God Is Faithful

God keeps every promise He makes through the Scriptures. Walk closely with the Lord and in time, you will see Him bring His promises to fruition in your life.

Thankful Thursday

This week I thank God:

• For a wonderful friend who went with me to the grocery and paid for everything I bought. Isn't God awesome?!
  

• For giving me a chance to work in one of the government offices here and at the same time still receive an allowance monthly from my current job. That doesn't happen often from where I live. Normally you work eight hours a day for only one company. Now, I'm going to have two! That's what I call favor! Thank you, Lord!

• For a new phone. A Nokia N95... for free! God is so amazing! Imagine, I got a text message from one of the major cell phone company here and the lady told me that they're giving me a new phone as a reward.
  

• For the pastor friend of my brother who has been going to my mom and dad's house to share to my parents the word of God. I asked my mom, who was just recently saved, if my dad was attending the Bible study they're having every Thursday and my mom said yes. Praise God!

• For all the blessings I received this week and for all His promises that He'll do in our lives.

For more of Thankful Thursday, visit Iris over at Sting My Heart.

Celebrate God's Healing

Yesterday's message at church spoke to my heart and I'm sure to a lot of others too. As Christians, we don't always understand everything that's happening in our lives. And we always try to find some explanations to it instead of just trusting God. I was guilty of that and I guess I still do sometimes. I'll give you one personal example. Both my husband and I are Christians and I'm sure that it was God who brought us together. If so, why then are we in this pit? Why am I experiencing such pain? Did I do something really bad that God is punishing me now? Or is my husband in some sort of a curse because of his family? The answer is NO!

Pastor Rico said this... "It's not the REASON but the PURPOSE." It's not because God is mad at us that we're going through this. That's not the reason. Maybe He's also trying to teach us patience and total trust in God Almighty. But more than anything else, He allowed us to go through this road because God wants to deliver us and for Jesus' name to be glorified. What seems impossible with men is possible with God and when He makes the impossible possible, His name will be glorified.

Next question is HOW is He going to deliver us from this? That's not our problem, it's His. Our job is to obey what God is telling us to do. Obedience to God's Word validates our faith.

Pastor Rico said this... "It's not the MANNER but the MESSAGE." There is no fixed formula that we can follow to get us through the other side of the mountain. God works in our lives differently. Just like how Jesus healed in the Bible times, it's different each time. God can heal a person instantly, but for another person he should probably take meds and go through procedures first then he will be healed. God uses doctors and medicines too to get healing across. The same is true for healing hurting marriages. The important thing is not the manner in which we receive healing but the message it brings about when we are healed. We point back to God as our miracle giver. The glory should be His and His alone. It's not the HOW but the WHO.

Reference: John 9

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I was doing my usual round of visits to other blogs and guess what I found - another set of fun contests. I love these a lot.! The prices are just sooooo cute!!! Okay, here goes...


Andrea over at The Laughs Will Go On is having another contest. JellyBean Apparel is giving away TWO shirts to a lucky winner. Awesome! I'm not YET what the picture says but there are shirts for siblings and grandparents too. For more details on how to join, click here. Contest ends April 19.




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