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Reasons and Revelations

Tuesday night. It only means one thing in our household: Family Devotional.  We usually start with a short opening prayer and then we read the Proverbs for the day. Since its the 25th of July, we read Proverbs 25. No matter the different and varying Bible translations of everyone in our house, we read the Proverbs out loud while taking turns.  My mother always reads first and she always reads two verses when its her turn. Why? She reads one for my father's turn. My mom can still read well despite her old age and dimming eyesight. But for my father, its already a blurry one. My mom reads and my father explains and expounds the verse. That's how they always do their devotional. It's always endearing to witness because its how they minister with the Power of One.  Tonight, as we take turns sharing what specific verse hit home and our personal message of the day, it was clear that God's emphasis for us from today's proverbs would be trusting God beyond our need to...

A Generation with Revelation

It was exactly 3 a.m last Tuesday, I was awaken by a beep from my cell phone from one of my disciples who is currently studying in Davao City, 3 hours away from our hometown. She was saying sorry that she wasn't able to reply on my texts earlier that day because she fell asleep. As we continued our texts about another family problem that arose last Sunday- her brother got arrested and now in jail, I started to reflect again about this generation, my heart grew heavier that early morn (I was also the hospital watcher for one of my disciple who was admitted for dengue). I started to hum this song in my head- 'Set me ablaze'- byPlanetshakers. We already sung this at church during our Worship services and first heard it last June on our G12 Regional Conference. There was this line that stuck and it's always that line that I love to stay on every time we sing it at church. The line goes like this: 'For my generation Lord I am crying out for more Come and fill m...