Praise Series

I got this idea in my head yesterday to start a praise series here on the blog. This is going to be good for me because I am trying to truly find my way back to total praise. I lost it after a very deep depression took me to mind set that made me angry, bitter, and always feeling like the victim.

God has sent delivered and set me free, but there are areas that LaTara needs to lay hold to once again. Total praise is one of those ways.

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Let me tell you God is so good.

This weekend we finally found a church home. When I first came to Chicago, I knew I was going to have to adjust to going to church on Saturday and prayed God's favor over it and sat back to watch the action.

It was a hard adjustment and I had to really understand where my husband was coming from. Well, I got it by researching, looking at some historical facts, and listening to God.

After visiting many churches with too many cliques, and cliques within cliques, legalistic and church law issues, I was just ready to give up. A lot of what my husband did on Sabbath, he did out of his love for God but I was dishearten by the attitudes and reactions of some if not the majority of the members, that I would often times stay home. I felt like I was letting my husband down and that I was causing him to miss a blessing due to my lack of cooperation.

We would get involved with a church and then they would snatch the rug right out from under us. It was so ugly at times that I could sense evil in the middle of a service. It was a mess and I was just ready to give up and continue on at home as I had been doing for time now. Just God, me, and my family.

Well yesterday he took me to a church about 2 hours away and I could feel God's presence from the parking lot to the pews. Afterward we went to the Elder's house and there was yet another sweet spirit. I was in tears, privately thanking God as I watched my all of family be relaxed for the first time in four years and I was even able to close my eyes for a brief catnap. I wasn't worried about anything that someone was doing or saying around me.

That night after we sang and prayed I thanked the Elder and told him that for the first time in four years I enjoyed myself and felt the Spirit of God with me all day. That was important for me because my former church home back home in Los Angles is all about being real and making others feel welcomed. My former pastor was not about Church doctrine, laws, and all that other man directed stuff, He was all about God, His Word, salvation, and the move of the Holy Spirit.

With all that said, we are joining the church next week.

PRAISE GOD from WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW!

Never give up believing that He will because I am a witness. HE WILL!


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