Acts 7:59-60(KJV)

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

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God does not literally forget our sin

God does not literally forget our sin. If God does not literally forget our sins, what does Isaiah 43:25 mean? We should understand this description of God to be covenantal language by which He assures His people of the complete forgiveness of their sin.

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Micah 7:18-19(KJV)

Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Psalm 119:130

I really love this verse because it is so true that through God's word we can acquire knowledge and understanding to everyone who is a true disciple of God.We will know in this verse that it will not only give us knowledge but also understanding and the word really gives light and opened our eyes to see the message of God. Even to the simple which are frequently despised by other people who is smarter than them. But those who are called fools in this world are called wise in heaven if they are taught by God. There is a great power rests in the word of God. It give us understanding and full knowledge that we can rely on. So that the knowledge that we received from God will be shared to others.

Our dear Lighthouse Minister, Kuya To

This is Kuya To our Lighthouse Minister. This picture was taken during our Lighthouse Anniversary. A week before He were rushed to the hospital.I was really saddened on what had happen to our Lighthouse Minister.He was hospitalized and suffered severe stroke.When i learned that he was rush to the hospital I cannot believe that it happens to him. I can't stop my tears flowing when the Holy Spirit prompted me to pray for him in the ICU and I really saw His tears.He was uttering words I don't understand but I know in my heart he says thanks. He is the epitome of a strong man  of God a very active man I know. He inspired me in so many ways. He is a father, a friend and a counselor to us. I can see his dedication for the glory of God. I witnessed how happy He was serving the kids and the lighthouse members. He prepares food for everybody, he serves too. He fetch the members and even drive them home. He was not only the preacher but also the guitarist, the song leader and He also do the opening and closing prayer. He did it all. I am so impressed with His dedication and love to people and God. I can see him helping people and serving them. He is really a good man!I always salute on him and I always respected him. He take good care of us so well and give us a fatherly love. I am really praying and touching heavens and asking God for His healing power! I am claiming for miracle and that His life will be a living testimony to every person He will be ministering. Trusting in you Lord for the healing of Kuya Toto.

Thankful Thursday #10- Semestral break

 I am thanking God for today is the day that I will be giving final examination to my students. As a part time instructor I was pleased that this semester will about to end. I am looking forwad for the semestral break. I hope and pray that I can have my 2 weeks off a memorable one:) But I doubt it as I need to compute grades and submit the needed requirements for this semester. But then I really thanked God for sustaining me and for given me wisdom to teach as it is my first time to be an instructor as part time. I learned a lot and continually learning from the things I shared to the students and for sharing what I learn to them. God is indeed so good for giving me the oppotunity to teach them not only for their academic lessons but to be a blessing to them and makes a difference as they noticed that even without first telling them I am a Christian they discern that I am:). They see Christ in me and thanking God for being a light that they may follow my deeds. I am also thankful for my students that they show me respect even some of them is older than me but then they give the due respect to me. A wonderful experience to keep and sweet memories being with them. So thankful of hearing them say thank you for sharing to them and for the learnings they got from me. Indeed God is so awesome. 

The Rapture of the Church

Can you imagine when your doing busy thing in the day. Doing your routines like working or malling and suddenly you will heard the noise of the loudest trumpet. Then suddenly people will disappear. Can you imagine the things happening around the world? The disasters are left and right. Are we ready for what they call rapture?It will really happen.

The Rapture of the Church  is a great website that we can visit and we will learn a lot from the happenings around the world. This site give us a lot of knowledge on the updates of all the events that is currently happening. I enjoyed this site given me more knowledge about the present and what will come in the future. God only knows everything the beginning and the end. We just need to trust in him and we know that God is a God of order. He will make all things beautiful in His time. Let's continue to run the race until we see God's face to face.

Thankful Thursday #7-Preaching His Word!

 

I am thankful to God for giving me an opportunity to stand before the congregation of our Church last night and to be His mouthpiece. I am so thankful to the Almighty for giving me strength and helping me deliver His word. Indeed God assures me that there is nothing to be fear.  Thanking Him for His annointing and His wisdom that poured out in me. Indeed God is so great and so awesome!

I ended my message last night  with a quote from a Christian book that I read: “The nature of salvation, the character of God, the declarations of His word, the design of redemption all concern to prove that holiness is absolutely and dispensable, so that whatever we may be, or whatever we may have, if we are not holy, we are not the children of God, not the heirs of King’s kingdom.”

 

WFW #6- Watery Wednesday #3-Be still and Know that I am God

This picture was taken from a friend of my co-staff in PPATW. Thanks Mr. Wilson Yu for this wonderful photo:)I wasn't able to ask her first if it is ok to be post it here. Thanks Ate Liz for allowing me to put this picture coz  I really needed it for this post:). Thanks for sharing it with me...:) I just added my favorite line in a bible that says "Be still and know that I am God".Wow what an assurance from God to us which is very promising. When we are facing trial or difficulties we need to released it and let it go. We also need to be calm and surrender ourselves to God and trust in him because he is the sovereign God. If things doesn't look right and we feel like giving up we need to surrender everything to God and let his will be done. Trusting God in any situation we are into. We must know that the Lord is God, the most majestic and King of kings. Seeking more intimacy with God is to know him more.To know him more personally and intimately through reading his word and recognized that he is always there for us, and he guides us and comforted us.

Sunday Learning #1

I learned today about "God's feeding program". Great to study God's word and about his miracle of multiplication. God always wanted to give us more and more. I learned from the preaching today is that God knows our needs even if we won't tell this to him he knows about it and it is important for him. He is always interested to our basic needs and that He is willing to give all the things that we need. Because He is the sovereign GOD that knows everything. He is able to give our needs and He will never let us begging for food because he will supply us food just like what He did to the 5000 men that received his miracle and multiply the bread and fish. I also learn that sharing to other what we have will become greater to God. Just like sharing what you have to your fellow who need help and you give, God sees that and honor that even you did it in secret God can see what you did.

Thankful Thursday #4- Bro. Gary is going home today!

I wanted to say thank you for praying my friend Bro. Gary he is now feeling better and improving to his way to full recovery. Indeed God truly sustains and is forever faithful and awesome.Getting a great news that Bro. Gary was discharged from the hospital and is now home made us glad. Praise God! I chatted him earlier and he was overjoyed knowing many prayed for him. He wanted me to blessed those people who prayed and he wanted to thank them as well. So guys thank you for all your prayers!The Lord is so good and his grace and mercy endures forever. We wanna say thank you once again for all the prayers and thanking the most high for healing our dear friend and for hearing our prayers. Great is the Lord!

WFW #5- Return to God

I choose this picture for Word filled Wednesday simply because there is really a need to call all that don't know God yet that they will return to God and also those who believes on him but turn their way back. He is just waiting us to return to his loving arms. For those who was offended and got discouraged and turn their back to God, we need to pray for them that they will find a way back to God. Even we are sinners God still love us, we are the one stop loving God by disobeying him and not following him anymore, but then God's love to us has never ends He is always there for us still  loving us, pray for us, intercede for us and willing to welcome us back. His hand is wide open when we return to him and he is really smiling to found us once again. We know that God will really sad when we turn our back to him and he will really glad when we return unto him. He is just waiting and inviting us to come back;) Praising and worshiping his holy name.

Daily Devotion #3-Holy Living

What God is telling me on this chapter? He wants me to know that he sets rules for us to follow each and everyday. God impresses to me that he knows what we are doing and what we are about to do because he is the God that knows all. We can't hide to God all the things we did in secret. But when we repented and stop doing wrong then ourselves has been crucified and died and renewed through Christ. In verse 4 "When Christ who isyour life,appears then you also will appear with him in glory." Meaning Christ will rescue us if we trully love him and stop doing earthly or worldy things. I also learned here that we really need to put ourselves on that cross and stop doing the things that God don't want us to do or the things that we are not allowed yet to do. By turning away from our sins we will become renewed through Christ.
God want me to believe that I am his chosen one, holy and very dear to him. Wow..God is so awesome despite of all the things that I have done he still choose me and love me dearly. Even we are bad or good he is always loved us. In return we should do the God's will to show our praise and honor to him.

I also learned here about submission, to a husband and an instruction to obey our parents. God teaches me to be honest and loving and being loyal to anyone and specially to our earthly bosses that everything we do let's do it with love and respect to them because it just like we are serving God.

My favorite verse: 17 "and whatever you do whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus,giving thanks to God the Father through him."

Yes in everything we do,we will give thanks to God and acknowledge how awesome he is in our life and let's be thankful for everything and anything.

Thankful Thursday #2- Gave Praise to God

This verse wants us to understand how important it is for us to really give thanks to the Lord. As we lift our heart and our thoughts to our awesome God in gratitude this thanksgiving we are reminded of all the good things and all the blessing that God has given to us each day. God deserves our praise and thanksgiving. Everyday we should worship and praise the Lord for being so awesome and for being so wonderful in our life. He deserve all our praises!!!

WFW #2- You are Safe in God

The world we live in can sometime be a very tough place...

Sometime it is too hard to feel safe and loved...

But if you know our God in an intimate way,

He can always provide for you a place of comfort and safety...

Just surrender your all to him and seek intimacy to our awesome God...

Because you are always be safe in God....

A new beginning

Indeed great is our God! It's New Year, new life and new things happen to be expected from God. I will not be afraid because God already set my future. He knows everything from the beginning until the end. Wow Isn't it beautiful how God cares for us? I can't stop praising him for being so great to us and for everything he have done in my life. It is great to be serve and used by him. I don't have direction before I was deceived by satan that life will be okey even if we don't go to church instead do worldly things. But God loves me so much and show me the way to righteousness and he changed my life according to his will. Wow I am so blessed with what God did in my life now. He is very gracious, he is so merciful and awesome. I can't imagine that I will come to a point that I will be craving for God's love and care. I was a fool when I let myself do things which is not in line to him. But because of the things I have done of the past I came to realized how wonderful God really is. He sustains me in my sorrows and pain. He also restores me and revived the fire and convicted me. Now I will be offering myself to him. Praising and honoring his name. To surrender my all unto God and to be more intimate with him. This is my desire and I know God will surely open his hands for me. It's so good and so nice to be guided and teaches with the greatest teacher. He is always there for me and I am asking wisdom so that I can understand fully what the Lord wanted to impress to me. I am blessed and secured because I have God in my life through Jesus Christ I AM SAVED and now renewed. Facing the new years is so easy without fear because there is God who is with me in any situation I will be going through I can do anything through him who strengthens me. I love you Lord...

Now is the time to seek the face of God

When I came to know the Lord I always have this longing to draw nearer to him. I don't even know how it feels and how to draw more closer to God. By reading the Bible I came to know more of him. He is the only one that is so true and He is a living God. The moment that we receive Jesus Christ in our lives as our personal savior His Spirit dwells in us. Now we have a personal relationship with him but I want more of him, I want intimate relationship with my God. I learned a lot in my bible reading and Christian books reading that He is a God who can be found. A God who can be known. A God who wants to be close to us. Wow it is really amazing to know that God also want to be close to us. As our return to Him we really need to take time with God a time alone for him and only with him and without undivided heart and mind.

God is so good

Wow God is really a good God. He is the God that really protects his people.It is so amazing knowing that God never leaves us nor forsake us. He is always watching over us. God is a merciful God. God is always ready to rescue us in any situation we have.Yesterday I was shocked when my niece informed me that our apartment almost got burned because of our burner exploded. I thanked God because we have neighbors who was left and helped my niece to stop the fire so that no one got harm. I am so relieved when I found out that nothing has been damaged except our stove. But still I am thanking God because he really protects us. I can't afford to lose my niece or something bad happen to her because her mother entrusted her to me when his husband died. I am praying peace for my niece as she is taking the periodical examination at her school. I thanked God for saving her life. I am so glad that the blood of Jesus covers us and to our place. We are always claiming that each day and praying that he will always be around. Indeed he is a good God that really protects his people. He wants the best for us. His plan will be done not the evil's plan. And I am confident enough that God would not leave us here and He is always present. We just need to entrust our life to him and continue to praise and worship him and to show gratitude to the one and only powerful God.

God is still in control

God is still in control even if it does not look that way we only have to trust him. Sometimes we will experience our lowest point in our life but whatever happens to us we must always bear in mind that God knows everything. He knows our needs, our problems and even our fears. He knows our heart. He knows even the smallest details of our life. We must relax and feel and seek his presence all the time and listen to his small voice on what we are going to do. Sometimes we are pre-occupied of our prayers and petition unto him but we are not listening to him. God sometimes let us experience the things that we won't even expect to happen in our lives maybe because we need to learn from that and so that his glory will reveal.Everything that happens to us has a purpose and we all know that the purpose of God unto us is to be prosperous and victorious in all things including the good and the bad thing that happens to us. God want us to realize how to depend on him and not to ourselves. God want a personal relationship with us and he wants a very intimate and passionate relationship. He really want us to trust on him in every situation we are into because God is going to help us every time we needs him. He is always with us looking at us and watching over us.