Sulat: Rewritten

‘Impractical’ Faith

Our human tendencies make ‘practicality’ an idol (whether we realize it or not). While our daily life is more of pragmatic than theoretical, being empirical is not always the way we’re called to live. The sensible things we could think of, as good as they are, can actually create a ‘limit’ for us to let God move in our lives. Our attempts to be prudent creates a ‘box’ – that is, our limited…

The Righteous Anger of Jesus

Patrick and I read John 2:13-25 today for our devotion. It is about Jesus clearing the temple courts – that famous passage where in Jesus was angry, rather furious. Asking God’s heart as we read these verses, we came across these things we wanted to share with you in this short article:

The Righteous Anger of God

It is the Word of God that commanded us not to sin in our angeryet it is also…

What is Generosity?

Generosity isn’t always about money.

These days, generosity message seemed everywhere for me. It started few weeks ago where I felt God was calling me to a “season of receiving”. What I learned since: Indeed, the way to becoming generous is for us “to receive first” from the LORD.

Receiving is a depth of identity – being secure in who we are in God and who He is to us. We are His children, He is…

Few minutes ago, I wanted to burst crying. I have always loved creating – but today, I am called to rest and the best thing for me to do now is do nothing due to nerve pains I’m having in my right arm.

Oh, what an ache. I love resting and that means to me a time to just be in the presence of Abba Father. But this ‘call to rest’ aches me.

For how long? How can I be productive? How can I create?…

A letter for all Christian Lovers

Hey Lovers,

If your relationship’s goal is to honor God, then I tell you, it will be hard for you in a world of “I can get what I want now”, “I’m happy therefore it is okay”, and of “Many others do it, and so it’s okay”.Well, not only that, it would also be hard for you to be in a relationship in the world of Christianity. God-given friends and mentors would be there to support you and guide you…

The Other Side of Pride

I have always thought I am not prideful.

Pride for me meant people boasting about themselves and their strengths and stepping on or looking down on others’ weaknesses. Pride for me is boastful, greedy of power and control, and is manipulative because they think they are better than others. I never thought I am prideful – until God told me that thought in itself is pride. (Now when I say the first…

The Love that Restores

The confession of sins is not meant for us Christians to just let out our sins in the open and let other people know about it. It starts there. It is in itself a big breakthrough of breaking the silence and exposing in the light what has been done in the dark. But it is not the end of it.

Confession of sins, when not leading into repentance, remains in the service of sin (Andy Comiskey). The…

The Many Altars of the Heart

It is a daily surrender to the LORD’s feet of the many other altars I so willingly put up daily. Such a great human tendency of putting up for myself other altars where I worship many other idols than my God. My flesh selfishly desires to worship my own choosing of a god – people, things, behaviors, circumstances or anything that I would cover myself up with, thinking it would somehow satisfy.…

The Beauty of a Healing Community

I have never felt this way before. For the longest time that I have been ministering in an inner healing ministry, leading people to confess their deepest darkest sins and renouncing shame in its face, I found myself being wounded in my own battle of defeating my own shame. I serve in this ministry that is being powerfully used by God to heal the sexual brokenness of His people but I found myself…

For Those Who Feel That They Are Not Enough

The title says it all. This writing is for all those who feel that they are not enough. And if you do feel that way, congratulations, you are normal.

There would be times we would feel like we are not enough just as who we are to be “somebody” that is celebrated by many, more so, to be chosen by the people we love. The feeling of not being enough hurts to the core of our being. It is like a…

It’s my joy to share with you that it is my 7th month as a full-time missionary in Agos ng Buhay (Living Waters Philippines) – a healing ministry for the relationally and sexually broken in the Body of Christ. These seven months had indeed been very beautiful for me. And I would have to say that it is so impossible for you to be serving in an inner healing ministry without you going through it…

It was frustrating. I felt unprotected. I felt unsafe. I felt broken with no one to put in front of me to cover me up and save me. I felt rejected, abandoned, not liked with who I am. I felt no one likes who I am. I felt hated with the only things I can do, and I felt I can only do wrong. I felt unappreciated, or rather, not worthy of any appreciation. I don’t do as others significantly do. I…

God's Grace is a Scandalous Grace.

“LORD, have You no other ways to put me in this world?”

A question of desperation and confusion.

A question of purpose-pursuit. 

When I’m told that God can only be good, what could His answer be to my biggest question?

  “LORD, have You no other ways to put me in this world?”

I grew up fatherless. More so, a fruit of adultery. We are his second family, then he went on to his third and to his…

Hindi ko naman alam na sugatan ka rin pala. Hindi ko naman agad nakita, isa ka lang din palang bata. Ang mga laruang ninais mahawakan, mga hagkan na hindi nabitawan Ang nakaraang sa atin ay pumiglas Biktima ka rin pala ng kahapon, nung akala kong ikaw ang sagot sa bukas Sa muling pagsulyap sa iyo, nasilayan ko ang kahapon Hindi ko naman agad napagtanto, katawan mo’y may marka ng mga alon Tubig na…

As I Desire Marriage

I woke up peacefully one morning and I found myself talking to God about marriage. It was what we were talking about the night before I fall into sleep. It was beautiful conversing with God receiving His amazing wisdom upon all things. It was a talk of a Father downloading guidance and perception to His daughter. It felt that way – and it was lovely.

The night before, I evaluated my desire for…