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GSM Church History: How we started...

Great Shepherd Ministries commonly known as GSM, started in 2014 with only 6 members. The gathering was intended only for a prayer meeting and fellowship with Huawei Christian co-workers but unknowingly God has a bigger plan for us more than we can imagine. The gathering was increasing in numbers as it was consistently held once a week.

Until such time, God gave us a very strong message to build a church through prophetic words and visions. The revelations were consistent, clear and spontaneous. Fear, hesitations and reluctance were initially manifesting without any resources how to make this thing possible. We the pioneers faced different testing of faith and moldings as God’s way of preparation for His plan in our lives. In layman’s term, kumbaga dumaan kami sa butas ng karayom. (In other words, it’s if we went through the hole of the needle). It involved surrender and getting out from our comfort zone. As how the gold refined by fire so as God refined us to become the precious gold He wants us to be. It was never easy. I can say we literally sow in tears. But God said in His words, those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. (Psalm 126:5).

As part of our obedience, by faith we started to invest for the church such as pouring out of finances, efforts and skills combined with prayer and fasting. Step by step, we sought everything according to God’s leading. We may not saw the abrupt results but we knew in our hearts that it will come to pass as what the Lord has revealed to us. We created and planted those revelations in the spiritual with lots of prayer and declaration accompanied with fasting to manifest in the physical.

Indeed, when God gave a vision He will give the provision! The moment we said yes to God it is already amen in Christ Jesus. We literally walked by faith, holding on to what the Lord has revealed to us. 

May 9, 2014 we had our first Friday Fellowship as a church with more or less 15 attendees, a drum set and one acoustic guitar in the Church Sanctuary, Al Misrea Tower, Juffair Kingdom of Bahrain. 

I remember one time; we had our Jericho ride all over the streets of Bahrain from end to end interceding for this land. Just like how Joshua and the Israelites marched along the walls of Jericho so as we stood in the gap to break the walls the enemy has built over this land. 

Amazingly, those prophetic words and visions were coming to pass! Within the year, we held two Encounter God Retreat (EGR) and two Water Baptism that was participated with new born believers. We can see God’s hand is at work in our church as we were buying additional chairs week by week to accommodate the new attendees! From a number of 15, the multiplication was overwhelming as it grew to 50 attendees with 7 Bible studies such as the IronMan (Boys BS), Hoora BS, Ladies BS, Tariq BS, Tubly BS and Juffair BS along with  our Weekly Monday Encounter where the church was born. 

Not only that, GSM church is also involved in partnering with other church and mission agencies in sending finances for Mission in taking part of the Great Commission to reach out for the lost souls to the ends of the earth. 

The Mandate of the Church is in Luke 4:18-19 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."

We hold on to what the Lord has commanded us. GSM church was not built by human hands but built by God. It is not under any denomination because our only foundation is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Until now, we are still living by faith. Some boast in horses, some boast in chariots but we will boast in the name of the Lord our God. (Psalm 20:7)

Now that we are on our one year anniversary, no words can fully describe how thankful we are that God has been faithful. We thank Him for what He has done in our hearts, in our lives and in our church. To Him we give the highest praise, the highest worship, the highest adoration – the King of kings, the Lord of lords. To God be the Glory!

April Fool’s Day

Signs that the guy you like doesn’t like you

Many women out there tend to assume that the guy they like; likes them back. It is very hard to know what is in the heart of the guy most especially if he’s your friend and you see him almost every day. Many times you are wishing if only you can open his heart and see what’s inside of it since he seems so mysterious and secretive about the area of his lovelife. Women who have guy friends, especially if they consider themselves best of friends may or may not end up in a romantic relationship. If not, I believe that at some point one or the other must have considered the thought of “what if we become a couple?”  

Anyway, if you are the type of girl who really doesn’t initiate or do the first move to show your affection to the person you like then, you don’t have a choice but to wait. Haha… frankly speaking, I will give you some tips how to end this misery of yours by identifying if your guy friend likes you or not.

1. He doesn’t look at you. One of the most obvious sign that the guy likes a girl is when he constantly looks at her. When your guy doesn’t even looks at you they way you look at him well maybe that’s just a one way romantic love.

2. He doesn’t initiate to send you a text message or chat with you unless if its important. Most of the time he only reply accordingly to what you are asking. Or worst he dares not to reply to your message at all! He doesn’t make conversations with you.

3. He doesn’t initiates to hang out with you; you always do the first move. When he ask for a date, you’ll be disappointed because it’s always a group date!

4.  He doesn’t treat you special. You will know if he likes your if he makes a little effort specially on special occasions like your birthdays, Christmas, New Year and Valentines. If he’s treatment or he greets you like any of your friends then probably he’s just treating you as his friend.

5. When you get sick, there’s no special treatment. Sad to say but at times like this, you might hope that he visits you at your house to bring you some meds or fruits but he will just send you a text message saying “get well soon”.

6. He flirts with other girls in front of you. Your guy friend doesn’t care at all what you will feel if he flirts with other women. He will even ask you favor to ask the woman’s number or tell you or rather force you to introduce him to her. As usual you will be pissed off! Haha

7. When he talks about his ideal girl, you realize you don’t fit for his qualifications.

8. When finally you got an extra courage to show a bit of your feelings to give him a hint that you like him but his reaction or response is the opposite to what you are expecting.  

That’s it! If half or more than half of the above falls on you, well girl sorry to that say he doesn’t like you. It might be painful if I’m saying this straight to your face because you need to wake up from reality and stop living in fantasy. Don’t worry if he doesn’t feels the same coz I’m pretty sure God has prepared for you someone better. Do not lose your self esteem and be discouraged because they are plenty of fishes in the ocean. Cheer up and be happy. Life is beautiful. There’s beauty in waiting coz I believe that true love waits.