Are you Breaking? ... Praise God in Advance!

Hi Friends, here's wanting to share with you once more in gratitude, my personal notes and reflections too, on last Sunday's  1st Talk entitled FILL of the Series Leak: How To Heal Others Through Our Brokenness by our Laguna District Builder Bro Jon Escoto @ The Feast SM Santa Rosa, Cinema 1.    

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Have you been worrying a lot lately?

You've been in unfair situation?

You’re breaking and you don’t know how to mend? 

… in effect, parang lahat ng worries nasambot mo na;

… parang lahat ng justifications inangkin mo na;

… kasi ang sabi mo, “nasasaktan ka!”

But friend, why not look around and see who else is hurting? 

While you’re much focused on your pain, God must have been hurting too!

Why? … because you don’t seem to acknowledge His outstretched arms, 

striving to reach out to comfort you.

And you doubted instead, doubled with all apprehensions. 

“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” -- Ps 147:3

All along, we are constantly given all the opportunity to praise God in advance: 

1.     when there is Anxiety 

You cannot grow in faith by complaining 

Don’t forget to thank God in advance

Switch over into praise!!!

It's all about thanking God

Praise keeps us moving forward. 

If you don't thank God in advance, you will not have the grace to wait for the fulfillment of His promise.

From faith comes strength 

Stop running; refrain from worrying; start trusting! 

The secret:

“Every time you worry let it be the signal to praise God in advance!”

But the problem is:

When things are not turning towards our timetable, we start begging God. 

No need to worry, God have heard you long before. 

Never beg each time. God will give what you want soon, 

just keep on trusting that He will fulfill His promise. 

The key: 

The blessing that's to come…just keep on thanking God everyday! 

2.     when there is Uncertainty 

“Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind 

to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, 

and I have come in response to them.” -- Daniel 10:12

 From the day you said your prayer, God already heard it.

 God heard you the first time. 

 The very first day, the answer is on its way!

 The promise is already in motion!

3.     when there is Tragedy

You just can't see it yet with your natural eyes

But sometimes we look at our situation as dead – when the fact of the heart is that you can actually bring things back to life. 

 4. when there is Calamity

 Offer a sacrifice of praise! 

 Umiiyak ang kalooban mo but you still praise God for it.

 Di bawal mag complain, but please, do not murmur all the days of your life! 

 Praise and God will make a way!

So friend,  cheer up, make up your mind, FILL YOUR HEART with God’s love. 

Don't loose praise! 

The battle may be tough but God will never let a praiser to be a looser! #sunset

"True Character is who you are and what you do -- even when no one is watching you!"

You Can Heal Your Own Wounds

 6^th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Pls Read God’s Silent Message: Mt 5:17-37

Do not take a false oath,

but make good to the Lord all that you vow.

But I say to you, do not swear at all.

Let your 'Yes' mean 'Yes,'and your 'No' mean 'No.'

Anything more is from the evil one."

  

photo credits: http://www.stephaniedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Forgive-Yourself.jpg

Would you know one of the reasons why some wounds don’t heal?

May mga sugat na halos ayaw mong gamutin kasi masakit kapag nililinis;

to the point na magagalit ka pa sa naglilinis ng sugat mo kasi nasasaktan ka!

We have doctors all around to tell us how to heal our wound; we have nurses to assist and loved ones to care for us while we’re hurting…yet we end up offending them; we don’t listen to the doctor’s instructions because we’ve focused on our pain and we kept on doing the wrong thing.

What we do not realize is, we can actually HEAL OUR OWN WOUND if we would be brave enough to CLEAN IT UP BY OURSELVES by following how we were instructed.

In today’s Gospel, God  wants us to understand His intention for giving us His commandments which He yearn to be fulfilled in us. All that He expects is for us is to strive to do the right thing: overcome negativity with possibilities; triumph against every temptation to be weak; reach out to forgive those who’ve offended us and look within to forgive our own self from our wrong doings.

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Our heart is the seat of our motivations. If only we will find that inspiration deep within to allow God’s love to move in our life, we would then comply as directed, follow as instructed! We won’t have to hold back the pains caused upon us, as we will no longer offend carelessly – then we wont have to endure our wounds at all! #sunset

Posted in Feast SM Santa Rosa Bulletin. 2017 Series. Issue #5, 12 February 2017

SERIES: HURT ATTACK. How to heal life's deepest pains.

Talk 2: Surgery.  Connect.

"True Character is who you are and what you do -- even when no one is watching you!"

Set Yourself Up to be Happy!

In gratitude, I would like to share with you my personal notes on our Feast Builder Bro Dreus Cosio's Talk @ The Feast SM Santa Rosa, Cinema 1, 9:00 am, 5th of February 2017. 

SERIES: HURT ATTACK 

How to heal life's deepest pains.

Talk 1: History

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Have you been hurting all the days of your life?

In this Talk,  Bro. Dreus Cosio, brings up that "Most of our hurts that we complain about are self inflicted!"

There are Three [3] Kinds of Hurts:

1. Serious Hurts such as abandonment, adultery, betrayal & the likes. 

Hurt people hurt people. 

Sometimes we are not aware if we may already be causing

somebody's pain because of our own pains.

     We should then do SELF-CHECK. 

2. Small Hurts when we commit inconsequential or petty mistakes 

     because we are human.

3. Self Hurts 

We hurt ourselves 

a.  When we repeat our mistakes 

Winners commit new mistakes everyday;

Losers make the exact same mistakes over & over again! 

In life, we don't get what we deserve, we get what we think we deserve.

b.  When we replay our hurt

Stop dwelling in what hurts you

Don't "let the pain remain"

Stop worshipping your hurts!

STOP MAKING YOUR HURT YOUR LITTLE GOD.

Some replay old hurts by looking for similar hurts.

If you keep on meditating on the same hurt, 

you are setting a miserable life for yourself. 

When you keep on believing that you deserve the hurt, it becomes part of your subconscious. 

photo credits: http://www.lightfam.com/images/talkslides/hurt_attack_talk1_history.pdf

Do you want to be free from hurts?

Here's the ONE BIG MESSAGE:

Allow God to heal your deepest hurt!

But how?

1.  Don’t reject God's anointing with your pride.

2.  Don't bring up things to your head. [1 Samuel 9:2]

Jeremiah 30:17

"But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,"

declares the Lord,

"because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares."

If there are people who are full of pride, deep within them are insecurities and profound pain.  But just as Jesus have accepted every kind of pain in His Agony in the Garden, you can also put an end to your agonies. 

You can always start strong, but what matters is that you also finish strong.

Then will you ever finish strong?

Definitely YOU WILL, if you decide to serve God and not your self!

"You may have a hurtful  history 

But you can start creating good history starting today!"  

-- Bro. Dreus Cosio 

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"True Character is who you are and what you do -- even when no one is watching you!"