No Light Hearted Title Here

Mom explained on her blog how our Sunday morning went. I'll be happy if she never works curriculation again- I wasn't thrilled with not being able to have service because we had to leave so mom could fix things at work but God made up for it.

I had my CPMA service tonight- I talked about lifting weights and how in the physical its a good thing- builds muscle, strengthens a person, and the exercise keeps you healthy. In the spiritual sense though lifting weight (carrying burdens)doesn't have any positive affect on our spiritual lives. We talked about the different types of burdens and such then I had Joleesa come up to show how weights weigh us down and affect our spiritual lives. I started from the head down by attached a string around her head- weights first affect our mind, they affect the way we see things, hear things, and say things ( I was really tempted to duct tape her mouth but I thought that was a bit over board -heehee) to the point that are mind isn't focused on the Lord the way it should be. Then I proceeded to wrap the string around her until her arms were completely bound. I asked her to raise her hands to praise the Lord and she couldn't. This is wear our burdens affect us next- we get so consumed that we can't glorify God they way we were created to do. I used the example of the fact that before church I was reading somethings online and a lot weighed on my heart and mind that when it came to song service I wasn't fully there- I wasn't able to worship I should have. Then I went on a bound her up more with the thought she wouldn't be able to get down on her knees- she was able to but with great struggle and she couldn't get back up without falling over. When weights begin to affect our prayer life we've then been taken over by it - we've become so spiritually weak that getting on our knees is a struggle if not an impossibility. Joleesa on her own accord tried to unbind herself. When we are so bound up we can't give ourselves the Liberty only Christ can.

The theme for CPMA is Maintaining the Idenity and Heritage of the Church (or something along that line I can't quit remember forgive my tired brain) A church full of members that are burden down, tied up and ineffective is not going to move on let alone maintain who she is if we stay in this spiritual state.

I handed out pieces of paper and I had a candle on the alter and asked that everyone write down things that they felt burdened by, things that they felt bound and tied up by. In the physical we lift weights and work out to burn fat. Well I personally don't want to burn my spiritual life away - the only weights I want to lift are those that will make me stronger- Prayer, Truth, Love, Compassion ect. I'd much rather lay down those weights that are holding me down and burn them. So once everyone was done writing down what weights they were carrying I asked them to come forward and burn the paper. What was on it was between them and God and is now layed on the alter.

Then we had prayer time and I feel like I did more crying then praying but God knows what I wanted to say and knows what I wasn't able to say. When I got up from praying I truly felt like a huge burden was lifted from me. I turned it over to Bro. Dad and he preached the message that he had for this morning so we got a double blessing.

We'll I am very tired today has been anything but a day of rest :-) its okay keeps life interesting.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend
I love you all so very much

God Bless and Good Night