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Well, I am going to make this a quicky since I have five minutes to leave for church. Because of my liberation yesterday I can't wait to go to church to celebrate my new found freedom, open relationship with God and my love for Him that He made the way for me to get out of ugly webs of sin that we get into. I also stop to think of the responsibilities I have service at church. I love taking care of the prayer garden....that is a story for another day. But as Youth Prayer Leader I am trying to find 8 adult leaders to be on my prayer team to cover and lift up the youth ministry in prayer. I have found that people like to serve but they don't want the responsibility of leading. So I will keep praying, looking, and asking. My heart is to find people who are not yet serving in any other way so that they can give their attention and heart to the area of service. It seems like a lot of the people I know already have one or more places of service, but I am very outgoing and I am constantly looking for the new people God is bringing to our church to make them feel comfortable and loved. I will write again ..... I have to get my children in the car and drive to our church. |
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I am a transparant person so if you read my blog sometimes you may feel like you are looking into a soul. Well I have over the years learned not to bare my soul to everyone, especially "church" people. Don't get me wrong I love my church dearly. It is so exciting to be there. We are vibrant and growing and serving God. But sometimes "church" people are living life "too good" to bare to hear that someone they know much less share life prayer requests with had struggled with sin or is fighting out of it or living in it. My sin had gotten the best of me. I want things I don't need and the temptation to take things that I did not buy was growing strong. My sin over the past few weeks was stopping my prayer life with God. When I got with Him, He gently reminded me that I hadn't dealt with my sin and so He didn't have too much else to say and for me to sit there and talk to Him was a joke. I knew what was right. I knew what I had to do to make the situation right. I knew how to repent, but it's hard to face up to others, even to your spouse that you are a common crimminal. After fessing up to my sin, my sweet husband had me read Roman 8. I am familiar with reading Scripture in first person replacing I and me for other general pronouns. I wept as I read God's Word that is medicine for any ailment, especially a sickness of the flesh of our soul. Well, as of today, I am set free of that bondage that Satan loves to trap serving, joyful growing Christians in. I made myself accountable to a dear friend to pray for me a few weeks ago and kept trying to get the nerve up to confess and repent. Today I made resituation and now I am set free. I think that is why I like my name, freetofly. It seems God has to continually through my life reminded me that I am His adopted child and He is my Abba, Father. Jesus already died on the cross to forgive that sin I am bound in so I need to take the finally step of confession, repentence and reconciliation. The ability to do that is a graceful gift from God! And I am glad to be His Child! |