Tips for TOUGH times

Pray, Ask God for Help. Read the Bible, devotional & meditate.

Be Still

Let "bad moods" pass. (these are not times to make or tackle big decisions.)

Try not to speak in anger. Cool off first. Words hurt!

Take one Day at a Time!

Be good to yourself! Know Jesus loves you!

If you don't know what to do, do nothing!

Always be willing to forgive! Some of the most important words in our English Language: I'm Sorry

If you are having relationship problems with your mate, ask yourself...Am I choosing to "love" this person! or am I choosing not to love!

Do you need to put the "eyes of Jesus" on! What do you see?

Say "I Love You!

Reach back in your heart to all those "sweet memories" you have with your mate! It's fun to bring them back, then realize just why you picked this person to spend your lifetime with!

*****TAKE YOUR CHILD TO WORK****

Thank you GENWORTH for putting this awesome events for us and for our kids.....They had a wonderful time. Not only they got to know where we work but they also learned so much from each and everyone of them....

Here are some of the things they did today:

8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
Parent member show attendee where their desk is
9:00-9:30 Welcome and Icebreaker activity
9:30-10:15 Learning activity how to run a business
10:15-10:30 Concession stand
10:30-11:00 Craft Activity- pictures
11:00-11:45 Learning activity- Investing your profit
11:45-12:15- Lunch Break with family
12:15-1:30 Outdorr activity
1:00-1:30 Personal Safety, ID a kid
1:30-2:00 Finish Craft Project(if needed)
2:00-3:00 have kids prep for Exit Skit
3:00-3:30 Home office employees invited to Exit Skit
3:30 Deliver any craft gift to parent, receiving award and prizes and sang the song TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME....!!!

MARCH FOR BABIES

Surrender

Daily Devotional is what I like to read most of the time.. This devotional is a good reminder to all of us. It is difficult at times but the bottom line is we are here to please God….We all know its tough when we are in pain…But through it all, we can all learn to trust God….Happy Monday!

“Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the One who will keep you on track. Don’t assume that you know it all. Run to God! Run from evil!” Proverbs 3:5-7. (The Message)

It seems that the longer I’ve been married, more and more frequently I hear of struggling Christian marriages.. I know these couples never intended to be in such a desperate place. When they said their wedding vows of “for better or worse,” they never imagined that the “worse” part would include thoughts of divorce appearing as a good option.

When I hear about these couples, I turn my thoughts toward my own marriage. I hug my husband tightly and whisper prayers of thanksgiving that we are together, committed, and growing closer.

You see, this hasn’t always been the case for us. For about half of our fifteen years of marriage, we fought constantly and although we loved each other passionately, we just couldn’t figure out how to be married or how to be a couple.

Finally, in desperation, I cried out to God asking Him what I should do. His answer surprised me. In the still, small voice in my heart, God told me to surrender my marriage to Him. I knew that the key to surrendering my marriage was trusting God. Instead of trying to be in control by telling my husband and God what to do, I learned to set my eyes on Christ and to ask Christ what He wanted me to do in my marriage.

Since that day, I have focused on being the kind of wife God wants me to be.. I have searched the Scriptures, and one step at a time I have obeyed God’s commands for being a godly wife.

Many times it has felt like two steps forward and one step back. But that’s still progress! God has transformed our marriage into one of friendship, intimacy, and laughter, instead of the strife-filled marriage we had previously experienced.

God knows all about your marriage. He knows all about you. He knows all about us. Your marriage is a gift from Him, and can bring God glory and you joy when you surrender your marriage to Him. Start today by trusting God, and see what happens as you allow God to transform your marriage.

What would you like your marriage to look like today? One year from now? Five years from now? Ten years from now? Ask God to give you a hope and a vision for your marriage.

What’s one thing can you stop doing because you know it doesn’t create oneness in your marriage?

In Colossians 3: 14 we’re told to “put on love..” What’s one thing you can do today to show your husband you love him?

Sometimes we hesitate to surrender to God because of our fears. Can you identify any fears you have in your marriage? As God to reveal these to you, ask Him to take away your fear and to replace it with His truth.

Dear Lord, thank you for my marriage. I want the marriage You want me to have, Lord. I confess that I’ve tried to make it into what I want it to be, not necessarily what You want. I surrender myself and my marriage into Your loving hands and Your sovereign Lordship. Give me the desire and strength to be the kind of wife /husband You want me to be. Then I know I’ll be the wife /husband my husband/wife needs. In Jesus’ name, Amen

Joyfully In Christ,
Charisma
http://charisma-everydaylife.blogspot.com/

Over the weekend 04/19-04/20

KALEA WITH HER COUSIN MJ AND LOLA

Kalea at the park ( Chicago)

LINCOLNWOOD OFFICE --LAUNCH THE NEW PROJECT

Please continue to pray for our church

Yesterday's message - Act 20:19-25... Bro. Jerry did a testimony about his life about his past and when he found the Lord. It was an awesome testimony.

Yesterday-- after doing the praise and worship.. There was only good 10 of us there... God spoke to me -- I looked around especially all the things that are happening all over the world.... I found myself complaining so much about our church. I know that God is not happy about that. As I asked for forgiveness right away. To give me another chance and to help me, help us......

Please continue to pray for our church. We are going to push forward and continue our church and we will give it another try for the next 6-8 months. If we don't see any progress. We will close the church. Once again, God gave us the sign to not close the church. The rent went down to $200.00 less. Praise God! I know that there are many things that touched my mind to leave our church. some good and some not so good. I know that many times the Lord may reassign a person to another church so they can bring ministry or encouragement to another congregation -that's the best to leave a church. Some - leave a church simply because disinterested, dissatisfied or feel that they are losing focus of why they go to church for or feel that they can find something better or other reasons. This is my first HOME CHURCH and I know that God put me here because I have a big mission to do. God said it will never be easy to build HIS church. God is patient with me and I know that He wants me to be patient with myself and TRUST HIM.We are not here to serve any Pastors that came in and out of this church but we are to serve our ONE AND ONLY TRUE MASTER,Our Father in heaven. I also know that before my husband took the job as a music director, God did not say that every Sunday will be okay.. Some days you will feel the struggle or be alone but I Will be with you. Yesterday, it was just my husband and I did a praise and worship.... We LIFT UP THE LORD! We lift him up wherever we are. My husband made a point yesteday -- some might think that hes trying to prove something or he was born hard headed. Really, if he wants fame... he probably left long time ago and went to a a mega church or open his own band but we do this to Glorify our ONE AND ONLY FATHER... He has bless us with so many things, a family, a good health, our financial... All these things are all came from him and sometimes what we do for our ministry is not even enough. God has bless with so many things.. Who am I to complain???? Complain, that there's not enough workers in our church -- instead why can't we be just thankful that we have a church to Glorify him. I know that God will provide... HE HAS AN ULTIMATE PLAN FOR US..... I feel so guilty sometimes for complaining too much...I know God never promises things to be easy. And really that is ok. But He does promise to be continually faithful in every situation that we face. Even if it does comes at the last minute..God is extremely honored by our sacrificial giving. We have a responsibility to invest in others around the world, even if it is a sacrificial gift. And why would God bless us if we are greedy and selfish? I am also thankful for Bro.Jerry. This man of God is trying to change. As I get to know him more and more, He is a very humble guy... I rather follow a man who is trying to change himself for the Lord and be a good follower of Christ. I still sin but He knows exactly what we need..He knows our heart...It felt soo good yesterday just to LIFT HIM UP! GLORIFY OUR FATHER..TEARS OF JOY...I know that HE was with us, comforting us, whispering in our ears to just TRUST IN HIM...... There will be more challenges ahead of us but I know HE is just preparing us..... Jesus said " In this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world".....


Be blessed!

Rainy Day!

Man! what's up with the weather......I like it in a way ---It feels good to sleep and just watch movies all night. Anyways, i thought of blogging in since I'm really not doing anything right now but wait for my mom and my grandma to come over... I bought some shrimp for sinigang....( Filipino dish)... Been busy with our upcoming events this coming week and this coming June... Our next event is gonna be at St.Louis, MO.. And we are planning to rent a coach bus so everyone can just enjoy the trip. =) . The last time we rented one --it was so much fun.. I think Destiny was just 8 yrs old and we went to Atlanta Georgia and watched so many movies, talk and played some game. Last night my in laws and my nephew came over to have dinner. We watched Alvin the chipmunks... ( saw it twice already) lol... and I am Legend.... Lord willing this year -- they'll move in with us. I thank God that things are working out for my father in law and William right now. One of our family goal is to have our parents just work for us. It's better because not only we get to help them but also to be with them more. William and him get to do father and son bonding more and more. Just this past week, they been going out to lunch, dinner and sometimes he'll pick him up at work and they just go together to William's appointment. It so awesome to have a family business. I am thankful that we were also to get my mom stay home and watch our little one. Not only she get to spend time with her kids and grand kids but she's not as tired as she used to when she use to work at Meijer. Sometimes we get so scared for her 'coz she use this sharp machine at Deli. And I know even if don't hear her complain. We feel her. We know that her body is tired and she just wants to rest. We know that our parents are not getting younger and we just want to take care of them. And that's why we thank God so much for giving us the opportunity to have WFG business. Anyways, Destiny and I just got home. We went to kids birthday party ( bowling).She played two games and I ate free pizza...lolz... K --gotta go for now. My hubby is asking for a good massage right now..Hmmmm, we'll see...I'm kinda sleepy right now...ha ha ha ha.. Enjoy this weather...God Bless

Sunny Day!

Finally ---- I was able to take my little one 2 days in a row....

Saturday ----spend time alone with my hubby..... then late afternoon I took my grandma, mom, and my kids to the mall and also showed her our office in Schaumburg.......We also ate at Stir crazy ( he he he...) I was loving it....My sister was our server..... Not only I gave her a hard time ( with a big love of course) but with a good discount....lolz... BUT guess what she did --- she took $5.00 from me..... ( tip for her-she said )....oh no!!!! she got me...lolzzz.... Then we walked around the mall and bought some stuff for my grandma.. Kalea was enjoying watching the clowned making animal balloons...lolzzz

Sunday - We went to our home church -- great message today from Pastor Gerry....Also, had a wonderful fellowship with Sis.Connie, Pastor Gerry and Sis.Judy..... Again, I thank God for His love for us. HE knows what were going through right now and it's not easy but the only thing we can do is to continue to pray. I know that He has a big plan for each and everyone of us. Right after church, we went to mommy.. My mother dear and my father dear went for a date. Daddy took her shopping and got her some nice clothes from Express... How swet...lolzz.... My brother and Keeve came over and bought some steak to bbq. I took the kids to the park while waiting from mommy and daddy to get home... Keeve ( my nephew) wanted to go skateboarding and Des went biking... Sorry --didn't have my camera with me -- so I just took a couple of pictures of my lil one from my phone...lolzzz......As soon as my parents got home..... We bbq -and made some sago, fruit salad...man! i was full ---- there's my weekend..... hope u all had a blessed one =)

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