The title of this post is literally how I feel. The image in this post shows what I have been up to this weekend: Secret Church. What is Secret Church you ask? It is an intense time of Bible study (6 hours – from 6pm- 12am) focused on a particular theme. The theme for this time was 'The Body Of Christ' (so what I needed in the season of life I am in) Secret Church is also a reminder that all over the world Christians are forced to gather secretly to study the Word because of persecution. The format of the event is similar to how believers in other parts of the globe gather to read the Bible and to worship Christ with other Christians. It was AMAZING!! This is NOT a blog about all that I have leaned. I am still trying to process it all and I know its going to take longer than a month. I was telling my husband this morning I am looking forward to my time in the word this week. I am going over all these notes and going to let God's word richly dwell within me. So there definitely wont be a detailed post. Sorry. I got a lot of chewing to do.
However,I will say this,I left with a heavy burden for my brothers and sisters around the world and I am also burden for you. The Body of Christ. I want to server you through prayers. I want to use this post to pray for you, your family, your ministry, your intimacy with the Lord. So please, please in my comment section leave prayer request for me(and others who read..so that means those of you reading DO PRAY) to use to pray over you this up coming week. If you don't feel comfortable leaving certain request, please email them to me :mrsnicolek@yahoo.com. Be sure to check the Church at Brook Hills website for past and present audio of Secret Church gatherings.
Have a joyous weekend!
"Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful- Christian community is the final apologetic" -Francis Schaeffer
5 comments:
Me please my precious friend. Please pray for my little girl who is not well and very uncomfortable with a lactose intolerance. Sounds so trivial but she's really sore and life is quite hard for her at the moment. Please pray for healing xxx
First of all so jealous that you are so close to Brook Hills and David Platt. So jealous. Pick me to go to Secret Church!!! Pick me!!!
Prayer:
Direction for John (hubby). He is very frustrated right now and just seeking the Lord to show him what to do.
Community for my family. Feeling very isolated and disconnected no matter how we try. Feeling very lonely lately.
My city: That transformation would not seem so far away.
Me: I am tired. Exhausted really. I need some ultra spiritual help. Christ alone- nothing else.
Kiddos: That they would follow Christ radically- all four that live with me currently :)
Praying for you and for Sammy
God is doing some incredible things in my church family, but we are also dealing with conflict in the leadership. They are handling it well and asking the help of an outside mediator to help them. But it will only be resolved if God steps in and works out a few things that seem impossible to them at the moment. Seeing the pain on their faces and feeling the anguish for them in my own heart is getting hard to bear as it drags on. The enemy would like to keep me awake at night full of fear that I'm going to lose my church family. But I'm choosing not to listen to him and instead am asking Jesus to step in and do something big and beautiful here. My big prayer is that this situation would be resolved with no one leaving, which is a huge request considering I live in the Bible belt of the area where I live full of church hopping folks and churches begun by people leaving because of conflict. It seems like we could gain a whole lot of ground somehow if we were able to reach a resolution with everyone staying together. But maybe that's just the cry of my own heart. I don't know.
Your blog always feeds my soul and encourages my heart and fills me with excitement to let Jesus work through me in my community.
I am praying for you all! Here is a verse I will be praying over you this week as well.
Grace my sisters!
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
-Eph. 3:16-22
Sad! I wish she get well soon.
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