amazingly blessed

The Lord has been up to some sweetness...

 

This past week I met a precious gal who literally walked in our church last weekend...

She recently lost her dad, her spiritual mentor, and needed to get to a church...

She had NEVER been to church in her life...

 

By God's grace and sweetness... she walked in ours. 

She is precious beyond words...

 

She came back last Wednesday For our Ash Wednesday service and then again today. 

It was such a treat to see her at our Nehemiah Bible Study, by Kelly Minter, that I co lead on Sunday mornings and then my family was blessed to have her sit with us...

If sitting with the lady with 7 kids doesn't scare her off... nothing will:)

 

This morning in absolute typical crazy Sunday morning fashion we snuck, more like barreled, into church 10 minutes before the bible Study started...

 

But in true Sara form I was previewing our video last night at 11:30pm and low and behind it was skipping the WHOLE time through the WHOLE thing...

After paying to download the session and copying it onto a disc...

 

Today... IT WOULD NOT PLAY:(:(

I was so bummed... the video is a HUGE part of our study and is soooo well done...

 

After much trying... getting our IT guy to help... it just wouldn't work... I say on a whim... "Let's just throw the original in... maybe the Lord will just allow it to work!"  Even though last week the previous session skipped and last night this session skipped continuously... The Lord was so gracious... It played PERFECTLY ALL the way through! 

 

I know it is small... But God is so good! 

 

This study is incredible... totally applicable to my life after our trip to Africa.  (which by the way I think about constantly!!)  It is all about how Nehemiah's heart was broken for the people and then how he acts as the Lord's hands and feet in rebuilding the wall around Jerusalem.  In Africa I was continually asking the Lord to break my heart for what breaks His ... and let me say He delivered big time...

 

I knew it would be a great study for me and my prayer was that it would be for all the ladies. 

We had such a precious discussion today...

These women just knocked my socks off...

I can see the Lord working in their hearts and they are excited to try to come up with a way that we as a group can be the hands and feet of Christ in some special way this Lenten season. 

 

I am so blessed by their willingness to put their faith into action and act on it!  I can't wait to see what ideas we can come up with for ways to get out there and minister to and share the Lord's love with someone!