Posts by Andrew Pubalasingam (Page 6)

What a blessing is it to hear from Mae-tuin this past Sunday. It’s always a pleasure and a privilege to hear from the Family of Lifespring. After hearing Mae-tuin’s message, I took away two things. Never get in the car with Mae-tuin unless you have a gas tank, cash, or a means to purchase gas because 9 times out of 10 the car is on “E”  Fill up your tank: Mental, Physically, and Spiritually by Focusing on God Mae-tuin challenged…

No matter how much you try to be someone else, you can’t. Trust me, I can try to be like Laura, Ryan, Gabe or Jerry but honestly I’d fail. Why? Because I’m not them and they are not me. I cannot be them and they cannot be me. I was created to be Andrew and no one else. In fact, I’m not good enough to be someone else. I just don’t have it in me. No matter how much I…

When you write enough papers, you start to become familiar with the rules of grammar either through violation or adherence. In my case it is often through violation or in other words, making mistakes that helps me learn the rules of grammar. My wife tells me all the time that I should stop writing like I’m talking because it often leads me to write grammatically incorrect sentences. As you read through this, you may find this to be true but…

If you’ve lived long enough you know that bad days are inevitable. Bad days are the worst to say the least. They can send you down on spirals of negativity where it seems like there’s no turning back. Sometimes a day can be so bad that we start to question whether or not God had anything to do with it.  Have you ever asked God this “God, why would you let that happen?” or how about this “God, if you…

After hearing Peggy’s message last Sunday and her sharing about learning how to rest, I was reminded of the importance of resting in the presence of the Lord. One of things I’ve noticed about myself is that I tend to get burnt out really easily. As I was praying to God for strength for another day, He began to speak to me about how I use my time and energy. It’s important to rest but it’s just as important to…

Today I’d like to offer you a concept that you may or may not be familiar with. It goes like this: “Fear is a feeling just like every other feeling.” My agenda today is to strip down all power and authority we have consciously or unconsciously given to the idea, the feeling, the reason and even the spirit of fear. The world has used fear to control many narratives of the people and ideas of the world and we have…

One of the things that God brought to my attention was the way we treat others. I think it is safe to say that most of us, if not all, treat people well when everything is copacetic. When we’re all on the same page, when we’re all in agreement, when we’re all getting along but what God was challenging me on multiple fronts was to not punish people for their pain.  When God was speaking to me about this He…

In my couples discipleship one of the things that stood out to me was the power of learning and memorizing scripture. It is Step 4 of 10 in the ten steps to Grow Godly Character. To give you some context, the character trait I was working on was pride (not necessarily by choice but as things transpired throughout the week, pride seemed to be the culprit of my transgressions). During the process of dealing with my pride, I found that…

Have you ever wondered what love and hate look like? Over the past decade, love and hate have modified its descriptions in keeping with the times causing it to take many different forms and variations but one thing I noticed is that no matter what it looks like it follows the same process. I heard this analogy about love and hate through a metaphor of cutting and watering trees that gave me a little insight on the process of love…

In my first year of Psychology at YorkU, I remember writing a paper on whether I believed if one person can make a difference in this world. Based on my experiences with the relationships I had with people, it was easy to see that one person could make a difference in the world because multiple people made a difference in my life. When it came to people, the difference makers were very tangible to me. Interacting with humans will always…

Last Sunday we got to hear from Lyndon DoJohn of GAiN Ministries sharing about his many experiences and how the love of Jesus has impacted his life. He shared a quote from a book that he had read that stood out to me: “Following Jesus is not about the scenery but about the company.”  My interpretation of this quote is that sometimes we have unrealistic expectations when we  follow Jesus. Sometimes our focus is on where we are going rather…

On Sunday we heard from Jari Koivu on what was going on in Ukraine, not just what was happening in the physical realm but what was happening in the Spiritual realm. People who had left Ukraine for safety were coming back to help those they left behind because of a call from God, soldiers and military personnel were abandoning their stations and leaving their tanks with no visible reason. There was something happening in the unseen that was causing a…