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Encountering God

From Lisa-Dawn Johnston

First and foremost: AMEN!!!🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
While Everyone’s interactions with God are different, I think you hit the nail on the head, and saved me a lot of time, by sharing that many of your spiritual interactions with God happened with like-minded people! There is that community again, that is vital to our journey with God and to God. Whether it’s online like fab, and the Bible recap, or in an actual church setting. This journey is about learning, watching, Asking questions, discussing. Believing and sharing. All greatly enhanced with a group who are also on a similar journey. I think that that is why we have all been blessed with a myriad of skills and talents! So that we can use them to and for the benefit of others in our community. Not everyone has to be gifted with money management, or organization, or orating, Or Catering, or hosting. Collectively, we do these things, and collectively, we enrich each other and grow.
In the meantime: Brilliant insight, well thought out, beautifully articulated, and makes sense to me! Reading this filled me with so many thoughts and feelings. Ultimately and most strongly was the sense of peace. I think it was the Holy Spirit moving in me.
I want to share this from Chapter 5- that God is within us…. And when we hear someone cry out, brokenhearted, where are you, God, that it should be those of us present to respond to lead them to Christ…. Something eerily similar happened to me in July: On hearing an eerily similar message about being God’s hands, feet, mouth, etc… I bowed my head and started to sob, because I felt that I was letting down God by bringing chaos and discord, rather than love, patience, kindness, etc. After the service, I was counting glasses with tears streaming down my face…. Suddenly I was surrounded by people, hugging me, showering me with love; and one man said God sent us here to tell you that you are loved! I was deeply moved and felt at peace, because I believed that God heard my cry and my sadness and shame….and prayers asking for help and forgiveness. And sent his spirit in others to let me know that I was heard and loved.