This weekend my wife was part an Emmaus Walk, and I was part
of one back in October. It was
refreshing talking as we drove home about the things God spoke to her about
this weekend. She talked about things I
have been praying about as well as some things that aren’t on my radar at all.
Emmaus is a community of believers who have all gone on
similar retreat. There are communities
all around the United States and in other countries as well. One of the tough parts was that I couldn’t
share all my experience with Julie after my spiritual walk. That is one of the things that made Sunday’s
drive home that much more special. It
was so sweet to listen to her talk about the exciting moments she experienced
knowing that I went through some similar things.
Julie and I agree that we want to help other people in our
church to go through this spiritual retreat.
It is awesome and eye opening, yet it comes at a time when God is
willing and ready to deal with you. In
fact as we talked with our kids Julie shared how God led us on a retreat a
couple years ago as a new era started for us (Julie going back to school) and
how this retreat came along at a special time as well (as Julie finishes her
Master’s degree).
Acts 3:19 NASV
Therefore
repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may
come from the presence of the
Lord;
We need to repent often.
I did not say we need to get saved often. We are still human and mess up pretty
often. You see that in your own life as
I see in mine. When life gets buys, we
can forget what is most important or miss some of the things God has for
us. To repent is to turn to God and to
agree with Him. We need times of
refreshing. God offers them daily as we
spend time with Him.
Psalm 105:4 NLT
Search for
the Lord and for his strength;
continually seek him.
Proverbs 8:35 NLT
For whoever finds me finds life and
receives favor from the Lord.
I love times when we can spend extended days with God like at
a women’s or men’s conference or a retreat, yet there are opportunities every
day to spend time with God and to seek God.
As we seek Him we will be able to go deeper with God. It is at those times where we learn more about
God and grow to love Him more. Don’t
misunderstand this. We don’t get more of
God. Really He gets more of us, more of
our understanding and of our devotion to Him.
Seek God. Let Him
refresh your life and your call to serve and love Him. When you seek God, you will begin going
deeper. Those are sweet times with God
who loves us so much!
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