Amazing God-Filled Day

I would have shared this yesterday but due to it being Sunday, I thought I would stick to posting a song and share my story today. 

Basically, yesterday was Sunday, which means I was at church for 2 services, morning and evening. Both services were amazing, I could feel the presence of God and I really didn't want worship to end. I would just like to share a couple of things that happened yesterday. 

Firstly, I am one of these people that seems to have a very short attention span. After ten minutes of a sermon, my mind is usually wandering. I try my best to concentrate but find this extremely difficult, but yesterday, I managed to focus the entire time. I didn't find myself wondering what I was going to have for lunch or if I needed to go shopping. Full focus on the sermon. Some of you might think, well it must have been an entertaining preacher. Well, it was our senior pastor and his message yesterday was obviously a new message but no different, no more or less exciting than the others, they are all great, they are all equally as entertaining, so what was it that helped me keep focus? I really do believe that it is due to my constant seeking of Him. The more we seek Him, the more we find Him. When we are seeking Him more and spending more time with Him, it becomes more difficult for the devil to distract us. It becomes easier for us to hear what He wants to say and we just become closer and want more of Him. It's been almost 7 weeks since I started this journey in trying to get closer to Him and I am seeing the difference it has made in me and my walk with Him, and I love it! 

That's not the only great thing that came out of yesterday though. I was rostered on to sing and I haven't been 100% well over the past month. I had a bad cough for a couple of weeks and my throat just doesn't seem to have recovered fully yet. Most days are good, but I have a couple of not so good days and it just happened to be one of those days when I woke up yesterday morning. All through rehearsal I would sing a line, then cough, I wasn't sure I was going to make it through the service. I didn't want to be singing on stage coughing every five second, I didn't think it would be the greatest thing to do. So I went on a search for something to help, I ended up with a glass of warm water and then went looking for honey, as I've been told this helps. I couldn't find the honey and had to get to our pre-service prayer meeting. During this meeting I felt God say to me "Don't worry about your voice, I will take care of you, I will help you through, your voice is beautiful". Sure enough, the tickle that had been in my throat since I had gotten up was gone, and I made it through the entire service. Not only that, but it didn't come back during the afternoon so I was able to make it through the evening service also.  

But that's not all, during the evening service, the presence of God was just so amazing in the church. We had praise and worship at the beginning, then heard the message, then had some ministry time. As I stood on the stage looking at the congregation and started to worship God, I just had this image of  this rain of red start pouring down on everyone which soon enough turned to sparkling silver rain and it just continued to pour out. So what do I think this meant? The red rain was Jesus blood. His blood covers us and makes us whole, but as it turned to sparkling silver rain, He was pouring out His goodness, making us like new, no longer stained, cleaning off that sin, cleaning off everything that we had held on to. It really was an amazing experience!

So that was my amazing God-filled day yesterday. Each day I seek Him more, I experience more of Him and I just want to get closer. 

Thankful for: Learning from experience

The only way I can explain this one is with a story. I was talking to a guy yesterday who asked me, "Do you have a boyfriend? Have you gone out on any dates?" and then asked "Why not?" when I responded with no to both of those questions. Now, previously this has made my mind go crazy with questions about why he is asking these questions, and then I begin to make things up in my head. I have learnt however, that some guys are simply just asking because they are curious and they are not asking with other motives in mind. This guy I know is one of those types of guys, that asks these questions. So I have learnt from experience, to take the question, answer it, then put it aside. No more thought required and letting me not start thinking things that will take my mind away from God and what I should be focusing on. So I'm thankful that God gave us the ability to remember and to learn from experience.