We start Bible Study again this weekend...we haven't done Bible Study for a while now and I am so excited! I have recently completed this study on my own...it is a very personal study for me and God revealed much to me in our time alone...and now...because there are no coincidences in the life of a christian I will be a part of a group doing this study...while I am somewhat nervous about the study because it was so personal to me...I am so excited to see what God will say again...or a new and fresh...I'm excited that we have a group of ladies that are hungering and thristing for the Word in their lives...I am excited that our men will begin study as well...I've thought many times over the past year about how Bible study was introduced to me...as a very young momma I was invited to a Bible Study in Bella Vista...it was a sweet time in my life and a time that I can remember that for the first time...God became real to me...relevent to me in my personal everyday life...then almost 20 years ago I was introduced to a deeper kind of study...a deeper kind of relationship with the Lord, one that went beyond saying a prayer and knowing that I was saved from hell...one that has, much like a love story, taken my breath away...one that saves me not only from hell but from myself...from the daily struggles that come to us all...one that has allowed me to meet my Savior in my everyday life...I am grateful for those who have poured into my life over the years and for those who will continue to pour into my life...I pray I am able to pour into others as well...truly the only thing I can share with someone is what I've been taught...simple truth really...God's Word will change our lives...if we make time for it...for HIM!
I am also overwhelmed about our up coming weekend...it has honestly been years since Scott and I have gotten away by ourselves...and the Lord has absolutely given us a 3 day get away this weekend...we are attending the "Refresh in the Ozark" conference in Branson...I've planned for a year for us to attend this...so we or rather I have had this on my agenda for some time now so when God gave it to us we were both sitting with our mouths on the floor...saying God You are so good and we are so undeserving and humbled....the registration was paid for by our church...then out of no where I sweet friend and her husband, I gradutated high school with blessed us with our room at a place we could have never stayed at! They will never know truly how God used them to bless us...not just with a room but...His goodness...His blessing...I still cannot find the words to explain how God used their generosity to touch our hearts...not just by two people who just obeyed...but by the way God loves us...I have looked even more forward to this weekend because of all of this I just know He has something for us...during the conference but also a time just for us...but God wasn't done yet blowing us away...our kids gave us a trip last summer and because I am a goof head we didn't get to take that weekend...and I forgot about it...well I found that money the other day...now our food is even paid for!!! Truly we are overwhelmed...
Life has just amazing moments in it...and hard times that seem we will never survive...and yet we do...by His grace and mercy..."The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still" Exodus 14:14...in our world...being still and knowing He is God is very difficult to do...but we must do it...by faith I will be still...by faith I will be strong and courageous...my sweet sister...allow God to overwhelm you...
