2-5-26 Thurs blog Good Morning Available, Useful, Servants of God! Amen! Man God continues to use us even as we are! PTL! He has great plans for you and us that we are stepping into as He uses us to live and love and make disciples like Jesus! PTL! God made us in His image with perfect plans for each of us and us as His gathered and sent Body for such a time as this. PTL! We have been gifted and activated to do those things because of our faith in Christ. Thanks Lord! We all have a part to play that we are stepping into in His Good News Delivery Company! Thank you all! And God is blessings and using us because of our faithfulness to Him and the Jesus way. Amen! Our availability and God's goodness and blessings makes us useful as we go serve, live and love like Jesus. Isn't that so cool! PTL!

Yesterday was another powerful Wed. of ministry as God blessed and used, and taught and led us! PTL! There was all kinds of ministry going on throughout our Bread Ministry time. Many were blessed with some bread and food but more than that with the Bread of Life Jesus and His love and help. Hope is coming alive. Ministry, worship and help is coming alive in many different ways around the tables. God is using us as we are because we choose to be available. PTL! I can't even list all the ways God moved and used yesterday. You have to just come experience it some time! There are several people drawing closer to God and to fellowshipping and worshiping with us. Pray for soft hearts and understanding they will be accepted and loved as they are. Watch and pray for some poor in spirit and needy people that want to join us but are fearful they will be shunned and looked down on because they have little. PTL and continue to pray for Patrick too. I believe from our conversation yesterday that he has invited Jesus to be His Savior and Lord and now is grappling with t=what new life in Christ looks like and how it will affect his daily choices. PTL for new life and seeking hearts! God is using us! PTL!

Last night was a night of some new attendees and some confusion too as we explore some deep theolgical teachings. Our faith is being tested and stretched. There are things we will never fully understand here on earth. Things like the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, the hypostatic union of Christ that allows Him to be fully god and fully man at the same time. I feel like there may be more confusion than understanding and much faith stretching going on. I feel inferior in trying to explain and teach the unknowable that just requires child-like faith. Pray for us to have open minds and heart, to hear God and to embrace faith that can be stretching at times. Pray for many to see and embrace and understand a little more about our knowable God and the unknowable things of Him. Pray for me to have wisdom and words as I answer questions (well, try to). Thank God for His provision and for all kinds of different people He is sending and loving through us.

Last night we also heard how God is using members to be out loving like Jesus. The story of Dean at an accident scene and sharing two of those Jesus dolls with the friend of an accident victim who miraculously was overwhelmed with the comfort and peace of God, remembering He cares and is there. We are being available to be used in the moments of needs of others. PTL! Thank Him for using you and us and for insight for how to respond along the way to moments of need each day. My heart jumps for joy and praises God for you and our fellowship every time I think about and recount for you the things He is doing in, through and around us. What an awesome God! What a blessing to walk with Him and you! (I'm tearing up now!) He is faithful, hearing and answering prayers, using us as we are and growing us into our new nature more fully. PTL!

I still have a very busy week and a lot banging around in my head--good and busyness things. Ask God to bring shalom and rest to our souls, to refresh us, and prepare us for today and the rest of the week. Ask Him to give me His Words as I prepare the service and message for the funeral tomorrow. Wish I knew Holly. Sounds like she choose joy all the time and was a joy-bringer to many. Ask God to help me prepare for Sunday message too. Sometimes I am reminded how much I need Him and you. I feel your prayers and am encouraged as we pray, live, love, encourage and disciple like Jesus together. We are His gathered people being used for His glory and we do need each other! Thanks for doing your part! I love you all! pray for God to continue His good work in, through and around you and us! Amen!

I'm just listing our devos below for you to contemplate with God and your teammates. Funny how Lisa Harper used Hebrews 4 last night in her teaching and now it appears in Our Daily Bread. Remember self care is important. Choose to enter God's rest for today and prepare for the day when you will enter His eternal rest. The Upper Room reminds of God's provision. PTL we don't have to strive in our own strength. Choose to trust Him to provide and follow His peace and provision. Then meditate on The Word for You Today's reminder that you are created to make a difference and can choose to do so. The Holy Spirit will guide you, pinch you, give you the words and activate you as you trust and obey and even choose the joy that comes from knowing God loves you, has plans for you and is with you--always! Amen! I'm praising and praying for you today. Choose joy and know God's shalom! Amen!