We so often miss out on God’s best because we long (or others long for us) to be at a different place in life. Whatever our status (single, married, parent, widowed, divorced), this is the day that the Lord has made. Only when we are “fully present” in this day will we experience joy and gladness. Join us for a five week series on relationships.

The solution to the fears and concerns and anxiety that all of us face in life is to fear the Lord. We are to fight fear with fear. The fear of the Lord is the thing that sets us free from the fears of our lives: death, poverty, future, divorce, weight issues, intimacy whatever it is that we fear. And fearing God is simply saying yes to God because of who He is inspite of what He requires.

Hear many examples, many of them personal, of how each of us have “something big” that overshadows our daily lives and influences our actions and relationships. These big somethings can include illness, divorce, afflictions, addictions, etc. Hear an analogy between our overshadowing “big something” to the “mat” with which Jesus exhorted the blind man in John, Chapter 5 to “pick up and walk”. We all have a mat, that we carry but the good news is that God will always provide an escape and He has already provided us a Savior to help us carry the burden. It’s important to share our stories because God will use us to comfort and heal others.