Obedience to God is good........

Well, Sunday morning Colin woke up and was not feeling very well, and it's not really like him to not feel he could go to church. So I assured him that I could battle on without him and sent him back to bed. I had planned just to do the sermon that he had prepared. In fact, he had prepared it for about 3 Sundays earlier and right before church began he felt that God was directing him to preach about something else. He said to me that it seemed as if he wasn't the one that was going to preach this sermon. And well, it seems as if I wasn't supposed to preach it either! Cause after spending some time putting together some power points for the Bible verses he had used in the sermon, and being able to look at his sermon, although briefly, I was leading the congregation in worship when I really felt God speaking to me and telling me that we were to spend time in prayer as a church instead of anything that I had planned. Ok, but........now normally I am the sort of person that has to have structure and for this to happen, it was just way out of my comfort zone, but I went with it, and even when I tried to add some structure, I was silently reminded that God was very capable of doing what He needed to do without me interfering by adding structure to it. A great lesson, as God, by His Holy Spirit moved mightily as the people came to Him in prayer. It was very moving and I thank God that He used me in that way and that even though I felt unsure.........He was in control! Hallelujah!


Blessings on the journey.................Love Kylie XXX





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