A couple weekends ago, I attended our Women's Retreat. What a wonderful experience; one I will never forget. All the presenters were wonderful.
What got me the most was what I experienced there and since I have been home. This Retreat was a Deliverance Retreat and I expecting deliverance. I wasn't going for any other reason. I have been dealing with life and all it's issues. like everyone else, and I had had enough. I was ready to burst!! I needed to get there and I needed the deliverance that was there.
I had been to retreats in the past. experienced that "high" feeling while there but lost it by the time Monday morning rolled around. But, not this time. This was different.
The Lord has been with me and dealing with this part of my life since I stepped onto the ground at the Retreat. There are things that were bothering me so much that I was experiencing chest pressure (and that was from just working with the Christians!!). I'm not sure why we can't just go to church, worship and praise the Lord and love each other as we are supposed to do. Church does not look like church anymore - it's looks like a corporation with people acting like those in the world who are not yet saved. This has been a tremendously stressful part of my life. So, I knew that this had to be dealt with but could only be dealt with if I allowed the Lord to clear it up for me. I'm so happy to say He has.
Deliverance is freeing. Deliverance is peaceful. Deliverance is refreshing. Deliverance makes you happy. Deliverance removes the stress. Deliverance helps you see clearer. Those things or individuals who were causing me so much pain, don't have that position anymore. The Lord has delivered me from that. How FREEING!!!
Learning about how the Holy Spirit works (we always think we already know everything about Him) was just one of the great blessings I received at the Retreat. The Holy Spirit is always with me and is here for me. I have had more conversations with Him since the Retreat than I probably did prior to the Retreat. Sometimes we just need to get away with some sisters (or brothers if you are a man), take the Holy Spirit with you, just be so happy to be with those you are with, learn to love them unconditionally and receive all the blessings that come with that process. How wonderful I have been feeling.
I am speaking positive things over my life, not negative things. I am speaking with expectation, not defeat. I am walking with the Holy Spirit, not the enemy. Deliverance is a wonderful thing that has happened in my life. I look forward to all the other things the Lord will be doing with me and my life.
