This morning I and Pastor Mark Ritchie taught about the Church History and its really challenging. This is one of my favorite subject and I really enjoyed it. As I interpret Ptr. Mark I really felt the Fire of God within me. The Anointing of the Lord is very strong within me even in the life of every student. So, at the end of the subject I closed in prayer but the Spirit of the Lord fell down in our midst. It's really amazing, many are slain in the spirit, crying, there is a conviction of sin and I really felt the Spiritual hunger within us.
Many years ago we are praying for Revival, teach about revival, preached about revival and we shared about revival, but the problem is we have no enough hunger for God. We need to have a Spiritual hunger for God, we need to focus our eyes on Him and draw near to Him 'coz He will draw near to us. This morning God gave me a vision, a vision that really amazed me. In my spirit, I saw God sitting on His Throne and as I draw near to His throne, He stood up and He walk and draw near to me, I felt the embraced and loved of God in that moment, And I said to Him (God), "Lord, I want more of You!" I tell you the truth even now I really felt the Spiritual hunger for Him, I want more of God.
How about you? Are you hungry? You want more of God? Then you need to Draw near to Him!
Year 2008 is really a preparation for us as a Church specially here at Cornerstone Church Santiago. Many difficulties, challenges, problems, and excitement and I know this is a very common to every Churches. There is no perfect Church! Right? So nothing to worry, God is with us and He will never leave us nor forsake us! We are not the one to build the Church all we can do is to extend His Kingdom. And this is my prayer that God will extend our teritory, and we want to reach more people and bring them to Christ.
August 22-23 is a big day for all Cornerstone Leaders, 'coz we conduct the Leader's Summit. It's all about the "Vineyard." Pastor Mark shared to us about the prophecy that God has Given to him, "THE VINEYARD." So we pray, prepare, and plan. After this more preparation, prayer and planning we decided to plant FIVE Church within five months, so from Sept-January we are comitted to extend the Kingdom of God. So continue to pray for us because we believe that its time for the Church to give Birth!
Sunday night (Night service) is an exciting night. I really enjoy the service. The Presence of the Lord is so very strong and many people are slain in the spirit, laughing in the spirit and we experienced the manifestation of the Holy Spirit. In that service, no preaching, no program, all we can do is to worship the Living God and waiting upon Him. Many of us received Vision, Revelation, and Prophecy and we share it to each other. Praise the Lord!
Next month, I and some of Filipino Pastor will go to Scotland. I'm very excited and I want to thanks our friends from UK. Thank you very much because you are a blessing to us specially to the Filipino Congregation. Someday you will reap the HARVEST! Also, I want to extend my thanks to David S. and family for paying my Plane ticket going to UK, thank you very much my friend! I pray that God will bless and prosper you. See you soon...
Night Service
Feeding Program
I always share to our members here at Cornerstone Church Santiago that these Church is a without wall Church, a Church that will reach those who are ready to be harvested. Our cell group is really growing specially in Schools. In one school alone we have 34 students who are active in attending our cell groups and this morning I and Ptr. Jun are praying for this ministry and God shows us how to reach the students. So Ptr. Jun and I will meet our key leaders tonight to plan and prepare, bec. I believe God has a wonderful plan for this. Last overnight prayer meeting God gave me a word about the campus ministry. Wow, I’m really excited about this, so continue to pray for us. I saw the favor of God upon us, one of our cell group at bagong silang is also growing, before our cell leader started a cell group in small room but last week the room is to small for them so they decided to move to a bigger place. And now we have a cell group in community center and many young people are attending in this cell group.
About Youth Ministry, it’s really growing. Before, about 10 to 12 are attending the youth group, but now about 80 to 100 young people are attending our Friday youth service, and thank you elders and deacons of Cornerstone Church Santiago because you really support the Youth Group not only your presence is there but you used your money to extend the Kingdom of God, someday God will reward you.
About feeding program, from June 16 to July 31 we fed around 6,000 kids. Bro. Henry (one of the Elder of the Church) doing well and God is with him. And we want to extend our thanks those who really helping this ministry to reach the poor, especially the UK Team and Cornerstone Church Singapore.
About Hospital Ministry, still doing fine, this morning all the Pastors went to the patients and pray for healing. But I and August went to two rooms and preached the good news, I really enjoy sharing the Word to this people and Praise the Lord they received the Lord Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Last week the Singaporean team are here, they are a blessings for us. Maureen is our speaker at Cornestone Santiago especially in youth and Sunday morning service, she really encourage us, especially when she shared about WAITING. It’s true that most of us are impatient, right? That is the reason why, we want fast food, instant noodles, instant healing, and instant partners. But you know there is a blessing in waiting.
Sunday night service is amazing service, we have our own program but Praise the Lord God is in control. The presence of the Lord is very strong, and God gave a Word to Ptr. Mark about “Faith of Children,” and we ask all the kids to come at the front to pray for them and after ward the kids prayed for the adults. When that things happen I remember the book that I read about the French prophet in the year of 1685, ‘ children as young as 3 years old both prophesied and delivered discourses in perfect, fluent French even though this was not their native tongue. On one occasion, a fourteen (14) month old child, who previously had never spoken, suddenly began exhorting “to the works of Repentance” in a childish voice’ PRAISE THE LORD!
About Bible School, I and Pastor Mark teach about Acts of the Holy Spirit and Church History and we really enjoy it. On one occasion, as we teach about the Baptism of the Holy Spirit to the Bible school students, suddenly those who are not baptize in the Holy Spirit begun to speak in tongues and we saw the manifestations of the Holy Spirit. It’s really amazing and all I can say is GLORY TO GOD!
Hello there! It's been long time that i did not post to our blog. I have many news for you, maybe or next blog/article I will tell it, because i'm here at Ramon, Isabela about 20 minutes to travel from Santiago city to here. My sister invited me to her son's birthday. It's a lot of food here...mmmmm.... sarappp (delicious). And this reminded me about the new birth, Jesus said, "Unless a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God" in the original manuscript He said, unless a man BE BORN FROM ABOVE he canot see the Kingdom of God. All of us are created by God but not all of us are CHILDREN OF GOD. If there is a natural birthday there is also a SPIRITUAL BIRTHDAY, a day when we receive Jesus Christ us our Lord and Saviour, a day when we said, 'Lord forgive me, I'm a sinner and I am nothing without You...' Spiritual birthday is a Glorious day. How about you? Are you belong to the Family of God?
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