Good morning Pastor Greg, 

I wanted to share with you what God has been doing in my life as you and many others have been praying for me.  I am one to have quiet time, spend time with the Lord on a regular basis but God has been calling me to my 1st love & into a deeper love relationship with Him. I know that we are all looking for the outward manifestation of my foot to be healed but God is doing an amazing work on the inside which others do not see. Don’t get me wrong, I KNOW God’s plan to heal my foot…I trust Him in that area. He is working on the inside to increase my trust, and although my foot is inconvenient at times I really have not had one moment of sadness, anger or frustration about it…I have been in a peace that passes understanding and thoroughly enjoying the time with God and what He is doing in me. I am not suggesting that we should not be praying and seeking God for healing (God forbid!) I just wanted you to know the miraculous that is taking place on the inside because the outward is what many people are expecting…and rightfully so, I expect it as well in God’s perfect time!! 

Last week when I was at the altar God took me back to the moment that I was saved…I was radically saved in the Jesus movement of the 1970’s, in fact the service looked much like the services we are experiencing presently. I cannot even begin to explain what happened in my heart but to say that it felt like an explosion on the inside. All that I wanted to do was to read my bible, spend time with the Lord, spend time with other believers, and serve Him the rest of my life.  There was a small group of teens who were saved at the same time as me in a revival that came through our small town. We banded together as best we could to begin growing in the Lord. We began a bible study in our school meeting every morning to pray and read the word together. We met every night that we could to do more of the same. I experienced a deep love for my savior that went beyond anything I could even begin to imagine…The main line churches and most of the authority figures in my life (and that of my friends) began to come against the movement. They worked hard to disband us, and told us over and over that this was not real and moreover, that it was a move of the devil. They spoke against us in the churches and throughout our small town. Without discipleship and with the opposition we had we all began to question and feel lost and eventually most of us turned away from that first love. I do not hold any animosity toward the people who were involved…they didn’t know…but this is where I began to make really poor choices, to walk in doubt and unbelief. I didn’t turn away from God but I accepted a “religious God”. Inside I began searching for something that would fill me again and tried in many different ways to recreate what I once felt but had been convinced it wasn’t real. I made really poor choices that only brought more pain and heartache.The story goes on but for the sake of your time…fast forward to last week…God brought me back to the moment of my first love, of that passionate love that He has always had for me! He has been speaking these words to me “this is the real thing” since this move broke out at Skyway. I really did not fully grasp what He was beginning to do in me through those words but they kept coming back to me again and again. Pastor Greg, there are not even words to explain what He is doing and revealing inside of me currently…my foot is such a “side-note” in my life… if God needs me to “be quiet” right now while He completes an inner work then I rest in Him and His timing…I am having a real encounter with the real Jesus!!! How gracious He is too me that He is not just teaching me the truth but He is taking me back to my first love with Him, He is allowing me to re-experience what was then and He has told me that He is restoring all that was stolen from me so many years ago! What an awesome God we serve who is not limited by time or past circumstances! 

I want to say thank you deeply to you. You now stand as the authority in my life that is embracing the “real thing” and encouraging all of us to embrace it as well!   

In Him

Hope