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So much has been happening, I might have to write 2-3 blogs on my experiences and ride of faith this 2.5 months has been. I celebrated my birthday last May and was definitely blessed with a random trip abroad, I may choose to see my life has and always has been a blessing. Tho I cannot escape the fact that it hasn’t been all that a good ride for the past 2.5 months.

May 1 til date, I have been struggling – struggling emotionally and spiritually. Because of all that I was experiencing from day to day circumstances and challenges, I was beginning to stray away from my faith little by little, I was beginning to doubt and ask why? Why Lord, why?

Strangely, in different ways His presence was always felt in any situation, despite being in my lowest, the sadness, the tears, the anger and the frustration, I could hear Him speak, I could feel His presence which is may be why I have been holding on to His promises until today.

In times like such: where you begin to believe the lies of the enemy, where you begin to feel defeated, where you begin to feel like your lost and unable to believe His perfect plan for you, I realized a couple of things:

1. It is very important to keep a constant connection with him.. – make the effort and fight for it. I was not able to do my quiet time but I asked in my prayer once – where are you? why are you not able to do anything? And the response got my thinking – got me at one point back to him – to believe and to trust even if I don’t see.

so.. what was the response? I am a God who moves mountains. Indeed, Matthew 17:20 – And He said to them, “Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.

A couple of days ago, as I read in the news, “Everest moving: World’s highest mountain ‘moves by an inch’ due to Nepal earthquake” you may call it a coincidence, nature or something else, I believe it was indeed God who did so..

2. Make sure to have / communicate with your small group or friends. Make sure that you are covered in prayers – because believe it or not, prayers do work. Speak life and bible verses and most importantly as bad as the situation may seem – have an inch of hope and a pinch of positivity. Have faith as small as a mustard seed – I know this is not easy – but like I said earlier you have to fight the good fight of faith. Trust me, it was not easy for me either, but it is a constant battle we have to fight everyday.

3. Last but the most important – is to slay your giant.

What do I mean? Do not focus on the problems or the situation – do not focus on the failed plans and wrong timing of things rather focus on God, focus on Christ and what he did on the cross.

It started to make sense when one day, I prayed and went back to Him and seek him – forget everything else. Believe it or not, suddenly the problems and situation who seemed like giants in the beginning, who were blocking my vision to see God, where now shrunk to the point of nothing compared to Jesus and the cross. Suddenly I felt at peace, I knew I was in safe hands, I knew no matter what, God was with me and protecting me.

I am not saying the problems and situation disappeared, but it became much smaller then I thought it was. You see, when focusing on a problem, we tend to magnify the problem and make it a giant whereas it is or could be as small as an ant. (ok may be a little bigger than that..)

A few months ago, I was given a paper weight which was a stone that had a small note that said “Slay your Giant” which was now brought in the real sense and meaning.

Hope this blog can inspire and spark hope to those who are going through hard times and I pray May God speak life unto you as you go through a difficult phase. I agree it is not easy as all but its definitely worth knowing you are in the hands of the mighty Savior who was fearfully and wonderfully made in his image and likeness for a greater purpose.

PS. would definitely appreciate some prayers from your end, and do write in the comments or send me a private message for prayer request, I will join you in believing God for favor.

We have heard this line several times in several ways but have we tried to understand or picture what this means?

Try to picture a child with a kite..

Kite flying has to be set in certain conditions like it has to be In an open field, no wires coming in the way and most importantly it has to be a windy day.

With the external conditions set, the child now has to hold the string and throw the kite up in the air and pull the string until the wind catches the kite. And continuously make sure that the person flying the kite maintains the tension of the wind and the string so the kite will keep flying.

If the wind lets go a little bit, the person flying the kite now has to pull the string until there is tension, until the wind catches the kite again.

How many of you know this can get quite tiring…

And some of you may agree, that our ability to love similar to flying kites – as long as the right conditions are in place, we can love. As long as all the conditions we set or need are met, we can love.

Give your self a minute and think about it… “If you do this, i will forgive you.” or “If you give me what I want I will love you” what you are really saying is meet my conditions first for me to be able to love you or forgive you. What you are not saying is.. I cannot love you until these conditions are met.. Here we can realize that our love is very limited, our love is conditional and imperfect.

And knowing this we cannot discount the fact that we can not have have every condition met.. What happens in situations where there is no wind? If you were kite flying you’d have to run and pull the kite. Pull.. pull.. pull.. and run! run!! run!!! And how many of you know that this is not a fun kind of kite flying.. It gets very tiring and exhausting. But that is how some of our relationship with God are.. some of our relationships are tiring because it is based on waiting for conditions to be met in the mean time you are using your will power to keep it going..

As we read God’s word, truly we should be thankful that we serve a God who loves us unconditionally. Jesus had something interesting to say about God. God our father makes the sun rise and set on both the evil and the good, he sends rain which is equivalent to blessings on both the just and the unjust.

Always remember that God loves you, me and everyone. Not just the believer but to the unbeliever with no conditions. Just simple and perfect kind of love.

The solution for our limited ability and supply to love is Gods unlimited capacity unconditional capacity to love us.

Sincere apologies for not writing for almost 3 months. It has been a different season altogether and a new season of fresh learning’s, revelations and decisions.

The past 2 – 3 months have not only been a blessing but also been a wonderful season and time with God. Allow me to share: I have a new work, new industry and with new responsibilities I am finding myself juggling my last leg of classes and studies. Despite by living a very packed schedule, I make it sure that I am spending ample time with God, having conversations, singing and praising Him every chance I get and sharing His word with my office mates and friends. And when I am down, tired or just living my day to day activities – He constantly pursues me, makes his presence felt and reminds me of my worth in Him. Overall, A season to blossom and deepen my love and Faith for God.

However, I cant help but notice that recently too I am faced with uncertainty, its not like I have never faced it before, but my situation now in particular has become quite extra challenging. I tried to make a practical time line for myself, make efforts to envision plans on what I want to do 6 months to 1 year from now – baby steps in shaping my future, but ultimately nothing materializes. I keep finding myself back to square one. Its still very foggy, very unclear on what happens a month from now, a week from now or even a day from now. As I pray for clarity and vision, I get one answer from God which is wait. Wait on me and I will take care of everything. Honestly its so hard especially if you are the type of person who wants to get things organized, lined up clear and fixed. Yet, despite my situation which my plans are jumbled, nothings clear yet everything goes by smoothly.

Walk by Faith and Not by Sight – may sound or even seem simple but it is definitely not easy, it requires a lot of trust and faith. Oftentimes its the best thing to do at this point because you not only surrender your thoughts but also completely rely on Him being the ultimate source paving the path to perfection – His perfect plan. It also gives you a worry free life and sleep which is completely priceless 🙂

Have you heard the song: Everlasting by Chris Tomlin? The lyrics of the song goes something like.. ” Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord..”

God simply wants to take control of our plans and our life, after all He is the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end, the author and the perfector of our life who else would know what is best for us – but the person who created us.

Birthdays, Anniversaries and Graduation have all one thing in common.. to celebrate life’s milestones.

Recently I was blessed to witness I friends birthday party which is not the ordinary way of celebrating birthdays. Usually when people throw birthday parties it is all about their friends, fancy places and activities and wish list catering to them. I am not saying that this is bad or wrong, but that’s just how everyone celebrates birthday.

My friend Riva on the other hand celebrates birthday with the street children or the less privileged. She increases the count of her attendees with her age. She celebrates with them in a restaurant which they can only dream of entering. Plays games and does unique activities with her special invited guests and friends. On top of that she asks her friends to not give her gifts but cater to her wish list of giving certain things to her special guests, such as educational materials, slippers or shoes, clothes and utilities like toothbrush and soap.

Riva started this when she was 18, ten years later she has now invited 28 kids and made it extra special by bringing them to a science museum. After which they had story telling then celebrated in the local Filipino fast food chain restaurant. I was so blessed to even simply witness the happiness in the faces of the kids of having a new slipper or a new toothbrush! Somethings we simply take in for granted.

While seeing the smile on their faces, I was reminded of the birth of Jesus Christ and why we celebrate Christmas. That baby Jesus was born so that one day he can bridge the gap between our relationship with our God the Father. A sense of Hope and renewal a reason for us to celebrate life.

Let us not forget the reason why we celebrate Christmas or why we simply celebrate life, the reason why we are here, the purpose and the gift.

Joy and enjoyment are available just as misery. Righteousness and peace are available just as condemnation and turmoil. There are blessings and curses now its up to you what you would like to choose. Deuteronomy 30:19 tells us to choose life and blessings! – new day by Joyce Meyer

Luke 2:6-7 While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her first born, a son. She wrapped him in clothes and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.

Isaiah 9:6 For us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting father and Prince of Peace.