COME EXPECTING TO HEAR FROM GOD!!!

Although I DEFINITELY have a lot to say about worship today, it will have to wait until after I do some additional study on what was taught today. BUT, i CAN tell you that when you go to worship, GO EXPECTING...bring yourself to wherever you worship, and EXPECT TO HEAR FROM GOD!

Today was different in many ways. I already wrote what God spoke to my heart over the week...about being distracted and cluttered. Well, as always I arrived to church early, and when my pastor asked me about how my week was, I explained to her (vaguely) that it was a spiritual week. Later on, she asked me about how it was spiritual, and I explained to her pretty much what I said in my earlier entry (what Sundays are really about). She then encouraged me, and I realized that things are going to be okay...getting uncluttered is a PROCESS!! I'm not always the biggest fan of things that take a long process, but on this---I think I can get through it okay :)

THEN, as though I wasn't already ready and excited for worship...God just began to work AMAZINGLY in my life!!! The song service was wonderful (as always), and I prayed that God would just help my heart to focus on what He wanted to teach me about today...so I felt prepared for worship.

The sermon was from John 21 where Jesus is talking to Peter about "do you love me?" What an AMAZING message!!! I hope to post some of my notes on this message later...as it TRULY opened my eyes to what was normally a message that I didn't quite get the point of. Usually, I was just as clueless as Peter was thinking "Why on earth is Jesus repeating himself???"

Today, however, I was taught about the Greek meanings behind the words used in the passage...and let me tell you, that was an eye-opener!!! And then, I just love how God works because even learning this...I was still thinking that this message just applied to Peter---when haha, God had our pastor say "God is speaking to YOU today this same thing..." OH okay!!! My eyes are opened, and suddenly, the light bulb goes off in my head...and I'm in tears!

God is just an AMAZING GOD! He's an amazing God in so many ways, but what really AMAZED me today was when the message God had her preach to us was what I had been asking God about this week...God was asking Peter about how he loved God...and that's what I've been asking God about much of the time this week....WOW! I hope that this doesn't seem like senseless rambling to you, but God is working an AWESOME work in my life right now----and I look forward to seeing the full manifestation of the work that He is doing...

More to come later.