God's Word

God's word

It's been a long long week since we've blogged again, sorry to keep you all waiting, :D! In the past few weeks was just a battle for us all, we've been attacked from every angles of our lives. In our schools, homes, friends, in our church and in every part of our lives. You can feel that everyone in our youth group are not that on fire for the Lord, and that's also the reason that we're not blogging in the past few weeks. But praise God coz I know He has revived some of us, the service lately was great, Pastor Steven, leader of the 2nd british team, shared with us his testimony. Just a single word from the Lord can change your life you know, and the word of the Lord to me is "follow your heart", coz right now I'm in a crossroad, but praise God coz He has given me guidance in my life, but I'll still pray for it! :D

Ok, let's get back to our youth group. last week one of our youths in our church, her name is Helene, send us some article about the fellowship we've had with the 1st british team, which is led by Dr. John Andrews. Ok, so here it is...

Last Saturday Night(March 08, 2008), we conducted a great service. We have a visitor from England. Some of the members of the team shared their testimonies, then praise and worship. After the praise and worship, the British team presented a presentation that gives a moral lesson; that life is tiring especially when your daily chores are the same, you're restless but you'll never grow weary when you're doing it all for the Lord, :D. Then after the presentation of the team, our youth group also presented a presentation, hehe, it is called "unity". The British team enjoyed our presentation. Then after all the presentations, we listened to the WORD OF GOD. Marcos, one of the British team, shared it with us. His sharing was all about David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17). But what are the reasons why David won the battle? First, David knew who he was. He went to the battle with no swords or anything that can protect himself from his enemy, because he never idolizes his brothers who were warriors, DAVID is DAVID. Secondly, he knew his purpose; he went to battle because his purpose is to win against his opponent who never knew how to respect God. Third, he knew who God was, he knew the real God. the God who will guide, will protect, and will help him through the battle. David entrusted his life and strength to God that's why he defeated Goliath. The God of David is indescribable; words can't express nor describe HIM. I can say that HE is unique.

God is our:
COMFORTER
SAVIOR
PROTECTOR
REDEEMER
FRIEND
TEACHER
BEST FRIEND
GOD
FATHER
GIVER
BROTHER
LOVER
ENCOURAGER
HE IS FAITHFUL
HE IS MERCIFUL
etc...

And many more to describe God and in words of encouragements of Marcos, our strengths grew, we've ahd an altar call, even if I didn;t went in front, I can still feel the presence of God. And He spoke to me. He listens to me when I talk to Him, He comforted me and gave me a word that even whatever you describe Him, He said that,
I am your shield, your very great reward. WOW!!! Great indeed I knelt as a sign of humbleness and repentance also. While I'm crying, I can feel Him comforting me. And when I scan the Bible, the verse was familiar, and I have read it already in Genesis 15: 1, "do not be afraid I am your shield, your very great reward." And I want to raise His name because in the following day, I still can feel His words on me, that whatever persecutions, He is my shield, and He helps me in explaining the truth to those who persecutes me, and they were silent because they don't have anything to say. I'm so thankful for the things that He had given me I'm very happy for all the things He had done to my life. Work through His ways and everything will be fine.

(Supporting verses: Genesis 21: 22, Exodus 14: 14, Proverbs 16:3)


Isn't that great! Finally we've had youths who are already sending us their testimonies! :D, praise God! but still pray for us, especially our walk with Jesus. :D

This Aprill 22-24 we will be having our Sectional Youth Camp, whooo we're all excited! It will be held at Darioc Hills, Balintocatoc, Santiago City and the registration is 200 pesos per person! Pray for us that many will come in our camp, that it will be organized, and many will be touched and revived by God, we believe that God will do great things in that event!

P.S. (For the british team - Dr. John Andrews)
We miss you all, and we're looking forward seeing you again in the future! haha, :D,

God Bless to all and have a blessed day

For God's Glory

For God's Glory

Just got some testimony here from our youths who are waking up every morning @ 5 am to pray, to seek the Lord's face, and to intercede for our youth group and for the youths here in Santiago! Hope that you'll be encouraged and be blessed by what God is doing here in our youth group! So here it is, it is written by Normene :D, this is kinda short but you'll be blessed...

       February 8, 2008

At 5am, ate Leizel, ate Rhea and I woke
up. We only knew that every 5 am we will have a
prayer intercession individually, but
what happened is that we pray as a
group. The presence of the Lord was there,
the Holy Spirit led us to pray, we were
crying when we pray. And I feel that
we were fighting with the bad spirit
that is surrounding us. And we know that
God is with us helping us to pray. And
for me, that day, our prayers is a
big help for myself, for my studies.
There's a reason why I slept at ate
Rhea's house. And praise the Lord coz
we're still on fire...


Isn't that great! It's amazing that it was just a couple of months ago, I think it was July last year, that the two of these young people here, Rhea and Normene, aren't that active in the church, but now, they are attending our prayer meetings, intercession, youth services, Sunday services, serving the Lord and on fire for God, see what God is doing...not just only them but there's a couple of youths who wants to be and are being changed, transformed, molded and being used by God, for His glorious work and for His glory! :D, To God be all the glory!

Just a couple of hours ago, after our morning service in the church, we have brought down all the musical instruments in our office, 2nd floor, coz we are just renting the 4th floor of the building we are gathering for our service. Usually after that we immediately go back to our homes to get a little rest for our night service, but this day, something was different. After we brought all the instruments down, there's something within us that drives us to setup the place before we go home. We've setup the place a little bit and then we've decided that we'll sit down for a while coz we're tired too, haha, then we began to chat and talk about the preaching in the morning service, we were talking about what is happening in our church, in our ministries, in our lives, as we were chatting and talking, the Holy Spirit began to lead us to pray, the Holy Spirit just led Micko to lead us in prayer, God reminded Micko what he is, what we are in our past situations in the church, when we were still not that good in playing the instruments, singing and everything else. how we were so excited everytime we will have our practice in the worship team, our youth fellowships, our love with each other and our Sunday services...forget about all the skills, the talents and the abilites God has given you. Even if you are good at something it is not just worth it without the presence of God, without doing it with love, without being excited about it, it is not just that worth it...

...and that's the bottomline of it, what's the sense of having an excellent musical praise & worship moment without the presence of God, what's the sense of having a fellowship/service without the presence of God, it is not just worth it! So we decided to begin it within the 3 of us. We began to see what we really want, we want the presence of God above all else, in our lives, in our worship, in our church, in our fellowships and in everything that we do. Coz we want revival in our lives, in our family, in our relatives, in our friends, in our neighborhoods, in our schools, in our state, in our government, in our city, in our country and in our world. Revival is coming and revival starts with an individual who is willing to pay the price to see God move in his life, in his family, in everything that is around him! So I encourage you dear reader, live for the Lord all the days of your life and give Him all the glory and honor He alone deserves!


"if my people,

who are called by my name,

will humble themselves and pray and seek my face

and turn from their wicked ways,

then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin

and will heal their land."

II Chronicles 7:14


Godblezyol! Have a blessed Day! :D

His Faithfulness

He is Faithful

Finally, got the time to blog again, it's almost 3 weeks since we havent been blogging, haha! :D, looking back 3 years ago, the church started with just purely adults, haha, no youths! :D, but our former youth pastor prayed to God to give him 5 youths, and yes, God has given him 5 youths and that's the start. And after that, the number of our youth group is growing, we have brought more youths in our church through the use of our Cornerstone Basketball Team w/c is led by a Christian coach, we've brought more than 40 young people[pure guys only, haha], we are jogging every saturday morning [5 am] from the city proper to Sefton Village, that is about 6 km far, :D and in summer we are jogging 2 times and then 3 times a week. We are fully prepared for the coming tournament[Christian basketball tournament], haha, but we've just only won 2nd place, huhu! but that's ok, and after the tournament, all of the youths in our basketball team backed out :(, saying that "there is no uniform so we'll just gonna leave" :(, and that's not ok, it's a sad thing but that's the truth, only 12 remained including our coach...after a month, we are slowly decreasing, from 12 youths to 6 youths. Got me thinking, if we have just been concerned for souls back then, those youths would have not backed out you know, 34 youths would've been here right now serving the Lord :(, but don't be sad, God is not finished yet...

...several months have passed, God is slowly increasing our number from 6 to 9, 9 to 11 and then 11 to 12 active youths. our church back then was 3 years old. And after that, things began to change, some positive and some negative, :D. there has been a reorganization in our church and also in the daughter churches and our youth pastor have been assigned to another church, but God has provided us with one :D, isn't that great, glory to God only. Using some calculations in the past 3 years, 12 youths divided by 3 years = 4 youths a year, haha! ok, you can laugh out loud :D, haha. but now, God is still increasing our number, from 12 active youths to 17 active youths, isn't that great and a year ain't over yet, we will increase! :D, Glory to God.

I know God is faithful and His words will never come back to Him void. In our 1st overnight prayer meeting[last year], God has given ate Che a vision, an outline of what's about to happen in this year, and one of it is, that the start of the thousand, as prophesied to our church by pastor Rick Zachary, is right now, this year, 2008. remembering our vision[as a whole church], "A Church, Prepared for the Out-pouring of the Holy Spirit, for a Greater Harvest." We are preparing for this year, for the typhoon, for everything that's about to happen this year, physically, emotionally, socially, financially, spiritually and especially for the coming Revival.

Revival is coming, and it will come. God will deal first in His church and then to the people outside the church. will you be ready?, are you willing to be a part of this revival?, are you willing to pay the price?, are you willing to surrender everything to God?, are you Christian enough?, 99.99% is useless! So we encourage you dear reader, continue, hold on to the faith that God has given you, to the promises He has for you, fight for Him, live for Him only, prepare yourself, be a blessing and make a change! To God be all the glory, honor, and power! Godblezyol!

2008

"A Generation, prepared for the coming revival"

Yup, that's our vision for 2008, almost the same as our vision as a whole church. :D, last year we've got visions from the Lord, for the whole church, one of them is that the year of 2007 is a year of peace, and yes it is, and also one of them is that this year, 2008, there will be a typhoon that's gonna hit our church, not a physical typhoon that's gonna wreck down houses, and everything on it's way but a spiritual typhoon. And right now we're at the wind of that typhoon, :D, coz right now we're beginning to experience persecutions, individual problems, misunderstanding, relationships broken and many more but God has a promise for us, like an eagle, excitedly waiting for that typhoon to come so that we can soar higher.

I believe that God is beginning to lay down the foundations in our church right now, that He is beginning to shake everything that can be shaken, so that He can put the right people, at the right place, and at the right time at His church. We're excited, at the same time frightened. :D, Excited, coz this will be one of the greatest year of our lives, a year of preparation, a year of dependency to God, a year of breakthrough, a year to come up higher, a year of God's glorious works, a year of humbleness, a year of a higher level of faith, anointing, ministry, a year of multiplication, a year of love, a year of unity, a year that's only Jesus will be glorified, and a year of revival. But, just like pastor Marlou said, who will be there to back us up through this typhoon, who will endure, who will be faithful to the Lord, who is willing to take the risk, who is willing to GIVE UP his dreams, his ambitions, his life, his everything TO GO UP.

Just right after the service, we've headed back home, and then get some money and headed in a sari-sari store. We've seen some youths at each of the corner of the streets as we were buying, you can see some of them drinking beers, smoking cigarretes, and etc., one youth approached us, our neighbor, after seeing my wounds after the accident that I've had[a motorbike accident], he began to say bad words, and he said that we should not let this happen to me, that we should also beat the person that have done this to me not knowing that I've had a motorbike accident. But as you look into the eyes of these youths, you can see that they need Jesus, they really need Jesus! But what are we doing as Christians? We should be going out there, snatching them out of darkness! But instead we choose to be at our comfort zone, we choose not to take the risk, we choose to be we, not Christ! If you are reading this right now and your present situation is like this, then this is for you!


What are the things that holds you back so that Jesus can work in you, so that you can reach out your neighbor, your friends, your schoolmates, and your family: Is it that your ashamed? Is it that you think that they will think of you like a weirdo, or out of your mind, or crazy? Is it your reputation? Or is it that your too shy? WAKE UP! Can't you see this dying generation? You must start the change in you, don't wait, don't expect somebody to do that first, It must start in you! God doesn't need your 99.9%, He needs your 100% cooperation with Him! You need to give up your habits, vices, wants, needs, your heart, mind, your time, your body, your strength, your talents, your ambitions and dreams! You've got to give your ALL to Jesus, all means that there will be no excemptions. so that God can work in you, in your family, in your friends, in your school and in your neighborhood! Coz when you begin to move, everything around you will move!. Do not wait for tomorrow, the right time is NOW. Coz now is the right time to make a change, to stand for God, to stand for your family, for your neighborhoods, for your friends, for your relatives, for your school, for your generation! Do not let yourself do what the devil tells you to do! Instead you must tell the devil what he should do! Stand up for your generation, make a change, make an impact, reach out your family, your relatives, your friends, your neigborhood, your school, your barangay, your city, your nation and the whole earth!
STAND UP! PRAY! and MAKE A CHANGE!