sunday never ceases to bring me up a whole new level.

extremely blessed to be able to listen to Rev Rick's message 2 times, and its 2 different messages!! was caught off guard but thank God i was able to absorb as much as i can=)

Rev Rick really preached 2 messages that challenged me. he preached about being ourselves, and not who we want to be and being a disciple for Christ.

in church, there are two main types of ministries. there's the multitude ministry and the discipleship ministry.

disciples are those whose lives are changed by God and multitues ministry are just people who feed on the word and do nothing about it.

to be a disciple of Christ, we got to make the word our life. its about experiencing the purpose of God, in our life, and spending quality time with disciples.

Jesus said, He will build the church and we are to make disciples of ALL nations. that simply means that we're to train quality disciples! disciples who are willing to carry the burden of God on their shoulders!!

but durin that process, there's many things that we have to do and thats to SUBMIT to God, bringing Him all our talents and when He returns us our talents, we lay down everything and take Jesus as Lord.

bringing our talents to Jesus. our gifts and talents come from the Almighty God and only He knows the fullest potential our talents can achieve. we can use our talents to bring glory to God or in a perverted way.

Rev Rick said something so true, "some of the most talented and richest people are the most depressed people on this earth"

they work so hard, yet they are unable to fill the void in their hearts. the void that yearns for God's love, the void that requires the blood of Jesus Christ and the void that hungers for the Holy Spirit.

when we lay down our talents at His feet, He breaks the demonic control of the talent and returns the talents back to us.

in layman's term, Jesus takes away every impurites and sets our hearts right before Him.

there are many things in life we try to control. but when Jesus is our LORD, we're unable to control our own life! our life is in His hands because He's our LORD. so, we've to TRUST Jesus and do whatever He says!

we may feel that we don't like it, BUT God knows whats best for you because He sees things differently!! IF God were to make everyone on this earth happy, it would be chaotic!! imagine God granting every single wish that i make - endless of money, hot body, most goodlookin face, tall, tanned, etc

the list goes on! if God were to grant everything, then WHY we call Jesus our LORD? our SHEPHERD!?

we MUST allow God to come in and change our life! definitely, we must bow down in agreement to God, allowing Him to work in our lives, changing areas that isn't worthy and obeying His voice.

when these are in place, our walk with God will definitely be an exciting one because God is able to use us for His glory!

thats what he preached for service 4=)

service 5, he shared about exposing my pseudo self.

he shared that many people feel that the REAL them is unacceptable. so they would hide in shells or take on an identity of another person just to cover up! some people think that things would be better if they perform better.

if the performance is birth out of wrong desires, it would only lead to destruction!! imagine a DUCK acting like a watch dog.

a guy who's easily intimated wants to be like the coolest hunk in the movies. his desires is to be a cool dude like him. but when the situation arises, and without the right motives, he's still gonna be intimated!!

we got to excel in who we are and not what we think we are!

i may not be the smartest guy around or the most good looking hunk, but the fact that GOD made me unique and special and he made me, ME! not YOU!! God made me who i am! there's no way i'm gonna change that!

the word of God says that He didn't give me the spirit of fear, but of a love and of a sound mind! the Lord is MY victory, MY healer, MY sheperd and many other more!

when Jesus Christ is in our lives, the strongholds WILL be destroyed and it wouldn't give the devil any single chance to live in us. why?

because there is POWER in the word of God, His word is LIFE and its LIGHT to my path and His word can RENEW my mind!! hallelujah!

thats just a brief recap of what Rev Rick taught us about=)

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after serving, before briefing started, i was asked to write by charmaine, to prove that my handwriting is nice. so i wrote 1 line and Ashley, an usher, was so shocked and said that my handwriting is neater then hers.

bah.

met charmaine and waited for sharon at the riveria. tested charmaine with the verses and she managed to remember 5 verses in just 5 minutes!! i'm still so amazed by her amazing memory power and she even remembers the commas and stuffs~ woah.

finally sharon finished and we headed to town! i was only told that we would be catching a show. so i tagged along, since i had nothing to do.

along the way, sharon told us that she would be getting shoes for mabel, her bud. so she wanted to draw money from the ATM. but she was unable to draw the cash out. not knowing why she checked her tithe recept and to her shock, she realized she made a mistake at her tithe! a HUGE mistake!

but that didnt stop her from being a giver! she bought the shoes for mabel using her visa. not only that! we ate dinner and billy bombers and she paid for the entire dinner using her visa too!! talk about being a generous giver!!

not only that. she often drops me off UNDER my block even when she's rushing for time. she sped and cut lanes like ABC down the PIE and BKE, yet she bothers to turn into my block and drop me off~

she does so many good things to be and i seriously do feel bad at times~ did suggest if i could work with her, but they're not looking for partimers~ lolz=P i guess 1 of the best things i can do is that when i've my car, i'll ferry them, sharon and char, around and when my finances is really strong, i wouldn't even mind treating them for nice dinners~

we watched the pacifier and it was FUNNY!! hahAzz=P army style of keepin the kids together and training them like as though they are in the army.

anyway, i kinda pooped.