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Blackberry makes me happy?!

January 10th, 2012

Arelle V. White

A Blackberry phone makes me happy! because through it, my husband and I can send each other messages from anywhere we are in the world when travelling!

Ok, it’s not blackberry that actually makes me happy, it’s my husbands messages of love and care that I receive on it! It’s Instant Messengers let us enjoy unlimited chat, no more P2.50/message that keeps me buying a lot of load, through the BBMax service on Globe, for P599 a month, it’s a big savings for the kind of communicating that we do. One time I spent almost P2000 in load in two weeks using the regular YM service on mobile when travelling! I thank God for technology when it’s used this way!

This is one of the many messages…I like this one particularly because he mentions about prayer and fasting being the way how he received a word from God! about me!

My husbands message last January 7, 2012

(Translation: Listening to Hillsong from the “Inside Out”. 3 Years ago I would listen to a it a lot the same time I met you, When fasted God gave your hand to me. I love you more than words would ever express. I thank the Lord for blessing me with your love. I’m your’s always and forever.! (Of course I replied very lovingly too, acknowledging him as God’s gift to me!)

I received this text on our Day 2 of Prayer and Fasting while at church attending the prayer meeting. I can fully say that our marriage is a product of seeking God’s will through prayer and fasting!

Here is the song Inside Out by Hillsong.

I thank God for blessing me with a wonderful husband who loves the Lord! And because of the love of God, he is able to love me more than I can imagine!

If your husband doesn’t know the Lord, start praying he does come to know the Lord! Why? Because God has a clear instruction to him.

“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” – Ephesians 5:25

To all Christian single women, if you want a genuine Christian man for a husband, be the first to pray and fast asking God to help the man He has for you to find you
If you want to know my story, read on…

In December of 2008, my friends, Ate Janet, Luzette, Zed and I went up the Prayer Mountain in Antipolo to seek God in prayer for our group goal of going to Boracay the following year, January 2009 for a Real Estate project Alta Vista De Boracay by DMCI Homes and Crown Regency Boracay by Fuente Triangle that we want to market. There we lifted up that desire in prayer, and with that was our personal requests to God, too.

In the prayer mountain, I told God that I believe I am ready to start a relationship, and for him to confirm who (if I already know him), or meet who (if I don’t know him yet) He intend for me to start a relationship with.

Before the year 2008 ended, our group took a trip to Cebu, and I had the opportunity to be part of the first batch to ride the Sky Adventure at the Crown regency hotel! And as we like putting our travel photos online, Doug saw a photo of me in a harness in a Christian website and messaged me out of curiosity of what I was doing, to which i simply replied with something like, I was on a Sky adventure in the tallest Hotel in the Philippines.

We started talking more about faith and travelling after that. In January 2009, I informed him of the church doing the annual praying and fasting, to which I am not expecting he would participate, but he did.

During the fast, he believe God spoke to him, and the rest is history… He gave time to know me, and so did I. While getting to know each other, meeting each others family, praying together. I seek God for a confirmation about the destiny of our courtship, if this is His answer to me when I prayed at the mountain? and the Lord did. I had some concerns that I had to lift up to God to give me peace about, and then on one trip from Kalibo to Boracay, I was listening to Joel Osteen’s, Become a Better you on my Ipod (that he gave), I heard the encouragement I needed that served as my confirmation of a “go” from God, and that He is blessing it. Was it all a bed of roses all the way? no, we had serious disagreements having grown from different backgrounds and cultures, but whenever God intervened, it all gets cleared and restored.

He proposed marriage to me in September 2009, and formally asked for my hand in marriage from my mom in January 2010, and got married the same year.

Thank you to my husband for being obedient to God! lol

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Grace and Truth came through Jesus Christ

November 14th, 2011

Arelle V. White

Ptr. Joseph Prince shares an insightful revelation of what it means to live in our generation of Grace and truth through Jesus Christ.

John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

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What did God designed man to do

October 17th, 2011

Arelle V. White

Our series this week is called BLUEPRINT: The Plan of God for Man in the Garden.

The world has it’s own definition of how a man should be.

Like for example…the Marlboro Man…a real man should smoke or something…

James Bond…must be skilled in fighting

Superman…must be a Superhero

What man doesn’t want to be known for? Lazy, Mediocre or a workaholic among others.

What is a real man survey? Some says…real men don’t ask for directions on the road..its why they easily get lost lol, or real men doesn’t drink water when eating something spicy and bear it…

People has a lot of ideas about how man should be. But what did man’s creator created man to be? What is God’s real intended design?

Let’s see what Genesis 2:2-3 has to say…

By the seventh day God had finished the work

Yes, God does work. Because God himself does it, it means work is good.

On V.8 God planted…

in verse 7 it says..Then the LORD God formed a man

God formed man…Formed means Yatsar-to shape or to mold. God created! He worked.

^{in Verse 15} The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

He designed the garden of Eden for man to work it…remember the

2 Reasons why God put Adam in the garden

To work it
To take care of it

In the work that we do, are we really working it? are we taking care of what God has given us? God created Adam first…only Man and God to fellowship with…but God is awesome he created Eve from Adam’s rib to be a helpmate. What matters most first is our relationship with Him then our spouse, our loved ones, possessions he has entrusted to care for. We must work it…we must take care of it! God must be a partner in everything he has given us.

We can’t emphasize enough that Man was designed to partner with God in work. He wanted us to have fellowship with him, to be in the business of taking care of his creation, it includes taking care of yourself, work out…taking care of your spouse, she was created from you…taking care of your assets..land and properties God has given you to use for his glory not just pleasure.

Only God can create something out of nothing. He made us sub-creators, because we are created in God’s image, we have that nature to work and create.

Adam means Mankind

Ha-Adam means The Man

Ha-Adamah means The Ground from which he was taken from – you see the connection of man and the soil. We were created from dust and to dust we shall return.

But when Adam and Eve disobeyed. Things changed, they had to work to eat

Gen.3:17

“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.

So today, some of us look at work as just something to do. We tell ourselves, I will keep this work to make enough money and do what I really want to do. But you see, God designed work to be joyful and a blessing.

God promised to bless the work of our hands..not the hands..but the works of it.

How do we measure the value of our work? Is it according to your pay? The status it gives you? The recognition you receive from it? We must value it because God designed work.

Hierarchy of work? Remember Jesus was a carpenter. It doesn’t matter how you think significant or insignificant your work is. All work matters, when you work to glorify God.

SIN Severed the partnership with God. When our partnership with God was cut when we disobeyed, we lost the real reason to work which was to enjoy fellowship with God as we do it. Work now became a place to find one’s identity and meaning of life. The real value of work is supposed to be doing it in relation to being with God. Work became an Idol, it became a curse. Today’s effect of work to people is restlessness…We must always impress the boss and strive so hard we even need to work on a Sunday, even if God himself rested from all his work on the seventh day. We deal with restlessness by going to the malls,buying more DVD’s to watch, more gaming, more FB.

In a biography of Madonna done by Mary Cross…Madonna says she has an Iron will to do and succeed..but the end of it there is still mediocrity…that it’s uninteresting.

People get bound to the threadmill of performance…why? Because we lost our partnership with God.

JESUS redeemed the work through the cross. We got free from the need for affirmation. Our value – is life in and with Jesus
Jesus gives us freedom from restlessness. We are secured in the heavenlies. He frees us from the need to save ourselves, he did it all on the Cross.

Free your self from the cycle of needing to be significant by your own works. Accept Jesus in your life today, he worked it all for you. If you Want to accept Jesus Christ and find meaning in what you do? Please pray with us.

Find joy in what you do, by restoring your partnership with God in all you do.

The above are notes from church preaching by Ptr. Dan Harder at Victory Quezon City, with some of the thoughts I had as I listened. We invite you to come visit us at GT Toyota at UP Diliman, we have services all through out the day on Sundays, and we met all across the city on middle of the week for small group bible lessons.