great is God's faithfulness

I never can repay God's faithfulness...my day begins with God doing something that the prophet Zachariah talks about "it's not by might, nor by power, by my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts." I do not have the words to even describe the events of this morning...so I will just say, thank you Jesus.

sleepless in honolulu

feel like that right now, it's 2:20am and had a weird dream, could it be I have a restless mind whose thoughts need to be captivated and placed under the blood of Jesus? Or maybe this is the best time to pray? maybe the Lord is trying to get my attention? I don't know but it's a great time to tap on heaven's doors and find out why I can't sleep...all around me is quiet if there is a mouse running around you probably could hear it....but since there isn't and thank God there is none, I will do as I said, someone I know probably needs a prayer or someone God knows does. okay, reader ...try to find out why you are sleepless in honolulu also....

good morning to you and Lord bless

Say it loud..

thinking about what I read this morning in the Bible, the pharisees and the high priests who went to Pilate asked him to seal the tomb where Jesus' body was laid, so his disciples will not come at night and steal his body. Pilate told them to put their own guards up to watch the tomb, just thought that is exactly what people try to do, they try to stop the good news about Jesus from spreading but, they cannot...this good news that you and I have must be shouted from the mountaintops to the rooftops of every nation in the world. I am not ashame of the gospel of Jesus Christ....

running on empty

do you do that sometimes? I mean letting your car's gas gauge go all the way to empty, then praying Lord, please let the needle stay there till I get to the gas station? I can't tell you how many times I do that. It's a good thing our Father loves us so much, that I know he sends his angel to take care of me when my car is running on empty. But, you know, now as I get older I find that I pray a nervous kind of prayer when the gas needle goes down a bit past the half mark, goes to show me it's better for me if the tank is always full...I don't have to send too many s.o.s. messages to our father in heaven.

keep looking up

what are u thankful for?

for me...I've got a lot 2 be grateful for, Romans 4:25 "Jesus died so I can be saved from sin and then he rose from the grave to make me right with God and filled me with God's goodness."

second, I am grateful for family and friends...some encouraging and some mmmhmmm..however; God has taught me to observe and learn lessons from each one of them...

third, I am grateful for the Holy Spirit who is my constant companion, helper, comforter and teacher.

fourth, I am grateful for all those who read the blog and consider it a learning experience..

fifth, I have such a long list that I am just plain grateful that I am on this journey with lots of wonderful, exciting, and adventurous people like all of you...I am grateful that we are traveling together, heading towards that City....where our King waits for us and will welcome us.

adoration

how much love can I give someone? is it enough to say we've got the kind of love that is to die for? or we've got the kind of love that needs no words. whatever kind of love someone has and to even think of how much love can I give out can be a pain.. but I know someone who did not measure the love he wanted to give me and his love is the kinda love that is to die for...I just adore him, the Lover of my soul. My Daystar, My Life....Jesus, without Him I am nothing.

do you know Him?

are you a reader?

I pray that you are, when I was very young, my mom used to read to me stories from the Readers Digest or Mother Goose books...those were special times for me, because you see not only was it bonding time for me and mom, it shaped my world, in understanding and knowing a language that was not mine, it made me dream that someday I was going to see some of the places she was reading about. The stories encouraged and lifted my spirit up to know that I can possibly become like the people she was reading about...Then, one day someone taught me how to read THE book, the one that does things to your spirit, soul and body that no other book can. I got hooked! my grandmother was cute though, her rod of disciplining me was, to have me read a certain part of the scripture and then I had to tell her about what I read almost word for word, which of course I never got right, but little did she know, someday, reading the Bible as a disciplinary method would bear fruit in my life, someday....are you a reader? think of the legacy you will leave when you become one, beginning now.
a hui ho...

changes

they can be hard to handle, however; it's part of life right? hmmph...I'd like to shout and say, why? but life would be so boring if it's the same day in and day out....it's about a month from the next year, what changes will it bring? Lord, prepare me, to be a sanctuary for you....

have a great week-end...

You will know when HE speaks to you...

good morning blog readers...

I write with tears in my eyes because there was something that I was planning to do in the future, and each time I pray I ask the Lord, your will is the thing I want...even if I make all these plans what I want is your will. This morning I sat at the computer to write, the theme song came on the school site..He is Here...and then He spoke to me. I am just teary eyed, because in His usual gentle way, he explains things in the way only He can do. May it be done to me as you say Lord..

may He speak to you today and give you the answer you have been seeking for.

whew!

take a breather....feel the cool breeze on your face.....observe the beautiful night skies and look at the lovely blue skies in the daytime....sing a song...say dad I love yu.....smile......

Out of the mouth

comes what's in the heart.....I believe that we forget that important word many times.

there is healing in this house

just thought about this, Paul said, our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Matthew said, Emmanuel means God is with us....so, to me it means the Great Physician lives within me and there is healing in this house!

time with God

how do we find time with God when our lives are so busy? when can we stop, say no and say I am going to talk with my father now? this is what I have figured out for myself, don't know if you like it, but it seems to work for me....I do my best to have conversations with the Father whether it is 1 second, 2 seconds, 10 minutes or even a half hour...I think about him, talk to him, sing to him and if I forget the Holy Spirit will remind me in his own gentle urgings...to me, it's acknowledging God in everything I do...that's time with him for me...how about you?

a hui ho.....

discipline

when we discipline ourselves then we will be able to commit...only thing is, I am finding it very hard to discipline myself, for instance, I would lay out a plan that I will start fasting for maybe 10 to 21 or maybe 40 days...writing down what I was going to fast and how to implement it, then on the day I am to start, I pig out....embarrassing.....my heart gets heavy when I do that, because I realize afterwards, how undiscipline behavior can destroy me, if I don't ask the Lord for help and then start putting into place new thoughts and raising up a standard in my life, where no means no and yes means yes....

thank you God for mercy....

laters,

3 things to always remember

when you have come to a point where you feel like you need to start over, however; don't know where to begin...remember these 3 things...

1. begin from where you are...
2. use what you have in your hands
3. do the best that you can...

may the Holy Spirit of God lead you....a hui ho

God is everywhere..

recently talked with one of our students who traveled to Jerusalem and found his remarks to be very interesting....he stated although the people of Israel have commercialized so many of the biblical landmarks, you can still feel a certain holiness in the holy city. I just sat down at my computer and thought about that as I am listening to the lyrics of "there is a sweet anointing in this sanctuary." It suddenly dawned on me the reason why there is a certain holiness to the city as my brother says, it's because, God is there! He is here with us as He is there in his holy city of Jerusalem. He left his footprints all over the land of Israel, he immersed in the Jordan with John's help, slept on the galilee while a storm was raging, he ate from the unleavened bread baked by hebrew women, drank wine made from grapes of the vineyards outside of Jerusalem, slept in the small holes dugged into the walls of Jerusalem, walked the steps going up and down the city of David, walked by the pool of Bethesda and set free a guy invalid for 38 years and if that was not enough, he went to the garden of gethesmane and on a certain rock cried tears of blood because of the heavy burden he carried in his heart for mankind. Indeed, there should be a certain holiness in the place, because Jesus Christ, the Son of God trudge up the via dolorosa carrying a cross to a death He did not deserve, ahhhh...but on that early dawn, the stone rolled itself away and the one who made the stone walked out ALIVE FOREVER! God is in his holy city, God is here........there will always be a certain holiness there because God's Son personally walked there......HE LEFT A MARK NO MAN CAN COVER...

discerning voices....silence is golden

sitting at the computer thinking about what to write and the suddenly the sound of a military plane flying overhead became so deafening, that it drowned out the kids noise outside as well as the soft voice of an instructor and her student in my living room. I'm thinking that's how things are sometimes, we hear all kinds of things and you can kind of pick out and know certain noises from things going on around when all of a sudden, the loudness of a certain voice or sound suddenly drowns all of the others out, so what's my point here? Well, I am actually working and teaching myself how to stay grounded and not be moved by anything that sounds out of the ordinary. I have to admit I have been hearing too many sounds lately and I am embarassed to say that I have paid too much attention to it and then added some of my own, but, today, I make a promise to myself that I will practice more and more silence...the Bible said it is golden....

great week-end to you...

unnecessary things

been thinking of things to send to my relatives back home. Had so many thoughts of this and that, finally decided to talk to the Lord to please help me not to buy unnecessarily. When the list was whittle down, it finally made sense, only what is usable can be send. only what is needed for the need, other things can wait. Interestingly, that is how we prepare for heaven, we do so many unndecessary things thinking it will take us to heaven, although they might seem good, they are not necessary. We just need to pray and the Lord God will whittle down the list and show us the necessary things to do, like first receiving Jesus(most important). The rest will fall in place and be made known to us. have a great week-end..

drew a blank

ever been there? I gotta tell you of this one incident, when I first came to EMIBU before it became ABC, school became an obsession with me at the time. One day, the Dr. told us our final exam is the following week, so I went home and studies till I was brain locked, I mean studied...on the day of the exam, I got off work and went straight to mililani expecting to score high marks on my exam...I got into the room the exam has started already and I put my bags underneath the table, Dr. gave me my exam and I started...at least I tried to start...what happened was, my mind went blank....I drew a blank, it was like I never studied, everything I stayed up late at night for was not there...I drew a blank, not a glimpse of what I studied was there...I couldn't believe it...after awhile, I whispered a real frustrated prayer asking the Lord to help me...well, God heard my prayer, I passed but not with the grade I expected. I barely made it over the fence...when I think back now, I thank God for drawing blanks...because it makes me realize without God I will not make it anywhere.
a long and happy journey to you in Jesus' name...

why not?

yeah, why not praise the Lord? why not enjoy the birds singing? why not enjoy the warmth of the morning sunlight? why not smile today? why not love the cool morning breeze that is blowing? yeah, why not forgive? why not love? why not give? why not?

what's a girl to do?

What profitteth a man if he loses his soul and gains the world? Serving the Lord is like investing in your future. So what would I get if I do not watch this investment very carefully, well, the answer is simple naturally I will lose a lot. I keep saying to myself, don't go there...stray thoughts are a challenge, they either bring up the past or a nice bright picture of the future which says you can do it, you don't need anybody. Now that is a false assumption because if God is not part of that picture, I will certainly gain the world but my sad soul is gonna suffer from it. Help me Lord!

old baggage

do you have them laying around in the closet? or maybe in the garage somewhere? gotta get rid of them. know why? cockaroaches love them, spiders love them, and most of all your ulcer and asthma loves them.....they contain heartbreaking memories, regrets, what ifs and I hates. The Holy Spirit loves our old baggage, why? because they make a nice bonfire. His fire can burn up all the dross that drives us to act weird at times, where we get mad when a certain person opens their mouths, and makes our eyes roll when we see a certain person approaching. So, to bless us the Lord says to give him all our old baggage, his Holy Spirit will put them to good use..

got any? I do and I am willing to give it up for a clean and loving heart...

music

God loves music, have you noticed that this is one talent that always gets challenged? I wonder why? do you suppose because this is the talent that brings tears to the eyes, joy to the heart, a smile to the face and love to the soul? God knew what He was doing when he made this talent and He knew the feeling that man or woman was going to feel when they hear music. Have you lost the song that was in your heart? or do you hear it in your head when you sleep? if you've lost it, it never went anywhere it's still there because heaven's composer sits inside you, his name is the Holy Spirit. If you hear it in your head when you are sleeping, sit up! write the words down, hum the tune to yourself, before you know it, you've got the song that brings the tears to the eyes, joy to the heart, smile to the face and love to the soul....

it's there, it never went anywhere...