Category: Christian Living

Broken people with exhausted hearts, dead tired Christians almost at the point of giving up… do not lose hope. You are loved and cherished more than you can ever imagine. Jesus cares about you.

He knows the weary road you’ve traveled. He is familiar with the pain you are going through. He walked the thorny path you are walking in. He bled before a thorn pierced your foot.

Come to him, all of you who are weary and heavily laden. He will restore your strength. He will bind your wounds. He will put soothing balm on your bruises. He will refresh you with healing waters. He will put a pillow under your head. He will give rest for your souls. Continue reading Exhausted Hearts

October 24.

There’s so much to be thankful for today. Every time I look back at the last few years of my life, I am amazed at how God brought me here by his grace. My heart overflows with joy right now. King David was right. Who am I that I would be a recipient of much of God’s loving-kindness?

I thank God for giving me one of life’s constant graces: the Agot family. I love this family to bits, especially during those times when we had our bitter fights and we were all sagging under the weight of our strained relationships. This family gives me a living picture of the triumph of grace over sin. Grace wins every time. We remain closely knit until today because God is the one pulling our heartstrings together. Continue reading Shout-Out to the People I Love

As a pastor, this has always baffled me. I have had my fair share of praying for the sick when the patient instantaneously recovered. One particular incident that stood out in my memory happened years ago when I visited a home in the interior part of Samar. A young boy got so sick that he has been refusing food for days. When I arrived at their home, it was like a cloud of death was hovering over the entire household. Without much words, I went under the mosquito net where the child was lying, took the child in my arms, put my palms on both sides of his head, prayed a prayer of supplication, and commanded the sickness to leave him in the name of Jesus. I could literally feel the boy’s temperature going down while I was praying. When we said our Amens, the child asked for food. He lived.

I wish all my prayers are like that. I wish I could say that every single one person I prayed for received instant healing. They didn’t. Some are healed gradually. Some don’t recover at all.  Continue reading Why Some People Don’t Get Healed

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Seeking the Face of God: Nine Reflections on the Psalms (Wheaton:Crossway Books, 2005), p. 34

You will never make yourself feel that you are a sinner, because there is a mechanism in you as a result of sin that will always be defending you against every accusation. We are all on very good terms with ourselves, and we can always put up a good case for ourselves. Even if we try to make ourselves feel that we are sinners, we will never do it. There is only one way to know that we are sinners, and that is to have some dim, glimmering conception of God.

 

One of the tragic things that could happen to a believer is when he tries to serve God while neglecting the growth of his own soul. It’s like trying to run the race of life in the fuel of his own strength, or trying to build a tall tower using match sticks and crumpled papers.