Never forget the people who invested in your life. Honor the ones who labour for your growth. Be grateful for the people who touched you in big or small ways. After all, you are who you are and where you are today because of their obedience and sacrifice. May the young generation learn to be grateful for the ones who have gone ahead of them.
—Ram Canes, New Life Tacloban
Some days, you just can’t take them back. You look again and realize they’re forever gone. What was I thinking when I signed up for those 96 hours? I feel so cheated.
Anyone can verbalize their problems to God and think they are praying. Effective prayer is when you remind God of His promises and you appropriate those promises into your life.
I know I’ve heard this many times before but just this morning, the Lord refreshed this in my heart like I was hearing it for the first time. Prayer, the preacher said, is not so much about giving God a blow by blow account of your problems. Rather, prayer is when you remind God of His promises and ask Him to fulfill those promises to your specific situations.
To some people, this is like splitting hairs over some technical definitions of prayer. It’s not. The truth is that how you approach your prayers actually spells the difference whether they’re going to be answered or not.
It all works out in the end. If it hasn’t worked out yet, then it’s not the end.
[Max Lucado]
I once tried interpreting for American missionaries who were doing a series of crusades in the Visayas some years ago. I thought it was an easy job. Little did I realize that there were so many English words that do not have local equivalents. Many times I interrupted the preacher so I could properly explain what he was actually saying. Everything was not going very well. After a few interruptions, my pastor got up, whispered in my ear and told me to quit explaining and just get on with word for word interpretation.
I eventually did. But after the crusade, I was left wondering how much truth was lost because both Cebuano and Waray-waray dialects lack words that were supposed to unveil more of God’s word.
Thankfully, our preaching of the word of God is not limited to verbal communication. We may lack the ability to use the right word at the right time but our actions can very well compensate for our linguistic deficiencies. Love and compassion are non-verbal languages that can be communicated even without the aid of high sounding words and polished grammar.
Unfortunately, so is a frown or a look of disgust.
Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions. 1 John 3: 18.
Can’t get this off my head after watching it performed in Glee.
Jojo Agot 