A Butterfly's Dream... On the Process of Metamorphosis

Revival: On Fire

I was revived. I was blessed.

This Sunday, two missionary couples (Filipinos and English men)  went to visit and shared their hearts in our church. One of them was our speaker for today and his name was Pastor Fredie. He has wife named Sister Jackie. Along with them were "billionare" couple in UK, Pastor Eric and Sister Pat.

Pastor Fredie shared us this verse on the bible:

Revelation 2:2-5

"I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars; and you have persevered and have patience and have labored for my name's sake and have not become weary. Nevertheless, I have this against you that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repnt and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place---unless you repent."

When I first accepted Jesus in my life, I have had this overflowing joy in my heart.Then I started reading the bible everyday. I was really on fire loving and serving Him. I attended the church and started sharing the Word to my family and friends.

I was persecuted. My family said as if I was demon-possessed (because I told them I'm gonna burn all the rosaries I have! You might be wondering why- see Exodus 20) My friends said: "Corny, weird"---they were laughing at me. So what? On that very moment, I have discovered that my real purpose in life is "to share His Words", because through it, I could save souls and change life... And God knows what I have been doing since then. I've got this little patience and labour on descipling on them. I want to touch my friends and family's lives.

But then I got tired of imparting the Word to them when I felt like they were not listening to my message. Sometimes I even don't mind to open my bible for a new revelation. In short, I got cold on serving and loving Him. I felt so frustrated for I could not touch their lives... I could not help bringing even one soul to heaven:(

...until now...

But this morning, I was reminded again. I want to return to "MY FIRST LOVE"... I want to remember it. I want to feel again the feeling when I first loved Him. I want to share my heart to my loved ones... again! I will restore every wisdom that God gave me ten months ago. I will refresh the willingness of sharing the gospel to them. Every person I might encounter would be my recepients... they will feel God's embrace too when they hear the Word. I will assure that I will welcome them with open arms first, I will give them my love, then they will hear the Word, and I hope, they will accept Him through me.

I just hope that they will open their eyes, their hearts and their minds...

...if not, they will feel they're not love by me---by God...

God loves you... because He sent me to you... to change your life and bring new revelations in your heart...

My Declaration of Success

If we were asleep, then we dream. We could see things that are sometimes impossible. Whhoo! We could see ourselves flying, touching the sky, counting gold bars at the end of the rainbow; name it, our dream could definitely show it to us.

For me, a dream is like a big tv screen where you watch movies. Ok, I'll choose an expensive and high-quality brand: black and white Panasonic! (laughs:) Only because dreams aren't clear!

Seriously, it's really like a black and white tv screen, where you could watch anything you like (that's if you have DVDs, hehehe) You'll just sleep, relax and presto, you'll be watching a marathon of dreams! (popcorns please!)

But there is no absolute guarantee that you will have a great watch or what. Sometimes you want a romance movie but it gives you a horror one. You want to see funny things but you were shown sad ones.

The only difference of a movie and a dream is that: in a real movie, after watching it, you would really remember it--how nice it was and how it gave you a goosebump or how it made you cry or laugh. On the other hand, sometimes after our sleep, we could not remember what we had dreamed of.

Any significance?

Yes... because it is not only when we sleep that we dream. It is not only on tv screens or movies that we could see scenes that are wonderful and impossible. When we were awake, we could also dream! (remember daydream?) So let's just dream, dream and dream!

Let me share with you my dreams in life. I always tell myself that i will reach all of them. If not, then maybe God has reserved for me something better. One of my greatest dreams is to be...SUCCESSFUL!

I want to have a successful life--in all aspects of my life! They say that if you are successful in your career, then you will fail in your family or health. I don't believe in that. I know that if I will follow my dreams, I will be successfull in all fields--I'll have a white-collar profession, a great family, a good health, and a dedicated service to God and my community. All I need to do is to enlarge my vision and trust God in everything I do.

I now declare...

Success in my family- a good Christian family; a loving and faithful husband; intelligent and good children; a beautiful and understanding mom and wife; a big and clean house

Success in my career- an author of a best-selling book; an ambassador to the US or any countries; a certified lawyer; a professional linguist; one of the stockholders of the country's biggest companies

Success in my health- good health; nice figure; will die peacefully at the age of 104

Success in my spiritual life- to serve God with all my heart; to evangelize people; to win souls and make a desciple; to serve people.

That's all... in God's Name, I'll be really successful!

So, what are your declarations? What are your dreams? Would you like them to become true? It's all in our hands, let's just trust God and view yourself being in that situation.

Like: View yourself talking to the country's president; standing in front of your own mansion; holding a ticket to around the world; dancing at the age of 92... or watching the sunset with the one you love... holding hands and dying with him/her... capturing his/her heart...

Just have patience, trust yourself... trust God...