Wednesday, March 31, 2010
God truly works in mysterious ways
Hi LOG =)
Okay, I just randomly clicked LOG Blog and I saw Jess post about how god worked in her daily life situations which I found super cool. Anyways, I wanted to share my reflection of retreat with you guys but I guess I will just summarize it into a short paragraph because it is related.
Okay, YMC Retreat was awesome. During the retreat I prayed to feel god and I promised him that I am going to be open to him fully and yeah I was. I thought the retreat was truly enriching and it renewed and gave my sprit a jump start again I guess. I just want to share about the pray with where I felt god. It was actually after the pray with when we had to sing the praise and worship and just to glorify our god it was amazing. I know that I am not the only one who felt god truly present embracing each one of us during the praise and worship when we walked towards the cross and surrounded it and just sang our hearts out. God blessed me in abundance during YMC retreat and I praise him for that. =)
However, when I went into deeper reflection I had the desire of wanting the gift of tongues and I wondered if I will ever receive it. Then on Monday I went back to school and during a lesson of mine my Moths teacher called me and told me she had to say something to me. I listened silently as she said “Gregory, I had a dream of you on Saturday and the dream was from god, I want you to pray and tell me what you think god told me" And I was like standing there in dies believe and in awe. I was freaked out that firstly, a teacher of mine had a dream about me. Anyway, that day I went for mass with my parents to IHM and during the first reading it began with “I am the chosen one " and that verse just didn't want to leave my mind and I was getting confused and anxious. I just prayed and surrender everything to god. I came home and I messaged my moths teacher on face book saying that I think that she dreamt about god telling her something about my will from him because that is what I prayed during pray with. And I received a reply
“Hmm... on what context did you pray for this?
What happen was like this... I was planning to wake up at 6am on Saturday to read God's word and spend time with him. But before 6am about 5 plus, I was woke up by the Holy Spirit, and he told me to pray for you. So in my half waked mood, I sat up on my bed and prayed in tongues. What I gathered from that incident is that the Lord wants to bless you. What I thought was that He will bless you with Wisdom that you never have before in your studies and relations with people.
But now knowing what you asked of the Lord, I would like to say that the Lord is Very Happy to know you love Him and desire his Will for your life.
To Christians, we believe that God's will for all his children, is to cultivate a heart that seeks to obey him and grow in love for God. And as we receive God's love for ourselves, we will know his heartbeat for everyone on earth to receive His love, for all to be safe through Jesus.
So when asking God, what's his will for me, you need to think if you have first fulfill God's calling to all his children to be salt and light. Only when we seek that he will lead us to more specific area in our lives.
Hope this is helpful. Don't worry so much, just love him daily, and read the word to know of his love for U. And he will reveal much in his time"
That was her reply. I know how weird right. God just works in ways in which I never expect him to! I was really confused but then I realize god just wanted to tell me that for now I am just blessed with the gift of wisdom and that I should be grateful for it. And yes, after praying after confirmation, god did tell me that I had the gift of wisdom but I just wanted the gift of tongues so badly. Now I have decided that god will provide in his time and we should be grateful with what we have .
Lastly, just want to share a verse which came to me in YMC retreat countless of times.
Isaiah 41:10 : So do not fear, for I am with you;
I am really sorry that my post is so long but I just felt that god urged me to share this. My purpose of this sharing is that God works in ways we never expect him to and that at time we have to be really open to him if not we may just miss him.
Have a blessed holy week.
Love,
Greg =)
God truly works in mysterious ways
Hi LOG =)
Okay, I just randomly clicked LOG Blog and I saw Jess post about how god worked in her daily life situations which I found super cool. Anyways, I wanted to share my reflection of retreat with you guys but I guess I will just summarize it into a short paragraph because it is related.
Okay, YMC Retreat was awesome. During the retreat I prayed to feel god and I promised him that I am going to be open to him fully and yeah I was. I thought the retreat was truly enriching and it renewed and gave my sprit a jump start again I guess. I just want to share about the pray with where I felt god. It was actually after the pray with when we had to sing the praise and worship and just to glorify our god it was amazing. I know that I am not the only one who felt god truly present embracing each one of us during the praise and worship when we walked towards the cross and surrounded it and just sang our hearts out. God blessed me in abundance during YMC retreat and I praise him for that. =)
However, when I went into deeper reflection I had the desire of wanting the gift of tongues and I wondered if I will ever receive it. Then on Monday I went back to school and during a lesson of mine my Moths teacher called me and told me she had to say something to me. I listened silently as she said “Gregory, I had a dream of you on Saturday and the dream was from god, I want you to pray and tell me what you think god told me" And I was like standing there in dies believe and in awe. I was freaked out that firstly, a teacher of mine had a dream about me. Anyway, that day I went for mass with my parents to IHM and during the first reading it began with “I am the chosen one " and that verse just didn't want to leave my mind and I was getting confused and anxious. I just prayed and surrender everything to god. I came home and I messaged my moths teacher on face book saying that I think that she dreamt about god telling her something about my will from him because that is what I prayed during pray with. And I received a reply
“Hmm... on what context did you pray for this?
What happen was like this... I was planning to wake up at 6am on Saturday to read God's word and spend time with him. But before 6am about 5 plus, I was woke up by the Holy Spirit, and he told me to pray for you. So in my half waked mood, I sat up on my bed and prayed in tongues. What I gathered from that incident is that the Lord wants to bless you. What I thought was that He will bless you with Wisdom that you never have before in your studies and relations with people.
But now knowing what you asked of the Lord, I would like to say that the Lord is Very Happy to know you love Him and desire his Will for your life.
To Christians, we believe that God's will for all his children, is to cultivate a heart that seeks to obey him and grow in love for God. And as we receive God's love for ourselves, we will know his heartbeat for everyone on earth to receive His love, for all to be safe through Jesus.
So when asking God, what's his will for me, you need to think if you have first fulfill God's calling to all his children to be salt and light. Only when we seek that he will lead us to more specific area in our lives.
Hope this is helpful. Don't worry so much, just love him daily, and read the word to know of his love for U. And he will reveal much in his time"
That was her reply. I know how weird right. God just works in ways in which I never expect him to! I was really confused but then I realize god just wanted to tell me that for now I am just blessed with the gift of wisdom and that I should be grateful for it. And yes, after praying after confirmation, god did tell me that I had the gift of wisdom but I just wanted the gift of tongues so badly. Now I have decided that god will provide in his time and we should be grateful with what we have .
Lastly, just want to share a verse which came to me in YMC retreat countless of times.
Isaiah 41:10 : So do not fear, for I am with you;
I am really sorry that my post is so long but I just felt that god urged me to share this. My purpose of this sharing is that God works in ways we never expect him to and that at time we have to be really open to him if not we may just miss him.
Have a blessed holy week.
Love,
Greg =)
1 Comments:
greegggg dont need to say sorry for long post cos i really enjoy reading your sharings! praise God tt you had a wonderful retreat(:
anne
