Good Morning Trusting in God friends and Followers of Jesus! He is our Rock, Way and enough--Jireh! Amen! What is God saying to your heart right now. How does He want you to respond? Do you have some partners? What will you do as God leads? How can we use our gifts and abilities to bless God, each other and others? Talk to God about that and process with some who are walking with God!
Below, attached find direction and emotional support through some of our devos for the day. Father, speak to our hearts, direct our steps and open our eyes to see and hearts to follow well. Thank You! Lord, be our master and leader. What thread am I sensing for this day and how well and know, I making time to be still so we receive and follow well to the time and God has prayer time together moving further? Thanks Lord for creating us and prespring us! Amen! Are you ready and willing to follow well ! we all mater and have our unique parts to play. He sees you and created you for "such a time. Since God enters our hearts with , let us worship and invite Him to inhabit our praise, to speak to our hearts and to direct our steps. Yes PTL! Come Jesus come!...Amen ...We are discovering more and seeing God come alive and so PTL with true hearts of worship and seek Him to come lead us, grow us and use us for His glory alone! Amen! I'm praying for you as I seek God for us. Relax, rejoice and choose well .
Sarah Young
I to We
Upper Room: A Note of Thanks
Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish. - John 6:11 (NIV)
My young friend had written me a thank-you note for having our neighbors over for coffee. None of the adult guests wrote, but this boy with dyslexia did. Some letters were backward, and one sentence ran on with no punctuation. He signed his name and then added the names of his two younger brothers.
I read the note with tears in my eyes. I knew how much this young man struggled with his learning disability. Yet he didn’t focus on that. He focused on expressing his gratitude.
In the Bible one boy offered his five loaves and two fish to feed a multitude. Jesus took what the boy had and, after giving thanks, multiplied it to feed five thousand people. (See Jn. 6:1-14.) That boy could have held back, telling himself that what he had was not enough; that people might laugh at him; that Jesus might reject his meager offering; that his mother might scold him for giving away his lunch; that he would go hungry.
I keep that thank-you note to remind me to give what I have to God, trusting that God’s power can make it enough.
's Prayer
Dear God, help us to remember to look to you in faith and give what we have, knowing you will multiply our gifts for the good of the world. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Good Morning Worshippers! May we enter His courts with and praise! May He inhabit our praises. Amen!
Listen to Me. Delight in God's Living Word. Believe (Our mission). We are Gods instruments. We are overcomers and faithful followers of Jesus! There are the first sentences of our devos . What a message to embrace and live well as we learn to live and love more like Jesus--dying to self as an act of worship and obedience and allow God to work in and through and to use us for His glory and purposes. Amen!.
I had a great day home . But I need to sleep and rest and chill at home . I' be praying for you and praising too! What brings you a thankful heart and joyful spirit? Do those things this week as you surrender and grow in Christ, He really does have some great plans and purposes that He is already weaving together, Yes rejoice as you die to self and follow Jesus into this week! Invite Him to use you as you are and to grow you into your fuller potential. Amen! Now for a nap and some abiding in Christ.
Shalom shalom!
Sarah Young
Chuck Swindoll
Joyce Meyer
UR: God's instrument
You are the light of the world. A city on top of a hill can’t be hidden. - Matthew 5:14 (CEB)
The disturbing events in our world challenge us to reflect on our Christian calling and identity. We cannot deny the suffering and injustice around the world and in our own communities. War, gun violence, and other forms of attack are ever-present. People continue to risk their lives to escape harsh conditions in the places they call home. We cannot ignore tensions among family members and friends due to our competing priorities.
All these are reflections of our broken world. And w
ouldn’t our silence in the face of such pain be a betrayal of our calling to be God’s instruments of peace, justice, and healing? God has called us to let Christ’s light shine where darkness prevails, and that doesn’t necessarily mean that we must do something big. Our smallest acts of kindness can bring healing to a broken heart. Our honest prayers can be a source of strength for others. Our simplest acts of courage can bring justice to our communities. Let us discover the ways God is calling us to serve and intentionally strive to walk in the footsteps of Jesus.
's Prayer
Dear heavenly Father, thank you for calling us to be your servants in the world. Help us to live according to Christ’s teachings. Amen.
I'm home and healthy! PTL!!! Thanks for all your prayers! Hope to see you soon as I ease back in. And please note I will be easing back and following Jesus to work His best, as I am and as best as I can, according to His plans for me and for you. Thanks for giving me some time to reset and get more right this time!
Praise God for Sarah, the Board and teams that have covered for me! Pray they refresh too! And pray for Larry Paul who is bringing the Word tomorrow.
Good Morning Imitators of God! We strive for that and like to think we do pretty well. We want to do the things Jesus did and is doing in healthy ways like Jesus chose. Life in Christ lived well and life as residents of the Kingdom on earth lived well is always a balancing act. We have so much nose and pressure from the world to live in the flesh or up to their standards and expectations and even work requirements that take priority. And then we have our own pressures and many pressures of some "church people" pushing us to really live for Christ and forget all the other stuff that "doesn't really matter." Christ alone! OHH RAH! If we don't meet either expectation we feel guilt and shame and like a failure. We have freedom in Christ to choose and often those choices lead to angst and stress. What is the most excellent way? Choosing healthy balance. We are in this world with responsibilities and not of this world with often clashing responsibilities. HELP!!!! Jesus, while He walked the earth, chose to live in a healthy rhythm that honored God and allowed Him to live well and healthy in this world and to complete His mission. We are created for His mission, activated to do so and placed here to be able to do so. For that to happen, healthy choices are paramount! And quite often we need the nudge of an accountability partner to help us to refocus and choose well and healthy as we seek to live and love like Jesus in this world. And sometimes God has to take matters into His hands to get our attention and cooperation. Please help us choose well Lord! Amen!
As always for me, I evaluate why and how God sets me down and in the hospital. It has happened enough times to think I would learn and choose well. HA! Choosing the healthiest life in Christ and rhythms in this world is hard work and truly a balancing act that has life long health, mental, spiritual and even financial implications. Who do you have to help you process, choose well, pray for and with you, walk with you and encourage you? We all need at least one and more are helpful for us to stay on the Jesus track and plans healthily.
So recently I have found myself so driven to push and grow the Kingdom and Church and at pushing you all to more as well and even myself that I lost my focus on Jesus and what His plans are. BUT GOD! He set me down and spoke to my heart through several of you and has led me out of captivity (from the hospital and my foolish ways) to be moving more focused on Him and what He is doing as we move toward the Promised Land. Now the trick is to find and choose the balance to be living right in both worlds and doing what I am created to do. For that, I give you permission to speak correction and/or encouragement when needed. Jesus' easy yoke is not a burden and we should be able to love God and people while we enjoy life. (And not make life a burden or unenjoyable for others) That's the choice I need to work on as I learn to keep focused Jesus and on His pace. may we all choose that and continue to grow as His healthy church--together and with Him! Amen!
I have some devos below. The first one is from someone who is driven as well and I question what he is saying about needing to be more driven and focused on God. Yes, we need earnest focus and walking with Him but never at the sacrifice of health, family and sanity. God knows us. He made us and calls us beloved and His masterpiece and He has activated us to become our best selves while representing Him on earth. Choose well by choosing to be who you are in Christ and walking closely beside Him. He will lead you as you go do your purposes. The UR reminds us to be imitators of God. We are not God and should not strive to do all He does. As we learn to become more like Him and incarnate Him and His love to the world, the healthy choice is to allow Him to use us as we are and for us to use what we have been given for His glory. That is an easy yoke of just being you and working at living and loving like Jesus, as you go. ODB reminds us of the Boy Scout motto: "Be Prepared!" We always need to be prepared to join God at what He has for us and is doing and we need to be ready to face Him without guilt and shame on that Great Day of the Lord. And we can! IF! If we hold more loosely, choose well and healthy and just hang out and walk with Jesus and like-minded friends. That s the good life, my friends, and we get to choose to live it! PTL and choose well. Amen! And shalom shalom--know His perfect peace!
As you move toward the devotionals to ponder and meditate upon, check out this partial list of things to try to learn to become more like Jesus and to act in ways like Him. This part of the list is all about slowing down, savoring Christ and choosing to work from rest and abiding, refreshed! Try some!
Maybe we should stop with that!
The next devo is one I question as one of those "Christian influencers" that push us to more. It's part of what made me more driven! Remember Garbage In--Garbage Out! What's God leading you to, as you are? Choose that!!!
I to WE
UR: Imitators of God
Be imitators of God, as beloved children, and walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. - Ephesians 5:1-2 (NRSVUE)
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Socks behaves like a dog,” I was told about the resident red fox named Socks at the nature and science museum where I was a wildlife volunteer. The first day I entered his outdoor fenced-in habitat, he came running toward me wagging his fluffy orange tail. The wildlife staff explained that Socks was found and raised by a family who thought he was a puppy. By the time they realized he was a wild animal, Socks had spent too much time around humans and dogs to survive in the wild, so he was brought to the museum. Having been raised around dogs, Socks imitated the behavior he had observed.
Christians are called to be “imitators of God.” We are to live our lives in a way that distinguishes us from the world and not to “imitate what is evil” (3 Jn. 1:11). As a new believer in 1996, I learned that imitating God requires spending time with God in prayer, studying scripture, and spending time with other believers who model Christian living.
Socks didn’t suddenly imitate a dog, nor did I suddenly imitate God. Imitating God is an ongoing process assisted by scripture and the community of Christians.
Today's Prayer
Heavenly Father, thank you for your word and for other Christians who show us how to be more like you. In the name of Christ. Amen.
ODB
Grandma’s Last Night
The wise [virgins] . . . took oil in jars along with their lamps. Matthew 25:4
My grandmother had a routine on Saturday nights. Before she went to bed, she laid out all her clothing, including the shoes she planned to wear to church the next morning. She always attended the early service and wanted to be ready to get up and go the next morning without any delay. One Saturday night, she was suddenly hospitalized. Later, Jesus called her name, and she died. When my grandfather returned home from the hospital, he found her clothes laid out. She’d been prepared to go to church as well as to meet her God.
My grandmother’s ritual reminds me of the wisdom of the bridesmaids in the parable in Matthew 25. In the story, Christ tells His disciples to be ready for His coming: “Keep watch,” He said. No one knows “the day or the hour” He’ll return (v. 13), so it’s wise for us to be prepared. If we wait until the last minute to prepare, we could be like “the foolish ones” (v. 3). They ran out of oil because they hadn’t prepared well, and just after they left their posts to refill their lamps with oil, the bridegroom came.
We may not need to lay out our clothes like my grandmother, but her ritual demonstrated her desire to be ready for church as well as for her Savior. May we use her wisdom to be ready for the most important things in life, serving Jesus as He leads us and being ready for His return.
By Katara Patton
REFLECT & PRAY
How can you prepare for Christ’s coming? What wise choices can you make in serving Him today?
Dear Jesus, please show me how to be wise as I serve You and prepare for Your return.
The scene in Matthew 25:1-13 is of a bridal wedding party. Traditionally, the bride with her bridesmaids would wait at her parents’ home for the groom, who’d typically arrive after dark to begin a celebratory procession to the wedding at his parents’ home. Because the timing could vary significantly, the bridal party needed to be prepared for an indefinite amount of time. In Jesus’ parable, the groom arrives even later than usual, and some bridesmaids didn’t bring enough oil for their lamps. The wise, prepared bridesmaids couldn’t share their oil reserves without risking also running out and ruining the wedding procession. This scene offered an ideal example of the need for believers in Christ to have a posture of constant faithfulness and readiness both to meet Jesus and to serve Him, even in unpredictable times.
Let's start with the usually TGIF Fri. praises...we do really have so much to be thankful about and especially God's mercy and grace and our forgiveness. Just start there and then flow into the tie in to our independence and all the nuances of that. We have freedom in Christ. We have independence from the law, which we could never keep anyway. We are blessed to live in this land f the free because of the brave. Really we could just stop there and allow you to meditate and praise from there. And so we shall!
Except for me there is one more thing! God is so good a answered so many prayers. Thank your praying! I was literally crying out to Him this morning and He delivered me! And so tomorrow I gain my independence from this place! PTL! Now there are lots of restrictions and adjustments to come, BUT GOD! He is so awesome! Our salvation! Our Freedom! Our deliverance! May God continue to bless America and you and may America bless God always! Amen!
Happy Independence Day and TGIF FRI! Enjoy the day that flows from your praise today!
Hi all! I really am loosing track of days with the lovely extended vacation! (or something like that!) There is the sayin that the church should be like a hospital and not a country club. Think about that. All are welcome and all are treated equally in a hospital. I think I've met most of the staff on my floor. They all care and do what they can to help and make us comfortable. It is a lot like our church. We care. We welcome all. And we do what we can to help others. I keep bragging you up here. If I ever get out of here (maybe this weekend???) things won't be the same for me, or a least at first out of necessity. Unless the Bible verse about God giving us new hearts comes true for me. We all have new spiritual hearts but I sure could us a mending of my physical heart. One of my issues is that my heart is very weak ad doesn't pump very well. BUT GOD! He is able to repair and restore and if not He will carry me until He calls me home. PTL! As Job said, "The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. Praise be the Lord!" So that's the brief update on me. Keep praying. I'd love to be home for the 4th. The other update is that God chose to call Karen's dad home today. He was ready and is fully restored now. Just wish I could be there for Karen. Unfortunately I'm grounded right now. Keep her and her family in your prayers. Her brother, Dave was on his way to New Hampshire with the family for vacation when the call came. This sure has been a bizarre few weeks! Praying for any of you suffering flooding and water damage.
I'm going to try to sleep for a bit before the next awakening at 3. But as I prepare I keep thinking about Eph. 2:10. We are God's craftmanship, masterpieces, works of art at our creation. We are created with all this beauty to God and potential to bless Him and many others. Then something miraculous happens when we get saved...that potential becomes activated as the Holy Spirit comes to live in us and with spiritual gifts and other helps. And these are to help us to fulfill our created purposes. How cool. I just keep going there and trying to wrap my head around God's ways and love! And here's one thing I am being reminded of and learning during this hiatus...It's a natural transition from what was, to what is and what can be. It doesn't involve forcing things. Just being who you are created to be doing what you are created to do. That's all God expects. be you doing what you can with what you've been give! COOL! AMEN! So be you. Love God and others and enjoy this masterpiece life in Christ! Amen! I'm praying for you! Maybe process this with some friends. I know I need accountability to stop forcing things and once in awhile to get moving too! God does have great plans just for you! Discover them!
I've been informed that I will be in the hospital until at least
. when if I am dried out enough they will attempt he cardio version again to get my heart back in rhythm. Before that I am being infused three times a day with Lasik IV's to drain me. Needless to say between that and tests and blood draws, I am sleeping very little. Besides being exhausted, I often have upset stomach and lots of knee and ankle pain because my pains meds have been halted. I appreciate your prayers and my privacy. Thank you!
So, I am going to take the next few days off from blogging and trying to rest and be ready to be healed and released. Thanks for understanding! It's kinda weird anyway doing
's blog at 11PM and before all the devos drop on line.
Hope you all have a great weekend and hope to see you soon! Shalom!
Thank God I'm Forgiven! I've used that more often than I'd like to as I need forgiveness all the time! We all do and God is gracious and will forgive us repentant humble followers. Thanks Lord! This week in the hospital I have had several opportunities to remind people of God's patient loving forgiveness. Have you had the opportunity to share that truth with someone lately? We all often need the reminder that we are and can be forgiven and repeatedly! Thanks Lord! Thank God I'm forgiven and working on not needing that forgiveness as often as I learn and want to walk more like Jesus. Amen! Now with that comes a new command from Jesus love others as I have loved you which actually includes forgiving as we've been forgiven. WELL Thank God I forgiven because that's a hard command to keep. But one we can keep working at. And the Holy Spirit will help us too! PTL!
Thank God I'm Forgiven
opens the door for all kinds of meditations and thanksgivings! What's the Spirit saying to you? What will you do about it?
Good Evening/Morning Forgiven and Forgiving Friends--Jesus in the Flesh! That's you! PTL! So I am writing
blog at 10:30
evening. Why? Well the docs decided to double dose me with diuretics at 4:40 and then after I went to bed at 9. That means I'll be spending the evening purging fluids. They really want to dry me out and I seem to be retaining fluids yet. So, I am writing this before all our devos post online. That's OK as you will have time to spend yourself with God and them in the morning while I hope to be sleeping. They plan some tests etc around 3 am and sleep will follow, Lord willing.
I started contemplating purging, cleansing, repenting and even dying to self. (Lifestyle change is in process already for me!) Loving and forgiving as Jesus has for us requires those as well and taking up cross to be ready to follow Him and live and love more like Him. Jesus address the crowds expecting a conquering king that would overthrow Rome with a different kind of thinking. He washed the feet of the disciples who were jockeying to be first in the kingdom and said He gave an example to follow. Have we embraced that and the new thinking Jesus imparted about what the Kingdom is really like and are we choosing to live it? Jesus said, "If anyone wants to be my disciple he must deny himself, take up His cross daily and follow the Jesus way." That means forgiving, loving, serving and maybe even dying like Him. Thank God I'm forgiven!!!
Really pray into this and ask God to reveal ways we can spur each other on to really love like Jesus. May we earnestly pursue becoming the church the loves like Jesus as we bless God and many others and lead them to this amazing love, grace, mercy and forgiveness! Help us Lord! Amen!
Thank you all for loving so well and your patient love with me! We are love and love lives in us and is coming alive through us! Amen! keep it up! I'm praying for you and me and thanking God we are forgiven too! Shalom!
6-26-25 (Noonish): Plan is to get me home and on track soon and maybe before
. I have AFib that didn't respond to cardio version
. I am now in the cardiac floor at Lehigh. Great team of docs and others from cardiology and other needed docs. Plan is to get me dried out (I've been over load with fluid--congestive heart failure) and trying some new affordable ad more effective meds and send me home to heal and get ready for the future cardio version or oblation. Mentally I am doing well and being patient. PTL! I am also sleeping again. Pray that continues. With the weak heart I am sleeping a lot more and need to. If possible we will be at the brunch but if not, knw we are praying for you all and anxious to get back it!
Good Morning Purposeful Pursuers of God and His Plans! Amen! Is that really you? I know for many of us that gather at St. Matts, we want to know and pursue God and His purposes that He created us to do. He does have great plans and purposes for us to discover, put on and walk around with as His vessels of light, love, hope, and help. We are custom made for custom purposes. There are the big over-arching purposes to achieve over your whole life (like being a pastor for me). There are also little age and circumstance daily or weekly or monthly purposes too. Most of life is paying attention daily to God and walking with Him to His plans for you for that day and that will build to your lifelong purposes. Check out the ODB devo below relating to this as it all begins with keeping Christ our priority, putting on His easy yoke and walking with Him daily. Sometimes those daily plans and purposes are simple and easy but very important as well. Things like holding a door, praying, encouraging, smiling at someone--easy stuff. Sometimes the purposes are more heavy like opening the Bible with someone or some serving caring ministry. No matter because they all matter and are part of God's plans for you and maybe part of us together. The main thing is keeping Christ first and following Him daily and that may (usually does) require dying to self and taking up cross daily and then following Him. That's being a Purposeful Pursuers of God and His Plans. Amen. Help us with that Lord!
Now, God has some adjustments for us along the way! Have you experienced that ever?
I have and am in one of those adjustment periods where God is reminding me to hold looser, trust more, die to self, crucify some things and allow Him to mold and lead. He does have perfect plans that I have been assuming upon a bit and maybe even forcing some things according to my plans. And He said, "Whoa down Donald!" Rest. Abide. Listen. Follow. Hold loose. And do what you can with what you've been given. That's all I expect. That's His easy joyful yoke! Amen
So again, as in the past God gets my attention with hospital visits. I usually come out obeying but in short order end up back where I was. Thick-headed just like the disciples and wanting to do my things my ways. We are called to be followers of the WAY not people forcing my way. Think we'd learn! Thank God for patient love, mercy, grace and forgiveness! And for new starts. I am beginning again to allow Him to lead me to His plans and purposes at His pace--doing what I can with what I've been given for such a time as this. Pray into that with me! Maybe some of you need some adjustments too? I'm praying for you and would love to chat and plan some time soon! His plans are best and easy and a joy. When you start getting bogged down, angry, forcing things--stop! Be still, abide, find joy and peace and follow His Way well. That's life abundant we are promised. And man it is really good when we find that sweet spot! After meditating on this check out the Upper Room talking about our life long friend, Jesus, who promises to be with us always! PTL! Focus on Him and allow Him to lead and things will go smoothly and really be a joy! And He is our healer, deliverer and restorer too! Amen!
So thoughts to pursue with God and some friends
are to be: Purposeful Pursuers of God and His Plans where Christ is our priority and walking with Him at His pace for such a time as this is first on our agendas! And we will need each other to do that well! Come Jesus lead us and unite us with likeminded and those You have for us
. Thanks! Amen!
ODB
Christ Our Priority
Jesus replied, “ . . . That is why I have come.” Mark 1:38
“May we invite you to be the main speaker in our nationwide church leadership conference?” After Jose read the invitation from the renowned organization, he replied, “Please let me pray about it first.” Later, when he turned down the offer, he told a friend, “I knew God was calling me to editorial work on a mission’s project, and the speaking engagement would take time and energy away from that. I said no so I can do what God wants me to do.”
What God wants me to do—that was Jose’s priority and what determined his decision. Jesus also made God’s purpose His priority. The morning after healing many in Capernaum who were sick and demon-possessed, Jesus went to a solitary place to pray (Mark 1:32-35). The disciples came, saying, “Everyone is looking for you!” (v. 37). Some of those seeking Him were likely requesting healing. Christ, however, didn’t allow urgency or His sudden popularity to determine what He’d do next. “Let us go . . . to the nearby villages,” He said, “so I can preach there also. That is why I have come” (v. 38). Jesus followed His priority—a ministry that covered the rest of Galilee, and one that included preaching (v. 39).
How may we know God’s purpose for us? We can approach Him in prayer, be led by His wisdom found in the Scriptures, and seek counsel from people who uphold His ways. Let’s spend our life doing what God wants us to do.
By Karen Huang
REFLECT & PRAY
How can you be intentional about asking God to lead you? How have you seen God help you live with His purpose?
Dear God, please show me what You want me to do.
SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
Mark 1:38 declares that Jesus’ mission is to preach the gospel. On a few occasions in the Gospels, Christ reveals in a deep and intimate way that He understands His mission. In Luke 4:18-19, He quotes the prophet Isaiah (61:1-2) to reveal to those listening in the synagogue who He is. Christ’s ministry included both the preaching of forgiveness and spiritual freedom as well as freeing those who were bound by various physical infirmities. During the years of His ministry, He never veered from that dedication. And He also entrusted that ministry to His disciples. He empowered them to preach the kingdom and heal the sick. They even drove out demons (see Matthew 10; Luke 10). Before Christ returned to the Father, He entrusted His mission to all His followers (see Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:8). God continues to show us what He wants us to do and how He wants to use us to share the gospel with others.
J.R. Hudberg
UR: Life Long Friend
Jesus said, “I am with you always, to the end of the age.” - Matthew 28:20 (NRSVUE)
I never had a best friend growing up. I was a child of a career military officer, and my family moved 10 times by the time I was 13 years old. It seemed that as soon as I made a friend, my father would get orders to a new duty station, sometimes thousands of miles away. I vividly remember the hugs and tears during several partings with childhood friends. When my family settled in an area for several years when I was a teenager, I had a difficult time keeping friends. I held them at arm’s length, refusing to get too close emotionally. The hurt from all those childhood good-byes truly impacted my life.
When I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior as an adult, I found him to be the lifelong friend I had never had. He is always with me, guiding, rescuing, helping, protecting, listening, and loving me. Jesus provides all of us with everlasting joy, hope, and peace. He has promised never to leave or forsake us. We can get to know Jesus by reading his words, following his example, and praising his name. Whatever life throws at us, we know we have Jesus, our friend who is just a prayer away.
's PrayerDear Jesus, thank you for your presence with us. Help us to stay conscious of you in all circumstances. Amen.
Good evening friends. Thanks for praying, encouraging and being there and flexible! Keep praying and trusting God to lead me and us to His perfect plans . He does have good plans for us even when it may seem anything like it.
Update: God is in the process of turning my heart of stone to one of flesh. He's renewing my thinking and helping me to make much better health, life and leadership choices. It's like I've been given a second opportunity to get it right with health choices and trusting God choices too. Thanks Lord. May I not be so slow the next time to catch on and correct! And may I choose much more wisely moving forward.
I have cardio version to fix AFib. Then a whole bunch of follow up and new specialists appointments ahead. I will be recovering at home next few weeks. We will restart things after
. In the meantime ask God how you can bless Him, each other and those He is drawing. Step into your anointing!
God is teaching me a lot and working on my heart and bringing all things together for good. My job is to turn off the noise and focus on Him and follow well. It's gonna be much more of doing less...really just doing with what I've been given as I follow Jesus at His pace. So maybe there will be blogs and maybe not for awhile. Just know I am seeking, listening and following Him as I travel through this journey. And know I'm praying for you all too. God loves us, is with us always and has great plans to discover. Amen
Thank you all for your prayers and support!!! God is for us! Amen
Hi all! Thanks for you prayers! My cardio version did not work
. It will be attempted in the future as new meds take effect. I will be in the hospital until at least
. I will be very tied up and ask for no visitors please! Thanks for understanding! They told me that I will be "living in the bathroom the next few days."
I am getting massive doses of Lasik/diuretics and some new meds they are experimenting with. They say my heart is weak and my body is flooded with fluids. They are working on improving that and getting me ready to try to fix the A Fib. So we know some more and have some more to discover--much like our journey with Christ! My journey now is to slow down, listen, learn and adjust lifestyle. Oh yeah, that's like following Jesus as well! Good and healthy things of God do carry over into everyday life!
There is still much to learn, discern and apply for me and for us as a church! God does have great plans for us that come alive as we surrender, receive and step out in faith! Can't wait to see where this all leads! I'm praying for you all and I know you are praying for me and I fell it! Let us keep choosing well and healthy in Christ and life! Amen!
I'll update you sometime as more becomes visible. Until them keep trusting the Holy Spirit to help you to go live and love like Jesus! And keep praying and sharing your stories!
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