The Vacation

Me and my family is somewhat having kind of a vacation on a white sand beach resort. We are enjoying the place as we swam the waters, playing white sand and relaxing nicely.

 Suddenly we saw winds coming together forming a tornado-like cyclone nearby at our place. The tornado is huge but calm. We decided to go back to our rooms and continue later our swimming at the beach. I looked outside and it seems that the tornado disappeared. I insisted my family to go back at the beach to have fun. I remembered the words that I have told and it was, "Lets go swimming for this vacation is once in a lifetime!". My family went back happily at the beach and continued our fun.

 As we explore the beach, we saw an area that is rocky and the water's waves are rough. My mom was insisting to go there but I didn't allow here for its seems to be dangerous. After all of my persuasion of my mom, she went. When she went there, I noticed that the waves are slowly being calm and the waters are reduced. My mom was wondering but I am worrying. I went to my mom in that area asking why did the waves suddenly calmed out and the waters seemed to be reduced.

The reason why the waters at the beach is on the next sentence. Sequel to the happenings, I looked at the sea on the horizon, a huge tsunami is coming at our way! The tidal waves coming at us was fast approaching. My family was terrified and we don't know what to do. We ran together as fast as we can. As we passed to the cottages nearby I looked back and I saw huge tidal waves coming at me. I saw no sky just a humongous tidal wave tsunami coming at me! I looked at my family and they have reached far already.

What's on my mind is I think it's my ending. I breathed deeply in case that when I am engulfed with the tidal wave I could swim. I closed my eyes and prayed , "Lord, please save me, I don't know if I am going to die, but please save me". I deep breathe again then opened my eyes, I saw the waters bit far and seemed the time stopped for a while. For the third time I deeply breathe, still I saw it was far. I saw my family calling out my name and I ran quickly to them. With all my might I was running as well as crying. Then I reached them, I saw my younger sister also praying and traumatized then in sequel collapsed. I carried her then we ran together completely. We didn't care about the tidal wave but we just ran for our lives!

I looked back I saw the big resort place that we went in were engulfed with waters and destroyed it! We were all crying and somewhat praising God that he saved us from that tragedy!

It was 3:00 AM opened my eyes and suddenly I realized - it was a dream. I tearfully prayed to God thanking Him for that dream.

 Actually it was another dream that sea was involved. I had different dreams but mostly what most memorable were my dreams involving the seas.

I also prayed for my family that whatever the meaning of that dream, still our Big God saves. The promise of my "Big" God Jesus that He would save my family from future "little" tornadoes and "little" tsunamis is what I reflect on that dream.

Another is the things on this world is like what I said, "once in a lifetime". One day they could be destroyed the achievements, riches and pleasures in life. What matters most is the salvation of your life when these things happened. I really thanked God that in my dream I saw my father there and I knew someday He would knew Jesus for his salvation. I pray and believe that by the grace of Jesus.

Just like the vacation, it comes then it goes. We will went to place of pleasure, relaxation and having fun but we will still be going home to our places. And as a christian view, we are just having a vacation on earth. This vacation is God-given on this world. It's either we use this vacation for good or for bad. Then after the vacation, we will still going home to where we belong, to God. As you go home to him, you will rest. It's either the room of heaven where you have mansions or room of hell that is eternal death, fire and pain belongs. For me, I know and for the grace of Lord Jesus, I know that I am going to heaven with Him. As a person, we must know where is our destination, right? Because it is an inevitable fact that someday the vacation would happen.

But, if you believe in Jesus as your Lord and personal saviour, believing that He died on the cross for you, asking for forgiving of our sins sincerely and wholeheartedly, surrendering your life in Him and making your everyday life upon his will you will be saved. That is the good news! The gospel is not here to condemn you but rather to save you. It's not showing that you are a real sinner but it shows that you must be loved and saved, that is why it's called the GOOD NEWS (GOSPEL) not a threatening news. If you want to be saved then pray this to God with all your heart:

Dear God,
I come to You in the Name of Jesus. I admit that I am not right with You, and I want to be right with You. I ask You to forgive me of all my sins. The Bible says if I confess with my mouth that “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead, I will be saved (Rom. 10:9). I believe with my heart and I confess with my mouth that Jesus is the Lord and Savior of my life. Thank You for saving me!
In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.

God knows your heart. Hallelujah Hope you are blessed and I pray that our vacation on this earth is a meaningful and joyful one as we walk through his Grace and Love until we go back to our home in Heaven. Thank you for reading. God bless you.

Psalm 107:23-31

²³ Some went out on the sea in ships;
    they were merchants on the mighty waters.
²⁴ They saw the works of the Lord,
    his wonderful deeds in the deep.
²⁵ For he spoke and stirred up a tempest
    that lifted high the waves.
²⁶ They mounted up to the heavens and went down to the depths;
    in their peril their courage melted away.
²⁷ They reeled and staggered like drunkards;
    they were at their wits’ end.
²⁸ Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
    and he brought them out of their distress.
²⁹ He stilled the storm to a whisper;
    the waves of the sea were hushed.
³⁰ They were glad when it grew calm,
    and he guided them to their desired haven.
³¹ Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love
    and his wonderful deeds for mankind.

Tired and Crushed but not ABANDONED

This is my reflections about months ago. It's been a long time since I conceptualized but now I am trying my best to go back to blogging. May the Lord Jesus be glorified. Here it is:

It was again my duty at the hospital. I felt too bad because I cannot watch the finals of the NBA between OKC v.s. Miami. The battle between the best basketball teams of NBA is so intense, hard, never-give up situation. I also missed to watch the fight of Manny Pacquiao v.s. Timothy Bradley which ended up in a controversial result. I was in the hospital duty during those days. But there is more of these battles that is not seen by the world.

Beyond of this, at the same time and date of the sports events that I mentioned, I am also on a battle. The battle of reviving our patient. Me and my fellow health care team is fighting out the life of the patient. Scenes of deteriorating vitals signs, no spontaneous breathing mixing out on those days. Together the families are also fighting out hard praying that their patient will overcome death experience. The whole world didn't know it.

I had my reflection - "What are other people are fighting for in their life?" I know someplace, sometime in the earth people are fighting for something and the world don't know it. Sometimes there are awesome fights that we think more too important than the fight of other people.

Maybe right now, some children are fighting for their hunger but some children are fighting their parents to have what they want - gadgets, money, toys.

Maybe right now, some people are fighting for their sins, struggles and addictions and there's no people to help and talk with them but some people wasting out for their pleasures in life - Eccentric.

Maybe, right now, some people are fighting for what problem they have today...and it seems no hope for it.

Maybe, right now, there is someone you know that you are concerned about because he/she is in trouble, his life is a mess, and you are praying and dealing with him/her.

Maybe, right now, there are people who are struggling for their homes are strucked by calamity, a crime, loss of loveone...

I know you are FIGHTING for someone or something right now, that I don't know, the world didn't know.

When I say fighting, I am talking about dealing with it everyday, tearing out tears, sweat and blood for it. Any minute, your mind is going on cycling with it. Wrestling with something or someone for a cause for a better. The FIGHT OF YOUR LIFE more intense than a real war, blasting tanks, aircrafts, etc. THIS IS MUCH DEEPER! MUCH CONCERNED! And sometimes you want it, but you can't get out of it or you can't just grasp it. Too impossible... How much you struggle, sweat, work hard to change the situation, the cycle keeps going on and on and on. Until you are tired, depressed, and quit but when you see that something or someone you keep on trailing...

You know, I want to encourage you, especially those who are Christians and having faith there's someone who are with you always......... who knows better.. who know you more than the world... who knows your limitations... and that is Jesus.

Brothers and sisters, Surrender that FIGHT. Pass on the baton upon Jesus. And He would fight for you. Believe! Have Faith! Hold on!

"The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still." Exodus 14:14

“Never will I leave you;
    never will I forsake you" - Hebrew 13:5

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28

"Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save,
    nor his ear too dull to hear." - Isaiah 59:1

"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts". - Isaiah 55:9


I did not said that, The Lord did. The Lord that is bigger than any circumstances. Your human strength cannot do it alone. You need a savior Jesus Christ for your fight. Without a second thought, He went down to this earth to save us and gave His life for you to fight for you.

I have also fighting something in my life. But the attitude is this:

"If your tired on that, don't just pass that thing to you like being carefree - [whatever happens, happens]. NO, it's saying unto self that - "I can do all of these because Jesus is the one that will fight for me! I know God had given me this small problem because He knows that I could handle it with Him"

Now that's what you say my brothers and sisters....

Someday, God will impart to you the knowledge of your struggles. See what God sees, not what the human eyes see. Just have faith and surrender your life to Him. BELIEVE. 

I am Tired and Crushed but not ABANDONED.

[addups]: Can you have my burden too, my fight for praying the mankind, It's getting bad these days. Almost the news we are watching are too much to handle. Let's pray and have concern and love to our fellow mankind. I know God has a purpose in all of these. 


This is a video response of Francis Chan about persecution especially in India. These are the things that we are not seeing. So, heartbreaking and too much too handle (when you search to youtube about "ORISSA CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION).... Let's pray! These are the things we must be concerned about. Hallelujah, your name be glorified. And I know what you are doing Lord. You are just showing how we are not of this world we are for you Oh God. Lord as I pray for all the missionaries and Christians all over the world FIGHTING for their faith and  STRUGGLING give them the PEACE, UNDERSTANDING, STRENGTH, COMFORT and BLESSING that is SURPASSING THE HUMAN UNDERSTANDING of their own. Let them SEE THROUGH YOUR EYES not in the human eyes that only see the weakness and downfall of everything. Lord, PROTECTION and ANOINTING is what I speak upon them. WIPE the TEARS from their eyes. These we ask, in the name of JESUS. AMEN.

Thief at the Pastor's House

One sunday morning, an old pastor challenged his congregation in a weird way during preaching time. He challenged the church people to rob his house at night.

The old pastor said as he ends his sermon, "I challenge anyone out here to rob my house at night. I will left my backdoor open. I assure you that there's no police, traps or anything that would get you into trouble, there you will find my treasure which has a value more than anything precious".

Some people laugh, some people got a weird look upon the pastor, some are dazzled, some are confused why would a pastor seriously challenged that idea. There was this certain young man was freshly went out of the prison. He got in jail for theft. He had no family and friends because they abandoned him. He just went for alms and made the side of the church as his stay. He heard the challenge of pastor.

This young man planned very well the things he would do. He spoke to himself, "This pastor had many members to lean on! I know that the tithes are for his own! I would steal all of them! Too bad that pastor was a jerk! I'm sure I can handle that jurassic! God had forsaken me and I know I don't have anything left in me and I don't care who would I perish for this deed. For I am now a nobody, I could do what I could want to! Curse this life, God is unjust and why am I living in this world!?".

The cold night have come and the young man is ready to rob the pastor's house. As the lights were switched off the house, he waited for about an hour. He covered his head with mask, with no doubting, he straight to the gate up the to backdoor.

"Well this is creepy, I feel something strange", he said to himself.  As he went to kitchen, he saw a newly cooked garlic rice with sausages with coffee. His stomach started to rumble and said, "Well, I am hungry and I don't care". He quickly ate the food at the table and went straight to the hallway leading to living room.

As he walk slowly and quietly into that dark hallway, he saw that there were pastor's framed pictures spotlighted. These spotlights were luminating a little on the hallway. He saw them one by one. There was a framed pic of newspaper telling about a man who was jailed also for theft. The young man caught attention on the newspaper clip and saw the thief was the pastor! As he goes on the hallway there were pictures when the pastor's on jail. It was like a timeline portraying the past life of the old pastor.

As he is on the middle, that's the time that the pictures were the time that the pastor had went out the jail. He saw another picture of newspaper clip about a fire that ruined a family. The story is that after the pastor went out the jail, He didn't knew that his family was caught on an arson.

Teardrops were falling out of this hard hearted young man. He could relate to the pastor's past life. As on the end of the hall ways were now the pictures of his pastoral ministry, his church, his accomplishments and success. He went out the hallway with a tearful face and said, "I never cried out like this before!". He went on the living room and saw spotlighted pulpit with a bible. He went there, opened the bookmarked page and red the highlighted words quietly from Luke 23:39-43.

39 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”

 40 But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? 41 We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”

 42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."

 43 Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

He felt somewhat a brush of wind like goosebumps from his body. He cried loudly. As the tears flow from his eyes, his heart was so broke and feeling misarable.

Suddenly, the light came out then the old pastor came out downstairs. He quickly went down and embraced the young men. Pastor said, "I have been watching you from the security CCTVs. I know the hard pain you are right now and I could feel it because I have been there before. I felt hopeless, unloved, unnoticed, poor, wretched and misarable. I felt have lost my self, my desires, my family and everything. But when I met Jesus, everything changed. The Lord gives and also takes away. Do you want to be like that thief? He just trusted Jesus eventhough he was on near death. I know you have done something unforgivable in the eyes of men but in the eyes of God, you are precious and loved child, through him there is peace and hope! Like me, you could rise up from your ashes, God never leaves and forsakes and just let these situations for our own good, for the second time, Do you want to be the thief that let Jesus be his savior?". "Yes, yes,yes! I have never felt loved this way before, Thank you Jesus!", the young man answered and cried with sparkle in his eyes. The pastor said, "Take off that mask of past and move on to the new you!"

On that night the young man confessed his sins and claimed Jesus as his personal savior. He worked out his salvation and had real relationship to the creator. He had major changes now in his life and blessing comes all the way. He got a job and became active in the church where the old pastor went. He got loving wife and kids. He continues to inspire the youth with his story of hope. Jesus is the greatest treasure more than the worth of the world. He is the treasure that if you gave to others, you are not decreased rather increased more.

     >Sin blocks the blessing and rewards that God had given us. That's why he sent his only Son, Jesus Christ, the worthy lamb who had been sacrificed for all of us. He made the bridge between man to God. Not just the blessing of this mercies and riches we claim but the eternal life for those who strived and accepted Jesus as the Lord and personal Savior as he rose from the grave defeating death. God bless you!

Faith that flames could not burn!

      As I meditate on Book of Daniel, I am amazed at Daniel's three friends. They are known as Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego (Mishel, Hananaiah, Azariah their real names). The Chapter 3 of Book of Daniel is their spotlight chapter. It was the time when King Nebuchadnezzar (watta long name), a tyrant babylonian King, conquered Jerusalem commanded to build a gold statue that every time they would hear musical instruments, the people must bow down and worship the gold statue. Another command is whoever don't bow down and worship the gold statue at the time music plays, they would be thrown to flaming furnace. MAS (well short for the three, now I understand that the book address them as Daniel's 3 friends because of their long names, LOL), well back to topic, MAS, of course, did not obeyed the king. The King give them chance but they STAND OUT TO THEIR FAITH to Worship only the God they have known. As the result they have thrown to the flaming furnace with seven times heated! (whew!). But suddenly, the tyrant king saw something unusual. There were 4 people inside the furnace. God sent an angel to rescue Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego! How amazing! When they came out, their bodies not burnt, their robes were not scorched and no hair from their heads singed (v.3:27). Well that's the faith cannot be burn by flames! 

In this scenario, they've overcome the greatest trouble and trial in their lives, it's death. They've overcome it through faith and standing out other people fighting for what they've believed in. Look at Dan. 3:18, they also said to the King that even if God doesn't save us from the furnace, they would never worship that tin can gold statue of theirs. Well that's again faith, having their lives handing to their God who they believe. Hebrews 11:6, "but without FAITH no one can please God...."! God is pleased to these three man. 

      In Application in our lives, when sometimes are not believing that God will rescue us from the problems of life, troubles, worries, trials, testings, weaknesses, pains, impossibilities. Listen, "your just seeing the flames, not God". Just like on stormy day, were just seeing the clouds, heavy rains, strong winds but behind that cloud there's always the sun. Hey, not everything we wanted in this life is what we want, sometimes God put us to flames of testing if we really endure and have faith that our Heavenly Father would rescue us. Think about this three people who did not fear the tyranny of king and death. Hey have your Faith moved forward.!

I am praying that those of you reading this would have courage and faith to pass any trials come their way. I pray that they wouldn't rely on their human strength but to your Godly strength that even in impossibilities could be possible. We will believe in your name, we will not be ashamed that we have a big God bigger than our problems. Thank you Lord for you are God of power! In Jesus name, Amen.