Dear Lord,
Help me to know You according to the teachings of the Holy Spirit and Your Word. I need more faith to anchor my beliefs, my thoughts, my life in You Jesus. I need Your conviction in my heart to anchor Your  truth in every moment of my life, all the days of my life. I want to be so saturated with the richness and depth of your wisdom and love   that  my heart and mouth will not be able to help the overflow out of them.

Help my faith to stand in the power of God and NOT in the wisdom of men. (1 Cor 2:5) Teach me, o Lord, though I be weak and foolish---fill me with Your passion and love. Let Your Spirit who "searches all things, yea the deep things of God" to teach my heart to believe and obey and know the things of God. let my life be so full of Your truth Lord so that I can be a good witness first to my husband and child and then to people I meet every day. let my life speak of You not only in actions, but also in words.

"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but unto us which are saved , it is the power of God."   ---- 1 Corinthians 1:18

An Outburst of Praise

Hallelujah! To God almighty who is worthy of praise and worship. He is like no other. His love and mercy go before Him. He showers His people with kindness. His faithfulness never fails. He is awesome---the Ancient of  Days--- the Alpha and Omega. He loves like no other. His love is wide and deep and unfathomable. He is God who owns the unverse. He hangs the stars, moon, sun and planets in space and He commands their stations. Glory be to God, Jehovah!

The Worthlessness of Unbelief

It is  unbelief that keeps people from seeing miracles that are happening right before their very eyes. Just as God said in Romans that there is no excuse for anyone not to know HIm---[if only they  look around, what they see should suffice and  answer the reality of God]. 

Miracles do happen everyday and every moment. It is a miracle that we see---it is a miracle that we are able to sleep and recharge our bodies and eat and digest our food. It is a miracle that we hear and breathe and walk. However, the Lord has blessed us so much  with these miracles on a daily and moment to moment  basis that we no longer realize and acknowledge that indeed we are living miracles. We take for granted His blessings. Our hearts are so disensitized of miraculous awe-inspiring and wonderful gifts from Him that we no longer realize these miracles and thus we  relegated  them as normal ordinary functions in physical life. So when the supernatural miracles happen, our eyes being  so clouded and  hearts so heavy with unbelief we do not all the more  recognize His  supernatural work.

When doctors encounter healings or  diseases vanishing without an explanation they stop at saying "there is no explanation,"  or they say, "it was a misdiagnosis" . If only their hearts look beyond what is physical and think of God who  creates and heals and orchestrates things, then they will discover HIs greatness and lovingkindness. If  only they shed  their unbelief and look through the eyes of faith, they will find out that there is nothing impossible with God, and He does as He pleases and when He does, He does it well.

Praise and Worship

There is something about the vibrant colors of Fall that tug at my heart to praise and worship God. When I behold the orange and yellow and red of the leaves as they laugh with the blowing of the wind, and they let go and float downwards to the ground, my soul figuratively prostrates before the Lord Almighty, who I believed designed and created this beautiful phenomenon. When the golden sun dapples the autumn trees and reflects soft and warm-to-the-eyes light all around, my heart bursts out in worship to God. Autumn foliage brings such heart-warming sensation to my being and I get reminded of our Abba Father's love towards us. Love so tender and kind, I cannot begin to contain all in my little heart. His love endures forever.

The Sunday we missed church, we decided instead to go out backamong the trees and sing praises to God. Steve picked his guitar and Zach a toy piano. We sang and sang and lifted our hearts to Him who is worthy of praise and honor and glory. Meantime, the wind blew, and the autumn leaves rustled and danced before letting go down, down to our heads then to the ground.

A glorious feeling!

Isaiah 54:10

"Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed,
Yet, my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed ," says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
                                             ----Isaiah 54:10

God's love for me is not dependent upon my actions. There is nothing that I do that makes Him love me more or less. His love is deep---His love is wide and neither it's depth and width is affected by the good and holy things nor the bad and evil things I do. He just loves me so. And for that, my heart is sobered knowing that my Lord is a God of love and forgiveness. He is a God of mercy and abundance. His lovingkindness never fails, His mercies, new every morning.

Dear Lord,
I thank you for Your unfailing love for me. Help me Lord to honor You and love You with all of my heart. To acknowledge Your presence in my life every moment. To give You praise for the shower of blessings You send my way. 

Help me to be sensitive to the stirring of the Holy Spirit. To follow every step that you have laid before me. elp me to speak about You and Your goodness and faithfulness.

Dear Lord,
I thank youf or the strength that YOu give me each day as I move on with my life with the fact that my brother Jun and Nanay are gone. I miss them very much. My heart is sore  from aching , but You  are faithful to help me carry on. (Would you tell them I love and miss them?)

Thank YOu for my husband Steve who is a great blessing to my life. He is a pillar of strength and peace  in whatever circumstance our family is in. He has no complaints, no negative words to say, no discontentment---only constant peace and full trust in You. He humbles himself when I rattle. He keeps the peace flowing from his heart. Thank You Lord for the life of Steve that You've allowed me to share with. I am deeply blessed by him. And as if you have not blessed me enough ---You have to make it overflow (as YOu always do), then You give us Zachary. Both Steve and I marvel at his life. Zach is not only an additional most welcome blessing, but he is also a fun enrichment to us. Like Steve always says, " Our lives are  enriched  by having him."

And so I told God I needed a friend to sit with, lounge and talk silently with, maybe laugh (over our reminiscences of the past) with,  or be quiet with...a friend I can sip tea with or (at least) listen  to my questions about the two deaths in my family if not answer them. And here's what He impressed upon my heart. Go see  H.L. and make something for her. So I made the arrangement to visit her after work and brought in some fruits and vegetables. I simply wanted to stir-fry  the veggies for her and drink tea and simply enjoy her company. I did not want her to do anything else because she has fibromyalgia (a really bad case of chronic fatigue syndrome).

Well what do you know? Upon her coffee table was quite a spread---a big platter of sliced fruits and berries,  three kinds of chocolates, an assortment of cookies, two kinds of citrus fruits, a compote full of plump dates and tea.

Didn't I asked the Lord for a simple cup of tea and company?

And just like in Psalms..."I prepare a table for you..," he said. How magnificent is the Lord! and full of tender love. I was H.L.'s sole visitor and the she prepared for me a beautiful spread to go with my tea and company. The Lord  indulged me with His kindness.

And H.L., listened to my grief. And she grieved with me. She listened and spoke  words of comfort that I already knew but needed to hear. She prayed with me and she prayed for me.  I was blessed. And my spirit was lifted.

Dear Lord,
YOU never fail to  amaze me. You take joy in amusing me and I am very  much enchanted by your tender ways towards me. YOU always  bowl me over with your loving-kindness and blessings that never cease to  overwhelm my little heart. I thank YOU  for your  love and comfort that YOU extend even through  my friends and through various circumstances.  I am so blessed by YOU.