God Is a God of Purpose

Hands down, God knows His stuff. He has the most impeccable timing and He is the greatest planner of all. 

Just this morning, I visited http://www.svrtv.com/feast/ to watch yesterday's celebration of the Feast. (For those who don't know, the Feast is a weekly gathering that is being held in many places nationwide. It is a gathering of God's children where they can receive God's blessings through the preachings and stories being shared, through singing songs of worship and thanksgiving, through the Holy Mass, and just by simply being there.) 

Yesterday's celebration is not yet posted, so I watched the most recent one available, which was last 21 November 2010. I am so blessed this morning because by God's grace, He once again proved to me that He knows me inside out and He has and will always have the most perfect timing in the world. 

The theme for that day's celebration was God letting us know that He has a purpose for everything that is happening in our lives today. That even though we are experiencing bad stuff in our lives, even though we are experiencing pain and disappointment and frustration and hopelessness, we should not let these things stop us. Instead, we should believe that this stage in our lives is just a season of preparation for the greater purpose God has for us in the future. 

I Am God's Wandering Champion

Personally, I still don't have any plans for my future. It's a little frustrating, I tell you, especially when the people around you keep on asking, "So what do you intend to do with your life? What are your plans?" 

Every time someone asks me this, and every time I answer with a meek smile and a small shrug, my heart is breaking inside. It feels like a big failure on my part. Like, "hello, I'm 24 already, and I still don't know what to do with my life? No wonder I'm getting left behind!"

But then, I just try to remember that I may not know the details yet, but I know that God has something great in store for me. I know that just as He had directed me to where I am today, He will also direct me to the right path so that I can go to where He wants me to go. 

It may not seem to others, but I know that right now, I am at the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing. I know that this is where God wants me to be because He wants me to get everything that I can -- experience, learning, people, opportunity, mistakes, failures, everything -- from where I am. And in the future, all the experience and learning that I have accumulated over the years will be used by God so that I can better serve Him and fulfill the mission that He has for me. 

When LYF Throws U Lessons

Friends, whatever you are going through right now, believe that it has a greater purpose than just giving you pain and hurt. In fact, I don't think that God wants you to focus on the pain, He wants you to learn from it. It may be to strengthen your faith. It may be to make you realize that there are more important things than what you have lost. It may be to make you leave behind what was in the past so that you can move forward to a more beautiful future. It may not make sense to us now, but whatever we are going through, God allows for these things to happen because He wants to equip us, He wants to prepare us for our God-given purpose. 

My prayers for you today, is that amidst the storms in your life right now, may you find peace and comfort from knowing that God has a purpose for everything. Yes, even you, especially you. 

You are not an accident. Where you are today, the people that you meet, the experience that you have, all of these have their purpose. 

I Want You To Be Blessed As Well

I hope you make the time to watch this. It'll only take an hour. Believe me, it will change your life.

Praying for your happiness,
Joanne

P.S. To watch the live feed of the main Feast as well as past recorded Feast celebrations, go to http://www.svrtv.com/feast/.

Schedule of live Sunday telecast:
8:00 am - 10:00 am, Philippine time.
10:45 am - 12:45 pm, Philippine time.