Pray for the Philippines

As we are challenged once again by this typhoon with International Name Hagupit and locally named here Ruby. Heading towards Visayas region but is so wide it could affect some areas in Mindanao and Luzon areas. It has strong winds too, initially it was "super typhoon" but just this afternoon it was downgraded to typhoon but just the same a typhoon is a typhoon. So we should all prepare for it and be ready just in case.

Charge your mobile phone batteries, get candles or torch in case electricity is cut off and of course stock on food. I myself experienced that "no food during typhoon" and it's quite hard.   Don't forget to secure your pets too, check EntirelyPets blog and find some tips there and cute videos too :)

Most of all, please do not forget t pray. Prayer is the most powerful weapon we can have.

Be safe everyone!

Be strong and courageous!

Going through my facebook feeds this morning, I saw a lot are in need of prayers and encouragement, there is this lady who just got married this year and is pregnant, lost her husband to cancer two weeks ago and yesterday she found out there is a problem with her baby and that she has to undergo operation once she's out and that she may not wait for full term and might have an emergency CS.

I think it's too much for a newlywed, new wife and new mom. But who are we to question's God' plan. I know that GOD is good and will always be good even if our situations are bad.

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I posted this verse on her wall, praying that she will be encouraged somehow, praying she'll be more stronger  to face another bout of trial.

I am praying also that whoever is reading and needs prayer and encouragement  will also be  encourage by this verse. Please know that God is not leaving your side. All through your trials and testing..He is right there beside you and I  know He will help you go through it. Blessings everyone!

Prayer of Jabez

God will provide

Trusting that God will provide for all the medicines that my Nanay need.

Today, we (my sister) brought her back to her doctor for the check up and she prescribed another two set of medicines for the brain -because she suffered most in the head at that motor vehicle accident.

To tell you honestly, it is not easy, seeing her so weak, seeing all the mediciness she has to take and thinking of ways how we can financially support her every need. I get tired sometimes but I drew strength from the Lord.

yes, my heart and my strength may fail..but GOD is the STRENGTH of my HEART- FOREVER.

And though the need is big as of this writing-I trust that we will be able to buy all those medicines. God will make a way and  miracles still do happen. 

This weekend, I will go home to take care of her and I trust that God will also provide for my bus fare. I'm sure He will. He never let us down and have always met our needs. My faith tells me that even our future needs have already been secured, our future house, our car, my husband's home studio and all the equipments including studio mixers maybe.

The GOD whom we serve owns the golds and silvers of this world and HE is able to bless us exceedingly and abundantly. Can you say Amen to that?

Worshipping God in hard times

Right now, my mother is confined in the hospital, she was hit by a truck on her way home from a church activity. Doctors said she suffered most in the head, CT scan results showed that there is a blood in the brain. We are waiting for another CT scan to check if there will be changes and improvement. She is awake which is a very good sign BUT she is not aware of what is happening, is not conversant, she does not respond to us, to our questions and I think she does not recognize us for now. Confuse is the word of the Doctor.

In these hard times…

We chose to worship GOD.
We are choosing to PRAY.
We are choosing to stand on God’s promises.
Like Job, I will trust and worship my God because I know HE is sovereign.
Like David, I will sing song of praise even in the midst of troubles.

Psalm 46 :1 says

“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.” 

I will hold on to that.

And I know God will help my mother, she will recover quickly and that she will testify on how good our Lord is. I know sooner, things will get back to normal and that I'll be back searching for Behringer Keyboards for our church and ministry again :)

Please remember my Nanay in your prayers, pray for healing and restoration of normalcy in her brain. 

Praying and Preparing for revival

"As a farmer cannot produce a harvest but does everything to prepare his field, so we can by no means produce revival but should by all means prepare for it" - Gunter Krallman 

This is actually a forty day guide, I'm on the 19th day. More than anything else, I pray for personal transformation, personal revival because I know God cannot use me as an agent of revival if I myself needs revival. This is also in preparation for our Cebu Mission camp.

Youth Mission Camp 2014 : CEBU

 

Please include this event in your prayers. This is our 2nd year, last year, it was held in Davao. Participants will be youth from different churches in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

Please pray for the provision (for airfare and registration fee)
Please pray for the out pouring of the Holy Spirit
Please pray for all the young people who will participate to experience God like never before
Please pray that participants will have "unstoppable" faith afterwards.

Thank you.

Rebuilding

Here comes another week. But I know very well that this is not just another week for those who are devastated by typhoon Yolanda.

 For them, this is a new day, new beginning, Today maybe the first day of rebuilding their lives, some chose to rebuild in their own town, some chose to rebuild somewhere else.

And if there is something good I am seeing amidst this catastrophe is that “almost every Filipino is helping” young and old, even those who don’t live a comfortable life, we are all helping in our own little way. I love that Filipino spirit.

 I pray people from Visayas region will be able to rebuild fast. I pray someday soon the place will be filled with people doing business, children going to school, I hope we can hear them laughing, singing again or maybe even looking for best vandoren reeds tenor sax and playing. I know that is gonna happen.

The rainbow that the people saw in that very place last week  is another assurance of God's love for them, that there will be joy again in that place. I am positive with that.

But please keep on praying for the Philippines. We need that.

Prayer for the Philippines

Philippines need help and if you are thinking of ways to donate, here are some agencies accepting donations.

PHIL RED CROSS- Click for ways how you can send your donations through them

Pray for the Philippines

Please pray for those who are greatly affected by the recent flooding. Pray that they will get to recover soon and that they may have hope and faith in the Almighty. 

Pray for our leaders, from the President down to Barangay Captains. Pray that there will be no more corruption in the government. That the taxes will go to where it is badly needed.

Pray for great conviction through out the land, pray for us Filipinos to humble ourselves seek the face of the Lord and turned from our wickedness. Pray for righteousness.

There is HOPE for the Philippines.

Used keyboards

We are looking for used keyboards, one that is not expensive though. And yes it's for me :)  because I wanted so much to learn to play the keyboard. It's actually one of my wishlist for this year. "Learn something new" and it's either driving or playing the keyboard.

But since my husband is a musician, I am opting for the keyboard because he can use it too.  He's been composing new songs again and I wanted to be part of it...and maybe play keyboard with the band someday. I know it is not too late to learn something new.

Hopefully before the year ends, I will be able to buy one for myself. 

Praying :)

Test of faith

1 Corinthians 10:13 The Message (MSG) 

"No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down; he’ll never let you be pushed past your limit; he’ll always be there to help you come through it".

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 Asking for your prayers my dear readers, my father is still very sick and needs to be confined in the hospital (according to his last check-up with the doctor) he's weak and has lost his appetite. Hopefully, when we all see him this week, he'll be more stronger.  

My father was a chain smoker and started smoking when he was only 10 years old, can you imagine that? I hope people who smokes realize that really it is not good for the health. See, my father stopped smoking (and looking into cigars magazine) years ago but it is already too late. Now, we all suffer from it.

Please pray for our family as we weather this testing of our faith once again, please pray for provision also.

Thank you very much and God bless!
 

Youth Mission Camp

"Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails."  Proverbs 19:21

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Last year after our church annual youth camp, we started planning on this years camp, and we decided to take it to a higher level. We will be doing a "MISSION CAMP" for our youth. Because our church is a missionary sending church, it is but right to start training our youth for Missions as early as possible. So "Mission Camp" it is.

But after months of planning, God revealed his greater and bigger plans. This Mission camp that we originally planned for the youth of our church is now a "Mission Camp" for the youth of different churches and we are now preparing for at least 500 young people from all over the Philippines.

"Wow that's big! Can we do it? " That's exactly my words when we learned about it. I even asked our Pastor if we are really doing this and his words  encouraged me "We can't do it but but God can".  So true, sometimes I tend to look on what I cannot do and forget that God can use me, our small church, our youth Pastor, our worship team, you and ordinary people to do extra ordinary things for His glory!

So, last weekend, we were in Davao, we inspected the campsite and had meetings with our co-organizers from there, We were blessed to meet selfless servants of God who are really on fire. In Davao, midnight prayers and dawn prayers are everywhere :) It was such an honor to be able to join them.

midnight prayer in front of Davao's City Hall

one of the churches we visited (we stayed here one night) it's literally in top of the mountain

this is the camp site, that's me and our youth Pastor discussing if we really can do it here :D

I'm asking everyone who read this (wherever you are) to please include this "Mission Camp" in your prayers, our goal is to awaken the youth that this is the end times and that God can use them for this generation to spread the gospel and win souls for Jesus Christ. So please please pray that many young people will benefit from this camp, pray for their finances, pray for their safety and for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit during the entire camp days.

Thanks and God bless everyone!

Prayer request for my father

Last week, we've been in and out of the hospital and several doctor's clinic for further check up of my Tatay (father).

The result of the CT Scan of his lungs is not that good. The Doctor said there is a mass in the right part of his lungs and it's quite big thus making it hard for him to breath. We will have a biopsy this week so we would know if it is malignant or benign. We need all the prayers please. Pray that it is benign and that it is still curable.

My Father stopped smoking more than ten years ago BUT (that's a big BUT) he's been smoking since he was 10 years old (according to him, when he was still a kid and he goes to farm early in the morning they'll smoke hand rolled cigars and his smoking lated for almost 50 years) It's no question now why he is having some serious lung problem.

Right now, he's home and he said he feels weak, the blood test will come out today and if we can get a go signal for the biopsy, we'll have that schedule also within the week.

Please please pray that everything goes fine with the biopsy and that it's nothing to worry about. Please pray also for provision because going in and out of the hospital means a lot of money.

Thank you everyone and may the Lord bless you!!!

Praying for our future house

Like many other couples out there, we also dream of having our own house someday. Even if we are living a missionary's life and that someday we will be away on mission trips it is still best for us to have our own home here in the Philippines. We've been praying and my husband and I both knew what we wanted for our house. We don't dream of a huge house, a 2 bedroom will do, with our own backyard and front lawn (we both love to have a small garden and lots of green plants around the house. So yes, we both knew we want a house not in the city but somewhere in the province.

But of course it all depends upon the Lord.

 I saw this site (pre-selling townhouse type somewhere in the province of Bulacan) two hours away from the Metro. It is appealing because it's near my sister's place. I was just hesitant because it is a townhouse. If we go for this, it means we bid goodbye to our front and backyard and small garden dreams :(

I don't know. We are still praying and we are hoping God will give what is best for us and not what we deem is right for us.

I hope you include us and our future house in your prayers.

Through the Roof

I  will talk about this in our Prayer meeting this Friday. Please pray that the Lord will give me wisdom and that the people who will come and attend the prayer meeting will get something from this. Not by might, nor by power but by the Spirit of the Lord.

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Keep singing, keep praising God

"I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being."- Psalm 146:2 (ESV)

Please keep on praying for the Philippines specifically the Luzon which is mostly affected by the flood due to heavy rains since Monday. 

 Our office work was suspended for two days, our streets are flooded Tuesday and Wednesday and we are forced to stay inside, my husband though braved the flood to get some food for us. I know now how it feels to be trapped inside your house and then you have nothing to eat. :( And really if you don't know the Lord you'll be scared. I was at times worried but the husband's steady faith keeps me sane :)

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What we did for two days? well, because our television was broken and our computer broke down also yesterday we were left with nothing to do but listen to music and sing and also I went back to reading (a real book).

 We also had time to clean our home :D My husband found an old musical instruments brochure and enjoyed looking at MF ibanez guitars and other gadgets while cleaning. Over all it was a productive two days for us. Sure the rain stopped the world for a while but we kept on singing, we kept on praising. :) 

Have a nice day everyone!

Prayers

I'm coveting your prayers :) My dear husband will speak in a worship event "a night of worship" on Friday. Last week, it was our good friend Andrew who spoke and he did well, my husband is very used to leading worship but not to speaking or exhorting so God bless him. :) I'm actually is more nervous than him. I can feel butterflies in my tummy specially now that it's only 2 more days. I feel like I've taken lovegra.hehe! But I know I should not be worried right? I trust God to give him wisdom and anoint him as he speaks..

However, it will help me if you'd say you'll say a prayer for him :)

Thanks everyone and God bless!!

A night of worship

I just want to give God the glory for the first of the 3 series "night of worship" of the Selah band. It was held in our church in Makati and we were  really amazed by God's presence even before the band started singing. True enough, people were led to worship and praises and everyone was overwhelmed by God's wonderful presence.

Two more "night of worship" for this month and then the conference in Cebu on the 22nd to 23rd.Thank you Lord that you are letting us soar now, please help us as we do the mandate that you have given us. To proclaim your goodness, to lead people to profound worship through music and prayer and to glorify your name!

And to my readers, please cover us with your prayers as we take this big leap of faith this year.
God bless you everyone. I hope you'll had a very good weekend and fully recharged for the week. I'm off to rest after the search for dowel pins.

Blessings!!

Typhoon.Storm.Pray

Our country once again was hit by a typhoon yesterday and if you think that we ever get used to it, no we don't.

Typhoon "Pedring" battered almost the whole of Luzon with strong winds and rains that filled the dams, thus flooded many provinces and towns including Metro Manila. The ever famous Manila Bay was not spared and establishments nearby (hotels, US Embassy, Museum and restaurants) were flooded.

Praise God.. we were spared. We had no electricity the whole day yesterday and that was it. But my heart goes out to those who suffered much, to those whose houses weren't spared and to those whose source of income were damaged and mostly to mothers who lost their children because of the typhoon. I know moms tend to be protective (some even use portable baby monitors) but how can you stop a ravaging water? how can you protect someone when you can't even protect your own life?

Please keep on praying for us because there is another storm coming and it will hit again the Northern part of Luzon which is still flooded until now. Pray it will not bring damage and will claim no more lives.

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