Living Free From People Pleasing - Part2

If you are a man pleaser these are your favorite word is duty. Try giving flower to your wife on your anniversary and say it is your duty believe me things will change. Second, the cousin of duty, obligation, to those of you who are in mission there’s this mission policy, how many commandments are there? Third, indebtedness oh the Orientals are good at this. Fourth is restriction, and fifth is subservience. These are the words that rule your life. A lot of factors that contributes to our men pleasing tendency and sometimes you have to listen to your critics because maybe they are right. The issue is not about doing what is right but doing it for a wrong reason.

Living Free From People Pleasing - Part1

Whenever you hear God’s Word and come to God’s church and worship with God’s people you go home instead of being peaceful you go home disturbed because the sermon disturbed you. Rejoice and be glad because this is one proof that God’s Word is not staying in your mind it is sinking down into your heart. Without that struggle you just heard something but when struggle is there because it’s beginning to sink in because you find it no longer easy. The more you look at God’s Word easy, peanuts, it’s not sinking but the more realize, Oh Lord how can I do this.

Becoming The People That Truly Loves God - Part2c

Fun is also holiness when you have fun serving the Lord, when you have joy serving the Lord, when your joy is bubbling. When there’s excitement in preaching, excitement in singing and excitement in feeding. What distinguishes us from the world is our holiness and joy. The more you love God, the more that you are not pressured to have the things of the world, you know what’s the result of that? Fun! To have a new gadget is not bad, enjoy your new gadget but more than that you still enjoy and love God.

Becoming The People That Truly Loves God - Part1c

Today, we conclude on the series of the subject, becoming a person that loves God, Part2. When a person influences another person and they become a people who loves God. Before you ask what is God’s will, I think the question is, do you love God? When you talk about God, you should have in mind the three persons of the Holy Trinity, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Last Sunday, we reminded the church why we should not love the world. This day is the conclusion of all the discussion. May I say, as a result of God loving us first, we can now respond to love Him.

BecomingThePeopleThatGodLoves - Part2b

How many of you believe that when you pray, God is not far but near? In fact the Psalmist said “the Lord is near” that Lord speaks of the Triune God, the Lord is near to all who call upon Him in truth. I think you missed a lot when you only pray for your necessities, this is so true that God answers prayers, but you miss a point if prayer is only limited to these things and you are not enjoying the fellowship of the Triune God. Brothers and sisters, you are really praying if you no longer focus on the blessings. I would say that if your prayer is only focused on blessings, then the worlds crept in to your prayer.

BecomingThePeopleThatGodLoves - Part1b

Loving God is possible because He initiated it. If God did not love us first the more we won’t know how to love God. Shall I also say this, the more we will never have an interest at all to love anybody aside from ourselves. It takes God to love us so that we would love Him back. However, it is academic that if you choose one thing you have denied another. If you love God you would technically say “I don’t love the world” when I say world we mean the system of the world, we mean the system that defies God, a society that inflates self worship and the search for self significance.

Straight From My Heart
by: Rev Arnel Tan

As God leads us to communion with Him in solitude we begin to see our true spiritual condition. It is in this state that we are confronted by our great spiritual poverty; it is also here that we receive God’s invitation to feast on His word and find great rest in prayers. As we learn to relax in Christ, the more we yearn to listen to His voice and depend on the Holy Spirit to obey His will. Let us not be distracted with other things that lead us to drift away from waiting on Him in prayer.

The following months ahead are most challenging . . . we are called to be more intense and desperate in our seeking God in prayer. It is also in praying that we get our instruction to do what is next. So far we have begun to cross the Jordan . . . we have agreed to obey God in rebuilding the church so we can have a welfare center for the community. Let us pray for the next step. Remember, no one is in a hurry. In prayer, we take it one step at a time. I ask you to join us in fervent prayers so we can always find ourselves depending on God. In our corporate prayer meetings on Wednesdays and Fridays and daily morning prayer meetings, we call on God to lead us. Lead your household to pray for the welfare center and the rebuilding of God’s house.

Remember in prayer Pastor Bobby Narciso and Pastor Judy Leones for their trip to Chang Rai and Burma to visit Jethro Adang and to see what God is doing there. Let us also pray for our services today and that God will touch our hearts and lead us to a deep hunger for His word that we may know how to obey His will. Let us remember in prayer our brethren in Luzon who have been badly hit by the typhoon. Let us also find ways to extend help to them as God opens the opportunity. As we worship and celebrate communion today, let us enjoy once more a unique kind of solitude with the community of the redeemed. Here, we are reminded of Christ as our sufficiency and being broken as He was broken for us . . . a pathway of blessing to knowing Christ more. Amen



"Dear God, Let your children hunger and thirst after Your righteousness. Let Your Word refresh our soul, rebuke our nature, recreate our being and renew a steadfast spirit that longs after Thee, be glorified in our lives today oh GOD. In Jesus name, Amen!"