The women of Nueva Vida Midway
& New Life Berwyn have recently returned from a Bilingual Women’s Retreat.
It was amazing to say the very least. There is nothing like a group of women
getting together to worship, and adore God. It was a powerful weekend of change,
growth, and spiritual saturation.
The word of the weekend was Zapatos or Shoes. The reason was
because sometimes we become complacent in our situation, instead of getting our
shoes on and walking out of it we sit in the ashes of our past. For whatever
reason we refuse to allow God to renew us, and instead we just stay in our
past. We need to remember that we are called by God to get up, get our shoes
on, and get moving.
Just as every shoe is different;
gym shoe, flat, small heel, high heal, so too is every situation. My past
issue may not be your past issue, but we need to arise from the ashes, and walk
away from the past that haunts us.
I don’t believe there was a woman
that came back from the retreat unchanged. Not only loving God a little bit
more, but also loving themselves just a little bit more. Self-hatred is one of
Satan’s greatest tools, and convincing us that we are no better than where we
came from is a powerful weapon in incapacitating us. However, the retreat
caused the women of Nueva Vida Midway & New Life Berwyn reclaim their
status of Daughter of the most high. We are no longer captive to our past; we
have grabbed our shoes, and walked away. We are standing on the hill
proclaiming that we are Daughters of Zion.
If you are in a place where you
feel unable to move beyond your past, please visit one of our locations. Let us
pray with you. Let us help you get your shoes on, and get moving!
Screaming out Zapatos,
Melissa
