Global Family Jesus Christ the Redeemer Church

Global Family Jesus Christ the Redeemer Church We are a Full Gospel, Non-denominational Christian Church situated in Negros Occidental.

You're Invited! Ladies, we warmly invite you to join our Women's Fellowship & Outreach this Saturday, July 11, 2026, at ...
07/07/2026

You're Invited!

Ladies, we warmly invite you to join our Women's Fellowship & Outreach this Saturday, July 11, 2026, at 4:00 PM.

📍 Capitol Lagoon

Come and enjoy a meaningful afternoon of fellowship, prayer, encouragement, and sharing God's love with others. Let's grow together in faith, strengthen one another, and be a blessing to our community.

Feel free to invite your family and friends. We look forward to spending this special time with you!

"She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come." — Proverbs 31:25

MEN'S FELLOWSHIP INVITATIONBrothers, you're warmly invited to join our Men's Fellowship this Thursday, July 9, 2026, at ...
07/07/2026

MEN'S FELLOWSHIP INVITATION

Brothers, you're warmly invited to join our Men's Fellowship this Thursday, July 9, 2026, at 4:00 PM.

📍 Cafe Tulyo, Capitol Lagoon

Come and spend an afternoon of fellowship, encouragement, and growing together in God's Word. Let's strengthen one another in faith, build meaningful friendships, and be reminded of God's purpose for our lives as men.

Bring a friend and be part of this blessed gathering. We look forward to seeing you!

"As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another." — Proverbs 27:17

For thirty days, we have been examining what threatens the heart — the bitterness, the pride, the fear, the sin, the com...
30/06/2026

For thirty days, we have been examining what threatens the heart — the bitterness, the pride, the fear, the sin, the compromise. We have looked honestly at what creeps in when we are not watching, what quietly hardens what God intends to keep soft, what steals the very life that Christ died to restore.

But this final day is not about what to guard against. It is about what to guard for.

Guard your heart — for Jesus.

Every warning in this series has the same root purpose: that your heart would be kept clear, clean, surrendered, and fully available for the One who gave everything to have it. Not so that you would become a better version of yourself. Not so that your character would improve. But so that Jesus Christ would have full access to every room of your heart — every corner, every closet, every hidden place — and that nothing in you would stand between you and the fullness of life He came to give.

This is what He has been after all along. Not just your obedience. Not just your service. Not just your attendance. Your heart. The seat of your desires, your will, your love, your devotion. He does not want a room in your life. He wants to be the Lord of the whole house.

And so we return to where we began — to the word that started this journey:

"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it."
— Proverbs 4:23

Above all else. This is the priority. Not above career, comfort, reputation, or relationships — above all else. Because everything flows from the heart. Your worship, your witness, your marriage, your ministry, your parenting, your decisions, your character — all of it flows from the condition of the heart you give to God.

Thirty days of guarding is not the end. It is a beginning. The work continues every morning you rise, every moment you are faced with a choice between the world's pull and God's call, every time the enemy offers you something cheap in exchange for something eternal.

Guard your heart — not as a burden, but as a response to love. Because He guarded you with His life. He protected you with His blood. He went to the cross so that your heart could be washed, renewed, and made wholly His.

You were made for this. You were made for Him.

Guard your heart for Jesus — and never stop.

A hardened heart does not happen overnight. It is the result of a thousand small refusals — a thousand times the Spirit ...
29/06/2026

A hardened heart does not happen overnight. It is the result of a thousand small refusals — a thousand times the Spirit moved and the heart said no.

Hardening is the accumulation of unresponded grace. Every time God speaks and we do not listen. Every time conviction comes and we choose comfort instead. Every time He calls us deeper and we stay where we are. Over time, the heart that was once tender becomes calloused. The voice that once moved you to tears now barely stirs you. The sin that once troubled your conscience is now routine. The fire that once marked your worship has become a flicker — and even that flicker does not concern you the way it once would have.

This is among the most urgent warnings in the New Testament. The writer of Hebrews cites the generation of Israelites who hardened their hearts in the wilderness and quotes the Spirit's own alarm:

> *"Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion."*
> — Hebrews 3:15

**Today.** The urgency is in that word. Hardening is a process — but it can be interrupted at any moment you choose to respond. The same grace that is calling you is the grace that can soften what has grown rigid. But it requires a response today, not tomorrow. Tomorrow's response becomes next week's, and next week's becomes never.

The antidote to a hardening heart is not more information — it is more surrender. It is returning to the spiritual habits that keep the heart tender: the Word read with openness, not just familiarity. Prayer offered in dependence, not just routine. Worship given with all that remains, even when all that remains feels like very little.

God has not given up on your heart. He is still speaking. He is still calling. The Spirit is still moving — gently, persistently, with extraordinary patience.

Today, if you feel the distance, if the tenderness has faded, if His voice feels far away — respond. Even a whispered *yes, Lord* can begin to break what hardness has built.

**He is still knocking. Open the door. A heart that responds to God today will be softer tomorrow than it was yesterday.**

Doubt is not the opposite of faith — but if left unchallenged, it will slowly displace it.There is a kind of honest doub...
28/06/2026

Doubt is not the opposite of faith — but if left unchallenged, it will slowly displace it.

There is a kind of honest doubt that God can handle — the questions of a searching heart, the cries of someone in the dark who is reaching for a God they cannot see. Jesus did not shame Thomas for his doubt. He showed him the wounds. He met the doubt with evidence, with presence, with grace. God is not threatened by your honest questions.

But there is another kind of doubt — the kind that has stopped asking and started settling. The kind that grows in the absence of the Word, in isolation from community, in seasons where prayer has gone quiet. This doubt does not wrestle with God. It simply drifts from Him. It begins to believe that the promises were not for you, that the silence means absence, that the delay means denial, that the difficulty means God has forgotten.

The writer of Hebrews calls us back to the anchor:

"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see."
— Hebrews 11:1

Faith does not require certainty about every circumstance. It requires certainty about God's character — that He is good, that He is faithful, that His Word does not return void, that what He has promised He is able to perform. Those things do not change with your season, your feeling, or your understanding of what He is doing.

When doubt rises, the answer is not to suppress it but to bring it into the light of Scripture. To surround yourself with believers who remember the faithfulness you have forgotten. To speak the promises aloud even when they feel distant — because faith comes by hearing, and sometimes you need to hear yourself declaring what God has said.

David's Psalms move from anguish to praise not because his circumstances changed — but because he kept bringing his doubt before the God whose faithfulness is unchanging.

Today, bring your doubt to God honestly. He is not disappointed that you are struggling. He is waiting to meet you in it.

Doubt says God might not come through. Faith says He always has — and He always will. Feed your faith. Starve your doubt.

Complaining is the language of a heart that has forgotten what it has been given.It rehearses what is wrong. It amplifie...
27/06/2026

Complaining is the language of a heart that has forgotten what it has been given.

It rehearses what is wrong. It amplifies what is lacking. It catalogues every inconvenience, every disappointment, every unmet expectation — and it narrates them, often repeatedly, to anyone who will listen. And over time, a complaining heart stops being able to see anything else. It looks at the same life that contains God's provision, protection, and purpose — and all it can see is what is not there yet.

The Israelites are the most sobering example in Scripture. God delivered them from slavery with signs and wonders. He parted the sea. He fed them with bread from heaven and water from a rock. He led them with a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night. And they complained — about the food, about the leaders, about the journey, about God. And the writer of 1 Corinthians draws the line from their story to ours:

"And do not grumble, as some of them did — and were killed by the destroying angel."
— 1 Corinthians 10:10

This is not a God who is easily offended by honest lament — He welcomes that. The Psalms are full of honest cries to God from the depths of suffering. But complaining is different from lament. Lament brings pain to God. Complaining broadcasts it to people as an indictment of God's goodness.

The Apostle Paul, writing from prison, gave us the alternative: "I have learned, in whatever state I am, to be content." (Philippians 4:11) Contentment is not natural. It is learned. It is cultivated by choosing gratitude over grievance — by training the heart to count what God has given before rehearsing what He has not yet provided.

Today, before you voice a complaint, pause. Is there a genuine need you should bring to God in prayer? Bring it. Is there an honest grief you should lament before Him? Lament it. But if it is simply a rehearsal of discontent — lay it down. Choose gratitude. It will change your heart more than changing your circumstances ever could.

A grateful heart is a guarded heart. Gratitude is not denial — it is the discipline of remembering who God is and what He has done.

Secret sin is only secret from other people. God sees everything — and that truth alone should change how we treat what ...
26/06/2026

Secret sin is only secret from other people. God sees everything — and that truth alone should change how we treat what we think no one knows.

Secret sin is the sin we manage in private: the thought life we do not confess, the habit we maintain behind closed doors, the addiction no one knows about, the pattern of compromise that never makes it into our public testimony. We serve publicly, we worship corporately, we speak of faithfulness — and privately, something is alive in us that we have never brought into the light.

This is one of the enemy's most effective strategies. He does not need you to abandon your faith publicly. He only needs you to maintain a sin privately — because a heart divided between public holiness and private compromise is a heart that cannot fully receive the grace it is standing in.

The Psalmist understood the weight of hidden sin and what it does to the body and soul:

"When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy on me."
— Psalm 32:3–4

God's hand was heavy. Not in punishment — in conviction. In the mercy of a Father who loves His child too much to let them stay comfortable in something that is destroying them. The secret sin that we protect is the very thing that is quietly draining us of joy, peace, intimacy with God, and spiritual authority.

The grace of confession is not condemnation — it is release. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9) Every word of that promise is true. Faithful. Just. Forgive. Purify. God does not expose what you confess to shame you. He removes it to free you.

Today, bring what is hidden into the light — first to God, and if needed, to a trusted and accountable brother or sister in Christ. The darkness cannot survive exposure to His grace.

There is nothing you can confess that His blood cannot cover. Secret sin robs you. His forgiveness restores you. Come into the light.

Spiritual comparison is comparison in its most deceptive form — because it uses holy language to justify an unholy postu...
25/06/2026

Spiritual comparison is comparison in its most deceptive form — because it uses holy language to justify an unholy posture.

It looks like this: measuring your prayer life against someone else's. Comparing your gifts to another person's anointing. Feeling spiritually inferior because someone else seems to hear from God more clearly, serves more visibly, or carries a calling that appears greater than yours. Or, on the other side, feeling spiritually superior — quietly assured that your faithfulness, your doctrine, your depth makes you more valuable than others in the room.

Both directions are traps. And both reveal a heart that has taken its eyes off God and placed them on a human measuring stick.

The Apostle Paul addressed this with precision:

"Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else, for each one should carry their own load."
— Galatians 6:4–5

Test your own actions. Not your neighbor's. Not your pastor's. Not the person on social media whose ministry looks like everything yours does not. Your own. Because your calling, your season, your assignment, and your spiritual journey were designed by God specifically for you — and measuring it against someone else's is not only inaccurate, it is an insult to the wisdom of the One who designed both.

Spiritual comparison also robs you of genuine fellowship. It makes the body of Christ a competition rather than a community. It breeds either superiority or discouragement — neither of which is fruit of the Spirit.

God is not ranking His children. He is forming each one. He looks at your faithfulness in your lane, in your season, with what He has given you. That is the only measurement that matters.

Today, bring your spiritual comparisons honestly before God. Ask Him to restore your eyes to His face — and to help you run your race with the same energy you've been spending watching someone else's.

Your calling is not lesser because it looks different. It is yours — given by God, for a purpose only you were designed to fulfill.

Double-mindedness is the condition of a heart that wants God — but on its own terms.It is not full rebellion. It is not ...
24/06/2026

Double-mindedness is the condition of a heart that wants God — but on its own terms.

It is not full rebellion. It is not walking away from faith entirely. It is something more complicated and more common: a heart that says yes to God on Sunday and negotiates with the world on Monday. A heart that prays for breakthrough while hedging its bets against it. A heart that declares trust in God but lives with one foot in the door of self-reliance. Half surrender. Half obedience. Half faith.

The Apostle James does not treat this lightly:

"A double-minded man is unstable in all he does."
— James 1:8

Unstable in all he does — not just in one area. Double-mindedness has a spillover effect. When your commitment to God is conditional, it creates instability across every area of life: relationships, decisions, purpose, peace. You cannot build something solid on a foundation that shifts.

The root of double-mindedness is usually fear — the fear that full surrender will cost too much, that God might ask for the thing you most want to keep, that obedience might lead somewhere uncomfortable. And so the heart tries to serve two masters, which Jesus said plainly cannot be done. (Matthew 6:24)

But here is the grace: God does not demand perfection before He meets you. He asks for honesty. He asks for the whole heart — even the parts that are afraid, even the parts that are still learning to trust. What He cannot work with is a heart that is performing commitment while secretly withholding.

James' prescription is also in that same passage: "Come near to God and he will come near to you." (James 4:8) Draw near. Not with a divided heart, but with an honest one — bringing your doubts, your fears, your reservations — and surrendering them at His feet.

Today, examine where you are holding back. Where are you serving two masters? Ask God for the grace of a whole-hearted surrender.

God does not want half of you. He wants all of you — and He is worth every part you have been reluctant to give.

A heart that is easily offended is a heart that is not yet fully secure in who God says it is.Offense is unavoidable in ...
23/06/2026

A heart that is easily offended is a heart that is not yet fully secure in who God says it is.

Offense is unavoidable in community. People will say the wrong thing. They will forget you, overlook you, misunderstand you, criticize you. That is the reality of living and serving alongside imperfect people. But there is a difference between being wounded by injustice and being chronically offended by the ordinary friction of human relationships. When every slight becomes a grievance, when every misunderstanding becomes a conflict, when you find yourself constantly nursing a new injury — the problem is not the people around you. It is the condition of the heart within you.

A heart easily offended is usually a heart operating from insecurity, unresolved wounds, or an inflated sense of entitlement about how it should be treated. And the enemy is very skilled at using offense as a hook — to pull you out of your assignment, your community, and your peace.

Proverbs speaks directly to the wisdom of overlooking offense:

"A person's wisdom yields patience; it is to one's glory to overlook an offense."
— Proverbs 19:11

Glory — not weakness. The ability to absorb an offense without reacting, to choose not to take the bait, to extend grace quickly — that is a mark of spiritual maturity. It is a fruit of a heart that is deeply rooted in the love and identity that God provides.

An easily offended heart is also a distracted heart. It spends enormous energy managing wounds that could have been released with a quick act of grace. It drains peace, interrupts worship, and steals the attention that should be fixed on God and His purposes.

Today, if there is an offense you have been carrying — examine it honestly. Is it truly an injustice that needs to be addressed? Or is it something God is asking you to release? In either case, bring it to Him first.

A heart anchored in God's love is not easily shaken by what people do or say. Let His love be your security — and let offense find no lasting home in you.

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