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What Is Faith?

The book of Hebrews in the 11th chapter verse one says: "Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see." - Hebrews 11:1 (NLT)

Having faith is the only thing that separates us from the world. But sometimes faith is not enough to live a life of surrender, it has to be accompanied with actions. James said "But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?" - James 2:20 (KJV) and in James 2:26 He adds "As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead." (NIV)

We all know that faith is very important for Christ's believers as without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6), but IF you have faith and not taking it into action, it is dead and is clearly stated in the bible.

You might want to ask yourself. "Do I have both faith and action?"

Pastor Rick Warren said that it is a crazy talk when someone says "I’ll just wait to see what God is going to do for me and go with the flow.”

Faith should be active.

Faith is a commitment.

When we were baptized, we made a statement to God and the people around us. Being a Christian does not end at baptizing, it is just the beginning!

It is the beginning of following Jesus' pattern and by living, that is how our faith is being proven.

There was a story that I read about geese. Every Sunday they gather around in the middle of their barnyard and there was like a leader among these geese standing in the midst of them telling and proclaiming their wonders of being a goose and their goosedom. And suddenly from up above they saw a flock of wild geese flying and soaring high in V formation. Every goose was amazed by this scenario and some said that "that is us, that is how we suppose to live that is what we were made for." All of them dreamed of flying as high as the wild geese were doing. But after the flock of flying geese has gone out of their sight, they just went back to their respective place in the four corners of the barnyard and seemed like nothing was happen or seen.

So sad to admit that some of us are like the barnyard geese that never attempted to be out of their barnyard then do or live what we should live for and what we were created for.

One of the best things that I could advise to live the faith that we have is by sharing it with other people around us. IF we are very excited about what God has done in our life, then why not share it? Sharing our faith does not need to be a hard preaching thing. It is as simple as telling a friend about the special person in our life, as simple as sharing with our bestfriends about the one who makes us fall in love and about the one who loves us the most, JESUS!

Some of the actions of faith are bringing people to God and loving them like what Jesus did!

And it will something you will relish for eternity!!

Make this four things be a part of your everyday life...

Love God.

Love People.

Love Life.

Love Self.

This Is Our God

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freely You gave it all for us

surrendered your life upon that cross

great is the love poured out for all this is our God

lifted on high from death to life

forever our God is glorified

Servant and King

recued the world

this is our God

watch "this is our god" video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2D0g4Kizto

I have been meditating and focusing on these lines from the song THIS IS OUR GOD by Hillsong. And since I first heard it and my heart really feels the heart beat and message of the song. The message of sacrfice. The message of a servant who died on the cross on my behalf. And the message of love. The love of Christ for all of us. Do you believe that Jesus loves sinners? Me? I do believe, for I am a sinner and I personally feel his unfailing love. The underserving love that I am only receiving from Him alone Jesus.

Song says Jesus freely and willingly gave His life for us or for the salvation of sinners. I praise Jesus for that!!!

Whenever I listen to this song...

...the image is very clear on my mind seeing Jesus hanging on the cross and being nailed to it...

...bleeding all over his body...

... and looking at me saying in a struggling voice because of lashes and pain He is bearing...

..."This is how much love I have for you, I could bear all the pain just to see you alive and with me in heaven"...

The heart beat and message of this post is to tell you that Jesus is for you and for me!! He came to this world not to give judgement but to give salvation to those who will believe in Him and especially salvation for the sinners that have been imprisoned for so many decades because of the deception of evil. Jesus brought assurance of heaven citizenship to us when He was on earth fullfilling the prophecy of a coming messiah. Man took the initiative of committing sin and it was God who took the first initiative of forgiving that sin. Came down from the heaven just to restore the broken fellowship of man with Him and freely gave up His own life on the cross to show that our sins are forgiven and He is willing to accept us no matter how much sin we have been going through.

"Take heart son, your sins are forgiven" - Jesus

-That Is Our God-

Gusto Mo Bang Magtanung Kay God?

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Ano Kaya 'no, kung bigyan tayo ni God ng isang pagkakataon na tanungin Siya ng kahit anung tanung basta isang tanung lang bawat isa sa'tin. Anu kaya ang irereserba nating tanung para kay God. Maaaring iba sa'tin ay magtatanung ng mga personal na bagay like anu ang future ko? Magiging mayaman ba ako sa kursong kinuha ko? Anu ang hitsura ng langit? Nasaan ang impiyerno? Am I good enough to enter your kingdom? Is Jesus really preparing a room for me in heaven like what he said in John 14:2-3...

"In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am."?

Or maybe, God do you know my name? or do you know me? Perhaps some would not ask a question but would ask God to come to heaven with Him.

It may sound funny or very papansin but I know that most of us have lots of questions that cannot be answered by no one even the most genius man ever lived. I believe that one of the quite amazing characteristics mankind has is asking questions. A desire in the heart that seeks truth. One of the best examples is scientists, they keep on searching for the answers to their never ending questions. Another example is those ones that have been converted to Christianity. All of them sought the truth or answer or prove to their beliefs until they ended up worshiping Jesus!

Now, what if you will be given a chance to ask GOD one question, what would it be?

Amazing Grace Story.

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Today, I wanna share to you about an amazing story of a man whose view of God changed radically and as a result, his life changed radically as well. Perhaps you have heard this man's story so many times before, but let me tell you this story again as I was very blessed the moment I encountered this amazing grace story of John Newton.

John Newton was born in 1975 in England. His mother was a devoted christian, and intending for her son(John Newton) to enter the ministry. She worked hard to instill the a deep faith in him. But eventually, Newton's mother died before his seventh birthday. As a young Newton, he decided to follow in his father's footsteps, as Newton's father was an English sea captain. He joined the British Royal Navy but was eventually discharged because of unruly behaviour. To get away from the problem, he moved to the western coast of Africa and worked for a slave trader. He eventually became the captain of a slave ship, and like most slave ship captains, he treated his slaves ruthlessly. What a bad man he had become and what a terribly far cry from his mother's hopes and prayers for him!

On one voyage, a fierce storm severely struck Newton's ship. Sure that he would die. Newton surrendered his life to God. Miraculously he survived and he decided to set his life to a new course. A course Jesus intends all of us to follow or to set our life to. At first he remained as a slave ship captain. But he tried to treat the slaves more humanely. It did not take that long until he decided to gave up the slave trade entirely. What's more, he went on to a passionately crusade against slavery. Newton's life was changed so profoundly that he studied to become a minister, just as his mother had prayed. He came to be known as "the old converted sea captain". And this was all because he had personally met and come to know God.

Probably the most famous thing Newton did was to write the hymn "Amazing Grace". In it he described his own transgression:

Amazing grace how sweet the sound

that saved a wretch like me

I once was lost, but now am found,

was blind but now I see.

Sometimes we feel inside of us that we are OK. We don't care about our relationships to other. We do not care what's happening to us. We do not even notice that we are now breaking the very heart of God. And when we come to this point of giving God no pleasure and heartache, He disciplines us like what He did to John Newton on his voyage, like what fathers do to their sons telling "Hey son, that not right anymore." Until we see ourselves helpless, hopeless, restless and left nothing to do but surrender our whole being to God. The Good thing about it is that we can only find complete happiness, quietness, and complete satisfying love in God alone by having deep and intimate relationship with Him.

"Surrendering to God is not BEST way to live, it is the ONLY way to live. If you don't surrender to God, you surrender to chaos" - Pastor Rick Warren.

Did God Really Allow Sin To Happen?

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Isa ito sa mga tanung na paulit-ulit na tumatakbo sa utak ko nitong nagdaang mga araw. Because there was a book that I used to read and one of the topics talks about sin. How it entered the world, how man became contaminated by this deadly sin. At ang pinakatalagang tumanim sa isip ko is yung topic na nagsasabing it was God's plan allowing sin to come. Yes God really allowed sin to happen so that His greatness and Godness would be revealed, so that there would be a great plan of salvation, so that man would acknowledge Him not just as a creator but also as a God and loving Saviour. Because if it was not God's plan for sin to come, ibig sabihin e hindi N'ya kontrolado ang mga bagay-bagay. God holds everything, no one and nothing left unhandled.

Ikaw sa tingin mo bilang isang individual, naniniwala ka ba na kasama talaga sa plano ni God ang mahulog si Eba at Adan sa kasalanan ng sa gayun e maihayag ang kanyang kadakilaan at pagmamahal sa'tin? We may have our own different point of view about it and how to accept it. We do not have any idea what's on God's mind right now but certainly He knows what's on us!

Who Do You Say Jesus Is?

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Some say you're just a good man

Some say you are kind

Some say you are in the grave

But I say you're alive

Some say you're just a prophet

Some say you were wise

Some say you were just a man

But I say you are God

You are my God

The lines above are from the song "Shout Your Fame" by Hillsong. It states here how some people were saying about who Jesus was, like just a good man, just a kind person, in the grave, just a prophet and just a wise man. But for us believers, we believe and declare that Jesus is God, above everything and all powerful.

We can notice in the bible that before Jesus was born, His coming had been foreseen and prophesied so many years before his birth. And some well-known characters in the bible had a different views and vision of who Jesus would be.

Like for examples Jacob saw Jesus as the Shiloh, Moses as the passover lamb and the lifter up one, Ruth as the family redeemer, Samuel as king, David as lion of Judah and good shepherd, Solomon as the beloved, Ezra and Nehemiah as the restorer, Job as the redeemer, Isaiah as the suffering servant, Jeremiah saw him at the potter's wheel, Ezekiel as son of man, Daniel as the prince and the smiting stone, Hosea as the bridegroom redeeming a fallen wife, Joel as restorer, Amos as heavenly husband, Obadiah as the saviour, Jonah as the resurrection and life, Mica as the witness, Nahum as stronghold in the days of trouble, Habakkuk as God of my salvation, Zephaniah as jealous Lord, Haggai as desire of all nations, Zechariah as the righteous branch, Malachi as the sun of righteousness and John as the lamb of God. See everyone in the bible times has a different view of Who Jesus is.

What about you? Who is Jesus for you?

God.. Father... Saviour... Immanuel... Lord... Christ... Redeemer... Bridegroom... Messiah... Prince Of Peace.. Advocate... King... Holy Spirit... Son Of Man... Prophet... Teacher.. Wise Man or just nothing, I do not even bother to know?

In the book of Matthew chapter 16 verses 13 to 15, Jesus was talking to His disciples when He asked Them, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?" The disciples replied very enthusiastically "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets." They replied according to what the people were saying about their rabbi but after that Jesus followed up another question like this "But what about you?" "Who do you say I am?"

"But what about you?" "Who do you say I am?"

Only Peter replied without any doubt, ""You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." on verse 16.

Many of us would reply or tell another people or friends what OTHER PEOPLE are saying about Christ not what WE SAY about Jesus. What if while reading this post and then suddenly you see image of Jesus reflecting on your computer's screen standing behind you and asks you...

"But what about you?" "Who do you say I am?"

Hillsong Conference In Manila?

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The very last Hillsong conference held in Australia was a very fantastic event that was posted on Hillsong's website for the very first time and I was able to watch the entire program of this event but on their site only www.hillsong.com. I really have been dreaming this kind of event to have here in Manila. If that will happen here many youth will be changed, questions will be answered, brokenlives will be fixed and more youth will be more committed to God. The purpose of this blog is not to just gain readers like you because my title is really teasing or very interesting at first glance, but also to tell you guys that we can do the same thing they are doing there down under, and it is just a matter of faith and perseverance. I believe that you've also been dreaming to have this conference in Manila like what the Hillsong has in Australia, because you clicked on the link to read more about or to gain more information about it. I was just wondering since most of us want to have this conference like Hillsong has, why don't we create or manage our own, I mean doing our version of conference like this, what do you think?. I think it would be great if most of us will just make an effort to make this happen, imagine we will be having our very own conference that is being held in Cuneta or Araneta Coliseum or somewhere else, then experiencing how are lives of ones are being changed cause of this. Of course in doing this we need to consider some things like budgets, workers, places to be held at, dates of events and themes.



"who knows maybe one day we'll know that Hillsong team would want to join in our conference. Well that's just an idea of mine that I just wanna share with you and you may share your idea or view about this"

I know it would be hard and will take lots of efforts to make this happen, but if we have faith in God that He will be there for us, I really do not see any impossibilities. So encourage everyone especially those believers that really have passion on bringing people to God and have the creativity to make this amazing thing to happen. Lets start with giving out comments or suggestions on how this could be happened and handled, who wants to be a part of this history making event, until we are ready to have this in action. For now I want your interest and willingness to join and sacrificing some of your time. We would love to have your responses and suggestions, kindly put your responses to the comment field and we will respond to you at our convenient time.

"Coming together is beginning, keeping together is progress and working together is success" - Henry Ford