Today has been a good day here. We had practice today which went well and then I was actually able to meet up with one of my women's basketball team manager's from Liberty University. It was great to see Kevin again and of all places see him here in Istanbul, Turkey.
I came home this evening and listened to a message from my sister's church which was really good! Here are the notes:
What's the Fuss?
Charlie McMahan
4/4/15
Matthew 28:8
Love takes the worst and allows it to be redeemed.
The disciples left the upper room because they knew now this was a God who equipped them with a hope that they can "wait"...death doesn't mean death it means the beginning of something other.
Ugly Roman crosses get turned into empty tombs when we wait!
Sometimes our waiting period is longer than 3 days.
Jesus desires and wants to set the fearful free!
"Freedom comes when you stop trying to create it....and we are restless until we rest in YOU"
I was really thankful to be able to listen to this message and I thought the pastor did a really good job.
I also wanted to take the time and share with you all that my beloved Grandma Frazee went to be with our Lord and Savior last Saturday evening. Today my family and friends are celebrating her life doing a graveside service. I am definitely sad, and my heart is torn because I could not be with my family during this time. I am thankful for the life my Grandma Frazee lived, and I am blessed to have been one of her granddaughter's. I love you dearly Grandma!!! You are already missed, but I know you are no longer suffering. I am thankful that we serve a God who conquered death and that as a Christian I will one day be able to see my Grandma again. I thank the Lord for His grace and mercy and for His ultimate sacrifice to make it possible that we can have eternal life. When we leave this earth, our physical body remains but our spirit is taken up into Heaven. This is honestly the first time that death has hit so close to me in my family. I have been blessed to not have to deal with death in my immediate family. I am reminded to live each day to the fullest, and to ultimately live in such a way that I am striving to honor and please the Lord. I would covet your prayers through this time of loss that the Lord would be glorified in and through it all.
I wanted to share these verses with you all:
1 Corinthians 15:51-57
"But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed! It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we who are living will also be transformed. For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies.
Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die,j this Scripture will be fulfilled:
“Death is swallowed up in victory.
O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”
For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ."
God bless,
Megan