Creepy awesome
MY BANNER OF FAITH: Recover. Renew. Re-focus.
I have been in such a roller coaster ride lately—one moment I’m happy, then the next completely the opposite. I know that God never left me, though.
Just recently I have experienced a complete failure, regarding my studies (no failing grade, okay). I did not take my voice exam. I wasn’t ready. But why? I know in my heart I have been studying. Hard. They say there’s something wrong with how I study my pieces, plus the fact that weeks before the exam, my voice isn’t in the right condition. So okay. All things work together for good. I have cried about it, yes, but I just have to move on and do better next time.
So of course my Dad found out about it, I’m suppose to tell it to him, anyway. Naturally, he was less than happy about it. He was mad. Then I realized he wasn’t just mad about it, but about two other things too: my phone bill, which is thousands more than what we’re suppose to pay, and me going home during Thursdays/Fridays when I still have to be in the City during Saturdays. I. AM. SO. SCREWED.
Anyway, I moved on. I mean, things like that really happens. But then, later on I realized there’s something blocking God’s favor from getting to me. When God blesses someone, it’s free-flowing! I mean yes, I’m happy, but not that fulfilled. I know that with God in my life there is always FULLNESS of EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING!
Just moments ago, I just spoke to my Spiritual Mom, Nanay Revi, and while we are talking, God stitched everything together.
This past few months, things in U-Turn Youth Gig was, well, stagnant. People just come and go. Our numbers decreased. And decreased. We all lost our focus: to win souls, and make disciples of Jesus. I lost my focus. So my co-officers lost theirs, too. It was today, then, I realized that my favor status depends on how I focus on winning souls for God. Remember:
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“The joy of the Lord is my strength” Nehemiah 8:10, Psalm 28:7
So today I have to start to recover. Ask God to renew my heart, mind, and spirit. And refocus myself on what I really have to do.
I have learned to make any part of my life-including my studies- as “extra curricular activities”, and have myself focus on my real purpose: to love God and to love others; to win souls and make them disciples of Jesus.
I would like to share one of my Devotions in Joshua 4 : SYMBOL OF FAITH AND GOD’S GREATNESS TO ME.
In this chapter, God asked Joshua to put twelve stones on the Jordan river as a symbol of God’s miracles—that they were able to pass the river with a dry ground. Those twelve stones will be the BANNER of their faith for the people to see.
As I was reflecting on this, God told me what my banner of faith will be: the souls I will win for Jesus. They will be the sole testimony that God is awesome in my life. That He IS doing extraordinary things in my life.
These events of course gave me an extra push to pursue my real purpose in life.
So now, I have work to do. Some REAL work to do, Lord. Help me fulfill my sole purpose in life. Apart from you I am nothing, but through You I can do all things. :)
CITY WALL
“And when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people will shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall down flat.” Joshua 6:5
I just had goose bumps just when I was reading this verse—whoah! What was that? Then I realized I was intensely read
CITY WALLS
“And when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people will shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall down flat.” Joshua 6:5
I just had goose bumps just when I was reading this verse—whoah! What was that? Then I realized I was intensely read
