A report on the “God’s Love Changes”  things Tea Party.  We had 23 women and boy did we have some incredible fellowship!!  Seriously, no one wanted to leave and I love it that we can all come together from all over the state of Ohio and have an incredible time in the Lord!!  We also have beautiful decorations and as every woman came into the door, all they could say was WOW!  The thing people kept saying over and over again was how good it felt to feel like a little girl again or just to be a woman.

Louetta Morrill brought us a great teaching on how Jesus see us.  It’s not as we see ourselves.  He give us love, acceptance and see us as beautiful!  We had mirrors and looked into our eyes and looked to see how Jesus saw us.  We had little black stones that we wrote what Jesus see us as.  For example:  Redeemed, beloved, etc.  Wow!  Thanks Louetta for giving us an incredible teaching.  It really helped all of us to remind ourselves everytime we looked into the mirror that Jesus sees us as His!!  No matter who we are!!  Thanks Louetta.  We were blessed to have you teach on this very special subject!!

Kendra Beachy brought us special music and the songs were so relevant to what we were all dealing with.  The songs were so touching and a wonderful addition to the tea party.

Heather Evans brought great worship and it touched everyone as she sang “Oh, How He Loves Us” and boy does God love us!!!  Go to www.heatherevansmusic.com to check out her singer/song writer talent

Pam Waugh spoke on how we all have a veil over us until we can go to God and have Him take it away and of course there was the “wagon theory”!  Many realized we all have veils that keep us from the God who loves us!! 

Thanks to Kathy Bindas, Louetta Morrill, Heather Evans, Kendra Beachy, Amanda Morrill, Nikki Morris, Fran and Jean Potter, and Heather Dempsey for all you help!!  We couldn’t have done it without you!!

God’s Love Changes Things !

Do you feel you’re stuck in the trappings of life?  Do you feel things will never change?

Well, God’s love changes everything if you are willing to accept His love into your life and heart!

You are never the same once God’s love comes into your life.

We will be talking about how to get unstuck and walk into the loving arms of God!

This is a safe group where you can come and feel loved no matter where you have been in your life.

You will feel loved when you leave.

SERVING: Tea, dessert, and the love of God!

WORSHIP: From Singer/Songwriter Heather Evans  www.heatherevansmusic.com

WHAT: Tea Time, Worship, Teaching, Prayer Time and knowing you are loved!

PLEASE RSVP: ingodsarmsministries@yahoo.com or 614-562-0849 or on facebook!

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Pam Waugh

The Fusion tea party was a hit!  As girls walked in they were greeted and crown as a daughter of God and given a boa and told they were wrapped in God’s love.  It was wonderful to see as they came in they were taken off guard and not sure what to think as we greeted them with love and attention and then took pictures with their friends.  As the tea progress they you could see that they were experiencing the love of God through the fusion leaders talking to them, praying with them and more!

As Louetta spoke about the way Jesus see us, girls started to respond to the way Jesus sees them and they started to share who they felt they were in God.  One of the girls said that she felt worthless and unlovable, but she said as she heard Louetta’s story she started to realize she isn’t worthless and God loves her!  The girls wrote on a black stone what they were to Jesus and they were excited to take the rock home to remind themselves of who they were in Him!

Pam spoke on the wagon theory and how we need to go to God with our shame, guilt, abandonment, etc.  and how God wants us to cry out to Him with all things.  That he is our best friend and when we cry he cries too.  His longing is for us to come to Him with everything!  It was incredible to see how girls responded to the message as they realized the things they had been carrying on their wagon.  Leaders were able to pray for these girls and help them to see that they don’t have to carry things, but they can give them to God their Father!

Heather led worship and sand the song “Oh how he loves us”.  The girls worshipped their hearts out as they knew they were loved by God.  Heather then sang the song “Ordinary” which was a great song that talks about how Jesus see us as not ordinary but incredible!

Thanks to all who made this tea a success.  It was incredible how women came together to make this happen and sacrificed their time to send a whole weekend to help girls feel loved as God loves us!!

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Do you ever wonder sometimes why things happen?  Boy, I sure do!  There are times when you feel that if one more thing happened you were done, and then it happens. 

The Bible tells us that all things work together for good.  I don’t know about you, but when I get into a situation where I feel like things are coming in around me, that is sometimes the last thing I think of.  So, I decided that when trouble comes, to just say in my mind “all things work together for good” and know that even though I am here in this troubled place, it will work for good.  But there is another part of this verse that is important.  We are called according to His purpose.

Being called to God’s purpose means sometimes sacrificing our desires and wants, and surrendering to God’s purpose.  This is when we usually don’t like what is going on, when our purpose is being rerouted into God’s purpose.  Have you ever been on a trip and it’s a long one.  You are driving along listening to the music in your car, enjoying a peaceful ride, and you’re headed to the beach!  There’s nothing like that feeling of knowing you are headed off on vacation with no worried in the world and in about eight hours you will arrive to your destination hearing the seagulls flying over the ocean with the waves crashing on the sand.  There’s nothing like smelling the fresh sea water and feeling the breeze on your face.  Then all of a sudden you realize about an hour ago you took the wrong route and you are now going to have to go out of your way which will add at least two hours onto your trip!  Total frustration sets in.  You were so looking forward to being there at a certain time so that you could relax and enjoy, and now your plans have changed.

God’s purpose is not always the easiest, but He knows best!  When we relent to His calling and not ours it takes sacrifice, stamina and perseverance.  It’s not an easy road to travel, but it is the best road to travel.  It is what gives our life purpose.  To know that God almighty will use our lives and detour us so that He can use us is a great purpose!  We just have to know that whatever happens, it’s God’s work in us to get His will accomplished and that we are chosen people of God for Him to accomplish His will on this earth. 

In the midst of getting off the route you had planned, look around you.  Don’t miss it!  God has a plan for you being on the route for that moment.  Maybe someone needs encouragment and you’re lying in the hospital bed beside that person.  Maybe you lost your keys and you have to go looking for them in a restaurant where you left them.  Does God want you there for a reason?  Maybe you were late for work and you’re worried about getting repremanded.  Were you saved from getting into a wreck?  Remember that “all things work together for good for them who love God and are called according to His pupose!”  Know that whatever it is, God’s purpose is in it.  I look back now at all the pain I had as a child, but I wouldn’t change a thing.  I have found my purpose.  My experience of my pain has become has become power in other people’s live to see that they can also overcome and be victorious in their own lives.  I am thankful for the will of God in my life and His purpose to use me in every situation!  I try to be open to it wherever I go. 

Let me give you an example.  My husband and I frequent a local restaurant at least once a week.  We went to lunch to discuss business items and we were pretty frustrated that day and we just needed to talk it out, but God had other plans. We started to talk to our waitress and she was telling us that she was a mother of little ones working two jobs and trying to make it and how she felt hopeless.  We knew we had to be obedient to God and so proceeded to encourage her and uplift her and speak the words of life to her.  We really wanted time just to talk, but we knew we needed to take time for her instead.  We hadn’t been back for about a month and when she saw us, she ran over to us and told us how much she appreciated us coming in and talking to her.  She remembered exactly what we had to eat and drink and what we were wearing.  To us it wasn’t a big deal.  We thought about it and we realized that we were suppose to be frustrated that day so that we would decide to go to that restaurant to talk to that girl who needed to know the hope of God.  Did we really like it at the time, to be frustrated and deal with tough business issues.  No, not at all.  But did God need us for His purpose?  Yes, so he put frustration in our lives to meet that girl’s need, and boy did it feel good to know that God used us even in our frustration.  To know that God will use us because we are willing, not perfect, but just willing! 

I have had many times where I wondered what His purpose was when I was going through life’s struggles, but I know that He is my God and I must relinquish control to God.  It is not my life to lead, but God’s purpose!

Philippians 2:13
for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.

Ephesians 1:11
In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,

                “But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.” (James 1: 6-8)

                The above verse is on that I think really applies to the situation that I have placed myself in these past couple of weeks. Verse six talks about how when we ask God for something we must believe he will give it to us and not doubt him. That is where I first went wrong. I asked God to help me stay sober and to help me stay strong when things got rough. I asked him for joy and peace throughout my life; however, I doubted that he could give those things to me. I took back the power I gave God over my life and thought that I could do it better than He could. I began to take over my recovery and I pushed God to the side. I pushed away the people that God had given me, and turned towards the people that Satan wanted me to hang around with.

                Once I allowed this to happen I lost my protection from the evil things in the world and I had nothing to hold on to that would keep me afloat. I went back to the very things that had pulled me under before in hopes that the outcome would be different this time. However, as we all know it wasn’t and I began to drown. By letting go of God as my safety device I quickly realized I didn’t know how to swim and before I knew what happened I was taken under water. I let go of my morals and values once again. I let go of who I was in God and took back who I was in Satan. I pushed away the very people that loved and cared about me, and held on to the ones that only wanted to kill and destroy me. I let go of the light and ran back into the darkness.

                Verse seven talks about how we cannot expect God to give us anything once we doubt him. When I saw this in my own life I began to resent God even more because I was like “see he isn’t going to help me, I told you.” When in reality He had been helping me and I walked away from him. You can’t expect someone to continue to bless you when you have your back turned to them.

                Verse eight is my favorite and talks about how when we are double-minded we are unstable. This is my favorite because it gives me something to remind myself of what will happen if I continue in this way. When I became double-minded, saying one thing and doing another, I became very unstable. I began practicing the eating disorder again, I became depressed, and I lost interest in Christian music, and eventually relapsed on drugs. I began to do things that I wouldn’t normally do had I still placed God as my number on priority in life. Normally I’m a sweet caring child of God and when I got in my double-mindedness I became a mean and disrespectful human. I tried to hold the two personalities apart but you can only do that for so long before evil overtakes the good.

                “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. (James 4: 7-10)

                In order for me to live a righteous life I must first humble myself before the Lord and ask forgiveness. The amazing thing is that I serve a God that no matter what I do, or how many times I turn my back on him, He is always there with open arms when I return. When I begin to live a righteous life things fall back in place for me. The depression leaves, and I begin to place God as my number one. I can begin to manage life again, and it doesn’t seem like it’s managing me. I grow closer to God, and in the end become a better person. I regain my morals and values, and can better the positive relationships I have in my life. Once I begin to live a righteous life people begin to see the changes that I am making and I can regain their trust and respect. However the best thing that happens when I begin to live a righteous life is that I can finally look in the mirror and like the person I see starting back at me.

Over a year ago now my daughter became pregnant with our little grandson Trust Emmanuel.  Notice the name as it has great significance to his story just to survive.  My daughter found out she was pregnant and we were all elated, but a little nervous as she has lost her daughter Lilly before she was born.  Everything inside me wanted to scream all the things that might happen and that she would lose this baby too, but I decided that we had to speak “life” so that Heather would always walk in the goodness of God and not in the fear of losing this baby too.  She got past the critical three months and we felt pretty good until she became so ill from being pregnant.  They had to put her on medications they give to cancer patients which is one of the strongest medicines you can give someone.  Of course, she was afraid of many things with this medication.  The guilt started to set in as she worried that something might happen to her baby, but she was given no choice as they said she would not make it if she didn’t take it.  She was so ill she couldn’t lift her head off of the pillow.  We had to spoon feed her and she at one point could only eat sugary children’s cereal on piece at a time.

Did I feel pressed on every side?  Yes.  I was taking care of my daughter, working full time and emotionally stressed to the max!  Did I feel perplexed?  Yes.  I was wondering why she had to lose her first baby and then this was happening when she was a good kid, a believer of God, a force in God’s kingdom.  So this was when I had to make a choice to say to myself “Self! You are not crushed, you are not abandoned, you are not destroyed! God has a purpose for this!”  So I moved on doing what I needed to do, all the while going to the cross of Jesus and laying it down every single day!  Was that the end of the story?  Absolutely not.  As she got into her pregnancy around month seven she started to feel better and looked healthier until the last month as she started to have a lot of swelling.  She kept telling the doctors that she was light headed and didn’t feel right, but they kept telling her it was just pregnancy pains.  So she took it as that.

The delivery time came and she was laboring at a good rate, but she still didn’t feel right even in the delivery.  She felt she was going to pass out and they kept ignoring her.  We finally came to the point of delivery and the baby flat lined twice. There was no time for a c-section at this point so they decided to just pull the baby out.  I remember at that moment a darkness coming in as we knew things were not right.  In life, this is where you decided what you believe in and I knew I believed in the God who could rescue us so I started pacing and praying until they needed me to count and assist Heather.  I remember my son in law beside me who I could hear crying out to Jesus to help his baby be alright.  It was such a moment of terror when they said they couldn’t get the baby out.  I can remember Heather looking at me with terror in her eyes and them telling her that they were going to get the baby out no matter what!  I knew then things were not good, but God could deliver this baby!  After that the doctor pulled as hard as he could and the baby came out!  The cord was wrapped around his neck twice and he was black.  All I heard in the room was “Jesus please help my baby breathe, please help my baby breathe!”  and he did!!  What a joy that came into the room!!  Little Trust Emmanuel was born that day and we had to trust God all the way through. 

Now you would think this story is over.  Little Trust was born and we were able to go home, but there wasn’t a peace yet.  Heather still was not feeling well and I started to get a little worried the next day,  so we call the doctor who decided she needed to get blood as she had such a traumatic delivery.  So we took her to the hospital and they kept her for twenty four hours as they gave her the blood.  They sent her home and she of course still didn’t feel great because she had been through such a terrible delivery.  As the next day came she kept saying she had a horrible headache and she couldn’t breathe.  She would lay down and she was afraid she wasn’t going to wake up, so I called that doctor one more time and we were told to take her to the hospital.  At this point she was not doing well and when she got to the emergency room they started to do a lot of testing to make sure there wasn’t anything else going on.  They came back with the results and I almost fell of my chair.  They told us that she is close to having a stroke and she was in cardio pulmonary failure and that she may also have am embolism in the lung. 

At this moment did I feel hard pressed on every side?  Did I feel  perplexed?  Oh yes!  I was wondering how her little boy was going to be raised if he didn’t know his mother?  I was thinking of her husband who would have to deal with the loss of his wife and his son’s mother.  I was thinking of what it would be like not having my daughter here!  I was so scared and as I write this I still cry thinking about how that moment felt!  But in the midst of all of the fear I stepped out of Heather’s room for a moment to gain my composure and I remember thinking “God she was yours before you ever gave her to us and I know she is yours now.  You will be done.”  And that was it!  I knew it was in the hands of the almighty God!  There was nothing I could do but watch God work and he did!  Heather became better as the weeks went by and she is doing better.  She still has some residual effects that they are trying to figure out, but she is here being the incredible mother that she was destined to be!

God provided and worked in incredible ways. I can remember how people provided dinners, how my brother and sister in law came and watched Trust for a whole week as they worked from their computers while Heather was in the hospital.  How others came in and helped with him also to give them a break.  How people came and helped with anything we needed at that time.  It was amazing how God provided exactly what we needed when we needed it.  He was in control of all things at that time.  Yes, it might have been a trying situation, but everything worked together for good!  Everything was provided by God.  And the best thing of all?  We had to learn to trust Emmanuel as our little Trust Emmanuel was born!  I am thankful for my little Trust.  He is one of the greatest joys of my life. 

It was Easter day when my granddaughter Lilly was lost.  Yesterday my daughter did a cardboard confession in front of the youth group as she was holding little Trust in her arms.  On one side it said “on Easter two years ago I lost my baby” and the other side said “today I have Trust”. 

I am thankful for a God who loves us.  I am thankful for a God who cares.  Please know that whatever you are going through may be incredibly hard, but lean into God.  He is incredibly good!!

By the way, the picture posted is of our little Trust!  Isn’t he a cutie?

Written by: Pam Waugh

 “In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will” Ephesians 1:11  This verse is incredibly powerful because I feel a lot of us don’t carry out God’s plan in our lives due to fear and the unknown.  It takes faith to walk out into unknown territory, but you must believe if God has called you to do it, he will provide it.  As I minister to others, Satan tells me many times over that it can’t be done, that the mountain is too big to pass.  Sometimes I have almost believed it but it has been a learning time to test in myself whether I believe what God has said he was going to do.  I have to know that everything works out according to His purpose even when I may mess up, if I am willing to listen to Him first, so that His will can come to fruition!

In Galatians 4:18 it tells us “It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good”.  We must also be willing to put it all out there and not worry about what others may say.  We must always care about what God says.  That is walking in truth.  Those of you who know me, know that I get zealous when it comes to something God has told me to do.  I will go to the moon if I have to to get it done.  There are times when people have doubted why I’m doing something, and honestly I have also doubted why I was suppose to do something, but one thing I have learned is when God says it, do it!  You don’t have to know why, we just need to be obedient!  It is for His good and perfect purpose.

I remember when I had the idea to start doing tea parties for women.  God gave me this incredible vision of what it needed to be and it was over the top.  It was pink everywhere, twinkly lights, fine china and the whole shebang!  Well meaning people started to tell me that it wasn’t possible to do all of that.  I would look them in the eye and ask “Why not?”  They had no answer but to say that it would be too much effort and it would be too hard, etc. etc. etc.!  I would tell them, “I know what you’re say but God told me I am suppose to do it this way.”  As I kept going towards this vision and started then to carry it out, I saw exactly why God wanted me to do it that way.  The eyes of the women who came would light up as soon as they walked into the room.  They would for the first time in a long time, feel like a little girl, loved by God and women would just break down crying.  God’s purpose had been carried out just by the decorating, let alone anything else!

You see, that is the problem with most of us.  We find the reason why NOT to walk into our purpose instead of finding the reason to push through the thought of impossibility and just doing it!  We see the obstacles instead of the power in what God tells us or puts in our heart.  We must follow our heart above all else and then God works it all out as the verse above tells us!  Philippians 2:13 says “For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.”  The key to this verse is “works in you”!  Without you it can’t get done, but he can choose to use someone else!  The key is, he sees what you have and wants to use YOU!  You have the gifting, personality, the vision, the heart that he gave you specifically for His purpose.  So don’t be just a sayer but be a doer!!

“For many are invited, but few are chosen.”  Matthew 22:14

By Pam Waugh

Founder In God’s Ministries

There are times when we all get into the mode of being tired and wanting to just say “forget it all.  I just can’t do it anymore.”  Isaiah 40:29 says “He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.”  I love this verse.  It reminds me that whenever you start to feel weary or weak, because the world is beating you up, to turn to God because he is the only power you have!  So I decided, I was not going to give into my circumstances, I was not going to get discouraged, I was going to go in power as I walk the life and purpose God has given me.

My husband and I really warred this week.  In the last three weeks we lost several thousands of dollars in accounts for our business, our daughter has been very ill, and we were feeling the pressure of helping someone we love dearly not destroy themselves because of what others had done to her.  It was a week of all weeks!  But we knew what we had been called to do.  To believe in the power of God, not in earthly things like our finances, our health, fear that someone might not make it.  We chose to believe that our God gives us the power to walk through whatever we need, to set the captives free!  Did I have a pity party?  Absolutely!  Did I get discouraged and afraid?  Oh yes!  I was up all night worrying and fearful.  I was worried about the girl who was destroying herself and I didn’t know what to do for her.  But then I chose to listen to God and not the enemy!  I decided to walk in the power of my weakness so that God could work His will through me!  I am amazed how God worked when we did this!  We refused to give up on this girl who needed our help and we refused to let Satan convince us that God would not take care of us!!

The same day we lost the accounts and I was discouraged and felt incredibly overwhelmed, I had to meet with my dear friend.  We meet weekly and talk about how God is working in our lives and then we challenge each other in our thinking to become more like Christ.  My friend has been working diligently on becoming more like Christ in her marriage, her speech and every aspect of her life.  And Satan knows that and she explained how she gets discouraged because she felt the more she becomes more like Christ the more Satan pushes back.  She was telling me about how she was being attacked at work.  I told her to not be discouraged because she did all the right things and God knew her heart about the whole subject.  Well, the next day, she was attacked again and blamed for something that she didn’t do.  It all worked out, but she became very discouraged one more time.  That day she was suppose to meet with the girl I love so much who was also destroying herself and I knew she wasn’t going to feel like doing it after dealing with what she had dealt with that day, but she was obedient and did it anyway. I prayed as they met not know how it would go.   This girl had been really struggling and I knew my friend had the exact same story that this girl had.  I really needed her to talk to her!  I was afraid she might be distracted by Satan’s ploy to destroy, but she didn’t allow it.  You see, as the girl she was going to talk to, she had been destroyed as a child in many ways.  She then proceeded to destroy herself because of the horrible explicable things that had happened to her with drugs, alcohol, eating disorder, cigarettes, depression and the list goes on!  Satan knew this girl would hear what she had to say!  Well, the girl heard and she was set free.  Her life was changed in the blink of an eye!  My friend did not listen to Satan coming against her one more time, but she found power in her weakness!

What if my friend had gotten distracted with her circumstances?  What if she let fear and frustration take over?  A life would not have been saved and she would have missed the blessing!  She was elated to hear what the outcome was and the other stuff of the day didn’t even matter any more!

Do you feel you react too much to your circumstances instead of standing on the promises of God?  Stand firm!  Don’t let it move you!  Be honest with yourself and know that you are weak.  That is when you need to go to God and get the power that He has!  The closer you get to Him, the more powerful you become in your life!  Your life changes others lives because they see hope they have never seen before!  They see the love of God as never before.  I challenge you to stand firm and not give into the enemy’s schemes, but into the power of the almighty God!!

Namaan was a commander of the army of the king of Aram.  He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram.  He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy” (2 Kings 5:1), the bible tells us.

Namaan knew that the leprosy would one day take his life, but until then he would become an outcast in society living on the outside of the towns in caves.  His power could do nothing to save him, his worldly possessions and everything he had built in his life could do nothing for him.  Namaan had heard from a servant girl from Israel that there was a prophet who could cure his leprosy, so Namaan’s master told him to go to the king of Israel and sent him with a letter saying “I am sending my servant Naaman to you so that you may cure him of his leprosy”.  He also sent along with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold and ten sets of clothing.  The king was upset because he was not God.  He could not raise people from the dead and felt he was trying to pick a quarrel with him.

Elisha the man of God heard about this and told the king to have Namaan come to him.  So Namaan went to Elisha’s house and Elisha sent a message to tell him, “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.”  But Namaan became very angry!

I feel this part is pivotal in his life, but also in ours.  How many times have we prayed and asked God to heal us or to help us, but we only want it how we think it should be?  We don’t want it to be hard, but easy.  We don’t want it to be complicated, we want it simple.  We don’t want to dig deep inside, we want to stay at the surface and once again we don’t hear what God wanted us to do, and nothing happens because we feel we are different.  Now you may wonder why in the world was Namaan angry?  Here is what the Bible says about that in 2 Kings 5:11-12 “But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that we would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy.  Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than any of the waters of Israel?  Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?”  So he turned and went off in a rage.

At that point Namaan wanted t to dictate to God how things should go. I mean, he was the leader of a powerful army and he was greatly respected!  It was going to take more effort to travel to a distant land that to go to the rivers that were close, the rivers that were familiar territory.  As we trudge through life, we like the familiar.  We like to stay where it’s comfortable instead of traveling to a distant land where things are not familiar.  Even though God has the best for us there, we refuse to travel it because we want the easy road.  If we travel the easy road, God doesn’t need to guide our way.  We don’t need his guidance because we already know the territory, but when we go to the distant land, we have to have God guiding our way because it is new territory.  It becomes unfamiliar and we have to ask for direction.  This is where God wants us, asking for directions from him in all aspects of our lives.  He wants us in new territory everyday so that we are growing and depending fully on Him!  Not on the familiar things around us which make us self sufficient and not needing God at all in that land.

Well, finally Namaan’s servants came to him and talked some sense into him telling him that he was being prideful to not listen to God and he finally did it God’s way and he was healed.  God healed him to a point of having the skin of a young boy! 

God’s way is always the best way when we are willing to listen and do as we are told.  His way is healing and restoring, but we must be able to listen and obey.  To not let our pride rear up in us and say how we want it.  He is God and He knows what is best.  Our disobedience can keep us from the best things in life. 

I challenge you to travel to the far and distant land where you will find God the most, where you will have to depend on Him for every single turn.  You will know him like you have never known Him when you get done with your journey and you will want to go on more trips with Him!  I guarantee it!!

 A report on the “God’s Love Changes”  things Tea Party.  We had 23 women and boy did we have some incredible fellowship!!  Seriously, no one wanted to leave and I love it that we can all come together from all over the state of Ohio and have an incredible time in the Lord!!  We also have beautiful decorations and as every woman came into the door, all they could say was WOW!  The thing people kept saying over and over again was how good it felt to feel like a little girl again or just to be a woman.

Louetta Morrill brought us a great teaching on how Jesus see us.  It’s not as we see ourselves.  He give us love, acceptance and see us as beautiful!  We had mirrors and looked into our eyes and looked to see how Jesus saw us.  We had little black stones that we wrote what Jesus see us as.  For example:  Redeemed, beloved, etc.  Wow!  Thanks Louetta for giving us an incredible teaching.  It really helped all of us to remind ourselves everytime we looked into the mirror that Jesus sees us as His!!  No matter who we are!!  Thanks Louetta.  We were blessed to have you teach on this very special subject!!

Kendra Beachy brought us special music and the songs were so relevant to what we were all dealing with.  The songs were so touching and a wonderful addition to the tea party.

Heather Evans brought great worship and it touched everyone as she sang “Oh, How He Loves Us” and boy does God love us!!!  Go to www.heatherevansmusic.com to check out her singer/song writer talent

Pam Waugh spoke on how we all have a veil over us until we can go to God and have Him take it away and of course there was the “wagon theory”!  Many realized we all have veils that keep us from the God who loves us!! 

Thanks to Kathy Bindas, Louetta Morrill, Heather Evans, Kendra Beachy, Amanda Morrill, Nikki Morris, Fran and Jean Potter, and Heather Dempsey for all you help!!  We couldn’t have done it without you!!

God’s Love Changes Things !

Do you feel you’re stuck in the trappings of life?  Do you feel things will never change?

Well, God’s love changes everything if you are willing to accept His love into your life and heart!

You are never the same once God’s love comes into your life.

We will be talking about how to get unstuck and walk into the loving arms of God!

This is a safe group where you can come and feel loved no matter where you have been in your life.

You will feel loved when you leave.

SERVING: Tea, dessert, and the love of God!

WORSHIP: From Singer/Songwriter Heather Evans  www.heatherevansmusic.com

WHAT: Tea Time, Worship, Teaching, Prayer Time and knowing you are loved!

PLEASE RSVP: ingodsarmsministries@yahoo.com or 614-562-0849 or on facebook!

www.ingodsarmsministries.com

Pam Waugh

There are times that we see this as a burden, not having time or patience.  Maybe we feel we are not called to mentor or feel inadequate.  It’s a funny thing how God puts those things out there for us and we don’t feel we can do it.  Maybe we aren’t smart enough, or we don’t feel we have enough experience and the excuses become more and more numerous.  Well, I can say that as a young woman I truly desired someone who would have taken me under their wing and guided me, encouraged me and made me feel that I was loved by them in some way.

I have found that I just automatically mentor.  It is in my make up.  I don’t mean to do it.  It just happens and I have found that I get blessed more than the people that I mentor.  They bless me so much in return, it’s crazy! 

There are so many people out there feeling all alone in this world.  Feeling that no one cares and most of the time no one does.  It’s sad that we can even go to church and feel alone and unloved.  Feel like if we left the room not a single person would notice or care. 

We have believers must know that we are a vessel full of uses.  Maybe a kind word or a kind action could change the life of one person.  If so, then it’s all worth it.  Maybe helping someone with their groceries or helping a young mother who is struggling and just needs an encouraging word.  Or maybe someone is lonely because they are newly divorced and they have nowhere to turn and feel like life is done.  We have no clue what the needs of others are, but we have God who speaks to us to say something or do something and we just ignore it.  Afraid that we will embarrass ourselves or maybe intrude, but when we have something good to give, like a kind word for example, then we wasted an opportunity.  Who knows, maybe it’s just a time to encourage someone, or maybe it’s a life changing moment.

One day I was out cleaning a building with my husband and we realized we didn’t have our keys to get into the building.  Well, at that moment a girl came into the parking lot that we knew, and we knew she had a key to let us in.  We told her how excited we were to see her because we had forgotten our keys and she was gracious as always as she is an incredibly sweet person.  We got to talking, and realized she seemed a little down and God kept telling me to pray for her.  I was thinking, oh man, that’s just awkward and I don’t know if I should.  God kept prompting me and I thought “well, what can I lose?” so I boldly stepped out and asked her if I could pray for her.  She looked at me with big brown eyes and said “Oh yes!”.  I was struck by her response because it was as if she was relieved.  As we prayed, tears started to stream down her face and God started moving in her heart, and as we finished up, she opened her eyes and said “tonight I was going home and I was going to end my life, but now I know this is not what I was supposed to do.  I was supposed to be here at this moment and time. Thank you”

When we were done, thoughts ran through my mind.  What if I hadn’t prayed for her?  What if I hadn’t been obedient and ignored the prompting of God?  I am thankful to be a vessel that God pours out of.  Does God pour out of you?  Do you allow Him to pour or do you sit still just getting your vessel filled up?  I challenge you to let God pour out of you the good things to help others!  I challenge you to look around and find the lonely and give them hope!  I challenge you to see the mother who feels they are a failure and encourage them.  I challenge you, but most of all, God challenges you everyday!  Are you willing to let Him pour?

By Pam Waugh