_Prayer on the Roof

On the roof I find much peace. On the roof I find a place of retreat. What difference is found on the roof for me? What difference between there and the private quiet room? The locked door of the prayer room? Four walls that reverberate the beatings of my heart? Let me recount, I too hope to see why indeed I chose the roof as the place for me. Is it perhaps a mere mystical preference? A toying of my own mind convincing my heart of things not there? But if I would compare the time on the roof with my ...

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_An Empty Heart

A chilly morning greeted me today as I woke up from my sleep. I wasn't able to work again last night, mainly because I determined to get 100% healthy first. I don't want to risk getting sick again while working. Yesterday was a blessed day for me. Spent precious moments in prayer. Also, I received answers to some of those prayers. What sweetness is there in the emptying of the soul before His most holy throne? When stricken with fear, a sense of disgust of self for all mine sin and wickedness? And yet when laid bare before His throne, the ...

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_Languishing Before the Throne

It's Tuesday morning right now. Just got up from bed. I wasn't able to write for the past 3 days mainly because of my physical condition. I'm still recovering from sore eyes and dry cough (the same reason why I wasn't able to see Luke and Craig off at the airport last Saturday). Another reason why I haven't written is because I was determined to truly pray again, if I haven't accomplished that I will not write. The Lord granted the yearning of my heart. Last night, the Lord drew me unto Himself. I was crushed and abased before Him, my sins ...

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_What Can 21,000 Gospel Tracts Do?

In the span of 10 days, Christ's Glory Church, in partnership with Hope Christian Church, 21,000 Gospel tracts has been spread abroad in Metro Manila, Philippines. What can 21,000 Gospel tracts do? In the hands of men and in the power of men, nothing. Absolutely nothing. A useless endeavor. Pointless. Pathetic. Irrational. Illogical. A waste of money, energy and time. But in the hand of God? An opportunity for 21,000 souls or more to hear the Gospel of the Lord Jesus that saves from sin, death and the wrath of God in the judgment of sinners in an eternity of ...

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_Evangelism in a Lost and Dying World

Today marks the first day of a local missions endeavor in partnership with Hope Christian Church. We are indebted to God's grace and the depths of His mercy lavished upon us through our brethren from Australia. What a good and kind God we serve. I will do my best to journal our endeavors for the Gospel in each day. • God has been so good today. Despite a setback in a delay of the delivery of the Gospel tracts, still, by the sheer goodness of God, we were able to hand out around/over 3,000 tracts all over Cubao. We were much despondent when we ...

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_Prayers Heard by the Father

Dear soul, I think it is a common experience for believers to go through life thinking that their prayers are seldom heard by God. Whether our prayers are made in the deepest devotion of our souls or whether it is made through the mere surfaces of our hearts, there's often that feeling in our hearts that wonders if our prayers really are heard. But you know how that works, don't you. Life does not operate by what we feel or see. Christ does not work by the compass of our hearts. Instead, He directs the rudder of our lives wherever He wishes and blows ...

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_What do you love best about the living Word of the living God?

A question I asked my friends on facebook. Here are their answers: How that Word never, ever fails to speak wonderful things to me, when I read it with a hungry and humble heart. —Dennis Gundersen It is life transforming it is alive and active in my life and it comes from the very mouth of God. —Rebecca Donahue Bach I love how it is personal, a Word in season from the Almighty to me! Just when I need to hear it for comfort, strength, courage, peace, on and on. —Donna Jones Lochridge That I can't live it in myself....it is only through the grace and mercy of ...

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_Hope That Does Not Put to Shame and Love Shed Abroad

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. —Romans 5:1-5 ...and hope does not put us to shame, ...

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_To Disappear

Dear Sovereign Lord, In You are endless joys. In You alone is my soul satisfied. In You alone is grace and peace found, nay, the fullness of grace and peace. How excellent is Your name, O God, my God. My soul is ravished by the declarations of Your glory. I am weak and defiled by sin. Often am I overcome by my flesh and the temptations that beset me. Though You have promised a way out in every temptation, in my unbelief I chose not to employ of them. I plead Thy Son, in whom I find my perfect righteousness. He is ...

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_New Mercies

My Dearest Master, As I look back to the year gone by I see so much of Your manifold mercies, Your wondrous works. I see the multitude of my doubts, the multitude of my sin and faithlessness, the congregation of mine own iniquities, my pathetic battle against sin and temptation. I remember the myriad days when my heart and spirit were ice cold towards You, little desiring of You. And yet though hemmed by a mountain of sin, I behold Thy glory. In the blackness of the skies of my heart, the Star of David shines ever brightly. I remember myself in many ...

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