I read in my morning devotional something that caused me to pause. When you are in crisis, it will reveal what you put your trust in. When I was going through some of the darkest times in my life, I used to turn to sex, and material things. I also thought that money would solve all of my problems when in fact, it added to my problems. It wasn't until I gave my life to the Lord and became intentional to allow my life to be hidden in Christ. I no longer desired to want to be controlled by anything other than the Holy Spirit, because sex, material things and money only made my problems worse. They also negatively impacted my relationships with those closes to me. In essence, turning to anything other than God in a crisis escalates and further frustrates the situation. You learn over and over that you cannot trust in those things because they so more harm than good physically, spiritually, emotionally, psychologically. When I turned to Christ in my chaos and crisis, I found peac
You never know when someone needs a HUG, especially your waitress. She said, "You wouldn't be able to know this, but I needed that." God knew...God always know what we need when we need it. Her boss thanked me after watching me give her a warm embrace and said, "We are are so thankful you came into today," but I was just as blessed because I yielded myself to the leading of the Spirit! Then I was reminded of how much work there is for the church to do outside of her four walls (myself included) and if we but yield ourselves to the Spirit's leading we can really turn this world upside down! More emptying of ourselves can lead to more of the Spirit's filling and leading to be agents of change in our communities, nation and the world.