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Father God,

I worship you today in my life. I exalt your wonderful name and I lift your name up upon the heavens. You are great and you do great and wonderful things. I exalt you on high and I bring glory to your name. Nothing is impossible with you. You are awesome in my heart. You are worthy of praise forever. Continue to move in my life and in my world. Let your purpose be fulfilled as I surrender my whole life into your powerful and loving hands. I glorify you Father God in my life. I pray and ask for the forgiveness of my sins. Redeem me from all of the fowler's snare. Make me fix my eyes on you alone and be forever magnified in my life. Cleanse me within and let springs of living water flow in my life and let your love overflow throughout the world, through your Spirit.

We Don't Find Fault

The impossible can be made possible. You are taking us to new dimensions and new heights. You are digging deeper. We don't complain and we don't find fault. We tell you, thank you. You are making a better us out of this. We thank you because the crushing means a new oil is about to spew out of us. We thank you Lord.

My Hiding Place

Heavenly Father,

You are my hiding place. Shelter me from the storms of life. Help me and embrace my heart. I pray for those in need. I pray for those struggling right now. Strengthen them and hold their hearts. Help those in pain, and quiet their spirit today, for your mercies are new every morning.

Love,

I Don't Have A Back-Up

Father God,

I give you everything. I am yours. Everything I have, you can have. I don't have a back-up. You're the only One I have.

Will You Give Me A Heart?

A heart to love
The heart to accept the unexpected
The heart to believe in things unseen
The heart to see beyond what is
The heart to hear your heart
The heart to overcome
The heart to embrace joy and not be afraid to be happy
Give me the heart to cherish every moment, one day at a time
Give me the heart to forgive, not just others, but as well as my self
Give me the heart to surrender and and not be scared
I pray for a heart that will always choose your ways over mine
A heart ready to forget failures, but instead...
A heart that is hopeful
Give me a heart to love you above all
And a heart that would let me be loved by You.

I Never Thought

Until I met Him,
I never thought
Someone could love me
far beyond the measure of love 
I thought I deserve.

Simply Impossible

It is impossible to know Jesus Christ and not surrender to Him your life. 
It is impossible to have known who Jesus is and not fall in-love with Him.  

Love is a Decision.

Scrapbook

I’m not afraid to grow old alone.  I have faith that You’ll take care of me in my old age if ever.  But what I’m concerned about is what my scrapbook would look like.  I don’t want them to be empty.  I want it to be filled will all kinds of photographs and colorful souvenirs.  Keepsakes which will remind me of the colorful life You cared to write for me.  With all emotions surging in my chest.  I want to have memories.  Whether sad nor quiet, frantic and horrible... everything.  I want to live to the full like what You promised, but still within the scope of you words.  
You know my heart and it makes me love You more.  
I have trust in You. 
Take over my new found friendships.  

Walking Home

Stepping out of the battlefield.  Wounded, no armor left.  Some bruises on the right shoulder, left elbow and legs.  A pierced heart, somehow bleeding.  I’m coming home Father.  It is over.  I remember seeing this certain movie, based on an epic or a myth I suppose.  A young boy was sent out to the wilderness, with only a spear on hand.  He was able to plunge the weapon into the flesh of this huge dark wild beast, planning to devour his body.  He stayed alive.  And went home carrying more strength, with all unseen weapon in his heart and mind. 

Like the Israelites  who were exiled to Babylon in the time of the great prophet Jeremiah.  I ask for the forgiveness of my sins Father.  Take me home, I was exiled.  But because of Your deliverance I’m coming home.

This time, let me begin with You.

When Someone Mortal Comes Along

The music, the movie and the characters were remarkably spectacular simply because they cause people to change.   The message of the movie undoubtedly springs hope to those who seek their soul’s safest haven.  When the ultimate definition of love was displayed through the scenes, the words written in Your book were magnified to the extent of touching my obdurate interior.  It served its purpose, and I applaud you for the magnificent movie.  It actually convinced my eyes to look at love differently...to a  

Love that is not afraid to give and has sufficient valor to accept less return from what was voluntarily offered.  You mentioned in your book that “love always protects”, those words make me smile.  Love has the audacity to defend and shield the beloved.  Father, like what Peter told you when you asked him to feed your lambs, “You know all things.”  There are episodes and secret statements hidden in a person’s humanity which are veiled and buried.  I would love to translate those delicate sentiments but I ran out of words.  That is why I depend on your Sovereignty that even though my tears were unnamed, your being God would decipher every drop and every sob.  

Like Jumping to My Death

I know I’ve accepted weakness as part of my failures. I just wanted a peaceful life, but in my heart I know that if I stop that would be the end of me. I know that if I turn my life around from Your ministry, it’s like facing a cliff and jumping to my death. I will be living a worthless and lifeless life. I want to thank You for not letting me go to that direction. Help me see situations through Your eyes. Father, I never intend to live apart from you. You are my life and salvation. 

A fighter, not just a survivor

Romans 16:20 NIV
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.
The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.


I ask you Lord God, to strengthen my heart and spirit. I want to be a fighter and not just a survivor. It’s time to conquer and be like David, be like Joshua and the kings of the Old Testament. Father, give me a courageous heart. I pray and ask you in Jesus’ Name to keep me standing in faith, focusing on what you want me to do that I may glorify your name.

No matter what stupid thing you say

No matter what stupid thing you say, or do or think, he will never stop loving you. He will love you everyday, and his love is always new and always fresh.
And even if you decide not to love him, he will still love you.
Even if you decide to stop loving him, he will love you still and will continue to love you.


For God says in his words,

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying:
“I have loved you with an everlasting love;
I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.
(Jeremiah 31:3NIV)


Even if you decide to love him less than what you think and know he deserves, he will love you fully and completely, without reservations.

You are not going to improve

The voice in his love does not develop a person.
His love does not improve a person.
His love changes a person (2 Corinthians 5.17).
The old things which caused death have now passed away, behold the new has come.
There is no greater influence than the powerful voice of the one you love.

That Sweet Sound

There is no sweeter sound than the voice of the one you love calling your name. It was the power of the love of Jesus which restored Lazarus back. He called him by his own name (John 10.3). He came back to life because of love. There is power in the voice of love. Once you hear it, it will be like springs of living water gushing all over your body, cleansing away all impurities.


I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water (Isaiah 41:18 King James Version).

Even If

When one falls in-love with God, she feels that she is God’s favorite. She is well-loved and well-taken care of, as if she’s the only person on earth. She would feel as if his eyes are fixed on her and for her alone. God’s love is individual and personal. He is a jealous God but he will also make sure not to give her anything to be jealous about. Once you fall in-love with him, you will never doubt if he really loves you. You will know it deep and too well in the heart of your heart. Once she enters a relationship with her Lord, she will feel, know and believe that she is deeply and passionately loved - desired all the days of her life and beyond forever. When Miriam envied Moses intimacy with the Lord, (Numbers 12.1) the anger of the Lord burned against them (Numbers 12.9). She envied Moses relationship with the Great I am. We will only be as intimate with God as we choose to be. (J. Oswald Sanders). It’s always the person’s choice, to stay close or to stay at a distance. Where you are right now is where you want to be. As with hell and heaven. We choose to go to hell and it’s our choice to go to heaven. It is your choice and God does not have favorites. But as he has promised in Jeremiah 29.11, He will be found by those who really seek Him. Come near to God and he will come near to you. (James 4:8 NIV).

Discipleship Prayer

John 17
The Message (MSG)


Jesus' Prayer for His Followers
1-5 Jesus said these things. Then, raising his eyes in prayer, he said:
Father, it's time.
Display the bright splendor of your Son
So the Son in turn may show your bright splendor.
You put him in charge of everything human
So he might give real and eternal life to all in his charge.
And this is the real and eternal life:
That they know you,
The one and only true God,
And Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
I glorified you on earth
By completing down to the last detail
What you assigned me to do.
And now, Father, glorify me with your very own splendor,
The very splendor I had in your presence
Before there was a world.
6-12I spelled out your character in detail
To the men and women you gave me.
They were yours in the first place;
Then you gave them to me,
And they have now done what you said.
They know now, beyond the shadow of a doubt,
That everything you gave me is firsthand from you,
For the message you gave me, I gave them;
And they took it, and were convinced
That I came from you.
They believed that you sent me.
I pray for them.
I'm not praying for the God-rejecting world
But for those you gave me,
For they are yours by right.
Everything mine is yours, and yours mine,
And my life is on display in them.
For I'm no longer going to be visible in the world;
They'll continue in the world
While I return to you.
Holy Father, guard them as they pursue this life
That you conferred as a gift through me,
So they can be one heart and mind
As we are one heart and mind.
As long as I was with them, I guarded them
In the pursuit of the life you gave through me;
I even posted a night watch.
And not one of them got away,
Except for the rebel bent on destruction
(the exception that proved the rule of Scripture).

13-19Now I'm returning to you.
I'm saying these things in the world's hearing
So my people can experience
My joy completed in them.
I gave them your word;
The godless world hated them because of it,
Because they didn't join the world's ways,
Just as I didn't join the world's ways.
I'm not asking that you take them out of the world
But that you guard them from the Evil One.
They are no more defined by the world
Than I am defined by the world.
Make them holy—consecrated—with the truth;
Your word is consecrating truth.
In the same way that you gave me a mission in the world,
I give them a mission in the world.
I'm consecrating myself for their sakes
So they'll be truth-consecrated in their mission.

20-23I'm praying not only for them
But also for those who will believe in me
Because of them and their witness about me.
The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind—
Just as you, Father, are in me and I in you,
So they might be one heart and mind with us.
Then the world might believe that you, in fact, sent me.
The same glory you gave me, I gave them,
So they'll be as unified and together as we are—
I in them and you in me.
Then they'll be mature in this oneness,
And give the godless world evidence
That you've sent me and loved them
In the same way you've loved me.

24-26Father, I want those you gave me
To be with me, right where I am,
So they can see my glory, the splendor you gave me,
Having loved me
Long before there ever was a world.
Righteous Father, the world has never known you,
But I have known you, and these disciples know
That you sent me on this mission.
I have made your very being known to them—
Who you are and what you do—
And continue to make it known,
So that your love for me
Might be in them
Exactly as I am in them.

When You're 80

Ecclesiastes 12

Remember your Creator
in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come
and the years approach when you will say,
"I find no pleasure in them"-


Imagine you’re already 80. You’re old. Your face has all the lines it can possibly have. Then you’re not as strong as you used to. All you can do is sit on your squeaking rocking chair or lie down all day long on your cold bed. You want to reach out the windows and open them but your arthritis pulls you back to your bed. Your joints hurt. Your muscles hurt. You see your grandchildren running, jumping and you see yourself… old and useless. You want to eat something but you can’t because you don’t know where you put your false teeth. Then, you saw that book beside your bed. This one you can reach. But again, you don’t know where your eyeglasses are. Then, you try to call someone to help you find them. But they are
all busy doing their own thing. You’re old. Somehow, no one listens to you anymore. Not because they are rude, but because they are doing something else. They are busy being young, energetic. Young people are energetic because they are strong.

If you are eighty what do you think you will wish for?
We have the same answer. I will without a doubt say, “Lord, I want my youth back.”

Then you wake up.
God answered your prayer.
You are still young and vibrant and full of energy.
So use it wisely.

The Epitome of Beauty

Ephesians 5:27 (New International Version)
and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.


When we’re at a wedding the main attraction is always the bride.Remember, Her walk on the aisle is the main event. She is there because of him. Because he asked her to, “Marry me. Will you love me. Will you accept my love for you completely and forever?” She will not put on that perfect white chiffon gown made by Raho Laurel if she did not say “Yes” to him. On that day, whoever she was, wherever she came from will not matter.

Her “Yes” banished her past. A bride on her wedding day, on that moment of stepping out of the door, those seconds of approaching the bridegroom at the altar is the epitome of beauty… She was indeed perfect. Her beauty is perfected by Jesus. He loves her, and that’s what makes her truly beautiful for she is fearfully and wonderfully made. His works are wonderful and we know that full well (Psalm 139.14).

Everyone will see the culmination of all that is beautiful in her. God made her.
The bride will never forget that walk towards her lover. She will never forget her first ever step towards the altar. When salvation comes to your life, you will never forget it. That is your wedding day with Him, in the spirit realm which is beyond time and space. It knows no end. Wherever you are, that place suddenly transforms into a magnificent cathedral, swiftly you will hear the choir of angels descending from heaven singing your favorite love song that has become your theme song for all eternity. They rejoice in heaven with you. She is made for Him and only for him. Eve was made for Adam, not Adam for Eve. I’ve seen and witness grooms with tears on their eyes on their wedding. Now I understand. Finally, she said yes to him. Finally, “She is mine.” All the sacrifice is worth it. Now it feels as if he never waited.

Revelation 21:2 (New International Version)

I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.

1 Peter 3:5 (New International Version)

For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make
themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands,

Isaiah 54:5 (New International Version)
For your Maker is your husband—
the LORD Almighty is his name—
One of Israel is your Redeemer;
he is called the God of all the earth.

Isaiah 62:5 (New International Version)
As a young man marries a maiden,
so will your sons [a] marry you;
as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,
so will your God rejoice over you.


Revelation 21:9 (New International Version)
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."