TOASTMASTERS GUAM — The story of how God Ied me to Public Speaking:
The week has been rough. I feel like I am not doing anything that can fulfill the purpose God intended to do with my life. Shame on me for being able to finish half a book of Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life not achieving anything, not fulfilling anything. Not being able to apply it on my life. I feel empty.
I knew to myself that this time is crucial. I am vulnerable. I was so afraid loneliness will creep on the very parts of me and that the depression will hit me. Then, there’s gonna be no way out.
But, there is a way in — A way to God’s heart. So the only thing I was left to do was to continually seek God and worship Him, praise Him in any way possible. As Rick Warren says. “Worshipping God even when you feel abandoned is worshipping Him in the deepest way”. Through my SFC family, we made all of these things possible.
As I carry on seeking Him, I stumbled upon a Youtube video of one of the few people in the Philippine Show Business that i look up to —Ms Toni Gonzaga. The video is about her life testimony where all her life she wanted to become a singer on tv but got rejected too many times. Almost wanting to give up, she surrendered everything to the Lord. She let God’s will be done. That’s when she had her big break on showbiz. How she got a spot on tv was not because of singing but instead it was because of hosting. Before she would always ask God why “hosting” when she knows she’s better at singing and she later on realized that God wanted her to hone her public speaking skills to become a voice. To use her influence in media to be able to preach the goodness of God to people as what she was doing on the video itself was God’s plan for her.
Soon after watching the video, i found some interest in public speaking itself but I never made a concrete plan about it. Not really planning on taking a public speaking class in the next 6 months because I have plenty of other things to worry about. Also, as my introvert self, I am also pretty anxious to start taking an action on that aspect of myself, speaking to people.
Later on that day was the fellowship we had. While singing and worshipping God, I told Him that I surrender everything to Him. It was also a day full of laughter and love within my newly-found family. Before the day ended, I was amazingly invited by my brothers in Christ Jordan and James to check out this thing called Toastmasters — a platform where you could improve public speaking!!!! It felt like God wanted me to do it now. I don’t know what had gotten onto my mind but my usually introverted self went out of my comfort zone and decided to go and not only that I also invited fellow SFC members to come with me. The only thing that I have in my mind that time is to be able to improve at public speaking so that someday me and my brothers and sisters will preach together on how great our God is. During the session, I felt the fire burning with passion within me and the emptiness my heart has been feeling for days was filled with God’s promises.
Once you stopped controlling the steering wheel and let God do the driving, God will eventually take you to beautiful places with beautiful sceneries, with things you have never seen before. Beautiful things that only God has the ability to bring into your life.
Just remember that during your moments of darkness, if you continue to seek light, the light will eventually shine upon you, As Albert Einstein says: Darkness is only the absence of light. Therefore it doesn’t exist! So light is always present! it can get dim but it’s always gonna be there just continue to seek for it.
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