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Want to experience the fullness of Christ? Compromise no more. Don’t cooperate with the world and stop cutting on the edges because the whole piece will deteriorate and will soon eat up everything.

God is faithful to provide a way out whenever we are tempted. 1 Corinthians 10:13 (NASB) No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it. Resist temptation. 2 Timothy 2:22 Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. 

Faithful by Chris Tomlin

So, how are we going to be pure? Fully surrender our lives to God. This takes humility. This is very hard for me at first well until now because I always want my own way. I’m never conforming to what others want that’s why when I barely knew Christ, I was the complainer in class and the one who would not follow instructions if I don’t want to. To some who knows my testimony we, together with my High School batch mates protested and rallied just to push our way in our Senior year, because we wanted to have a retreat but we weren’t allowed to by the administration. Our catchphrase: No retreat, no surrender. I regret that part in my life again because I wasn’t standing up for God. I didn’t become a good testimony among my batch mates. The salt lost its saltiness and the light grew dim. Jesus commands us to live our lives worthy of the calling of God, to be pure and blameless before Him. He isn’t requiring us to be sinless because we will never be but He wants us to surrender moment by moment to Him and allow Him to control our thoughts, heart, actions and words to sin less and less and less.

To be pure in heart, mind, motives, words and actions. Guarding our hearts and minds and focusing it on Jesus. Proverbs 4:23. God’s commands are not lists of dos and don’ts. We are in a relationship and not in a championship so we do things out of our adoration not obligation. How? It starts with our heart. Let us not copy what the Pharisees do who focus on the externals, rather focus on the important part--- the heart. Mark 7:1-23

How’s your heart? This is the line I would always ask my disciples, the women whom God entrusted me, everytime they end their updates for the week. It’s something that will make anyone’s face kilig. Most of the time it is about someone but let us make that Someone, the LORD. I am still under construction in this area, having a healthy heart that feeds on God’s love alone and on no one else because He’s the only love that satisfies.

According to the law, even though you own a huge lot but somebody owns a small portion of it inside your lot, you still have to allow that person to use your land to be able to pass through and go to his own land. Along the way, it’s unavoidable that some parts of the land will wear away and will not look the best as it can be. Same with our own hearts, if we relish sin in our hearts, may it be bitterness, unforgiveness or a desire that do not please God, it will all wear our hearts down and we will never experience the fullness of Christ’s love, joy, peace and we will never be able to manifest these fruit of the Spirit in our lives because it is corrupted. The principle: we can never give something that we do not have.


If you have a spouse who loves you just 99.9% and asks for permission from you to just love another person by .1%, is that fair? No way! Same with God, God has loved us overwhelmingly and we ought to love Him also a hundred percent, everything in us. Do not keep a ‘don’t disturb sign’ on even a single room in your lives. Give the keys to God. Allow Him to handle the steering wheel, to the One who’s worthy and who knows everything.♥


Dear LORD, search me and reveal to me the rooms in my life that I’ve been holding on. I lift them up to You. Control my heart, my thoughts, my actions and my words that everything in me will just please You. That I will be kept pure and that I’ll always step back when tempted and not choose to compromise but choose to follow You alone. In Jesus name, Amen.


In His Pursuit,

Michelle Aquino ♡




Please pray for me also in this area of my life. I’m not perfect. Do send your prayer requests to: michelleaquino13@gmail.com so I can pray for you also. With love, Michelle. ♥


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