Grown up as a street child for 11 years from age 9 to 20. Trained by Professional Educators and Engineers. At age 22 I started working in Energy sectors for Nuclear Power Plant, Water/Electricity Plant, and Oil and Gas Projects at Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Company. I made this blog to impart knowledge to those street children and orphans. Knowledge is the key to a successful life to live in this world. I came from nothing into something. To learn more about me, please check out my about page.
We are selling a condo unit “One Central Park”, located at Eastwood City – a Megaworld corporation developer.
Our condo unit is for sale at pre-selling rate, this condo has never been use. The room is perfect for singles, couples, or small families because of the comfortable unit cuts of 46.5 square meters.
The rooms were laid out in a way that maximizes space and doesn’t make them look cramped. The condominium is right on top of Eastwood Mall, which means residents have easy access to all the different shops.
Eastwood City has everything you need – mall shopping, restaurants (regular and fine dining), movies, supermarkets, 7-11, laundry shops, boutiques, offices, schools; close to SM Mega mall, universities, others.
Eastwood City is the place to live in QC or Manila (safe, secure, and luxurious).
The condo building parking is right below the building or Eastwood Mall (renter shall pay parking approximately $3 to $5 for 24 hours).
Eastwood City in Quezon City/Manila is approximately 25 to 30 minutes to/from the airport.
Eastwood City MapEastwood City Master Development PlanEastwood Mall Picture 2Eastwood Restaurants, Shopping MallsMall Entrance – Eastwood CityEastwood at NightEastwood NightlifeOne Central Park – ReceptionOne Central Park – ReceptionOne Central Park – ReceptionOne Central Park – ElevatorOne Central Park – Amenities Swimming Pool
One Central Park condo unit prices ranging P4,500,000.00 pesos with a floor area 37 square meters
Price P4.5 million pesosOur condo Floor plan 46.50 square meters
How much is the selling price of our condo unit?
Compared to other sellers, we are giving you a P500,000.00 pesos discount.
We are selling at P4,000,000.00 million pesos at 46.50 square meters
What’s inside the condo unit? See the photos below. I have a sample fully furnished condo unit for a sample.
Fully Furnished Dining area / salaOne Bedroom
Our condo unit – never use, photo shown below
Upon your entrance a view of Sala / Receiving Area / Dining / Window View / Master bedroom at right
Bedroom – With a view of Rizal Province MountainsAir-condition unit installed at bedroomBedroom with built-in cabinet and toilet insideBathroom inside bedroom / Toilet never useBathroom / Toilet never useBathroom / Toilet never useOutside the window room view, a mountain province and below is the Marikina CityAt bedroom, an outside window view, a mountain province and below is the Marikina CityOutside is a garden, the parkEntrance – One Central Park
About the condo
An unrivaled and upgraded lifestyle awaits at One Central Park, a world-class residential tower that lets modern dwellers step into the beauty and serenity of their modern home, and be just an elevator ride away from the vibrant city. Boasting of a striking glass and concrete façade, and featuring floor-to-ceiling windows, this 38-storey mixed-use building truly exudes the essence of contemporary elegance. It is situated above a four-story upscale mall, and is enveloped by a landscaped park decorated with palm trees, tropical blossoms, and a refreshing lagoon. It provides first-rate amenities that include swimming pools, a sky garden, children’s playground, sauna, fitness gym, lobby with reception area, five parking levels, four high-speed elevators, and a helipad. Nestled beautifully along Orchard Road in Eastwood City, an 18-hectare township of Megaworld Corporation in Quezon City, One Central Park enjoys direct access to numerous places of interest such as retail shops, cinemas, restaurants, wellness centers, and BPO offices.
Spacious and well-finished rooms built with quality materials await future homeowners at One Central Park. 24-hour concierge services and security are also available for the convenience and safety of residents. Maintenance, which can be seen in the shiny gold elevators, spotless lobby and hallways, clean windows, and polished floors, is top notch.
The rooms are perfect for singles, couples, or small families because of the comfortable unit cuts of 46.5 square meters. The rooms were laid out in a way that maximizes space and doesn’t make them look cramped. The condominium is right on top of Eastwood Mall, which means residents have easy access to all the different shops.
This condominium is near
Malls
Eastwood Mall – 0.07 km
Dwell – 0.11 km
Healthy Options – 0.13 km
GNC – 0.14 km
Eastwood City Walk 2 – 0.20 km
Restaurant
Chucks Deli – 0.01 km
Kettle – 0.01 km
House of Wagyu Stone Grill – 0.02 km
Sandaime – 0.03 km
Milkcow – 0.04 km
Schools
Informatics College – 0.34 km
Petite Graine – 0.36 km
Santo Tomas De Villanueva High School – 0.51 km
Santolan Elementary School – 0.60 km
Santolan High School – 0.70 km
Hospitals
IVC Health Center – 1.21 km
Brgy IVC Health Center – 1.21 km
St. Camillus Polyclinic – 1.34 km
Quirino Memorial Medical Center – 1.48 km
Camp General Emilio Aguinaldo Station Hospital – 1.65 km
DEVELOPER
Megaworld is one of the country’s leading real estate developers. Led by real estate magnate Dr. Andrew L. Tan, Megaworld has pioneered the live-work-play-learn township concept in the Philippines, introducing high-end residential condominiums and mixed-use communities to middle-income earners across Metro Manila, Cebu, Iloilo and Davao. Some of its distinguished township projects include its flagship Eastwood City, Forbes Town Center, Newport City and McKinley Hill.
Description
Tower 1, One Central Park
Orchard Rd, Quezon City
Eastwood City
New One Bedroom Unit
46.50 to 49.00 sqm
Semi-furnished
For more information about the details features and amenities, project details, building details, service providers, unit details you can read from zipmatch.com
An orphan at age 10, a former street vendor in the year 1996 to 2004 landed a job in oil and gas, nuclear, and power plant industries.
How I started from scratch at zero?
I remember those days where I have nothing when I was orphan at age 10, I started selling local newspaper in front of the roman catholic church and earning P1.00 peso each newspaper I sold.
Roman Catholic Church where I am selling a local news paper
At my young age 10, our mother died because of the ovarian cancer where she was never brought to the hospital and she died on her bed in the year 1996.
I can never forget where I started from scratch, where I have nothing, including a set of clothes, where I used my t-shirt and pants for 3 days without changing it.
Despite of the life difficulties, financially, and without a parent to guide me, I still pursued my dreams to become reality. Life is not easy as an orphan, I have to find ways to survive alone by developing my social skills, and by finding ways in choosing the right track.
I sell newspaper, ice buko, pandesal (bread), balut, and I became a garbage collector.
Where everyday my daily routine is to sell goods during morning and go to school after selling goods.
I still managed, I graduated at Elementary at age 12, and at age 18 I graduated in High School.
I was very late in high school where I failed twice in first year level as a freshman because I was financially problematic, where I can’t manage both selling goods and at the same time to attend in my class.
There were always upside downs that I experienced where my life was a messed that I couldn’t find the light towards success, where I can see no future, and so, I gave up. I gave up my schooling and stopped for two years in high school.
I wasted two years of my life where all I did is drinking a liquor from age 13 to 15. After two years of failure in high school as a freshman, I finally decided to continue my studies and I graduated in high school at age 18.
I survived by selling a bread (pandesal) for four (4) years as a baker boy during high school, where I can never forget those days and the people behind my success during the year 1996 to 2004.
In the year 2004 after the graduation in high school, I decided to pursue my dreams to enroll in college, but to do that, I need a money to continue my studies in college. Where I lose my hopes.
But everything was a magic, someone in our village gave me a P500 ($10.00 U.S dollars) I used it for my enrollment fee, where I enrolled and took the course of Diploma in Information Technology major in web page development and computer programming.
I took a test, passed the interview, and I was hired by the school administrator as student assistant. I was given a task, a 3 days’ work as office assistant during (TTHS) and 3 days as student to attend class during (MWF).
Life is still hard during those days as a student assistant, where the demand of expenses is rising during my college days, to support my studies I have to work again. Where I worked and hired by the Jollibee Food Corporation as a service crew.
After one (1) year of continuously doing these as student assistant and as a service crew, I gave up. I gave up because I can’t do it anymore, it was very tiring, my body felt weak.
I can still remember that as a student assistant, I have to go to school at 07:00 am up to 5:00pm. And by 5:30pm I must work as service crew until 12:00 midnight, where I have a total of 17 hours of duty by attending the class and my work. There’s no more room for pleasure.
I can’t manage my time, where I have a sleepless night, where I have only a maximum of 5 hours of sleep. So, I quit working and studying.
But everything was a miracle after one month, our College Dean called me and he endorsed me to the School Director as a Library Clerk / Admin Assistant in one of the college institution branch. Here I started as a Library clerk and promoted as Admin Assistant where I received my first salary amounting of P5,000.00 pesos ($100.00 U.S dollars) per month at age 19.
After two years of sacrifices in college, I graduated with the course Diploma in Information Technology in the year 2006. After the graduation, I continuously work with the college institution up to the year 2007.
Graduate in Diploma in Information Technology – year 2006
In the year 2008, I decided to work abroad in the Middle-East, I started as computer operator in the Human Resource Department, after 3 months of working with the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction company I was promoted as HR Assistant at age 22. My salary? It was $350 U.S dollars per month, 8 hours of working, free food, free accommodation, free transportation, and travel expenses.
Saudi Arabia – Engineering Procurement and Construction Company
Fast forward in the year 2009 to 2011 I joined the sub-contractor and work with the Hyundai Heavy Industries at Qatar where I received a monthly salary of $650 U.S dollars.
Qatar 2009 – Hyundai Heavy Industries
On the same year of 2011 to 2013 I got a job offer and signed a contract with the GS Engineering & Construction company and worked as Administrative Assistant with a monthly salary of $1,000 U.S dollars.
U.A.E 2011 – Visit at Abu Dhabi Mall – I worked with GS Engineering
On the year 2014 up to 2016, I was hired by the British consultant firm and worked with the Client at Nuclear Power Plant as Administrative Assistant with an offer of $1,600 per month.
Year 2014 working with Emirates Nuclear Project
On the year 2016 to date I am working with the EPC company at Oil and Gas as Document Control and receiving a $1,600 U.S dollar per month.
I was very lucky enough despite of the delays in the journey of success by working with the EPC companies in the field of Power Plants, and Energy sector.
Year 2016 – Oil and Gas Project
On October 2017, I started blogging about life, failure, and success. My goal is to help others like orphan and out-of-school youth, but this is impossible. Maybe time will come.
To do this, I have to build a money-making machine. So, I think that the stock market is the best way to build millions of pesos, that’s why I started investing in the Philippine Stock Market on February 2018.
But investing in the Philippine Stock Market is not easy. I have to become wise, with various investment options available in the market today, it is not enough for investors to merely have an objective of “to profit” or “to gain wealth” when they invest. While all investment vehicles will aim to earn a positive return for investors, the level of risk associated with each investment varies greatly.
On my first month of stock investing, I instantly gained a 15% from my capital. But after 3 months up to date I am losing about -P200,000 pesos because of the jumping in and out of stocks by not investing, but gambling as speculator catching swing high and swing low.
I thought that I can achieve instant Millions of pesos this year from my P300,000 capital that came purely from my hard work and salary.
I thought that it’s easy, without a pure knowledge, reading books, and proper guidance, I put my money on risk, and stole the future of my family.
Being that said, I am not giving up and I am still motivated by achieving my goals in making millions of pesos in the Philippine Stock Market. I started by value investing.
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As of current I am still working at Oil and Gas Industry, and continuously funding my investment in the Philippine Stock Market.
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Holcim Cement Philippines this is the future in the year 2019 to 2020, this stock price will surge up to P16 to P18 a maximum of 88.62% up from P9.43.
In the monthly chart MACD crossover has just started! umiinit palang, this will be the hot stocks for 3 months.
My bullish bias according to my technical indicators says “It’s a buy”.
My criteria of buying are:
1) MACD crossover (blue line crossover to red line).
2) A total volume of 85.0674 million shares were traded from January 2019 up to 22 February.
3) Stoch RSI (blue line crossover to red line) pointing up.
4) RSI (higher highs, higher low)
5) PSAR break.
Initial target price: P11.00
Strong breakout price: P12.87
Ceiling price: P14.25
Finish line price: P16.96
Bonus price: P18.00 (This price is according to the report collected from my broker COL financial, valuation was based from Holcim Indonesia valuations).
The Holcim stock price bottom was found at 52 week low (P5.70) for 4 months from October 2018 to January 2019.
On January 2019 the Holcim stock price (code: HLCM) open at P5.80. The price surged high at P8.71 and closed at P8.57. A significant total of 47.114 million shares volume traded.
On February 2019 upon market opening the HLCM stock price rose at 3.27% at P8.85 from the previous closing price of P8.57 last month January.
At current stage the HLCM stock price closed at P9.43 on Friday, 22 February 2019.
The breakout price is at P9.47 according to (fibonacci retracement 0.786) from 52 week low and 52 week high.
Did you know that the breakout point price at P9.47 was the breakout point price on the previous years 2010 and 2011.
Holcim Monthly Chart
As per my data analytics the buy and sell activities, a complete collected data from my broker COL financial. A significant huge buying volume at P9.47, P9.50.
Holcim Buy and Sell (Buyers and Seller – malinaw na buyers are dominated). Buyers are willing to buy sa P9.53
While sellers are selling below P9.50.
Huge buyers than sellers.
Buyers and Sellers
Holcim Buy (pure buying, no selling) – buying price at P8.40 to P9.50.
Net buyers
Holcim Seller (pure selling, no buying), manipis. This means buyers dominated. Bull wins.
Net sellers
COL Financial technical guide as of 20 February 2019
#HOTSTOCK in the Cement Sector 2019!
Catalyst will be the U.S $300 Million (P15Bn pesos) funding for upgrade of it’s cement plant due to the demand of Build Build Build projects of the Duterte Administration.
Pure Technical Chart, Data Analytics, Catalyst Fundamental Analysis.
The government has programmed to spend P910 billion in infrastructure this year and double this amount by 2022 to pave the way for a “golden age of infrastructure.”
Appropriations for infrastructure will breach the P1-trillion mark in 2020 with P1.22 trillion or 5.7 percent of GDP to be spent on roads, bridges, airports and railways next year.
Sa pag gawa ng road and bridges ano ang kailangan? Kailangan ang semento…
That’s why nag upgrade na ng facility si HOLCIM, and kailangan pa ng another funding U.S $300M (P15Bn pesos) for upgrade sa Bulacan and Misamis Oriental manufacturing plants.
The government has programmed to spend P910 billion in infrastructure this year and double this amount by 2022 to pave the way for a “golden age of infrastructure.”
Building solutions provider Holcim Philippines, Incorporated assured key government stakeholders of its commitment to the robust building activity in the country as it shared the expansion of its La Union cement plant and new technologies for improved local road construction.
On October 26 2018, Holcim Philippines executives toured officials of the Department of Trade and Industry led by Undersecretary for Consumer Protection Ruth Castelo to its La Union plant and briefed the DTI delegation on the company’s support for the strong construction activity in Northern Luzon. Continue reading the news here Holcim engages DTI, DPWH on support to Build program
$HLCM update 21 February 2019, Holcim completes La Union expansion ahead of schedule.
Holcim Philippines’s early completion of its La Union plant upgrades strengthens its ability to support the development of fast-growing north Luzon.
La Union to increase the annual cement production capacity there by 80% to around 1.8 million tons.
The La Union plant upgrade is part of the first phase of Holcim Philippines’s expansion program. The second phase involves improvements to its Bulacan and Misamis Oriental plants amounting to US$ 300 million to raise the company’s annual cement production capacity by 30% to 13 million metric tons by 2020.
Meanwhile, cement consumption in the Philippines is estimated to have reached ~30Mil MT, while local production is at 26.0Mil MT in 2018.
Cement Demand by 2019: 30 Million MT (Estimated)
Cement Production Supply by 2018: 26 Million MT
Deficit: 4 Million MT
This supply deficit situation is expected to persist in the medium term due to the growing construction activity in the country.
HLCM could be valued at a premium to Holcim Indonesia
HLCM Indonesia: EV / EBITDA P18.4
Potential buyers
Among the major players in the local cement industry, we believe EAGLE is in the best position to bid on HLCM given its healthy balance sheet with a net cash position of Php8.1Bil as of 9M18.
Note however that the company also has some expansions in the next few years that require funding.
A more likely scenario is for EAGLE to bid selectively on HLCM’s facilities in Mindanao, as this would allow the company to accelerate penetration of the VisMin area.
Other potential bidders may include DMC and Phinma, which
have previously shown interest in entering the cement industry. As of writing, only EAGLE’s Chairman and SMC President Ramon Ang has expressed interest in bidding for HLCM.
Bodegero : Top 7 Buyers (Buying only 3.613 Million shares volume, a total value of P32Million pesos).
Huge volume buying price at P9.50, and buying average at P8.40 to P9.47.
Bodegero: Top 7 net buyers without selling (Buying only 3.613 Million shares volume)
Tsupitero: Top sellers (No buying activity, Volume 315,300 shares, a total value of P2.757 Million pesos).
Average price selling at P9.00 to P9.57
Tsupitero: Top 12 net sellers without buying (Selling only volume 315,300 shares)
3 – Huge volume spike from last month (January) a total of 47.11 million shares traded, and the latest volume this month (February 21st ) a total of 37.3 million shares traded.
Top 20 buyers activities from 17 January to 21 February 2019.
Top 20 Buying (Cross trades)
Top 20 sellers activities from 17 January to 21 February 2019.
Result:
Despite of huge shares selling activities, the bulls protected the price at P9.50, as shown in the data there are Top 7 Buyers willing to buy at the price range P9.00 to P9.50 (Buying only 3 Million shares volume, a total value of P32 Million pesos) at average buying price P8.40 to P9.50 pesos.
Volume Net Buyers and Net Sellers – Buyers Dominated
Initial TP: P16.96
Bonus finish line price: P18.4 (as per COL disclosure HLCM Indonesia, EV / EBITDA)
When I started stocks trading in the PSE, I started from P25,000 and a monthly P10,000 accumulation in my capital, I begin with the Peso Cost Averaging and buying a recommendations. I don’t mind if the price is high, I just buy the stock that I like. My first stock was IDC which I gained P4,500 in 3 weeks.
After I digested some TAP wisdom and studied some basic technical indicators like identifying the support and resistance, buy low and sell high, RSI overbought and Oversold, I started to get-out of my shell. Which I trade on my own and gained a total of P6,705 in two (2) weeks, with 6 winning streaks and 2 losses.
After having my full confidence in my trading execution, I continued jumping in and out in my stock position which has resulted some bad outcomes in my next trading days.
It was the month of March 2018, when I found out the VUL, I saw in this stock that it has a potential of a big spike; they said “The Big Money is in the Big Swings”. And so I tried my luck. I bought the VUL when it was @ P1.00 and closed above P1.04.
On the next trading days, the VUL price is going down day by day and dropped below the lowest @ P0.60. I found out that it was a bull trap. My plan then is to accumulate more shares as fast as I can and hold it, up to six (6) months. In my vision I can see that it will swing higher soon.
Being a newbie trader, I am very confused and I am always asking myself if I should hold or cutloss my VUL stock. During these periods I am losing my hopes and strategy. That’s why I asked an opinion with someone is professional experienced trader. He told me to cutloss and sell. So I sell at P0.96 and in the next day the VUL price rose at P1.11. My bad. I regret.
Reminiscing the past, the VUL went peak as high at 2.46. If only I followed myself on what I believed I must be a bagger now.
I lost everything, I lost my confidence which pushed me in a very emotional distress situation which is resulted a losing streaks in my next trading days. It was very painful to me because I am losing my hard earned money. I know that nobody to blame but myself.
My losing results was 15 streak losses with a total amount of -P50,000 from P100,000 of my capital. I asked myself, why is this happening to me? Why I am suffering this very painful experienced. I wish I have not started this trading. I realized that I became greed from being distress. It was my emotion that put my capital in risk in every trading execution that I made.
As the time goes by, in four (4) months from March to July this year 2018, day and night during my work and even in my sleep I pushed to learn and studied on how to become a profitable trader. I studied the basic technical indicators which are the MACD, RSI, Stoch RSI, Williams %, Ichimoku cloud, PSAR break, Fibonacci retracement. I read news in the edge.pse, I read and try to understand how the news will impact the stock prices.
Day and night I am thinking about the charts. Thinking how on this earth these professional trader can make a money; how do they control their emotions and generate a continuous winning streaks. How they can find a bagger stocks.
After four (4) months of studying of the basic technical indicators and understanding the articles news of each stocks, I confirmed that I became more effective; and I generated 14 wins and 3 cutloss in 17 trading executions of being a tsupitero.
Being a keen observer and as an explorer in fact finding, I therefore conclude that in trading you must not trade by emotion but trade confidently with your positive thinking using the technical indicators. Trade what you see on the charts and do not trade what you hear.
On my journey in exploring the stock market, there are so many stocks that I have missed being a tsupitero and these stocks went through peak as high to the moon! I missed the big move from ATN which I positioned myself at 0.70, and this stock rose high went to peak @ P1.69.
I did found out that this stock is making a higher high and a higher low during its peak. The news were very fresh, I read everything about ATN and its future. What’s my mistake? I didn’t believe to myself. I believe by being a tsupitero. I sold early my positions. Kaya sabi nila, walang yumayaman na tsupitero.
I missed also the big move at IRC which I positioned myself at P1.49 and went to peak as high at P2.80. My mistake I sold early at P1.53. I was a fooled tsupitero. Haha.
As of now, I have one (1) stock that will return all my losses and will generate gains once it breaks the cloud. Bodega lang dudung… I cannot disclose to you. I know everything from this stock, hint? It is the one of the strongest stocks in the PSE fundamentally, good earnings, good book value, good company, everything is good. But technically never mind!
Conclusion: Being a tsupitero will not make you milyonaryo, but being a position trader will do. Set aside a money for tsupit, there must be a separate budget for tsupit like 20% to 30% of your funds and there must be an allocated budget for your bagger stock 70% of your capital.
In my 9 months experienced in the PSE, I generated a total of 62 trades, 34 wins and 28 losses. 55% gains (P145, 113.35) and 45% losses (-P104, 984.41). And a net gain of 24% (P40, 128.94).
I know that my next bagger stock will make me hopefully sooner a milyonaryo. Maybe it’s still early to tell, and too far to come.
One thing I realized when I entered the PSE, I realized that I am entering at the Bear market during end of January 2018 and the Bull market is about to end at the month of March.
I survived the Bear market. I am confident and believe that I can survive too during the bull market when it comes soon. During my nine (9) months in the PSE, the biggest thing that I learned is that I learned not to trade by emotions and by protecting my capital.
My advise to the newbies? Trade on your own, don’t mind the others port, and never ever get hyped! Hype will put you in your greatest losing position.
I am not a guru, I am not a CPA or MBA graduate, I am just an ordinary man came from a poor life from being a balut vendor, pandesal vendor, panadero, pedicab driver, and a garbage collector.
My dream is to create a wealth from nothing and to share it to the poor, to tell them on how to create a wealth from nothing if I succeed my journey in the Stock Market. Thank you.
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“Abraham, when hope was dead within him, went on hoping in faith . . . He relied on the word of God” (Romans 4:18 Phillips).
By Pastor Rick Warren
How do you know when hope has died in your life? You start using the word “never.” I’m nevergoing to get married. I’m never going to graduate. I’m never going to get well. I’m never going to get out of debt. I’m never going to be able to let go of my past and forget all of that shame and heartache. I’m never going to be able to change. I’m never going to see this situation turn around. That’s when hope has died.
What do you do when your hope dies? Romans 4:18 says, “Abraham, when hope was dead within him, went on hoping in faith . . . He relied on the word of God” (Phillips).
When you are at a dead end, you need the Bible. Read it. Study it. Memorize it. Think about it. Write it down on little notecards, and go over it. The Bible is full of promises. You rely on the Word and trust in its promises, and it will revive you emotionally. Nothing else is going to encourage you like the Bible. When you rely on the Word of God, you don’t panic because you’re reminded that even though something is out of your control, it’s not out of God’s control.
A dead end is a test of your faith. The Bible says in Hebrews 11:17a, “While God was testing him, Abraham still trusted in God and his promises, and so he offered up his son Isaac”(TLB). God said he wanted Abraham to sacrifice his son, and Abraham didn’t blink an eye. He didn’t panic because he remembered what God could do, and he relied on what God had promised him.
What happens when God takes your most precious dream and wants you to give it up? Can you do that in faith? You’re at a dead end, and God’s going to deliver you if you give the right answer.
You may be at a dead end now, and it seems there is no way out. But things are never as bleak as they seem. You’re looking at it from the human viewpoint rather than God’s viewpoint.
Romans 4:20 says, “Abraham never doubted. He believed God, for his faith and trust grew ever stronger, and he praised God for this blessing even before it happened” (TLB).
A promise is only as good as the character of the person who makes the promise. The Bible says God cannot lie because he is complete truth. If he makes a promise to you, he’s going to fulfill it. It will happen exactly as he has said. When you’re at your dead end, trust in God’s truth.
Talk It Over
Even if you’re not at a dead end right now, how can you use God’s Word to prepare yourself for this phase of faith?
What promises from God encourage you when you are at a dead end?
How do you think God will respond to someone who turns to his Word when facing a dead end?
Disclaimer: The intention of posting the daily hope is to promote Pastor Rick Warren. No other intention other than this.
“This happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us . . . and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us” (2 Corinthians 1:9b-10 NIV).
By Pastor Rick Warren
Paul knew that God works in our lives according to our expectation. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 1:9b-10, “This happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us . . . and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us” (NIV).
The purpose of the dead end is to teach you to trust in God. Why does God let things get so bad and so out of control? So he can force you to learn to trust in him instead of trusting in your own ingenuity and cleverness.
What’s the promise when you trust God? He has delivered you, he will deliver you, and he will continue to deliver you. God uses three different kinds of deliverance:
1.God uses circumstantial deliverance. Sometimes God miraculously alters the circumstance, and the Red Sea splits. That will happen many times in your life, but it’s not going to happen all the time.
2.God uses personal deliverance. Instead of changing the circumstance, God changes you from the inside. You get a new dream, a new vision, a new attitude, and a new perspective.
3.God’s ultimate deliverance is Heaven. God has not promised to remove all of your pain in this world or solve every one of your problems. Because we are on earth, there is pain and sorrow and suffering. The ultimate deliverance will be one day in Heaven where there will be no pain, no sorrow, no suffering, and no heartache.
There is only one way to get to Heaven. Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6 NIV). When you’re at a dead end, Jesus can take that hopeless end and turn it into an endless hope.
Are you at a dead end? I invite you to take that problem, that situation, and your own life and give them to Jesus Christ. Jesus always looks out for your best interests.
Talk It Over
No matter what phase of faith you are in right now, what are you expecting God to do in your life?
How does trusting your life to Jesus Christ change the way you face a difficulty or dead end in your journey of faith?
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“Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but the Lord tests the heart” (Proverbs 17:3 NLT).
By Pastor Rick Warren
You could watch a million hours of television and movies without finding a story as thrilling as the story the Bible tells about Daniel. Think Raiders of the Lost Ark and Mission Impossible all rolled into one.
The Bible follows Daniel’s life from the age of 15 until he’s 85. And every step of his story is breathtaking. Over the next few weeks, we’ll study Daniel’s life and explore key truths that we can apply to our lives today.
When Daniel was still a teenager, the Babylonians put down a rebellion in Judah and took some of the Israelites into captivity. Because Daniel was healthy, knowledgeable, and perceptive, he was taken as a prisoner to be trained for service in the king’s court (Daniel 1:1-7).
And then God tested him because God tests us with stress before God trusting us with success. God had big plans for Daniel. There are only two men in all of history that God told what the end of the world would be like: Daniel and the apostle John. God gave Daniel the job to communicate that message first to Israel and then to the whole world through the Bible. But before God could trust Daniel with this message, God gave him stress. God gave Daniel a test.
The Bible says in Proverbs 17:3, “Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but the Lord tests the heart” (NLT).
If God’s going to use you, he’s going to test you first. He wants to be sure you’re ready to handle the power, the blessing, the influence, or whatever else he wants to give you.
The Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, put Daniel and other young men into a three-year indoctrination program. He wanted to wipe out their memories of Israel and to secularize them. They were taught a new language, a new culture, a new religion, and new habits. The Babylonians were trying to reprogram Daniel and these other young men, and prepare them to serve in the royal court.
But the king faced unexpected opposition when he tried to change Daniel’s diet, which he followed in obedience to God’s commands.
The Bible says, “Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way” (Daniel 1:8 NIV).
In essence, the king told Daniel to forget God and the spiritual values he’d followed his whole life. But Daniel wouldn’t do that, and so he passed the test.
God will give you a similar test. It won’t look exactly the same. But God will test your character. God wants to know if he can trust you with success. And the good news: God is right there with you helping you to succeed.
Talk It Over:
When have you faced a test similar to the one God gave Daniel?
Why do you think God tests us with stress before trusting us with success?
Why was it so important for Daniel to remain obedient to God while in Babylon?
Disclaimer: The intention of posting the daily hope is to promote Pastor Rick Warren. No other intention other than this.
One day, I talked with our college dean and I told him that it will be my last day at the school, the college dean helped me to make a resignation letter.
May 2005, I resigned as a student assistant and quit studying because of financial capability.
I applied for the Manila Banker’s Life Insurance as a sales agent; I passed the licensure examination, but my job, as an agent didn’t work. I didn’t make sales. I think I don’t have a passion to do it, to find a client and interact with them to discuss the financial matter.
My questions are: “how can I function well as a financial advisor if I don’t have the experience on my own?” I don’t know what needs means, and what wants are all about. How can I sell something if I don’t know what I am selling? I disregarded this job.
After one month, it was June 2005; my college dean called on my mobile phone and asked me: “if school personnel can trust me with regards to money”.
One second, I stop and think for a second. “Why he asking me this kind of question, I asked myself”
I replied: “Yes you can trust me,” our discussion continued and he said that he already endorsed me to the school Vice President of AIE College.
The Dean told me that I will be working as a full-time Library Clerk, and I will be receiving a minimum salary of 3,500 pesos ($70) per month at the same time as a regular student with 100% free for all tuition fees and miscellaneous fees.
I said: “WOW!” It’s great, and I was very blessed. This is the work of God. Thank you! Praise the lord. I reported at AIE College, and start working as Library Clerk from June 2005 – December 2005.
Being out of school youth is difficult, day and night I did drinking liquor. I thought that I will be an out of school youth forever. Imagined that I gave up going to school because of my financial capability.
But God is really powerful and creative, imagined what he did to me? He used a person to bring me back to school. I am not expecting this.
And now I know that God is working to me, to you, and for us. Mostly there are things that out of our control and we gave up those things.
But God is secretly working for us if you really have a desire to achieve the things that you wanted to do for a better life, in good faith.
“This happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us . . . and he will deliver us again. On him, we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us” (2 Corinthians 1:9b-10 NIV).
If there is one thing I would like to do, this is to return back to God everything good that he did to me. To reach out those out of school youth. Because those out of school youth are stuck.
“Abraham believed in the God who brings the dead back to life and who creates new things out of nothing” (Romans 4:17b NLT).
By Pastor Rick Warren
There are certain dead-end words in life, including “cancer,” “divorce,” “bankruptcy,” “infertility,” and “unemployment.”
How do you know when you’re at a dead end? You know it when things get out of your control and you can’t do anything about it.
When you’re stuck and waiting for deliverance, you need to remember what God can do. The situation may be out of your control, but it’s not out of God’s control. When you face a dead end, don’t focus on what you can’t do. Focus instead on what God can do.
Romans 4:17b says, “Abraham believed in the God who brings the dead back to life and who creates new things out of nothing” (NLT).
Here are two things God does that you can’t do: He can give life to the dead, and he can create something out of nothing. If God can give life to a dead man, he can give life to a dead career. He can bring life to that dead marriage. He can bring life to that dead dream. He can bring life to that financial dead end.
It wasn’t just positive thinking that helped Abraham. Positive thinking works fine in situations you can control. But positive thinking is not faith. They are two very different things.
In situations that are out of your control, positive thinking is worthless. It’s just wishful thinking. It doesn’t change the situation. When you face things that are out of your control, you need something more than a positive mental attitude. You need faith in God, because he can control it when you can’t. Most of life is beyond your control, so you need faith far more than you need positive thinking.
Jesus says in Luke 18:27, “What is impossible with man is possible with God” (NIV). God specializes in the impossible. It’s called a miracle, and he can do it in your life! He is ready to turn your dead end into deliverance.
Talk It Over
What dead end are you facing today?
Why is it sometimes difficult to admit that something is out of your control?
What’s the result of having faith in God even at a dead end? How does it change you? How does it change your circumstances?
Disclaimer: The intention of posting the daily hope is to promote Pastor Rick Warren. No other intention other than this.
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