Comments on: the good, the bad, and the ugly {desperate for grace} https://tooverflowing.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-desperate-for-grace/ teaching women to think on true things Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: laurenwlutz https://tooverflowing.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-desperate-for-grace/#comment-2590 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:51:00 +0000 http://ToOverflowing.com/?p=6974#comment-2590 I was baptized and confirmed in a church when I was 10, and that event held a tremendous amount of spiritual significance/emotional attachment for me. When I married my husband, I was kind of marrying into a denomination, too, seeing that he was ordained as a pastor a few months after we got married. The church we came to serve in (where he was youth pastor at the time) required baptism by immersion for membership – which I had not had. I fought it. I’d already had a believer’s baptism, and you know – the principle of the thing!

Then the Lord convicted me that it was time. Time to unite with this family. The theology of the whole thing is not what’s so important to me now. Just that He was leading.

My husband stood in the baptistry, and I sat on the edge behind the archway window, waiting for him to share with the congregation my story.

In that moment, I sort of had a outside-of-time moment in which He showed me how far I had – or hadn’t – come in more than a decade of sanctifying life. So with my eyes a little wider, I breathed in two lungs full of grace. And it felt really good.

]]> By: Amy Miller https://tooverflowing.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-desperate-for-grace/#comment-2589 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:46:00 +0000 http://ToOverflowing.com/?p=6974#comment-2589 I am so thankful to see you blogging again. You are so real and such an inspiration to me. God has overwhelmed me so lately to stop concentrating on “Everything” and to relax, to breath and to allow him to concentrate for me.

]]> By: Beth Jennings https://tooverflowing.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-desperate-for-grace/#comment-2588 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:18:00 +0000 http://ToOverflowing.com/?p=6974#comment-2588 Scars are usually where you find the most beauty.

]]> By: Julie C https://tooverflowing.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-desperate-for-grace/#comment-2587 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:54:00 +0000 http://ToOverflowing.com/?p=6974#comment-2587 Amazing how closed doors filled in with grace turn into the most beautiful things! Two years ago God closed a door that broke me. He used your book to show me how to fill up with his word. His word is the daily grace that overwhelms me. Still have no idea where he is leading, where this path is going – to radical change or simply faith in plodding out the same course. Your words are so often the light I need. I am thankful for the light you shine. I love your words. And you.

]]> By: StefanieYoungBrown https://tooverflowing.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-desperate-for-grace/#comment-2585 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:07:00 +0000 http://ToOverflowing.com/?p=6974#comment-2585 Thank you, thank you, thank you for ALWAYS being crystal clear, choosing to live transparently in an often cloudy place. He continues to use your words ~ spoken, written, or rapped ~ to penetrate and inspire my heart.

]]> By: Lara Gibson Williams https://tooverflowing.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-desperate-for-grace/#comment-2583 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:49:00 +0000 http://ToOverflowing.com/?p=6974#comment-2583 In reply to HisFireFly.

“Will not allow me to be quiet.” I totally get that. Totally. Praying many blessings over you as you walk out that call, my friend.

]]> By: Lara Gibson Williams https://tooverflowing.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-desperate-for-grace/#comment-2584 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:49:00 +0000 http://ToOverflowing.com/?p=6974#comment-2584 In reply to Jennifer Surprenant.

🙂

]]> By: Lara Gibson Williams https://tooverflowing.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-desperate-for-grace/#comment-2582 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:47:00 +0000 http://ToOverflowing.com/?p=6974#comment-2582 In reply to Margie.

We’re all in process. Me. You. Those coworkers. All of us — so needy for Jesus. Praying His Spirit stirs in you today, friend, empowering you to be light even in a dark place. Much love!

]]> By: Lara Gibson Williams https://tooverflowing.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-desperate-for-grace/#comment-2581 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:43:00 +0000 http://ToOverflowing.com/?p=6974#comment-2581 In reply to Kara osborne.

We are all so needy for grace. So needy. Bless you, sister.

]]> By: HisFireFly https://tooverflowing.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-desperate-for-grace/#comment-2580 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:10:00 +0000 http://ToOverflowing.com/?p=6974#comment-2580 ” declare on the rooftops what He speaks in the closet”
I know that call, it beats in my blood, burns in my spirit, will not allow me to remain silent

love this, love you

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