Our first ever Prayer Mountain at Touch of Glory, Antipolo

We went at Touch of Glory, Prayer Mountain at Antipolo last April 20, 2011.

From Cubao, we took an fx to Cogeo. That was almost an hour ride from Cubao. We arrived at Cogeo Town Plaza and took a Paenaan jeepney all the way to the prayer mountain. The trip was about 30 minutes from Cogeo.

One big mistake that me and my friend had was we didn't know shorts were prohibited. I didn't even ask my friend who had been at Touch of Glory if there were restrictions inside. 8.30pm and we still have 30 minutes to go back at Cogeo Town Plaza to buy pants or leggings. We really wanted this that we still had optimism in our hearts that we can have what we need. And God helped us all through. He touched the hands of the driver that we got back at Cogeo for less than 30 minutes.  We urgently looked for stores where we can buy leggings and then we headed again to our destination. We arrived at 10.20pm with our hearts smiling as we say "Finally, we're here. Nobody can stop us.ALL FOR THE LORD'S GLORY".

We stayed at a dormitory. In this dormitory, there are a lot of Christian women also.

I decided to sleep at 12mn after I read a chapter of a book. I closed my eyes and found my self still wide awake at 12.30am. I decided to read another chapter of the book, hoping I'll get drowsy  somehow. I decided to close my eyes again at 1am and found my self wide awake at 1.30. I don't know why I couldn't fall asleep. Maybe this was the effect of my 12-hour of sleep the other day. I prayed that God will help me fall asleep but then again, I decided to read another chapter of the book. What I thought about was that I need to wake up at 4am yet I couldn't manage to fall asleep.

I finally fell asleep at 2am and then got up at 4. I just could not go back to sleep that I decided to take a bath already. Me and Dahlia had our breakfast at 5am.

Pandesal and coffee filled our tummy as we had our 4-hour conversations about our lives.

Wow. That was really a heartwarming talk about Christianity and how God changed both of us. It was indeed a fulfilling talk with one of my closest  friends back in high school. Tears fell in our eyes yet we felt comfortable with each other. The fact that God was the center of our conversation made us feel so thankful that we were finally back on track --- on loving God more than anyone else.

We decided to pray at the prayer cells at 9.

I started my long list of prayers with the gratitude that the Lord gave me in my entire life and that  consumed 1 hour and 15 minutes of my prayer time. I fell asleep for about 15 minutes (as usual) and then got back on my prayer. The next part of my prayer was about forgiveness. And when it was time for me to pray for my hopes in life, I realized  I am not worthy of these prayers. The wishes I listed  were not worthy of how I did so many sins to the Lord. I AM NOT REALLY WORTHY OF ANYTHING yet the Lord still gave me so much blessings. I must be ashamed of my self. I am not worthy to ask the Lord about the requests I have in my life because I sinned a lot. My prayer requests are longer than what I must ask for forgiveness! Shame on me for that.

After we had our lunch, we took a lot of pictures here and there and laughed about trivial things.

 It was so relaxing to sleep on  grasses at 3.30pm with a book covering my face. Dahlia didn't sleep. She just took shots of me sleeping  hehe. Okay 4pm...I woke up feeling  so refreshed because of the breeze at the top. I wanted to extend my trip to dreamland but I decided not to.

4.30pm and we headed back to Manila with our souls refreshed. It felt like  it was New Year for us. Thank you Lord for the time talking with us heart to heart.