The Letter

Friendship Trait ( the best ingredient in a relationship )

If you want to have a good friendly relationship with the one you love,Here's what the bible said;

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. (Proverbs 17:17) 
The greatest evidence of genuine friendship is loyalty.

Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses. (Proverbs 27:6) 
A friend who has your best interest at heart may have to give you unpleasant advice at times, but you know it is for your own good.

 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. ( Romans 12:10 )
A good relationship must have a friendship trait. It is good to hear that your brother is your friend or your father is your friend.If you want to live in harmony at home with your spouse, be a friend, "have a good friendly relationship". Friendship will add more zest in every relationship. Why not add this, to all people around you. So you can say; What a wonderful world this is...

Let God Transform You

I do not understand what I do.For what I want to do, I do not do. [Romans 7:15]
The reason why it's hard for us to win the change, is because of no one but us. Our attitude, our wants, and desires, our old selves is our enemy. But if we stop copying the behavior and customs of this world, and let God do the changing, it is truly possible. Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. [Romans 12:2]
This is a wonderful version of what can transform us in to a new thinking and behavior. A truly magnificent change is possible if we, "with God" do the changing. We take the initiative and God will do the completion. We'll do our best and God will do the rest. It take's two to tango. So in every thing we do, do it with God.

Keep Him in First Place

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge HIM. And He will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:5,6)
To succeed,said Solomon, we must put God first in our lives. About a thousand years later, Jesus emphasized this same truth (Matthew 6:33). Look at your values and priorities. What is important to you? Where is God on the list? Keep Him in first place in everything you do, then He will crown your efforts with success.
This is the only thing my family know why things sometimes amazed us. And we would like to encourage all our friends to take this very important way of doing things for a good result. In everything we do, lets put God first. Practice the "being with God" always, all the time. Feel His presence Wherever you are, whatever you do,and Instead of praying, talk to him like a friend. He love that.

The Witnessing Servant, mario

clear ourselves of hatred and guilt.

Love your neighbor as yourself. (Matthew19:19)

We cannot give love, if we don't have love. It works best to first love yourself (self-care), then love those closest to you (the love for your friends and family), and then the larger community, in that order. I understand that one cannot complete one sphere of love before moving on to the other—they all have to evolve at the same time. However, the priority of care should be upon self, family, and the world, in that order, to maintain health and wholeness.

Jesus responded with the Parable of the Good Samaritan. Samaritans were of mixed race and despised by Orthodox Jews at that time, so Jesus calls us to love even the people everyone hates. He had a way of zinging his listeners, and this was no exception. Who can love like that? And yet, this is the call of God: to reach out beyond the familiarity of our close friends and family—even to our enemies—to exhibit the Kingdom of God in love.

We cannot do this unless we clear ourselves of hatred and guilt.

MAKE YOUR FATHER GLAD

I came home one time unexpectedly with a surprise gift for each of my children. After handing over to each of them, I received different reactions. one said a simple word "thanks pa", the other two, gave me just a smile and continue in their playing session, the other three are jumping ups and down, shouted out loud  saying "THANK YOU PAPA" over and over. After hugging and kissing me, they went out to share with their friends and proudly telling them how good their father is... Oh, How I love to do it again, and give them much more than what I've just given. To the others, I don't think they appreciated it.. That's what I felt from their receptions..

Now what about us, sons and daughters of GOD?

God is constantly giving as a life to live, a blessing to sustain and amazing grace to prove HIS love for us. But many Christians are mum and just keep on receiving but doing nothing.

Do you want more blessing?

Don't be shy, don't be afraid, COME ON,,, TELL THEM HOW GOOD IS YOUR GOD, SHARE YOUR BLESSINGS, for others may know that our Father, our God is good. Thank you means; "YOU CAN GIVE ME MORE" and sharing means "DON"T STOP THE FLOWS” so be thankful in what you have and share it, to run the blessing continually into your hands. Don't close it, let it flows so that others can have some too. A wise son makes a father glad (proverbs10:1)

Remain Connected To The Vine

Jesus is the vine and we are the branches. who ever remains, will bear much fruit; This is the words that will truly make us grow in the most compassion-able way. In the Christian point of view, there are spiritual fruits that we can bear by connecting to the Vine Jesus. You will see and feel the love of Jesus in all your ways and you will bear good fruits.
This is what dominate us when we are not connected to the Vine.= hatred,sadness, troubled, unfaithfulness, uncontrolled temper,proud, and other negative thoughts and manners.
We will bear good fruits if we are connected to the vine. The fruits of the spirit that so good and so wonderful to have, not just for us but to everyone around us.. The fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, faithfulness, kindness, goodness, humility, and self-control...
Aren't you glad if some one with you has this, transcending ? much more of that if we are the bearer. .Surely you'll be loved by others.. Because it is good to have a friend connected to the Vine..

GOD

mario john

My grandson MAJIK (Mario John Apalit)

Even I Forgot To Ask

This was happened one September morning: As I 'm moving out from the parking area of a grocery store , A fast moving motorcycle coming straight directly to where we are, and we can see the driver's eyes has a panic expression because his face showed it ( can be an engine trouble or a failure brakes ). I'm also riding a motorcycle with my wife Eleanor at the back seat. If we put our estimation to the speed and the direction of this coming vehicle obviously it will hit us hard right directly to the middle side.
Now here is the intervention of the one watching over, Three meters before the impact, the front wheel of this coming vehicle suddenly turned cross,,, by that, the speed dramatically reduced to a minimal speed then stop . What surprised me, the man and his vehicle didn't crush. It supposedly be from the momentum of the speed  .
.This kind of intervention surprises me, I was caught flat footed, didn't even uttered a word for God's help. I was already expecting a strong impact, but suddenly God did something miraculous! Even I didn't ask!!
How can I stop praising God when every time I need to be saved, He was there to save me.Just like the time when I made my decision to end my life (see my video titled The Redirection),YOU RESCUE ME.  Praise be to the God Almighty. My God and Savior. Thank you Jesus
I just want to share this to every one for it is not impossible for God to reach His hands upon us to be saved. I have red some stories just like this and I know now we are all entitled under God's protections if we just put his righteousness in our lives.To God be the glory..

The Letter / The Power In The Name

A prayer for guidance

The True Gospel Church

Some Christians are often insecure about their own spiritual shortcomings. Why? For one thing, in too many of our biggest and most visible churches, we see role models who appear to have everything. These prosperity gospel preachers smile all the time and talk about how God wants to prosper us, "no matter what". Taking verses out of context, they spread the poisonous belief that God wants us to be happy, healthy, and wealthy, and there’s something wrong with us if we don’t have that sacred triune wrapped up."there's something wrong??? if we don't have???

Paul said;
I am not trying to relieve others by putting a burden on you; but since you have plenty at this time, it is only fair that you should help those who are in need. Then when you are in need and they have plenty, they will help you. In this way both are treated equally. As the scripture says, The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered too little did not have too little. ( 2 Corinthians 8:13-15. )
The sad result is that instead of talking about our problems openly and feeling as if church were the perfect place to share our brokenness, we’ve swallowed the lie that we have to get "gussied up" to interact with other Christians. Heaven forbid we look weak in front of our fellow believers!
Although we pray that God will supply all our needs materially, we must recognize the Bible's teaching that God may allow his children to experience time of need. in order to be encouraged to trust him more and to develop our faith, spiritual endurance and ministry.

( read Romans 8:35- 39 )

"This makes for harmony among the members, so that all the members care for each other. In God's vision for the church, all of the members care for each other in a tapestry of compassion and love.;
As long as there is some members who are weary and burdened and unattended, it is not a real prosperity gospel church. So take off the mask. Every fellowship is a heaven of rest for all weak and strong, rich and poor, happy and sad.We are here to comfort one another and not to make somebody feel unblessed
He help us in all our troubles, so that we are able to help others who have all kinds of troubles, using the same help that we ourselves have received from God . ( 2 Corinthians 1:4 )
Christian community should provide a place where broken people get healed.

The Colors Of Life

It's nice to look at the colors of the rainbow much of that in between. It has a different expressions,and different stories. Like the colors of life,some times it's blue, sometime its green or yellow. No one can say my life is all happiness, or all worry free.We experienced the ups and downs of our lives, to see and feel the goodness and joyous moment of the life after dark. So don't be sad, and do not envy or judge those who prospers without even God though.. Jesus said in;
Matthew 5:45 , He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on righteous and unrighteous .
But not all is hardship, we can not deny that we sometimes received comfort from our family or some friends and most of the time from God . But if you feel you are still in the hardship, It's not forever. Because nothing in this world are permanent. Only the words of the Lord Jesus will never pass away.(Luke 21:33)
Revelation 3:10 =Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on earth This is the promised if you'll believe...

It's Not All About You

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It's Not All About You It's Not All About You READ 1 Corinthians 14:6-25 Since you are so eager to have the special abilities the Spirit gives, seek those that will strengthen the whole church. [1 Corinthians 14:12] As you may recall, the Christians in Corinth were struggling with the issue of spiritual manifestations. In particular, some of the believers there were overly excited about speaking in unknown languages. It's likely that had been involved in pagan cults that emphasized speaking in tongues. Naturally, these immature Christians brought their assumptions about spirituality into the church. They were zealous for spiritual gifts, most of all for speaking in unknown languages in the midst of the gathered assembly of believers. Unfortunately, this practice was not helping the Corinthian church. People in the assembly who did not understand the language being spoken by the tongues-speaker had to sit there and listen. They were not being instructed or encouraged. In fact, they were getting nothing out of being together with other believers while someone spoke unintelligibly. The Apostle Paul did not respond to this situation by forbidding speaking in tongues. In fact, he claimed to do this more than any of the Corinthians. But he did so in private, not in the assembly (14:18-19). Why not? Because Paul knew that the purpose of ministry in the gathering was building up the church, not fostering individualistic spiritual experiences. The problem with speaking in tongues was not that it was somehow unspiritual, but that it didn't help others. So, the fact that the Corinthian Christians were zealots for spiritual gifts was a good thing, just so long as they sought those gifts that would be of benefit to the church. Thus Paul writes: "Since you are so eager to have the special abilities the Spirit gives, seek those that will strengthen the whole church" (14:12). This exhortation is as needed today as it was in the first century. Though we may not be obsessed by speaking in tongues, we can easily think of the church as the place where we get our personal needs met. Worship, preaching, fellowship, teaching . . . they're all for me! But 1 Corinthians 14:12 reminds us of the contrary truth: It's not about me! Or you! We need to learn to think of church not primarily in terms of what we can get out of it, but rather in terms of what we can give to it. We should be zealous for that which will strengthen the whole church. So, if I don't like a song or a sermon, don't let this dominate your consciousness. The more important question is: Did that song help others to worship? Did that sermon help to build up the church? When we take 1 Corinthians 14:12 seriously, we'll begin to see church more as a place to give to others than as a place to get for ourselves. I know this isn't easy, at least it isn't for me. But Scripture calls us to be more concerned for the well-being of our Christian community than for ourselves. by Mark D. Roberts

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The Call to Witness

Year 2000 I stop serving the church . November 12, 2006 a painful beat on the left side of my body causing heavy load on my chest, I was admitted to the Philippine Heart Center, It was confirmed heart attack . I ask God to give me another chance to live and be His witness and I will share all the good things He has done in my life. The Doctors want me to submit because of the result of their findings and gave me three days for conditioning study and planing. Night before the third day arrive, God fixed my heart. and the Doctors found nothing for me to stay, so they signed the discharge. Imagine on the night of my second day, an amazing change was happened. we praise and gave thanks to the good Lord Jesus Christ. Now, my life is a daily gift. I live one day at the time. I'm truly grateful to my God and appreciated all the things in my life, It's God's gift and my stay is for all to know that God is alive and HE cares.( the birth of witnessing servant ) Thank you Lord my GOD. AMEN.

My previous task is to organize music ministry in various congregations . Today my desired most is to testify what the LORD have done in me and what I have witnessed. I love to meet all the witnesses of today and encourage them to stand and testify. We are today's Witnesses..The end time witnesses..for the glory of God.


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