START A YEAR WITH GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD!!!!

It's better to start a year with right perspective in life. Start to have a right relationship with God. Many people often asked how to have a relationship with someone you don't even met, cannot see or cannot heard. Many Christians explained that you can develop a personal relationship with God by seeing "JESUS" . Let Jesus be the center of our lives. They might also suggest developing a relationship with God int he same way you first developed a relationship with your spouse. It is also better to start reading God Word which is the Bible to get to know God better and to guide us throughout our lives. In the bible, there is a famous passage of prayer for all the people. You can find it in Mathew 6.
In this manner, therefore pray,

Our Father in heaven,

Hallowed be your Name

Your kingdom come

Your will be done

On earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread

and forgive us our debts.

As we forgive our debtors

and do not lead us into temptation

But deliver us from the evil one

START HEALTHY IN YEAR 2009!!!

Happy New Year!!I hope you all enjoy your long vacation with your family and friends. I hope that you spend quality time with your loves ones. January 1 is not only the start of a year but many of us starting to make a new year resolution. I already have made 3 new year resolutions and I hope that I can keep my resolutions for this year. At the start of the year, I hope that we remain healthy, spend more time with our family, spend more time to God and have a healthy living for all of us. Sticking our resolutions can be difficult but it is not impossible. What exciting about new year is there is hope within us that our lives will be change for better. It is a great time for us to thinks positive ways how to become a better person and to have healthier living. But when we make an unrealistic goals, it will lead us to frustations beacause it is impossible to achieve those goals. Keeping a resolution to change one thing is a priceless gift we can give to ourselves.
These are some advices regarding New Year reolutions:

• try again - everyone has made resolutions every year and they didn't succeed in keeping it. Don't worry don't lose hope.. Start with a positive aproach. Don't get discourage with environment.
• don't make too many resolutions- pick a reasonable, realistic goal with a reasonable time frame.
• choose your own resolution- make sure that you choose your own resolution for your benefits. Make sure that you want to accomplish that goals for your benefits.
• make a plan and write it down- it is advisable to write down your resolutions to track down your progress. Make a realistic goals within 6 to 8 months to get inspired to keep going. When we achieve small goals, we willl surely get motivated to keep going.
• involved friends and family- they can help you to achieve your golas. They will remind your resolutions need to achieve and they willl support you all the way.
• forgive yourself- if you get off a track, don't be discouraged. it is normal sometimes that we forget and lose tracks in all our plans and goals due to certain circumstances.. Better yet, review all your plans and make some adjustments.
• congratulate yourself- we could treat ourselves when our immediate goals or resoutions have met. don't treat your life too hard. Enjoy life while keeping your resolutions.

The most important thing when making a resolutions is that you really want those resolutions you have made. It's not because that's the common resolutions or your friends advice you to have that goals in your life. The most important thing to consider when creating a resolutions is to decide if you're willing to have that change in your lives. When you make a resolution, try to make a plan of actions and list the ways that will improve your life. So that you will be motivated in achieving your goals. I hope that we all could achieve our resolutions in this year. Happy New Year!!!

IT'S NEW YEAR!!!!YEHEY!!

Happ New Year guys!!all around the world Happy new year..2008 had already passed..let's look forward the year 2009..Many had happened in the year 2008..economic crisis, tragedy, sad stories but there are also some positive things happened in the past year..All of us have lot of experiences in year 2008. It may be bad or good experiences. Some are tragedies, losing someone you love, brokenhearted, finding the right person, sucessful in careers and lots more. Everything happening in our lives have certain purpose. We may not know it now but im sure someday God wil reveal it t us. We may not understand it now but just have faith to God that HE has better plans for our lives. Continue to have faith in God. Learn our mistakes from the past and live forward. Anyway this is New Year. New Life. New Person.
Many of us especially the kids love to make new year resolution. New year resolution is like making a projection or plan for the next year ahead. They may think of a changes in their lifestyle or change in their habits. These are the commitments made by people who want to have changes in their lives. All of us want to accomplish all our commintments for 2009. In socio-economic examples of new year resolution such as donating to the poor people more often, to become more assertive, or to become environmentally responsible. It is also like rolling forecast method of planning that are established at reglar time or medium term time intervals. THESE ARE SOME OF PEOPLE'S GOAL:

• lose or gain weight
• paid all the debts
• budgetting finance
• get a better job
• healthy living
• get a better education
• quit alcohol and smoking
• be more considerate

In the recent research, it shows that 52%participants in a resolution study were confident of success with their goals only 12% actualy acheived their goals.

GOD SEEMS DISTANT!!!

There are times in our lives that we feel God is so far away..that God seems so silent in our prayers. We sometimes go through seasons of life such as a baby, toddler, teen, middle aged, and a senior. That's the way life progress. In God's creation, there are also seasons as well.
SPRING full of new leaves and shoots.
SUMMER when the fruit is ripe and yummy
AUTUMN when the leaves turn and trees start to produce the part of the trunk that makes it strong.
WINTER when everything seems hopeless and lifeless.
It's normal sometimes there is distant in our relationships with God. But it doesn't mean He don't care about us anymore. Sometimes we must draw closer to God more and surely God will draw to us. When we feel God is silent, read His word more, pray more consistently.. Maybe God is teaching us something.In this stage of christian walk, we need to trust Christ more. Reflect our lives in the past..do we really obedient to God? do we follow His commands? Do we love Him supremely? Tell God all about your feelings..

HAVING FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD

Do you have a best friend? Some people prefer just to have a close friends, not a best friend. According to the survey, youth today prefer to hang out with a group instead of having a best friend. The concept of "best friend" is becoming a thing of a past, and the youth today prefer to be a part of "core" peer group. In that "core" group, people may have similar interest , share some similar ideas, attitudes or perspective on life.
A research team was assigned to observe a group of six youths for six consecutive days to observe them in their natural habitat. They want to know what intacts them and draw them closer. The findings include the fact that night life for youths under the age of 24 is ruled by the "tribe vibe" . Tribe vibe is their choice of destination for the night's outing is determined by a unanimous decision.Internet is also an attraction to the youth today. With similar interest on the internet, they draw close together. They spend time on internet average three hours, sometimes more in downloading a music, movies, chatting and playing games. The same amount of time is also spend in watching tv. These are some hobbies that youth are enjoying now.
Some people don't like to have a best friend because they're afraid of getting hurt. They feel that their best friend will hurt them someday. Some scenario is the betrayal.. Some people tend to betray their friend and destroy that TRUST. TRUST is the most important thing in any relationship. When TRUST is destroyed, it is difficult to return back the trust in the friendship. When you don't have anyone to turn to, turn to Jesus. Jesus wil never betray us, leave or forsake us. Jesus Christ can be really our best friend.
What is best friend?? Your best of friend. Someone that you could depend on, trust the peroson wholeheartedly and share all your secrets, experieces , happiness, joy and problems. If you have any problem you like to share, that person comes right immediately in your mind. Jesus Christ can be our best friend. Someone we could rely on, depend on and share oll our experiences with Him. Becoming a best friend of Jesus Christ, we should have a constant conversation with Him. It is started when we open our heart to Him. Share all our experiences with Him. The key to friendship with God is not changing on what we do but changing our attitudes toward what we do. We can have breath prayers. Breath prayers means brief sentences or phrases conversations with God. For example, in the jeep or taxi, we could say thank you to God for another wonderful day, we could say thanks and praise God on what he has done for us. It is important to to read His word (BIBLE) daily. It is important to memorize some verses of the bible because it is our sword to the temptation. Thinking His word throughout the day can help us feel His presence. It is amazing that God want to be my best friend. Open our heart to Jesus and let Him enter our lives.
Time and effort is really necessary to make the realationship work. Like friendship, it also takes desire, time and energy. If we really want to have a deeper friendship with God, we must learn honestly share our feelings with Him. Trust God when He ask us to trust Him, learn to care what He also cares about and desires His friendship more than anything else. We as humans are imperfect in nature. God know all our imperfections and He don't expect us to be perfect. But God expect us to be honest to Him in our prayers. When we read the Bible, the people that time were honest to God. They're complaining, accusing, arguing with the Creator. They're totally honest with God and expressing their real feelings toward God. We must obey God not out of duty but out of faith and love. Trusting God that He knows what is the best for us and He knows the best plan for us.

Scared of Dissapointment??

Most of us HATE dissapointment...so tendency we don't expect something good will happen or put our hope to somebody. We just simply don't want to trust someone because we fear that SOMEONE will dissapoint us someday. We often expect somebody will love us but at the end you realize that it's really impossible that SOMEONE will love you back. You will really feel DISSAPOINTED! It's like you don't want to expect anymore that someone will love you. People like to set goals because it is their guide in everyday lives. Goals is something you really strive for, devote your time into , put all your heart and effort into that. When you achieve that goal, naturally you feel awesome!! Unfortunately, not all our golas can be achieve.. Sometimes things don't go as you plan..Even when you put all your energy, time into that goal, it falls apart. That's the time when you feel DISSAPOINTMENT!
You feel all your effort has been wasted. Dissapointment is very hard to endure. For some people, it's their failure because they didn't achieve their goals or simply they don't get what they want. It's natural to feel bad but don't lose all your hopes because of some dissapointments in life.
ATTITUDES TOWARD DISSAPOINTMENTS:

• accept the failure there is always a reason for a failure, but sometimes people don't accept that reason or explanation why failure happens. Sometimes, God allow failures to happen because HE has a better purpose for you.
• learn from failures dissapointments can build character such as patience and perseverance. it can teach you to win and lose with GRACE.
• build friendships friends can be your shoulder when you feel frustated or dissapointed. they can help you to endure your problems and support you.
• have a deeper relationship with God Men really can dissapoint us but GOD won't. God will never desert us whatever happens. Everything could turn us down but we could always rely on God no matter what happens.
• adjust the expectations be realistic in your expectaion. Such as expecting too much such to become a millionaire or to become a superstar someday. It's fine to have a dreams but sometimes it won't come true. It depends in your abilities and efforts. Kust be balance in your life.

In one's life, it's normal that we could feel dissapointment. Don't be afraid of that. Don't afraid to trust someone again. just always prepared your heart whatever happens. Trust God that whatever happening in your life, there is a purpose. And God may teaching you something why failures happens in your lives. When you feel dissapointed, count your blessings. Im sure your blessing is greater than your dissapointments. The fact that we're alive is already a blessing. We have 5 senses God given us already a tremendous blessing because we could appreciate all His creations. Count your blessings and you won't get dissapointed. God bless you all!!!

GOD IS SMILING!!

God is smiling guys!!When we do things that pleases Him. Maybe we're thinking that God don't smile or have any emotions. What amaze me is that God has emotions. God also smile, sad, happy or lonely.These are some things that make God smile:

• When we love him supremely loving God means obeying His commandments. Allowing Him to take control of our lives and worshipping him will be our top priority in our lives. God wants RELATIONSHIP, FELLOWSHIP. It is not merely reading the bible, but our God wants us to have RIGHT RELATIONSHIP with Him. "I DON'T WANT YOUR OFFERINGS...I WANT YOU TO KNOW ME".
• When we trust Him completely FAITH is important in our relationship with God. Without Faith, its impossible to please God. God is please if we are dependent on Him. We're humble enough to acknowledge our weaknesses and learn to depend on Him.
• Obeying Him wholeheartedly we obey our parents because we trust them that they want the best for us. Same as true to God. When we obey God wholeheartedly, without any doubt, it means that we tust God's plan. His decison is the best one!!He never makes mistakes. Everything happens for a purpose.
• When we praise and thank God continually normally, we just thank God if there are blessings in our lives. Maybe success in our career, financially stable or answer prayers. But we should be STILL thank God even in our difficult circumstances. Still have faith in God despite on unfavorable situation you're in.
• Using our abilities God give us each a special abilities. Each person has a unique abilities that we could use to serve other people. When God see that we're using our ablities for His purpose, He is pleased.

Therefore, God is pleased when we can fulfill His purpose. God smile when we trust our lives to Him and dependent on Him.GOD BLESS!!