God At Work

Before I can even begin to talk about my day yesterday I need to talk about what happened last night.

On Sunday we dedicated both girls at church. We invited my friend Laura and her live-in boyfriend Dan who we had not yet met. Neither of them are christians. We never got the chance to talk to them after the service but Laura called me on Monday and said that Dan had some questions about People's Church and what we believe and wanted to get together. So we met with them last night. It was incredible. Dan was asking the same questions that we were when we were seeking after Christ. Bryan felt led to explain how Jesus can come into your life through a simple prayer. I thought that was awesome since perhaps if his spirit felt led to pray but he didn't feel comfortable enough to do it with us because this was only the second time we met that he could go home and pray alone.

It was really neat watching him. I can't even tell you how many times we've sat down with "Christians" and tried explaining our views on things to them and it's like they are not able to understand but with Dan it was like it all made sense to him. We talked about Baptism and, he being raised Catholic, now understand why we don't baptize babies because it doesn't remove Adam's sin, like the Catholic Church believes, for if it did and baptisms removes sin then why did Jesus have to die? He would have died for no reason and we'd be baptized every day. It was incredible to see the Spirit at work. At one point Laura said that it just seemed "too easy". Isn't that the beauty of God. It is so easy. "For you have been saved by grace and not of works"

So any fellow believers please pray for Laura and Dan. Dan said that he wanted to come to church on Sunday with us. Pray that Satan won't allow any obstacles to come up that would prevent them from coming.

PRAISE THE LORD!!

Now my day yesterday was weird. I woke up and felt exhausted but not so gloomy. Ella had kept us up all night but I still felt pretty good. My day was going ok then at one point I felt a euphoric feeling. It was really weird. It was like a panic attack without the paranoia. Very out of body. I had had this happen once before when I was very upset and overwhelmed but I can't pin point why it happened this time. I tried looking up if that was a symptom and it was only listed as a symptom of post partum psychosis. Now I know I don't have that. In fact I sort of feel that I am getting better. I think writing about it is really helping me.

I woke this morning in a good mood. I got an alright sleep and I awoke to Ella smiling at me. I have also had a change of heart about Bryan going away. I am looking forward to Friday night when Bryan and I are going to hand out tracts at the movie theatres. The DaVinci Code is being released and we are going to hand out tracts on "de-coding" it and understanding the truth. I am also looking forward to Sunday now. God is so amazing the way he has even so lightly lifted this burden from me.

Thank you for all of your prayers. Please pray for Dan and Laura.

In His Grip,

Alicia