Our God is good, I can prove it!

This past weekend I had the privilege to spend time with about 50 of my brothers and sisters witnessing God's mercy, grace, and goodness.

The focus of our retreat was Romans 12:1-2:

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God - this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of you mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will. (NIV)

A whole weekend devoted to learning about God's mercy, what it means to be a living sacrifice and spiritual transformations. Let me just start out by praising God for having everything come together for the retreat and everyone who had their hands in on it. Before even getting to the retreat God was working in us a message to be shared.

I won't share much from the actual sessions but some of the applications I have for myself coming off the retreat are to:
 - cancel cable, DONE
 - create a life map
 - ask the Holy Spirit to help in keeping God's mercy a focus for me
 - follow through on Quiet Time schedule
 - figure out where my Time, Money and Strength are going vs. where they should be going
 - filter what I allow penetrate my mind.'

There's so much I need to be working on and slowly but surely, with God's grace and mercy, I'll get it.

In Christ,
Julie