There Is A Longing Inside each Of Us

There is a longing inside each of us.



It is a longing that no one or nothing in this world can fill. It's a need that God created inside your heart from the very beginning. Only God can fill this longing. Only God can show you love like you have never been shown.


GOD CAN MAKE YOU WHOLE. And it begins with a relationship with Jesus. God sent Jesus as our savior. "savior" might be a new word or you. A savior is someone who recues you.

WE ALL NEED RECUING FROM THE WRONG AND IMMORAL THINGS WE DO. Which is sin. We all fall short of the standard of holiness set by God. We can try to achieve it bu being good. But that is like reaching for the unreachable. It's impossible. We can't save ourselves.

THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT GOD IS NOT WAITING AROUND FOR YOU TO CLEAN YOURSELF UP. that is something He will help you with.

GOD SENT JESUS TO EARTH TO SAVE US. Jesus took the judgment and punishment we deserve when He died on the cross. even while we were sinners. Jesus died for us. That is how much He loves us. And, He came back to life on three days, proving He has all authority even over death. He was sent by God. And he is with us now, even we do not see him.

JESUS' PART WAS TO TAKE THE PUNISHMENT ON THE CROSS. Your part is to believe and act on what Jesus did by admitting your sin, going to Him for forgiveness, and asking Him to be your savior, your rescuer. If you are saying "yes" to these things, then tell to Jesus. Just turn your mind and heart to Him and talk. If you need help in what to say, you can pray along as you read this.

"JESUS, I BELIVE YOU WERE SENT BU GOD TO TAKE THE PUNISHMENT I DESERVE AND BE MY SAVIOR. PLEASE FORGIVE ME AND FREE ME FROM MY SIN. COME INTO MY LIFE AND FILL THE LONGING IN MY HEART THAT I HAVE HAD FOR SO LONG. GUIDE ME TO UNDERSTAND AND FOLLOW YOUR WAYS. THANK YOU FOR HEARING AND ANSWERING MY PRAYER. IN YOUR NAME I PRAY, AMEN"

Subject: Touching story for professionals

This was originally shared to me by my officemate through our internal email system. The moment I reas this, I was greatly touched by this simple story yet very meaningful. I Hope you will enjoy reading this inspirational story just as I did. And one more thing, I believe this story fits for those who are working for their family that seem like lacking time for their family to spend with.


Subject: Touching story for professionals
A small touching story mainly for professionals...

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old
son waiting for him at the door.
SON: "Daddy, may I ask you a question?">>>
DAD: "Yeah sure, what it is?" replied the man.
SON: "Daddy, how much do you make an hour?"
DAD: "That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a
thing?" the man
said angrily.
SON: "I just want to know.. Please tell me, how much do you make an
hour?"
DAD: "If you must know, I make $20.00 an hour."

SON: "Oh," the little boy replied, with his head down.

SON: "Daddy, may I please borrow $10.00 ?"

The father was furious, "If the only reason you asked that is so you can
borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march
yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being
so selfish. I work hard everyday for such this childish behaviour."
The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.
The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's
questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money?
After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think:
Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that
$10.00 and he really didn't ask for money very often. The man went to
the door of the little boy's room and opened the door.
"Are you asleep, son?" He asked.

"No daddy, I'm awake," replied the boy.
"I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier" said
the man.
"It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here's
the
$10.00 you asked for."
The little boy sat straight up, smiling. "Oh, thank you daddy!" He
yelled.
Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. The
man saw that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The
little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father.
"Why do you want more money if you already have some?" the father
grumbled.
"Because I didn't have enough, but now I do," the little boy
replied.

"Daddy, I have $20.00 now. Can I buy an hour of your time?

Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you."
The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and he
begged for his forgiveness.

It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should
not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with
those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts.
Do remember to share that $20.00 worth of your time with someone you
love.


If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily
replace us in a matter of days.

But the family & friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of
their lives.
And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than to our
family.

Believe it and you shall be blessed.
The problem with many of us is that we don't believe that God will open a
Window and pour out blessings that we won't have room to receive them. I
Dare anyone to try God. He is true to His word. God cannot lie and His
Promises are sure.

Three things will happen to you this coming week:
1) You will find favour with someone you don't expect;
2) You will be too relevant to be ignored;
3) You will encounter God and you will never remain the same again.

My prayer for you today:
The eyes beholding this message shall not behold evil, the hands that will
Send this message to others shall not labour in vain, the mouth saying Amen

Have a lovely journey of life! Trust
In the Lord with all your heart and He will never fail you because He is
AWESOME!

Watch the power of God work in your life for doing the
thing that you know He loves. Remain Blessed!!!
Have an awesome day

Jer.29:11

I believe every Christian ought to commit Jeremiah 29:11 to memory: "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."


As I remember, this passage was told by God to His people, the Jews, during the time when they were being captured by the Babylonians. If I were in their situation, I would feel that future and hope are no longer possible for us to achieve and our world has finally ended. They may have thought that God had forgotten about them and their situation.

So God reassured them of their future by saying "For I know the plans I have for you,plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

Naiisip ko tuloy na na maaari may mga tao dito ngayon na iniisip na baka tuluyan na silang kinalimutan at pinabayaan ng Diyos. Maaaring hinaharap nila ngayon ang napakahirap na suliranin sa kanilang buhay.

Isipin na lang natin na sa kabila ng kalagayan ng mga Hudyo sa kamay ng mga taga-babylon, ang Diyos ay may nakalaan pa rin magandang plano para sa kanilang buhay.

Israel was being disciplined for their disobedience. Not because God hated them, but because God loved them.

Kung sa tingin mo ay dinidisiplina ka ni God ngayon, nais ko na alalahanin mo ito: Revelation 3:19 (ESV) "Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent."

So because God loves us and we are His child, He will do all the necessary things in our life so we can be the people He wants us to be. So next time you feel that God has forgotten you just remember Jeremiah 29:11.

Tough Enough?

While doing my devotion I was able to come across the teaching of Jesus about loving your enemies. For me this is one of the remarkable teachings of Jesus about being a follower of Him, loving your enemy instead of fighting them back. Probably when this teaching was heard by those people living in Jesus' times said , "Have you gone mad? Love your enemies while Moses told us that tooth for a tooth and eye for an eye?".


We both understand and agree that it is not that easy to follow this law of loving your enemies. It's not easy especially if they hurt us so bad and so deep. We mostly fight back when our feelings are being hurt and when someone just stepped on our pride. I do not know about you and what you are going through right now but I believe that if anyone of us has Christ and his love in our life and heart, there is nothing impossible and everything will be just easy to do even loving our worst enemy.

Jesus said: "You have heard that it was said, "Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" (Matthew 5:43-44).

Today let us ask ourselves; Are we tough enough to take this challenge? Tough enoug to set aside all the bad things that were made to us by our enemies,persecutors and people who hurt us?

If so...

Why don't we grab a pen and paper and try to write down all their names and let us include them in our prayers. Let's pray for them like what jesus did when he was being crucified (Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing (Luke 23:34). Let us also pray for ourselves that God would give us strengtth and courage to love those people and understand them and give us more patience and love for one another. Let start it tonight listing down their names and praying for them and start loving them tommorow and show them who Jesus' followers really are and what love is all really about!

Please take also time to meditate on the following verses below that give us reason and some point why we have to love our enemies:

God commands us to love.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another (John 13:34).

But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you (Luke 6:27-28).

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse (Romans 12:14).

We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it (1 Corinthians 4:12).

Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord. On the contrary: "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head." Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good (Romans 12:17-21).

Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing (1 Peter 3:9).

Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble (1 John 2:9-10).

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another (John 13:35).

But what does it matter? The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice (Philippians 1:18).

Wothless Or Priceless?

The death and resurrection of Jesus was the only way our sins were forgiven. We are all aware that by breaking God's law (sinning), death will be the penalty of it no matter what.

There are a lot of great religious teachers and founders throughout human history. When it comes to teaching, there were all good at it. Everyone of them had a gifted mind and incredible way of teaching. Jesus was one of them, founder, teacher, leader. But Jesus was very different among them. What makes Jesus so different among them? It is because Jesus was the only one who died and rose again from the dead. No other religious leader has ever claimed of going back to life from being dead, only Jesus.

Here below are some of the bible passages that tell about the ressurrection of Jesus.

John 11:25-26
Romans 1:4-5
Romans 6:8-11
Philippians 3:10-12
1 Peter 1:3
Matthew 27:50-53
Matthew 28:1-10
Mark 16:1-8
Luke 24:1-12

This truth is extremely important. Pastor Rick Warren (Author of best selling book Purpose Driven Life) said: "That's of critical importance because it's not the life of Jesus that saves you; it's not the teachings of Jesus that save you; it's His death and resurrection that open the door for your salvation."

Christ died for our sins and bible clearly supports that. No one is perfect, everyone has failures and no one is good enough before God. That's true. All of us have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Roamns 3:23).

Bible teaches us that justice requires punisment. That if you do a crime, you must pay the time. That if you break God's laws, you must pay the penalty of it which is according to the bible, "The wages [for our] sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23).

In other words, there should be someone to pay for all the wrong-doings we have done against God. It's either us or someone else to be the one to pay for us. And at this time, Jesus came down from heaven in the very human form and willingly offered His life for the full restoration of the broken fellowship with the father. For us to have the full pardon from God. For the forgiveness of sins that were made by our forefathers and sins that were also made by ourselves. For us to have life with Him in heaven. For us not be condemned by God anymore. For us to be taken away from the threat of fires of hell. For us to show that Jesus really cares for us.

The Good news is: "Through the blood of His Son, we are set free from our sins. God forgives our failures because of His overflowing kindness" (Ephesians 1:7)

PAstor Warren also said that when Jesus died on the cross, two things were revealed to us!

1. It shows how much our forgiveness cost.
2. It shows how much God values us.

The highest price we can pay for anything is to give our life for it. And that's what Jesus did. He gave His blood. He gave His life. It was extremely expensive. Grace is free but it is not cheap. It cost Jesus His life, but He paid for our sins.

How much are your worth? Jesus says, with His arms stretched out on the cross, "This much I'm willing to die for you." You may think that you're worthless because of things you've done wrong. But Jesus says, "No. You're priceless. And I'm willing to give My life in order to pay for your sins."

Love

What are your plans this coming holy week?

Most of us have great plans for this upcoming Holy week. Some will spend this time with their families. Taking vacation in some wild and cool resorts and beaches all around the nation or even out-of-the-country trip. Enjoying the given non-working holydays.

Those are good and that is undisputable. But the most important of all is the true meaning of holy week. Before we go to the celebration party, let's take a little and quiet time with the Lord meditating on the real message of this Holy week. And offer a "Thank You" Prayer to Him!

For me it is all about salvation and victory!

Jesus died for us, bearing the ugliest punishment that a man could ever have for the forgiveness of sin.

God bless People. Let's continue to serve, worship and praise Jesus for all those things that He has done for us!