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What a blessing
it was last month to be able to go the “Inner Healing and Wholeness”
weekend at the Healing Ministry Centre at Newtown. It was like coming
home to the Father’s House – coming home to my Anglican roots to heal.
In the year 2000
my husband and my lives were turned upside down, after we received an
early morning phone call to tell us that my husband’s brother had been
found murdered.
He had been shot
and my husband was needed at the Coroner’s Department to identify the
body.
The police
investigating resulted in my brother-in laws partner being charged.
The impact of
this, together with the court trail took a heavy toll on us. We were
trying to make life as normal as possible but it was hard because we
felt so numb.
In 2003, things
began to change where we live. The traffic on our street – which was a
well traveled road, increased by 400% with a semi-trailer passing by
every 10 minutes. It was like dripping water.
In 2004 we
started to notice cracks appearing internally and externally in our
home. We called some structural engineers who informed us that is was
because of the drought and the clay soil that our home was built on.
They said when we got rain, things would be better. We are still
waiting for rain.
As a result of
these things in my life I’d become very stressed, anxious and fearful,
and worried about the future.
However, when I
arrived at the Healing Ministry Centre and got into my room I began to
relax – something I hadn’t done for 6 years.
The “Presence of
the Lord” was gentle, but strong in that place and the genuine love and
care was very healing, even to Joy’s “Ministry of Hugs”. I really
needed those!
As Chris Moroney
was teaching on the importance of forgiveness and dealing with anxiety,
I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit moving on me. Something broke
off my life.
PROVERBS 25:11
was very apt
“A
word spoken in season is like apples of gold set in silver”.
I started to
feel a release from anxiety and I was being given tools to work with in
the teaching.
During the
“ministry times” of prayer I began to feel the scars from the past being
healed and a sense of new life beginning to spring forth bringing with
it a new joy and a fresh hope for the future. Fear of the future was
being replaced with faith for the future.
“THE BEST IS YET
AHEAD”!
My youngest
daughter came with me to the “Inner Healing” weekend. She loved it too
– the teaching – the ministry times and the wonderful meals. She didn’t
want to go home at the end. It was for us a special “Mother and
daughter weekend with JESUS”.
And that is what
is was all about for me, JESUS, and having a fresh encounter with Him,
and that fresh encounter with Him, is breaking through all the pain,
anxiety and fear of the last 6 years.
I now have a
fresh faith and trust in Him and peace for the future and that He will
cause all things to work together for good for me because I love Him and
I am called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28.
I wanted that
assurance from the Lord that He would work everything out for me – if
I let Him. He has now given me that assurance. I’ve let go
to let God.
IT’S A NEW DAY.
Thank you Lord
Thank you to all
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