Spiritual Attack and God's Faithfulness

Lately I have been feeling a lot of spiritual attack, and I think I was particularly open to it because I had been struggling with perseverence. Struggling to keep my priorities in place and really spend my time seeking God. The added busy-ness with school and being swamped at work has not helped either.

At any rate, I was going through some low moments spiritually. I lost a bit of my passion, but I've been slowly but surely making a turnaround. I was also having some physical attack as well. My stomach had been bothering me a bit. Not really that bad, but just persistent and annoying. Thankfully, God has healed that.

Yesterday I had to take my sister to school early (she had to be there at 6:30am--blech), and afterwards, rather than going back home to sleep for an hour or so, I jsut decided to get breakfast and hot chocolate at a local coffe shop and just spend time reading my Bible and just hanging out with God. I basically just sat and thought about things for a little while, something I hadn't made the time for lately.

Yesterday evening was also our first small group meeting. My church launched smal groups this week and my fridn Jenn is leading one and I am her "apprentice" so to speak. We have one girl in the group at this point, and one other girl from church will probably be joining shortly. It was neat cause we met in the same coffee shop where I had breakfast and so in the morning, beforehand, I prayed a bit for the meeting. Nothing specific really, just that God would do his thing.

It was so neat because the girl in our group grew up in the church, but had fallen away when she moved away to college. She got connected with our church through a friend and God has been working on her heart. She has such a desire for God. She has a lot of questions and misconceptions, and it was neat to see her airing her thoughts and feeling safe in doing so. God totally blessed our conversation and fellowship together. I am so excited to see how God works in our small groups and in the small groups that will come out of our group!

I am so thankful for the things that God is doing. I learn through the trials and the low times. And God is so faithful, even when I'm not. He is so cool!

Blessings!
Marieke