Monday, August 30, 2010
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Submission to God's Will
I'm just gonna write some part of my testimony and also give some of the implications that you might can use them and apply them to your situation.
My mom and dad used to drink a lot back in their times. even my grandfather and great grandfather from my father's side. this mean that i have it in me that i can easily grab a glass of whisky and or a bottle of beer and drink it and then it goes from one to two, from two to three and on. since i have explore myself that i am weak on drinking, even until today my mouth will be watery when i see them. so what i do is that i stay away from the place that they serve alcohol like clubs and bars. even when my friends are drinking, i try to stay away from them as much as i can. That is one technique that i use to get myself away from drinking again.
Let me explain one thing that might help you a little bit. Addictions can be cured. it sometimes takes bloodshed or almost a loss of life, but it can be cured. my uncle was alcoholic and he just recently quit it because he had pneumonia and it almost killed him. he had only 20% to live as the doctor said. but because of his sickness, he was in the hospital for over two weeks and that cleansed him from drinking. he is clean now, still. I am saying this because it can be applicable to any addictions. i know that you are not alcoholic so i was just using that as an example. but when you have something that you are struggling with, here is one thing that you use it to challenge yourself. if you start quiting and you reach 2 days, on the third day, you can say "I did not drink or smoke for two days, that mean i can do it one more day". the third day finish and on the fourth day, you say, "I did not drink or smoke for 3 days, that means i can do it one more day". keep doing that and sooner or later, you find out that 3 weeks have elopse, 5 weeks, 2 months, one year. by this time, it is already easy. But here is a thing. Don't think that one year has passed so you can go put your guards down. because sometime you say that it is easy, but when you get closer to them, the temptation is stronger than you think. As you know, we cannot do things on our own. so to make this more easy, always seek guidance from God.
Here are three terms that you can use to escape the temptations of addictions. First, you have to DISCIPLINE yourself. If you keep thinking about them, try to occupy yourself with other things so you wont think about them. Train your mind not to think about them. it will be hard but when you continue doing it, the next term kicks in, which is PERSEVERANCE. at this point, your body want to do something crazy to get that thing so bad. But if you continue and persevere that stage which is very hard, it will be much more easy afterward. After those, you can be witnessing to other people with what God had done to your life. when you share to others, it will challenge you in this way. WHEN YOU TELL OTHERS, IT MAKES YOU DONT WANT TO GET BACK TO IT BECAUSE IT WOULD BE BAD EXAMPLE IF WE TELL OTHERS OF HOW GOD HELPED US, AND ALL OF THE SUDDEN, THEY SEE US DOING IT, AGAIN. I've used this to help me and its working. I say things that i am weak at it out loud so I can remind myself that I should not go back to it because i just said it.
Dont be discourage if you fail. there's room for failure. when you make mistake, you can learn from it and see what you can do to improve from it. You stumble and shake it off and say, "Lord, help me I need you." You stumble again and then you shake it again and say, "Lord, help me because I cannot do this on my own." Keep doing that day by day, moment by moment, situation by situation and you will be able to be submissive to God's Will. Always allow Him to work in you and through you. You cannot change yourself and I cannot change myself. It is God who make changes, that's why we need to allow Him to work and make changes. If you fail or stumble but get up and shake the dust and continue, that is what we call submission to God's Will. but if you fall down and decided not want to get up, then it's not submission to God. Take one thing at a time, little by little and allow Him to break you and mold you to the way that is good for you but also what He wants.
My mom and dad used to drink a lot back in their times. even my grandfather and great grandfather from my father's side. this mean that i have it in me that i can easily grab a glass of whisky and or a bottle of beer and drink it and then it goes from one to two, from two to three and on. since i have explore myself that i am weak on drinking, even until today my mouth will be watery when i see them. so what i do is that i stay away from the place that they serve alcohol like clubs and bars. even when my friends are drinking, i try to stay away from them as much as i can. That is one technique that i use to get myself away from drinking again.
Let me explain one thing that might help you a little bit. Addictions can be cured. it sometimes takes bloodshed or almost a loss of life, but it can be cured. my uncle was alcoholic and he just recently quit it because he had pneumonia and it almost killed him. he had only 20% to live as the doctor said. but because of his sickness, he was in the hospital for over two weeks and that cleansed him from drinking. he is clean now, still. I am saying this because it can be applicable to any addictions. i know that you are not alcoholic so i was just using that as an example. but when you have something that you are struggling with, here is one thing that you use it to challenge yourself. if you start quiting and you reach 2 days, on the third day, you can say "I did not drink or smoke for two days, that mean i can do it one more day". the third day finish and on the fourth day, you say, "I did not drink or smoke for 3 days, that means i can do it one more day". keep doing that and sooner or later, you find out that 3 weeks have elopse, 5 weeks, 2 months, one year. by this time, it is already easy. But here is a thing. Don't think that one year has passed so you can go put your guards down. because sometime you say that it is easy, but when you get closer to them, the temptation is stronger than you think. As you know, we cannot do things on our own. so to make this more easy, always seek guidance from God.
Here are three terms that you can use to escape the temptations of addictions. First, you have to DISCIPLINE yourself. If you keep thinking about them, try to occupy yourself with other things so you wont think about them. Train your mind not to think about them. it will be hard but when you continue doing it, the next term kicks in, which is PERSEVERANCE. at this point, your body want to do something crazy to get that thing so bad. But if you continue and persevere that stage which is very hard, it will be much more easy afterward. After those, you can be witnessing to other people with what God had done to your life. when you share to others, it will challenge you in this way. WHEN YOU TELL OTHERS, IT MAKES YOU DONT WANT TO GET BACK TO IT BECAUSE IT WOULD BE BAD EXAMPLE IF WE TELL OTHERS OF HOW GOD HELPED US, AND ALL OF THE SUDDEN, THEY SEE US DOING IT, AGAIN. I've used this to help me and its working. I say things that i am weak at it out loud so I can remind myself that I should not go back to it because i just said it.
Dont be discourage if you fail. there's room for failure. when you make mistake, you can learn from it and see what you can do to improve from it. You stumble and shake it off and say, "Lord, help me I need you." You stumble again and then you shake it again and say, "Lord, help me because I cannot do this on my own." Keep doing that day by day, moment by moment, situation by situation and you will be able to be submissive to God's Will. Always allow Him to work in you and through you. You cannot change yourself and I cannot change myself. It is God who make changes, that's why we need to allow Him to work and make changes. If you fail or stumble but get up and shake the dust and continue, that is what we call submission to God's Will. but if you fall down and decided not want to get up, then it's not submission to God. Take one thing at a time, little by little and allow Him to break you and mold you to the way that is good for you but also what He wants.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Palauans In Kileen and Corsicana
Dominic and I
Leeman, Alister, Me, and Jesse
Mamang Nina and others
Ime and others
DE cleaning Andrew. Andrew is DE's Patient in Nursery Home in Corsicana Texas.
DE and Precila
Me and my sister DE reuniting after little bit over ten years not seeing each other. I love my families.
Alister and his wife Zenida and Jesse at the back.
Twilla and others.
Dedaes and Bevan and others
Ime and others
and others
Kekerelchad's daughter.
Dominic's Daughter inviting Ceci
Alister's son and Friend's daughter.Sunday, July 4, 2010
Hey guys, sorry for not updating this for a long time. I have a lot of pictures that i want to post, but because of the ministry that i've been so busy, I just want to say that our ministry has been a blessing to us and the people that we meet. There are lot of stories about blessings that i want to tell you and even the members of VOM want to tell you, but because of time, i cannot tell you all on this little writing. later i will give you whole story. but to give short version, we have met palauans and chuukese and Americans and Mexicans and other people. God has been using us in many ways. there are some places that we ministered that has brought some people together and we have seen the fruit bearing. We are in San Diego and we will be seeing Dan Field tomorrow and on monday we will be on our way to Texas. check our schedule on Dave's Blog. I will update to you guys more once i have more time and of course my laptop. im using Keiny's Laptop. God Bless.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Yesterday we had intensive and blessing practice. We practiced songs, dramas and hand motions of action songs.
The guys did really good job on practicing dramas.
It's such a blessing to have awesome people to work with and serving the Lord.
We had good lunch. it was not micronesian style, but more like western style. Roast chicken, potato salad, fritos, tostitos, grapes, and biscuit. mmmmhhh. i don't mind eating these.
After the practice, we came back home to where we stayed and spent time with our host family and just have quality time with them since we always stay out doing ministry or practicing and not hanging out with our family often. Oh, and my family, we had Italian night. We had some hommade spaggetti....
Hommade garic bread....
We had a this special dessert that was the first time ever made so we came up with the name "Cold Strawberry Sundae." This is composed of Cold Strawberry with little sprinkle of sugar, Cookies and Cream Ice Cream, and of course the Ho Ho's on the top of it. mmmmmmhhhhmmmm...
Afterward, we had fun with our family by cleaning the mess and washing the dishes together. We enjoyed the blessing and for me, I enjoyed every bit of these blessings that God is bringing to my life. It's all about Him and Him only. What a wonderful and blessing life to be part of God's plan.
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