My Rock....

A few Sunday's ago Pastor Ken preached an awesome sermon, I've included it in this post so all you have to do is click on it and you can hear it.  I won't go into detail because I won't do it justice.  But what it came down to is "as for me and my house we will serve the Lord".  He gave us an opportunity to go get a rock from the back and write our name on it and put it at the alter.  By writing our name on a rock and putting it on the alter, meant as for me and my house we will serve the Lord.  But it also meant many other things, for example, putting aside idols, making relationships right, turning from sin in your life and those are just a few examples.  Please listen to Pastor's Ken's full message, as it truly was a great message.  As I walked to the back and got my rock, I wrote my name on it and began to walk to the alter.  I discovered the rock was rather dirty, I began to brush it off, to make it clean.  This immediately made me thing of myself!  I am dirty, unclean, full of sin and yet, Jesus brushes me of and makes me white as snow.  Pure.  White as snow.  Clean and pure before His eyes.  Because I have confessed of my sins, I am pure and clean in His eyes, I am His pure Bride.  How can you not be humbled by that thought????   *side note....this was something I struggled with for a number of years because of being divorce and other things since then, but through my Grace counseling with Wendy & Donna, Wendy made me realize what I referred to above and it was so freeing!!!!*  So for me my rock stands for Christ.  I live day to day, sometime moment by moment with the chronic migraine pain that I suffer from (and I will share more about that later in this post) but God is my rock.  He is my firm foundation.  I took a picture of my rock, it's a bit blurry, I apologize...but I wanted to show you my rock.  Not to boost, but to be held accountable.  I placed my rock to say, I'm going God's way, even when the times are hard, even when the pain is awful and unbearable, I'm going God'a way.

Then here is a picture of all the rocks. I wanted you to be able to see the full view.  God moved in the hearts of many lives that day.  And through the series they are staying there, so each week we see them as a reminder!  Amen to that!!!!

So please, before you go any further in this post, if you were not at the service, please listen to Pastor Ken's message below, because I so did not do justice in explaining what he shared!

FULL SERVICE - NOV 6, 2016 from HARVEST BIBLE CHAPEL- West Olive on Vimeo.

My rock as I mentioned is Christ.  It also includes the ups and downs in life, my health, my day to day walk with the Lord.  So many things.  But one thing remains the same, I'm going God's way.  So in regards to my health.  I know God has a plan.  I know that God can heal me in regards to my migraines.  I went in yesterday for my every 3 month Botox treatment with my Neurologist, which I really like and I feel is very good at what he does.  I had been in a tremendous amount of pain leading up to this appointment, so my whole entire head was hurting.  Normally I'm not phased my the Botox treatments, which is about 30-some injections in my head and neck.  But yesterday it was extremely painful, I think because I was in so much pain already.  He talked to me about how we are at the end of the road when it comes to options of preventative migraine medications.  I am currently still taking one, and he made some adjustments to that, so we will give it a few weeks to see how that goes, if no improvement, then I will wean off of that one, which means I will be taking no migraine preventatives.  Which I am fine with, because they have not been helping to decrease the migraines and the side effects have not been easy to deal with.  He has a doctor joining his team that does Biofeedback in January and would like me to see that provider as soon as he joins the team.  Other than that, he had to change the medication that I take when the pain spikes, not that it helped.  So we are trying something else, however insurance is trying to fight it.  It's all a never ending battle.  My Neurologist also mentioned some "exciting" new things coming down the pipeline for migraines but in 1-2 years.  I can't fathom waiting that long, living like this.  I am still on the waiting list for UofM, but if there treatment plan is anything like the hospitalization treatment plan I just went through I will not put myself through that again!  So again, I take life one day at a time and pray.  It's in God's hands, He is the ultimate Physician and I know that He can heal me.  I will continue to trust in Him and His love and faithfulness.  I will be honest, I'm human and on the really bad days like yesterday, when the tears are flowing from pain, I just cry our Lord, please show yourself to me.  And that's when I rely on my prayer warriors the most and you faithful pray and I'm so thankful for each and every one of you!!!!  For God is good and He is faithful!!!

And if you know much about me, you know how much God speaks to me through music, so I'm ending with this song!  It's a great one!  I know He hold my life, my future in His hands!!!!  And I'm SO thankful for that, I wouldn't want to be in anyone else's hands!!!  I'm going God's way.  AMEN!!!!