Have you ever worship with 19,000 other people? I've made it close to that at Women of Faith. But not until this week had I ever experienced the diversity that corporate worship was meant to be. Worship this week, I imagine, was much like it will be in heaven - a body of believer's singing and praising God without cultural, ethnic, racial, economic or social boundaries. There were no boundaries this week in the community that gathered in Orlando.
Worship was a unique experience. Tears couldn't help but stream down my face in pure joy and amazement at what God had brought together. No matter the language being spoken during prayer or sang during beautiful songs of praise, the Holy Spirit was still there moving among us. There was a point at which a line of pastors came to the stage to prayer individually for the assembly, each in their own language. Not only their own verbal language but their own prayer language which expressed itself in physical attributes. Either the tone and enthusiasm in their voice, or the reverence of the posture, which I found to be just as powerful in the humble, quiet Frenchman with his hand folded, as it was in the boistrous, exuberant African, who couldn't help but throw his hands up to the Lord.
I was in awe. The music was fantastic and the preachers were phenomenal! The theme for the Assembly was "Making Christ-like Disciples in the nations." Every seminar, workshop and worship service came back to this common theme. We must be about making disciples, who can make disciples, who can make disciples. It is the commission that Jesus, himself, left us with!
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Jim doing fine.. Had to have Boston Scientific come in and regulate pace and have kept him for docs to dicide if all is functioning well or med change or pacer change. Next step was to shock him but God good and did not have to - He does not read his on\wn body well. He kept saying though had broncitis and fire in breathing so every time he feels bad will be a trip to hospital - pray
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