Lessons Learned

Right now the biggest desire in my life is sleep. (And you thought it was food!)

I haven’t slept in about 10 days. I go to bed & wake up at about 2 or three in the morning & then sort of doze off and on until my alarm goes off at 4:55. (You want to know how to pray for me? Pray that I can sleep!)

Anyway, I have had some pretty good prayer times; however, the body can only take so much…and so yesterday (Sunday) I hit a wall—HARD!

Now hitting a wall during the week usually is not a problem…BUT yesterday I hit a wall in between the second and third service. I was literally thinking about ten minutes before I was to go out and speak, “I can’t do this! I don’t have anything left in me.”

Please understand…I am NOT trying to be overly dramatic here—but I gave it all that I had yesterday during our first two services. So—the time came for me to go out and deliver the message…I prayed, HARD, “Ok God—you know how I feel—help me—please help me!” That’s about all I could say.

To make a long story short…I felt like the third service was the best service we had yesterday—HANDS DOWN! (Don’t get me wrong—EVERY service yesterday was great…but as soon as the lights came up and I began to speak I felt this sense of peace and power that was truly from God!)

The main lesson I learned from this entire experience was this—

When you have nothing—God still has everything!

I had nothing…and that is exactly where God wanted and needed me to be. Yesterday served as a powerful reminder that this is not about me…but about Him working through me.

I said all that to challenge those who may be thinking that you are tired…worn out…burned out, and you KNOW what you need to do…you KNOW the choices you need to make—but you feel like you just don’t have the strength and energy to follow through on what you know is right. You feel like you’ve got nothing in your tank…

But when you have nothing—God still has everything.

I am talking to the single parents who feels overwhelmed with the responsibility of raising a child (or multiple children) alone. I am talking to the person who is maxed out in credit card debt and KNOWS what they need to do. I am talking to the person who has felt attacked from every side…when you have nothing left—God still has everything.

This was a beautiful lesson learned. It helped me—I hope it helps you.

In other news…

THANK YOU—THANK YOU—THANK YOU to all the peeps who came to the 8:30 service yesterday…we had close to 750 there…and you KNOW if you can get that many people to come to church at 8:30—it has to be God! :-)

The staff at NewSpring are no longer at the offices on Belton highway…we have moved into the new building. We are all so pumped…and we know that we are going to have to make adjustments to the way we operate; however, that’s exciting! The majority of today will be spent trying to figure out things like—oh, how to use the phone—where exactly is the restroom, you know, those sorts of things.

THANK YOU so much to the amazing volunteers that made the move so smooth! (Hey—that rhymed!!!) You guys rock!

We have some pretty big announcements coming within the next several weeks. I don’t want to give too much away—but there is a thing or two in our future that I am really excited about.

After yesterdays stellar performance…Lee begged me to please return to the band. He was so amazed at the marvelous display of talent that oozed out of me—but I just could not do it. Pray for Lee as he deals with this devastating disappointment.

And last but not least—Lucretia and I watched 12 episodes of the first season of “Lost” last week—we both hope to finish the season this week…but we were wondering if anyone has been recording the second season so that we can watch them and catch up.

Have an awesome Monday.