four sons

  another tale and its moral lessons:  

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.

The first son went in the winter,

the second in the spring,

the third in summer,

and the youngest son in the fall.

 When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen. The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted. The second son said no it was covered with green buds and full of promise. The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen. The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment.

The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but only one season in the tree's life.

He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up.

If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.

Moral:

Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.
Don't judge life by one difficult season.
Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come some time or later.

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declarations

my sister gave me a link of Celebration Church (4838 West Jacquelyn Ave., Fresno, CA 93722. Phone: (559) 275-2083), where i found these declarations: 

1.       on God's word:

Proverbs 18:21 "Those who love to talk will experience the consequences, for the tongue can kill or nourish life."

Luke 6:45 says that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. We must daily put the Word of God into our eyes and our ears because what we put in our eyes and ears gets into our hearts. What gets into our hearts will eventually be coming out of our mouth. If it's the Word of God, it nourishes your life and it will prosper and fulfill what it is sent to accomplish concerning you!

DAILY CONFESSIONS

God is on my side
For the blood has been applied
Every need shall be supplied
Nothing will be denied
So I enter into rest
I know that I am blessed
I have passed the test
I will get God’s best

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me
He makes me of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord

I’m quick
I’m sharp
I’m bright
I’m smart
I’m good looking
I’m very rich
And a major blessing

…I, the Lord, will bring thee only health.

Confession:

God is speaking to me now, saying, "I am the Lord who heals you." He is watching over His Word to perform it. He is the Lord who heals me. He is healing me now. This Word contains the ability to produce what it says. His Word is full of healing power. I receive this Word now. Healing is God's nature. God is in me. My body is the temple of the Lord who heals me. God is bigger than sickness.

Proverbs 17:22: “A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.”

Other translations:

Being cheerful keeps you healthy. A happy heart is a healing medicine. A glad heart makes a healthy body. A glad heart helps and heals. A glad heart is excellent medicine, a spirit depressed wastes the bones away.

A cheerful heart makes a quick recovery.

Confession:

I have a merry heart. Sickness can't dominate me. What do you think you're trying to do, devil? You can't put sickness on me. I have a merry heart and I'm full of joy!

Isaiah 53:4-5: “Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was on him; and with his stripes we are healed.”

Other translations:

But only our diseases did he bear himself, and our pains he carried. …Through his bruises was healing granted to us. But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.

…by his stripes there is healing for us.

Confession:

Surely Jesus has borne my sicknesses and diseases and carried my pains. He bore them and carried them away to a distance. I don't have to bear what He bore for me. I refuse to bear what He bore for me. Satan cannot put on me what Jesus bore for me. By His stripes I am healed and made whole.

Matthew 8:16-17: “When the evening was come, they brought to him many who were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.”

Other translations:

…He took away our illnesses and carried away our diseases.

Confession:

Jesus Himself took my infirmities and bore my sicknesses. He carried away my sicknesses and diseases. He bore them away and removed them. Disease is not mine. Healing is mine. I refuse to bear what Jesus bore for me. Satan, you cannot put disease on me. I refuse to accept sickness. I will not tolerate sickness. Sickness and disease are totally unacceptable to me.

1 Peter 2:24: “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.”

Other translation:

By Jesus' stripes I was healed. Healing belongs to me. I was healed 2,000 years ago by the stripes Jesus bore. I'm not trying to get healed. I've got healing, because by His stripes I was healed.

1 John 3:8: “He who commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”

Other translations:

The reason the Son of God was made manifest (visible) was to undo (destroy, loosen and dissolve) the works the devil [has done]. …and the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.

…that He might neutralize what the Devil has done. Now the Son of God came to the earth with the express purpose of liquidating the devil's activities.

Confession:

Sickness is a work of the devil. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. Sickness has been dissolved, broken up, annulled, undone, and liquidated as far as I am concerned. Jesus put sickness to an end for me.

hope you'd be blessed with these declarations…

june 2007 nursing licensure exam

the result is finally out.  go to the following links:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/examresults/20070826_NURSE-0607.pdf

http://www.pinoyrn.co.nr/

congratulations to the new filipino nurses!

the dancing inmates

i am probably the last filipino to watch the "jailhouse thriller" despite it's increasing popularity:

pretty impressive indeed… i wonder how long it took to produce such an amazing, synchronized and entertaining production, which has attracted fans worldwide. surprisingly, thriller was just a part of the prisoners’ daily exercise under the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitaion Center's (CPDRC) rehabilitation program.

the internationally famous 1500 inmates also performed other equally entertaining production like dayang-dayang, sister act and radio gaga.