Monday, December 8, 2008

Today is Present

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on is back.

The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation.

Every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. The man in the other bed began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside.

The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake.
Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance. As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.

One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man couldn't hear the band - he could see it. In his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words. Days and weeks passed.

One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.

As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window.
The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside.

He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed.

It faced a blank wall. The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.
The nurse responded that the man was blind and
could not even see the wall.
She said, "Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you."

Epilogue: There is tremendous happiness in making
others happy, despite our own situations.

Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled.

If you want to feel rich, just count all the
things you have that money can't buy.

"Today is a gift, that's why it is called the
present."

Thursday, November 27, 2008

When God Made You


Its always been a mystery to me,
How two hearts can come together,
And love can last forever.
But now that I have found you I believe,
That a miracle has come when God sends the perfect one.
So gone are all my questions about why,
And i've never been so sure of anything in my life

~chorus~

Oh I wonder what God was thinking,when he created you.
I wonder if He knew everything I would need,
Because he made all my dreams come true.
When God made you, He must have been thinking about me.

I promise that wherever you may go, wherever life may lead you,
With all my heart I'll be there too.
And from this moment on I want you to know,
I'll let nothing come between us, and I will love the ones you love.
So gone are all my questions about why (girl echoes):about why

Oh I wonder what God was thinking when he created you,
I wonder if He knew everythin I would need,
Because He made all my dreams come true.
When God made you He must've been thinking about me.

Bridge
He made the sun He made the moon,
To harmonize a perfect tune,
One can't do without the other they just have to be together.
And that is how I know its true,
Your for me and i'm for you and my world
Just cant be right without you in my life

Chorus
He must have heard every prayer I've been praying
I've been praying He must've knew everything I would need

When God made you, He must've been thinking about me.

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love this song so much, perfect for couples =D

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Broken or Not?

I finally came to the end of my rope.. this time i was finally shaken to decide. I guess the answer was upon in my hands, wether i will grip or i will lose my tight. I have asked God for answer for 2 years now, trying to make His hand move and make instant changes in my life. For 2 years i've been giving God question of "why?", i had believed that i need to open my senses to clearly see His answer on a way i want Him to answer me.

Days walk on, my life passed me by still gripping tight with this rope that has been actually tied me up. I prayed to God of what is His will, not knowing that it was I who wants my will to be done. I only want to hear what is lovely in my ears, I only want to do things that are pleasing with eyes, and i only love to follow what is easy for me... Until this rope (my desire) choke me up, i cried hard to God "please help me be released!" so i looked for signs that will help me be released but still my hands are glued with my rope! God didn't move, He didn't even say a thing.. i felt unloved, cast out and forgotten. But i know wherever i go i will always end up with his lap, asking him too many questions that little children do. "God im confused" i said.

It bring me tears when i heard Him speaks "let it go, my child". It cuts deep through my heart. His word seems slash me a thousand times, it paralyzed me.. I feel like the whole world crushed infront of me. I tried to resist His word many times, but the more i move gripping this tight the more it brings me pain and confusion. I sigh deep, seeing iam reaching the end of my rope.

My heart was crying seeing it has an end, i feel sad "am i a failure?" I sob and fall down, teary eyes i questioned God once more "why did you allowed me to pick up this thing and then you'll tell me to drop this out?" My heart is breaking as i slightly open my hands, my sight starts to gloom as i saw the rope falling down from my palm. It hurts me but i know it hurts Him more.

I love my rope that i rather be deaf and weary but i love you God more than my rope that i will prefer leave my dreams behind. Broken hearted i will face my tommorow but filled with hopes. You said to know you will is "do the nearest thing first, do what i can do and what i know to be correct, right now. Then you will show me what to do next." Humbly i will follow you, i leave to your hand the rope i dearly love... The very best thing i can do as of now is to follow, to trust and to believe... "you are a God and there's nothing you desire for me but to bless me" God it is in your hand, whatever you want to do to that rope it is in your care, all you just want is to see me follow you. Now, my rope is upon your will...it is either you give me new ones or give it back to me with an endless lenght...

I dearly thank you! :D

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

The Bridge Keeper

---Author Unknown----

There once was a bridge which spanned a large river. During most of the day the bridge sat with its length running up and down the river paralleled with the banks, allowing ships to pass through freely on both sides of the bridge. But at certain times each day, a train would come along and the bridge would be turned sideways across the river, allowing a train to cross it. A switchman sat in a small shack on one side of the river where he operated the controls to turn the bridge and lock it into place as the train crossed.

One evening as the switchman was waiting for the last train of the day to come, he looked off into the distance through the dimming twilight and caught sight of the train lights. He stepped to the control and waited until the train was within a prescribed distance when he was to turn the bridge. He turned the bridge into position, but, to his horror, he found the locking control did not work. If the bridge was not securely in position it would wobble back and forth at the ends when the train came onto it, causing the train to jump the track and go crashing into the river. This would be a passenger train with many people aboard.

He left the bridge turned across the river, and hurried across the bridge to the other side of the river where there was a lever switch he could hold to operate the lock manually. He would have to hold the lever back firmly as the train crossed. He could hear the rumble of the train now, and he took hold of the lever and leaned backward to apply his weight to it, locking the bridge. He kept applying the pressure to keep the mechanism locked. Many lives depended on this man's strength. Then, coming across the bridge from the direction of his control shack, he heard a sound that made his blood run cold. “Daddy, where are you?” His four-year-old son was crossing the bridge to look for him.

His first impulse was to cry out to the child, “Run! Run!” But the train was too close; the tiny legs would never make it across the bridge in time. The man almost left his lever to run and snatch up his son and carry him to safety. But he realized that he could not get back to the lever. Either the people on the train or his little son must die. He took a moment to make his decision.

The train sped safely and swiftly on its way, and no one aboard was even aware of the tiny broken body thrown mercilessly into the river by the onrushing train. Nor were they aware of the pitiful figure of the sobbing man, still clinging tightly to the locking lever long after the train had passed. They did not see him walking home more slowly than he had ever walked: to tell his wife how their son had brutally died.

Now if you comprehend the emotions which went through this man's heart, you can begin to understand the feelings of God in Heaven when He sacrificed His only Son Jesus to bridge the gap between us and eternal life. Can there be any wonder that He caused the earth to tremble and the skies to darken when His Son died naked on the cross? How does He feel when we speed along through life without giving a thought to what was done for us through Jesus Christ? How can you reject Jesus by simply saying I'm not ready, I'm not mature, my faith is different?

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“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16) “He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him?” (Romans 8:32)

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Praying for a sign or praying for God's Will

Its just a sharing.. From a person I knew so well.. There goes her story..

She knows a few friends that are prayerful. Friends of both gender that share about God and their faith. Sometimes her friends are quite amazing to her for she hears stories of faith and everytime she hears of a story of an answered prayer through signs, she always asks herself, "Hmmm.. why can't I do the same?"

Sometime ago, this girl asked her spiritual mentor what does it take to pray asking for a sign. Her mentor just told her, "When you pray, don't ask for a sign, ask for God's will about your prayer request. God answers YES, if it is a YES, NO for a declined request or IT IS NOT YET TIME. It is very important that you have a relationship with God."

With this in mind, she didn't pursue this kind of prayer eventhough she still has questions unanswered. Time flies and these unanswered questions are all cleared from her mind. And from a virtual friend's unsolicited advice, she realizes something about it.

For her virtual friend said, "There are two types of people that prays to God, first, people praying for signs and secondly, people praying for God's will. Which one are you?"

Well, as she said she's not good in asking for signs but she did ask something from God lately. She's asking for a sign. When her friend rebukes her, she questions herself, "Why do I have to ask for a sign from God when I can simply ask His will? I have a relationship with Him anyways."

So she meditates on her prayer request and examines what she really wants from God. And by His grace, things are getting clearer on her mind. It is also by God's generosity that He reveals something to her. Something that made her understand why there are some people asking for signs.

As she has been studying and reading the bible for quite sometime now, she knows of the bible stories that reflect this kind of faith. Long time ago, some prophets prayed to God ON BEHALF OF THE ISRAELITES.
and these prophets performed miracles infront of these people for them to believe and for the false prophets to be put in shame for they bowed down to a false god and led the ISRAELITES to a false faith.

Now, the revelation to her goes like this:
- Prayer is a one way communication to God. For God answers in different ways.
- Prayer is not only heard by God Himself but also by the evil spirits. When people pray asking for a sign, they may use this as a bait and fools the innocent people.
- People must understand that God's will is always good, pleasing and perfect (Many are confused by this, for they thought when they pray and something is not going on their way it is not the will of God. But the truth with it is that at a certain moment, God says, IT IS NOT YET TIME.)
- Signs from God don't change, no matter how many times You ask Him.
- Asking for sign is not for the benefit of the person's praying but ON BEHALF of the people he is praying for so that they may believe and may have faith in the Lord of heaven and earth. And this is what the prophets of God are doing.

Now, we are not yet prophet of God or never we will be so why ask God for a sign in prayers?
And which one are you? a person praying for a sign or a person praying for God's will?

God bless you all.. ^_^

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Nice Story of Forgiveness

One day a while back, a man, his heart heavy with grief, was walking in the woods. As he thought about his life this day, he knew many things were not right. He thought about those who had lied about him back when he had a job.

His thoughts turned to those who had stolen his things and cheated him. He remembered family who had passed on. His mind turned to the illness he had, that no one could cure. His very soul was filled with anger, resentment, and frustration.

Standing there this day, searching for answers he could not find, knowing all else had failed him, he knelt at the base of an old oak tree to seek the one he knew would always be there. And with tears in his eyes, he prayed:

'Lord- You have done wonderful things for me in this life. You have told me to do many things for you, and I happily obeyed. Today, you have told me to forgive. I am sad, Lord, because I cannot. I don't know how.. It is not fair Lord, I didn't deserve these wrongs that were done against me and I shouldn't have to forgive. As perfect as your way is Lord, this one thing I cannot do, for I don't know how to forgive. My anger is so deep Lord, I fear I may not hear you, but I pray you teach me to do the one thing I cannot do: Teach me to forgive .'

As he knelt there in the quiet shade of that old oak tree, he felt something fall onto his shoulder. He opened his eyes. Out of the corner of one eye, he saw something red on his shirt. He could not turn to see what it was because where the oak tree had been was a large square piece of wood in the ground. He raised his head and saw two feet held to the wood with a large spike through them.

He raised his head more, and tears came to his eyes as he saw Jesus hanging on a cross. He saw spikes in His hands, a gash in His side, a torn and battered body, deep thorns sunk into His head. Finally he saw the suffering and pain on His precious face. As their eyes met, the man's tears turned to sobbing, and Jesus began to speak.

'Have you ever told a lie?' He asked?

The man answered - 'Yes, Lord.'

'Have you ever been given too much change and kept it?'

The man answered - 'Yes, Lord.' And the man sobbed more and more.

'Have you ever taken something from work that wasn't yours?' Jesus asked?

And the man answered, 'Yes , Lord.'

'Have you ever sworn, using my Father's name in vain?'

The man, crying now, answered - 'Yes, Lord.'

As Jesus asked many more times, 'Have you ever'? The man's crying became uncontrollable, for he could only answer - 'Yes, Lord'.

Then Jesus turned His head from one side to the other, and the man felt something fall on his other shoulder He looked and saw that it was the blood of Jesus. When he looked back up, his eyes met those of Jesus, and there was a look of love the man had never seen or known before.

Jesus said, 'I didn't deserve this either, but I forgive you.'

It may be hard to see how you're going to get through something, but when you look back in life, you realize how true this statement is..

Read the following first line slowly and let it sink in.

If God brings you to it - He will bring you through it.

When Jesus died on the cross, he was thinking of you!

May God Bless You and your loved ones

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Just A Closer Walk With Thee

I am weak, but Thou art strong;
Jesus, keep me from all wrong;
I'll be satisfied as long
As I walk, let me walk close to Thee.


Just a closer walk with Thee,
Grant it, Jesus, is my plea,
Daily walking close to Thee,
Let it be, dear Lord, let it be.


Through this world of toil and snares,
If I falter, Lord, who cares?
Who with me my burden shares?
None but Thee, dear Lord, none but Thee.


Just a closer walk with Thee,
Grant it, Jesus, is my plea,
Daily walking close to Thee,
Let it be, dear Lord, let it be.


When my feeble life is o'er,
Time for me will be no more;
Guide me gently, safely o'er
To Thy kingdom shore, to Thy shore.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

READY

As a baby Christian, i am weak but strong in the Lord.

I believe i am saved by grace.

I have accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior. And i am happy about it.

God's love overflow and still overflowing in my life.

I am in a journey knowing that i will be facing lots of things and struggles are on my way. But i will be able to overcome it by His grace.

My milk are good as im used to it.

But God is feeding me with precious meat and i believe it's good for my soul.

I am READY!!!!

Eph 2:8
for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Eph 2:9
not of works, that no man should glory.