Fresh Start Daily

We were picked up by Mr. Micah Lu at 9:10 am at our AirBnB and drove us to church.

The service was in Chinese but one of the members, Josh Chu, helped us understand the message by translating it to us in English.

We joined their lunch fellowship. Since Josh Chu leads the youth group, we were joined by the young people in church. They are all fun to be around. They welcomed us warmly along with their other visitors.

Then Micah Lu drove us back to our AirBnB. My husband learned about Mr. Micah Lu from one of the elders in the church we visited in Malaysia. It’s nice to be connected to people from Christian churches in different parts of the world. God always leads us to the right church. God is so sweet.

We stayed in the AirBnB to rest until 7, then we went to Carrefour to get food items for distribution, and then we went back to our AirBnB to drop the stuff. We headed to Ximending after. I got some fridge magnets and strawberry cake for pasalubong.

I know some people who don’t like the stinky tofu but I like it! It tastes just like the regular fried tofu. It smells awful but it tastes good.

Prepared for tomorrow’s activity… It was not easy to get gospel tracts in Chinese. Thank God kuya Jerry Uy knows someone who could give us–for free!

I believe that God will bring into fruition His promises for me and my family. I believe in God and His Word, the Holy Bible. When God says something, He does it. It says in Isaiah 55:11 that the word of God will not return to Him empty.

“So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” – Isaiah 55:11

When God says something, He means it. We just have to trust Him. When Abraham believed that God will give him and Sarah a son just as God told them, that belief was accounted to him as righteousness.

“And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. And therefore it was accounted to him for righteousness.” Romans 4:19-22

I was just scrolling tonight on my social media and God impressed upon my heart to pray. So I grabbed my Bible and went to the balcony and randomly opened my Bible. Before doing that though, I asked God what His message for me is and to lead me to right passage. I was led to Romans 4 and read the verses 13 to 25. I was led to sing praise and worship songs to the Lord. I was encouraged by the verses I read. I know it’s for me. God wants to assure me that He will deliver His promise. ❤️

It also says in verses 23-25 that that righteousness was not only for Abraham but also for everyone who believes.

“Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.”

The righteousness from God is imputed to us when we believe. It is through FAITH.

“For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.” Romans 4:13

“Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all (as it is written, ‘I have made you a father of many nations’) in the presence of Him who he believed–God…” Romans 4:16-17a

I was also reminded that when God tells us to do something, we must obey without delay. God is good. Hallelujah! ❤️