Happy Birthday Lord Jesus!

Happy Birthday Lord Jesus. Thank you so much for everything. Thank you for you've done for us Lord and for all the blessings. Thank you for your unconditional love and for being there always especially during difficult times.

It is tough day for me Lord because hubby again was angry with you. Lord, I am also hurt everytime hubby blames and tells something bad about you. I am sorry Lord and I know it's not him, he is just so much in pain and having this hard time really stresses him so much. 

I cried, cried, prayed, prayed, until I felt asleep. Thank you Lord when I woke up I felt relieved but still couldn't help but tears fell from my eyes. You know Lord what I and my hubby have been going through these days. Lord, we are having hard times especially my hubby who is sick. Yes Lord, it is very real that it is very hard to understand your plans for us right now but I told him that I trust You Lord and I trust your plans for me/us. We had some arguments today.

I love you Lord. It is your day.

Healing Guidelines Prayer for Healing

Healing Guidelines Prayer for Healing and Rebirth by Sister Raquel Reodica, RVM
At 8:00 a.m. every morning, find a quiet place. Attune your spirit to Jesus through His blessed Mother Mary. Read slowly with your heart this prayer. Express silently your deep desire for complete healing. This is your one-on-one prayer with Jesus. Our Father in heaven, Creator of my body, wherein I (state your name) dwell and through which I live, make me realize in the name of JESUS that my present bodily ailment is a result of my own sins, my wrong doings, my wrong thinking, my transgressions against Your laws.
I ask forgiveness, Jesus, for these wrong doings, and promise to change my ways. Make me realize, in the name of JESUS, that Your creative power, which fashioned my body, is still in me, in my consciousness, in my mind, ready to serve me at any time of need. Make me realize that I, in my free will, now have control over this creative power within me which I can direct to act for my own well being, but only if my thoughts and feelings are attuned to You. In full realization of this, I NOW CALL UPON YOUR CREATIVE POWER within me, O Lord God, in Jesus' name, to correct and eliminate any and all my bodily imperfections and diseases and discomforts.
I KNOW AND EXPECT THAT MY REBIRTH IS NOW ACTIVELY TAKING PLACE WITHIN ME because of Your creative love and mercy, and Your healing grace in my every cell and nerve and gland and tissue and fiber and organ, especially my: (state any or all sicknesses). In accordance with my vision and my active FAITH IN YOU, MY ALMIGHTY GOD, CREATOR AND LORD, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF MOTHER MARY, through the intercessions of MOTHER IGNACIA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO and all Your saints, I am healed. Amen. Amen. Amen After praying, remain in silence for 15 to 20 minutes in the presence of the Lord, and in meditation of receiving His healing. Preparations for Healing eastwind First of all, healing is between you and the Lord. Sister Raquel, holy water, blessed towels, or any other medium are just tools of the Lord for healing you. They do not heal by themselves but are „bridges‟ of the Lord to you. Sister Raquel does not have the power to heal, only the Lord through her.
Without spiritual preparation and spiritual transformation, there can be no healing. Healing cannot happen in a snap or a simple pray-over. It is not like turning a switch off and on. It involves a spiritual process. The person to be healed must undergo a SPIRITUAL CLEANSING prior to healing. Spiritual healing precedes physical healing. Return first to the Lord and submit to Him your entire being so He can heal you. People who were healed by Sister Raquel all speak about the change in their lives, the loss of impatience and sudden anger, the goodwill for people, and most
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especially the consequent inner peace derived from this spiritual transformation or cleansing. Here are simple guideline from Sister Raquel – pray and meditate often talk to Jesus in a casual conversation He is beside you more than you know pause for a moment and think of your past sins whom did you hurt or exploit or maltreat a housemaid, a friend, a spouse, your children? whom can you not forgive for things they did to you? without forgiveness it is hard to be healed even with all the prayers and healing visits you make ask for forgiveness for injustice and hurt you have done to others and forgive others who have hurt you no matter how serious resolve to correct your sinful ways resolve not to be cranky or impatient with people especially small people such as maids, drivers, workers help and give to others according to your capacity especially the poor do not just give money or material items give yourself, your goodwill, and your time no matter how busy you are only then can you ask the Lord to heal you when you are spiritually clean once you are pleasing to the Lord your healing is already in process as soon as you begin to pray and ask Him for healing invoke the intercession of Mother Mary, St. Joseph, and Mother Ignacia

It is also the message of the healings of Sister Raquel. Every terminal cancer she heals has the same message as the Bible, return to the Lord and be blessed. Healing is a product of conversion, of returning to the Lord.

Sister Raquel - Healing Testimonials - To God be the Glory!

Testimonials
These are testimonials received mostly by email to eastwind@edsamail.com.ph over a four year period. Aug. 28, 2002 I am LETICIA M. LOCSIN, 69 years old and the Executive Editor of BusinessWorld, an English-language business newspaper published daily in Manila, Philippines. I am also the Chief Operating Office of the publishing company. I am writing this to give testimony to the wondrous things that have happened to me since I started going to the Mother Ignacia Healing Center in Bagumbong, Kalookan. In December of 1999, I was diagnosed to have breast cancer and had to undergo a mastectomy of my left breast on Dec. 11 of that year. The pathological results showed that I had „Stage 2 Ductal Carcinoma‟. Two weeks after surgery, my wound had not dried up, due in large part to my diabetes. Thus it was that on January 1, 2000, I had to undergo a second operation – for what was clinically termed as „Scar Revision‟. On the afternoon that I was released from hospital, I was feeling very depressed. When I arrived home, I went directly to my bedroom and reclined on the sofa. I closed my eyes but I knew I was not asleep. It was more like coming out of anesthesia. Anyway, I saw in the mind of my eye (but clearly enough to be sure of a presence) the figure of Mother Ignacia – in her black habit, arms outstretched and telling me ever so gently that I should take heart, that she would always be there for me and intercede for my recovery. I opened my eyes at once. Of course, she wasn‟t there, but a faint scent of dama de noche pervaded the room. I was later told by Sister Raquel Reodica that dama de noche is, indeed, the scent of Mother Ignacia as the nuns themselves have come to know through her constant “visitations.” Two days later, after I felt sufficiently recovered from my second surgery, I went to the Healing Center and told Sister Raquel of my vision. She took me away from the crowds to the Healing Fountain in the Sanctuary, where she asked me to drink a glassful of water from the fountain. She filled the glass again and pulled me to a seat. She asked to see my wound. Then, without warning, she poured the water from the glass on the wound. I was panicky: I thought that the wound would surely be infected. Sister Raquel told me not to use anything to dry the wound but instead allow it to dry on its own. I did as instructed and went to sleep that night with the wound area still damp. At about three in the morning, I was awakened by the feeling of floating on water. I felt my beddings: they were all wet. I called for my nursemaid and asked her to see what was the matter. She panicked and suggested that we go to hospital. Strangely enough, I was calm. I was feeling no pain in the area of the wound or anywhere else. And I was not running a fever. Upon closer scrutiny, Menggay, my nursemaid, saw that water was oozing out of the wound, icy cold water. It was not bloody or yellow with pus. And it did not have a putrid smell. I promised Menggay that we would go to hospital in the morning if the emissions would not stop. I had a fresh change of bedclothes and linens and went promptly to sleep.
Everything was dry in the morning; there was no need to go to hospital. Besides, I was
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scheduled to see my doctor two days later to have the wound dressed. When she peeled off the gauze covering the wound, Dr. Diana Cua, breast surgeon at the Makati Medical Center, was surprised. The wound was dry. She said the sutures could be removed in two days and I would then be referred to an oncologist for further treatment. The oncologist, Dr. Priscilla B. Caguioa, of the St. Luke‟s Hospital staff, instructed me to go through four tests: (1) complete blood count, (2) an ultrasound examination of my liver, pancreas and gall bladder and (3) a bone scan, to include my kidney and (4) chest pa. Once again, I hastened to see Sister Raquel and asked her to pray that my tests would not bear negative results; and that, additionally, I would not have to undergo chemotherapy. Sister Raquel told me we were both going to ask the Lord for total healing, not bother Him with piecemeal requests. On the roadside leaving the Healing Center, I noticed a sign which read Chuck Cheme. I do not know what their business was, but to me it could only mean a sign that God had heard our prayers. It meant I was to chuck or do away with chemo. True enough, in a week‟s time the results were all in and I was declared free of recurrence or metastasis. I told Dr. Caguioa that the idea of chemo filled me with dread and she assured me that she would not prescribe the treatment for me since all the signs showed I could do without it. She prescribed Tamoxifen daily for five years and I have had a blood checkup every six months since then. I feel in my heart that I have been cured of my cancer, that the Lord, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary and Mother Ignacia, has granted me total healing. I make it a point to go to the Healing Center every week to pray with and be prayed-over by the nuns there – Sister Raquel, Sister Gloria Ross and Sister Rosita Fernandez, in particular. Through them I have found serenity beyond my expectations. I have experienced a deep awakening of faith in God; and I am more aware of the sufferings of others, especially those – and there are thousands of them – who frequent Mother Ignacia‟s Sanctuary for healing. Letty Locsin


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Dear Sister Raquel. Praise the Goodness of the LORD! Truly no one can predict GOD's mighty power. I myself had felt the healing hand of the LORD. Yesterday I received the document containing the directions to your place and the three published articles about you. Instead of reading it on the computer, my Tita Edna told me to print it because it was quite long, and so I did. Tita browsed through the articles but did not have the chance to read it because we were about to leave for the mall with my sister and cousin. When I returned home, the first thing on my mind was to read the articles. So I rushed to the room but before reading it, I had first to massage my back because the pain was there again. And so, I finally got to read it. In the first few lines, I immediately felt shivers all over my body. Then after the Hail Mary, I read the lines: "HEALING IS BETWEEN THE LORD AND THE SICK. SISTER RAQUEL IS ONLY A BRIDGE. PREPARATION FOR HEALING MEANS SPIRITUAL CLEANSING, WHICH INCLUDES FORGIVING ALL WHO HAVE OFFENDED YOU, BEING SORRY FOR THE PAST SINS THAT HAVE OFFENDED THE SACRED HEART".
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I felt the pain on my left thigh down to my toes. I paused and examined my heart and recalled the things and the people who have caused me pain in the past, and then in a loud voice, I said that I forgive them all! Then something "nakakakilabot" (strange) happened. I felt a strong pulse on the nerve on my left forehead, and my heart started pounding stronger by the minute. I felt the blood flowing through my left thigh, down to my toes. Then the pain suddenly vanished. Tears started to flow from my eyes and I started crying. I was healed. The LORD touched me and took away the pain from my system. I continued reading, and, at the end of each testimony, I burst into tears and kept on thanking God for His goodness. After reading the last line, I decided to follow it up with a rosary as my thanksgiving for the miracle that I have experienced. It is really the „miracle of the article‟. God made use of the article so that I could be healed spiritually, and eventually physically! I thank you, Sister Raquel, for the prayers and the enlightenment you have brought to my life. Thank you again. May God continue to use you as His bridge to bring us back to Him. We will attend your healing session together with my mom and Tita Edna this coming Wednesday. See you there! GOD BLESS YOU! Truly yours, Ryan E.


My miraculous healing. I, Yolanda S. Espedido, married to Antonio R. Espedido, testify that I was healed of Parkinson‟s disease and microaneurysm through the intercession of Mama Mary and Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo. I am a diabetic and, as such, Dr. Augusto D. Litonjua, who is my doctor, instructed me to consult an ophthalmologist for fundus evaluation for hemorrhages and microaneurysms within the inferior vascular arcade. (In layman terms, a tiny bleeding in the eye.) Based on the above instruction, I went to see and consulted Dr. Eunice Monica R. Batac on September 10, 2000. She made a thorough examination and submitted a report to Dr. Litonjua of her findings that I had sclerosis cataracts in both eyes. The dilated examination of the fundus showed microaneurysms and hemorrhages within the inferior arcade of the left eye. Sometime in June 2001, my youngest sister, Filipinas S. Litonjua, who had cancer of the colon, mentioned the healing center of Mother Ignacia in Bagumbong, Novaliches, Caloocan City. Because of her condition, we decided to go to the healing center. There, we met Sister Ma. Rosita Fernandez, who interviewed us and listed our names in her record book. After the interview, she referred us to Sister Raquel, who gave us a wait-list number. She later prayed over us. Our concentration was on my sister Filipinas as she was then scheduled for operation. She was subsequently operated on July 3, 2001. However, I continued going to the Mother Ignacia Healing Center. I was prayed-over twice, July 7 and 14, 2001, by Sister Raquel. During that time, my two hands were shaking (due to Parkinson‟s disease). After every session with her, I felt at peace and relaxed. Sister Raquel taught me how to pray and on July 18th, I noticed that the shaking of my hands stopped, and I could now use both of them. Thank you Lord! On August 18, 2001, I was prayed-over again by Sister Raquel. I also had a one-on-one talk with Sister Rosita. It was a very enlightening talk, and I learned a lot from her. On August 25, 2001, Sister Gloria Ross prayed over me. Her prayers gave me so much peace and comfort. Then, on September 2, 2001, I consulted Dr. Batac, who again made some tests and a thorough examination of my eyes. After evaluating the results, she informed me that it was now clear and the microaneurysm and hemorrhage seen on two previous visits in my left eye had vanished. I have many other ailments such as diabetes, bone tumor on my forehead, and varicose veins on my legs, which I believe and continue to pray, Jesus the Healer, through the intercession of Mama Mary and Mother Ignacia, will also heal. Praise and thank you, Jesus, that you have healed me. Yolanda S. Espedido

18 October 2001 Dear Sister Raquel, Good day. Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus. Sister, I'm not taking my medicine. Instead, I just go to church and receive the body of Christ daily as my maintenance medicine, which now heals my brain tumor. Thanks and more power to your healing. God's love, Regina Francisco ************************************

6 November 2001 Dear Sister Raquel, My husband Ansel III has end stage renal disease and is therefore on dialysis three times a week. He also has polysystic liver. My main recourse nowadays is PRAYER. Kung minsan nga Sister, pudpod na ang daliri ko at gasgas na ang dila ko sa kakadasal (Sometimes my fingers and tongue grow numb from praying). I still have faith in Him that He will give my husband a new lease on life. Ching Roman


22 October 2001 Dear Sister Raquel, I have a lump in my throat. I take Chinese medicine and DXN Ganoderma mushroom capsules. I go daily to Holy Mass for Eucharistic healing. The handkerchief you blessed which Mides Buensalido gave to my Sister Teresita, I tie around my throat when I pray my rosary every morning. The lump is slowly getting smaller. I pray the lump will be completely gone and I will be totally healin in God's grace and mercy. God bless. Yours in Christ, Antonio Sonido





MARK 11:24: Whatsoever your heart desires, believe and never doubt in your heart that you will receive it and you will receive it". God bless you!

Readings 2

How can I be a spiritual helpmate to my unsaved husband? He says he believes in God, and that Christ died for his sins. He even participates in Biblical conversations with my saved family. But when he’s with unsaved friends, he jokes about hell and how he’s going there. He doesn’t see anything wrong with sex in movies, doesn’t attend church because of the “hypocrites”, calls himself a pagan, and then comes home and prays to the God of the Bible over dinner time.

How can I encourage him to grow spiritually without his building up a high wall of defense? And also, how can I help myself from falling into the side of things that do not help my husband spiritually?

Advice: Your husband sounds something like my father used to be before he came to Christ.

He just wanted people to accept him. My husband and I took Dad and Mom to an evangelistic meeting at our church one Sunday. He started crying and as soon as the invitation to receive Christ was given, he ran down the aisle to receive Christ. Mom followed him and rededicated her life to Christ. Dad was 52 years old when he was saved — and he lived his remaining 26 years for his beloved Lord — no longer a double-minded man.

Your husband is an unsaved man, so don’t expect him to be consistent or to have the same principles you have. Refrain from chiding him. Live our loving Christ before him, showing him Christian love in action. Ask the Lord to guide you, to help him see Christ in you. Ask your friends to pray for his salvation, and some day it might happen that he will be in a place where he will come to Christ.

Invite your husband to Journey of Joy, a web site on Bill Bright’s four spiritual laws (salvation message) and an invitation to receive Christ.

In Christ’s love,
Dr. Muriel

Only God Has the Power to Change Quotes

• Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow. ~ C. S. Lewis

• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. ~ Winston Churchill

• Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
  ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

• Truth fears no trial. ~ Proverb

• The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God’s mercy. ~ Max Lucado

• The more we love God the more we will obey. The more we obey the more we will be aware of the reality of Christ in our lives. The more we are aware of Christ in our lives, the more victory we will experience. The more victory we experience, the less difficult the choices are and the less conflict we have within ourselves. ~ Norma Becker
  

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• The more we depend on God the more dependable we find He is. ~ Cliff Richard

• Through the clouds of midnight, this bright promise shone, I will never leave thee, never leave thee alone.
  ~ Anonymous

• What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer. ~Joseph Scriven

• If God is your partner, make your plans BIG! ~ D.L. Moody

• Only God can fully satisfy the hungry heart of man. ~ Hugh Black

• The world will never starve for want of wonders. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton

• Beauty is God’s handwriting. ~ Charles Kingsley

• Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

• I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. ~ Abraham Lincoln

• The universe is centred on neither the earth nor the sun. It is centred on God. ~ Alfred Noyes

• Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. ~ Thomas Jefferson

• If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. ~ St Augustine

• The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart. ~ Plutarch, c A.D. 100

• Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank. ~ Christina Rossetti, 1830 – 1894

• There are three stages in the work of God:  impossible, difficult,done. ~ James Hudson Taylor

• We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. ~ St. Francis De Sales

• God knows the secret plan of the things he will do for the world, using my hand. ~ Toyohiko Kagawa

• Without the Way there is no going; without the Truth there is no knowing; without the Life there is no living.
  ~ Thomas A Kempis

• If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world, it will come through the expression of your own personality – that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature. ~ Bruce Barton

• EXPRESSIONS Look without! Behold the beauty of the day, The shout of color to glad color, rocks and trees, and sun and seas, and wind and sky: All these are God’s expression, art work of His hand, which men must love ere they can understand. ~ Richard Hovey

• We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune. ~ William R. Inge

• God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Is your place a small place? Tend it with care; He set you there.
  Is your place a large place? Guard it with care! He set you there.
  Whate’er your place, it is not yours alone, but his Who set you there. ~ John Oxenham

• I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. ~ George Washington Carver

• To fall in love with God is the greatest of all romances; To seek him, the greatest adventure; To find him, the greatest human achievement. ~ Raphael Simon

• Most of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?” ~ Burton Hillis

• Our God is at home with the rolling spheres, and at home with broken hearts. ~ M. P. Ferguson

• If God shuts one door, he opens another. ~ Irish Proverb

• All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do. ~ A.B. Simpson

• God never uses a person greatly until He has wounded him deeply.

• The privilege He offers you is greater than the price you have to pay.  The privilege is greater than the price.
  ~ Helen Roosevere, April 13, 1993

• We remain such creeping Christians because we look at ourselves instead of Christ. ~ George McDonald

• Holiness is doing God’s will with a smile. ~ Mother Teresa

Readings....1

Spiritually Needy Husband

The Question

My husband needs to learn to grow spiritually and does not desire to read or pray in the early morning hours when he gets up. Sometimes he gets up around 4:00 AM and sits and watches cartoons on TV. I have been praying for him. We need another vehicle and have not had our prayers answered, and I am wondering if our prayers are hindered because he refuses to do what is required as the spiritual head of the household.

- SA from Unknown location

Constructive Approach (Part 2)

I’m not going to give you a guaranteed approach to change your husband into the spiritual head you want him to be. The truth is that you may try what I’m about to suggest and he will not change. Still, I believe this advice will give you your best shot.

You feel that your husband may be hindering your prayer for a new vehicle. You observe that he watches cartoons in the early morning rather than pray or read God’s Word. You say that he needs to grow spiritually. I’m sure those are all accurate facts. Perhaps you’ve gently mentioned these things at the very least or you’ve nagged him about his condition at the worst.

What if instead of seeing things for the way they are now, you act as if things are the way you want them to be? What if by faith you call your husband spiritually mature and operating as the best head of the household possible? What if you act like Abraham who “believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist”? (Romans 4:17)

Stop praying for your husband to change and start thanking God for the best most mature husband in the world. Treat your husband with the assumption that that is who he is. It is often the case that what we assume is what we get. Studies in the psychology world have confirmed this over and over.

I remember hearing about one in which teachers were told that an incoming class had particularly gifted students when in actuality they were underachievers. The study was looking to see how that might influence their academic year. The students performed in accordance to the expectations of the teachers who were surprised when they found out they had been part of a year long study. It shouldn’t be a surprise because that’s faith in action.

If you decide to do this I will tell you that you may have a tough time of it especially at first. You don’t say a word and you don’t scrutinize your husband’s every action. What you are doing is changing yourmindset, your perspective. You might wonder how this could make a difference but the truth is that we are all motivated to become our best selves in an atmosphere of acceptance rather than judgment.

Affirm all that your husband does well. Thank him and appreciate him for all that you like about him. Remember why you married him. Don’t for a second let him believe that he might be hindering an answer to prayer. Keep praying together for the vehicle and thank God together when it comes.

Suppose you never have the results I’ve mentioned? You will still be far ahead of the game because you will benefit from stretching and using your faith muscles. God will work maturity and character in you. There are really no bad results to this experiment. And – I know many women who have been quite successful over time. I pray you will be one of 

them!

Source: http://hannahscupboard.com/ST-husband-immature.html

Let Go And Let God

Cast all your burdens
on the Lord, because He
cares for you. I Pe. 5:7

God has really taught me a lesson this past week. It was a lesson I really needed to learn, and like most lessons we really need to learn, it was painful. I don't like to have to go through painful things, but I am very thankful for this particular lesson. It is usually the hardest-learned lessons that will last; the ones that cause us pain are the ones that we tend to remember.   So what was this lesson that I need to learn so much that I had to suffer pain to learn it? I needed to learn to Let Go And Let God. I needed to learn to trust God to work out some problems, in His own perfect time, in His own perfect way. He will, you know. I know that, and so do you. So why do so many of us have such a hard time putting that knowledge into practice? Why do we feel compelled to "help" get the situation worked out? Why do we feel like we have to be doing something?   So many times we say we want God to deal with a situation in our lives, and we earnestly pray about it and turn it over to God. But for some unknown reason, we don't seem to be content to leave it in His more than capable hands. We take it back. We worry about it some more, and try new solutions, and when we fail again, we once again earnestly beseech Him in prayer, "Oh, Lord, please help me with this problem! Please, Lord, I need your help!"   We really need to listen to our own prayer. We need His help; He doesn't need ours! In fact, oftentimes there is nothing He can do in a situation until we release it completely. As long as we keep trying to fix it ourselves, He will sit back and let us wear ourselves out. And that's exactly what we do, isn't it? We wear ourselves out, trying to do something we were never able to do to begin with.   One of the greatest lessons in life we can ever learn comes from what is known as the "Serenity Prayer". It teaches us: God, Grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; The courage to change the things I can; And the wisdom to know the difference."   We all have at least one or two difficult people in our lives that we have to deal with every day. They may be family members, or co-workers, or someone else close to us, and there is no way we can avoid them. And if we can't avoid them, don't most of us do everything we possibly can to change them? To change their outlook, their attitude, their response to us, or something else about them? And when we fail, as we most assuredly will, don't we then turn crying to God, and ask Him to change this person?   That's where the wisdom is needed. To learn the difference between the things we can change and those we cannot. Have you ever tried to tell someone something for their own good? Did they listen to you? Have you ever given someone good advice, that they really needed to hear? Did they heed your well intentioned advice? Have you ever once succeeded in changing someone else into what YOU thought they should be, or made them do what YOU thought they should do? Neither have I.   And do you know what? That's a good thing! It's good that I can't change other people. Only God can do that. Who am I, that I should be so arrogant as to think that I know what's best for someone else, when sometimes I have a hard time figuring out what's best for me? What does it take before I finally learn, once and for all, to "let go and let God"?   Is any human being smart enough and capable enough to change another human being? Aren't we all God's creation; isn't HE our Maker? Then why on earth do we think we can change someone else, or even that we have the right to try? Read that line again: "To accept the things I cannot change..... ".   When a person in our life is causing us a problem we need to accept that we cannot change that person. Sometimes we have to accept people, just the way they are. With all their flaws, all their blemishes, all their junk. Even when they are annoying, even when they have done something really stupid, even when they are giving us problems, we cannot change them. Only God can possibly do that. And He can only do it if we get out of the way, let go of the situation, and let Him work.   But you see the next line there? "The courage to change the things I can......". We cannot change other people, but we can certainly change our own reactions. When somebody does something to me, I can choose to respond in kind, (my way) or I can choose to respond in love, (God's way). I can choose to ignore them, or I can choose to try to get revenge. I can choose to use a light-hearted joke to diffuse the tension of the situation, or I can choose to add fuel to the fire by blowing up in anger myself. I have to have the courage to change the thing that I DO have the power to change. The one sure thing that I do have the power and ability to change is ME!   The problem usually is, the flesh wants to respond in kind. Especially when we are unfairly wronged. Especially when we have loads of "ammunition" to use against that person who has caused us hurt. We want to hurt back, don't we? We want revenge. Yet the Bible clearly says: "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but [rather] give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance [is] mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." (Rom. 12:19)   It takes courage to change the way the flesh reacts. It takes courage to remain silent when we want to scream and shout at someone else's scheming or plotting. It takes courage, and the power of the Holy Spirit within us, to react in a loving way, when we have been wronged. It takes courage to show the love of Christ, instead of retaliating. Maybe that's why the Bible says; "Love is patient. Love is kind. Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; Love keeps no record of wrongs; it doesn't keep score. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things."(I Cor. 13:4-7)   Do we have the courage to truly live those words? Or are they just meaningless platitudes, good for Sunday School only? Do we have the courage to crucify the flesh, and it's desire for revenge and retaliation? Do we have the courage to do what we know is right, even when someone else does wrong, and let God work things out in His own way, in His own time? Do we have the courage to simply trust God?   Here's the lesson I learned this past week, and I pray I will remember it the next time some situation comes up in my life. I pray I never forget the lesson I learned: If we ever do manage to let go of the flesh, and allow God the freedom to deal with the situation, He is faithful and will do just exactly what He says He will. Honest! And when we let God be God, and allow Him to do what only He can do, what a tremendous burden that takes from our shoulders!   Maybe that's what Jesus meant when He said: "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free! (John 8:32) Hallelulia, and Praise the Lord! Thank you, Jesus!

Source: http://heavenawaits.com/sermonettes/letgo.html

Keep Praying

Starts of Hubby's Treatment

Earlier today, my hubby's treatment started. He took the chemo pills this morning and went to the doctor for his radiation therapy. He was also working today and when he came home, he was very tired and we talked on skype but he is on bed already ready. He said he is very tired and feel like he will pass out. Lord, please be with hubby always. Give him strength and strong immune system to fight this cancer and survived all the treatment. I fell so weak today Lord and You know that. Be my strength Lord as always. Thank you Lord. Thank You for everything.

Help Us Lord to Hold on - For I believe, You are Fixing things

I subscribed on youtube to one of my favorite author and preachers - Bo Sanchez, yesterday. When I opened the youtube website, this is what I got -

Be blessed with this short message from Bo Sanchez

It is very uplifting to my spirit hearing this message of Brother Bo. Thank you so much Lord for people like Bo who inspired people like me who is in the midst of storm these time. Help me Lord and my hubby as You always do, give us strength, wisdom and perseverance we need to overcome this for Your glory Lord. These things I ask in Jesus Mighty Name and through the intercession of Mama Mary and Saints. Amen.

Thank You Lord.

Radiation Simulation Schedule

Today is the schedule of my hubby's radiation simulation. He went to the doctors this morning and they did the markings where the radiation will be pointed. Lord, you know how I feel. I am doing my best Lord not to worry and lift to You the things that I can't handle. Help me Lord and my hubby. Hubby is experiencing lots of pain now in different areas of his body. There are times he just wanted to give up but You are so good Lord for You are always there for Him. Thank you Lord. Thank You for being our good Father. Mwwah

Keep Planting Love

I got this very nice message from one one of my favorite authors, Bo Sanchez, while browsing facebook. Wow, really nice and I like it and need it to apply for myself. Here it is:

‎"Even if you don't see the results of your planting, just keep planting your love. Your patience. Your perseverance. Your faith." - Bo Sanchez

Lord, thank you for this wonderful message. Please help me how to apply this in my life. Give me strength Lord to be able to keep planting love and prayers. Help me Lord for I am weak and can't do it alone without Your help. Thank you Father.

Forgive Me Lord - Change the things/attitudes that needed to be changed

I talked to my hubby online today via skype. He told me something that hurt my ego, myself. He said, I'm pushing him too hard to God and not believing in Him. I am sorry Lord and thank you for showing and knowing it. Please help me Lord, change me, transform me to the person You wanted me to be. I found so many negative of my hubby and now I found my own, too. Sorry Lord and please help me. I love you and thank you for everything.

Uplifting Messages

Philippians 4:6

New International Version (NIV)

⁶ Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

From facebook:

No one is perfect, sometimes I wish I was, but no one is. Sometimes I wish that every situation would work, "My" way but thats not Gods way. Christ says come to me all ye who are heavy laiden and I will give you rest. When We enter "Our self" into the situation we always mess things up. When we are faced with a situation that we cannot find the solution to, the best thing we can do Is Pray. God never said to figure it out, he said He already has it all worked out. We just need to trust his Perfect plan. God Bless you all and have a Merry Christmas. Jesus Loves you and he Cares for You. Keep the faith, Something good is going to happen.

Heal Me First Lord

I attended the prayer meeting the other night. It was good as always. Lord, please heal me first in all areas of my life that is need healing. Thank You Lord.

I am Holding on Lord, Please be Strong for Us for We are Weak

"Life will bring you ups and downs, twists & turns, and good and bad times. If you have faith & trust in Him.. Everything will be as its suppose to and you will have nothing to fear. God never gives you anything you can't handle & always remember things can change in a blink of an eye.. So if things are going wrong.. Hold on, stay strong.. Know there is a better plan and you are loved always."

It’s not easy… - Yes Lord!

I am feeling down really today knowing about how my hubby reacted to his pain again that instead of trusting more to God, he complains. It is always like this and it is not easy because I am hurting.

I found this very nice message while browsing my facebook entitled It's not easy.
source: http://godsgracefulness.com/?p=2510

Yesterday night as my family was praying, holding hands, all eyes closed, head bowed, got me thinking how this earth is filled with so much pain, hurt, and sorrow. We didn’t pray much for our need because we are so grateful for everything. We prayed for hurting family, friends who are sick with cancer, friends who are struggling to get by each day, wondering which bills to pay first.  It was heart wrenching to the point I felt a grip on my heart. I could barely swallow. My heart grieved, it pounded so fast as if tears started dripping out of my heart.

My mind trying to grasp  all that is going in our surrounding in HOPE that God will rescue all people and deliver us. I don’t know about you, but anytime I hear bad news about a close loved one or friends my heart sinks, eyes filled with tears and my world stops turning for 60 seconds and I lose sight of who God is for that moment. It’s so easy to forget who He is in the midst of our pain, isn’t it?

We all want our close loved one to experience peace, joy, contentment, and enjoy life to its fullest. I know I do. However, I need to remember to hand over my grief, broken heart, and my tears into His loving hands, making sure I don’t carry it with me. Beauty for ashes.  Psalm 56:8 – You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book. Tears are seeds that’s being deeply planted into His soil so it may reap a wonderful harvest.

Let’s trust God during these hard times. Your tears, heart aches, brokenness, pains, trials are being sown! In God’s timing He will do what is right and not what we want Him to do. But during these trying times He will take us by our hands and walk with us, His arms around our shoulders to comfort us. He will never walk away leaving us to ourselves. We just need to trust in Him. His arms are wide open and waiting for us to walk right up to Him in brokenness so we can accept every good thing He has for us.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; Psalm 39:12

Thank You Lord for this inspiring message. Please help me and my hubby Lord. Transform us to the couple you want us to be. We have weakness Lord and please be our strength. Give us wisdom, knowledge and understanding on the things that are happening right now. I can't make it alone Lord without You.
I am crying right now, I am in pain and don't know until when this will be over.  Help me Lord. I am weak. I can't take my hubby complaining always about his pain and blaming it to You. Lord, You are the only one can transform him, pls do Lord. Please let him not be tempted again by satan. Keep my hubby Lord from temptations for he is weak right now especially he is suffering from this horrible disease. Please Lord. Thank You Lord. I am sorry for my thinking today.

I Can't Handle it No More

Lord, I'm tired. Honestly Lord, it was me alone I had given up already. Hubby is not changing Lord and he is not improving especially his relationship with You. Everytime he experienced pain, he always complains and blame it to You. Sometimes I am telling myself that I was wrong in choosing the guy I married because I prayed for a God fearing person but my hubby is not because I thought and believed that You can change him Lord. Maybe this is really true Lord - the picture below- but I am trying to prove that its not true to all because God can transform a person. I am losing hope Lord because it is been like this, it is a routine and he never change. Sorry Lord but everytime my hubby is acting like that, I am hurting deep inside. Is this a time for me to move on Lord knowing he won't ever change? Which is which Lord? Please help me. Do we stil have hope in our situation? Sorry Lord, I know that You are our hope and You can do the impossible thing. I don't know when You will answer my prayer Lord but You know I still trust You and I don't have anyone to run to - ONLY YOU.

Chemoradiotherapy Side Effects - Lifting it to You Lord

Thank God for these days.. Hubby will start his treatment next month and he shared it to me what the doctor said about the side effects of the therapy. I started to get worry knowing the side effects and that he might wear a bag for life and we can't have a baby no more. I was thinking of the results of the treatment but I told my hubby its okay as long as You will be okay and free from that disease. Lord, you know how started to worry and worried but I know Lord nothing is impossible to You. I am lifting it to You Lord, the most important for now is the healing of my hubby and You know that Father. Thank you so much for everything. 

Chemoradiotherapy side effects

Having chemotherapy and radiotherapy together can make the side effects of the treatments worse. The combined treatment may make you feel very tired. You may also have diarrhoea, feel sick, and have a low resistance to infection. The radiotherapy may make you feel that you need to pass urine more often and can cause very sore skin in the treatment area.

Abdominoperineal resection (APR) has long been considered to be the standard operation for lower rectal tumors with a distal edge up to 6 cm from the anal verge. However, despite providing excellent local control and survival, the APR entails a permanent colostomy and a high incidence of sexual and urinary dysfunction. (See "Overview of surgical procedures for resectable primary rectal cancer", section on 'Abdominal perineal resection'.)

Thanksgiving Day

Today, my US family is celebrating their thanksgiving. There are so many thanks to be grateful to our God today for all the blessings He continues to shower to us and to our families. Thank You so much Lord. Thank you for Your great love that even if how many times we fail You but still You continue to be with us. Thank You Lord for all the blessings. I am counting the blessings You have given us this month alone but its huge.
- MRI result of hubby is good because it didnot spread
- Gov't insurance approval
- Chemo Pills free from social work
- Acceptance of our papers - NOA1
- Meeting of the Oncologist was free
- All the doctors of hubby are good to him - thank you Lord
- A wonderful friend James of hubby from the gym
- Start of hubby's Bible Study with James


and a lot more... Thank You Lord for all the Blessings. I love you Lord.

MRI Result - Did Not Spread - Thank You Lord

Today hubby had his MRI while I was sleeping. I just found out in the morning when I woke up and read his messages. He was so nervous about the result and praise God because the result was good, it didnot spread. Thank You Lord. Hubby told me that when he was in the doctor's office, his friend James called him and said a prayer. I was really amazed how You are working Lord. You are always true to Your promise. Thank You Lord. When I received my hubby's good news, I was thanking God and couldn't help but tears flow from my eyes, tears of joy. Thank You Lord. Thank You Mama Mary for your intercession and St. Peregrine and the saints. Lord, hubby won't start his chemo and radiation until December 10. Lord, we know that You are still in control. Lord, continue to be with my hubby and that praying Lord that the cancer won't spread and that everything will go well with his treatment.  Thank You Lord. All for Your Glory Lord. Thank You Father.

Blessings... Thank You Lord!

Today we received the good news about the chemo pills of my hubby to be free from social work. Then later tonight we received another good news the approval of hubby's insurance from the government. Thank You so much Lord for all the blessings. It seems everything going well with the support Lord but my hubby is not ready Lord. He is so stressed out that his back and neck are in pain, numb and tingling. But I thank You Lord for all the blessings today. Thank You for working with us and giving all our needs. Lord, does my hubby really need to undergo both chemo and radiation therapy at the same time? Please Lord help us and guide them and doctor who will treat my hubby, let them be your instrument Lord God. Praying Lord that the result of the MRI will be a miracle - that the cancer didnot spread and the tumor is gone. Kindly please take away the cancer of my hubby Lord. Only You Lord can take it away in a snap. You know the desire of our hearts Lord. Sorry Lord for sometimes we wanted things to happen in an instant and not on your timing. Sorry Lord for all those times. Thank You Lord once again for everything and for providing the things that my hubby needs.
Lord,  I'm asking you again for another favor to please show my hubby and me what You wanted us to do for you. Lord, you know how stressed he is right now. Please teach him how to manage his stress Lord before the start of the treatment if that is Your will. Lord, he is having numbness and tingling on his back and neck and the stress is killing him, please show him Lord what to do to handle the stress. Thank You Lord. Tomorrow they will going to see the doctor of radiation. Be with them again Lord as You always do. Thank You Lord. Than You Father.

The Best Faith Quotes

Faith is believing in something when common sense tells you not to.

- From the movie, "Miracle On 34th Street"

God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, or sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there. You can't see the future, yet you know it will come; you can't see the air, yet you continue to breathe.

- Claire London

"I don't pray for God to take my problems away, I pray only for God to give me the strength to go through them."

- Jose Lozano

"Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

- Voltaire

You don't have to see something to know that it's really there. You just believe it.

- Judy the elf in "The Santa Clause"

The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason

- Unknown

Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we can't see.

- Hebrews 11:1

There's always a moment in life when you question if things are ever going to get better.

There's always that night when you just want to fall asleep as quick as you can because your dreams are better than your reality.

And it's okay to have felt that way. We're humans and we're not perfect. Even when life looks really bright from this side, it's dark and dull from that other side.

It's not perspective. It's a cycle and if you're not in the "happiness" part of life, then it's not your turn yet. But you don't have to stop believing because the cycle will never stop. One day, it WILL be your turn.

Keep believing.

Hang in there.

- Darleen B. Dumaguin

Faith allows things to happen. It is the power that comes from a fearless heart. And when a fearless heart believes, miracles happen.

- Unknown

When all seems dark remember to P.U.S.H (PRAY UNTIL SOMETHING HAPPENS) never lose faith

- Unknown

trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall make your path straight.

proverbs 3:5-6

Very Nice Comment - PUSH

And in John 14:15 it says, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” AlsoDeuteronomy 7:12-14 “If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your forefathers. He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land –your grain, new wine and oil –the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land that he swore to your forefathers to give you. You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor any of your livestock without young.”

I am not saying that your problems came because you don’t obey God… I just wanted to share these verses because I share them with everyone I meet and also because they are promises. They tell us of how our God rewards those who are faithful! If you are being faithful to God and following his word… then trust that ALL OF THESE PROMISES ARE FOR YOU!!!

I am sorry that you are going through all this stuff, but not one leaf of a tree falls without our Father allowing it. As crazy as it may sound sometimes God allows things to happened to us… because he wants because us to grow. James 1:2-4 says “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”

Also… today I got in a big argument with my dad and I stormed off. I was so angry and God send me two verses. Proverbs 15:1, “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” It really made me think of how sometimes I could end a discussion if I would just speak nicely to my dad or to anyone for that matter. I know how hard it is when your father is not saved… It is so frustrating, but there is nothing that we can do… humanly possible there is NOTHING we can do but pray. Scripture says “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.” 1 Corinthians 3:6

You have planted a seed in your father’s heart by speaking to him about Jesus Christ our Savior and all you can do is trust and wait until God makes that seed grow! For our FATHER GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!!!

Also, if you are praying to our Father God then know that he will answer for his words says that everything we ask in prayer in the name of Jesus Christ he will answer! It is also written that HE will give us all the desires of our hearts! in psalms 37:4 “Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” And scripture also says in Acts 16:30-31 “He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved? They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”

WHAT AMAZING PROMISES!!! Move by this faith because it is also written… “But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.” James 1:6-7 Do not move by what you see but by what you don’t see!
Satan will try to discourage you by showing you a dad who is going down hill, a broken marrage, children who barely speak to you, things that get worse! But move by what you don’t see God working in every situation! TRUST GOD ABOUVE ANYTHING AND DO NOT LEAVE HiM!!!

Be encouraged for our God never EVER fails us, for our God is the all powerful God, for our God created the whole universe in 7 days (imagine how easy it is for him to save your dad and restore your family), DO NOT TELL GOD HOW BIG YOUR PROBLEMS ARE BUT TELL YOUR PROBLEMS HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD!!! AMEN!

GOD BLESS YOU AND LOVES YOU IN JESUS NAME!! AMEN, AMEN, AMEN ALL THE GLORY TO GOD… HE IS ALL SAINT AND POWERFUL!
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM! HE IS SO AWESOME! ALL THE GLORY FOR HIM BECAUSE HE INSPIRED THIS AND BECAUSE HE WILL SAVE YOUR FAMILY!! NO DOUBT!! HE WILL DO IT! HE WILL!!! AMEN!!!!! 

Source: http://www.marriagemissions.com/push/

Wow, I came across to this website and read stories and comments. I learned so much. Thank you Lord for leading me to this site. Thank You Father.