BLESSINGS

"Praise God from whom all blessings flow..."

It's been 3 days since I arrived here in the Philippines from Hong Kong and Macau. I am so blessed along with my cousins to have the privilege to travel in those places.Our uncles,aunties, parents and cousins sponsored this trip. We've been out of the country for 6 days(October 21-26). This trip is memorable because it is my first time to ride in an airplane and a lot more experiences. All of the experiences were great! ( MY PHOTOS ARE POSTED HERE: https://www.facebook.com/justinepaolo/media_set?set=a.10201781965022559.1584638920&type=3 )

I visited a lot of places including the Ruins of St. Paul in Macau, Hong Kong Disneyland,Hong Kong Ocean Park, Hotels, Malls and a lot more...Aside from enjoying the places and the sceneries, I also took the opportunity to pray for the people and places that I visited. In this trip, God gave me His love for the Chinese people. Even though I don't understand their language, I felt God's love for them. I felt it in my heart. I hope and pray that someday, if given the chance, I would also want to minister to the Chinese people.

My heart is filled with thanksgiving right now. Thanks to God for His faithfulness...and thanks so much to all of my/our sponsors for the vacation trip! God bless your generous hearts.

God is simply awesome in all His ways and plans! I can't wait for the things He has planned in my future. All I can say is...Amen and Amen!

A THANKFUL HEART

My final examinations are all done! I thank Abba,Jesus and Holy Spirit for this fruitful 1st semester. God has been so faithful in His provisions,guidance and blessings. God enabled me to learn new lessons, lessons that would help me in my teaching profession soon. I also would want to thank my parents for their ever present support,my teachers for sharing thier knowledge and my classmates for the friendship.

As we look forward to 2nd semester and enjoy this semestral break, it is good to take time to thank God, for He is the source of our everything. I am excited for the things that God in stored for the next semester. Let us be assured of His promise:

"For I know the plans I have for you, "declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." - Jeremiah 29:11

For the mean time...I need to pack my things for my sembreak trip to Hongkong and Macau next week(October 21-26) with my cousins. Be blogging soon.

Triune Blessings and Happy sembreak!

CREATED UNIQUE

Abba, Jesus and Holy Spirit created us unique. Unique that He created us different from each other. Uniqueness in our personalities, gifts,talents,skills and features. Sometimes we tend to compare ourselves to what others can do and the things that we cannot do. Let us all be reminded of what Apostle Paul wrote:

"Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many." - 1 Corinthians 12:12-14 NIV

The 'body' that Apostle Paul pertains to is the Body of Christ or the Church and the 'parts of the body' refers to us believers. We believers are blessed with different gifts(skills,talents,personalities and features).God gave us these gifts for us to use in glorifying Him and edifying His Church. But how can we glorify Him and edify the Church using these gifts? We can glorify God and edify His Church when we use these gifts in our everyday lives.For example, When we use our voices to worship Him,in that manner, we are already glorifying God.We can also edify His church when we,for example use our gift of encouragement to uplift our brothers and sisters who need encouraging words,again, by that action we are already edifying the Church. We appreciate our uniqueness and thank God refraining from highlighting our deficiencies in comparison with others.

There are many ways to glorify God and edify His Church. Our challnge is to embark on discovering our gifts and talents and use them for God's purpose. 

Let us honor Abba, Jesus and Holy Spirit with our gifts and talents!

CUP OF COFFEE

I always thank Abba,Jesus and Holy Spirit for this cup.

A cup of coffee(or chocolate sometimes) has always been present during our weekly prayer fellowship for our K - SEEDS GROUP( Koinonia Seeds Group) at school. We buy our cup of coffee for 5 pesos from the vending machine. This cup has always been (and forever be) a witness to each one's testimony,tears,prayer concerns,stories and sharing. 

May I ask everyone to continue to pray for our K - SEEDS GROUP, as we continue to grow in number and spiritually. Our group ministers to our classmates who basically need ears to hear, a heart to listen and a prayer to strengthen everybody. Our group meets every friday for an hour of sharing,singing and prayer. We meet everywhere, yes everywhere! Wherever God leads us, sometimes at the canteen, garden, classroom or even at the library where we whisper!

Abba, Jesus and Holy Spirit is just awesome, awesome in all His ways! We are assured of this verse:

"Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." - Philippians 1:6 NIV

Hallelu Yah!