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Each moment has been a new moment in Him: cleansed, healed, and restored. We are now thriving under His Reign, and blossoming into who we are in Him.
Andie Renee 
God is good! Before Christmas I determined it was time to recommit myself to a deeper relationship with my God and Saviour. I chose to start with Psalms. I have been a Christian all my life, but have yo-yoed back and forth many times over the course of it. The years since Covid saw me going along with my family and friends in not keeping to the path I know to be true, some because we couldn’t meet during Covid in person, some because of anger at my daughter-in-law, the rebellion against God by my younger son and husband, the apathy of my older son, and my whining over injustices towards us from church members and not being willing to stand up to my family in the choices they were/are making. I felt the pull stronger and stronger in the last year to repent, let go of my self-righteousness, and be willing to become the humble student (not the teacher and leader in both church and school) I needed to be.
I talked with my husband and older son about my feelings and my husband has chosen to return to going to church regularly with me, with our granddaughter and occasionally my older son, I am following the Holy Spirit’s promptings to remove my wildly inappropriate novels and books from my tablet and pick up books that draw me closer to Abba. I am praying for cleansing, healing, and restoration to His right Spirit and returning to the Sabbath worship, even when it means I shut myself away in my bedroom to avoid partaking in decisions that I cannot agree with any longer.
I know I am hearing from Abba correctly because the heat is being turned up on my husband and myself at school (he is my principal) for doing the right thing for our students in the face of evil and yet feel more peaceful about it. I’m not being tied up in emotional knots over a former classrrom aide hating me and, in fact, fellow teachers are actually coming to my defence! Also, my granddaughter wants songs about Jesus before bedtime!
I said before Christmas I had started back into the Bible morning and evening in Psalms because it is such a faith and relationship building book. King David and the other psalmists show such an intimate relationship through every feeling, trial, prayer and praise that it is good training ground. Well, last Sabbath I picked up the new lesson study guide for this next quarter and was stunned to see that it is on the book of Psalms. Then this afternoon I ducked into a new store I hadn’t ever been in to pick up a couple of air plants, and found year-long coloring and reflection book on Psalms close to them, which I bought. GOD IS SO GOOD!
Tammy Parker
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Praise King Jesus!!! AMEN, only God is GOOD! ;) ‘Draw near to Me, and I will draw near to you,’ you are intimately experiencing that and as you obediently let go of the things that do not glorify Him, you will be able to hear His voice more and more because the layers that the enemy is diligently trying to build between you and Him are being removed because of your yearning for Him and decisions to place Him first in all things within your life. And with that, He is validating you to others around you all because you are actively surrendering to Him. As the fire heats up, He is able to diligently mold you more and more into His embrace… all because you have chosen Him. AMEN, God is Good!!! Only God is Good! xoxoxoxo thank you for sharing your wonderful testimony with me! Praise King Jesus! The Holy Spirit is leading me to share with you a small, quick read book that radically changed my life several years ago, He used it to guide me from believing in Him into actively living in Him. In case link doesn’t work it is called: ‘The Practice of the Presence of God’ by brother Lawrence https://a.co/d/2Opypzv
The Holy Spirit transitioned me from practicing to actively living.
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