Deuteronomy 7:8-16 

⁸ But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lordbrought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 

⁹ Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations

¹⁰ And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. 

¹¹ Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them

¹² Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: 

¹³ And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee<sup>.

 14</sup> Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 

¹⁵ And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee

¹⁶ And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

How many times a person promised something to you and he or she failed to fulfill it?

Do not fret or get angry at the person. It’s just that human beings fail. We tend to forget what we promise because we are humans. We are never perfect, we are too far from that.

Yet, God promised to fulfill whatever He has promised to do with us because He will do what seemeth good to us. It is the everlasting promise of God to do the best in our lives. It is a promise of the future, a bright one and far brighter when we are in heaven.

But God laid down the condition of this promise. He just wanted us to do His commandments, His will, His very desire for our lives. If we do these things, surely God will bless and will fulfill whatever He planned for our lives.

The thing is: God’s promise may tarry, but it shall be fulfilled. We read that if it tarries, it will not tarry long for it to be fulfilled. While waiting for the wondrous work of the Lord, let us to labor and do His blessed will with the eternal hope that our God is not slack concerning His promises, but He is faithful to do what He has committed to us unto that day.

Acts 1:7-9

⁷ And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. 

⁸ But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 

⁹ And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

This morning I received a message from a friend. In her message she quoted Keith Piper, and give me the liberty to quote that: “When we can’t reach souls on our feet, we can always reach them on our knees.”

It is a faithful reminder that our responsibility of being witnesses of the goodness and mercies of the Lord through the salvation in Jesus Christ does not stop on reaching the lost through our tongues and feet, but also on our knees. Oftentimes, we become victims of our own folly. How many times we go on soulwinning and witnessing others without the power of the Spirit? How many times we spoke of the gospel’s mercies to others without touching the hem of the Lord’s garment?

Of course, we reason that even if do the work of the Lord physically and mechanically, it will still accomplish something for the word of God is not bound. It will accomplish something even if others preach it in anger and malice. This reason is a far-out cry of foolish servant.

Why push the car when you can start the engine?

In our desire to reach souls of men and win them for and to Christ, let us be reminded that our engine is prayer. God does not require us to push the car, He just wants us to make use of the engine. When the engine is revving, the car will run smoothly, and we can’t undermine the glorious success of the Lord’s work.

This morning let us all be reminded that God’s work is not of the flesh. This is work of the Spirit.

2 Chronicles 9:1-8

¹And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.  

² And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.  

³ And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,  

⁴ And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.  

⁵ And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:  

⁶ Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.  

⁷ Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.  

⁸ Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the Lord thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

Have you ever felt homesick of place you’ve never been? Well, I am.

If there’s a place Christians should be excited of, that should be heaven. It would be great to be there, to sing the redemption story up there, and to see face to face with Christ my Savior. No other grand day could ever be compared with that day when I am stepping on shore and finding it heaven. A blissful moment.

Far and wide, the greatness of King Solomon’s kingdom has been spread abroad that it reached the Queen of Sheba’s ears. During a royal visit, the Queen of Sheba was astonished of she saw in the royal courts of King Solomon. Yes, she had heard good about his courts, but she never imagined it could be that grand and fabulous.

In amazement, the Queen of Sheba exclaimed that half of King Solomon’s greatness had not been told. It would be like heaven. We have read about the streets of gold, the mansions over the hilltop, and unspeakable majesty of that grand place we will be going to.And of course, our Savior is going to meet us there.

But what we have heard and read from the Bible is just half of heaven. The other half have never yet been told. And we we reach there, it would be the fulfillment of eternity, the unfolding of what we were homesick of.

Even John the Beloved wanted to be there so eagerly that he wrote, “Even so, come Lord Jesus.”

Last January 21, 2014, we hosted the Pastors' Fellowship (North). Pastors from North Cebu attended the fellowship. Pastor Kent Jesalva preached during the event.

On May 12, 2012, the local congregation was organized into an independent local church. It was a period of commitment to hold the rope of the ministry after being weaned from our sending church. On May 12, 2013, we celebrated our first church anniversary as an organized independent body (but it's already the 8th year of the ministry). Together with that, we also had our 2nd Missions Conference.