a Call to Be Patient and Self-Controlled

I must admit that I really can't concentrate on work... the environment is sooooooooo unhealthy. it seems that I am working in a marketplace with palengkeros and palengkeras. I feel so sad that there's no difference between educated and non-educated people. There is no difference between intelligent and foolish.

Yeah, God is teaching me to love my enemies, but Paul is also giving us a warning not to associate with bad people for it corrupts good manners. I don't want to get angry, as Bible instructed us to be slow to anger. We are acting like foolish when we tend to get angry so easily. I am like this when I don't have Christ in me.

It's really a challenge. But there are things that I need to give up or otherwise I will suffer. Am asking for Gods wisdom. I want to act like a Christian. I am no longer the same person who acts and thinks as if I don't have God in me...

This calls for perseverance, patience, and faith to keep God's commandments in times like this...and of course, self-controlled. It might seem like you wanna butt in and say "hey, you shut up!" but you can't because it's a wrong way. I don't want to blame but i need to find a way so I can work without getting distracted.

God Provides when Your Company Fails to Pay You on Time

When we are about to run out of money, our great tendency is to complain... You think you have all the right to do so most especially if your salary takes toooooooooo long to arrive... We are running out of supply and I can't even have a cash advance for crying out loud!

I am working on a company with very low salary...we always get paid almost a week after payday....so how am i suppose to react??? its always like this... there are times that you will be really disappointed and darn frustrated...but i doubt if this company will care about how you feel...

there's nothing we can do about this..we all end up losers if i will choose to feel that way... in this situation, God is teaching me to trust Him,,, that He will be the One who will provide me with what I need...

So what will I do? All i need to do is to ask Him about my needs and He never fails to provide me..It helps a lot more than choosing to become frustrated and disappointed...

as Jesus promised "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?Matthew 6:25-27"

So i don't worry.. And I don't get annoyed... which means I am far more spared from getting headaches...You might be asking why I am still here working? The answer is simple....there is a great catch of fish here.. and besides, I love the job, including my team. and am working not really to serve the company...i'm here to be a good servant and steward of God since He is the OWNER of these things...

When God Reveals a Worshipper in You

.... I have a lot of problems the past few days.. I can't even concentrate with my work. So much pressure...But everytime I go to office I always read this one.. it's an ebook that I downloaded from a Christian website.

But what catches me here is the fact that God inhabits our praises and worship. Yup we need skills... but this is more than just singing songs and hymns to God. I realize the power of music that works through the presence of God.

it's not all about music... rather, IT IS THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN MUSIC that deeply touches the heart of soul...

God cannot enter in a heart where He is not welcomed... And He cannot stay either if we continue to hold sins in our hearts...

God taught me to focus on Him, not on my ugliness and my imperfection.. I cannot understand why He is doing this to me..Or is it hard for my to accept that God loves me so much?? I need Him but somehow refuse Him to come to me.. I came to a point that I even hate and condemn myself.

But when I surrender everything to Him, and gaze at His beauty, you will stand at His awe.. and no matter what happens, He is very much willing to show how beautiful You are in His eyes..

I was remembered that I was created to glorify and worship Him.. Many will discredit me service to God, even my leadership... But I will never stop being a worshipper of God..and I know I can't make this, it is Him that fulfills my destiny and plan for me.