Too Quiet you Think? PRAY

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."

-Galatians 5:22-23

Have you ever felt that God in some of your moments was too quiet? That He wasn't listening to you? Or that He's not answering? I felt those so many times! And we usually grumble and let irritation strikes us out. 

But God always teach and reminds me that I should not worry and let the negativity sink in me. God wanted me to be more dependent on Him and to PRAY more.

You'll ask, "what should I pray?". Well, you could pray anything to God! But what I learned was that despite on not hearing Him, negative outcomes or shortcoming, we should be thankful to Him.

And no matter what, let the Spirit filled your life.

 Listen to Him more than to yourself.

Struggles and Sensation

"There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."

-1 Corinthians 10:13

Being a follower doesn't mean that you're already in hay or lying your head on a bed of roses. It wasn't just the reds and violets on flowers and roses. It also includes the thorns and imperfection that is in the package.

I don't grew up on a Christian family. I have the secular lifestyle before I committ my life to Christ. I let the world cave in in me and go with the flow in it thinking that I'm happy about it. But God, in many points in my life, made me realize that the true happiness would only be find in His presence and the only rest is in Him.

On that moment, I let God take me over. But it wasn't the end of all the struggles. I just noticed that it was just the start.

There are certain point in my life that my flesh seek the previous secular lifestyle that I have. And there are moment that you would really like to give in on that sensation that the enemy flows in your veins that made me feel guilty and worthless.

But God reminded me that this things happens because of two things: (1) He allow this like Job as a test of faith; (2) this is consequence of your sins.

I know that this sensation were the consequences of my previous sins. And I know that this temptation is common to all of us but God let you face this because He knew that we'll escape it, with Him throughout the way.

I'm not perfect. I'm a sinner. But God by His grace gave me so much opportunity in living accordingly to His will.

I'm facing struggles. All of us face this endeavors, but the Scriptures said we "can do anything through Christ who gives me strength" (Phil.4:13).

I'm praying to all of you who face challenges and struggles today. Just to let you know, God is with you. Be faithful and keep on praying.

May God be with you in all times.

Something Worth to Give Up : Comfort Zones

It's been a long time that I didn't visit my blog. Honestly, I really have a hard time, thinking on what should I wrote here on a daily basis. I want to share all of my experiences that God has been doing in my life; on how great He is and on how awesome His plans is.

Well, to kick it off, I would like to share one thing that God has been teaching me this past few months: to give up and step out of my comfort zone. I know that most of you know how hard it is to get out to a place wherein you already knew the flow and the interior of the system? I think a good illustration here is leaving your place in order to move to another place. I remember a scene in a certain animation film wherein the protagonist take a turnaround on his house (and lift the house with so many balloons! Just kidding XD ). 

Why do we have hard time of letting go things? Because we learn to love them and we have been very comfortable to this things that we find it hard to let it go. But sometimes, we didn't notice that these things hinders us in making God put all His plans unto us. The problem as well is we make plans out of accordance of what He wants.

Most of us have doubts and fears if they thought of getting out of their comfort zone. But God said that we should trust Him and don't depend on what we understand; that it is His will that we should take. Proverbs 3: 5 says " Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding (emphasis mine)". Isn't it wonderful to put all your trust in God? And he said not just to trust him partially, but to trust in him "with all of our heart". 

That's God's promise to us. How are we able to trust Him? He answered it in the following verse. Verse 6 says "Seek his will in all you do and He will show you which path to take." In order to trust God, seek his will, not your own will. 

God wanted us to be more dependent on him, not on the comforts on this world. This fallen world taught us to worries on matter which is temporal such as  security, job, pleasure and a lot to mention.

Let's have a STEP OF FAITH and get out of our box. If we stay inside, we are limitation God's power and provision on us. Let's learn to take a risk and trust Him. I'm sure he will lead you to a much better place that even you wouldn't expect.

Trust God. I'm sure it's worth  to give it all to Him.