Patrick Mabilog

Why making disciples is the most important thing you should be doing now

Discipleship is the one thing that remains non-negotiable in God's kingdom. It's simple, doable by all and impactful in many ways.
How much time do I really need to spend with God daily?

There is much value to setting a time where you are alone with God and where you can meditate on His word, but when it comes to spending time with the Lord, it's obvious that the answer should be "every minute of your life."
$Why training children \'in the way they should go\' also requires that we parents train ourselves$
Why training children 'in the way they should go' also requires that we parents train ourselves

There are so many other things that matter more than maintaining a list full of laws to keep. So if training up kids is not all about rules and regulations then what else is it about?
$Are you abusing God\'s grace? Why it should always lead us to say no to sin instead of making compromises$
Are you abusing God's grace? Why it should always lead us to say no to sin instead of making compromises

Some Christians think of God's grace as a feel-good, cry-in-the-middle-of-worship, experience-centered feeling and nothing more.
Overcoming disobedience: How our will needs to be restored in Christ just as much as our hearts and minds

We hear a lot about the heart and mind and how God restores them but rarely do we talk about the will and how God moulds it. What is the will and how does God restore it when it is broken?
4 reasons you should make time for daily devotions if you aren't already

Here are just four of the many practical benefits that daily devotions can bring to anyone who wholeheartedly commits to them.
$When God\'s response to your prayers is \'wait\'$
When God's response to your prayers is 'wait'

When God tells us to "wait," it's not like when a telephone operator puts you on hold indefinitely. He's actually trying to communicate something important to us. Here are three things that God is actually saying when He tells us to wait.
What we can learn from Hannah, the mother of Samuel, on dealing with depression

So many people have this wrong notion that depression shuts us out from God's presence - that only "happy" people can pray, worship and experience God.
The problem behind bringing people to church

Somewhere along the line we have forgotten that the service, the place, the preaching is not the church. The people are the church and we don't necessarily have to bring people to the church. We can bring the church to them.
$Faith in the hard times: What it means to be \'struck down, but not destroyed\'$
Faith in the hard times: What it means to be 'struck down, but not destroyed'

Have you ever felt like such a failure that any direction you'd turn you'd still feel trapped? Guess what? It's not as bad as it looks.
$A lesson on Lazarus and why we need to let God \'kill\' some things in our life today$
A lesson on Lazarus and why we need to let God 'kill' some things in our life today

We all have a dream or ambition that has died a natural death maybe due to neglect or old age. From one story in the ministry of Christ, we can learn a thing or two about dead dreams and what Jesus intends to do with them.
How big do you see God and how big do you see your problems?

If we are not careful with our perspectives, they could distort the truth of how big our God is and how small our problems really are compared to Him.