This is what I have learned from church today!

June 5, 2011

Life’s Lessons from David

by: Pastor Norman Lao

1. Do not fail to remember your past experiences with God! When you remember your past experiences with God, how good he has been to you etc, problems will be easier to resolve! and you will have a lighter feeling. (1 Samuel 17:34)

always remember:

-before you were born again God was already working in you.

-failures make us wiser, keeps us humble and also failures make us more careful.

2. Do not be afraid of giants! (1 Samuel 17:45)

-If we live victoriously people will know that there is a real God in our church! People will not believe there is a God if Christians don’t live victoriously.

-The battle is the Lord’s! always remember that.

-During the time of David, the Israelites were afraid because they were looking at the size of Goliath but David was looking at the size of his God! If all your giants were combined God is still bigger!

-Perspective is important. How you look at things is your perspective and your perspective will be your attitude. The best perspective in all your giants is looking at God!

3. Do not take matters into your own hand, let God do it!

-Respect brothers and sisters, even those who are trying to hurt you.

(try to read 1 John 2:20-22)

-We were all bought with the same price

-Proverbs 24:17 says, “Do not let your heart rejoice when your enemy falls!”

-Do not lose sight of the fact that we are all children of God!

-Do not take revenge! His justice is more perfect than ours that’s why Jesus said, Love your enemies! Only Christians can love those who love them! and always remember, YOUR MINISTRY IS YOUR LIFE, NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, THAT IS YOUR MINISTRY. THAT’S WHY BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR LIFE. Do not break your testimony!

4. Do not be afraid to fail

-Even great men in the bible failed.

-If you’re not doing what you’re supposed to be doing, you will be doing what you’re not supposed to be doing! Do what you’re supposed to do! Be where you’re supposed to be! Be at the right place at the right time

-Do not listen to the devil, rebuke the devil

-Flee from the evil desires of youth

-David learned from his failure. After he asked for God’s forgiveness, he never repeated the same mistake ever again.

5. Do not hide your sins

-Confess your sins, renounce it! and ask God to help you to be stronger so you won’t be able to do it again!

-(read 2 Samuel 11:6-27, Hebrews 4:13, Proverbs 28:13 and Psalm 51)

David’s Song

Create in me a clean heart oh God and renew a right spirit within me

Cast me not away from thy presence oh Lord

and take not thy holy spirit from me

restore unto me the joy of my salvation

and renew a right spirit within me

cyber diary eh?

so today I woke up without mom beside me. I felt kinda eerie (i'm not used to that. hahaha. im such a baby) hihi. ^^ so anyway she went to roxas city really early to meet somebody I think. I forgot to ask.^^ As of now my nephew is watching TV, Disney channel as usual. . reminds me of my childhood days when I was totally addicted to watching cartoons! haaa. I would always tell myself that I would never get tired of watching TV even when I get old. haha. OH WELL. People change. talk about change, wow there has been a lot of changes in my life lately. seriously. I really cant tell you one by one but well, time will come. haha. (whatever that means)

so starting today I really want to make this blog my own cyber diary.^^ I wanna write everything that I could possibly write about me, things I do, everyday! :) oh yay. ^^

let's see.. things to do today? NONE! I just wanna stay home, eat, drink coffee, spend some time with my sisters maybe, etc! Actually, my 9-month pregnant sister is here with me in the living room just exercising, excited about the new baby! she said she might be giving birth tomorrow. MIGHT. Everybody's excited! another baby yay! ^^

for now I'm gonna take a shower! see ya. ^^

This is how I spent my Valentine's Day! :)

yesterday was valentine's day! yay! :) I was looking forward to it since last week because I had this plan to really surprise my boyfriend because i've never done sth like that before. hahaha. that doesn't make me a sucky girlfriend though! Just a lazy yet loving one. hahaha! so yeah when he went to my house early morning, I placed a paper heart on his blouse and told him to wait outside for me. (PS: that paper heart was from Pastor Norman, our church pastor) then tada da da ta da!!!! ^^ I surprised him with a huge red paper heart card with a balloon and flowers around it, and some chocos! :) I knew he'd be shocked! haha! then he was like "awwwwww, baby plum thank thank you gid... ikaw pa lng gid nka pa feel special skun paryus sini.... huhuhu".. awwwww.. I loved this reaction! :) haaaaa.. If only I could turn back time and just see that scene over and over again! Oh man am I so inspired! ha! well.. Thank God for giving me a wonderful L-I-F-E... like really, I just couldn't ask for more! :)

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Then we took a picture of us just getting comfortable on the couch.. just talking and laughing.. :) aaaah, just look at me, without any make up on but I still feel like i'm the prettiest because of him. :")

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and my love giving didn't just end there.. After that, I went on with my plan to give random people red paper hearts with a note written on it. here is a picture of the paper heart.. :)

so when we went to the bank, I gave the sikad driver one red paper heart.. just look at the pictures! at first he wasn't smiling so happily but when he received the heart he just smiled big time!!! LOOK!

see that? that is what happens when you show people that LOVE is still in this world and that is because of God who is the source of all LOOOOOOVE! ♥

here's another picture of a woman selling food inside jaro plaza..^^ My boyfriend wasnt able to take a photo of me exactly giving the heart but I surely did! ^^

and here is another sikad driver! He looked unkind the first time I saw him but gave him the red paper heart anyways! Then that, in just a blink of an eye changed his mood! He was all smiles and I bet that made his day!

after that a lot of paper heart giving still happened! But then I didnt get to document that anymore because my sis' camera ran out of battery! haha! But it still was fun! ^^ The guards at school whom I gave the paper hearts were totally surprised. That i'm super sure about. ^^ It just melted my heart seeing people smiling after receiving the paper heart.. I think it's not really because of the heart that they're smiling.. I think it's because Jesus had touched their hearts and made them feel that LOVE is just out there..... :)



Thank you Lord, if it wasn't for you, my heart giving project wouldn't have been successful.... ♥

venz in Iloilo :D

some pictures of my nephew...^^ He has been staying with us for like 3 days already. I think he's really enjoying the moment. hahaha! :D