Prisoner's Free

As I enter in to my new year, I want to express my gratitude to the One who created me, loved me, saved me and gave me everything. I have nothing to boast of. I am no one to be proud. But my heart is pouring out in gratitude for this gift of life.

I thank God for my family. It may not be perfect. But I thank Him that we're all saved and know him. I thank God for giving me parents who loves me with their discipline. I thank God for my siblings who came to be my close friends.

I thank God for my local church. The love, concern, care and the teachings that I got from these mentors. I thank them for they believed in me and invested in me. I thank them for their trust. I thank them for continually nurturing me. I thank God for the opportunity to serve Him with my church and the opportunity to grew up in church.

I thank God for this passion for the young people. Though at times, I feel so disappointed with what I am seeing, that there are so many young people who are lost, so many young people who keeps on finding true love, left and right, and being end up with the wrong one. I thank God for the opportunity to see; and that He's enabling me to help. I thank Him for placing me a hope that I may believe that this/my generation belongs to Him and we are for His glory.

I thank God that He is molding me. I have so many flaws. I am a sinner. I still sin. But His great love molds me to the person whom He wants me to be; and that He lets me know through His ways that I am wrong. I thank God for I know that He is changing me. I thank Him for His tender discipline.

I thank God for entrusting me the talents that He gave and the opportunity to nurture them. I thank Him for these so I can use them only to worship and give glory to His Name.

I thank God for my friends, that I may not be alone. I thank God for the fun and hurting moments with them. I thank God that I grew up with them.

I thank God for my mentors, that these people are generous enough to share what they know and what they've learned. I thank God that I met them in my life and their wisdom is really something to eat. :))

I thank God that He never let me go. Though there are time that I ran away from Him, but He makes His way to dry me and run back to Him. I thank God for the hunger that I feel and the thirst to keep me going back to Him. I thank Him that I have spent most of my times in His courts.

I thank God for the opportunity to serve others; for enabling me to help and serve others with His love.

I thank God for the circumstances of my life, for the crying moments and sleepless night, For the uber joys and sudden hurts. For I know that He is with me an He's stronger than the winds that could blow me down.

I thank God that I am a Filipino. I believe that Philippines is the apple of God's eye. I know one day that He's going to use the Philippines to impact the world. I thank God for teaching me in my young age to love my country and to be good citizen.

I thank God for the opportunity to disciple, it would be direct or indirect, but I thank Him that He had entrusted me the lives of the young people that He loves.

I thank God for a great love story. Though there are times that I am struggling with my desires as a woman to be feel loved, yet, Jesus lets me feel that I am loved by Him and my well is overflowing.

I thank God for forgiveness. I will always be in debt. I cannot pay him with what I can do. I still have my evil mind with me, my bad attitude and my unforgivable character. But with His blood, I know I am forgiven and with His love, I know He's changing me.

I thank God for giving me a trusted friend who can teach me, guide me and rebuke me all times.

I thank God that He had chosen me. I am undeserved. My mind cannot understand, my brains will never grasp why on earth that He had chosen me - that I am saved now..
But I will always be thankful to Him.

Lastly, I thank God that He created me, that it will never be just existence, but life. I thank Him because He takes in charge. That he always takes my worries off. That he taught me to trust in Him.

Still, there are no words can met the gratitude I have in my heart.