My Space. My Life

Rache suggested I read the book by Joel Osteen “Your Best Life Now”. Since I don’t have the book yet, I went to Joel Osteen’s site and subscribed to their daily reading sent via email. I have been receiving them daily and I must say I am blessed!

Today’s reading is about God’s favor. Here’s an excerpt of today’s word:

“God wants to pour out His abundant blessings, His abundant victory, and His abundant favor in your life! The Bible tells us that God has crowned us with glory and honor. Another word for honor is “favor.” In other words, God has crowned us with His favor! Get rid of that weak-worm-of-the-dust-mentality! Don’t be timid and insecure any longer–expect good things from God. Live with confidence, knowing that you have the favor of God surrounding your every step!

You are a child of the Most High God. He has crowned you with glory and honor–not because of who you are, but because of Whose you are! As God’s child, He wants you to have preferential treatment. He wants you to be favored in this life. He wants you to be “favor-minded.” To be favor-minded simply means that you are releasing your faith, knowing that God wants to help you. The more favor-minded you are, the more of God’s favor you’re going to see! Begin to declare that you have the favor of God and expect God’s favor to bring you to a place of victory in every area of your life!”

I was used to thinking that God only bestows blessing if you did something that pleased Him; That God was only looking at the things I did wrong. It was as if God was waiting for me to make the wrong move and punish me. I was wrong. God is a good and loving God. And His Grace is immeasurable! My problem was I did not have an expecting attitude because I felt I did not deserve His abundant blessings. Well, as a sinner I don’t. But as I said, God is full of grace and He loves us so much that even if we do not deserve His blessings, He wants to give shower us with lots of them. We only need to declare that as God’s children and co-heirs with Christ, we are favored and we need to expect God’s favor. Of course, it goes without saying that we also need to hear and obey God’s Word.

I am favored by God!

So, Father in Heaven, thank you for loving me so much! Help me to keep your words in my heart that I may not sin against you. I claim your many promises in my life and declare that by Your infinite grace, I am favored by You. I thank you for the many blessings you have showered me and the abundant and overfowing blessings that are to come. Help me, change my heart so I may live a lifeof confidence and blessing, a life of Victory through You! In the mighty name of Jesus! Amen.

I’ve moved! I guess I never expected the workload to be that heavy back there. I was overworked and underpaid but I shrugged the thought off. I wanted to give them a chance because I’ve always thought the company had good management..that is until the start of 2006. I really don’t know what happened. All of a sudden thing started to change. First, they got this timekeeping and payroll program that they rolled out without even doing thorough testing. It was really a big disappointment. I won’t go into the details anymore but what sparked me to find other opportunities was when I did not receive my salary. All because of that program. What’s worse was it happened during the lenten season, no finance or payroll people to assist you. It was just that so many things were left hanging because of what happened. Bills went unpaid, etc. I was disappointed. How can a company this big make this huge mistake? Well, I wasn’t the only one who didn’t get paid. There were a lot of employees who experienced the same inconvenience. What’s worse was that I didn’t get my paycheck until days later. Second, they change their healthcard plan, without cascading the information to the employees. Imagine this, my husband (who is my dependent) goes to the hospital to have an ultrasound (for his kidneys). he goes to the cashier to have it verified and to his horror, the cashier told him he has to shoulder the bill first then have it reimbursed to the company. I mean, what is a healthcard for?! What if it was an emergency and you didn’t have money with you? And we have to find out when we were there already. Man, that health benefit was one of the reasons why I was trying to motivate myself not to leave the company. I mean health benefit isn’t a small thing, you know. I know they have the right to change plans. I just wish they had informed us first.

That and so many other things sparked me to find other doors of opportunity. I prayed about it and asked God for direction. I prayed for His will if He really wants me to move. I prayed that if it was His will for me to leave then please open doors of opportunity for me. God answered my prayer a week later. I got this call from a company and God gave me a lot more with this company. So far it’s been great. I just pray that God gives me more patience. I know there isn’t a perfect company.

Sorry, I know I’m being angsty again.

For other updates..

1. We welcome AMIEL CHRISTIAN A. BELEN to our family! No, he’s not our baby heheheh. He’s the son of Ping’s cousin Cary and his wife Amy. He was born last April 12, 2006. Welcome to the world baby Amiel! We are praying that you will grow up to be a good boy!

2. Please pray for my hubby Ping. He was diagnosed to have kidney stones on both his kidneys (0.6 cm on the left and 0.5cm on the right). And according to his lumbar x ray, he also has mild scoliosis. We are claiming healing. We know that God is bigger than anything! We just proclaim healing in Jesus name!

So, that’s all the update I have for now. We’re still praying for our little angel to come in God’s time. ’til the next post. God bless everyone!

When words of encouragement means nothing…when you’ve heard them all before but they seem to do nothing but discourage you more. I’ve been feeling low these past couple of days, so down that I don’t even talk about how I feel to other people. I don’t know, I guess I just don’t want to burden people with my angst anymore. So I decided to pull up my Bible and go to Psalms. This has always been my habit whenever I would feel discouraged. God’s Word has NEVER failed to give me a boost whenever I’m down.

“Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.” Psalm 143:8