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NEVER GETS OLD

Paolo Punzalan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:47:15 +0000

We had Victory Weekend today.

VW is a 2 day retreat to encounter God, get filled by His Holy Spirit, be set free from sin patterns and break curses that have been passed on from generation to generation.

We have it every month.

Spoke to a guy who has been in church for years and yet never really progressed spiritually. Marriage problems. Business falling apart. Lost spiritually.

But today, God did something amazing. Hard to explain in words but according to him, today is a turning point.

His life changed… God gets the credit. He always should.

Seeing a life transformed never gets old.

LIVE, LEAD & DIE

Paolo Punzalan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:24:10 +0000

For our date night, Jenn and I watched “From Paris With Love”. It was not your typical chick flick love story to say the least. I don’t think she enjoyed the movie. (But I did… )

One of the main characters turned out to be a suicide bomber (sorry to ruin the plot for those of you planning to see it). She said she has found her purpose in life.

While not most of us will not agree with her found purpose in life, I dare say, at least she found one.

Too many simply exist. They walk through life without purpose. They live like everything’s just about them. Wake up… Go to work/or school… come home… surf on the Net… have some bit of fun… sleep and the same rut happens again the next day.

Reading from the book of Judges, 2 names popped out – Tola and Jair. The Bible says that they were born, they lived, they led and they died. That’s it. While I’m sure they did more than just live, lead and die, the Bible didn’t think it was enough to make it into the book of Judges.

Got me thinking. Got me praying.

“Lord, I don’t want to just live, lead and then die. I want to make a difference. I want to make a dent in this nation’s history – not by my strength or abilities (knowing that I really don’t have lots) but by Your grace and power!”

HE SEES IT WAY BEFORE

Paolo Punzalan — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:29:05 +0000

“I don’t know if I can…”

“Maybe I’m not the person for this…”

“How do you know I can…”

These are a few questions that may run through our mind when God asks us to accomplish a task for Him.

This was God’s statement to Gideon.

The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” (Judges 6:12)

The funny thing is this – he hasn’t even gone to war yet!

None… nada… zilch.

But God declared way before the first battle, ‘you are a mighty warrior.’ You are the man! You can do it.

The key was the next statement God gives him,

“I WILL be with you…” (Judges 6:16)

This only says one thing – we can’t but God can.

Then that settles it.