This Sunday I had the privilege and joy of attending church with my mom and dad! They attend a Baptist church where they reside in The Villages, FL. It's an interesting thing to visit a church in a retirement community.. and I mean that in a really, really good way!
Take for example, an 83 year old man, standing in front of the congregation to give his testimony of accepting Christ in 1934 and sharing life stories of what God has done since then. I could hardly keep the tears at bay.
Then you have the singing... aaahhhhh, the singing... straight from the hymnals. I LOVE THAT!!! Old, familiar hymns so full of life and truth. More tears...
Then the pastor teaching about WHO WE ARE IN CHRIST and two women singing together, "I'd rather have Jesus than anything this world affords today."
Please rejoice with me today... if Jesus Christ is your Savior, then His Spirit LIVES within you. It is He who even gives us the DESIRE to DESIRE HIM!!! And oh ladies... I'd rather have Jesus than ANYTHING this world offers me. ANYTHING. And I thank God for that desire. Don't you?
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Amen, Sista!! I love hearing testimonies of those elderly. They have expderienced so much and to see then living and LOVING JESUS even during the testimony just brings the rush of tears!!!
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