Today ang katapusan sa kalibutan? Or Today Ang Katapusan sa Pangkalibutanon?

Sa unang pagdungog ani nga balita nga ginasibya sa radyo, tv, ug sa mga newspaper na ang kalibutan matapos karn December 21, 2012 ang tanan katawhan naga aksyon ug kabalaka. Some countries they were making an spacecraft or a huge ship privately para sa pipila lang ang makasakay ni ini ug sigurado kadto lang mga pamilya sa mga opisyalis, mga bigatin ug adunahan sa mao nga nasud. Religious people trying to coped up things about their rituals, they prayed longer, they made double times and some of them made triple times doing good, even christians doing the same. Ang tanan nibalaka ni ini. But there are christians faithfully who trust in the Lord and wait upon Him.

Kagahapon as I have observed to the surroundings, some people just watching Miss Universe asking each other who is your bet? but most of the people was anxious what will be going to happen for the following day(today) is really true that it is the end of the world.

Today December 21, 2012 is the end of the world as they were predicted of many scientist, astrologist, the Mayan calendar calculated accurately according to them. But today is a wonderful day and glorious day that makes me to worship Him.

All the more our God be praised and exalted and His word be honoured because His word said in Mark13:32 "But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." God's word tells us clearly as mentioned "no one knows". That's why let us put our trust to God alone and let us fix our eyes on Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith so, that no one takes us captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than in Christ. ( Col.2:13)

For me, concerning of what happening now, that today ang katapusan sa kalibutan that people predicted. And I come to realised that as a Christian should be convicted That Today Ang Katapusan sa Kalibutanong panghunahuna ug panginabuhi. Today Let us put an end to be worldly. Today let us put and end to our self-effort, self-righteousness. Today let us put an end to our flesh. Today let us believe that through Jesus Christ we are justified. Through His blood our sins forgiven and through the power of the Holy Spirit like a consuming fire that burned our sinful nature, so that we will have a newness of Life together with Him. It is not not by our works we save but by grace through faith. By believing Jesus Christ our sins paying everyone life. Through Christ we have 100% confidence standing to the throne of grace waiting for His coming.

Glory to God!

RUN FOR THE COMING KING!

Hebrews 12:1-3 "1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart."

We know that we are now in the last days and LET US RUN WITH PERSEVERANCE and FIX OUR EYES ON JESUS...

Just look at the cross of what Jesus done, He died and through His blood we are forgiven ONCE AND FOR ALL, our past sins, present sins, and our future sins are already forgiven. We already washed by His precious blood.

Not only that! Not only we received His forgiveness, We receive His Life. Jesus died, he buried and in three days Jesus Christ resurrected- our Savior, our King, and the Creator of the heavens and the earth and He gave it to us His Life so that we may walk the newness of Life - His Life, the overflowing-Life of Christ -mercy, blessing, faithfulness, hope, peace, joy and love. This is the reason why we can run with perseverance in this last days. Let us run for the coming of our KING.

RUN BOMBET RUN!!!
HALLELUJAH!!!

The Gift of Misery

We have few days left before Christmas. Traditionally, during this season people excited to give and receive gifts. It's lovely to give someone a gift. It's fun. It's exciting to receive a gift, too, particularly if it's something that you really wanted and you get it by surprise. It thrills you to get a gift like that. It's wonderful to get a gift from God as well. How many of us have had a gift from Him? All of us. Our salvation, God's Son, His Spirit, our family, our brethren, our BS contacts, our friends, if have them -all are gifts from Him.

There is a gift from God, though, that we don't recognize as gift. I have a book titled The Rest of the Gospel by Dan Stone and Greg Smith, this book was given to me from my mentor his name is Ching Alkuino, he is a real man of God. The content of the book has a powerful message of the gospel. One of the chapter of the book wrote by the author a gift that we never recognize as a gift from God. The author call it the gift of misery. I don't know if you see misery as a gift, but it is. Most of us who have been drawn to God, either initially or in deeper way lateron, have been drawn through misery. It was pain, heartache, disappointament, or discouragement that did it.

Personally, I've been through misery that leads me to draw near to Christ. We also went through misery for how many students and faculties in MSU experienced kidnapping and the latest one of the faculty was murdered together with his student assistant. What a miserable situations we have. It's really hard to comprehend. We begin to feel like running away.

But God is in control. God was right in the middle of that. He used that situations to draw all the more to Christ. In Him we assured and secured. He is mighty to save. Even as a body of Christ He allow this things to happen so that we realized that we need to be united and joined together as one in prayer. He restored the relationship among the leaders. He reconciled the broken relationships.

We also see in the Sriptures God's primary way of preparing people for Him was the gift of misery. One of the best example was the life of Joseph. He was tossed into a pit by his brothers, sold into slavery, falsely accused, put into prison, unjustly forgotten and left to languish. Eventually he became Prime Minister of Egypt, but that was a hard route. Humanly speaking, he had the right to be bitter.

When his brothers were at his mercy, however, what was his response?
"You meant evil against me, but God meant it for Good? (Gen.50:20). God meant it for good for those who loved him.  He used misery in Joseph's life not only to mature him in his faith, but also to bring salvation to his father's household. He could see the evil of his brothers or he could see the purpose of God.

Thank God for your misery. It prepares you to be a vessel for His use, for His strength - not yours - to flow through. It doesn't seem to make sense. In weakness is your strenght. In your misery is your hope. In your death is your life. In your nothing is His everything. It's amazing how God works. Out of dung heap grows a rose. Out of misery grows a mighty man of God. Thank God for your misery. Thank God for your pain. Don't attribute it to the devil. If you do, paraphrase Joseph: " The devil meant it for evil, but God turns his trick on him and works it for good."