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The Struggling Believer
by The Struggling Believer of Jesus
I’m going to be thinking and digesting inspired writings out loud and try to explore the answers to the most intriguing ultimate universal questions about God, the nature of reality, the Christian life, faith, relationships, dysfunctions, healing and growth, identity and behavior, dealing with finances as a Christian, and all the other aspects of a believer’s life.We’ll dive deep into the personal struggles and learnings of someone trying to live the life of a believer who, albeit the chaos, and despite all trials, still clings to the one and only Savior Jesus Christ.
Episodes
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K Raw Reflections | On God’s Faithfulness vs Human Participation
Why does God ask us to participate in the fulfillment of His promises — or does He?
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S6 E3 - Preparing for the Final Crisis - Sunday Lesson
The signs of the times are increasing in both intensity and frequency. How do we prepare for what's coming?
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S6 E2 - Ablaze with God's Glory - Sabbath Lesson
What if the final events aren't actually scary — what if they're actually the most exciting times for God's love to be fully revealed? In this episode, I'm joined by Blessy (Choco) and Joy, and that's how it's going to be moving forward. P.S. We're going to be speaking in English, Cebuano, and...
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S6 E1: The Word Is LOVE
A premise, an exploration, and an encounter with the Person of Love. @isabbathinjesus
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CO-OPERATION | The Desire of Ages Chapter 30: "He Ordained Twelve" | DA Sunrise
Jesus has chosen and ordained an inner circle of disciples to CO-OPERATE with Him closely, defective and weak they may be. He chose fallen and imperfect human agents and not perfect angels because they were in the best position to relate to the struggling ones they would seek to help. Today, if...
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RESTORATION | The Desire of Ages Chapter 29: The Sabbath | DA Sunset
The Sabbath was barricaded by so many burdensome requirements by the Jewish authorities, but Jesus sought to RESTORE the Sabbath to what it was originally intended to be. As both Creator and Redeemer, Jesus demonstrated how the Sabbath was a memorial of His act of Creation. It was also about the...
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EMPTIED | The Desire of Ages Chapter 28: Levi-Matthew | DA Sunrise
Unless people EMPTIED themselves of self-righteousness, pride, old traditions, customs, and practices, they had no place in their minds and hearts for the teachings of Christ. This was the condition of most scribes and Pharisees. Meanwhile, Levi-Matthew, though occupying a position that made him...
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HEALING | The Desire of Ages Chapter 27: "Thou Canst Make Me Clean" | DA Sunset
The leper and the paralytic both had longed for the HEALING of the body as well as the soul. Without hesitation, Jesus HEALED them both. Today, if you are suffering from a physical disease or under the burden of guilt and shame, know that Jesus will—and Jesus is willing to—bring you full HEALING....
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TENDER | The Desire of Ages Chapter 26: At Capernaum | DA Sunrise
Jesus is indeed an attractive, TENDER Savior. His teaching, tone, and temperament all show how TENDER and compassionate He truly is. 👇 Everything about what He said and did indeed reflected God's character of love. In contrast to that is Satan's want for control. While Satan was contending to…
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CALLED | The Desire of Ages Chapter 25: The Call by the Sea | DA Sunset
When Peter witnessed the miraculous catch, he realized the contrast between Jesus' divinity, holiness, and purity and his own weaknesses and sinfulness. It was then that Jesus CALLED Peter to forsake all and follow Him—this time, completely. This CALL by the Sea of Galilee challenges each…
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UNBELIEF | The Desire of Ages Chapter 24: "Is Not This the Carpenter's Son?" | DA Sunrise
When Jesus read that passage from Isaiah before the citizens of Nazareth in the synagogue, their hearts were stirred with conviction. But, when they realized Jesus' mission was not according to their hopes of national greatness and that it was heart work with Christ, they shunned themselves from...
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PROPHECY | The Desire of Ages Chapter 23: "The Kingdom of God Is at Hand" | DA Sunset
If only the Jewish authorities in Jesus' time surrendered their pride and searched the Scriptures, they would have learned from the PROPHECIES of Daniel that Jesus actually fulfilled all those dates and that He was actually the promised Messiah. "The time of Christ's first coming, His anointing…
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SUFFERING | The Desire of Ages Chapter 22: Imprisonment and Death of John | DA Sunrise
John the Baptist's incomplete understanding of the mission of Jesus—coupled with the questions his followers threw at him about Jesus' seeming inaction about John's imprisonment—caused John perplexity and trouble. For a time, John had doubts and anxiety, but after revisiting all the encounters he...
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BELIEVE | The Desire of Ages Chapter 21: Bethesda and the Sanhedrin | DA Sunrise
The paralytic man's case was of supreme wretchedness. He's suffered misery for long years. When Jesus bid him, "Rise, take up your bed, and walk," the man did BELIEVE. He acted on Christ's word, and immediately, he was healed. This DA chapter says, "Do not wait to feel that you are made whole....
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TRUST | The Desire of Ages Chapter 20: "Except Ye See Signs and Wonders" | DA Sunset
The nobleman could not place his full TRUST in Jesus. He wanted to see first that his son would actually be healed. He wanted to witness the miracle first before he would believe. And yet, this attitude only revealed a hidden doubt. In today's day and age, we still express the same doubt whenever...
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THIRST | The Desire of Ages Chapter 19: At Jacob's Well | DA Sunrise
The Samaritan woman expected to draw water from Jacob's well just to quench her daily, physical THIRST. Little did she know that the Jewish Man she was going to meet under the hot noonday sun that day would offer her Living Water—the kind that would forever quench her deepest THIRST for...
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INCREASE | The Desire of Ages Chapter 18: "He Must Increase" | DA Sunset
When faced with the temptation to get jealous of Jesus for His growing popularity, John the Baptist responded by saying, "He must INCREASE, and I, decrease." 📧 For inquiries and responses or any insights you may want to share, email me at [email protected]
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DRAWING | The Desire of Ages Chapter 17: Nicodemus | DA Sunrise
The Holy Spirit has been, as an unseen wind, silently DRAWING Nicodemus to Jesus. Little did he know that in that curious encounter in the middle of the night on the Mount of Olives, seeds would be sown in his heart that will forever change his life. 📧 For inquiries and responses or any insights...
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CLEANSE | The Desire of Ages Chapter 16: In His Temple | DA Sunrise
Jesus showed Himself among the noisy crowd to CLEANSE His temple from the fraud and extortion that went on in there for years. Priestly authorities had been taking advantage of the cries of the people. People thought they wouldn’t be accepted if they didn’t offer a sacrifice. Priests, rabbis, and...
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SOCIAL | The Desire of Ages Chapter 15: At the Marriage Feast | DA Sunrise
Jesus was SOCIAL. He chose a SOCIAL occasion—a marriage celebration—to perform His first miracle. Yes, Jesus went up to the mountains to pray, meditate, and commune with the Father, but after that, He came down to where people are, to spend time with them, to share innocent happiness with them…
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SEE | The Desire of Ages Chapter 14: “We Have Found the Messias” | DA Sunrise
While prejudice surrounded the idea of a Messiah to come, Jesus invited John and Andrew to come and SEE. It was John the Baptist who first told everyone to BEHOLD the Lamb of God—and those who heard came to Jesus to SEE for themselves what He has to offer. When Philip invited Nathanael, and...
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FAITH | The Desire of Ages Chapter 13: The Victory | DA Sunrise
FAITH is the victory that overcomes the temptations in this world. Jesus demonstrated this FAITH in God the Father and stood victorious against Satan’s advances. When Satan presented scripture as an argument, he purposefully omitted specific vital phrases to prove his point. The enemy is still...
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WORD | The Desire of Ages Chapter 12: The Temptation | DA Sunrise
When assailed with the temptation to doubt God’s WORD, the key to overcoming is also God’s WORD. “If you are the Son of God...” — Satan was trying to reframe Jesus’s mind about His identity, introducing doubt on the WORD that God the Father had already declared just 40 days earlier during the...
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ACCESS | The Desire of Ages Chapter 11: The Baptism | DA Sunrise
In Jesus, the Beloved Son, we find ACCESS to the Father. As Jesus, in His baptism, was given the assurance, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased,” we too are given the confidence that we are God’s beloved children, in whom He is well-pleased. While our sinful, selfish choices have...
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STARTLE | The Desire of Ages Chapter 10: The Voice in the Wilderness | DA Sunrise
John the Baptist came to the scene to STARTLE the people—to awaken them to the reality of their ways: to their sinfulness, selfishness, self-centeredness, and wickedness. John’s was a STARTLING message, but it wasn’t given just for the sake of startling. His humble life, his voice, his words of...
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DIFFERENT | The Desire of Ages Chapter 9: Days of Conflict | DA Sunrise
The young Jesus was DIFFERENT—He behaved differently because He had a different standard from the rest of His brothers and all the people surrounding Him. This DIFFERENCE became the very point of conflict. Jesus experienced many days of conflict, where He was constantly bullied and bashed. He...
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NEGLECT | The Desire of Ages Chapter 8: The Passover Visit | DA Sunrise
By the stubborn NEGLECT of the rabbis and the learned people of the truths the 12-year-old boy Jesus had presented to them in the temple, they still missed a spiritual transformation that they would have had if they only humbled themselves. The boy Jesus had experienced a most wonderful encounter...
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GROWTH | The Desire of Ages Chapter 7: As a Child | DA Sunrise
Jesus experienced GROWTH—He did not just clothe Himself with human flesh—He literally became human, stripped Himself of all knowledge and physical powers, and started off as a helpless baby that needed to GROW. He needed to grow in physical abilities, in mental capacity, in social graces, and in...
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PROVISION | The Desire of Ages Chapter 6: “We Have Seen His Star” | DA Sunrise
To those who humbly seek the light, God sends PROVISION, i.e., guidance and spiritual insight. The wise men from the East had hearts that were more humble and more open to the truth and to the promise of a coming Messiah than those who claimed to be worshippers of God. Once again, we see that…
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CONTRAST | The Desire of Ages Chapter 5: The Dedication | DA Sunrise
Stark was the CONTRAST between the officiating priest and Simeon and Anna—the former dedicated the baby Jesus as a poor, ordinary first-born infant. At the same time, the latter saw that this was the Promised Deliverer, and so they spoke words that revealed His actual mission. The former was...
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RELATABLE | The Desire of Ages Chapter 4: Unto You a Savior | DA Sunrise
God the Son could have come to earth and look like Superman, but He didn’t. Instead, He took the kind of human flesh that was subject to thousands of years of genetic and hereditary degradation. Christ was infleshed with human flesh that’s more RELATABLE—the kind that we have now, the kind that...
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ON TIME | The Desire of Ages Chapter 3: “The Fullness of Time” | DA Sunrise
Just when everyone was down in the deepest dumps and felt the emptiness of their hearts real hard—that’s when God sent Jesus to be born on earth, the promised Deliverer. And God is right ON TIME! “God’s purposes know no haste or delay.” If the first chapter was the ‘biggest’ picture, and the…
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BUT | The Desire of Ages Chapter 2: The Chosen People | DA Sunrise
A failed expectation. They expected a someone that would rescue them from their outward misery, BUT they didn’t realize that that outward misery all came from a deeper misery inside. Yesterday, we’ve seen the ‘biggest’ picture. Today, we come closer and explore the ‘bigger’ picture that set the...
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WITH | The Desire of Ages Chapter 1: “God With Us” | DA Sunrise
What an amazing chapter! We’re starting off an entire new season dedicated to the reading and reflection on the book The Desire of Ages by Ellen G White. In David Asscherick style, the keyword for every chapter is going to be the main title of each episode in this season. I’m starting this…
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Why knowing the truth about death and resurrection matters on our understanding of God
Earlier today, I encountered a comment on an Instagram post that I liked. The post pointed out the truth about death and resurrection. The comment, on the other hand, dismissed the post and said it talked about non-essential stuff. I made a reply on that comment and also decided to share it on my...
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The Simple But Little Known Secret to Winning the Heart of A Professed Unbeliever
It’s not words. It’s not persuasion. For thousands of years, people of “authority” in the church have been struggling to keep members inside—especially teenagers and young adults—not knowing the real reason why these are going out and seem to be totally hating on God. Listen and discover the…
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A Recap, a Responsibility, and the Best Path Toward Your Restoration and Healing
We recap some of most important points we’ve discussed about the effects of the anti-love principle in our human lives and get face to face with a slight dilemma—the reality of the responsibility in our hands and in our words and in our actions on helping unbelievers around us see the truth, the...
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How To Correct That Parent-Shaped Hole In You and Truly Free Yourself From Neediness
This episode turned out really amazing! Discover the best way to heal that parent-shaped hole in your life and fill that with abundant love, so you can finally be set free from being a walking donut that’s empty in the center and inside—to becoming a rolling munchkin that just rolls through life,...
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A Parent-Shaped Hole: How Babies Demonstrate the Human Need for Human Love Right at Birth
There’s no question we have a God-shaped hole in our lives—our adult selves who haven’t been filled with God’s love are like walking donuts—we can’t seem to be well-rounded individuals. But babies! Babies and their need for human touch (else they’d die) are telling us something. We human beings...
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Why God Seems To Be Only Keeping Himself In the Background
Today we start with a recap on what we’ve learned so far, explore and dive deep into why we were asking the ultimate question in the first place, and discover why God seems to just be so silent and so unobtrusive despite His being all powerful—and try to check if that also connects and roots deep...
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Zero Love Is Also Anti-Love: Uncovering the Form of Passive Abuse That Cripples Many Adults Today
We dissect the nature of one form of emotional abandonment and how that is also a form of anti-love. We begin by exploring what we have already discussed so far and then just come naturally to the almost surprising conclusion that what you’ve had in childhood may not have been active abuse, but a...
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Some of the Relational and Generational Results of the Anti-Love Principle: Is It Really Worth It?
We dive into some examples of the working out of the anti-love principle in the lives of Richard, Betty, Tom, and Bill. While listening, ask this to yourself: in what ways do I also experience the working out of the anti-love principle in my own life? And, is it really worth it?
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Exploring the Beginning of the Great Controversy: How Does God’s Love React to An Anti-Love Attack?
As promised, we unpack the beginnings of rebellion, where and how this whole great controversy between love and anti-love principles all started, who Lucifer was, and how God—consistent with His character of love—reacted in the presence of the very first attack against His character and…
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How a God of Love Actually Behaves Toward You + The Real Culprit Behind Your Bad Situation (Not God)
It’s early Sabbath morning when I recorded this, and I have talked about a looot of good stuff especially about God being Creator and also Redeemer, and how that connects with His character of love, how love actually behaves toward people and other beings, and how the devil just paints all the...
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The Most Common Reason Why People Can’t Embrace the Idea of a God
We pick up on the ultimate question we’ve discussed yesterday about the seeming dichotomy of a good God—an authority figure—in such a bad, bad world. Discover the root cause of such struggle and how the ultimate self-revelation of God in Jesus embraces everyone who’s in a deep, childhood-rooted...
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An Introduction and an Answer to One Ultimate Universal Question
In this very first episode, I’m sharing with you why I’m doing this, some of the circumstances and opportunities that made this podcasting project possible, the very first universal question that I tried answering in brief, and a few insights on what we could talk about next. 📧 For inquiries and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
I’m going to be thinking and digesting inspired writings out loud and try to explore the answers to the most intriguing ultimate universal questions about God, the nature of reality, the Christian life, faith, relationships, dysfunctions, healing and growth, identity and behavior, dealing with finances as a Christian, and all the other aspects of a believer’s life.We’ll dive deep into the personal struggles and learnings of someone trying to live the life of a believer who, albeit the chaos, and despite all trials, still clings to the one and only Savior Jesus Christ.
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