somethings are life impacting, just for you.

About 3 weeks ago, I was able to go to church and sit in auditorium, participate in worship and hear the sermon with everyone else. It has been a long time since I have done that. There was a huge crew of us-- I was sitting a few people down from my boss and his wife.

I walked away thinking "hmmm... that was a good service" My boss's wife reaction "Oh my goodness, was that not the best thing I have ever heard,  he said exactly what I needed, this sermon completely changed my life" ---She started to cry during the service.

As she was talking about it, I kept thinking, "what part changed your life? How was that so impactful? "how did I miss this amazing sermon?" I had to keep asking questions because I really didn't understand how this sermon could have changed her life. (I put the link below to it, feel free to listen and see if you life is changed)
http://www.northcoastchurch.com/sermons/sermon-archive/?enmse=1&enmse_sid=194&enmse_mid=1605 (The art of letting Go) 

A week goes by, its Sunday again, I HAVE to teach Sunday school ( I really really didn't want to) I miss out on church, have to spend the whole day by myself, and I have really bad anxiety and attitude the whole day. As the day went on, I started to have all this doubt about everything I am doing in life, big doubt-- start to feel the need to throw in the towel and start over. Question my loyalty and commitment to God, start to really wonder why in the world am I being so dumb in waiting for Skip, he doesn't even remember that I exist.

Monday morning comes around and as I am getting ready for work, I decide to listen to yesterday's sermon, which was this:

http://www.northcoastchurch.com/sermons/sermon-archive/?enmse=1&enmse_sid=194&enmse_mid=1608 (40 years too soon)

Holy cow, it changed my outlook on all my feelings. It became so clear to me of what I needed to be doing, change my attitude, go back to the right mind set- get rid of all doubt. I was excited. 

At work, I started to talk to my boss, and because I was so excited I asked him what he thought of church, his reaction, " mah, I thought it was okay, there wasn't much to get from it" 

I reacted with "what??? it was amazing, it kinda changed my life, it was SO good" 

We continued to talk--- I ended up telling him about Skip, something that I should have done a long time ago. 

With these two different reactions happening in such a short time, I have been  thinking alot about how the spirit of God works differently in our lives. That something so meaningful and special to me, is nothing to someone else, and visa versa. I love that God can work so personally in our lives, that things like church can impact it, in the way that our lives needs to be impacted. I love that God cares enough for us, that we get to have these life changing moments with a relationship with Him. 

I also love the timing of things. I think if I heard that sermon when I was "suppose" to hear it on Sunday morning, it wouldn't of hit my heart the same way as it did those 24 hours after it's broadcast.

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