HOW HE LOVES US

December 19, 2011

HOW HE LOVES US

Kim Walker

(Verse 1)
He is jealous for me
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy
When all of a sudden
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory
And I realize just how beautiful You are
And how great Your affections are for me

(Pre-Chorus)
And O how He loves us
Oh, O how He loves us
How He loves us all

(Chorus)
Yeah He loves us
O how He loves us
O how He loves us
O how He loves

(Verse 2)
We are His portion and He is our prize
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes
If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking
So Heaven meets earth like an unforeseen kiss
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest
I don't have time to maintain these regrets
When I think about the way

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His presence, His love, is so thick and tangible in this room tonight~ and there are some of you who have not encountered the love of God. And tonight, God wants to encounter You, and wants you to feel His love, His amazing love. Without it, these are just songs, these are just words, these are just instruments. Without the love of God, we’re just up here making noise! But the love of God changes us, and we’re never the same until we encounter the love of God. And right now, if you would have encountered the love of God, and YOu would know because you would never be the same, you would never be the same again! And If you wanna encounter the love of God, right now, You better have to brace yourself, because He is about to blow in this  place! And so we are going to encounter the love of GOD.

So, God, I speak to all the hearts al I ask God that every heart be open right now, every spirit be open up to You God... and a love encounter from You tonight…

-       KIM WALKER (on live concert)

MY NOVEMBER TO REMEMBER

03 November 2016

 

MY NOVEMBER TO REMEMBER

Dear Lord

          I'm gettin' old

          But I would still behold

          and laugh at silly things untold

32 this very day

          Oh how you always made a way

          For me to see Your grace

          With Your beauty I'm amazed

As my life is running

          You have me count my blessings

          & I'm pretty sure from day one to now

          I would fall on my knees and bow

 

Oh Lord

          How my life is fleeting

          My days as an handbreadth

          & mine age is nothing before You

So as the psalmist, I also pray

          "Lord make me to know my end

          & the measure of my days

          that I may know how frail I am"

Father, You have sought me

          All because You love me

          So in return, what can I give?

          Oh my life, my life is Yours alone

I know I'm getting old

          My hairs turning grey, my beauty is slowly fading

          But to know that I am Yours and You are mine

          My God, that truth is more than enough

So with this grateful silly heart

          I pray that my life song sings and praise You with might

          For yes I am 32

          & I am eternally loved by You.

 

CHRIST-Centered life

December 19, 2011

9:00pm

CHRIST-CENTERED LIFE

Thank You Father for reminding us once more- through the life of guru, Pastor Bernard Rosario that CHRISTmas is all about YOU. How You dealt sin, how You- the LIGHT, the LIFE, the CREATOR and the WORD, came to save us tremendously to our sins!

Thank You Father for loving us.. Incomprehensibly!!

Oh, how great is Your love!

You are our God. Our mighty God who is MIGHTY TO SAVE!

May our hearts beat only for You..

In everything that we do, WE DO ALL FOR THE GLORY OF GOD!

Thank You Lord for the life of guru- may You greatly use him.. People need men!

We need to see JESUS in MEN!

John 1:1-5

English Standard Version (ESV)

The Word Became Flesh

1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was in the beginning with God. ³  All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. ⁴  In him was life,^[a] and the life was the light of men. ⁵  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Dangerous Duty of Delight

December 18, 2011

11:50 pm

(Christmas Concert 2011)

“Praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment

Worship is not added to jot, and joy is not the by-product of worship. Worship is the VALUING OF GOD. And when this valuing is intense, it is joy in God.

Therefore, the essence of worship is delight in God, which displays His all-satisfying value.”

-       JOHN PIPER (The Dangerous Duty of Delight)

All glory, all honor

Is only due to Your Holy Name!

You are worthy of all praise!

My heart will sing

How great is our God!

Thank You Lord!

I am in awe of Your

Great love to us

HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD

Chris Tomlin

The splendor of a King, clothed in majesty
Let all the earth rejoice
All the earth rejoice

He wraps himself in Light, and darkness tries to hide
And trembles at His voice
Trembles at His voice

How great is our God, sing with me
How great is our God, and all will see
How great, how great is our God

Age to age He stands
And time is in His hands
Beginning and the end
Beginning and the end

The Godhead Three in One
Father Spirit Son
The Lion and the Lamb
The Lion and the Lamb

Name above all names
Worthy of our praise
My heart will sing
How great is our God

How great is our God, sing with me
How great is our God, and all will see
How great, how great is our God

ADVICE TO SINGLES

November 28, 2011

9:30pm

Psalm 31:14-15

English Standard Version (ESV)

¹⁴ But I trust in you, O Lord;
    I say, “You are my God.”
¹⁵ My times are in your hand;

My advice to singles who want to marry is: hang on. Don’t despair of God’s resources, so infinitely greater than ours. Don’t limit His capacity to bring a mate out of nowhere, when the pool of candidates seems small and hopeless. Don’t chafe at Scriptures stress in waiting to know God’s will in the matter.He has a will for You, whether you follow it or not. When you get ahead of God and try to force things, the consequences are often tragic. The statistics tell the tale, so do he personnel cases we all hear of misfired romance and wretched marriages.-       TOM GRIFFIN (from Elisabeth Elliot’s QUEST FOR LOVE)

LOOK FOR CHRIST

November 24, 2011

12:07 pm

The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up your self, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. - C.S. LEWIS

PURITY

November 24, 2011

10:01 pm

Tonight was a night of sadness Lord. The thought and knowing of the sanctity and purity of marriage is very rare nowadays and to see that “everybody” can be “satisfied” sexually in always everywhere at every one gives an overwhelming sorrow, most to the fact of knowing that your “friends’ somehow gave it “away”.

Chastity nowadays is a “blur” to those who are “in” for the sin. Even the “suppose Christians” does it.

I am hoping that there is still a “man” who has the courage to pay the prize of “commitment”, who would also “treasure” the “purity” within him, who would greatly value “chastity” and will patiently for the “approved” time- that is MARRIAGE.

Lord, as I wait for my true love, it may be possible that the one that I would love already gave it away, but turned away from sin, and humbly repented his sins and You washed and forgiven him... then if you would give me that man, then I would thankfully and praise You still and receive with wide open arms of your “gift” to me.

I am waiting patiently for that “man” whom I’m praying and hoping for. I pray that he is a man of courage not brevity, a man who could commit, who would be faithful and true, who has high standards, but knows how to keep it low, a man who knows to laugh, who can see life in a joyful and thankful way, who prays and sings, and dance for joy, even when is not. I pray that he is man who honors marriage and believes in marriage... I pray that he would love to see me grow in my faith and help me in my faith... I pray that he would be my protector, encourager, a lover and a friend.

Above everything else, I pray to see You in him…

Whoever he might be Father, as I wait on him and believes that You’ve created someone for me and me for him, may You grant us the desire to “wait patiently” upon You Lord.

This world is imperfect, and the one that You would give me is a mere imperfect, sinful man, just as I am. But by Your grace- You will make us whole and perfect according to Your riches and glory, according to Your unending mercy and unending love..

Guide us O Lord, to walk in the light and path of righteousness... we abide in You Father, we need You...

Be with us all now ad forevermore...

Amen.

We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection."  C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity

C.S.LEWIS QUOTES

November 23, 2011

1:06 pm

God is not hurried along in the time-stream of this universe any more than an author is hurried along in the imaginary time of his own novel. He has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. He does not have to deal with us in the mass. You are as much alone with Him as if you are the only being He had created. When Christ died, he died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only man in the world.”

God has no history. He is too completely and utterly real to have one.

“at first if is natural for a baby to take its mother’s milk without knowing its mother. It is equally natural for us to see the man who helps us without serving Christ behind him. but we must not remain babies. We must go on to recognize the real Giver. It is madness not to. Because, if we do not, we shall be relying on human beings. And that is going to let us down. The best of them will make mistakes; all of them will die. We must be thankful to all the people who have helped us, we must honour them and love them. But never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand: but do not try building a house on it.”

God looks at you as you were a little Christ” Christ stands beside you to turn you into one.

Christ says “Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don’t want to cut off a branch here and a branch there, I want to have the whole tree down. I don’t want to drill the tooth, or crown it, or stop it, but to have it out. Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked-the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.”

Laziness means more work in the long run.

The cowardly thing is also the most dangerous thing.

He never talked vague, idealistic gas. When he said, “Be perfect,” He meant it. He meant that we must go in for the full treatment. It is hard; but the sort of compromise we are all hankering after is harder-in fact, it is impossible. It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg.

We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

He warned people to “count the cost” before becoming Christians. “Make no mistake,” He says, “if you let me, I will make you perfect. The moment you put yourself in My hands, that is what you are in for. Nothing less, or other, than that. You have free will, and if you choose, you can push Me away. But if you do not push Me away, understand that I am going to see this job through. Whatever suffering it may cost you in your earthly life, whatever inconceivable purification it may cost you after death, whatever it costs Me, I will never rest, nor let you rest, until you are literally perfect-until my Father can say without reservation that He is well pleased with you, as He said He was well pleased with me. This I can do and will do. But I will not do anything less.”

As a great Christian writer (George MacDonald) pointed out, every father is pleased at the baby’s first attempt to walk: no father would be satisfied with anything less than a firm, free, manly walk in a grown-up son. In the same way, he said, “God is easy to please, but hard to satisfy.”

To shrink back from that plan is not humility; it is laziness and cowardice. To submit to it is not conceit or megalomania; it is obedience.

Mere Christianity Quotes

November 21, 2011

11:00 pm

"A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it;  and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian.  I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself:  and I cannot love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God:  and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey Him.  And so, as I warned you, we are driven on to something more inward -- driven on from social matters to religious matters.  For the longest way round is the shortest way home."

“everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”

Charity means ‘Love, in the Christian sense’. But love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people...."

Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will. If we are trying to do His will we are obeying the commandment, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God.” He will give us feelings of love if He pleases. We cannot create them for ourselves, and we must not demand them as a right. But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him."

"Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists."

"If  I found myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."

Daily prayers and religious readings and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

The first half is, "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling"--which looks as if everything depended on us and our good actions: but the second half goes on, "For it is God who worketh in you"--which looks as if God did everything and we nothing.

MERE CHRISTIANITY

November 19, 2011

5:00 pm

MERE CHRISTIANITY : C.S. Lewis

“ God keeps no one on  the waiting unless He sees that it is good for Him to wait.”

BIRTHSARY LETTER

19 June 2016

My Everdearest Lex,

Happy 29th birthday and Happy 3rd Anniversary sa ating dalawa.!

I can still remember kung paano mong nakuha ang "OO" ko, 3 years ago. I never wanted to say yes on your birthday, kasi I believed memories or days should be celebrated separately. But it is God's grace na maging tayo on  your birthday. As King Solomon said, "Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails." Proverbs 19:21. So yes, it is God's plan and His amazing grace that we are celebrating today two special moments. Biro mo, isang gift na lang ang bibigay ko sayo? Laking tipid nun ha! (^_________________^)

So, what should I say to you  on this special day bukod sa greetings? I had been thinking for weeks kung ano ba ang magandang ihanda for you. Collage? (given na un) Poem? (last year na un) Surprise Gift? (wala pa kong sahod e) and ngayon ngang birthday mo na, wala akong naihanda. Bukod sa etong simpleng sulat ko sa yo na mababasa mo na lang sa BIBER.

So tutsky, pagpasensyahan mo na kung LOVELETTER muna (bawi ka na lang pag-uwi ko hehehe)

We've been together for a year and 2 months, and apart for a year and 9 months. So, mas matagal tayong magkahiwalay kesa magkasama... But, it is by God's grace alone kung bakit TAYO pa rin. Long Distance Relationship ay mahirap. It takes a lot of patience, of trust, of understanding in order for us to survive. I have my ups and downs, my lonely nights and sad days, when I think of how far I am with you, with my family and friends. At least my technology, so we can chat and call and see each other. Though sometimes, kulang pa rin (or maybe sa akin lang). Sometimes, I long to see you more, at mahirap dahil umaga jan (work mode ka na), gabi pa  sakin (tulo lway mode). Pag work mode naman ako, pagod ka na and you have to take your rest. So... it is in those little times, and pasingit-singit na kamusta mode, kwento mode sa Biber, are reminders that SOMEONE IS WAITING. It is in these little times, that we are reminded that we are loved, we are cared.

For those months that we've survived and until now we continue to hold on to that promise to "WAIT FOR ME AS I WAIT FOR YOU"

I love you Lex and everyday of my life is a life of thanksgiving to God for giving me YOU.

I will always thank God for you... for your Love, for your Understanding, for your big heart, for all your hard work (para makaipon at may pambayad ^_____________^).

Ilang buwan na lang and we will be together again and a year from now, WALA NG IWANAN.

Enjoy your day tutsky ko! Know that I am always praying for you, and for the both of us.

I miss you more than you could imagine.

Loving you always,

Joh

God keeps no one on the waiting

November 19, 2011

5:00 pm

MERE CHRISTIANITY : C.S. Lewis

MUNTING PANALANGIN

November 04, 2011

10:07 pm

MUNTING PANALANGIN

Salamat sa Iyo O, Panginoon ko

Sa lahat ng nangyari

Sa loob ng dalawampu’t anim na taon

Lungkot man o ligya

Sa sakit at ginhawa

Sa bawat oras ay kasama Kita

Dalangin ko sana’y Iyong pakinggan

Sa sa isang taon muli

Iyong gabayan

At sa aking paglalakbay

Ay lagi kong iisipin

Ikaw ang lagi kong kapiling…

Dear Lord

November 03, 2011

9:34 pm

Dear Lord,

Another year… of hopes, joys, failures, sadness, journeys, laughter’s, cries, struggles, burdens, triumphs, victories… and its always humbling to know that You’ve graciously an patiently molding, waiting, holding on me for 27 years... and Lord, I am amazed.

My yesterdays are gone, my childhood dreams are gone. But I have today. Yours is tomorrow… and You’ve always taught me to live my todays- Today- and not my yesterdays… yes I have committed so many mistakes and wrong doings, but it is in those mistakes that I’ve learned, grow and mature into who I am today..

Question is, who am I now Lord, today? Journey still continues…

There are many valleys and shadows Lord, but You are my light and salvation, whom shall I fear?

Lord, it is and has been my greatest pleasure to serve You and praise You and worship You.

In my highs and lows, in my burning passion and in coldness… you have seen me and work still through me and in me…

Father, I pray Thee that I will not let any thing occupy my heart that will diminish Your glory... you are the rightful throne of my life... let not earthly desires or earthly possessions exchange You in my heart and in my life Lord.

Lord, lead me... I will always need You...

For all the people I loved and cared about, my families, my friends, my church... You are forever faithful and You, by Your grace and mercy will continually bring forth blessings upon blessings on them and to them, thank You Father…

I may not see my tomorrow, but I know YOU HOLD MY TOMORROW.

Hold me close Father, into Your loving arms... I’m forever grateful to You…

Amen

Dances for Your Glory

November 02, 2011

9:36 pm

CHANGE

Group1 Crew

Woke up this morning, put on my make up
I didn't stop to think of what’s going on
Outside my window, the world is changing
I can't remember where it all went wrong

I see people crying and families hurting
A mama's praying that her baby comes home
I see the future of a better place

So I wanna make, make this a place
Where we can forget all the problems of yesterday
Let's make a change for a better today
Let it begin with me, make it reality, I wanna change

I never believed that, that, that things will never change
'Cause whenever I look back, back, nothing has stayed the same
Except that all I see are shadows of me, times where
I just fail to believe that faith is not whatever you see
But hoping what it really could be

So we can make a difference if we turn it around
The world is upside down
The revolution starts inside, yeah
Change, make this a place
Where we can forget all the problems of yesterday
Let's make a change for a better today
Let it begin with me, make it reality, I wanna change
I wanna change

In need a better future, let's be a part of the cure
Where unity can be the brush to paint a better picture
We need to plant a seed of something we're all in need off
Through God we can make this world
Into something we only dream of

So we can make a difference if we turn it around
The world is upside down

Make this a place
Where we can forget all the problems of yesterday
Let's make a change for a better today
Let it begin with me, make this reality, I wanna change
I wanna change, I wanna change, I wanna change
I wanna change, I wanna change

WALKING ON THE STARS

GROUP1 CREW

I see my life sometimes and I ask why 
My heart became like stone and turned to ice tell me what have I become 
But you came just in time like a shooting star across my universe out of the dark tell me what have I become 

Take me away 
You save me from myself and all I do 
Cause life just aint the same when I'm with you 
I can climb the sky you got me walking on the stars

I see life through new set of eyes 
Set on someone different that I never realized 
Outside my mind is a lost world that lies 
But step into my thoughts you'll believe you can fly 
Your words like wings gravity they defy 
My heart like a leaf on the wind catchin rides 
They say we can't make it at least we gotta try 
We make to much sense to foolishly pass it by 
So I'm taking a rainbow up to the 5th floor 
Steppin out to see that you're really worth more and I 
See our love in 3d 
No more 2 dimensional worries 
Climb until the sky don't exist no more 
That's when I'll knock knock on your front door 
[- From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/g/group-1-crew-lyrics/walking-on-the-stars-lyrics.html -]
Open to the possibilities I ignored 
But I know now exactly what our love was meant for 

Take me away 
You save me from myself and all I do 
Cause life just aint the same when I'm with you 
I can climb the sky you got me walking on the stars

Now, I can see my life from way up high 
And all the troubles I once knew I left behind 
I can climb the sky you got me walking on the stars

And I can see, much more clear 
When I'm lost in your atmosphere 
You pull me close, to the place 
Where you're always waiting 
So I won't stop, the walls are down 
Make my way at the speed of sound 
Hold me now hold me now

Lord, Take me away 
You save me from myself and all I do 
Cause life just aint the same when I'm with you 
I can climb the sky you got me walking on the stars

I can see my life from way up high 
And all the troubles I once knew I left behind 
I can climb the sky you got me walking on the stars

Lord, it is my humble prayer to bring out the dance in me , to bring praise to Your Most Holy Name.

Thank You, that I would be able to share again a dance on these wonderful songs.

You are my rhythm, my song, my moves, my dance.

May very move that I make, I move with You and for You.

Acts 17:28

English Standard Version (ESV)

²⁸ for In him we live and move and have our being’;^[a]

 

Psalm 149:3

English Standard Version (ESV)

³ Let them praise his name with dancing,

2 Samuel 6:14

English Standard Version (ESV)

¹⁴ And David danced before the Lord with all his might.

The Christian Life is

October 29, 2011

8:56 pm

The Christian life is an exchange life. Jesus life for your life, when Christ takes control, your life takes on dimensions you would never have known apart from Him.

·         When we are weak, then Christ demonstrates His strength in your life

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

English Standard Version (ESV)⁹ But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. ¹⁰  For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

·         When you face situations that are beyond your comprehension, you have only to ask, and the infinite wisdom of God is available to you.

James 1:5-6

English Standard Version (ESV)⁵  If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ⁶ But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

·         When you are faced with humanly impossible situations, God does the impossible.

Luke 18:27

English Standard Version (ESV)²⁷ But he said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”

·         When you encounter people whom you find difficult to love, God expresses His unconditional love through you.

1 John 4:7

English Standard Version (ESV)

God Is Love⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

·         When you are at “loss” to what you should pray for someone, the Spirit will guide you in you in your prayer life.

Romans 8:16

English Standard Version (ESV)¹⁶  The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

·         When Christ takes up residence in the life of a believer,

Ephesians 3:19English Standard Version (ESV)¹⁹ and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

is available to that person

It is marvelously freeing to know that God controls our life and knows what it can become. Rather than constantly worrying about what you will face, your great challenge is to continually  release every area of your life to God’s control. The temptation will be to try to do by yourself what only God can do.

Our assignment is to “abide in the vine” and to allow God to do in and through us what only He can do.

John 15:5 English Standard Version (ESV)⁵ I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Only God can be God.  Allow Him to live out His divine life through you. He is the only ONE WHO CAN.

-       HENRY AND RICHARD BLACKABY (Reality, 7 Truths from Experiencing God)

God, only You can be the God of my entire life. I am holding on, trusting, because You hold my future, my tomorrows, the days to come. I am surrendering to Your perfect will, let it be done on me, my life. my life is in You Lord.. I SURRENDER ALL TO THEE..

With all my heart, have THY WAY.

All to Thee my perfect Saviour

I surrender all..