In Responce to Worship

A little more than a month ago, in response to worship, Brent (our youth pastor) gave a plea for us to be set apart & be holy. And while I was at the altar, the Lord took me back to the woman with the issue of blood. In her desperation to touch Jesus for a healing, the Lord reminded me that she had to bow down to touch His hem. She pressed through the crowds of people, pushing them aside to get close to Him. How many of us are that desperate to push aside the pressing matters of the day to get time with Jesus? Do we make Jesus our priority? Garments in Jesus' day went to the ground which meant that this woman had to get on her hands & knees to find His hem. I believe the only way in the vast crowd of people that she could possibly reach Him was to get down on her hands & knees & try to reach through & grab Jesus' hem. Could she have been in such pain that that was her only stance? Whatever the reason, she had to go low to touch Jesus. I believe that the Lord was telling me that if we are willing to go to such an extent to spend time with our Lord, that virtue will flow from Him, just like it did for the woman. A place of worship is on our knees or on our face before Him. It's in humility that we come to God, because the proud cannot enter. May I, oh Lord push aside all that hinders me from coming to you. Let me come to the low place of worship that I may enter in.

Day's Memorial Day picnic

I was able to go to the Day's picnic they have every Memorial Day. Scott had to work & Dave headed back home. I wasn't sure what the weather was going to be, but it turned out to be a beautiful day. It was good to visit with some that I hadn't seen in a while. And as always, Bill's flowers were gorgeous!

Some gathered in the pavilion while others played volleyball.Lorraine with her grandson & Lindsay holding sleeping Ava.

Good time of fellowshipping!

Jesus' pulling Ricky

Bill's artwork!

Bill's beautiful flowers lining his driveway.

Courtney sitting at the fountain outside the garage

and holding baby Ava

Spring Youth Camp

Our youth group always has their camps Memorial Day & Labor Day weekends. Sarah & David have gone, & so have Dan, Aaron & Andrew. Dave was in for the weekend & went down to camp Saturday & I decided to join him for the day Sunday. It was a gorgeous weekend & a beautiful drive down to Windy Ridge Camp.

When I got there Aaron comes running up to me & told me that I should have been there the night before, because the prayer meeting was awesome! He said that people got healed, that the power of the Holy Spirit was really moving. I was really excited. For my son to greet me with that as the 1st thing out of his mouth (then Andrew rushed up & said the same thing) means that God had really made an impression on him.

The speaker was a long time friend of mine, Jimmy Kotow (actually we are older members of this youth group). He has been holding meetings at Harriet's farm since the reunion camp last Memorial Day. God meets us each time (& it always amazes me that He moves in different ways too). That is something that I have learned in my walk with God, that He is unique in each & every prayer meeting I've ever been to. You are always wondering, what's He going to do next! Anyway, I was asked by several people to stay for the evening prayer meeting, so I stayed.

Let me back up a bit. Jim was teaching the kids about Who the Holy Spirit is. A lot of these kids hadn't heard these things before. So it was all exciting for them to learn about the 3rd Person of the Trinity. Earlier that day, I asked a friend, Casey, who brought her youth group to catch me up on the teachings. So she shared her notes with me.

That night the Lord really moved! First of all, worship was really good! Dave joined Tommy Whitfield who lead worship. He has such an anointing to for worship. Then Jim prayed for those who wanted a touch from the Holy Spirit, many went up. He prayed for each one. At some point he explained salvation & then asked who wanted to be saved. Four responded! Then it was group hug time! Jim then explain what it was to serve the Lord & be called to serve Him, giving Harriet & Brent as an example. I think just about everyone responded to that call! I was sooo surprised, because you usually get a few committed ones, but they all went up! Wow! We didn't head home until 11pm.

My younger sons have been talking about camp ever since they came home. (Dave went back to VA.) Besides all the wonderful spiritual things, they had a good time with each other. They played sports all through free time. And stayed up discussing spiritual stuff at night. And Harriet's cooking was good as usual! I'll post a few pictures, but check out Dan's blog & Aaron's as well.

Getting ready to leave, everyone gathered for prayer.Guy talk.

A friendly game of tag-football

Harriet fixing dinner

Taste testing

Helping in the kitchen

LaQuandra had services after dinner. She did a wonderful job!

Harriet tried to take pictures.
But then she asked David to do it!

A Praise Report!

Carissa's grandmother pulled through surgery just fine! In fact, what should have taken 6 1/2 hours to perform only took 2 1/2 hours! The doctors were amazed! They said that she could have died, but the Lord had more for her here! God is so good! Thank you all for your prayers!!!!

Update on Carissa's grandma

I talked to Carissa this evening & she said that her grandma will be going in for open heart surgery to fix an anyerism in her heart that is enlarging. She is in a place that specializes in this kind of surgery & hers is set for Thursday, so please continue to pray for her.

Prayer Request

Please pray for Carissa's grandma. She is having heart trouble. Her mom & all her aunts flew down to Texas to be with her.

New addition to the Prayer Room

Dan finished the drawing on the back wall of the Prayer Room.
I wanted to show you it.

The room is coming along. I still have stuff yet to accomplish.
But here is what it looks like so far.
I am hoping to get a permanent cross where the other was & put Jer. 33:3 above the woman.

It has been neat to watch as the Lord has been using this room dedicated to Him. We have had a week of prayer, an election prayer time, & had the room open for the National Day of Prayer. The testimonies are neat, mostly about how you can definitely feel the Presence of God there. And word is starting to get around that it's there & it's open for anyone who wants to come & pray. I will continue to update you on the room.