Comments on: A CELEBRATORY WEEK TOGETHER! IDOL LIES IS LAUNCHING!

By: Diane

Diane — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:54:48 +0000

Amen. I have listened to one of them and I love it.

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:12:44 +0000

Diane, I saw your comment about living with reckless abandon on my email. It was very quickening. I want to do that also and I know it is what God wants for us, therefor He will do it. I will pray for you in this area.

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:07:33 +0000

My take-a-way is learning to look for God’s fingerprints in my life. It has been a great blessing for me to look at incidents in my life and begin to thread them together and look for God’s purpose.

By: Diane

Diane — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:51:58 +0000

8. What is your take-a-way and why?

I enjoyed the week reviewing Idol Lies. After hearing Dee refer to Jim Om’s, “Models of Manipulation”, I listened to the message and had been pondering it ever since. Here is a quote that sums up how Christ deals with our manipulation.

“Laura, Laura you are worried and upset about many things. But only one thing is needed. Put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. Put your hope in Jesus Christ. Put your life in Jesus Christ.
“He gives you His righteousness, his approval, his achievement. Everything Jesus achieved is now yours by faith. Then you will live a life with a freedom from the addiction of approval and achievement.
“The first step to knowing God is to know that you can’t do it yourself.”

Dee’ mention on the blog this week that we need “to live with abandon and fear not” really struck me. I am so grateful to God for all the new work he has been doing in my life in the last few years. Some circumstances have been very positive, but some have been very difficult, such as the circumstances that lead me to this blog. But obviously God’s fingerprints were all over my coming to this blog.

I have learned so much here, specifically about my idols which I had been praying about and seeking to offload but continued to struggle with. I know that God sent me to this study as a direct answer to my prayer. I still struggle at times, but I am so much better than I was.

And “if the truth shall set you free, you shall be free indeed.” I am beginning to enjoy some of the freedom I have been seeking so long.

By: Renee

Renee — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:32:05 +0000

Just listened to/watched a couple of the videos on the Worthy website. SO, SO compelling. THANK YOU for making these available without cost to listeners.

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 23:18:08 +0000

If it is British it would make sense that it could also be African yet very different. How interesting church history and evolution is. My son’s undergrad degree is in Bizantine History and it was church history that sent him in that direction.
The friend who took me to this conference is British and her father was Anglican. They lived in Uganda during her childhood while he worked for the British government. In her present church she has connected with a Ugandan doctor who plans to build a clinic in the area where she grew up. Her church has connection with ministry there and she and her husband recently visited. It was a sweet, sweet time. A woman who cared for her there was still living and she was able to spend some time with her. She and her husband sense a call to go back there and run a hospitality house for doctors and other visitors to the clinic. Another amazing thread is that I also know this doctor because I sometimes work with him. If God opens the door for me I may also visit there someday.

By: Renee

Renee — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 22:37:29 +0000

Dee, you said just the right amount :)

By: Renee

Renee — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 22:36:32 +0000

elizabeth, I was meditating on that verse earlier this week — and thinking about this song http://youtu.be/dadf7JHQmuw so finally decided to listen to it. I like the pics of skies and stars, too (not sure what I think about the flying people!). What you wrote: “Our faces are unveiled—-we can see Him more clearly, but we are also more exposed to one another, and able to see one another more clearly.” Similar to what I am reading in book about Heaven.

Chris, Earlier this week, you asked what book I am reading about Heaven (I couldn’t remember at the times I was on the computer; finally looked): A Better Country: Preparing for Heaven, by Dan Schaeffer (one of my better Goodwill purchases!)

Dee, any chance we can study Heaven sometime? I’m seeing a connection between how He is transforming us now and our preparation to for eternity with Him (and others).

And, Dee, HOW ARE YOU after this amazing week?

By: Renee

Renee — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 22:10:20 +0000

Anne, Your son is right. The Episcopal Church in the US is a “branch” of the Anglican church worldwide (not sure if my terminology is accurate). However, not all of the Anglican churches in the U.S are Episcopal churches. Some Anglican churches in the US are affiliated with Anglican groups in other countries. I know one group is associated with/ or under the authority of an Anglican group in Africa, and I have heard of at least one other Anglican affiliation in the U.S. The Church of England is Anglican. As far as I know, all the Anglican churches around here are Episcopal churches. As with other denominations, I’m sure the “flavor” varies from congregation to congregation, but the “feel” of the Episcopal churches around here is quite a bit different than some other Anglican churches.

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:26:54 +0000

This was wonderful! I learned so much! The Holy Spirit spoke to me! I am so full right now and I am waiting for the leading of the Spirit. I thought of my oldest so much and he called me as I was driving home. He knows about the Anglican church and says it is the same as Episcopal. I did not quite get that impression but I can see some of the form that Al would appreciate and he has expressed some interest in it the past. I pray that this will be a fingerprint. Who knows if God did not lead Al in the direction he went for us to meet somewhere in the middle, but I am getting ahead of the Spirit as I always do. The truth is, I have no idea what He is doing, but I know He is good.
My family’s roots are Episcopal on my mother’s side but I have to say that my experience with the denomination has been unfavorable. But with this seminar I had the sense that they were on track with the kind of prayer that will bring healing and a great move of God.
I will go back for 2 hrs. Tomorrow and then for a prayer service at 6.