The BASIC Conference was amazing! It was definitely one of my favorites! Kim Walker-Smith did an awesome job with worship :) I absolutely loved Robert Madu. I am actually about to listen to his Friday night sermon again. I bought the cd. There seemed to be a recurring theme for me, and it was "rejoicing in His goodness." You know, He has laid down His life for us, showed us endess mercy and neverending compassion. And there are times when we are disobedient and give in to our sinful natures. But He is still there, waiting for us with open arms of love. He wraps us in His overwhelming presence and dusts us off from our stumbles, falls, and faceplants. God just wants us to live our lives in complete surrender to Him. And most of the time, we are only willing to surrender little to none of ourselves. but that doesn't keep Him from showering us with blessings day after day.
Everytime "Forever Reign" was played, I just cried. They were tears of repentance and joy. I was just blown away by His reminding me of His amazing goodness towards His sons and daughters. His goodness towards me. All weekend was just about acknowledging His goodness and maintaining an attitude of thankfulness for everything He has done for me.
I found out this afternoon that my grandpa is back in the hospital. He has been there so much the past year or so, for various health problems. He had his appendix taken out a week or two ago. Then he had internal bleeding that they were having a hard time controlling. He was able to go home earlier the past week, but an ambulance brought him back today because of stomach pain, most likely from the surgery. So, it is time to take that theme of rejoicing in His goodness to the next level. I know Satan is trying to use my grandpa's health problems to bring me down and make me forget everything that was manifested this weekend. It ain't happenin'. I just pray for comfort and strength for my family because I know it is wearing on them hardcore, and they just want relief from the physical and emotional pain they've been enduring. My biggest fear is that everything that has happened is going to draw them away from God, not closer.
Last night, I got super tired during worship after the baptisms of the Holy Spirit. I was sitting in my chair with my eyes closed, I was actually almost asleep when one of the girls from the NYC Trip came over to me last night and said she felt that God wanted to tell me to stop letting the past control my life and that He wanted to bring healing. And, it was someone that I never told my past to, so I knew it had to be from God. That woke me up, haha. Then I couldn't help but worship Him with everything I had. It was so amazing to see some of my favorite people from the trip. We went to the jamaican place for dinner and just talked and caught up. It was great. :)
A'ight. Time to go listen to Rob Madu get his preach on!
