God's Word Parade

This photo might appear taken from any beach but this was taken in Bali. My first out of the country mission trip. I remember two years ago, when God spoke to me of me going on a mission trip, after our 5-day prayer and fasting. I was soo afraid coz I can't picture myself going out of something I'm too comfortable. I'm shy, there it goes... I spilled the beans...🙃. Going back, I was bawling coz I don't wanna step forward and admit to myself that I just heard that from Him. But this opportunity came. In my situation if I calculate everything in the world's balance and rule of equivalent exchange... It's not possible for me to go to Bali and attend the school. But c'mon if I know who my Father in Heaven is, He has a different line of vision. He made all things possible. Name it and almost all are impossibilities... I'm glad I came and join the school, coz It really shed all the unimportant parts of me, that I thought I should be holding much value all my life. It might not appear from the outside but something from the inside changed. I have experienced what I really wanna do here in the Philippines, walk and pray for random people, and just express God's love. This happened in Bali and I didn't sweat any effort, it just happen one after the other. For the sweat part 💦, I secreted buckets of those 😅. God has his heart for everyone. We believers should always have with us the full armor of God. Always ready to use the belt of truth... cont. Ephesians 6:14-17 Romans 8:19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God

Luke 12: 35-48 43 Blessed is that servant[i] whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 44 Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. 45 But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful. 47 And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. 48 But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

This is horrible... I feel so bad for these bears. They have been exploited for money and was pulled away from their natural habitat. And now they let the animals suffer... Pleas sign this petition to shut down this zoo.. [Source: Change.Org] Sun Bears kept in the Bandung Zoo are so hungry they eat their own feces. One of the zoo’s giraffes suddenly died and was found to have 40 pounds of plastic trash in its stomach. The Bandung Zoo has been coined Indonesia’s “death zoo” and must be shut down immediately. Perhaps the most upsetting was the recent loss of Yani, a 34-year-old Sumatran elephant, who was visibly weeping when she died shackled on the ground. She had been sick and neglected for too long. Yani’s species is critically endangered and she was one of about 2,800 of these majestic animals left. Tourists often report that the confined animals look emaciated and weak. The zoo is overcrowded and doesn't have a veterinarian on hand, so when animals fall ill they are left to suffer like Yani. These are not the only horrific events to have occurred within the zoo, and won’t be the last. Join me in imploring the President of Indonesia and his Minister of Environment and Forestry to shut down this zoo and relocate these animals to a conservation or sanctuary where they can be taken care of. Boycott all zoos and boycott Indonesia. "We are the Spartacus for the voiceless"  We need your help. Please consider donating. Every dollar helps. thx https://www.gofundme.com/sunbearsindonesia

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An exhortation for us Believers. --------Read-------- Ephesians 1:4‭-‬5 ESV even as He 'chose us in Him before the foundation of the world', that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, Revelation 13:8 MSG Everyone on earth whose name was not written from the world’s foundation in the slaughtered Lamb’s Book of Life will worship the Beast. -------------------- What lead us to believe the Word that was preached to us? God chose us. He already put our names in the Book of the Life of the Lamb who was Slain, before the creation of the universe. God did not write our names in the book because He forsaw that we will believe. We believe because he put it in the book. It doesn't say that their names were put in the book because they didn't worship the beast. But rather they don't worship the beast because their names are in the book. --------Read-------- John 10:25‭-‬28 ESV Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me, but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. 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. -------------------- So if this is where we stand, why do we act as if we are deafeated? As if everything is against us? Infact hearing and knowing this makes us a Winner. A Victor. And knowing who we are in Christ makes the enemy very small. And if the beast is so small, we won't be hearing or even acknowledging his lies, because God's voice and revelations brings light to our lives. It will be like a booming sound system that is directly facing the ears of our hearts. It's loud and there is no way for us not to hear it. Let's be encourage by this word... ~~From the preaching of Pastor John Piper in Gospel Ambitions "Gospel Depths: Why God Revealed the Depths of Salvation in Eternity Past"