Still, Ambassadors of Grace

As the chief pointed out in his comment on my last post, Trista and I have returned from our 5 Year Refresher's. We got back late Thursday. I just haven't had time to collect my thoughts about the incredible week we had. We have a very powerful session; not earthly power, but spiritual. In our first meeting together on Monday we took prayer requests. There were two specific requests for elderly family members that were on life support. In both cases the family was already gathering to make some final decisions. We prayed for both of them and by Wednesday night during our worship time they had both made dramatic recoveries that stumped the doctors. Praise God that He is still our Jehovah Raffa, our Healer!

The third healing took place during a prayer time at the end of the Wednesday night worship. About 18 months ago, our sessionmate Matt Morrison and his wife were in a pretty bad car wreck. Since then he has only had feeling in half and his hand. A few of us were praying over him and by the end of the meeting he was testifying to full feeling and strength!

I love our session. Like any other VERY diverse group that is made to come together in classes and meetings and ministry we had our fights in training...some of them were very heated, but I think we were unique in that we could leave the fights in the classroom. We left the feelings associated with the fights at the SFOT. If we had not, I think God would have let us know during the worship time. It would not have been anywhere close to how incredible it was. There was a powerpoint presentation with picture updates of our children. There were testimonies of God's awesome Power and Grace and Strength and Comfort...There was singing. There were prayers. And there was a Spirit filled sermon preached by our session president Shaun Belanger. By the end of the night there was not a dry eye in the room. My eyes are welling up thinking about it right now. If someone had told me after our first session meeting at SFOT that we would all have bonded like we have I know I would have laughed. We are a strange strange group...so diverse in culture and backgroud, but with the struggles we have gone through together and individually and with the Holy Spirit binding us together we are all Ambassadors of Grace! I pray that God continues to bless our session with Grace and Power and I pray that we are all still as close as we are now in another 5 or 10 years!

I will be posting some pictures of the event in the next day or so.

In His Grip for Blood and Fire,
Dave
Ambassador of Grace
1999-2001
USA East