SUCCESS! SUCCESS! SUCCESS!

Our first "GODLY AND BEAUTIFUL!" FELLOWSHIP was a huge, blessed success! God truly showed Himself to be Powerful the whole day! He gave us a Word that told us that even though we as women, (and men, too, because men were at the fellowship also) sometimes feel like we have lost our JOY because of all the thing we face in our lives, our bodies, relationships, the church, and even in our hearts and minds, we should remember...that when we praise Him, when we enter into Worship, when we are faithful to His work, when we give Him all the Glory in spite of what we are going through, we are INDEED experiencing the JOY OF THE LORD BECAUSE OF HIS SPIRIT WHICH LIVES ON THE INSIDE OF US! How is this possible? Because JOY is a fruit of the SPIRIT! It is that JOY that causes us to keep going because we love the Lord, and we must see that it is during these rough, trying times that the JOY of the Lord is our strength! GLORY TO GOD! 

Therefore, THE DEVIL IS A LIAR! When he makes us feel like we have lost our JOY, we have to realize that he can't take our JOY away! We have to KNOW that we have JOY AND THEN ACT LIKE IT! Lift your head up! Open your mouth and give GOD some praise! Fall on your face, enter into HIS presence and worship HIM! Tell somebody about his goodness! Get rid of the frown and smile! Stop complaining and become thankful for all that God has done and is still doing! 

The Spirit of God gives us the Power to RESIST the devil and he WILL flee! So woman of God, and man of God, because of God's Spirit, we do have JOY! And now that the Lord has reminded us that we have JOY on the inside, ACT LIKE IT! C'mon! You can do it! How do I know? Because God's Spirit is living inside of you, you are strong and you can do all things!

Be encouraged, and remember, in the sight of the Lord...
YOU ARE GODLY AND BEAUTIFUL!

(PICTURES COMING SOON!)