God is truly an amazing God and finding the path in this journey which keeps God always in the lead is no minor task.  The situations I wrote about yesterday are just as real today.  In my devotional time I end with praying over my prayer list.  At the top of it I have written:  Embrace the Cross.  I rewrite my prayer list every few months to keep it current with life’s daily challenges for those on it.  I rewrite this statement at the top for my reminder that I need to Embrace the Cross for those on this list.  Today, as I was starting my prayer, God showed me that my job was not to change the decisions for those struggling but to bring them to the Cross where the ultimate decision about wrongs was done.  So, instead of anguishing more about the needs/choices of these ones I love, I simply brought them to the Cross in my prayer rather than the problems.  It is there that Christ has already done His Work.  It is also each one’s decision to accept this work for them.

In two weeks our Celebrate Recovery moves from Wednesday nights to Thursday nights.  This decision was made last winter and is a good one for many reasons.  Our church has built a children’s wing which gives spacious room for that department to grow and flourish.  Our CR has been using the children’s room for our meeting and it has now overgrown the facility.  The church suggested when the children move to their new wing we could move to the youth room where we will have ample room to continue growing.  Thursday nights will allow us to have no competition for rooms.

I write this because in the past week there have been numerous issues coming up with the individuals in leadership of our CR.  One leader told me last night she felt we were under attack.  When I went to ask God this morning if this is so He immediately responded even as I was writing the first word of the sentence.  His response was simple.  “Satan never quits attacking.  Don’t be caught off-guard by this but instead, be prepared.”  God’s Word tells us to be prepared at all times and to lift one another up.  I’m going to send this reminder out to all of us this morning.  It is amazing to me to take a step away from the attacks to see that they are individually based on each one in leadership and they cripple each one of us privately.  No one wants to sound like “a baby” so we keep them to ourselves.  Also, this move comes at the start of summer where we all are taking individual family breaks from common routines.  Well, Satan wants to make all of this seem like we are failing when God wants us to see how we are prospering.  I’m choosing to keep my eyes on God’s Work for each person finding victory from their hurts, hang-ups and habits!  God has asked me to send this reminder out to all the leadership and so I will.  God is already the Victor and we all need to remember this even when we might feel weak for in our weakness, God is made strong.