Our Promised Land

Hi ladies!!!! I'm still pondering the beautiful truth that Paulette spoke so clearly to us on Monday night:

What was true for the Israelites in the PHYSICAL sense is true for New Testament believers in the SPIRITUAL sense.

We could have lesson after lesson on this glorious, deep truth alone!!! I've been encouraged to remember and apply this to my life ANY and EVERY time I study Old Testament scriptures related to God's chosen nation. As New Testament believers, we have become part of His chosen people and there is sooooo much we can glean from what God has done through His people already!!!

I've always loved the term "promised land". There's something so wonderful about it, sooo... well ... PROMISING! And even more so, because the promise comes from God ~ and so we know absolutely, no doubt about it, that He is faithful and will keep His promise!! Each and every one of us has a promised land that God has planned for us to live here on earth before we get to the ultimate promised land of Heaven!!!

I don't know about you, but that gets me EXCITED and I am determined to WALK IN IT!!! I have wasted so many years of my life in the desert, wandering around ~ worshipping other gods ~ trying to find that certain something to satisfy my emptiness, my craving ~ and yet all that searching for something or someone other than Jesus just produces pain and heartache and CONSEQUENCE. I am SO DONE with that kind of life and I believe the women of IGNITE are, too!

I believe we are all longing for a deeper relationship with Jesus and with one another.. and IGNITE is the beginning of something BIG that God is doing in our community! May we never, ever again be like the Israelites who said it would be better to return to Egypt! NO WAY, JOSE!!! We will not give in to the enticements of the enemy.

We will choose TRUTH! (His word is truth)
We will choose to THINK DIFFERENTLY! (by renewing our minds with THE WORD)
We will choose to BELIEVE GOD! (not the old familiar lies of the enemy)
We will choose to make PHYSICAL CHANGES! (replacing sinful habits with God-honoring obedience - resulting in JOY and PEACE)

Thank you, Paulette, for sharing your heart.. and God's heart.. with us on this matter of idols.
He alone is worthy and the women of Ignite will lift up His Name alone!!!

AMEN?? Let's hear from you, sisters! What is God doing in YOUR life this week?