Celebrate joy!

You Make me Brave by Amanda Cook & Bethel Music I stand before You now The greatness of Your renown I've heard of the majesty and wonder of You King of Heaven, in humility, I bow As Your love, in wave after wave Crashes over me, crashes over me For You are for us, You are not against us Champion of Heaven,  You made a way for all to enter in I've heard You calling my name I've heard the song of love that You sing So I will let you draw me out beyond the shore  Into Your grace You make me brave You make me brave You call me out beyond the shore into the waves You make me brave You make me brave No fear can hinder now the Love that made a way You make me brave You make me brave You call me out beyond the shore into the waves You make me brave You make me brave No fear can hinder now the promises You've made

I was praying for supernatural strength on the way to 360 Fitness Club this afternoon. Yup, you read that right. CIRCUIT TRAINING. After more than a year of not getting a regular exercise, circuit pa talaga ang napili ko! lol! Lakas ng loob, men! And just right after fasting too!

Sharing this illustrated book by Wai Jia, on relishing and enjoying every moment in our lives. She is a woman who redefined success. Climbing the corporate ladder for years but sensing that something is missing, she went on a a completely different route with the heeding of Jesus... and now she lives a meaningful, fruitful and Christ-centered life, serving the poor in Africa with her husband, Cliff. Such an inspiring, easy read ! Read her blog entries too , you will be blessed! Enjoy, happy Friday everyone!

Just after praying for my dad to be cleared of cancer by year end, we found out last night that my dad's MRI results showed metastasis. Metastasis is the spread of cancer from one part of the body to another. The results show his liver to be ill-defined which means that the cancer must have spread from his colon to his liver... When my sister told me last night on the way home from the prayer meeting, I was stunned. I was already elated and I thought that my dad's health was going uphill since he was discharged from the hospital. His other results showed good signs, but the MRI showed a different one -- the metastasis is an indication that from stage 3 cancer, it's possible that it's now on stage 4.

Today is the first day of our church's mid year prayer and fasting. My friend told me a few weeks ago that fasting is the one thing he never thought of doing... I think it's because as much as he loves Jesus, he also really likes to eat hehe! And that's fine, I love to eat too! But while it's not something that we impose on others, it's always great to purposefully seek God in a deeper way as we look back on the first half of the year (time flies really fast!) and with eyes fully focused on Jesus, to realign our will to His. My sisters and I started joining prayer and fasting a couple of years ago and we can attest that it's a spiritual eye-opener unlike any other because you're right smack at the feet of Jesus... by denying ourselves physically, we are better in tune to hear from Him and see Him clearly.