"UNSETTLE ME"

HELLO GIRLS!

We have almost made it through the book. Wow! I am so proud of you all for your participation, committment and honesty. Love, love, love you all.

This Wednesday we are going to take on Chapter 16 & 17 and we will end up next week with 18 & 19 and then on August 3rd have a big celebration with a special guest speaker! I hope to see us all finish strong and not only finish but go on to walk in all that we have learned.

I'll just have to be honest with you that in chapter 17 when she started talking about the "unsettle me" thing, I just kind of skimmed over that you know. That is just not something I really wanted to read about it and the funny thing is that she just seemed to pray that prayer like it was so exciting!!! Beth and I were talking today and she said "yeah and it seems like those are the kind of prayers God really answers"! Ha! Well...the meaning of that word "unsettle" means to distrub, disconcert, fluster, bother. I don't know about you but not exactly what I like happening to me. I can feel myself getting all worked up about it now. However girls, it is so necessary. It's like the Mama Bird when it is time for the baby to fly, we all know the story, she just can't let him sit there, she has to start making him uncomfortable, pushing him out and all. Seems unfair, seems mean, "how could a mama do that to her baby". Well the reason she can do it is because she knows what all he is missing out on and what he will never get to do unless he is "unsettled". God wants us to FLY, SOAR! He doesn't want anything holding us back and even as we have studied, He doesn't want anything between us and him and that is why the "unsettling" is necessary, beneficial and you know what SO EMPOWERING! Sure your going to be uncomfortable, maybe embarrassed and even in pain but oh the glory, oh what we gain.....Him, our Savior, the Lover of our Soul!

Think about it....pray it with me "Yes, indeed, unsettle me, Lord." And then as Lysa said in the book "Welcome deeper love, new possibilities, unleashed intimacy, and the certaintly I am held."

Blessings Overtake You Today!
Marty