RnR na! he he
my date? ha ha. Honestly, she's great and look great to.
my date? ha ha. Honestly, she's great and look great to.
the key to multiplication.
How to love your leader.
This 2nd week of march, i have ended my series. It's a great time to see that we have a long way to go. We talk about the characteristics of being a tipping point.
- having contagious behavior and
- small things have big effects.
Now we have the subtitle of how to love our leaders
4You are from God, (A)little children, and (B)have overcome them; because (C)greater is He who is in you than (D)he who is in the world.
Now I'm focus on new things... winning. thank you guys for being with me.
now is the start of more...
amazing month so far... this last two months are full of great pearls of learning.
we talked about being disciplined in our cell
- study and work discipline
- our finances and how we look (how we dress)
- family
we Get things in order in the VISION
I'm excited for the new battle. Thanks for my leaders who believe in me. To my cellmates, they will be trained in the supernatural.
yeahhh
The tipping point series: How little things can make a BIG difference
(KJVR) Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 1 john 4:4
This February, we are coming in a new series. we will explore on the power and potential that we have INSIDE.
"if we win inside, we can conquer outside"
we are a people, that the world has been longing for to represent Jesus. We are tipping points and world changers. we live for a grand vision and goal.
three characteristics of tipping points
1. contagious behavior: influence
the story of Jonathan at 1 Samuel 13
2. Little changes had big effects
3. They happen in a hurry: a rapid advance
see you in our cell meeting 6-7pm Thursdays at Kalayaan dormitory UP diliman
Cravings for the authentic: devotions
what do you crave for? what will make your life complete?
I. identity
"if you are the Son of God"
we crave for God. Your identity is written in God's word. "it is written" Matt. 4:4
II. intimacy
Matt 4:4
"i just don't want bread, i want the voice of my Father"
physical food don't satisfy our Spirit
don't crave for poor substitute
Devotion: intimacy, you get personal, you talk
Let's crave for God's Word. let's be intimate.
Advance: Just come and follow me
1On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, 2and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine."
4"Dear woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied, "My time has not yet come."
5His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."
6Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.[a]
7Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with water"; so they filled them to the brim.
8Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet."
They did so, 9and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now."
11This, the first of his miraculous signs, Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee. He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him.
Many times in our lives, all we need it to advance. just Go ahead. We have a time to prepare but we have to be reminded that the reason why we prepare is for us to ADVANCE.
our Spirituality is always be om advance, GO FORWARD... only when we embrace a life of advance will we experience surprises. If Jesus is the one who calls to come and follow... let's COME and FOLLOW. let's ADVANCE.
I. we love people
"jesus was invited" verse 2
Jesus is always invited to parties. Do you wonder why religious people are not invited to parties? because they are boring.
How's your spirituality? are you inviting? DO you invite people to be with you to advance?
II. we love God
"My hour has not yet come" verse 4
Jesus intimacy with His father is so amazing, He know when is the right time or not to do miracles. If you love God, you will listen to what He tells you. You will know His vision for your life.
Do you know God's vision for your life? how intimate are you to listen.
III we are willing to advance: we advance
mary said "whatever He says to you, do it" verse 5
If we advance and come and follow God, He will do the miracle. Don't play it safe... the invitation is just simple... Go and make disciples of all nations. come and follow me. Advance
Preparing for seizing divine moments
We are to prepare for our divine moments
DIVINE moment Greek root word is ATOMOS, same for deriving our word for atoms and the atomic.
Divine moments are like atoms:
-- small and insignificant
-- ignored and left behind
--overlooked many times
Same with our life many times but i believe we can be the atomic that God has made us to be.
In the story of Esther we can see that 12 months of preparation is worth for ONE night of facing the King. ONE night with the King, changes everything.
preparation can spell success or failure to us.
HOW to prepare?
1 Vision- prov. 29:18
-- what consumes your life?
2. commitment- acts 26:19. phil. 3:8
--" i was not disobedient to the heavenly vision"
set the date, have specific goals, do the vision that God has given you.
3. brokenness and humility-
--Esther, orphan girl- becomes Queen, bitter herbs for preparation.
Prepare for your divine moments and seize it.
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cleanliness leads to security
18 "Come now, let us reason together,"
says the LORD.
"Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.
19 If you are willing and obedient,
you will eat the best from the land;
20 but if you resist and rebel,
you will be devoured by the sword."
For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
-isaiah 1:18-20 (NIV)
you are a winner. You are born a winner, you should live as a winner.
The fact that you are here today, is amazingly a proof the you win. YOU WIN. In our lives, if we want to win we have to know that it is our INDENTITY, SECURITY, AND CLEALINESS/RIGHTEOUSNESS that will enable us to win.
Jesus' blood has washed all our sins away and made us winners. our clealiness will lead to our security and identity as winners. Its all about Jesus and what He has done on the Cross. The blood of the lamb that taketh away the sins of the world, Jesus has rescued us from the life of an average to life of winning. A Life full of scars to a person clothe with holiness as white as snow.
We win because of Jesus. Now i invite you to with me in this journey of winning this year. we will see leaders and leader of leaders to arise. This will be an awesome coming days.
you are a winner.
This 2007 will gonna be an awesome year for me personally.
We will win in every areas of our lives. We will see our twelve cell leaders and the 144.
A leader of leaders.
We will win, win, win... the unstoppable force.
"Jesus is the best" is one of my greatest statement lately. it might not be original but its cool. i just want to let you know that i came to WIN the world and i have no time to talk to the devil about what he wants, for all he know what Jesus wants is all that i gonna do and all that will come to fulfillment. There so much attack upon the men that God has called for this hour, but we are not giving up and we are advancing.
Many times i just thought that i coudn't do that much, well that's just a thought and Jesus is changing my mindset, transforming to become the mind of Christ and of a conqueror. this is who we are, WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH Him who loved us (so much).
I'm on the series on changing my mind lately, and i don't want to have a delay. i want the Spirit to keep on rushing on me through and through.
The power of the cross is still visible and will always keep on offending the hard hearted and the religious AND all will crumble in the presence of Jesus you know. I claim every areas of my life for Jesus and let it be put in subjection in the mighty hand of the Lord, in short "let it explode, let it be busy and crazy for the Kingdom"
This 2 months, we will be on breakthrough, my cell will multiply to four and leaders will be made and formed. My cellmates will understand and will begin to live on fire for Jesus. They will begin to dream big dreams, they will conquer every thought and wrong mindsets that is not from God. They will begin to see and live in a new dimension, they will be excited and they will win... and it will begin through me because of Jesus.
This is a wonderful time to Get crazy and radical about the Visioon and the goal. Win souls and MAke disciples; raising leader of leaders of multitudes.
Living for jesus, as simple as it may sound is as wonderful as ever. we have always come to deep theological discurses but then it all boils down to purity of our love and discipline. The love for God should always be translated to the radicality of our discipline and our lifestyle.
The word of the lord always come to me by the practical and casual talk of my leader and mentor, ohh how i wish it always come as thunder and lightning and shaking of the ground. I have come to the point in my leadership that life is at stake with my discipline and spirituality... my cellmates is looking the best cell leader i could be. (i love you guys: kath and lean, you are the leader of leaders the lord has given me and i'll always believe in you)
The love for God will take us to abandon everything for the love of people, always seeing the people around us as God sees them. its all about God and its all about people. We always dreamed of multitudes coming and we are ready for the prophetic and the discipline of our lives.
We are a soul winning machine. Ready to count and pay the cost of leadership, as we are called to be leader of leaders. God hasn't given up with me yet, my cell leader and my pastor. We come to always believe the best for people, we come to believe that our generation will be the radicals and lovers of Jesus.
We win souls and make disciples.
Landscape, ideology, and real life: a
revolution
A real life conversation concerning UP in
terms of its landscape and ideology (hidden behind) is such a very delicate and
rewarding adventure. So much to me as an adventure, since I have seen UP-- the
center point of a revolution of any kind. If there is a revolution that will
broke, for sure UP would play the center stage. The talk of Up’s significance
therefore could be not and should not be underestimated. My search for
landmarks and signposts to decipher the ideology hidden is such an adventure.
And here have dealt with things that
might not be as other thought it should, but I have thought of great
significance… as I name the
landscapes/landmarks of UP and its corresponding ideologies, I’m not proposing
that it is THE ideology but I have seen this hidden to gems to be very
significant. As Geertz have proposed, these landmarks could serve as signpost
to lead us to better understand our world and the truth of life.
Here I do devise to
list the data in a table form to make it more simple and profound looking…
|
Landscapes/ landmarks |
Ideology hidden |
|
Equality and uniformity |
|
Living in a community |
|
Separation/ pride |
|
Entering UP means
freedom for freshmen or for students |
|
Diversity of
people living as a community |
|
All are welcome
to enter, not bound by boundaries |
|
Expression of
weirdness and uniqueness |
|
Wild living,
living in the wild |
|
Serve as a waking
mechanism, uprising |
|
Focal point/
center point of revolution |
These ideologies for landmarks are
birthed out through personal interviews and reflections. And on the following conversations I will
share my personal experiences and observations living in the said areas.
Equality in UP has been that of a
common word, we long to be equal with other people no wonder some grown to
unconsciously confuse equality with laziness. Students become so lazy these
days and just not taking responsibilities. Many buildings in UP have been
designed to look uniform or much more to be look that much the same. Yes, UP
students have just express weird things and call it UNIQUENESS through the way they dress, but then I just thought it
is just a shallow showcase of uniqueness. I do believe that uniqueness should
be seen from the inside out. More to my surprise is that many times we have
just judge people not on the basis of their character and spirituality but on how the way they look uniform and
the same in the outside appearance.
Much of what I have seen UP
landscape tries to convey is a sense of
the community, and diversity and freedom. When I was a freshman I used to
live in the dormitory, kalayaan dormitory that is. Kalayaan which literally
means FREEDOM is now my new home; it
promised us freedom and a community. Freedom just simply because we are far away
from our family and community because I used to live with diff. people (add to
that the near-complete amenities inside the dormitory). But then I have seen
that we are also given a freedom to choose to hide our bad hobbits and given a
chance to choose our community or own circle of friends. If we are not careful
enough we oftentimes see our search for freedom lead us to BONDAGE AND Slavery (premarital sex, wrong relationships and pride)
with our own doing because we haven’t choose the right way. As for me, I only
find my freedom when I meet Jesus as real more than a religion but a person (He
has change my life, I have been confronted with a choice and I chose Him).
What best describes UP also, are its
open gates, parks and wide open spaces
and the carillon tower. Almost all kinds of people are welcome to UP with
its gate-guards not requiring anyone an I.D. and also everybody could wildly
move in its parks and spaces (you know football and wild and war games). I love
UP to live wild; after all there should
never be a place for apathy and neutrality. When students get the most of
there lives living boring. Let’s live a life of adventure, shouting in out
parks and open spaces- I want to live.
I used to be very
interested for stories of revolution and
uprising. The carillon tower has
been a great symbol of origin at the
time when UP is in a good mode; when people woke up from there sleep because
the bell is ringing its songs at the highest peak in the campus. As far as I
have recalled, its been a few decades ago that the bell are on devastated stage
but then I heard that one of the biggest project in the UP centennial is the restoration of the tower. It’s been a high
time to restore out identity as a University that will lead this country for a
revolution. There will be a revolution
not just of shouting and of mass demonstration but of integrity and character. The restoration of the tower just conveys a picture of going back to our origin. The tower has been
an alarm clock of the whole campus in the past and its highest point and its
restoration means a great significance. Likewise to me, as I return to my point
of origin only would I understand my true design and blueprint--a masterpiece,
a brilliant star destined for greatness, you know.
Not so good. We are coming in the end of our month. ha ha. today is the end of july. feeling not so right again. again again. There are a lot of sorrows and arrows received and you're actually wounded. oh that's suprising. Does it suprised us to actually seeing ourselves simply cannot move. Some victories and a lot of defeats and i don't think we can't actually talk about great victories when we were actually feeling bad at the moment. what i mean is literally bad. Having a blood transfusion from hell (speaking in parables, if you get it, well tha't nice, you're that keen abserver and you deserve some applause)
Great thing about defeats is that we keep on making ourself so low to the point of feeling undeserving of it all. Bad thing is we can't move. Good thing about being in the right Kingdom is that we can actually feel that we can take on the whole world and actually leading a revolution. What can we do? what can i do when i just felt so bad? The stand...
i hope we could always stand up to The Stand (by hillsong). This could be my last writing for this month and i do conclude that i actually fail to attain some goals, but i am not giving up. It only means to start anew and to double the goals for the upcoming months. Speaking of being tough and leaping in faith... this is living by faith and in Spirit. i don't want to write another defeat letter next month. i need a whole new revolution, a Suprise.
The stand
You stood before creation
Forever within Your hand
You spoke all life into motion
My soul now is in His hand (?)
You stood before my failure
Carried the Cross for my shame
My sin went upon Your shoulders
My soul now is in His hand (?)
So what can I say
What can I do
But offer this heart O God
Completely to You
I walk upon salvation
The Spirit of light in me
My soul to declare Your promise
My life in Your hands
So I�ll stand
With arms high and heart abandoned
In awe of the One who gave it all
So I�ll stand
My soul Lord to You surrendered
All I am is Yours
the power of living our lives full of hills and bumps is found in the person we are obsessed of. we find the greatest strenght in time when we are about to give up by emptying ourselves just to be back in the presence of the one we love. we always have confused and lost minds to where/when or who will we get devote and focused our life into... only to find out that only the love of our life is the one who can truely satifies our longing. we may try to find it out in the roads of curves and jumps... but we never gave up til we find and travel the road set before us. May we find the intimacy we long for, where our life finds its passion and meaning... where we can perform our potential and destiny. finding our true love and soaring high to our full blast energy, being the frontline of the revolution of our life and earth and love.
in the quiet/ in the stillness i know that you are God/ in the secret of your presence/ i know there i am restored/ when you call i won't refuse/ each new day again i'll choose
there is no one else for me/ none but jesus/ crucify to set me free / now i live to bring Him praise
in the chaos /in confusion i know your sovereign still/ in the moment of my weakness you give me grace to do your will
when you call i won't delay/ this, my song through all my days
all my delight is in you lord/ all of my hope/ all of my strenght
all my delight is in you lord/ forevermore
jesus!? wow what a
good topic, well its not required to have an eleven years of religious
education to understand Him, He cannot be understood by education,
religion, or eleven years of going to church and the next thing you
knew is that He doesn't make sense anyway.
Speaking about the story in Luke 2, when jesus is about twelve years
old missed out by His parents only to find Him out three days after
talking with religious scholars and having a debate with them (because
jesus stands in opposition and defiance with religion, Jesus is about
relationship not religion)
surprisingly just as jesus is a perfect child and talk back to His
parents telling them "why are looking for me" because in a time of
their journey back home they actually missed jesus or lost Him. marry
and joseph get nervious "they lost the SON OF GOD" ha ha
jesus is actually saying "you have missed the point guys, you have missed me" and He grieve of How many people actually go to church keep on doing rituals, dogmas and all that religion requires WITHOUT INTIMACY and RELATIONSHIP, not knowing who jesus is.
dear michael at joy, thank you sa comments. natuwa naman ako at na-enlighten! mas close spiritual na ako ngayon kaysa nung mga panahon nung bata ako na hindi ko ma-reconcile yung seeming ironies ng religion. basta nung pumunta ako sa LB for college, mas naging close nga ako kay God.
for miss clarissajoy: nice thought, not about religion (but relationship and intimacy)well if you want more to read... check out my blog and also my book (coming soon, prophetic)
for miss dudes:
hehe nice thought, by the way religion is not my talk i hate it to the
core and with passion. huhu. btw think about this, jesus has no pristin
call of a secure christianity, full of rituals, traditions, and
voodootheology (which by the way what religion is all about) but a life
fully alive, full of risk, adventure and of many times seeing what
others might find offensive, in short BARBARIC.
jesus calls us to THE BARBARIAN WAY... intimacy and no hypocricy (which
by the way is His case with the pharisee- the religious elite of His
time.
its a new month, ohh taking a deep breath. june the jesus month, actually thinking a lot of who jesus is and what He has stand for. getting excited but in a sense afraid about what we are up into. Well, we fall and back and fall and back... its actually tiring thinking of how God could that be patient for me, as He always did. i little get that much pressure about doing something and really got into it <talking about speaking in parables this is it> i'm up for a new challenge and the only thing required is intimacy and brokeness. so obsessed thinking about what actually God can do more than what who God is. the call is there, is it? having some john the baptist disappointments (read the barbarian way by macmanus). the whole month that is, ohh really get stressed without the spirit. talking about missing the point "God is calling for the heart and the integrity that it takes". i don't know actually and full of the unknown <on the edge of breaking Down>. Leadership at its best and the awakening.
what we are afraid of the da vinci code is that its actually right, that if jesus just come to build religion and take us away from God its better to worship a prostitute. a prostitue that is broken and just like us who we can connect that need God's love. Jesus came to dislodge us of our rebellion.
oh wow, its really been a long time since then, welcome to the whole new world of breakthroughs. as of today i'm still on my "i can only imagine"... what. well let's get started. the month of May is about to end, its now may 31 midnight or for the sake of "detailedness" june 1, 1:44am. i'm writing on my brothers laptop but before that i've been checking out out destiny family websites <many links wow, destiny.org.ph>... and i see this one "beyond limits". indeed i am on the state of beyond limits, God is raising me up to whole new dimension of thought and the next thing you know is that my mind was blowed up by the presence of God.
i don't wanna be extra religious, just wanna be cool. oh i'm breaking mindsets here. if you are in the presence you can't help but change the world and at the same time being too cool that the hell-fire has nothing to do with you. this May is a landmark and i have crossed the line last may 13- its my birthday. its been a short 19 years <who says its long enough to blow up your imagination> and i couldn't believe what the almighty is up to in here. i'm much preoccupied with writing a best-seller but more than that to cross beyond limits. ohhh common. i may not be thinking like an engineer like now and i think God wants to give me a release in here. i have so much wants, a car, macbook pro, ipod, and all the blessings there is. all i know is, there is nothing like in the presence. i long to see what jesus is talking about and all the anointed... for such a time as this. Destiny. ready for multitudes.
beyond limits is in the presence. The glory to unveiled. yes i'm excited but i need more than that, i need explosion and brokeness.i'm entering a new dimension and gotta be ready.
ready for the multitudes
i need not explain more. "i'm gonna change the world"
diary message again. now i wanna write without a musical backgound. Oh at least i have to hurry since my food is waiting for me. few minutes more okay. just an update, what update am i really talking about? oh yes, i have become more indiscipline and sad this past few days. more to that i have become more excited about what's happening and will going to happen. (i tell you, this is a diary message hUh). just want to tell you FEAR, you are not welcome. you are out of place in here. hhhrrr. you know what you gotta be a champion! just remiding you mhen (slang word for man, i learned from miss elsie marie Or- hope you get across with this girl, i love you friend please don't misunderstand me). champion right? you know... you will know how a person talk and the sound of her or his lovely voice by simply seeing how he or she arrange words in the sentance... now you're writing to much. the food is waiting, thus i don't know the name (of the food- ulam sa tagalog).
wwwhhrr.. i destroy you. i possess
recently i've been out of myself. it seems that my one on one talk with someone wasn't working so well. well, its just that i am really unprepared. going into a battle unarmed is so dangerous, really dangerous and making a priceless life at stake. you have to repent on this. seeing the trend in the blog it is that visible that you're writting with three days interval.
kakay, her real name is karen. she's quite that weird, or confused. she discribe herself as "care-free". asking her how she'll discribe herself will generate no answer. i believe it only takes time for her to know who she is. the warrior. i am a champion and she is a warrior. she thinks she's weird but i think she's not. she's just confused ha ha. one day you'll be great. you have a great destiny... a majesty inside of you.
to remind you, your majesty. please wake up!
one on one this a jargon that anybody might not understand. i really pray that they will show up on schedule. you can do it guys. a great adventure is waiting for you. you might somehow learn how to be different (iba to!).it all depends on me, taking responsibility. the price is priceless. you might not know it yet. you conquer mhen (wrongly spelled as men).hooo waaahh
joshua, joshua, joshua... 6th book in the bible you know? many things were happening, in fact it were happening so fast. this written entry is in the DEVOTION category, that means you have to have a good background song while you're writing. Keep singing by MErcy Me. There's so many things that occupies my mind but i think, much more i believe, great things were happening. i'm so excited about the explotion of blue and Gold. know this? nohh, well its not for you to know. 12 cell leaders before the year ends. ha ha. i seriousness. "wholly follow the Lord"
P.S. how about torete and pinoy ako background. ha ha
when the whole world is busy thinking of how their lives suck big time, they do not think of the kids in the street with no food to eat.
when the whole world is dwelling on love and its mysteries, its refreshing to see someone write about the Lord.
for me, its not about religion, its about God. Ü