Holy, Holy is our God Almighty!

What a busy week last week and busy weekend! My family and I had been hit with the flu. Ugh! We seem to always catch that at least twice through the year. Certainly pauses our busy life and everything piles up. But everyone seems to be better, thankfully. This weekend, we all managed to get caught up on our rest. Thank you, Lord, for those restful Sundays!
Last night, my fiance and I went to an evening service at the Assembly of God in Bedford. What a big church! I used to go to a small, country church, with about 50 people. This place was enormous! The sanctuary alone was probably the size of my old church or bigger. I had went to a Wednesday night service at this church last summer with my soon to be sister-in-law and her children and loved it. I loved it even more last night. The worship was amazing! They had an awesome praise team, although the songs they sang were familiar, stuff I hear on K-LOVE everyday, and you could sing along with them, so it wasn't just them doing the praising and us listening. We were actually praising with them. The message was great- we talked about Fruit of the Spirit from Galations 5 and discussed peace with God, peace of God and peace on earth and I learned a lot and took a lot of notes of course. My favorite part was the end- not because it was over, but how they ended it- cause they didn't formally end it- the pastor prayed and then the praise team began singing some amazing praises and you could stay and worship and pray and then leave when you want to. Some people went up to the altar, some bowed in their pew and some stood and prayed and some stayed in their pews. How incredible! Arnold and I prayed and then just sat and worshipped the Lord together. It was so encouraging to go to a church with such joyful praise and worship! I have missed that so much! Even though I've always gone to church, our praise and worship just didn't seem to be right, sad to say. I believe that the Lord deserves and wants our best in all areas, especially with how we praise and worship Him. I would sometimes do my main praising in the car on the way to work or somewhere- I'd turn on 91.5 or 97.3 -K-LOVE and start singing along and sometimes end up with my hands raised in worship, then the car would swerve, so I'd have to take them down, but my heart was sure there! I remember one night, my sister Katie, and I were coming home from town together and we had a FAST and POWERFUL Newsboys song BLARING in the car- and boy, were we praising. Katie is so energetic and she uses her energy for the Lord and she inspires me to be more alive and upbeat when I praise God. She's not afraid to go into a church, raise her hands, jump up and down for the Lord. :) Praise and worship is so important and SO good for the soul! I aim to do so much more of it!
HOLY, HOLY, IS OUR GOD ALMIGHTY
HOLY, HOLY IS HIS NAME ALONE!!!