WOW

Everything is over but the ripples. Our church's ladies retreat ended yesterday at 4:30 p.m. That's when God's feet entered into our little pool at the end of His dive. So it's all over but the ripples. It is our prayer that the blessings and healing and broken snares of this retreat - all the work God did in 24 hours - will ripple out now into our families, our church, our neighborhoods and our work. It was incredible. I served on the prayer team. I love that. It's always the very best place to serve. We started right out anointing and praying over the camp. We prayed over the chapel as we set it up. We prayed over each room as we set them up. We invited God into nearly every facility we would occupy. I say nearly because we forgot the dining room and the first event was dinner and it there that I sensed confusion within the first hour of the retreat. Isn't it good that God would point that out to us right in the beginning? We began to pray for order and what He did Saturday to include everything we had to leave out the night before was beyond amazing. It was a miracle. He must have stopped the sun. We prayed that God would show up and work miracles and then we actually expected Him to do so. He did. God is so good. All the time. At one point one of our prayer warriors said she could hear hearts breaking and see all the darkness and grime pouring out of them and filling up with all the good and abundant blessings straight from above. My vision was of the walking dead. Our women are sleepwalking through life - plagued by divorce, disease, self-hatred, and many other demons. But this weekend our prayer was that they would "Wake Up O Sleeper - Arise from the dead and the Light of Christ will shine upon you!" We prayed alot for Light. And we saw alot of dark places filled with His Light. I can still see the faces of women I have known and loved and faces of some I just met beaming in the knowledge that they are God's delight. They are His first love. They are His Precious One. He only wants the very best for them - all the good things - and they are surrounded by His love everyday. wow. It is good to be used by God to love. Today I pray I will do it all over again as a group of us take twenty 7th grade girls and boys to a nursing home for a service project. Father God, Abba - use me today to love young and old. Speak your words of truth in love thru my mouth. Open the eyes of my heart to see and ears to hear YOU in each of them. Father, bless this day with Your abundant love for these kids and for Your saints as we visit. I expect to see You today Lord. Help each of them to see You, too.