Hey Girls! Just wanted to let you know about a worship evening that is scheduled to take place Sunday evening, May 29th starting around 6:30 pm at Burnett.
I heard quite a bit from our young women who attended the one last month, and I don't plan on missing this for anything! The e-mail that I received regarding this evening said, in part...
"We are planning our second worship night. I actually wasn’t at the first one – but apparently it was great! And there is a small group ministry opportunity. There will be a sharing time. And we thought it would be great to hear what God has done and is doing in your small groups! We would love to hear what God has been doing through The Truth Project and we also want to hear what God has been doing through ALPHA, the Hebrews studies, and the Marriage Course as well.
So could you please announce this to your small group and encourage everyone to attend and to plan on sharing? Thank you so much...
Announcement made!
I hope to see many of you there!
With love,
God is indeed at work. I can only speak for myself regarding His constant work in me.
ReplyDeleteA few weeks ago I tried to express what He is doing in me and instead I was and am now overcome with gratitude that brought me to tears. I will try once again. This morning as we were reading the bible together and searching for the answers to our questions within the bible (thanks Cathie) I was overwhelmed at how God has opened my eyes and heart to a different level of understanding His love for us (me included because I don't always grasp it) Now when I say "we" were reading that is my husband Pat and I....now that is a different area of His work in us and it is so exciting!!!!
..I had mentioned when I first became a Christian I wanted to jump in with both feet. Yes I read all the New Testament and couldn't seem to put it down. How much did I retain or even understand but I thought I had all I needed to
"get going" with "my" witnessing. Yep, seemed to be about me and what I was going to do. I am sure God was shaking His head and maybe even laughing. But He continued drawing me near. He spoke to me several times that I can recall and probably many times when I wasn't listening to Him, to get into His Word. I was too busy and became in involved in many areas of need with His lost people. As each of those doors closed He led me into other areas. All the time ignoring His voice when He would tell me I needed to get into His Word, to study it. I tried but without much enthusiasm. I thought if I just sat down and read the Bible for a designated amount of time that would be sufficient. Of course it wasn't. I was going about it the wrong way. The desire was lacking. He brought sisters into my life that encouraged me to join the bible study at the church I was going to. Of course, again I did not respond. Over the course of about 6-8 months He brought more sisters to me with the same encouraging words...... I went just to see what it was all about....it clicked, I was where He wanted me to be and I am still here...at the same bible study with the some of the same sisters and now new sisters to study and learn with.
As I read His Word now, especially in my personal daily morning readings a whole new understanding has come to me. I know all this time He has been preparing me for this journey of understanding.
Over the pass few years of our Thursday bible study there have been so many "I get it moments" that I have lost track. I should have kept track of them. But this is a different I get it. It is now "I got it" and there is a peace, a confidence, a knowing, a joy within. It is a layering of understanding, it is exciting and it is my desire is to live each day in obedience to Him.
Psalm 103 is one of my favorites and I now read it with different eyes. He wants me to know Him and the depth of His love.
Now where was I going with all this, well it is my journey with Him, His mercy, His grace and His everlasting love.
Thank you Lord.
oh my, oh my....that was a long one!!!! Anyone drifting off to sleep yet ???
ReplyDeleteNot me! I drank in every joyous word!
ReplyDeleteThankyou Edna for letting us in on your wonderful journey with God.
ReplyDeleteI have been a Christain for many years, but have not studied the Bible before in such a deep way as through Cathie's Bible Studies.
God has blessed us all so much through her and she needs a break from this kind of study.
Thankyou Lord for all my sisters.
Yes Margaret I agree. We have all been so blessed. Through Cathie God has transformed me. ohhhh and such a long way to go!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Cathie... I now have the tools to read my Bible in a different way. I still don't always understand what I am reading and I don;t always dig into it. But what a difference it has made to my level of understanding. I also know the God gives me what I need at time....Yesterday was my last class with you and my sisters and I was saddened not be have this Fall to look forward to. Our meaningful gatherings on Thursday had become a part of me. I will miss that part of my life and I will look forward to September 2012 (what was the actually date????)-...joking) But I know you are exactly where God wants you to be and that warms my heart. He is good, all the time, He is good.
And, Cathie...I look forward to more frequent visits with you.
I love you sister.
Blessings........XXXXXXXXX
I join all of you in thanking Cathie for the gift of her time and sharing her passion for God's Word with us. It is a wonderfully contagious thing and I see it spread through each study that I have been in and the changes that have taken place in my sisters lives. My one regret is that I did not find Cathie 20 years ago...my retention was so much better then!
ReplyDeleteFor those of you that came for the first time I know that you now open the bible with "new eyes" and a hunger to learn.
Each study that we have been in has seemed to be just the perfect one for me and Hebrews has been no different. All that I have needed is right there and I am stronger today because of the promises I find in each chapter. As we have come to the end of Hebrews it is so fitting that we should learn about that great cloud of witnesses that have gone before us and their "triumphs of faith" weaving such a beautiful tapestry that we too, are being woven into.
The best part...we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God...we CAN draw near with confidence.
Psalm 34:8 O taste and see that the Lord is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.
Each summer we have mother birds that seem determined to raise their little ones in my hanging basket. I watch the mother flying back and forth feeding them...patiently sitting on them...protecting them...devoting every minute to them... and then one day they go from helpless little birds to flying on their own
Thank you Cathie!
Love...Always,
Angie
Sigh...
ReplyDeleteLord, I dearly do love my sisters!