Faith Talks

25/04/2025

Acts 13:38–39 (NIV) says:
“Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.”

In Christ, there is freedom—freedom from guilt, shame, and the weight of trying to be “good enough.”
But remember. You are forgiven, not because you earned it, but because He gave it freely.
You are set free, not by your own strength, but by His grace.

Let this truth settle in your heart today:
You are not your mistakes. You are His—redeemed, restored, and loved.

24/04/2025

𝗨𝗡𝗠𝗘𝗧 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗧𝗢𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗦 𝗚𝗢𝗗'𝗦 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗦
James 4: 1-3 "What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures."

How can we turn our plans rooted by our own personal motives into motives pleasing and holy for God?

1. 𝘽𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙.
Verse 4-5 "You adulterous people,[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?"
2. 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙢𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙂𝙤𝙙.
Verse 7 " Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."
3. 𝘽𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙮.
Verse 8 "Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded."
4. 𝙁𝙖𝙨𝙩.
Verse 9 " Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom."
5. 𝘽𝙚 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙚.
Verse 10 "Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up."
6. 𝘿𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙟𝙪𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨.
Verses 11-12 "Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister[d] or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?"

Conclusion:
Verses 13-17 "Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them."

21/04/2025

Experiencing your struggles doesn't mean you stopped believing God. Experiencing episodes of depressed moods, anxiety attacks, fear, and struggles in following Christ, doesn't mean you no longer have the love of God.
How to navigate this situation:
1. You must acknowledge your experiences, your struggles, and stop condemning yourself. Your wilderness is just another path towards God. But you must learn where to go.
2. Be present in the here and now and challenge your thoughts. What are the evidences of your self-judgment? What is the reality? Is it realy true? and How do you go from being in that state towards healing?
2. Ask counsel from God. Pray for God's guidance to lead you in His right path and help you get through your journey without losing your way. You need to be discerning whether to stay for too long in your present struggles or to learn how to cope on your situation.
3. Surrender yourself to God and build relationship with Him. In this way, His voice will become clearer and louder than the voices of depression, anxiety, fear, doubts, guilt, and sin.

26/08/2024

19/07/2024

Ministry Burnout: Enough Oil to Sustain Fire
Verse: Matthew 25:1-13

"Many hypes the fire but few maintains the oil".

1. Continually be filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18b)
2. Continual Prayer (Ephesians 6:18)
3. Continual Meditation of His Word (Joshua 1:8)
4. Continual Application of His Word (James 1:22)
5. Continually Worship God (Romans 12:1-2; Romans 14:8)
6. Be faithful in the ministry (Parable of the Servants, Parable of the Talents)

Conclusion: 1 Cor. 6:19-20

29/06/2024

Matthew 5:13 - 16
(13) Kayo ang asin ng lupa: nguni't kung ang asin ay tumabang, ay ano ang ipagpapaalat? wala nang ano pa mang kabuluhan, kundi upang itapon sa labas at yurakan ng mga tao.
(14)Kayo ang ilaw ng sanglibutan. Ang isang bayan na natatayo sa ibabaw ng isang bundok ay hindi maitatago.
[15]Hindi rin nga pinaniningasan ang isang ilawan, at inilalagay sa ilalim ng isang takalan, kundi sa talagang lalagyan ng ilaw; at lumiliwanag sa lahat ng nangasa bahay.
[16]Lumiwanag na gayon ang inyong ilaw sa harap ng mga tao; upang mangakita nila ang inyong mabubuting gawa, at kanilang luwalhatiin ang inyong Ama na nasa langit.

Have a blessed night everyone🫶🫶🫶

23/06/2024

Happy birthday, sister Jamaica. May God bless you always. 🎉❤️

19/05/2024