So what's new

Well, as you probably know, its been eons since I last blogged. Well, the job picked up so I got busy and then I have pictures from multiple camping trips and a trip to Oregon that I need to put on the website, but haven't been able to do so yet.

Sooo, what brings me to posting tonight? Bible study, that's what. Well, the church started a new church wide Bible Study called P50, which stands for 50 days of Pentecost. Its a study about the Holy Spirit. Everything from education about what the Holy Spirit is, gifts of the Spirit, etc, etc.

But to digress a little, 2 Wednesday nights ago, we had a prayer night at church (first Wed of the month). At the end of the service, I saw a lady who I thought wanted prayer but wouldn't go up for prayer. The Holy Spirit then prompted me to go pray with her. I procrastinated wondering if it was really God or not and then I asked Sarah to come with me and pray with her. Sarah was thinking I was half crazy picking out a single lady to go pray for. (She was also probably thinking, "God told you, how about you go do what God's telling you." But smiling as I write this, I don't really know that.) So anywho, while all this is going on, she gets up and leaves. Opportunity lost.

So then this week, who happens to come to P50 study besides her!!! (Praise be to God for second chances and lessons learned!) Well, we were going through our discussion questions and were talking Holy Spirit stories when I confessed to her the Spirit's prompting that night at Prayer Night, but my failure to listen. I then apologized to her and she started crying. She told me that that night she wanted to go up for prayer so bad, but couldn't bring herself to do so. Exactly what God had shown me that night. She then went onto share some about what was going on in her life. As a group we also talked about missed Spirit opportunities and not missing them in the future. So to say the least, it was a really good study.

So that's my blog for the night. If you so desire, you can pray that my heart would be softened. Not just softened as in a relative change, but rather that it would be soft. A heart that breaks for those who are broken. A heart that yearns for God and His Word. And a coming back to God with total dedication that life's distractions won't get in the way of. A change in me has occurred since RFKC that hasn't been for the better. I don't know that I've really done anything bad or wrong, I've just gone to my own thing for a bit and I want to return.

So that's the end of my story for tonight,

Tim.