“Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing” (James 1:3–4, NKJV)
God wants you to be perfect and complete, living in His abundance and lacking nothing on this earth. That may seem like a stretch from where you are today. It may seem far off; but in an instant, things can turn around. God has set up a system of blessing for you, and it starts with His Word. The Bible says that God has given each of us a measure of faith. We all have faith, and it’s up to us to develop it. Romans 10:17 says that faith grows as we read and study His Word. Faith, in turn, produces patience, and when we allow patience to have its perfect work in us, we will lack no good thing.
Today, no matter where you are in the process, the key is to keep moving forward by reading and hearing His Word. His Word is alive. His Word will heal your heart and restore your soul. His Word will produce patience in your life so that you can move forward, being complete and lacking nothing all the days of your life!
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Beware again! My english is Awesomeness! heheheh!
2 weeks ago i watched Avengers with my friends… We watched the last full show in 3D…. and I slept inside the cinema because I was so tired…
So I decide after my early meeting days later, to watch it again with my two friends… :)
I LOVE THE MOVIE!!!! YES!!!!! I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!! I LOVE… I LOVE THOR!!! HEHEHEHE!!!! (even if they don’t really focus on his handsomeness in this one! OH I LOVE HIM! I pray that my future lovey will be kind of like him… A MAN!!! :) a very charming MAN! )
But… that’s not the one that really hit my heart… Its the line of HULK…
In our lives we have many struggles… Hatred, lust, envy,conformity, addiction, laziness, idolatry….. and so on… And we try fight these things with all our might…
Some of you might be asking and saying…” Why do we have to fight these things??? HATE? LUST? lalala… these are normal response to some situations… When someone did something bad to you, you hate… when you see pictures like this or that or see a beautiful woman or a handsome man your imagination just goes like that… ITS NORMAL!”
Not because these are the immediate response of our body or our heart, it should be NORMAL… No… We cannot let these stay in us because these destroy us…
THESE ARE SINS… sorry for being like a knife in this one… I really don’t want to hurt you guys and girls.. but this is the truth… and we need the TRUTH… Sin destroys our identity.. destroys our destiny…
Sin separates us to our Creator…
”Why can’t we be separated from God? Can He just leave us alone!!!” Yes He can.. but God decided to never leave us nor forsake us (hebrews 13:5)… Because we are created BY HIM and FOR HIM… :)
Believe me… I tried to live for myself, for my dreams, for my craft my music and *ehem! ehem!* (cough! cough!) for some cute guys too… hahaha! I tried living not for God …! nothing satisfied me… So i thought that’s ”LIFE”… that’s the meaning of living… to always find for something that will satisfy me..
That hunger can only be satisfied with ONE… A relationship with your MAKER… :)
So yeah, we try to fight our sins with our whole might… but nothing seems happening… its not working… you just go on circles with that sin… You wake up in the morning so shy to pray to God because of the things that you did… you just go on circles…
When Hulk said this line in the movie “YOU KNOW WHAT’S MY SECRET? I’M ALWAYS ANGRY…….” BOOM! like a light bulb exploded inside my brain these came to my mind…To fight the enemy you have to HATE him! To fight sin is to HATE SIN! Well hate doesn’t really mean that you have to be in a “fighting face mode” all the time it is a matter of the heart… it is to have a distaste for it… Oha Hate hatred… hate lust!!!
But you can’t hate something that you loved for so long just like that… You will just keep on sinning if you love sinning… unless.. there is something or Someone rather, that you love more now… in short ”You. can’t. hate .sin. if. you. dont. love. God…” :) the more you love God..the more you will hate SIN… Yes that is that.. (yun yun… hehehe) We can’t figh sin just by hating it… unless GOD IS HOLDING YOUR HEART… Unless.. God is your delight now… Loving God is the only way…
You can’t fool the enemy and say…. ” I HATE YOU.. And I’m a hulk in the spirit..” he sees you when you’re alone… He sees your every reaction towards people.. he sees and hear those backstabbing you do… he sees everything.. the enemy is watching you…
Maybe you’re saying right now.. “But i don’t love God.. and i want to..” Well let me tell you this… that’s what i told God 3 years ago… And God delights in a humble heart.. just be honest to God, you can’t hide anything from Him anyway… :) Just tell Him.. ” I WANT TO LOVE YOU GOD! BECAUSE YOU ARE MY CREATOR AND TO YOU I OWE EVERYTHING… MY BREATH, MY BODY… MY EXSISTENCE…”
You know what God did to me when i opened my heart to Him? He poured out in me a kind of LOVE for Him so hyper i cannot control it… I can’t control it!!! That’s why i can be angry at the enemy now… i can be genuinely angry with sin…
DO NOT FAKE IT! YOU CANNOT FAKE GOD! Or else you will look like this hulk hehehe! Just kidding… but yeah… :) God loves you so much even if you look like this one hehehehe…. God loves you that he died for you even when you were a sinner (ROMANS 5:8). .. :) Don’t be shy just come to him and be consumed by His LOVE! :) if you failed because of that same sin…. COME TO HIM… REPENT.. You can’t change you… God will change You… Just soak in His Love… :) His Spirit will be in you.. And you will be surprised, wow! i’m not doing those things anymore… :)
To look upon His mercy and grace… Jesus died for you and me so that we can be with Him… In view of His mercy you will just refuse to sin because of your melted heart for God’s love for you.. YOU CAN’T JUST DO IT ANYMORE…
I don’t really know if all of the things that i have said connects to the whole story of hulk in the movie cuz honestly i didn’t really understand the whole thing because they talk so fast… or maybe my english is just so AWESOME!!!! hahahahahah! but yeah… that line was really striking… “I’m always angry..”
P.U.S.H.
During my childhood days, though I never asked for my pocket money or even my snacks, my parents would definitely give something for me before going to school. During those times, I didn’t know how or where to spend the money. And so, I just kept and saved them. Until one day, I saw my friends playing with their “brick games” (Tetris on FB for some nowadays) so I decided to buy one for myself. Oh well, I also undergone that process of “i-want-to-have-that-too” stage. I enjoyed my Brick game’s company for a year. Same thing happened when I bought my first ever game board-the Scrabble and other stuffs. But, there were also times that I used to beg for a thing and cry just to convince my parents to give it to me.
When it comes to love and affection, I believe every child – including me, wants to feel it from our parents. But how will our parents give that to us if we will not ask them? Though it is their responsibility/obligation in the eyes of man and God, they are still waiting for us to ask of their love. Responsibility is a different thing. Our parents are waiting for us to open up our hearts to them, to share what we feel, to hear our rattles and laughter. They are just waiting for their sons and daughters to ask for what they need. Honestly, there are times that I had this “i-can-do-this-on-my-own-thing”. Well, I can walk, I can think, I can decide for myself, I can…, I can… I forgot that I have my parents to help me get out of the way or cheer me up. I pretend that I am strong and I don’t need them. But, I realized that they can give me more than what I can give to myself. I just have to ask.
Other than our parents, we have Him, we have our Heavenly father. He’s just right there. He listens to us even though we’re not talking to Him. He’s watching us even though we don’t ask Him to do it. He’s talking to us even though we’re not listening. But, He can do even more if we’ll just ask and open our hearts for Him. We just have to learn that He’s around no matter what. He is our father. We just have to forget our childish ways.
“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.” 1 Cor. 3:11
“Keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking and you will find, keep on knocking and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks.” Matthew 7:7-8
God knows our hearts, our desires, our passion but we should ask for it. He won’t move not until we ask. Prayer is a remarkable tool to talk with God. All of us have the freedom to talk to God. We are so lucky that we don’t have to do rituals to be able to converse with Him. To men you may not always speak of heavenly things, but to God you may. If your prayers are for you, then definitely He will give it to you. But do not be dismayed if what you prayed for won’t happen. Hey, there’s a time for everything and He has made everything beautiful in His time. He has beautiful plans for all of us. He’s just got something better in store you.
1There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:
2a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
6a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace…
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11He has made everything beautiful in its time. Ecc. 3:1-11
I had a chance to experience His supernatural ways. And to who ever may read this, I’m telling you He shockingly moves in mysterious ways. There are times that what’s happening around us is not what we prayed for. We might feel unloved, hurt and abandoned. But you’ll come to realize that it’s part of your prayer. (magugulat ka nalang!) We must patiently wait for it. He loves us so much that He wants us to prepare for it.
And by asking, we nurture our relationship with our Father. He delights to hear and to answer His children’s prayers. So, never be afraid to pray. And when it happens, you will just want to shout of His name and from the rooftops, proclaim His goodness.
About me
Diana- is pronounced dy-ANN-ah, dee-AHN-ah. It is of Latin origin, and the meaning of Diana is "heavenly divine".Rose- The Song of Solomon uses the rose to describe the purity and beauty of a bride and symbolically that of a believer wholly united to God: "I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valley" (2:1). Christianity also applies the title "rose of Sharon" to Jesus as the sinless son of God. It can also be traced to the Old German words "hros" meaning "horse", or "hrod" meaning "fame, renown"
Yana- The origin of the name Yana is Hebrew, Slavic with the meaning(s) depending on Gender/Origin being. In Hebrew- God is gracious or He answers.
Diana Rose or "Yana" is a graduate of BS Human Ecology Major in Human Settlements Planning at the University of the Philippines Los Baños.
