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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Ate Lucy and Don Moen
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Don Moen, Mommy RocK (right), and Ate Joy (left).
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Don and me. Mommy Rock introduced me to him saying,"This is Joseph. He has been dreaming of meeting you." Don said, "Oh really, we finally meet." (with a wide grin in his face)
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Don Moen entering Waterfront Hotel.
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Me an Don Moen (and my Thank you Lord CD).
I'm so blessed to have met the man whom God used to touch my life. Don's songs ministered to me more than one time.
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Autographed CD of Don Moen


Autographed CD of Don Moen. He was so tired when he signed this but he still took time to sign. I appreciate the whole experience. God bless you Don!
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a new friend i met in waterfront .. tita i-forgot -our-name but I'm so happy to met you. You will get your CD's.
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Monday, July 09, 2007
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I noticed somebody from http://www.ngkhai.net/cebu/ post some of my post.
Whoever you are, thank you! It's an honor to be reposted.:-D

Thanks again yoh!.
For those interested in the Don Moen concert:

You can mail me in jo2_librero@yahoo.com if you are interested. I can give you discounts (negotiable). I am part of the biggest ticketing team in Cebu for this concert - Misthapodosia (Greek for Great Reward).
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Friday, July 06, 2007
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Calling God, Father

When I pray I always address God as LORD. I consider myself a slave of the GOD so I call him Master. But I don't know, probably the Holy Spirit keeps on reminding me this Scripture:
Galatians 4:6
6Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father."

And from this Scripture I realize I should call God, Father. I never had a father. My biological father died when I was still 4 years old. I never had a father image, my mom never remarried and I don't have a brother. So it's a bit odd for me to call anybody, father. So you could just imagine calling God, Daddy. Abba, by the way, is like Daddy in the time when God became Immanuel (God with us).

Having a nephew who calls you daddy makes the whole concept a bit easier for me to grasp.When my nephew calls me, "Daddy, daddy!!", my ears seems like it would grow bigger. Being called a dad somehow made me feel close to my nephew and somehow the call connected me and him. So I guess that's how it is, with God, He wants us to call Him Daddy and not just LORD/Master. Yes, we are slave to the LORD because He was bought us with His own life. Yes, He is our God because He created us. But most of all, through Jesus Christ, we are NOW His children. We are NOW called by the same last name as God's last name - Christ. So I am NOW Josiah Christ. Kidding! :-) I don't know what is God's last name but the Bible says we are NOW called by His name. And that call somehow will make an emotional and spiritual connection between us and God. I don't know any father who would want his kids to call him, master. How much more God. He can't allow His kids not to call Him, Dad. It is part of our birthright as His kids to have the honor to call, God (the creator of the universe) - Daddy. :-)
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It's Friday!!! Yehey!!! for those who don't have work tomorrow. Cheers for those taking a time off from work and just be with friends and families. Not for me. Basing on my schedule, I will have a long Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. It's not that I'm complaining, it's just that looking at things, my life has changed. I'm excited and scarred at the same time. I'm excited for the Lord's move and at the same time, chilled with the possibility of failure. "You should trust God and not fear.", you might say. I agree with you but somehow a part of me is still looking at me. :-) A part of me is still looking for me to finish the job.The responsibility that I have right now is bigger than me. And I know, I can't do it. But I have the Lord and with God, IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING.

Yesterday, I just experienced the Lord's move. Days prior to that, I was worried and I had a hard time sleeping because of this project and I prayed to the LORD because I was told that nothing is impossible with Him. I asked the Lord for mercy and that He would move in my behalf. I prayed with all my heart. The next morning, it was a Wednesday, I opened the Bible and read in the book of Psalm.
Psalm 34
4 I prayed to the Lord, and he answered me.
He freed me from all my fears.
5 Those who look to him for help will be radiant with joy;
no shadow of shame will darken their faces.
6 In my desperation I prayed, and the Lord listened;
he saved me from all my troubles.

I felt like the Lord is telling me something. I was afraid and the LORD wants to free me from all my fears. So told the LORD, "LORD, ganahan jud ka nga musalig ku nimo no?" I began to trust the LORD. I forgot what I can do and MAGNIFY what GOD can do. I don't know, but faith begun to grow in me the REALITY of GOD overcame my fears and faith begun to grew. I went to the office and did my usual moments later the phone ringed my friend was in the other line and she asked me about the project and I told her the information she needed. The things that took place after that was amazing. God answered my prayers to the point that I leaped for joy and thank God. That experienced just swiped me away.

The whole project was not done yet. My eyebrows will still meet trying to think of ways to meet the quota. My hands are still clasps close to my chest. My lips will still move to say little prayers. My knees will still bend. My head will still be vowed. One thing changed, I experienced the move of God and I can look back at this occasion and remember how the Lord free me from my fears.
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Tehillah C.E. Entry




"So how did you become a leader?" I asked our group in one of our Cutting Edge table discussions. "Well, I was promoted in our company and now I am leading my group.", answered one person. "In my case, there is just a need for somebody to step up and lead, and nobody else stepped up so I stepped up and now, I am leading”, answered another. Hearing these words, made me remember a lot of people I know who were in the same position as what this person went through. I think most leaders became leaders this way- they just answered a need of a group and got their hands dirty and took up the challenge.

I remember the story of Solomon when he became the king of Israel. Like most leaders I know he became a leader by being appointed as one and not as a personal choice. His father, King David, appointed him to be the next king of Israel. I don't know exactly what Solomon taught at that moment but if I am appointed to lead the Philippines right now, I would probably say the same thing as Solomon,"...I am like a child who does not know his way around...”. In leading a small team, there are already many variables that could account to the leader's failures and successes; leading a nation is total a different story - a different game. But Solomon has to step up and take up the challenge. And I think this is the turning point of every would-be leader it is when the person realizes that he is now a leader. And he has to do what he should do -- lead. I call this point, "taking hold of the ball". Like in crunch time in a basketball game, the team captain would always ask for the play to go through him. He doesn't want to put the responsibility of winning or losing in the hands of other people. He wants to take charge of the responsibility and not pass the responsibility to someone else. He either shoots the ball himself or set up an open teammate to shoot for the win. Either way, he made the play and regardless of what the outcome is, he is responsible. As I've said, it is in this point, when a person stops from being a man that he is and take the mantle of leadership -- take hold of the ball.

Many times, it's hard to take responsibility. It's easier to just pass it rather than play it. The pressure is sometimes too much to handle. It's easy not to take the ball and just pass it to another person so we won't be blamed for the outcome. It’s easier to point a finger to other people and blame them for our failures. But what will really make things happen is when we take charge of the ball. What ever we are leading right now, whether a small prayer group, a ministry, a big organization or a church or a corporation or even ourselves, we will not be able to make things happen until and unless we take in to ourselves the reality that we are responsible and whatever the outcome is, we need to realize that we don’t have anybody else to blame but ourselves.

I believe that’s why Solomon came to God because it dawned on him that as a king, he is responsible. And with this realization comes another realization that for such a great responsibility -- he cannot do it alone. In 1 Kings 3:9, Solomon prayed to God, “…who by himself is able to govern this great nation of yours?” Indeed we cannot do it alone even in leading our very lives, we need God. And like Solomon, let us pray for “understanding heart to govern the people and know the difference between right and wrong…” More often than not, we really don’t know what to do and we need God’s wisdom to govern first ourselves, then the people.

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Friday, June 29, 2007
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Here's a song I've created 3 days ago...
It was just for fun of what happened...
I'm no composer.. this sounds like a parodied bisrock..
I can't sing it but this is the lyrics..

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I'm Missing J****r

I'm missing you...
Your call cannot be completed as dialled.
Oh... I'm... missing you..


Dear J***er, I'm missing you.
You called me using the SUNshine network..
And I'm ...missing you..

Dear J***er,
Now you are not calling me for awhile..
Now... I'm ....missing you..

Dear J***er,
You gave me a SUNshine SIM...
Kuripot you, SIM ra gihatag..
Oh I'm.... missing you...

Your technique works..
Now I'm missing you..
Dear Ja***r....
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Don Moen in Cebu

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Don Moen will come to Cebu to celebrate the goodness of the Lord.

I can't describe the excitement that I felt when I heard this news. I am so much blessed with the ministry of this man. I grew up listening to his music and somehow, his songs help me create a picture of who God is. The song, "God will make a way" taught me me that no matter how big or difficult our situation is, we can be sure that nothing is impossible for the Lord. He will make a way even when it seems that there is no way. The Bible says, that God can make rivers in the dessert. The song, "Give thanks", taught me to thank God in good times as well as in bad times. The lines, "let the weak say, I am strong" still rings to my heart even today. The song, "I just want to be where you are", taught me to hunger for more of God, beyond what religion says and beyond, tradition. I remember praying to our Lord Jesus, "Lord, I want to be where you are. I don't want to go anywhere else." Even in my times of unbelief, God used his songs to reach out to me; To minister to me. That is why with all my heart, I would love everybody to go to this concert. I know the ticket prices is a bit of a stretch but I know in my heart that we will be blessed in this concert - and that is priceless. Don didn't came here to be paid. He can choose not to come here and be wealthy in U.S. If you look at his schedule it is full for the whole year. He came here to minister through songs.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Don on Authenticity


Don Moen on authenticity. Sometimes we like other people's style and personality and we tend to copy them.. knowingly and unknowingly. It's true that we really need to walk on our own anointing. We need to move the way God designed us to move. We need to talk the way God designed us to talk. As I read these words, I evaluated my actions and somehow see that some of them are not really what God designed me to do. What about you? Are you functioning in your function or in your dysfunction? God bless you..:)
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
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I have thought of writing about this topic and I kept on forgetting or losing my drive to write. Somehow Pastor C's sermon last Sunday fueled me to write about it again - Winning Not Whining.
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Winning Not Whining

For the past 24 years of my life, I have not meet a single person who does not want to win. Every person I've met has the desire to win either in a basketball game, or an argument, or a wrestling match, or win a friend, or a deal, or win a trust and many more . Even those who has low self-esteem have desires in their hearts to somehow win in life. Nobody celebrates their own defeat but everyone celebrates their own victory. I have not meet anybody who would come and tell me, "Jo, I'll treat you pizza because I just lost my job." Or someone who gives his/her friends a treat because he/she just went bankrupt. Part of our design is to overcome. Part of us is designed by God win. I believe another word for winning is overcoming.
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Friday, June 08, 2007
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I just remembered this Scripture from way back. It's about when God met Elijah. If I am not mistaken Elijah was depressed at this time and God meet him. The great thing about this is that God meet him in a gentle whisper and not in some awesome wind or fire or earthquake. This scripture makes me remember the time when I want to meet God in a Grand-Entrance-kind-of-way and I begun wonder why God didn't appear. I begun asking, "Did God heard me?" All along God is whispering and calling me in quite awhile. Many times we miss the whisper of the Holy Spirit because we want God to come as we want Him to come and not as He want it done. So our prayer should be,"Lord, come just as you are." So when the Lord comes in a gentle voice we can hear him say, "What are you doing here, Josiah?" It's going to be wonderful. :)

1 Kings 19:11-13 (New International Version)

The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by."
Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. 13 When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.
Then a voice said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
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Today, we are surrounded with different voices: radio voices, T.V. voices, good news voices, bad news voices, voices of our neighbor, voices of our family, voices of our problems, voices of hi's and ho's, voices of our friends, voices of officemates, voices of sin, voices of temptation, voices of praise, voices of self and so on. And with these voices it's sometimes hard to meditate. It's hard to hear the voice that we should hear every single time - the voice of God.

I am not trying to be religious, I believe that mentioning or talking about God is not religion. I believe that God is basic to human existence. I believe God is not an extra day of our seven-day week. I believe that God is important to our daily existence. A well known scripture said, "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul?" I believe a good question about this Scripture is, how can you lose your own soul? Jesus said, " For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." So we lose our soul if we try to save it. When we think only of ourselves - that's where we lose our soul. When we keep thinking of ME, ME, and ME... we lose our soul. To find our soul we need to lose it for the sake of the Lord. A good question to this is "HOW can I lose it for the LORD?" I am not an expert in the Bible but something tells me it involves SURRENDER. Because when we save our lives, we want to control our lives. And when we lose our lives, we lose control. So if we follow this reasoning, we can deduce that we need to surrender our lives to the Lord so that we will not lose it. Everyday we need to surrender our lives - our time, our resources, our will, our family, our love ones, our pride, our ego, our ears, our body, our desire.... to the Lord.

Part of surrendering is listening to what God wants us to do in our lives on a daily basis. It's a daily decision to surrender. It's a daily decision to ask God, "Lord, what do you want me to do today?". It's a daily decision to tell the Lord, "Lord, I give you my heart. I give you my everything."

So the challenge today is for us to surrender.
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Collage pics of me and Joyce (and my niece-Sugar). These pictures were taken during our family day in LXK.
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Monday, June 04, 2007
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One person sees something as a calamity and another person comes and see that very same thing as an opportunity.
The difference between the two person:
1. Choice
2. Readiness to see something as it is.

Choice
We can understand choice. We can choice to see anything as how we want to see it.

Readiness
One person sees something such as a market crash as an opportunity plainly because that person is ready to see it as such. Our previous experience helps us to see things differently. When I was still in college I was presented with an opportunity to start exploring the business world. When I saw the money requirement - P800, I got cold feet (I can only afford P200 :D) and started rejecting the idea of pursuing the opportunity. If I have pursued that opportunity I would have grown in the knowledge of handling personal finance. Another experience that I can remember was, when I was in college I was asked to go to the camp but the registration fee is P3, 600. Again, I can only afford way less than the amount so I just drop the idea of going. Now, I see many young people in the church selling/making money just to go to the camps. I realized I was not ready so I made a poor choice in not stretching and taking up the challenge. Have I choose to see it as an opportunity then I would have grown mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. And I would say that these young people who financed their way to the camps are in better position than I was because they stepped up.
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