Ako Ay Pilipino!

God has given me so much faith for my nation. There is hope for a better Philippines, I know. The political climate contradicts this conviction, its pathetic economy scoffs at the slightest hint of optimism, and the Filipinos themselves have given up all expectations of progress and reformation. But God's thoughts are incomprehensibly higher than ours and His ways are superior to finite beings like us- so my eyes are fixed not on what I see in the natural but I stay gazed on Him, on His promises. 

Last Friday my mom and I did a pseudo-Jericho march here in the Congress. We circled the whole area and prayed for almost every

 building- declaring God's righteousness to rule and reign. We asked for His presence to cause a repentance in the hearts of our country's law makers and that waves of conviction will sweep through them. We worshipped, prayed, sang hymns, laid hands on offices, and just invited God to come. We're gonna keep doing this until revival breaks in, until there is speedy justice, until corruption stops, until the poor are fed, until this nation comes into a level of brokenness that every person declares that Jesus Christ is 

Lord and would repent of its sins. 

The AKO AY PILIPINO movement has been a huge blessing to me personally and I know pretty soon it will impact the rest of the country as well. In the whole conduct of my research and just praying for what particular theme I should write on, God just keeps melting my heart for this country. I have nothing concrete in my hands just yet, but reading through Philippine history and just encountering the many faces of the great men and women that compose this nation, I am more and more convinced that the prophetic destiny God has for this nation will come to pass, for sure! With the growing number of Filipinos rising up to rally with us in our desire to pave the way for God's move to come on the Philippines, I am of the belief that He truly will "turn the ways of the wicked upside down"(psalm 146) and bring the Philippines into transition, for the better. If we truly, truly humble ourselves and pray, and turn away from our wicked ways... then He will rend the heavens and take hold of us all!!!