I have so many thoughts in
my head. I do not even know which one to
start with. What I do know is that God
is doing a change in me. He is
redirecting my path or at least the path I thought I was on. It all started on Wednesday. I knew something was up because the things
that normally bother me I was at total peace with. This is not normal for me! When I am upset about something, I am very
vocal about it. It is my way of dealing
with it.
I was excited for
Wednesday to come. I was going to attend
a new Life Group. This group is just
what I had been looking for. A group of
women that want a deep relationship with God and with each other. The Holy Spirit guides them and they let Him
have his way. I knew that in the first 5
minutes this is where God wants me. I
need to be around women who desire God and the Holy Spirit so much that it is
the focus of their lives.
The other reason why I was
excited for Wednesday is that is my favorite time to attend church. Our church has a Praise and Prayer service
that is amazing. Our pastor is always
telling us it is the most important service of the week and I have to agree
with him. When God's people come
together to just praise Him and to be in prayer together things happen! Well, this night was no exception. The Holy Spirit was there and things were
happening! I attend a very large
church. Because of this, our Life Group
always sits together. At the end of the
service, the pastor asked us all (everyone who was there) to come down to the
alter to pray. All of our life group who
was there went down and prayed as a group.
We know that as a group, God is doing some amazing things and this was
no exception. We prayed together and
then worshipped together. It was
awesome!
I need to digress...Before
the service started I felt lead to go to the bookstore in the lobby of our
church to find a book to read. I do read
my bible everyday but I felt the Lord telling me that I needed to go look. At first, I did not find anything that I
wanted to read. I had not read a book
cover to cover in a long time and I use to read three a week. Between being a wife, mother and business
owner I seem to not have time anymore. Just when I was going to turn away, I caught a
glimpse of a book I had not seen there before!
I do not know if it was because it was pink and had a nice white ribbon
around it or what but I picked it up and started reading the back of the
book. The more I read the more intrigued
I became. The book is called "Warrior
Chicks." It is about rising strong,
being beautiful and confident women to be warriors for God. The amazing part was it came with two
CD's. One was the testimony of the
author Holly Wager and the other was scriptures being read to music that were
all about healing. That is when I
understood that I was not only to be a "Warrior" but I needed to be
healed in order to do what God has called me to do. You see, the last thing our pastor said to us
on Wednesday night was that next Wednesday we were going to have a healing
service at our church. That is when our
Life Group decided to fast and pray for healing.
You see, I have chronic renal
failure. I was born with just one
working kidney and over the years, my good kidney has taken up the slack for
the bad one. Well, the right kidney is
starting to fail. It only functions at
22%. When it hits 20%, I will have to go
on dialysis. Well let me tell you that
this Warrior Chick is not ever going on dialysis. I know what God has called me to do (that is
for another blog post) and I know I will not be able to do it if I am
sick. I write all of this so that when
my healing comes you will know it is a true miracle from God! I believe that prayer works but I also
believe it is all in God's timing. No
matter how hard or how long I pray, God knows when and how I will be
healed. It is all about faith. Faith to know that God loves me so much that
he wants only what is best for me! Faith
to know that I trust and love God so much that I only want His perfect will for
my life!
What do you need to trust
God with today? You marriage, healing, a
new job? Whatever it is, do not give
up. God wants only what is best for
you! He should know what is best He made
you!
Jeremiah 29:11 says
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope
and a future