Life, Love and Relationships

Oh yes…. He answered!

He answered through trials and sufferings as He made Himself known to me.  The more I get to know Him the more I am more in love with Him.  This is the key to a different kind of praise of worship.  A praise and worship that I can describe as an intimate moment with God.  It’s like being in an exclusive moment with God.

The path towards a deeper relationship with Him is truly exciting but in the end of each exciting trial is a discovery that is really worthwhile.  As what the homily earlier goes, it is not enough to know the scriptures, it is not enough to serve God, we need to experience Him so that we can appreciate Him and His scripture fully.

Take on the cross of Christ and the reward is priceless. :)  May God be praised!!!

The song in my heart and soul is Your FREEDOM! :) 

May His faith, love, joy and hope be in our heart forever and ever!

Ask and you shall receive, Seek and you shall find, Knock and the door will be opened.

I’ve asked so many questions and He answered.  I’ve asked for so many things and he gave the best. 

I sought for love and indeed I found love.  A love that is so strong, so passionate and so steady.  A love that is so comforting, so assuring and so calming.  A love that is only for me, so unique and so perfectly mine.  A love that is constant, never changing.

I sought for happiness and I found joy.  A joy coming from His love.  A joy that overflows from the heart.  A joy that reigns my whole being.  A joy that is so inspiring.

I knocked at His heart and He opened it.  I knocked at His heart and He opened mine as well.

Ask, seek and knock.  He would answer.  He would make himself be seen.  He would open the door to His whole being.

You’ve read the title… looks familiar??  Transformers… more than meets the eyes…

At last! I’ve finally watched transformers and for me it is really, really great! I was in great awe with the fusion of robots in the real world.  I can’t say anything against the animation.  It is really awesome.

My dear friend Ems asked me of my realizations from the film.  I thought that I had none but with the guidance of the Holy Spirit this is what I’ve shared. 

The most evident moral lesson of the movie is sacrifice.  Sacrifice to achieve the greater good and this was reflected by Optimus prime’s words when asked if they should save bumble bee.  He said ‘bumble bee is a great soldier and saving the cube is what he would want us to do’.

Another lesson for me is, if you are in the good side of things and would like to do what is right for God, He would always send you an angel to save you.  He will make it a point that bad will never triumph over a good that seeks comfort from His guidance.  The high school kid is the angel of God and God was working through him to save Optimus prime as he was led to put the cube in Megatron’s heart instead.

Just like in our lives, we need to sacrifice what we think is precious to us if God told us to do so.  For we can’t fight the will of God and once we let God reign in our hearts things will always turn out to be perfect.

Moomai <- will always remain a kid for the Lord!!

Ruschelle Ian… This is my real name.  I prefer to be called by my nicknames because for me Ruschelle Ian sounds so formal.  Don’t get me wrong because I really love my name. :)  It’s just that I only reserve that for special occassion, ika nga.

Last weekend, I attended a Discovery Weekend retreat.  True to its name I really discovered so many, many great things! :)  Here’s one… There is a famous line in any Christian teachings that goes like this, when you take out CHRIST from the word Christian you will be left with IAN.  IAN means I am nothing for without Christ we are really nothing.

I heard it again during the talk of Discover your Power.  I don’t know, but only at that instance those words had a different impact on me.  It’s like a bright light uplifted my being and I break into a small smile that ended to a very sweet and big smile.  I smiled with the sweet thought on how present God is in my life since the day I was born and been given the name IAN. 

I remembered Him humbling me so much thru trials that led me to acknowledge that I am not doing things on my own.  That even if I think that I am really capable of doing a certain thing but I am not offering it to Him or acknowledging Him, I will surely fail.  Acknowledging Him in my mind and in words is also not enough for it’s our heart that He wants us to acknowledge Him with.

When I reached the point that I clearly know in my heart and in my mind as to who He is in my life, that was the time when He opened my eyes to the greatness that He had blessed me with.  I became more confident as I see myself as His wonderful and beautiful creation.  Handcrafted with care and perfection with a lot of twist and spice. 

IAN <- Alone, I am nothing but with God I am everything!

IAN <- This will always remind me that I am a servant of God, nothing more and nothing less!

IAN <- Humbled by His passionate love for all humanity!

IAN <- A promise of more great things to come as I enjoy my time in His fire of refinement!

IAN <- A symbol of His great love for me. A love that is enough for Him to correct me and bring me back to His path.

God bless us all!  Be confident in knowing that God loves you so much! :)  Praise and worship tayo!!!!!!! AAAAHHHH!!!!

If I can then I would… I would only spend my life praising and worshippping YOU!

With the new found mindset in Praise and Worship, I give in to the push of the Holy Spirit to raise my hands while praising.  During those times, I was still conscious on how I look like while praising but still I continued.

This is the part of my P&W journey where I explored to go deeper than just singing the songs.  I tried to concentrate on the lyrics and found myself comprehending some because I already felt and experienced it, some brought me to ask myself if I am ready to do it, some became my cry to the Lord as I enjoy His refinement and most I can’t understand.

Day after day as I walk through life, God is refining me to love Him more.  Thinking of His blessings I found myself passionately praising and worshipping Him.  However, when I found myself in doubt I noticed a difference in my disposition during praise and worship. 

This brought me to ask this question, does emotion really play a big part in praise and worship?  Would I only get a high feeling whenever I am happy?  Somehow, I can’t accept a yes to these questions because I know that our walk to the Lord is not always a bed of roses.

I stopped… I looked up to heaven… I seriously asked God these questions… I seek the answers… God replied…

Moomai <- the one that bugs God with all weird questions