Well, it has been a long time, friends! December seems so long ago. God has done so much, yet it seems there has been so little to share...Sometimes floating through a quiet season waiting for an answer to prayer is indeed an answer to prayer. Much has been on my mind, and there have been several times I have sat down and opened this page and began to write...then something always stops me. This blog has been an outlet in so many ways over the past two years (my first post was Easter Sunday two years ago!) yet I somehow lost sight of the true goal and purpose to WHY I write...To share the joy and peace and wonder of Christ with anyone willing to read along with me. Today, God has burst through my personal wall with a small gleam of purpose. Over the bast several months I have allowed the enemy to infiltrate my resolve and fill my heart with the blackest lies, fear, worry and doubt...the TRUTH is, I have overcome! John 16:32-33 tells us that we may have peace. Even though we will have suffering, we are told to be courageous, for Jesus has conquered the world! The very power of Jesus name is enough to cast out every unwanted darkness and flood the mind, body, and spirit with healing light IF we allow it to come in!
I was watching Enchanted today...the princess movie where the heroine is tricked and falls into modern day New York and makes her dresses out of the curtains and a rug...Patrick Dempsey is there...anyway, it made me think about all the times I get excited to tell everyone I know about the new product I just discovered or the sale or deal I found. And we all do this, right? We gush over the new recipe we found or the new shop that just opened. We share "deals" websites and how to get bulk items delivered to your door and the latest technological device and by the way, where did you get those shoes!?! It's wonderful to be able to share new information with our friends and family, information that has in some way bettered our lives; we love to share it because we think we will have helped them and made their lives better in some way. This sharing comes so naturally to so many of us...why do you think that is? What information could be SO important that we are "pre-programmed" to share it!?! You guessed it! Jesus! The One who died for us all to save our souls and cover our sins so that we might have relationship with the Father!
...p.s. I just did this with my Mom and told her about the wonderful new Greek yogurt with chocolate, it's Chobani and it's fantastic!...and now, I've shared with you!
If it's this easy to share about yogurt, or any other product, why does it seem so difficult to share about Jesus-the ONE who has TRULY transformed our lives?
I'm not saying it's wrong in any way to share the wonderful discoveries that have changed our lives. It's NORMAL to share what we love! The POINT is, do we think Jesus is one of those wonderful discoveries, and WILL we share Him?
So, with the goal in mind...to SHARE Christ, I wish to share with you a new season God has brought me to. I am headed on my first overseas mission trip in ONE MONTH from today! I am going with a small group from my church to Penzance, England to share the gospel and help a growing church! I am so excited for God to rip me out of my comfortable complacency and stretch me and grow me closer to Him and closer to His likeness. There is still much to be done before the trip, still support to be raised, still meetings to have, still a passport to receive, and many other bits, but I leave all of this in God's hands because He is sovereign and He will take care of every detail to meet HIS expectations. I look forward to allowing God to speak through me as I diligently seek to fill my heart with Him until He overflows into EVERY moment, relationship, and conversation in my life! There's a challenge in there for me as well as for you! Will WE diligently work to make Jesus the topic of conversation as we share the wonders that have changed the way we live our lives...HAS Jesus CHANGED the way you live your life the way your iPhone has? Think about it.
Happy to be back friends. God is SO faithful to bring us through hard times and into His time. Have a great week.
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