I can recall 17 years ago when my daughter was still a toddler, and the internet was in it’s infancy, I’d be stting at my desk praying for women in an AOL chat room, leading strangers through the prayer of salvation on Instant Message, and having frustrating theological conversations with a lot of very confused people.
As the internet grew in popularity, and email began to replace snail mail as well as the telephone, my Outlook inbox became a place for prayer requests. Although I never really saw it as ministry, I frequently found myself administering prayer and encouragement via email which traveled across state lines, time zones, and oceans.
Little did I know, those early days would be the building blocks of something I hadn’t even imagined or dreamed of – a women’s ministry largely based via the internet using today’s modern technology.
Several weeks ago Remade Ministries launched A Drop Of Encouragement. Now, people all over the United States receive a 120 character text or email of encouragement every day! And, next week Remade Ministries rolls out their inaugural online women’s study.
In my bedroom this morning, I laid flat on my back and flipped through the pages of a stack of journals. Prayers, sermons, stories, cries of my heart, and promises from God filled the pages of those notebooks! I road a wave of emotions reading old prayers which have now been answered, and recognized familiar cries still waiting for the Lord’s intervention and perfect timing.
As I thumbed through a 2006 journal, I stumbled upon a page which I had scribbled promises for my husband, my children, and for me. On that page was written how God would use me when I least expected it, how my reach would be limitless, and how God has a plan to take the trails of my life and use them for the benefit of others.
As I read those written words, knowing at that time Remade wasn’t even a vision or a dream, I realized I was reading the prophetic word of what I was walking in today!
I smile at what I read today in my journal, as Remade launches our first online study with 29 brave women across the United States. Our first study Alone In Marriage is so obviously hand picked by God.
As a military wife for 23 years, I experienced more than my share of isolation and being alone. Being with my husband for the past 27 years, I have worried along side him when he faced unemployment. I silently struggled as he withdrew because of depression, and I stood conflicted between fear and faith as he battled cancer.
Although at the time it was impossible to see, little did I know God was planning all along to make use of what seemed to be such useless suffering!
2 Corinthians 1:4 says
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That word comfort means: To exhort or encourage. To be able to make a call from being up close and personal. To offer up evidence that would stand…
Sisters, everything you’ve done, even the seemingly insignificant things, God will use to fulfill His purpose on the earth. Let me offer these stories up as evidence. Whatever the struggles and pain you are working through at this very moment, they have purpose! And as ugly and wretched as you may feel, or as dark a place and lost as you might be, God has every intention to use it to bring beauty, hope, and redemption to another as they hear how God equipped YOU to OVERCOME!
I hope this blog comforts you! I hope the stories of my past and the hopefulness I have for the future will be a testament to God’s faithfulness in all things.
His Name Is Faithful
