Philippines Christians Journal: May 2014

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Youth Camp – May 19-23, 2014

The Youth Camp 2014 was held in Kidapawan City last May 19-23, 2014, hosted by Rev. and Mrs. Rudrigo Bajao, Pastor of God’s Victorious Church.

It was very successful and enjoyable. There was almost 200 registered Young People not included the Pastors and some visitors.

The youth enjoyed and having fun with lectures in the morning, bible games and ball games in the afternoon, evangelistic services and singing contest during the nights and having devotional at dawns.

I was one of the speakers during the nights. I preached on Thursday May 22, and I emphasized about the power of God for salvation, and the power of God to manifest in the lives of the believers with signs and wonders, that the youth could be used of God with His power in these last days.

Enlightened Youth; The Road To Salvation

Enlightened Youth; The Road To Salvation was the theme voted by the Youth Officers for that occasion. Youth must be enlightened first before he can get saved. Without enlightenment no one is saved.

Enlightened to what? Enlightened, or awakened and or having a clear understanding that everyone is a sinner and is bound for damnation. Awakened or enlightened that you cannot save yourself and no one can save you except the only savior Jesus Christ.

I also emphasized, that after you have been awakened. You must accept Jesus Christ as your savior and your sins will be forgiven and you will receive new life.

Then, after you are forgiven and having the new life in you. God can use you with His power so that you will become His instrument to manifest His wonderful and marvelous working power.

I wanted the youth to understand that God is looking now a days a person that He can use to manifest His power with signs and wonders.

I said, it is seldom we can find today about the power of God working with signs and wonders in the lives of the believers of Jesus Christ. And Why? Because the believers are lack of proper teaching of the word of God. But the Bible says;

These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover. Mark 16:17-18

I Experienced God’s Power

I have the boldness to say that God’s power is still working today. Because I once was healed from high fever instantly.

I was in the Bible School that time. It was in my senior year. I was not able to attend the class for I have a very high fever and I felt very, very cold that time. I put myself under a double blanket on my bed but still I felt so cold.

In the recess time, our Teacher together with my classmates came to my room to pray for me. Before prayer and rebuking the spirit of sickness they sung a song “In the name of Jesus, In the name of Jesus we have the victory…”

After the song they laid hands on me and pray, then I started to feel warm, then later to sweat started to come out of my head and over all my body. I was healed completely.

Not only I experienced God’s healing power over me, I also have seen this power working through me. It was still in my senior year when I was invited to preach in the church of my friend, a pastor of that church.

In the afternoon there was a Bible Study held next to his village. There attended a woman who has a kidney trouble, I was told to lead the Bible Study.

After the Bible Study I felt to pray for those who need healing.

A woman that looks sickly came forward for prayer. We laid hands on her and ask God to use us for her healing. Then I rebuke the spirit of kidney trouble to go away. After we prayed, the woman looks happy and said she felt no more pain anymore.

The best thing happened, she was healed and ate banana at our snack after the Bible Study. In fact, she did not eat 3 meals already because of the pain she felt in her stomach.

One more thing is, she and her husband got converted. But during the Bible Study that afternoon, her husband was out of the village looking some amount of money so that he could bring his wife to the hospital.
But when he got home, he found out that his wife was already healed and the wife told him the whole story.

Next Sunday together with their children came to the Church for Sunday worship and later on, that husband became a Pastor.

I have many experiences to tell about God’s miracle working power. If God will give me more time I will be sharing them here. But for the moment. I wanted that the Church nowadays will have that power for the purpose of conversion of many unsaved people. This is what I preached during the Youth Camp.

Many could say, 1 miracle compares a thousand sermons. I do really believe that. But the question is how that miracle working power of God manifests?

Commitment Is The Starting Point

At the end of my preaching, I challenged the youth for commitment to come to the altar for prayer. Most Young People came forward. But before that, I let them understand that there is a price to pay for God’s power to work with us.

Number one is obedience. If we are only obedience to God, he can use us mightily. The condition for signs and wonders is going to preach the gospel. Obey to go, this is what the churches today have missed up. No going to preach, means no preaching and no preaching equals no miracles.

When the church or individual believer lacks on this important calling of God to GO! Nothing could be happened like before. I could have written many pages about the pasts especially in the year 1980′s when I first got converted, that proves that God is still working with his power today. But the problem… whom He can use for?

I thank God for the young people that came forward to commit their lives during the youth camp to be used of God. I prayed that God will once again do signs and wonders through these young people and even with all the churches in these last days.

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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

New Life Christian Church Philippines

New Life Christian Church is hosted by Pastor Alberto and Isabel Rendon. Located in the Southern part of Mindanao Philippines, particularly in South Cotabato in the Town of Santo Nino.

This location is in the rural and remote area which is the smallest town in the province of South Cotabato.

This is a local and independent Church and Ministry that belonged to the evangelical and Pentecostal Churches.

Our Church Primary Local Foundation

We believe in the universal Church of Jesus Christ that started in the life of the Apostles up to the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ was founded by the Lord Jesus Christ himself. And we are part of that.

As local church, beside the Jerusalem Church started by the Apostles, there is a fact that cannot be denied the starting time. That is why we do not participate in the belief that as a new local church started on a particular year, is not a church of Jesus Christ.

We believe the True Church of Jesus Christ is a group of people that believe the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Only the Gospel as the primary foundation of our the local Churches, nothing more. As local church planters like the Apostles, they are only the secondary foundation of the local Churches, therefore we heard such and so as founders of a certain denomination.

The Bible contains the gospel, but not the whole Bible is the gospel. The Old Testament in the Bible is the word of God to the entirety, that guides and points to the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, but it is not the Gospel itself.

You may believe the Old Testament as the word of God and reject the gospel found in the New Testament, you have missed up something that is the most important part of our salvation.
As Apostle Paul said;

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. Romans 1:16 KJV

Only the gospel is the power of God unto salvation which the Holy Spirit could use to enlighten individuals.
The gospel shows who we are and what we are. It gives as a mirror at the front of us, so that we can see ourselves that we are in need of something that no one can give us, except God alone. Unless we see our real spiritual identity we cannot realize our need of a savior.

The fact of our spiritual identity you may accept it or not, you may believe it or not, and you do not even know about it, cannot change your actual identity as you are destined to damnation.

If you are ignorant about your real spiritual identity, you need to be enlightened. Here is the key. Once you have heard about who you are and what you are or you absolutely know your real identity, and you see the way that your identity can be changed, no need to be delayed before it took place. I believe no one would not grab it right away.

The problem why many people are not living in relationship with God, because they do not see their real identity. They are lack of proper teaching of the word of God. They are ignorant. Why? It is because they have been blinded by the god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4). They cannot see their actual and real spiritual identity.

That is the purpose of the Gospel. That is why the Lord Jesus Christ commanded to preach the gospel (Mark 15:19-20). That is why Apostle Paul was not ashamed of the Gospel. Because only the power of the gospel could break the spiritual blindness.

The Holy Spirit cannot enlighten a person without the Gospel. The gospel must be preached and be heard. It is the powerful tool of a preacher combined with prayer and the Holy Spirit. It is where the Holy Spirit can work in the person’s heart.

As Humanity We Have A Sinful Nature

We believe that as a person we have a sinful nature, no one is perfect and no one that has not done any wrong or sin against God. God is perfect and holy and man as the whole humanity living in a sinful nature is not worthy to have a relationship and fellowship with God.

That sinful or old nature must die and must be risen with a newness of life that comes from God (Romans 6:4), that could be connected with God as having a relationship as Son and Father relationship. That could take place when that person experienced the born again experience.

Only the sinful nature that must have to die not the person. The person is what God loved so much not the sinful nature. God hates that sinful nature. Sinful nature is attached to every person ever born on earth. Speaking about attachment, there is a way to be removed.

When should be that attachment of a sinful nature be removed from us?

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Monday, May 19, 2014

New Life Christian Church Mother's Day Celebration 2014

New Life Christian Church Mother’s day Celebration. It is a wonderful occasion when our mothers are being honored as well and the best mothers we have.

Mothers could hear what their husbands could say about who they are, what their children say, how good they are and some could hear from their grandchildren some appreciations that they are the best grandmothers around the world.

At New Life Christian Church, we always have a mother’s day celebration every year. This is the time that the mothers not only being honored but they are having a good fellowship with other mothers.

Some of them can give expressions how they are so thankful to God for their husbands and children. For no woman become a mother without a husband and a child.

Mothers nowadays are in big number of all churches. Most Churches are run by mostly officers of women especially mothers. So it is appropriate in the church to celebrate mother’s day.

Deuteronomy 5:16 “Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.”

I Know For Sure The Importance Of A Mother

As a father, I know most fathers have seen what they’re good wives as mothers are doing in the home. If the father is the post of the home, mother also is the whole house of the home.

I see how my wife as a mother taking care of our children. When I was a child, it was my mother who took care of us almost everything; from home to school, from clothing to food, from sickness to health, from a little child until we grow old. And I feel how mothers love their children so much.

Of course fathers also have their responsibilities and love for children as what they are. But it has a big difference compared to the mothers. Maybe there are some or few mothers who are irresponsible, and that is what we wanted to see what ground why they become irresponsible.

In every situation, there is something behind it may be good or bad. We are dealing the bad situation, but we cannot give a healing process without tracing the problem.

We have heard, how many abandoned children, and there are thousands of street children in the cities. Where are the mothers? Where are their parents. Are their mothers still loving them? Is the memory of love still in the minds of the mothers? May these questions find the answers.

Mothers Should Be Lifted Up

I heard a story of a mother who died in order that her child may live.

It happened in the world war II. Early in the morning, there was a woman found dead beside a bridge. There were a couple missionaries who passed by on that bridge, as they were approaching, they heard a baby’s cry. Then when they were approaching, they have found out a lady without clothes and was dead already.

To make the story short, the lady carried her baby traveling during the winter in the night. And at dawn the mother and the baby seemed cannot endure the cold of the snow. So the mother removed her clothes and she covered her baby and made it as a blanket, so that the baby may survive.

The mother died, but the baby was alive. The couple missionaries, took up the baby and brought him home.
I believe the mothers have a greater love for their children. If the street children in the cities are abandoned by their mothers, there must be a greater reason that seems we cannot understand.

Let us lift up the mothers and pray for them.

The Prayer Of The Mother

There was a mother who has a teenage son, that was influenced by the young people in the community, that’s become the problem of the society.

This young man seems no hope for a better future. Her mother became very worried for his son. Although, she was always praying for him, but seems the problem has become worse. One day, while his boy was sleeping in his room at dawn, she came to his room and prayed with intense prayer and with tears flowing down from her eyes.

The boy awakened and he heard the intense prayer of his mother, and then he saw the tears flowing down from the eyes of his mother. He cannot help himself but starts to cry and feels the greatest love of his mother.

It was the turning point of repentance of that boy. There is nothing too hard for God in prayer, a prayer of the mother with love.

Sometimes, many mothers seem do not know what to do for their children. We may hear mothers are angry toward their children. But I believe that kind of angry is not an angry of hatred but and angry of a greater love.

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