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A Watered Down Gospel…

“You therefore must endurehardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.”
—2 Timothy 2:3

Without question the greatest life to live is the Christian life, because God takes a life that was empty, aimless, and, worst of all, headed for a certain judgment and then turns it around and transforms it. He forgives all our sin, removes our guilt, and literally takes residence inside of us through the Holy Spirit. Most importantly, He changes our eternal address from a place called hell to a place called heaven. This all comes about as a result of the power of the gospel proclaimed and believed.

Yet some have believed what I would describe as a watered-down version of the gospel, a gospel that promises forgiveness but rarely mentions the need to repent of your sin, a gospel that promises peace but never warns of persecution, a gospel that says God wants you to be healthy and wealthy and never have any problems to speak of, a gospel that says you will so find the favor of God that a parking space always will be available for you. But that is not the gospel of the New Testament.

The Christian life is not a playground, but a battleground. Not only is there a God who loves you and has a plan for your life, but there is also a devil who hates you and opposes God’s plan.

I am not suggesting that once you become a Christian, you will be sick, poor, and miserable. But the essence of the Christian life is knowing and walking with God. It is about sticking with Him when the sky is blue and also when it is filled with clouds. It is about pressing on. Jesus made it clear that storms will enter every life. But as we seek to know and follow Christ, we will find happiness as a fringe benefit.

Copyright © 2009 by Harvest Ministries. All rights reserved. 
Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. 

-daryl jayne santiago (:

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29th October, 2009 … In Your Freedom I will live.

Hm… your probably thinking that the title of this blog post is very weird and random… but there’s a story behind it.

29th October, 2009… This was on a thursday… for many of you thursday is just as any other day… nothing special or important.. but to me THURSDAY is one of the most important day of my week. and 29th October, 2009 became one of my most memorable day… It is the day when God broke my heart, when a door of opportunity was opened for me- it was right in front of my face, but yet i didn’t fully stepped out of my comfort zone and in to God’s will.

26th October, 2009 God asked me to write a story about my life, after writing it God told me to tell my story to the Ministry (Chosen Generation ) that we run at my school every Thursday lunch! and yes, that is why thursdays are important for me ! it is the day when God really speaks to kids who doesn’t know Him and for those who want more of Him.

I told my story, but as i was speaking i felt like God wasn’t there, i knew it was me who was speaking, and that i wasn’t letting God speak through me! i obviously didn’t want that! i wanted God to speak through me… but time and time went on… but then again, God wasn’t there, i knew He wasn’t speaking through me, i got even more scared… and i quickly realised that it was my “fear” that stopped me from letting God speak through me.

I was so focused on my worries, and didn’t turn to God! BIG MISTAKE ! and then… the bell went for 4th period… Ministry finished without God speaking, i wasn’t sure if the kids got the message since it was me talking… i walked out of the room, the corridor were full of students walking and running to their classroom, it was loud but i felt like i was all alone, i felt like i was walking in an empty corridor, i just became so silent !

I got home that day, still thinking of what happened… i walked into my room, and as soon as i closed the door behind me, i fell on my knees and tears started flowing down my cheeks, God broke my heart for what breaks His! i felt this pain in my heart, this desire to get those kids saved… and every day of my every week i have the chance to reveal God’s glory. And then i remembered this verse:

“Get rid of your sins, and leave all iniquity behind you. Then your day will brighten with innocence. You will forget your misery, it will be like water flowing away. Your life will be brighter than the noonday. Even darkness will be as bright as morning. Having hope will give you courage. You will be protected and will rest in safety. You will lie down unafraid, and many will look to you for help.”        
                                                                                          -Job 11:14-19

I realised that this is what God wanted to say through my story, but I got scared and got too caught up with my own worries ! God said to me, “I am the light to your feet, and you know that i will guide you everyday, you don’t walk in darkness anymore, you are found in the light of my love for you, i have set you free…now, what are you going to do with that freedom? ARE YOU NOT GOING TO OPEN THE GIFT I HAVE GIVEN YOU and USE IT?”

And from then on, i realised that this is the time where God doesn’t just want me to open the gifts that His given me… but to actually use it and take care of it.

Everything that God gives us is something more than special ! it is to be recieved with an open heart, and willingly open that gift, and use it carefully. God has set me free, i can now walk in freedom and not care about what other people say, God’s given me the influence and power to speak about his Love in my school, and i choose not to take it lightly… every day counts, and every day you got to be alert and know that God is MIGHTY so what and who can ever snatch you out if HIS VERY HANDS!

29th October, 2009… The day when God showed me the bigger picture of my role in His story… how much influence and power i have over those kids through Jesus who lives in ME!

My question for you is:
“What are YOU going to do about the gift of FREEDOM that God has given you???”

running the race with you,
daryl jayne santiago

my first dream with a revelation :DD

hey, this dream was a nightmare and i never thought it would be a way God would talk to me.. but since i remember most of my nightmares, i think thats why God revealed it though a nightmare:) well @ SOS camp 2009 the one thing i asked God was if he could communicate with me not just @ SOS but i wanted more than that.. i needed him to show me that he was there.. and this is what he told me stuff through a dream……….

There was this cabin with a lot of people (nothing scary).. then it became midnight & everyone had to go out but me & then they came in again, i heard one of my friends turned into a vampire then i was like coool“-_-” after i was just walking around this really old school& i looked to the side and there was a skeleton but i wasn’t scared i was just like hmmm how random.. well i went in a bus with people from my school and a family was outside near that weird skeleton then the spirit came out of the skeleton … & it wanted the baby, but the father and mother didn’t let the spirit take her.. so then the father became a little 7year old because of the spirit.. after it was like supper time & another spirit came out and he was nice (a really old teacher SO OLD THAT, HIS GENERATION WAS DEAD!) then the master teacher came out they like did something to the person i was with so i was like all alone, then there was this bag of ashes & i somehow took it, i was running to the kitchen, but i knew that master girl was there already.. i saw two girls in the corridor ( the two girls are brought back from the dead generation) talking to each other i was like HELP ME.. then they looked at me and walked away.. so i just kept running, i got there and the master teacher was there i took the lighter & burned the ashes
what i got from that was …………..

REVELATION
the other generation already died and they’re somehow making us live the life that lived and they aren’t moving on, well in my dream i was representing our generation & when it says how the parents were protecting their baby it just shows how we have to protect the younger generation even if something hits you so hard you fall..& if it changes you the best thing to do is get away… we should NOT live the life they lived and we shouldn’t give up because if only one person in the dream saved the generation then i’m pretty sure that we can all make this work even if it gets hard!!

- claudz