I wanted to share this with you guys. As I've said before, God has been working hard in our lives since I got pregnant with Annalise. Last night (or this morning...not sure), I just woke up and the very first thing on my mind was about joining the church and getting baptized. Keith and I are both saved but have never been baptized. I grew up Baptist as did he, and personally, the thought of being in front of the entire congregation and getting "dunked" scared me and I've just always put it off. Now that we are attending a Methodist church, the idea of getting baptized is something that I've been wanting to do since you don't get submerged. So anyways, after I woke up and had that on my mind, I went back to sleep. I woke up at my normal time and jumped in the shower and my morning tradition followed and I grabbed my phone to check emails and Facebook. I received an email from Mike, the associate pastor at FUMC, just checking on us and telling us how much he's enjoyed having us at church and how he'd love to talk to us about officially joining. I literally got chills. The only other time in my life where I was completely certain that God was speaking to me was when we had decided to wait before having a D&C when Annalise was only a sac. Thank you Jesus we waited. So I immediately emailed Mike back and told him about waking up and how it was a total God thing and this was his response:
"Yes, it is a God thing. Of that I am certain. I saw you yesterday afternoon parked at the church. I was running late so I didn't stop to talk. All evening I kept having a feeling that I was to talk with you. This morning during my prayer time, I knew what I was to ask. God is good. Yes, I am preaching the next two Sundays. Would gladly receive you into membership at the end of either of those services or you can wait for a while. My question is why wait? Welcome home."
Pretty amazing, huh?
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