HARD OR EASY?

Daddy asked me, “Child, if you are going to choose between the easy way and the hard way, what will you choose?” I answered immediately, “the easy!” without even thinking why He asked. Then He said, “No, you must not always choose the easy but the hard one.” And I thought to myself, “If there is an easy way why would I go with the hard way? Why would I suffer the hard way?”

Daddy said, “Most people choose the easy way while only few choose the hard way. And this is the reason why most people are walking at the wrong path.” He said that we must not follow the crowd. We must not do what most people do. We must not be envy seeing that they are more comfortable in their life than us if they are not living for God. Obeying God and walking in His ways is not an easy thing to do but it is a hard thing that most people fail.

Then Daddy God made me remember how I always choose the easy way and how I have only learned so little from it. When I was still a student, I always choose the easy assignments, projects or reports. I always choose the easy clinical tasks in the hospital, or the easy OR case to be handled. And yes! Daddy is right! I barely learned from those things. I never grow choosing the easy.

This might not always be applicable in all things where we are about to choose. We must always ask God if we are going to choose between two things. But mostly, if it is about serving God, the hard one is mostly the right one.

Why the hard way? Because hard is the way that leads to God. For most of us, it is hard to serve God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. It is hard to give up our precious things to God. It is hard to give up our fleshly desires and to change our carnal mind. It is hard to give up worldly things. It is hard to wait with patience. It is hard to give your life in service for others. It is hard to keep God’s commandments. It is hard to keep Sundays Holy. It is hard to give tithes to church. It is hard to live a holy life. It is all hard. But those hard ways would lead us to God. If you are going to choose between the easy way and the hard way, what will you choose?

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” Matthew 7:13-14

“Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.” Luke 13:24

ALL GLORY TO GOD!

-Daddy’s girl

Where is My Love in the Body of Christ?

The perfect Love of God must be expressed from us, in us, and through us. Then love can overwhelm and conquer as we endure through the difficult situations or even persecution. Love will conquer to turn souls to Jesus as they see His love in us. Many do not love until the end because dealing with people can be very difficult. But love must endure to the end to finish its work with people. True love will endure even unto death! True Love does not seek its own comfort or happiness. True love serves for the Glory of God.

When we decide to stop focusing on our limitations as we deal with people and we start to focus on what the Lord did for us instead, then God can take us further as His Love will conquer more land through us. People will turn from this world and from their wicked ways when Love overcomes them. There is no need to put salt on the wounds of people. People know where they need to be. They just need someone to tell them how to get there.   

This is something we received from the Holy Spirit for the Body of Christ last year. I found it again as I was digging through my old notes.

“I love you! I love every one of you! But not everyone loves Me. Yes, you say you love Me but many of you do not love Me! Your hearts are so hardened! Many of you do not love Me. You say you love Me but you do not show Me that you love Me. It is very sad. If My love is in you, then you would understand My heart and My compassion but you do not have My Love and My compassion because you do not love Me. My compassion and Love would show everyone through you as you love Me but you do not love Me.

You love yourself and you think you love Me! Do not deceive yourself! You are in deception! You are loving yourself. You think you are loving Me. Show My love to others. Show My compassion to others. Then you will know My Love. You will know! Possess My love, My love. You have My love. If you have My love then you are showing others of My love. My love must be in you! It must! It must! You must have My Love in you so you can do My work. You must have My Love.

If you do not possess my Love you can never do My work. It is not always about the power. But My love must be in you so the power can manifest. Without love the power is useless. Without love you will become corrupt. My love must come to your hearts first before the power and the gifts. You must pray for My love. The love must be in you so the power can work together. My love, My love, possess My love. You must learn to love the unlovable. You must learn to love everyone! Then you will show that My love is in you if you love everyone. My love is for everybody! Therefore, you must love everyone. Then everyone will know you have My love. Do not choose who to love. Do not choose what to love. If you choose, you do not have My love and you are in deception. Possess My love so you can do My work until then I cannot work with you. Do not be deceived. You must seek the love in you. You must first seek My Kingdom.”

June 18, 2010 12:57 AM Received during prayer by Yoojin and Steve Kim

John 14:15(AMP) If you [really] love Me, you will keep (obey) My commands.

John 14:21 (AMP) The person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. [I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.]

1 Timothy 5:8 (AMP) If anyone fails to provide for his relatives, and especially for those of his own family, he has disowned the faith [by failing to accompany it with fruits] and is worse than an unbeliever [who performs his obligation in these matters].

John 15:9-10 (AMP)I have loved you, [just] as the Father has loved Me; abide in My love [[a]continue in His love with Me].10If you keep My commandments [if you continue to obey My instructions], you will abide in My love and live on in it, just as I have obeyed My Father’s commandments and live on in His love.

Fire of God!

Steve Yong Kim

Whose slave are you?

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:31-36

I’ve been hearing the song “It’s my life” from our neighborhood. The lyrics captured my attention when it says, “It’s my life. It’s now or never. I ain’t gonna live forever. I just wanna live while I’m alive. I just wanna live while I’m alive ‘Cause it’s my life”.

If we are going to die today, what will be our answer to our Almighty GOD if ever He asked, “What did you do with the life I gave you?” Are you going to answer “Oh God, I just live my life the way I want it to be because it is my life.”?

Most people are living their lives the way they want it to be. They live to be rich, to be happy, to be merry, to be successful, to be beautiful, to be famous, to have all they want, etc, etc, and these are all vanity! Many people say “It’s my life. It’s now or never. I ain’t gonna live forever.. so I will live it the way I want because who knows? Tomorrow I might be dead.” Yes, tomorrow we might be dead so why waste our life?

Many people wasted their lives without knowing the true purpose why they lived. There are some who doesn’t believe in GOD and so they live their life doing everything that will make them happy because they think that when they die, they will cease to exist or they will be gone forever. While there are also some who knows GOD and they think that if they do not commit a grave sin they will be in heaven when they die. Many people believe that when they die they will sure be in heaven with GOD. And I always hear people say “They are happy in heaven. They are now at peace.” Who knows? How sure are we that when we die we will be with GOD in heaven? If we just lived our lives in pleasures of the world or if we just lived our life the way we want it, constantly sinning without repenting. Are we going to be in heaven? If we are still slave to sin, if we are a slave to the pleasures of this world, if we are a slave of Satan, are we going to heaven?

What is a slave? A slave does what their master tells them to do. We can either be a slave to sin or a slave to righteousness. We can be a child of God or a child of the devil. We can be a sheep or a goat. We have the free will to choose who our master would be. Who is your master? Who are you serving? Whose child are you?

A slave to sin does not have the power to break the bonds of sins. Our sin nature makes us a slave to sin. Without God, without JESUS, without the Holy Spirit, our worldly passions are so strong that we come under control of our appetites and the influences of evil spirits. The slave to sin is the one who cannot resists from craving the pleasures of this world. That person will always want to satisfy the desires of his flesh. That person is a slave of money, a slave of fame, a slave of beauty, a slave of the world, a slave of sin, a slave of Satan. That person lives his life the way he wanted.

While on the other hand, if you are a child of God, you are also a slave to God. You are a slave to obedience and to righteousness. If you are a slave to God, you will not live your life the way you want it but the way God wants. We have freedom in God. We are under grace. But being under grace does not give us the license to sin. God gave us the freedom to be free from the bondage of sin. Jesus had set us free. The benefit of being set free from sin and being a slave to God leads to holiness resulting in ETERNAL LIFE.

 “Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.” (Rom. 6:16-22).

I was once a slave of sin. I was once a child of the devil. But now I’m free. I’m not his (satan) anymore. I am HIS (Jesus) forever. I am His slave and He is my Master.

Whose slave are you? 🙂

ALL GLORY TO GOD!

-Daddy’s girl

October 15, 2011

You shall love your neighbor as yourself

“JESUS said, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.” 

In my prayer, I have asked God, “Daddy, teach me on how to love others.” I’ve told Him that I don’t know how to love others the way I love myself. I’ve asked Him to give me the same heart of Jesus because Jesus loves everyone. I’ve told Him that I only love myself, my family and my friends and I feel like I don’t have the heart to care for others, to care for those whom I do not know and to those who are being lost.

I asked myself, “How can I say that I love my Daddy God if I can’t love my neighbor? If I can’t love my neighbor whom I have seen, how can I say that I love Daddy God whom I have never seen?”

Never do I know that Daddy God is teaching me to love in my day to day experiences. I am not aware of it. So when I failed, He revealed it to me while I was praying. He said, “You have asked Me to teach you on how to love others but now you are giving up in helping your friend?”  His words strike me in my heart and He continued to show me visions. He showed me my dream before, a flashback of my journey on the narrow road, He asked me, “Child, if you have seen someone on the road, on your journey, and he is having difficulty in carrying his load, will you ever stop and help him? And let us say that you stop but after lending a hand, he speaks bad words or hurt you, will you still continue to help him? Or will you left him behind and go on with your journey?” While I was silenced by this, He made me remember the story of the Good Samaritan.

Luke 10:30-37 Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.  In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’ Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?” He said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.” 

What does it mean to love our neighbor? And who is our neighbor? A neighbor is someone who is near-by wherever you are. I have learned from Daddy that we must prove our love in action. We must be like the Good Samaritan who stopped by and helped the wounded man while he is in his journey. I have learned from Daddy that when we truly love our neighbor, we must be willing to sacrifice; we must be willing to set aside our own feelings of hurt and bitterness. Even that person hurt us (be it by words or by deed) we must still help him with love. Many of us when we are being offended by others, we stop helping them, we stop praying for them. We use our bitter feelings to justify that they do not deserve our help. Daddy said that we must set aside our own feelings and we should not allow this to reign in order for us to help others. Even if they do not appreciate us, or respond to our love, we must still show our love for them.

“Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.” 1 John 3:18

 “He who does not love does not know God; for God is love.”

Daddy God also showed me a cup that overflows with water and another cup that is half empty. I asked Him what it means and He told me that the cup that overflows with water is like a person who is overflowing with His love. He said that when a person’s heart is filled with His love, that person cannot help but to love others. That person will always share God’s love to others because he is filled with love and cannot contain that love so he shares it to others. While the other cup which is half empty, is a person who lacks God’s love. That person cannot give love to others because he is not filled with God’s love. He is afraid to lose what’s left of him. So he ought to love himself alone. Daddy said that when we are the half empty cup, we can never be full unless we learn to give what we have. The one who gives will be given more. The one who loves will be loved by God.

After this, Daddy God showed me many people who are in line, each one holding a cup, and there is a large gallon of water. When their cup is filled, they go and give the cup filled with water to other people whom I think is thirsty.

“Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God.”

 Daddy God said that we are one Body. His Church is one Body so we must always help and care for each other. The eyes are intended to see, so if the eyes can see, the eyes must tell the other parts what he had seen. If the ears can hear, the ears must share what he heard. If one foot is being hurt, the hands should take care of the foot. We must work all together and help each other. Many of us choose only the people that we are going to help. We must help other people specially those who are being lost. We must have the heart of Jesus that is willing to leave the 99 sheep in order to find the one who is lost.

“So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.” Romans 12:5

 If we really love our neighbor, then we must pray for them. The greatest thing that we can do for our neighbor aside from giving them a hand is to seriously pray for them. We must pray for the people that we meet every day.

“Let brotherly love continue. Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.” Hebrews 13:1-2

 

 ALL GLORY TO GOD!

-Daddy’s girl

October 3, 2011

WHY NOT TURN AND LIVE?

“Say to them: As I live, says the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die” Ezekiel 33:11

When something bad happens, what do people usually think? When the natural calamities (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, typhoons) destruct our lives, whom do people blame all of it? Some people blame Daddy GOD for allowing those destructions to come upon them. Many people will ask, “Why does our GOD allowing all of this? He is a merciful GOD. How come that He allows us to suffer?”

Daddy God is a merciful God and He said that He has no pleasure and He hates to see the death of even one person. People do not know that when God judges us, He is pouring out His punishment upon us due to our wickedness and evil ways. We are being judged according to our ways and our deeds. Daddy God is more than willing to change His judgments of destruction against evildoers if they will themselves repent of their evil. There are stories in the Bible where God relent His plans of destruction after the people humbled themselves and repented of their evil ways.

“Rend your hearts and not your garments. Return to the LORD, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God?” Joel 2:13-14

“The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it. “(Jeremiah 18:7-8)

It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the disaster that I intend to do to them because of their evil deeds. … Now therefore mend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, and the LORD will relent of the disaster that he has pronounced against you. … Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and entreat the favor of the LORD, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster that he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great disaster upon ourselves.” Jeremiah 26:3, 13 and 15

Christians should not give up praying for others and ask God for mercy. The righteous people of God can do wonders by praying to God about His judgments on mankind for their wrong doing if it is according to the will of God. An example of this is when God told Moses, because of the sins of the Israelites in the wilderness, that he was going to wipe Israel off the surface of the earth — both men, women and children (Exodus 32:7-10), Moses interceded with God on behalf of the sinning Israelites. He prayed to God for mercy and God relent His plan. “And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people” (Exodus 32:14).

Daddy God will listen to the appeals of a righteous person in removing or shortening periods of judgments, which He has decreed. 

“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are [he was a mere human as we are], and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months” James 5:16-17 

Another is when God gave the prophet Amos a vision of an impending judgment upon the land of Israel for their sins, Amos prayed and intercede to God to spare Israel at that time. Amos said, “O Lord GOD, please forgive! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!” And what did God do? “The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord” (Amos 7:13). Yet Israel still kept up their rebellion to God. God then told Amos that He was going to send such a fire of judgment on Israel that a large part of the Mediterranean Sea would be destroyed. But Amos again intervened with God for the sake of Israel and pleaded with God not to do it. He said, “O Lord GOD, please cease! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!” And what did God do? “The Lord repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord” (Amos 7:6) However, Daddy God will not relent forever if He sees that the people does not turn from their evil ways.

“You have rejected me, declares the LORD; you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you – I am weary of relenting”. Jeremiah 15:6

“If [a nation or kingdom] do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them” Jeremiah 18:10.

“I am the LORD. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; I will not spare; I will not relent; according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord GOD.” Ezekiel 24:14

We are the one who brings disasters upon ourselves. Daddy God does not want anyone to perish but it is because of our evil ways why disasters and destruction are coming upon us. Why not turn and live? Why not obey the voice of God and live? Why wait until the judgment passed against us before we turn from our wicked ways?

“Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for He is your life and length of days” Deuteronomy 30:19-20

ALL GLORY TO GOD!

-Daddy’s girl

My Sheep Hear My Voice

 

“The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.” John 10:3:5

“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.” John 10:27-28

How can we be 100% sure that what we are hearing are all from GOD? I have learned from Daddy that if we can hear His voice, then we can also hear our own voice or even the voice of the enemy. That is why we must spend more time with Him. We must spend more time with Him in prayer. We should know the deeper things of God, we must know His character. We should not be so relax and be confident that we cannot make mistakes or be deceived because we can hear God’s voice. If the enemy can mimic signs, wonders or miracles, then he can also probably mimic God’s voice. The enemy can “almost” sound like Daddy God.

This is the enemy’s plan that will cause division among us. Many people will go on their own way because they say that they can hear God. How can we be sure that what we hear is from God? How can we be sure that it is not our own voice or the voice of the enemy? If people have different beliefs or hear differently, then some of them do not hear the real voice of Daddy God.

“I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.” Romans 16:17

“I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.” 1 Corinthians 1:10

We can know the false by knowing the true. We must spend more time in God’s presence so we can know or recognize His voice when we hear it. We must spend more time in knowing Him and reading His Words so we will not follow the voice of the stranger. We should pray more. Those people who spend long time in God’s presence will know the voice of the True Shepherd.

May we all hear the same voice that comes from the True Shepherd.

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” Psalm 119:105

“Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way, walk in it,’ whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left.” Isaiah 30:21

 

ALL GLORY TO GOD!

-Daddy’s girl

On good ground- the one with an honest and a good heart

“A sower went out to sow his seed…”

And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it.

If you are the one along the path (wayside), then you must be the one who have heard the Word of God but after a while you forget what you have heard. You are only a “hearer” of the Word and not the “doer” of it. You go to Sunday church service to hear the Word of God and then when you get out of the church, you will go on with your usual bad habits and sinful ways. Why do you come to hear if the Word never enters your heart? You don’t want to be affected with what you hear because it seems like it’s hard for you to do it. You never treasure what you have heard. It did not sink in into your heart. You are a highway, a wayside, a ground that is not suitable to be planted on. The soil of your heart is so hard. As a wayside, you are busy for the traffics; you are busy for other things in your life, the things that are not of God, that there is no place for the seed (the Word of God) to find a ground to hold on to. You have no time, you say, to think of religion. You have no time, you say, to pray to God. You think that it is all just a waste of your time. So when the seed (the Word of God) fell on you, you let the birds devoured it. You let Satan takes away the Word. And because of this, you do not believe, and you are not saved. “The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.”

 And some fell on the rock, and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

 A rocky soil (stony places) is never good for planting the seeds. The seed may sprout for a little while but it will not grow. It will soon wither and die. If you are the one on the “rocky places”, then you are the one who heard the Word of God and you were joyful at first. All Christians know this, the feeling of overwhelming joy in the first day that you have known God, the day that you were born again. You were joyful to know that you have received the gift of God. But your joy doesn’t last. Your joy is premature. The seed sprang up on a sudden, and you received the word with joy but because there is not enough soil, the bud that is beginning to grow withers. You do not allow the seed to penetrate to the depth of your heart. These are the ones who were good at the beginning of their journey with God. As few days, few months, or few years passed by, you get tired of following the way of Jesus because of the trials and sufferings that are very hard for you to handle. So you give up. These are the ones who did not hold on tight to Jesus. What will be your reward if you are only good at first and then suddenly you fall away? Daddy God will not remember the good things that you have done if you did not finished the journey, if you did not grow and bear fruits. “And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while and in time of testing fall away”

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.

If you are the ground among the thorns then your seeds have the ability to grow but there is great danger for your seeds to be choked by the thorns. These are the people who will hear the word of God, will understand it, will take it to heart, and begin to live according to it. But as time passes by, they become corrupted with the cares and pleasures of this world. Life’s cares attack them or life’s momentary pleasures of every sort occupies them, while the word of God is oppressed or forgotten, and there is no fruit unto eternal life, because these people gather fruits unto temporal life. The word of God speaks of heavenly blessedness, but these people prefer earthly blessedness. The word of God says that we cannot serve both money and God. “And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.”

And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold.

Then here comes the GOOD GROUND. The ground is said to be good not because it is good by nature but because it had been made good by God’s grace. God is the one who plough this soil so it becomes good for plantation. So when the seeds fell into it, the soil receives the seeds and the seeds take good root and it grows. These are the ones with an honest and good heart who received the Word of God and perseveres with patience. These are the doers of the Word. These are the ones who never give up amidst their sufferings and tribulations. As the good ground receives the pouring of the rain and the heat of the sun, the children of God humbly receives without choice whatever sufferings God gave them in order for them grow. They may get weary at times but they never give up. They trusted God. They trusted the Sower. And as the right time comes, they bear much fruits. “As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.”

It is easy to be on the ground along the wayside (to be busy with other things than to be busy for God). It is easy to be on the rocky/stony places (to walk with God at first). It is easy to be on the thorny ground (to serve money than to serve God). But it is not easy to be on the good ground. It is not easy to have an honest and a good heart that will serve and obey God for the rest of their lives. Only few are on the good ground. Only few will grow and bear fruits.

The Sower is so fair that He scatters the seed on every kind of ground even the ground will not receive the seeds. Daddy God is so fair that He gives all the people the chance to know Him, to receive His Words even the hearts of some people are so hard. The seed (Word of God) is a free gift to be planted on you so you will grow and bear fruits. It is your choice whether to receive it or not. It will be your own choice to be the kind of ground that you want.

Which ground are you?

 

 

ALL GLORY TO GOD!

-Daddy’s girl

GROWING IN THE WILDERNESS

One of my favorite stories in the Bible is the journey of the Israelites towards the Promised Land. As Christians, we can relate our own experiences to the experiences of the Israelites through their journey in the wilderness. The Israelites wandered in the desert for forty years. It was in the wilderness where the people of GOD were put to test in order to learn how to fully trust GOD. Their journey towards the Promised Land could only take few days or months but because of their stubbornness, it took them forty years. It took forty years for them to learn what God wants them to learn.

Like the Israelites, we as children of GOD will also be in the wilderness. Not in the “desert” but in our own personal tribulations and trials in which we die to self and live for Christ. Just as GOD intended the Israelites to be in the wilderness, He also intends us to be in our wilderness. It is in the wilderness that the Israelites have learned who GOD is, and the importance of obeying Him. Our early year of Christian walk is like wandering in the wilderness. It is in the wilderness where we will be refined, tried and tested. It is in the wilderness where we die to self and grow to maturity.

Some people think that when the day of their spiritual birth happens (being born again), they are now free and ready to go to heaven. But this is not the end but only the beginning of their walk with GOD. When the Israelites delivered from the slavery of Egypt, they thought that God will immediately lead them to the Promised Land. They never thought that they will suffer hardships in the wilderness before they reach their land. Because of this, they start blaming and doubting GOD.

There are some people that when GOD put them in trials (wilderness) they will be angry and they will complain just as the Israelites did when they suffered in the wilderness. Many want to go back and be slave of Satan because it is where they feel more comfortable. The Israelites too became angry and they wanted to go back to Egypt to be slaves. They want to go back because in Egypt, they are comfortable, they are being fed and they never lack food. While in the wilderness, they were hungry, thirsty, and they lived in tents. Who does not want a comfortable life? Who does not want a problem-free life? But most often, it is in the worst days of our lives that we grow more into maturity and we learn to fully trust GOD.

While some of the Israelites want to go back, some of them want to escape. They are looking for an easy way out. They are looking for shortcuts. They want to be immediately transported to the Promised Land. They don’t want to suffer trials in the wilderness which God intended for them to grow. We should not pray to God for an escape to all our tribulations but we must pray to Him to give us strength to overcome.

A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keeps going and suffer for it.” Proverbs 22:3

We hate being in the wilderness. We don’t want to experience difficult times. We don’t want to be physically weak. We don’t want to be emotionally drained. We don’t want to be spiritually stretched. But these are the times that God is refining us, changing us, removing our selfishness and teaching us to depend on Him.

When Daddy God wants us to learn a lesson, He will give us a test. He will allow us to be in the situations that He knows we are weak. He will pinpoint our weak areas by allowing us to undergo sets of trials. This is not to discourage us but in order for us to grow more. If we failed the test, He will again make a way for us to retake that particular test all over again until we pass it. We must not feel tired and discourage whenever we failed because GOD is not looking on the number of our failures but on how we persevere until the end.

Spiritual maturity is the same with our physical growth. It takes time to develop. It is the result of time and experiences in which we are growing more under the guidance of GOD. As we walk in the wilderness, Daddy God will be observing us while He is giving us some tests. He will be silent at times and will observe if we will obey Him or we will turn back to our old sinful habits.

Jesus was also led to the wilderness of testing. Not forty years but for forty days He experienced hunger and suffering and then at the end of that time faced an emotional and spiritual battle with Satan himself. It was such a hard time for Jesus but He endured and overcome this test because He knows that this was part of God’s plan.

Jesus learned obedience in the wilderness. He learned to put God above His physical desires (bread), above personal pride, above earthly things or possessions. He learned to put God above Himself. He learned to trust God. This could only be learned in the wilderness.

We often think, “If God loves me, then He will protect me from all trials and difficulties.” But this must not be our thinking, it must be “Because God loves me then He will allow me to face trials and difficulties in order for me to grow.”

 

 

ALL GLORY TO GOD!

-Daddy’s girl

HOW PRECIOUS IS YOUR SOUL?

“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul?” Mark 8:36-37

“Man does not comprehend its worth. It cannot be bought with the finest gold, nor can its price be weighed in silver. It cannot be bought with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or sapphires. Neither gold nor crystal can compare with it, nor can it be had for jewels of gold.” (Job 28:13, 16-17). 

What can we give in exchange for our soul?

During one of my prayers, I have told Daddy that I hate the world. I’ve told Him that I hate money. I hate the world because it lures the people to divert their focus and to sin against GOD. I hate money because it is now the goal or the purpose of many people in their life. People were so focused with the good things in this world or with their blessings and gifts. They are so blinded with all their possessions that it caused them to forget the Giver. Many people are so busy gaining the world that they became unaware that they are losing their souls.

How precious is your soul? If we could weigh a soul and the world, one soul would be heavier. Our soul would outweigh anything in this world for there is nothing under heaven that is more precious than our souls. If we lose our health, we can be made well and recover. If we lose our possessions, we can gain it again. But what if we lose our souls? Can we regain it? What can we give in exchange for our souls?

Many people set the world as more valuable than their souls. Why would you give your soul for money? Why would you give your soul for honor? Why would you give your soul for pleasure? Why would you lose your soul for things with no value? Your soul is so precious to God that’s why He died for you. We cannot give anything in exchange for our souls. That is why JESUS died so our souls may live.

1 Peter 1:19: “You were not redeemed with corruptible things, such as silver and gold—but with the precious blood of Christ.”

Your soul is so precious than your body that it would be better for you to suffer some parts of your body than to lose your own soul!

“Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes! And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire” Matthew 18:7-9

But sadly, on the contrary, some people treat their physical body as more valuable than their soul. They do whatever they want to their bodies. Some people use their appearance to gain praises and honor and there are also some people who use parts of their body to sin. They use their hands to steal and to hurt, their eyes to judge and to lust and their lips to curse and to lie.

“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Our body must be holy and pure because it is the temple where GOD dwells. If we cannot resist using our body to sin, it is indeed better for us to loose parts of it than our whole body to suffer and be thrown in the hell fire. Jesus told us all of these in order for us to know how precious our souls are. Jesus wants to emphasize to every believer how important it is that we should do everything we can in our living to cut out anything and everything that may cause us to sin.

“And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.” Matthew 10:28

 

 

ALL GLORY TO GOD!

-Daddy’s girl

HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT YOU LOVE SOMEONE?

How can you say that you love someone? If you love someone you will take time to know that person. You would want to know his/her favorites, what he/she hate or love, his/her attitudes and everything about that person. You will take time to know him/her more! You would be willing to waste your time just to be with that person. And you would always want to see and talk to the person you love!

Many people say they love GOD. How could you say so? Just as you are willing to take time to be with the person you love, it must also be the same with GOD. And just as you are willing to do and give everything to the person you love, it must also be with GOD. But many people just say it with their lips that they love God but the truth is they do not.

Do you know who God is? Do you know what He loves and what He hates? Do you know His attitudes and attributes? Do you know what makes Him happy and what makes Him sad? Do you know His voice, how He looks like and where He lives?

How can you say that you love a person if you are continually hurting that person? How can you say that you love God if you are continually disobeying Him? How can you say that you love a person if you don’t have time for him? How can you say that you love GOD if you don’t have time for Him?

If the person you love does not want to communicate or talk to you, what will you feel? If the person you love hurt you, how will you feel? Will you believe that person if he says that he loves you? Do you think God will believe you when you say that you love Him if your actions are not showing it?

If I ask you about your favorite actress or singer, maybe you can give me all the facts about that person (his bio data, his personality, his favorites, etc.) But if I ask you about God, how many facts can you give about Him? Maybe you will just answer me “GOD is good”, that’s all, period. Well how can you say that you love GOD?

When JESUS said that He loves us, He showed it in action. He went down from Heaven so that people will be able to see Him, touch Him and talk to Him. He humbled Himself and became a man so we can see Him in flesh just as we are. He showed His unconditional love by giving His life for us. He died on the cross for us. When GOD says that He loves you, He does not just say it but He shows it in action. Now how can you show that you love GOD?

GOD wants us to know Him. Just as we always want to feel God’s love for us, He also wants to feel that we love Him. How can we show our love? We can show our love for God by keeping in contact with Him, communicating with Him through prayer, taking time to know Him more by reading His Words or talking to Him always. We can show our love by obeying all His commandments, loving Him with all our heart, soul, mind and loving our neighbor as ourselves.

ALL GLORY TO GOD

-Daddy’s girl