GRACE TUCKED IN LETTERS

Have you ever been broken, guilty, and distant from God? Have you honestly asked if God could still save and redeem you if you keep on returning to the same sin you have vowed a number of times never to get back?  Truth of the matter, I am not an exception to that. I have been a Christian for quite some time already, surrendered my life to Jesus years back. I have been claiming one Promise after the other, holding one Truth after the other. However, Satan’s “lies”  are undeniably real and at times leave me consumed with so much unworthiness.  How do I overcome such seemingly helpless falling into the same sin? How can I fight the feeling of being powerless of its grip? Am I really a “new creation?” That the old has gone and the new has come? This is where the real fight comes in and this is the whole point of  WHY I LOVE JESUS.  With reverence, I boldly repeat, the whole point of...

I moved in for closer look at the empty room. With the round tables tucked in red cloth and bond papers placed atop, the echo of excitement and joy bouncing back the walls was all I could hear from my expectant heart—expectant that He would do Immeasurably More. Leap of faith was the exact picture of the over-all 52 delegates from our school to the National Christian Medical Conference named Heartbeat and Advanced Leadership Training. This conference was a gathering of medical students from different medical schools all over the Philippines, in which medical doctors of the Philippine Medical Ministry spearheaded it. Considering the registration fee and round trip tickets for each delegate, it was impossible for us, the core leaders of our school ministry, to raise such huge amount. In fact, we arrived at Manila knowing our funds would not suffice. Hence, the leap of faith! Weeks prior the aforementioned event, it was my personal declaration to God that we would be able to r...