Team Jesus

There are times that we doubt about God because everything seems to go out of plan. Sometimes we feel that God is not answering what we're asking for because maybe He has something much better for us. When we present a specific solution for our problems, we are telling God what should happen. If we pray, we should lift up all our problems because God will help us get through it. We should surrender everything to God by putting aside what we want in order to allow God to enter more deeply into our lives. Never tell God what should happen because only He knows what will happen to us. We are just characters in His story.  Prayer is never rejected as long as we don't cease in praying. When God delays in answering our prayers, we feel disappointed until we reach to the point that we want to give up. God tests our faith with unanswered prayers. We pass the test if we don't give up and we still keep on praying to God with the same faith. The value of persistent prayer ...

I remember a friend who loves to count her mistakes and mishaps instead of her blessings. Early in the morning she complains about the heavy traffic, the lagkit feeling in the jeepney and the exhausting stairs. When she commits a mistake in a quiz, she nags at herself and punishes herself with harsh words like "grabe ka tanga ko uy." She lives & complains every single day. And what does it make her? It makes her into a degrading-negative person.  Because of this, she closes her mind from all the Wonderful little and big miracles that pass her by like: Being able to ride a jeep despite the busy morning. That was something to be thankful for. Having complete body parts and being able to walk and climb up the stairs. That's another thing to be thankful for.  She correctly answered some questions from the quiz ... Plus she can now learn from the mistake she committed. Another thankful moment. But sometimes, were like that. We like to punish oursel...

The gospel today is taken from Luke 17:5-10.  Today we reflect on the gift of faith. How strong is your faith in God and how can you grow in it? Faith is not something uncertain, or something which requires a leap of the imagination or worse, some kind of blind allegiance. In fact, it is quite the opposite. Faith is all about trust and belief in what is reliable, truthful, certain, and real. To have faith is to believe and trust in someone or something.  We believe in the power of electricity even though we can't visibly see it. We know we can tap into that power and use it to do things we could not do by our own human power. Faith in God works in a similar way. When God reveals himself to us he gives us the assurance and conviction that his power and presence and glory is just as real, and even more real, than our experience of the physical world around us. Things around us change, but God never changes. He is constant, ever true to his word, and alwa...