to improvise and use soy sauce mixed with rice for their meal.At that time my mom was drowned in debt.We were very poor. But it was in those times when my mom lifted ourlives to the Lord. She doesn't have anyone to go to but to the God who created the universe. Those were the times when my mother's faith was built that even when I became an atheist, she still prayed for me every morning while I'm still asleep. My mom's faith grew and so are my sisters'. They became tougher than before.

When I thought I was going to die, I had a change of heart since I realized that life is so short and so fragile.I told myself, "Man, I am going to die and I didn't even have a girlfriend." Then I asked, "why is it that I don't have a girlfriend?". Then I realized that it was because I was afraid; I was afraid I was going to get dumped; I was afraid to be hurt; I was afraid to be vulnerable; I was afraid that that person will not feel the same way as I do. I told myself. "Now because of being afraid, I will die without even telling the lady (my crush at that time) I loved how special she is to me. Sayang! If only I was brave enough to show that I am soft. Even though she may not feel the same way it could have been alright as long as she knows.. I cared for her." Then I prayed to the Lord and I said," God let me live, I have so much to do. I am so young to die. I still have unconfessed feelings to a lady." The Lord healed me and I went out of the hospital a changed man.

I realized that any moment could be our last. The words we left to a friend could be the last words we will ever leave them. The emotions we express to our parents could be our last.

If there's anytime to show care to your friend, family, officemate, schoolmate or anybody, the best time to do it is, anytime today. It could be our or their last lets make it count.

Psalms 90:12 says "Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom."
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Thursday, November 10, 2005
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Today, our church celebrates Faith Week. I realized that I had enough dose of "reality" that it is a bit hard for me to believe that God can do the supernatural.

I remember a story in the Bible where a father came to Jesus with a boy who has an evil spirit in him. When the spirit saw Jesus, the boy went into convulsion. Then Jesus said, "If you can? Everything is possible for those who believe." The father answered, " I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief."(mark 9:14-30)
There are times that I would say to God, "Lord, I believe you; help me in my unbelief."

Yesterday, I have a hard time believing. I mean, I can believe the small stuff but the BIG ones are a bit hard to digest. I told the Lord all the things that I want to happen that I have a hard time imagining. Probably the Lord saw my agony and He stepped in and reminded me of the Scripture that says, "According to your faith it shall be done unto you."(Matt 9:29)

It's just amazing that God operates in this faith area. It's like that God is saying "You want it? Then believe first!" God will not just give it to you right away; you need to believe first. If you read the first four books of the New Testament you will notice that Jesus really appluads when He sees people of faith. On the other hand part of the Scripture says that "Jesus did not do many miracles there [some place] because of the people's unbelief."
The book of James says something like this, " when you ask, believe and not doubt... [when you doubt] you should not expect to receive anything from the Lord."

"According to your faith it shall be done unto you." I have to believe, otherwise nothing will happen. I have to believe that whatever God said in His Word will happen in my life or it will not happen.

I remember the words, "God can do exceedingly, abundantly, more that anything you could ever think or ask for."

Today, as the church celebrates Faith week, I am reminded to believe God for great things; greater than myself! I have always been an advocate of believing God for big things [at least that's how I thought, I think] but now I know that I have not believed enough and/or what I have believed for are not big enough.

Nothing is impossible for the Lord! Would you believe?
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Monday, November 07, 2005
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Why is it that everytime I commit myself to follow what God wants me to do, something always happen to drive me away from that committment?

I just committed to live straight for the Lord, to go back to my passion, to come back to the heart of worship, to live fully for God; suddently, temptations just flew around like hell!!!

These temptations doesn't looked like any temptations at all. In a way, following these thoughts are gratifying and in a way "alright". And if you explore it, it may look logical and justifiable.:)

This is one of the things that I could say, is not a walk in the park.

The Lord rescued me (still); the Bible says, the Lord "will provide a way out" when we encountered these things.

He surely knows my limits and He knows at what point will I breakdown.

I got out from it unscratched. Thanks to the protection of the Lord.:)
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Thursday, November 03, 2005
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whaaa!! i just came back from the province. i spent my long(?) vacation there and frankly, i didn't felt relax.:) I can't say i need more time to rest but I just felt like reporting back to work tomorrow.:)

i just browse through my friendster and i found a couple that i think are sweet to each other-Ali and Aiko. Just looking at them made me smile always. I'm not always a romantic guy that's why my gf sometimes complain to me about it. Most of the time, I'm more on functional that aesthetics. Anyway, i found this couple with deep devotion to each other and I could say we seldom see couple like them. To Aiks and Ali, best wishes. :)

i also found heart evangelista's friendster. I'm not sure if that's really her.hehehehehe... im not a fan but she's really pretty, just like my one and only girlfriend, Joyce. :)

ahmmm.. i got some pics from the province. i'll post some of them sometime.

as always.. i have new plans for myself and for my friends.:) as usual my plans need money..
anyway.. ill take things easy since the Bible says, "The steps of the righteous are ordered by the Lord." I'm pretty sure God is ordering things up for me right now as I am typing this post; that's why i have these desires. :)

I remember a pastor say something like this, "If we want to soar on wings like an eagle,we must quit thinking like a chicken - get rid of the chicken mentality." Hehehe.. sad to say we think like chicken sometimes.:(
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