Friday night, we had our Slumber Party retreat. I was sick the week beforehand. It became very real in the days leading up to the retreat that if good things were going to happen, it was because God was going to do them. It was His time to be with His people. He had asked for my hands and feet, but He was going to do the good work.
This was a humbling realization for me, yet so comforting as well. It doesn't take me too long to figure out that I am frail and weak and selfish and incapable of lots of things. He has given me gifts. True. However, if they are being used for my selfish gain instead of His glory, they are fully wasted.
I went to church on Friday hoping that the activities that I had planned really were what God wanted His women to participate in- that they really were from Him. And the cool part? They were. Women's hearts were open to the gospel and to His word. They were able to reflect on what God has done for us in Jesus and then moved to respond like He would.
That's such an awesome feeling. To know that the work you've been participating in the past few months really has been God's work. To see how He uses our simple hands to transform hearts.
I am blessed!
If you helped in any way, I want to encourage you as well. God used your feeble hands for His kingdom building. If you came to the retreat, know that the work God did in you is an encouragement to our hearts as well.
May we never forget that He's the one working and moving and changing lives. May we never cease to want to be a part of His good work!
Ephesians 2:10
New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)
10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
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