October 25, 2012 - The One

Good morning to you all, As you remember from the past weeks, our church hosted a women's conference recently. For those not connected to NCC, we really saw the RAIN of God poured out on our ladies - healing, deliverance, restoration, chains broken. And if that weren't enough, we had 22 sisters water baptized. Amen! I want to share a very tender moment I had with the Lord concerning the conference and then bring this into our world. Our women's ministry team had worked for 7 months on this conference. I knew it was going to be amazing. But for whatever reasons, the attendance didn't build as I thought it would. I was a bit discouraged because I knew that we had planned BIG and I wanted to share it with everyone. I knew God was going to do amazing things, and HE DID, and I wanted to share it with as many ladies as possible. :) So Thursday morning, the start of the conference, I was praying and asking God to move on the last few who had not registered and bring all those who were supposed to attend. I felt the Lord speak to me in that place in my belly and ask me a very profound question. He asked, "would you do all this elaborate planning and creation of a conference for JUST ONE?" That question shook me! God would have done it ALL "for the one." He's so amazing to bring balance to everything, isn't He? Why am I bringing this up today? Sometimes when God doesn't quickly answer our prayers and we are still battling with that last few pounds, we can become discouraged and even reason that God has "more important things" to accomplish than helping us be healthy. STOP! God cared about THE ONE at the conference. He is intimately concerned with our lives and according to the scripture knows how many hairs are on our head and every thought in our head. He cares about THE ONE - that's us. Stop today and thank him for giving you great health according to HIS plan to use you. Ask Him to remind you to hydrate and to give you will power throughout the day when stress may cause your natural eyes to fix on a solution other than something healthy. I promise - God loves and cares about each of us at that level. We're THE ONE. Great news - after God asking me that profound question, I probably had FIVE women come to me, on their own and say, "You'll never know how this touched me - I feel like I was THE ONE this conference was created for." How cool is that???? wink Have an amazing day! Healthy 4 You Life Group NEXT Sunday. Last one for the year - please let me know if you'll be attending so I can prepare. :) PK