Festival of Truth
Sorry this is late, folks! I was out for most of the weekend at a seminar with my church in Pittsburgh. Thanks for your patience! Here’s how the Lord has been meeting us this week. ~Hännah
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Debbie Jane:
This week (and weekend, especially) God has been pushing at my heart, getting me to realize how much it takes to live for Him. How much of Him, and how little of me there needs to be. And that sometimes I just need to be silent, and listen.
Hännah:
This week the Lord met me over and over again in so many little things. I had applied to be an RA next year at school, and on Tuesday I found out that I didn’t get in - and yet the Lord had mercifully prepared my heart to receive that news, and there was much grace for it. I was able to hold fast to the truth that He is sovereign and good, and He who did not spare His only Son to redeem me will certainly give me His very best. Another way He has been meeting me was by providing good friends to pray with frequently - in the midst of exams and conflict - and to exhort me to keep my eyes on Him.
Kaitlin:
“Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. If the foot should say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,’ it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body.” – 1 Corinthians 12:14-15, NIV
The above verses encouraged me this week as they reminded me that all members of the Body of Christ are necessary even though they may be different and possess different gifts. We are all needed to make up the whole Body!
Kate:
“Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” - Romans 5:1-2, ESV
Katie Marie:
Sunlight! This week I have been rejoicing in God for the sunlight that He has spread across Oklahoma. God is so good to give us these bright rays of warmth that just dance across the earth with anticipation of spring. This is beautiful sunshine that God has blessed me with! He is an awesome God.
Kelsey:
Having to recall what God has been teaching me, for the purpose of this truthfest, has convicted me of my lack of devotion to Him this week. I’m looking back on a week not able to remember what I learned in my quiet times and lacking quality prayer. I think the lesson from this week, and the goal for next, is that my thoughts must be fixed on Him first.
Riëtte:
By God’s grace, I was able to get through yet another week with my parents being gone. Only 5 weeks left!! God sustained me through my busy schedule and doing the regular house-hold things, i.e. dinners, laundry, cleaning, etc. I was able to have a joyful heart towards all these things that I typically would see as “chores” and not really have a heart for. God was faithful, yet again!
Holy God in love became
Perfect man to take my blame”
This week God’s given me those two simple lines to sing to myself over and over again, each time convincing me more of God’s lasting affection for me and the sureness of His promises. I can rest happy and assured in His amazing love, its sheer audacity proving its steadfastness. Oh, to think about these words! Holy God in love became perfect man to take my blame.
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