This week, we were delighted to listen to our pastor Josh Brooks speak on the very thing that God has been telling us for over a year now...the parable of the sower...we had been the third kind of seed for far too long...we had allowed the worries of this life, (the battles of blended family development) and our individual desires to stand up for "our rights" with each other to completely derail what God would have been doing in us and through us. The wonderful thing is, even in our messy broken state, He was moving...He was teaching us...although, it was somewhat limited because every time He spoke truth to our hearts, it was whisked away by everything that we allowed to distract us from it. I am very grateful for the work of His spirit in us to make us continue to long to be healed of this...One year ago, about this time...God placed a very powerful longing in my heart for us to be what He created me to be...to pray for our family to be set free of our self centered mindset and our muck. It is wonderful to bear fruit because the Spirit is moving in our hearts. We can claim no credit what-so-ever...if it had been up to us, we would still be where we were a year ago today...and it was not pretty, let me tell you!
Psalm 40: 2-3 says it perfectly.
He drew me up from the pit of destruction,
out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock,
making my steps secure.
He put a new song in my mouth,
a song of praise to our God.
Amen and amen. Thank You Abba for Your love and faithfulness.
We are a living example of how all that God does and wants to do in the lives of His people is about His generosity and His Grace...not about their righteousness or good works. He moved in our family when we could not have deserved it less. And, now we are being set free a little more each day.
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Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts! I look forward to reading your perspective! Blessings, Jeanene