Matthew 9:35 to 38

Matthew 9:35-38

The Workers Are Few

³⁵ Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. 

³⁶ When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 

³⁷ Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 

³⁸ Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

Dear LORD, Bless, Praise, Glory, Honor and Thank you for the gift of courage. We, Eloisa, Julies and me, have a dream of bringing the Prayer and Life Workshop here in Alabang. The whole workshop is super highly recommended. We feel that we have anointing after the talk of "DO IT, afraid" by Bro. Arun Gogna. GOD will surely provide us the venue that will Glorify Him in the workshop. 

Psalm 143

Psalm 143

New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 143

A psalm of David. ¹ LORD, hear my prayer,
   listen to my cry for mercy;
in your faithfulness and righteousness
   come to my relief.
² Do not bring your servant into judgment,
   for no one living is righteous before you.
³ The enemy pursues me,
   he crushes me to the ground;
he makes me dwell in the darkness
   like those long dead.
⁴ So my spirit grows faint within me;
   my heart within me is dismayed.
⁵ I remember the days of long ago;
   I meditate on all your works
   and consider what your hands have done.
⁶ I spread out my hands to you;
   I thirst for you like a parched land.^[a]
 7 Answer me quickly, LORD;
   my spirit fails.
Do not hide your face from me
   or I will be like those who go down to the pit.
⁸ 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 entrust my life.
⁹ Rescue me from my enemies, LORD,
   for I hide myself in you.
¹⁰ Teach me to do your will,
   for you are my God;
may your good Spirit
   lead me on level ground.
 ¹¹ For your name’s sake, LORD, preserve my life;
   in your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.
¹² In your unfailing love, silence my enemies;
   destroy all my foes,
   for I am your servant.

Matthew 2:10-12 (Visual Prayer)

Matthew 2:10-12

Today's New International Version (TNIV)

¹⁰ When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. ¹¹ On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. ¹² And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.

The photo tells me:

1. The 3 kings, in all humility, praised and worship the Child Jesus.

2. The 3 kings, gave their best gifts.

3. Joseph and Mary did not play stage parents knowing their Child is the Son of God.

4. Mary, after the long travel and after giving painful childbirth kept self control, serenity and graciousness, in welcoming the 3kings in the manger.

Value for the day.

1. Stay humble and meek
2. Give the Best to the LORD.
3. Praise and worship
4. Drop the ego.
5. Serene
6. Graceful

LORD, all i ask in Jesus name. Amen.

Luke 1:39 - 45 (Visual Prayer)

Luke 1:39-45

New International Version (NIV)

Mary Visits Elizabeth

 ³⁹ At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, ⁴⁰ where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. ⁴¹ When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. ⁴² In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! ⁴³ But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? ⁴⁴ As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. ⁴⁵ Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!”

What is the picture tells me.

1. Elizabeth and Mary are very very very happy.

2. They are both very healthy, Elizabeth are her old age and Mary who traveled 4days in her first trimester.

3. Great Faithfulness

4. Victory on the promises of the LORD.

5. Mary looking up in heaven with a thankful heart and praises.

6. Elizabeth look at her belly with great joy and awe.

Will of the LORD for the day.

1. Happiness is viral.

2. Stay Healthy, really stay healthy.

3. Claim victory on strong faith, thankful heart and all praises to GOD w joy an awe. 

Visual Prayer

STEPS in Visual Prayer
Aug 8 Sunday


1 Choose a stampita, Take the picture in your hands, calm down and invoke the Holy Spirit.


2. What does the picture tell you?


3. Transfer yourself to the picture as if you were in it and absorb all the values in it.


4. Transfer all this values to your daily life.

The picture tells me


1. Christ is so abundant with a very big plate of bread/food in front of Him.


2. Christ is a wine drinker, still very abundant because a very big wine jar is beside Him. 


3. Christ is a Servant because he is breaking the bread.


4. Christ is a Giver because he will give the bread to others.


5. Christ is a Nurturer because he make sure that everybody gets bread.


6. Christ shines


7. Christ is concern (bit sad), how he wish He can share the bread to those persecuting Him.


8. Christ knows that even he is persecuted, the more important is the people around who loves Him and believe in Him, is taken cared of and fed.


9. Christ prepare His people. He knows they will also go through trials and challenges so He make sure that they are well fed, spiritually and emotionally.


10. Christ is LOVE.




VALUES FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK


1. Live in abundant life, love and healthy diet.
2. Be a Servant, Giver and Nurturer
3. Shine the Light of Jesus
4. Pray for those who persecute me (sigh)
5. Focus on those who love me (no matter what)
6. Fill up the love tanks of those who love me.
7. Love Love Love Love


Application to Family, Travellers, Close Friends, Feast Alabangers, High School Friends, and all. 

Psalm 84 (vocal Prayer)

Psalm 84

New International Version (NIV)

    For the director of music. According to gittith.^[b] Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.

 ¹ How lovely is your dwelling place,
   LORD Almighty!
² My soul yearns, even faints,
   for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and my flesh cry out
   for the living God.
³ Even the sparrow has found a home,
   and the swallow a nest for herself,
   where she may have her young—
a place near your altar,
   LORD Almighty, my King and my God.
⁴ Blessed are those who dwell in your house;
   they are ever praising you.^[c]

 ⁵ Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
   whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
⁶ As they pass through the Valley of Baka,
   they make it a place of springs;
   the autumn rains also cover it with pools.^[d]
7 They go from strength to strength,
   till each appears before God in Zion.

 ⁸ Hear my prayer, LORD God Almighty;
   listen to me, God of Jacob.
⁹ Look on our shield,^[e] O God;
   look with favor on your anointed one.

 ¹⁰ Better is one day in your courts
   than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
   than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
¹¹ For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
   the LORD bestows favor and honor;
no good thing does he withhold
   from those whose walk is blameless.

 ¹² LORD Almighty,
   blessed is the one who trusts in you.

Vocal Prayer

Happy are we who trusts in You LORD, because we are don't get tired of living a lovely, blessed and excellent life.

Philippians 1: 27 - 30 (Vocal Prayer)

Philippians 1:27-30

New International Version (NIV)

Life Worthy of the Gospel

 ²⁷ Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in the one Spirit,^[a] striving together as one for the faith of the gospel ²⁸ without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. This is a sign to them that they will be destroyed, but that you will be saved—and that by God. ²⁹ For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him, ³⁰ since you are going through the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.

Acts 16: 29-34 (Vocal Prayer)

Acts 16:29-34

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

²⁹ And he called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas, ³⁰ and after he brought them out, he said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

The Jailer Converted

 ³¹ They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” ³² And they spoke the word of^[a]the Lord to him together with all who were in his house. ³³And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household. ³⁴ And he brought them into his house and set^[b]food before them, and rejoiced ^[c]greatly, having believed in God with his whole household.

Vocal Prayer : I rejoice at having come to Faith in Christ.

Romans 16: 25 - 27 (Vocal Prayer)

Romans 16:25-27

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

 ²⁵ Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past, ²⁶ but now is manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading toobedience of faith; ²⁷ to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen.


Vocal Prayer
LORD, Strengthen my Obedience of Faith through JESUS CHRIST

Psalm 90 (prayerful reading)

Psalm 90

BOOK 4

  

God’s Eternity and Man’s Transitoriness.

    A Prayer of ^[a]Moses, the man of God. ¹ Lord, You have been our ^[b]dwelling place in all generations.
² Before the mountains were born
^[c]Or You gave birth to the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
 ³ You turn man back into dust
And say, “Return, O children of men.”
⁴ For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it passes by,
^[d]Or as a watch in the night.
⁵ You have ^[e]swept them away like a flood, they ^[f]fall asleep;
In the morning they are like grass which ^[g]sprouts anew.
⁶ In the morning it flourishes and ^[h]sprouts anew;
Toward evening it fades and withers away.
 ⁷ For we have been consumed by Your anger
And by Your wrath we have been ^[i]dismayed.
⁸ You have placed our iniquities before You,
Our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
⁹ For all our days have declined in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a ^[j]sigh.
¹⁰ As for the days of our ^[k]life, ^[l]they contain seventy years,
Or if due to strength, eighty years,
Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow;
For soon it is gone and we fly away.
¹¹ Who ^[m]understands the power of Your anger
And Your fury, according to the fear ^[n]that is due You?
¹² So teach us to number our days,
That we may ^[o]present to You a heart of wisdom.
 ¹³ Do return, O LORD; how long will it be?
And ^[p]be sorry for Your servants.
¹⁴ O satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness,
That we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
¹⁵ Make us glad ^[q]according to the days You have afflicted us,
And the years we have seen ^[r]evil.
¹⁶ Let Your work appear to Your servants
And Your majesty ^[s]to their children.
¹⁷ Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us;
And ^[t]confirm for us the work of our hands;
Yes, ^[u]confirm the work of our hands.

Matthew 8: 5-13

Praise and Thank You LORD for the Gift of Faith and the Gift of Healing


Life Experience


I grew up in a very religious family, mama and papa are very faithful. Me and my neighborhood playmates are also serving Mary Immaculate Parish as Children's Choir, then youth choir, and youth council during the summers giving cathecism in depressed areas around the village. Plus a caregroup from Focolare. 


As i grew up, I met different faith. The Born Again in College. And more in my travel adventures around the Philippines. Anglican Protestants in Sagada, hard core Catholics in Batanes, Animists Dumagats and Itas, more Christians in Cordillera Area. Travel buddies who's parents are Buddhist. Travelers who are Atheist and agnosticist. Muslim in Turtle Island Mindanao. 


I have wandered freely in mystical traditions that are not Christians and not religious and I have been profoundly influenced by them. It is to my Catholic faith, however, that I keep returning, for she is my spiritual home; and while I am acutely, sometimes embarrassingly, conscious of her limitations and narrowness; I also know that it is she who has formed me and made me what I am today. (Anthony de Mello)


Praise and thank You LORD for the gift of Faith, having awesome time getting to know you more in PLW and loving and serving Feast Alabang Faith heals.

Hebrews 11:1-40 Vocal Prayer

Hebrews 11:1-40

American Standard Version (ASV)

Hebrews 11

 ¹ Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.

 ² For therein the elders had witness borne to them.

³ By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear.

 ⁴ By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and through it he being dead yet speaketh.

 ⁵ By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God translated him: for he hath had witness borne to him that before his translation he had been well-pleasing unto God:

 ⁶ And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

 ⁷ By faith Noah, being warned of God concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

 ⁸ By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

 ⁹ By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

 ¹⁰ for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

 ¹¹ By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised:

 ¹² wherefore also there sprang of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the sea-shore, innumerable.

 ¹³ These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

 ¹⁴ For they that say such things make it manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own.

 ¹⁵ And if indeed they had been mindful of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.

 ¹⁶ But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.

 ¹⁷ By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yea, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten son;

 ¹⁸ even he to whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:

 ¹⁹ accounting that God is able to raise up, even from the dead; from whence he did also in a figure receive him back.

 ²⁰ By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

 ²¹ By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.

 ²² By faith Joseph, when his end was nigh, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.

 ²³ By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was a goodly child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

 ²⁴ By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

 ²⁵ choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

 ²⁶ accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he looked unto the recompense of reward.

 ²⁷ By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

 ²⁸ By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

 ²⁹ By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were swallowed up.

 ³⁰ By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed about for seven days.

 ³¹ By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with them that were disobedient, having received the spies with peace.

 ³² And what shall I more say? for the time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah; of David and Samuel and the prophets:

 ³³ who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

 ³⁴ quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, waxed mighty in war, turned to flight armies of aliens.

 ³⁵ Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

 ³⁶ and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

 ³⁷ they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

 ³⁸ (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

 ³⁹ And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise,

 ⁴⁰ God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

Vocal Prayer: LORD, your my faith and GOD's Grace all things are possible thru Christ.

Psalm 84 (prayerful reading)

Psalm 84

Longing for the Temple Worship.

    For the choir director; ^[a]on the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. ¹ How lovely are Your dwelling places,
O LORD of hosts!
² My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the LORD;
My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
³ The bird also has found a house,
And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young,
Even Your altars, O LORD of hosts,
My King and my God.
⁴ How blessed are those who dwell in Your house!
They are ever praising You.
                         ^[b]Selah.
 ⁵ How blessed is the man whose strength is in You,
In ^[c]whose heart are the highways to Zion!
⁶ Passing through the valley of ^[d]Baca they make it a ^[e]spring;
The early rain also covers it with blessings.
⁷ They go from strength to strength,
^[f]Every one of them appears before God in Zion.
 ⁸ O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer;
Give ear, O God of Jacob!
                         Selah.

⁹ Behold our shield, O God,
And look upon the face of Your anointed.
¹⁰ For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside.
I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God
Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
¹¹ For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
The LORD gives grace and glory;
No good thing does He withhold ^[g]from those who walk^[h]uprightly.
¹² O LORD of hosts,
How blessed is the man who trusts in You!