In His Pursuit

Pre-event picture. After watching Marvel's Civil War, I realized that we must come together and love each other as sisters-in-Christ. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to see these women following Jesus Christ. I am very unworthy to be able to lead these women because I am a sinner who still struggles and falls but I praise the Lord for His stripes that healed me. I am in Leviticus now and the marred cannot serve God in the temple yet because of the blood of Christ, it made atonement for our sins just like the blood of the animals in the old testament (Leviticus 17:11). We were the ones who sinned yet it was Jesus who died in our place, it was God who made the way. Dear God, thank You for saving us. Thank You for loving us. Thank You for allowing us to know You and love You despite of our sinfulness. Thank You because You are Great and we can trust in You. May You be glorified in our lives. In Jesus'Name, Amen.  In His Pursuit, Michel...

When your circumstance favors you, it's easy to trust God. But this life isn't like disneyland where it will always be enchanting. One morning, (I usually wake up not early in the morning, I feel like I am a night-shifter. I work late.) I was awaken by my aunt, (Michelle, Michelle!) and so with my panic, I went down as fast as I could, like the flash ! I went down and what I saw broke my heart. My mom's knee. She bumped into our sofa. There is no other thing that pains me more than seeing my mom not okay. (That is why I am rushing to finish this because she does not want me to stay late at the office.) The first thought that came to me when I saw her knee up its usual place is, I am not a doctor . My sister was out on duty and I don't know what to do. My aunt panicking and my mom's face cannot be painted, doesn't have an idea how to curl her whole leg up. I prayed. I prayed aloud. I have no control in this. I don't know what to do. This is not wha...

I value privacy the most (who would not?), at least for my life since I met the LORD (but now that I’m writing this, I don’t think I can still stand to my first claimed statement). I don’t use my facebook and so someone used it. It was a Friday, around 5:30PM, while I was in our leader’s training and about to start our prayer time when my dgroup leader for the longest time called and told me the discouraging news that I was hacked on facebook. I quickly asked the place I was in if they have a wifi, but they don’t give it to customers. The thing with me is, I don’t have that free facebook thing because I’m preventing myself from scrolling through the pages on my free times and  I’m keeping myself away from unnecessary posting of events publicly, I chose not to. I praise the Lord for my disciple who has a facebook and so I logged in, deleted the not-pleasing-to-the-Lord post and changed my password. I felt so down. I felt like it was my fault. Is that what Jesus feels whenever I t...

I love this photo even though I fell asleep. Haha. Why am I always sleeping this past few days in pictures? Haha. With the Translators Association of the Philippines One of the workshops in a mission's conference. Philippine Map Where is God leading you? Listen to God's leading. Success is being excellent where God has placed you. Glowing Map after the pins were tuck where God has placed you. My fellow campus missionaries. One Gospel 2014. "Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will listen to the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us when we listen to the voice of the LORD our God." Jeremiah 42:6 God's blessing does not depend on the place. As long as we are under God's will. Jeremiah has never been a book I would excitedly read because he is the weeping prophet and I feel like (especially the first part) it's all about consequences and wrath of God because o...

Going from point A to point B feels like A to Z. But don't fall to that trap of satan so as not to move forward. You'll be there before you know it. The Lord is the One who'll enable us to obey Him. Who will enable us to trust His promises. I am now in Jeremiah and as I was starting it, I felt like it is full of consequences. That's why he is a weeping prophet. But God showed me as I go through it that He is a loving, forgiving, merciful and a generous God. God reminded me that though I don't see the future, I know who holds it. Though the things He tell me to do doesn't make sense in the world's point of view, I can depend on His sovereign will that He won't allow me to experience pain beyond His filtering fingers. As I go through being a campus missionary, God has been teaching me to be a clean vessel for Him. Not allowing any sin to have a foothold in my life by asking for forgiveness from the people I know I didn't show Christ-likeness to ...

It’s a need… sometimes. Filipinos love to shop. If we have a past time, it would be spending the money we earned after long hours of being away from our family each and every day. I was in a mall this weekend and all I see are people who are mindful of the temporary including the person writing this. I always wanted to save my money but my banks are the shoes and pants store. Even though I don’t use credit card but it still isn’t being a godly steward of my finances. Yes, I majored in Finance but I’m not an expert. You would say, “But I would save fifty percent of the thing! Come on, when would be the next sale? It might not be here anymore.” Hello? If you just walk away, you’ll save hundred percent, duh? Didn’t you thought of, are they still making money if they’re making markdowns? It only means that they price too much! Why do you want to buy the thing? This is the most used question, even my mom used it to me a lot of times but I lied a lot of times as well. Do you ...

I was really puzzled what to write about our c'ship! It was God who allowed us to be here and all I can say is praise Him! Yes, there were factors why they won but how can you reconcile the will of God versus the skill of the basketball gods? I can still remember the time while I was sitting in a bench at our school just this basketball season which is the first term of this school year, I glared at our trophy keeping and I just prayed about us getting the championship this year. At the time, you can't really say that we'll win, I promise you! No one will bet on us even the Nationalians won't say we'll win this year's title. We just lost our superstar this year. Who'll carry us through? And I remembered an incident where I told my La Salle and UST friends that this season is ours. Not boasting but sort of yes haha, I don't know why I put my faith in what God impressed on my heart to pray for. When you believe and not doubt, you'll receive what yo...