But yeah, I saw it with Alan and Andria & a girl Bethany, who is 24 and who I think will be a good friend to me during my stay here. She has even volunteered to join me in the dance Pastor Dave asked me to choreograph.
That's right! Pastor Dave asked me to choreograph a dance to do one Sunday morning for church! I'm excited! I'm thinking that I want to have 5 other girls to it with me and we'll make a mini "Heralding Joy" out of it. Pray that it all comes together well and quickly.
The song I am highly considering, if not for sure doing, is WORTHY IS THE LAMB by Hillsong United (check it out). Yeah!
And so this past week was my message on Blessed Discipline. At the last minute God changed it all around (as God had already told my mom in her prayer times!). I centered on a whole different passage than I thought I would. Instead of preaching Hebrews 12:3-15, I ended up centering the message around Revelation 3:19-20, which I would highly encourage you to read and pray back to God--asking Him to help you embrace hardship as discipline and embrace discipline as His love for you. (DUDE i SO just realized that's what THOR is about! HA! God, You ARE Amazing!) Seriously, it was a great "download" of a message and it turned out spoken well enough. Quite a few people responded earnestly to the Spirit and one man especially came up to me nearly speechless, trying to convey just how perfect the message was for him at that very time. Thank you, Jesus. I am more than honored.
This Friday at V-Church was a bunch of fun with water balloons (500 of them lasted like, 10 minutes! ha. but it was awesome!) And then we had a rockin slip & slide (upon which I slid on my stomach twice & once very painfully on my hip. SO fun XD)
This Sunday, Spencer and I led worship together as an acoustic set. While we had a few mess ups, it was altogether a great time had by all worshipping the Lord. There is only so much worship leaders can do; it was truly the honest hunger of these people to love God and be loved by Him..and of course God's willingness to love and be loved...that made worship alive. So beautiful.
I am taking Savella now for fibromyalgia & am on the full dose. I am still coming through the hurt of it, as it is my very last choice in all of this. God may just have found a way to humble me thoroughly enough for a long time. But that's up to Him and that's where I'm leaving it. He makes all things work together for my good.
I do need prayer for another thing, though. As it is whenever God works well through us, Satan comes and spiritual warfare abounds. I need more than ever to stay vigilant about keeping my diet. My little "going off now and then" has probably become too frequent. Also, my mind has been attacked with old thoughts of self-hatred that no longer have place there. God has already shown me that a great place of refreshing is in worshiping him (in song, music, dance) and so I need strength and grace and "push though" to do that often.
All in all, things are well. I do hope they improve, though. It's me that is weak and needs grace...and I cling to the promised hope that when I am weak, then I am strong.
Okay, thanks again for staying with me. I love ya
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