Okay so it's been a while since I wrote and I was hoping to get some feedback and comments on the post. I remember that when I started this blog I was hoping that it would be a place where we could encourage one another with the stories of the awesome things God is doing in us and through us. I am aware of some really neat things going on. I know Bonnie H. has a great story to tell and I have had two different opportunities to share Christ (and I actually did, not that common for me). God is doing some really neat things and our prayer is that it is only just begun.
At youth group the other night we were challenged by the apostle Paul to "go all in" in a powerful way, "But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ... Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me." What a bold challenge for us all.
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God is good! We have been made welcome, and are starting to get to know some very special people. We are very blessed with our church family! Praise God for His work through His people!
ReplyDeleteOur entire lives are a battle between going "all in" and going "far enough to seem religious". I read of David to whom he has become a stranger and alien to his own family 'For the zeal for your house has consumed me'. Has that zeal ever truly consumed us and does it continue for a lifetime. I have been praying often and hard lately that God would let me die to myself, my wants, my desires and even my hopes for my family so that I can be truly risen alive in Him. The battles have been difficult but with some victories and a growing desire to go "all in".
ReplyDeleteThis battle you speak of it is fierce, and it is constant "So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised...But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are save." (Hebrews 10:25-39)
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