Follow God with Teresa Podcast

29/01/2025

You don’t have to be perfect for God to use you. Take the hand you’ve been dealt and make the most of it. - Joel Osteen

Let God use you, even in your weakness. Remember that He is your strength.

24/11/2024

Spend this Sunday resting with your family and in spirit with God while watching an inspiring movie about faith.

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16/11/2024

If we have faith as small as a mustard seed, we can make this typhoon change course or be dissolved.

With God, nothing is impossible.

Let's pray.

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'PRESERVE OUR LIVES AND HAVE MERCY ON US ALL'

National Catholic television channel TV Maria adopts an oratio imperata (obligatory prayer) for deliverance from Typhoon Pepito on Saturday, November 16.

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02/11/2024

"Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying." - Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Let us reflect on this verse (Ps 90:12) as we celebrate All Souls Day today.

"So teach us to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart." (God's Word Translation)

"Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom." (New Living Translation)

"So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom." (NASB)

When we remember that our lives will end one day and that we do not know the time or the hour when this would happen, we would be more mindlful and deliberate with how we live our life. We will live our life with purpose. For life is too precious to be wasted on things or activties that will not bring us closer to our goal, which is heaven.

Have we reflected on our actions and activities lately? Do these things that we engage in bring us closer to heaven? Or are we wasting our precious time here on earth?

Have a blessed All Souls Day!

30/10/2024

All Souls' Day is fast approaching.

Let's intensify our prayers for our dear departed family members and friends.

List their names to be included in Masses this November for FREE.

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Honor and remember your loved ones through the Holy Mass. 🕊️ You may send the names of your dearly departed to [email protected] to include them in our daily Masses from November 1-30, 2024. Submit names by October 31, 2024.

24/10/2024

"Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.” Luke 12:48

11/10/2024

Sometimes God stirs us out of comfortable situations in order to stretch us and cause us to use our faith. - Victoria Osteen

08/10/2024

The busier we are in working for God’s Kingdom, the more time we should spend in prayer. - Companion

24/09/2024

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” - Frederick Buechner

12/09/2024

"Loving truly means acting well: doing good to haters, blessing others in exchange of curses, praying for abusers, etc." Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB

"Love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back; then your reward will be great and you will be children of the Most High . . . Be merciful, just as also your Father is merciful. Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.” Luke 6:35-38

07/09/2024

"The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear him, he hears their cry and saves them. The Lord keeps all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy." Psalm 145:18-20

01/09/2024

"For what great nation is there that has gods so close to it as the Lord, our God, is to us whenever we call upon him?" - Deuteronomy 4:7

This verse is from the First Reading today.

What a beautiful reminder, especially to us Filipinos?

Today, let us pause and remember the many times that God heard our prayers and cries to Him.

And as we remember them, let us allow gratitude, praise, worship, love and hope fill our hearts.

It's the first day of a new month, September.

In the Philippines, many people are already anticipating the Lord Jesus' birth.

Let us look forward with hope and with hearts filled with love and thanksgiving for our God who is EMMANUEL, with us and close to us.

Moreover, let us confidently call to our Good God for our needs today.

Have a blessed Sunday, friends!

24/08/2024

We do not work to be recognized. We work because God called us to help in spreading the Good News and making others see the light of salvation. - Sabbath

St. Philip & Bartholomew, pray for us. Help us to bring others to Christ.

21/08/2024

Today's Psalm:

1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 In verdant pastures he gives me repose; beside restful waters he leads me; 3 he refreshes my soul. (R) He guides me in right paths for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my side with your rod and your staff that give me courage. (R) 5 You spread the table before me in the sight of my foes; You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. (R) 6 Only goodness and kindness follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for years to come.

Do you also want to be refreshed? Turn to the Good Shepherd.

Do you want to be led to the right path? Follow the Good Shepherd.

Are you sick? Go to Him for anointing.

Do you want goodness and kindness to follow you all the days of your life? Choose to abide in God and to visit Him often in His house.

21/08/2024

“We must be ever thankful for small miracles, and ever hopeful for receiving greater ones.” (Elmer Schultz)

09/08/2024

What are you denying yourself today so you can take up your cross and follow Christ?

31/07/2024

Sharing this for fellow Catholics to watch.

This is not a time to be lukewarm. Remember that God will spit out those who are lukewarm.

We either STAND WITH JESUS, OUR LORD or with the world.
Pray fervently and consistently to be able to recognize the voice of God in your hearts and to be attuned to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Only through prayer can we recognize the warnings of the Holy Spirit and our guardian angels about the evil around us.

Let us not be deceived and conformed to the ways of the world. We, Christians, ought to stand out as lights in this dark world. Conforming will dim our light. Let your hearts burn passionately for Jesus!

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26/07/2024

Sharing this old reflection on one of Jesus' parables.

From Smallest to Largest

“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants.” – Matthew 13:31-32

Last year, among the big dreams I wrote in my Novena to God’s Love booklet was to write a new e-book, launch it in Amazon, enter it in the Cardinal Sin Catholic Book Awards’ e-books category, and win an award. But I wasn’t able to work on the book for months. I was busy homeschooling my kids, working on my HR consulting business, and managing our household.

I was about to give up on my dream when God moved me to sit down and write one day. I finished the e-book in one sitting. It also became number one in Amazon during its virtual global launch and won the e-book category at the Cardinal Sin Catholic Book Awards in 2019.

All I had was a little faith to dream big. But our God specializes in making the tiniest seeds grow into the largest of plants. Cooperate with Him to turn your seemingly impossible dreams into reality.

~ Teresa Gumap-as Dumadag ([email protected]), Didache, 7262021

reflect

How is God calling you now to express your faith? What is the big picture or vision He has revealed to you and asks you to pursue in faith?

Lord Jesus, help me to grow in faith. Help me to walk by faith and not by sight.

Sts. Joachim and Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, pray for us.

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For me, God is calling me to express my faith now by working on the illustrations of my upcoming children's book. With the little faith and skill that I have, I started illustrating the pages and by the grace, mercy & favor of God, I'm down to the last 2 spreads. Glory to God!