God visits....right where I am

On Saturday I had the wonderful opportunity to her Anne Beiler tell her story. Most of us know her as Auntie Anne from the pretzel store.  And they are the best best best pretzels!!  I want to head over to the mall and grab a sour cream and onion right now, but I digress LOL

Well, not only does she make great pretzels, she had a pretty amazing testimony as well.  She spoke on forgiveness, and coming out of the dark places of guilt, shame and blame.  I know I have lived in those places for so long.  And what amazes me is that God knew exactly who needed to be at the conference and exactly what we all needed to hear.  As I looked around the audience, you could see person after person touched and being healed, and I was no exception.

I won't go into all the details of her story, nor my own, but it is the way God set things up that amaze and enthrall me.  He truly has this road map for my life that is perfect, even when I am not.

A few weeks ago, a dear friend and sister in the Lord told me she felt God speak to her regarding me.  She said that even though I had confessed my past mistakes and sins to God and I was forgiven, I had to confess to another so that I might be healed.  As it says in James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.  The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.  Forgiveness I had, the healing I so desperately need, not so much !

And so as I sat and listened to this woman of God speak on Saturday, it was as if God had written down exactly what would bring my heart to the place of surrender and gave it to Anne to speak.  Down to specific words and sentiments that were precisely how I felt.  Her words gave me the strength and courage to speak the confession to others I so desperately needed to start to bring healing in my life.

As we were leaving the building after a day of cleansing, sharing and prayer, one of the ladies and I walked past a car in the parking lot...and it had one word on the back of it:  HOPE.  Wow...It's that neon sign thing again that I spoke about in one of the posts during my Mom's arrangements.  I wonder how many other ladies walked past that same car and were encouraged by that one simple word.   And then to top that off...and God does keep topping Himself...the next day I sat at a light in Massapequa and on the telephone pole right next to me was a big star with the word...you guessed it...HOPE written on it.  Double wow.

Here are some questions that the Lord spoke to my heart to help facilitate the healing and restoration He desires for my life.  Perhaps they can help someone else as well.

Am I broken?  Is my life broken?
Truth sets me free.  What is true in my life that I can build on?
What is my excuse for not getting well?

Thank You Lord for having it all figured out.  For desiring and orchestrating our restoration and healing.  Thank You for meeting us right where we are.  You are awesome!!

This is a great song.  I posted it here and in a separate entry, just in case this one didn't work....I am so technically illiterate !! LOL




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