“It’s only Friday but Sunday’s coming!”
I got this line from Ptr. Paolo when he was talking about HOPE. I know I’ve been hearing this a lot of times that the God I am serving is a God of HOPE and a GOD of restoration. At times I know I just need to be reminded of this so I would be refreshed and encouraged to continue on being hopeful in God. Lately I have been on a roller coaster of sorts. It has been an interesting ride. I am so grateful that God has allowed things to happen in my life and has been teaching me lessons that has brought me this far. I have been a single mom for three years now, and I have been waiting for God to answer my prayers. For such a long time, God has been sustaining me, giving me breakthroughs, making me whole, giving me the security that I need, bringing me closer to Him and leading me to where I should go. The other day, I got to read some messages from friends & I was reminded of what happened to me & my son back then. I couldn’t imagine how wrecked my life was, how hopeless I was, how broken I was with the situation that I am in. For years I have been trying to manipulate the situation just to bring back what I had…but I failed. But God is just so good that he has matured me and has quieted me with his unfailing love. All he wanted was just for me to learn to trust Him fully and not go ahead of Him. He brought people into my life–People who encouraged me, mentored me, corrected me and loved me. God has allowed me to go through circumstances that had taught me to be humble before him, to be submissive and just to grow into a woman after his own heart. I have come to understand why I have to go through such things. He has a great purpose and a great plan for my life and my son’s life.
The more I understand, the more I get excited. The more I seek God, the more he reveals himself to me. And no matter how impossible things are right now, I get more excited because I just can’t wait what God will do and how he will pull me out of this situation. And with all the painful stuff that I’ve been through, he will turn them into something beautiful in time. “He will give beauty for ashes, joy instead of mourning and praise instead of despair.”-(Isaiah 61:3). God has been telling me to just put my hope in him, keep a quiet spirit and just keep going because the battle isn’t mine, it’s his. And he said in Chronicles 20:17 “…stand still and watch the Lord’s victory”… so I am just going to stand still and watch him move. Although it’s true, the battle’s not done yet… I am still waiting for that great breakthrough and it’s okay…. I will still be hopeful, it’s only Friday… Sunday’s coming soon!
It was on a Friday when Mary’s crying her eyes out, seeing Jesus mocked and beaten… It’s Friday when the Roman soldiers scourged our Lord, tearing his flesh… they pressed the crown of thorns down to his brow. It was Friday when Jesus was hanging on the cross, bloody and dying and people were weeping while Hell’s partying…the devil’s smiling… BUT that was just Friday. What they didn’t know was that it was only Friday and that Sunday’s coming!
What’s on a Sunday?
It was on a Sunday when Jesus defeated death, he rose from the dead. And that same resurrection power that raised Jesus from the dead will also raise the deadest part of your life (emotions, relationships..what have you). God is able to resurrect whatever dead there is in my life (and in your life too). He is able to restore what has been destroyed for years no matter how impossible it may be in reality. What God has done in the past, He is able to do today and in our future. Yes, I am going through something today… and that’s only Friday BUT Sunday’s coming!!!
I have been praying and believing for a restoration of a broken relationship and I am still waiting for it to happen… but hey, it’s only Friday… Sunday’s coming!
I have been praying for a lot of things in my life and I have been going through a lot.. but it’s okay, it’s only Friday and I know that Sunday’s coming!
I know I’m not the only person in this world going through our different “Fridays”… whatever Friday you may have, I hope that you will keep going… I hope that this encourages you and keeps you hopeful that God has promised victory for you. In fact, he already did it when he died on the cross for all of us.
God is always in FULL control.
Hi! I have also read something that is very relevant to what Ptr Peter said. I got this from a devotional
Coach George Karl was sick to death at the collapse of his team. When interviewed the following day, he said in essence, “I could not feel sicker. Yet when I woke up early this morning and saw the sunrise, I knew it was going to be okay, and I was going to get through this. The sun had still come up.”
I posted something in multiply and included this quote and wrote that I am glad that our God is a God of Hope. (That was before I read this post)
I guess God is telling the two of us not to give up and to put our trust in the Lord who will “carry it on to the completion until the day of Christ Jesus”.
“It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed,
because his compassions fail not. They are new every
morning: great is thy faithfulness.”
Lamentations 3:22-23, KJV
Our God is a loving God and his compassion is new each morning
God is always in control of our lives.. If masakitan man gani ta.. we should always remember.. he is shaping us.
We are always under construction so that we can will be more and more like him and be ready when we face him in heaven.
“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.” Jer. 29:11
I was hooked the moment I saw your blog. By a messianic message, for heaven knows how, I was able to stumble upon your site. It felt like I was reading my own struggles, a little bit retired for the many storms that has shook my life though. I also have a son and am a single parent as well. =)
You were sent to me to be steadfast in keeping on my hope and belief that indeed, God is in FULL CONTROL. Thank you!
And yes, it’s only Friday …Sunday’s coming soon!
ADDITIONAL HUGS!!!! =)
its the same with “in every sorrowful, glorious will follow”
Start with four steps
1. Come as you are right now to the Lord. Tell him all your feelings,( be it joy, anger, hate, jealousy, feelings of insecurity,ego, etc ) - everything - from the core of your heart.
2. Hand over to the Lord the blockages that hinder your path to his Holy anointing - things you want to change but have no power to change.
3. Surrender your life to the Lord - not by mere words, but from the depths of your soul - give Him the complete control of your life.
4. Wait in silent communion with the Lord in that state of surrender and the Lord will speak to you and you will be filled with the “Holy Spirit”
John 1:9 - If we confess our sins, he {God} is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all
just want to share this, this has been my inspiration when “its friday”.
you are such a blessor to everyone who reads your blog. keep it up.
Hi! I was inspired by the thought of what u have written. I am travelling the same road perhaps that u are at right now.I am also a single mom after the separation with my ex husband. I was at least enlightened with ur blog.
Rhain
am glad you guys are blessed with this post.
truly there are great purposes of what we’re going through, its not just for ourselves but to encourage and build others up too.
you may want to read more at http://jeny.myistorya.net/
kaka-inspire naman mga post ninyo.
me and my filipina wife have friends who are from all walks of life cultures and religions we too have had our problems but we have noticed the less inward looking you are and the more you think of others before yourself the more you seem to get blessed we have struggle but never been desperate as yet so give it a try god hasnt let us down
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