After our hour of listening to God on the elders’ retreat last weekend, we shared what we felt we heard from the Lord. Someone noticed me taking notes and asked me to post them on the blog. So here’s what I wrote down as we talked – not knowing I was going to share it this way. So if you have additions or corrections or other comments, clarifications, expansions or explanations please share them. We can continue that wonderful conversation this way.
- New building: Fund it and participate in building it. Cf. the workers in Solomon’s temple
- The future holds challenges: Perseverance while they’re doing the driveway etc. (i.e. putting in the water pipes, tearing up our driveway, widening the road …)
- It is well with my soul.
- How do we transfer [our experience] to other people?
- Build the church (i.e. people)
- Let my light shine the right way.
- Wait.
- Song, “Something Within Me”
- All feel a need to draw closer. Relationships
- Something like this elders’ retreat more than once a year.
- Return to your first love
- Put God first.
- See how much more I will pour … as we seek him.
- Song “Draw Me Close,” but Jesus is singing it to us.
- Opportunity to bless
- God is an ever-flowing river. We’re leaves. We don’t want to get caught in an eddy!
- Luke 1:17 “And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
- A river grows as it goes to the sea.
- We all carry the cross
- The Holy Spirit is the conductor, we’re the symphony.
- Pool cleaner. (It does its mission while being guided by an unseen force.)
- Be still and wait and know that I am in control
- Vision of new faces
- Rosebush with new growth