Happy New Year 2013

Thank you so much Lord for another year of my life. Thank you Lord for all the blessings last year. Thank you Lord for everything and I am looking forward for this year of 2013.

What did I do today? I watched the store and we closed minutes before 12 am of 2013. I was also talking to my hubby on skype while watching the store. I went to my room at 12 am and talked to hubby and we prayed together. Praying that this year we will receive the total healing of my hubby. Lord, have mercy on us and give my hubby another chance. Thank You Lord. Thank you for all the blessings you have in store for us this year. I love you Lord.

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Saturday, December 8th, The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Saturday, December 8, 2012 “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus.  He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever and of his Kingdom  there will be no end.”  (Luke 1:30-33) Mary, in the novena of Our Lady Of Perpetual Help, is described not “only as the mother of the Redeemer, but as the mother of the redeemed as well.”  The Angel Gabriel’s pronouncement to Mary reveals the Messiah in the fullness of what was promised by God to all of us.  To be honest, I don’t think this fourteen-year-old woman could conceive that she would be the one whose child fulfills the hope of all, thus making her the Mother of the Human Race. No wonder God created such a perfect human being.  If Mary is going to be responsible for so many, it’s no wonder that God holds her in such esteem.   As a child, I turned to my mother first to help me to grow, to heal and to learn how to love.  Spiritually, turning to Mary for so many different things in prayer and devotion only leads me to this perfect heart that gave me so much. If we understand how much her heart must love, then maybe we can understand Christ’s love from the cross when he says: “son behold your mother, mother behold your son.” (John 19: 26-27) Denis J. Ryan, CSsR > Today, we celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Conception. I'm sorry Lord for I was not able to make it to church earlier today. Happy Birthday Mama Mary, thank you for being there, praying for us always. Thank you for your love for us. Thank You, Thank you Mama Mary. Mwaah

The Feast of Christ the King

Today we celebrate the feast of Jesus Christ the King. I woke up 15 minutes before 4 am to attend the procession with my cousin and neighbors. There was a Holy Mass after the procession. It is my first time to attend this celebration of Christ the King Feast and it is a good feeling remembering Jesus as our king.

Lord, thank for today. Lord, please be the king of my life and my hubby too. You have done so many great things to our lives Lord and we want to show our gratitude to You Lord by helping others if that is Your will Lord. I can't deny Lord that I am asking still this very bug favor to You. Sorry Lord and Thank You. It is Your will Lord still will prevail not mine. But You said Lord, ask and I shall receive it. I'm asking with all my heart Lord and You know the desire of my heart. Thank You Lord. Thank You.
I love you Lord

2 Thousand Hail Marys

I attended the prayer meeting today with the children in our neighbor.

Dr Richard Teo - Thoughts of Life, Wealth, Success & Happiness

Recorded at the Dental Christian Fellowship , on 24 Nov 2011, 8 months after his diagnosis.

Richard would have liked to share this with you. We are doing this to continue his work. 

Please have a read and leave it behind for someone else to benefit from his sharing. 

If you would like a copy, please let any of his family or close friends know and we will be able to provide both the audio recording as well as the transcript.

Thank you, and may God bless you richly.

Below is the transcript of the talk of Dr. Richard Teo, who was a 40-year-old millionaire and cosmetic surgeon with a stage-4 lung cancer, sharing at a Dental Christian Fellowship Meeting. He would have liked to share this with you too.

HIS BACKGROUND

Hi good morning to all of you. My voice is a bit hoarse from the chemotherapy, so please bear with me. I thought I'll just introduce myself. My name is Richard, I’m a friend of Danny’s, who invited me here.

I’d just begin to say that I’m a typical product of today’s society. Before this, I was talking about how the media influences us etc. So I’m a typical product of what the media portrays. From young, I’ve always been under the influence and impression that to be happy, is to be successful. And to be successful, is to be wealthy. So I led my life according to this motto.

Coming from a poor average family, back in those days, I was highly competitive, whether in sports, studies, leadership. I wanted it all. I’ve been there, done that. But at the end of the day, it’s still about money.

So in my recent last years, I was a trainee in ophthalmology, but I was getting impatient, cos I had friends of mine who were going out into private practise, making tonnes of money. And there I was, stuck in a traineeship. So I said, ‘Enough, it’s getting too long.’ At that time, there was a surge in protégés of aesthetic medicine. I’m sure you’re aware, aesthetic medicine had peaked over the last few years, and I saw good money in there. So much so that I said, ‘Forget about ophthalmology, I’m gonna do aesthetic medicine.’ So that’s what I did.

The truth is, nobody makes heroes out of the average GP in the neighbourhood. They don't. They make heroes out of rich celebrities, politicians, rich and famous people. So I wanted to be one of these. I dived straight into aesthetic medicine. People were not willing to pay when I was doing locum back in those days. Anything more than $30, they would complain that “Wah, this lo kun (doctor) jing qwee (very expensive)”. They made noise and they were not happy. But the same people were willing to pay $10 000 for a liposuction. So I said, ‘Well, let’s stop healing the sick, I’m gonna become a beautician; a medically-trained beautician.’

And that was what I did – liposuction, breast augmentation, eyelid surgeries, you name it, we do it. It was very good money. My clinic, when we started off, waiting time was 1 week; 1 month; became 2 months; became 3 months. There was so much demand that people were literally queuing up to have aesthetic work done on them. Vain women – easy life!

So the clinic grew. I was so overwhelmed, from 1 doctor, I employed 2, then 3, then 4 doctors, and carried on. Nothing is ever enough. I wanted more and more and more. So much so that we set up shop in Indonesia to lure all the Indonesian tai tai’s. We set up shop, set up a team of people there, to get more Indonesian patients to come in.

So, things were doing well. I’m there, my time has arrived. 

Around some time in February last year, I said, ‘OK, I have so much spare cash, it’s time to get my first Ferrari. So there I was, getting ready for the deposit. ‘OK! There comes my first Ferrari!’ I was looking for land, to share with some of my friends. I have a banker friend who makes $5 million a year. So I thought, ‘Come, let’s come together. Let’s buy some land and build our houses.’

I was at my prime, getting ready to enjoy. At the same time, my friend Danny had a revival. They were going back to church, some of my close friends. They told me, ‘Richard, come, join us, come back to church.’

I have been a Christian for 20 years; I was baptised 20 years ago, but it was because it was fashionable to be a Christian then. All my friends were becoming Christians then. It was fashionable! I wanted to be baptised, so that when I filled in a form, I could put there “Christian” – feels good. In truth, I had never had a bible; I don’t know what the bible is all about.

I went to church for a while, after some time, I got tired. I said it’s time to go to NUS, stop going to church. I had a lot more things to pursue in NUS – girls, studies, sports etc. After all, I had achieved all these things without God today, so who needs God? I myself can achieve anything I want.

In my arrogance, I told them, “You know what? You go tell your pastor to change your sermon to 2pm. I will consider coming to church.” Such arrogance! And I said 1 statement in addition to that – till date, I don’t know I’ve regretted saying that – I told Danny and my friends, “If God really wanted me to come back to church, He will give me a sign.”. Lo and behold, 3 weeks later, I was back at church.







THE DIAGNOSIS


In March 2011, out of the blues – I was still running around, ‘cause I’m a gym freak and I always go to the gym training, running, swimming 6 days a week. I had some backache, and that’s all I had, but it was persistent. And so I went for an MRI to exclude prolapsed disc. And the day before I had my scan, I was still in the gym, lifting heavy weights, doing my squats. And the next day, they found that half my spine had bone marrow replacement. I said, “Woah, sorry, what’s that?” 

We had a PET scan the next day, and they diagnosed that I had terminal lung cancer, stage 4B. It had spread to the brain, half the spine, whole of my lungs were filled with tumour, liver, adrenals…

I said, “Can’t be, I was just at the gym last night, what’s going on?” I’m sure you know how it feels – though I’m not sure if you know how it feels. One moment I was there at the peak, the next day, this news came and I was totally devastated. My whole world just turned upside down. 

I couldn’t accept it. I have a hundred relatives on both sides, my mom and my dad. 100 of them. And not a single one has cancer. To me, in my mind, I have good genes, I’m not supposed to be having this! Some of my relatives are heavy chain smokers. Why am I having lung cancer? I was in denial.






HIS ENCOUNTER WITH GOD


So the next day, I was still in a state of denial, still unable to accept what was going on. There I was lying in an operating theatre in a hospital, for a needle biopsy (for histology). There I was, just completed the biopsy, and lying in the operating theatre. The nurses and doctors had left; told me I had to wait for 15 minutes to do a check X-ray to make sure there’s no pneumothorax (a complication).

And there I was, lying on the operating table, staring blankly at the ceiling in a cold, quiet operating theatre. Suddenly I just heard an inner voice; it was not like coming from outside. It was inside. This small inner voice that I had never felt before. And it said very specifically, it said, “This has to happen to you, at your prime, because it’s the only way you can understand.”

I said, “Woah, why did that come from?” You know, when you speak to yourself, you’d say, “OK, what time should I leave this place? Where shall I have dinner after this?” You’d speak from a first person point of view. You don’t say, “Where should YOU go after this?” Whereas the voice that came spoke as a third party. It said, “This has to happen to YOU, at YOUR prime, because this is the only way YOU can understand.” At that time, my emotions just overflowed and I broke down and cried, alone there. And I knew then, subsequently, what it means to understand that why this is the only way.

Because I had been so proud of myself, my whole life, I needed nobody else. I was gifted with things that I could do, why do I need anybody else? I was just so full of myself that there was no other way I could have turned back to God.

In fact, if I were diagnosed with stage 1 or 2, I would have been looking around busily for the best cardiothoracic surgeon, remove a section of the lobe (do a lobectomy), do preventive chemotherapy…The chances of it being cured is extremely high. Who needs God? But I had stage 4B. No man can help, only God can.

A series of events happened after that. I wasn’t sold after that, because of the inner voice, I became believing, prayers, all that. No I wasn’t. To me, it was just ‘maybe there was a voice; or maybe that was just me talking to myself.’ I didn’t buy the story.

What happened next was that I was being prepared for chemotherapy. I started off with a whole brain radiation therapy first; takes about 2 -3 weeks. In the meantime they prepared me for chemotherapy, supplements etc. One of the things they used for chemo was a thing called Zometa. Zometa - they use it to strengthen the bones; once the bone marrow (replacement) is cured of cancer cells, it becomes hollow, so we need Zometa to strengthen the bone to prevent compression fractures. 

One of the side effects of Zometa is that it can cause osteonecrosis (bone death) of the jaw, and I had to have my wisdom teeth removed. Years ago, I had my upper wisdom teeth removed, cos it was giving me trouble. The lower ones didn’t give me trouble so I said, “Forget it, just leave it.” So of cause, Danny volunteered to remove it for me.

So there I was, lying there in a dental chair, asking myself, suffering all the side effects of radiotherapy, and now I have to go through wisdom tooth surgery. As if I’ve not had enough to suffer! So I asked Danny, “Eh, bro, is there any other way? Can I not go though this?” He said, “Yes, you can pray.” 

I said, “What’s there to lose? Ok lah, pray lah!” And so we prayed. And we did an X-ray after that. Everything was all there, all the appliances and everything. And lo and behold, the Xray showed that there was no wisdom teeth in the lower jaw. I know most people have 4 wisdom teeth, maybe some have none, but to be missing one or 2, as I understand – I’m not too sure, as I understand – is not that common.

Still I was, “Nah, I don’t care about that.” To me, as long as I didn’t have to take out the tooth, I was happy. At that point, I still wasn’t sold on prayers. Maybe it was just a coincidence – for whatever it’s worth.

I continued meeting my oncologist, asking him, “How long do I have?” I asked him. He said, not more than 6 months. I said, “Even with chemotherapy?” About 3 – 4 months, he said. 

I couldn’t grasp that. It was difficult to come to terms. And even as I went through radiotherapy, I was struggling everyday, especially when I wake up, hoping that it’s just a nightmare; when I wake up, it’s all over.

As I was struggling, day after day, I went into depression, which is the typical denial, depression blah blah blah that you go through. But for 1 reason, I don’t know why, there was this specific day that I was supposed to meet my oncologist. At about 2pm, I felt this sudden surge of peace, comfort, and in fact, a little happiness. It was just overflowing. For no rhyme or reason, it just came about 2pm, as I was getting ready, dressing up to meet my oncologist. So much so that I whats-apped all my friends that, “Bros, I just feel so good suddenly! I don’t know why, it just came!”

And it was only days, or was it weeks after, that Danny revealed to me that he had fasted for 2 days for me, and he was bargaining with God, and fasted for 2 dyas, and he ended his fast at that exact same point, about 2pm thereabouts, that this surge of sensation came to me for no rhyme or reason. And I didn’t know that he was fasting for me. And when he ended the fast, I felt that sensation!

Whoa, things were getting a bit too coincidental. I was starting to buy a bit of the story, but still I wasn’t sold. As days passed by, I completed my radiotherapy, about 2 weeks plus. Getting ready for chemo, so they let me rest for a few days.

See, the mortality rate of lung cancer : Lung cancer has the highest mortality rate. If you add up breast, colorectal (colon) cancer, and prostate cancer (the top few cancers in Singapore for men and women), if you add up the mortality rate of these 3, it still doesn’t add up to lung cancer. Simply because, you understand, you can remove the prostate, the colon, the breast, but you cannot remove your lungs.

But there’s about 10% of lung cancer patients who do pretty well for some reasons, because they have this specific mutation; we call it the EGFR mutation. And it happens, only 90% of the time, in Asian ladies who never smoked in their lives. Me, first of all, I’m male. 2ndly, I’m a social smoker. I take one a day after dinner; weekends, when my friends offer me, I take it as well. I’m a light smoker, not a social smoker. But still, my oncologist was still not hopeful for me to have this mutation. 

The chances of it happening for me was maybe 3-4% for me to get it. That’s why I was being primed to go for chemo. But through all the intense prayers, friends like Danny, people that I don’t even know, it turned out that, during my waiting for chemo, the results came back that I was EGFR positive. I was like, “Woah, good news!” Cos now I don’t have to undergo chemo at that time, because there’s this oral tablet that you can use to control this disease.











Just to share with you some idea – this is a CT scan – thorax – of my lungs, before treatment. 

AFTER BEFORE 

Every single dot there is a tumour. You can see all the mets (metastasis) there. This is just one single plane. Literally I had it in both lungs, and I had literally tens of thousands of tumour. That’s why the oncologist told me, even with chemo, at most 3-4 months.

But because of this mutation, they have this oral medication. This is what happened after 2 months of treatment. As you can see over here; this is what God can do. And that’s why I’m still here having this opportunity to share with you. As you can see over here, the difference between before and after treatment.

At that point, I said, “Well, it’s to be expected, isn’t it? The medicine is good.” I’m still not buying the story. Well, the guys prayed for me and the tumour markers started to come down. 90% of the tumours were wiped out, and the tumour markers came down to more than 90% over the next few months.

But still, you know, once you have the clinical knowledge, you know the statistics. One year survival, two year survival; having all this knowledge is not a good thing. Cos you live with the knowledge that even with all this, the cancer cells are so unstable, they keep mutating. They will overcome and become resistant to the drugs, and eventually you’re gonna run out of medication.

So living with this knowledge is a huge mental struggle, a huge mental torture. Cancer is not just about a physical struggle, it’s a huge mental torture. How do you live with no hope? How do you live with not being able to plan for the next few years? The oncologist tells you to bear with it for the next 1 – 2 months. So it’s a lot of struggles as I went through: March, then April. April was my lowest point, in deep depression, struggling even as I was recovering.

HIS ACCEPTANCE & PEACE

And one of those days, I was there in bed, struggling in the afternoon, asking God, “Why? Why do I have to go through this suffering? Why do I have to endure this hardship, this struggle? Why me?” 

As I fell asleep, in my dreamy state, a vision just came, that says Hebrews 12:7-8.

Now mind you, at this time, I had not read the bible. I have no clue what’s Hebrews, I don’t even know how many chapters there are. Totally clueless.

But it says Hebrews 12:7-8, very specifically.

I didn’t think too much of it. I just continued sleeping. Then I woke up, and I said, “What’s there to lose? I’d just check it out lah!” Danny had bought me a bible; it’s still quite new. I said, “It’s ok, just try.” So I flipped to the Old Testament. Hebrews to me sounds like something ancient, so it should be in the Old Testament right? So I flipped through the Old Testament. No Hebrews there. I was so disappointed.

Then I said, “Maybe New Testament, let’s have a look!”. WOW – New Testament, there’s Hebrew’s!! It says Hebrews 12:7-8. It says, “Endure hardship as discipline as God is treating you as His children.”


I said, “WAH!! Where did that come from?” I was getting goose pimples all over my body. I said, “This can’t be, right?” I mean, what’s the chance of somebody, who has never read the bible, to have a vision of a chapter of a specific verse, that answers my question directly?

I think God called to me directly as I was there sleeping, struggling with it, asking God, “Why do I have to suffer? Why do I have to suffer this?” And God says “Endure hardship as discipline as God is treating you as His child.”

At this point, the chance of that happening is even lesser than my EGFR being positive. There’s just no way; there’s so many millions of thousands of verses in the bible, how can I just conjure up something like that?

So at that point, I was sold I said, “YOU WIN! YOU WIN!!”

Ok , I was convinced. And so from that day onwards, I started believing in my God. And the last time I heard that inner voice was the end of April. And that inner voice, same thing, in the afternoon, as I was sleeping (this time I wasn’t struggling, just going to sleep). In a dreamy state I just heard Him say, “Help others in hardship.”

It was more like a command, rather than a statement. And that’s when I embarked on this journey, helping others in hardship. And I realised that hardship is not just about being poor. In fact, I think a lot of poor people are probably happier than a lot of us here. They are so easily contented with whatever they have, they’re probably pretty happy.

Hardship can happen to rich people; it can be physical hardship, mental hardship, social, etc. And also over the last few months, I started to understand what this true joy is about. In the past, I substituted true joy with the pursuing of wealth. I thought true joy is about pursuing wealth. Why? Cos let me put it to you this way, in my death bed, I found no joy whatsoever in whatever objects I had – my Ferrari, thinking of the land I was going to buy to build my bungalow etc, having a successful business.

It brought me ZERO comfort, ZERO joy, nothing at all. Do you think I can hold onto this piece of metal and it’s going to give true joy? Nah, it’s not going to happen. 

True joy comes from interaction with other people. And at a lot of times, it is a short term pride, the past. When you pursue your wealth, Chinese New Year is the best time to do it. Drive my Ferrari, show off to my relatives, show off to my friends, do my rounds, and then you thought that was true joy? You really think that those guys who sold you your Ferrari, they share their joy with you? And your relatives, wow, they share this joy with you? In truth, what you have done is just to illicit envy, jealousy, and even hatred. They are not sharing the joy with you, and what I have is that short-term pride that wow, I have something you don’t have! And I thought that was joy!

So what we have is basically a short-term pride at the expense of somebody else. And that wasn’t true joy. And I found no joy at all on my deathbed, thinking of my Ferrari – to hold on to it, sayang it?!?

True joy I discovered comes from interaction. Over the last few months I was so down. Interaction with my loved ones, my friends, my brothers in Christ, my sisters in Christ, and only then was I able to be motivated, able to be uplifted. To share your sorrow, to share your happiness – that’s true joy.

And you know what makes you smile? True joy comes from helping others in hardship, and because I’ve gone through this, I know what hardship entails. In fact, there’re some cancer patients who tell me a lot of times, people come up to them and tell them, “Stay positive. Stay positive.” Yah, right. You come in my shoes and you try to stay positive! You don’t know what you’re talking about!

But I have the licence. So I’ve been going out to meet other fellow cancer patients, to share with them, encourage them. And I know, because I’ve been through it, and it’s easier for me to talk to them.

And most importantly, I think true joy comes from knowing God. Not knowing about God – I mean, you can read the bible and know about God – but knowing God personally; getting a relationship with God. I think that’s the most important. That’s what I’ve learnt.

So if I were to sum it up, I’d say that the earlier we sort out the priorities in our lives, the better it is. Don’t be like me – I had no other way. I had to learn it through the hard way. I had to come back to God to thank Him for this opportunity because I’ve had 3 major accidents in my past – car accidents. You know, these sports car accidents – I was always speeding , but somehow I always came out alive, even with the car almost being overturned. And I wouldn’t have had a chance. Who knows, I don’t know where else I’d be going to! Even though I was baptised it was just a show, but the fact that this has happened, it gave me a chance to come back to God.

Few things I’d learnt though:
1. Trust in the Lord your God with all your heart – this is so important.
2. Is to love and serve others, not just ourselves.

There is nothing wrong with being rich or wealthy. I think it’s absolutely alright, cos God has blessed. So many people are blessed with good wealth, but the trouble is I think a lot of us can’t handle it. The more we have, the more we want. I’ve gone through it, the deeper the hole we dig, the more we get sucked into it, so much so that we worship wealth and lose focus. Instead of worshipping God, we worship wealth. It’s just a human instinct. It’s just so difficult to get out of it.

We are all professionals, and when we go into private practise, we start to build up our wealth – inevitably. So my thought are, when you start to build up wealth and when the opportunity comes, do remember that all these things don’t belong to us. We don’t really own it nor have rights to this wealth. It’s actually God’s gift to us. Remember that it’s more important to further His Kingdom rather than to further ourselves.

Anyway I think that I’ve gone through it, and I know that wealth without God is empty. It is more important that you fill up the wealth, as you build it up subsequently, as professionals and all, you need to fill it up with the wealth of God.

I think that’s about it. It’s good to share. Thanks.

http://www.heavenaddress.com/Dr-Richard-Teo-Keng-Siang/424153/379719/content



- Wow, very inspiring story of Dr. Richard  Teo. Thank you Lord for I was able to read this and learned something. To put You Lord first in everything and to love my neighbors as I love myself. Help me Lord. Teach me and my hubby too who was diagnosed with cancer also. I know you have plans for us Lord. Teach us to know and to act it on Lord. Give us faith we need Lord. Thank  You Father.

October, Month of Rosary

October is the month of  Holy Rosary for us, Catholics. I will do my best not to miss a day in praying the Rosary. I'm very happy that we have "Birhen sa Barangay" in our place and have the chance  to teach the children on how to pray the rosary. Thank you Lord God for this opportunity you have given to me. This is also my way of thanking You Lord and Mama Mary for all the blessing I have received and for all the answered prayers. Mama Mary, honestly I was just happy to teach the kids and be able to pray the rosary but we need again your intercession and asking your help to pray for my hubby's healing. I believe God is already doing something, please teach me and hubby to trust Him fully. Thank you Mama Mary. Thank You Lord.

Zian's 1st Birthday

I attended tonight the birthday party of baby Zian. It was very good, I could say the best so far from parties I attended in the past. I was amazed and happy to see my classmates too. Here is the picture of the setting..,

                                                             @ Bistro Rosario

Don't Quit

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up though the pace seems slow--
You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than,
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up,
When he might have captured the victor's cup,
And he learned too late when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out--
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far,
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

- Author unknown

Happy Birthday Mama Mary

Happy Birthday to our Mama Mary. Thank you so much Mama Mary for being a very good example of woman of faith. Thank you for all the intercessions you made. I love you Mama Mary.

Miracles in My Life

I do personally believe in miracles and experienced God's goodness. Thank you Lord.

Past Years

• Passed the Licensure examination for nurses despite the bloopers I made.
• Passed the Licensure exam for teachers despite I was just doing self-review and working part time.
• Became a  government scholar for 4 years and was able to go to one of the best schools in my city despite the financial problem.
• Became an honor student in high school and for two years were able to have discount on my tuition.
• God showed me the electric problem in my socket at 2 am and saved us from fire.
• I was diagnosed by doctor with Pneumonia but was healed after taking 1 week rest and turning back to God.
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WHY?

WHY?

1. Why should I say I can't when the Bible says I can do all things
through Christ who gives me strength? (Phil 4:13)

2. Why should I lack when I know that God shall supply all my needs
according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus? (Phil 4:19)

3. Why should I fear when the Bible says God has not given me a spirit
of fear, but of power, love and sound mind? (2Tim 1:7)

4. Why should I lack faith to fulfill my calling knowing that God has
allotted to me a measure of faith? (Rom 12:3)

5. Why should I be weak, when the Bible says that the Lord is the
strength of my life and that I will display strength and take action
because I know God? (Psalm 27:1 Dan 11:32)

6. Why should I allow Satan supremacy over my life when He that is in
me is greater than he that is in the world. (1 John 4:4)

7. Why should I lack wisdom, when Christ gave wisdom to me from God and
God gives wisdom to me generously when I ask for it? (1 Cor 1:30, James
1:5)

8. Why should I accept defeat when the Bible says that God always leads
me in triumph? (2Cor 2:14)

9. Why should I be depressed when I can recall to mind God's loving
kindness, compassion, and faithfulness and have hope? (Lam 3:21-23)

10. Why should I worry and fret when I can cast all my anxiety on Christ
who cares for me? (1Peter 5:7)

11. Why should I be in bondage knowing that there is liberty where the
Spirit of the Lord is? (Gal 5:1)

12. Why should I feel condemned when the Bible says I am not condemned
because I am in Christ Jesus. (Rom 8:1)

13. Why should I feel alone when Jesus said He would be with me always,
and He will never leave me or forsake me? (Mat 28:20 & Heb 13:5)

14. Why should I feel accursed or that I am a victim of bad luck, when
the Bible says that Christ redeemed me the curse of the law, that I might
receive His Spirit? (Gal 3:13-14)

15. Why should I be discontented when I, like Paul, can learn to be
content in all my circumstances? (Phil 4:11)

16. Why should I feel worthless when Christ became sin on my behalf that
I might become the righteousness of God in Him? (2Cor 5:21)

17. Why should I have a persecution complex, knowing that nobody can be
against me when God is for me? (Rom 8:31)

18. Why should I be confused when God is the author of peace and He
gives me knowledge through His indwelling Spirit? (1Cor 14:33 & 2:12)

19. Why should I feel like a failure when I am a conqueror in all
things through Christ? (Rom 8:37)

20. Why should I let the pressures of life bother me when I can take
courage knowing the Jesus has overcome the world and it's tribulations?
(John 16:33)

Forwarded by Honorato Norman C Villaplana

Another Miracle - Thank You Lord

When I woke up this morning, my papa told me a story about what happened last night. It was 1:30 am when everyone deeply sleeping. My father woke up to go pee. While peeing he saw something outside the window on our gate. He saw a shadow because it was very dark outside and he tried to look at it clearly. He saw a man inside already of our gate and was able to speak "kawatan" ( meaning a theft) but his face was covered by a shirt. When the theft heard it, he jump through the fence like a spiderman. When I heard the story, I was so thankful to God again for keeping us safe and for working really in ways we can't see. Lord God, we owe a lot from you, thank You so much for this another miracle in our lives, thank you for protecting us and keeping us safety always. A million thank you to You Lord.

Earthquake in My Place

Last weekend, we experienced the intensity 5 earthquake in our place. The whole Visayas and Mindanao were able to feel the earthquake but higher intensity to the Visayas area. We were in the second floor of our house and we really felt the shaking and it took about 5 minutes if I was not wrong, the longest so far I ever felt. Lord, thank you so much everyone is safe,my loved ones and the rest of our neighbors but I felt sorry for the family of one who died, may his/her soul rest in peace. What amazed me most is after the earthquake, I checked my parents who were watching television that time that they didnot feel the earthquake, wow Praise you Lord. Thank you so much Lord for your protection always, because if ever my mom would feel it for sure she would be nervous due to her hypertension.. amazing indeed how God works. Thank you Father for this miracle.

Movie Time - Baby Makers

I watched Baby Makers today on my laptop. It was funny and somehow me and hubby could relate to the couple.

7 Secret of Success

I just would like to share this secret of success. I got this from facebook. It is really true and need to apply this to myself. I need to push my self more to do the important things. Help me Lord.

My Tumblr Blog

http://mariasnotebook.tumblr.com/  - I would like to share to everyone my blog. This is the time I was preparing for my local board exam. Thank you Lord for all the blessing especially in passing the local board exam. All Glory and Praises to You Lord.

1st Day of May

The month of May was my plan of starting to review for my NCLEX, a self-review.

Prayer Lists

Dear Lord,

Thank you Lord for all the blessings and for the gift of life. Thank you for the problems we encounter for this make us stronger and connect on You more.
Today I received some bad news and I would like to write my prayers for them. Here are my prayers Lord.

• Healing and recovery of my cousin Elmer who is in the hospital right now due to dengue fever and he needed to have blood transfusion today. Praying for his fast recovery Lord.
• Healing of Richard and Eve's baby girl who is in the ICU right now due to infection. Eve just gave birth last few days and it was weeks early. Be with them oh Lord especially Richard who is far and Eve is still on her recovery after the operation. 
• Healing of my brother Richard's knee for he can hardly walk due to pain and swelling. 
• Healing of my hubby's neck pain and that he will be able to handle stress properly with Your help Lord. 
• Healing of those who sick and badly needed your help Lord.

I pray all of these in Jesus Name and through the intercession of Mary our Mother. Thank you Father.

Happy Easter!

Me and hubby went to church this morning at Sta. Ana Parish. The message of the priest today in his homily is about the Easter, the RESURRECTION of our Lord Jesus Christ. He divided the word resurrection into 3 syllables, first, is the RE for Rejoice - we need to rejoice because Jesus has risen and a true Catholic or Christian is happy. Second is SUR for Surpass because Jesus was able to surpass sufferings and death and Jesus will be with us in our journey here on earth especially on surpassing our problems. Third is RECTION for Direction, a new direction , Jesus himself is giving us new life which lead to new direction. Indeed what a meaningful meaning the priest had shared. Thank you Jesus for saving us and being a great example to us. Thank you Father for Your great love to us, nothing less, it's an overflowing love. PLease continue to send your Holy Spirit to me/us Lord to guide always wherever we go and whatever we do.

I love you Lord. 

Good Friday

I stayed up late last night because learning and downloading some applications of my new gadget. I downloaded applications and came across with the station of the cross so I downloaded it. When I was about to sleep I did read the station of the cross and prayed.  I got up in the morning late and just stayed home with my hubby and my parents. We listened to the Seven Last Words of Jesus on the television ABS-CBN channel and learned new things. I was really touched on the stories/testimonies of the sharers especially the businessman who was imprisoned but innocent and was proven not guilty after 38 days. Indeed Lord everything happens for a reason, help me Lord to acknowledge Your will. Lord, me and my hubby have plans in life and it seems that the future is so uncertain but knowing You are there always for us Lord make us feel better and as You said Lord in Jeremiah 29:11 -  ¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Thank you so much Lord for Your Words and just realized during/after the 7 Last Words that I am missing something and it is Your Word oh Lord.  I told myself that I needed to read the Bible again and read everyday so I tried to search on my new gadget and thankful I found the application and I have it now. Help me Lord to understand Your words, please send Your Holy Spirit to enlighten and understand. 


Thank You so much Lord for saving me, thank you for dying on the cross for my/our sins, thank you for the unconditional love you showed to everyone of us. Help me Lord God to live my life in accordance to Your Holy Will. 


TOnight, my and hubby prayed the Holy Rosary and said our prayers to Lord Jesus Christ. Thank Lord for Your Great love.