Small Groups and Life Lessons

Have you been attending a Girlfriend's Connection small group?  How about another small group at your local church?  Are you connecting with others?  Feeling yourself relaxing and opening up to share your heart?  Finding encouragement through your group?  Looking at life differently?  I hope so because these are all often by-products of time in a small group atmosphere.  Often it can take time to foster real relationships and you will need to invest in order to reap a true friendship but it's all well worth it.  God never expected us to do life alone. 

Ecclesiates 4:9-10  "Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up."

Oftentimes our hearts have become so hardened by life's circumstances we find ourselves present in a small group but yet a world away.  Our minds criticize and judge those around us and we leave feeling more alone than ever.  We desire to connect and soften our inner souls but we aren't quite sure where to start.  Sometimes we don't even realize that the real problem is us.  We wonder why we disagree with everyone and why others tend to bicker or back away from us.  We feel rejected when no one texts or calls.  We bombard our own minds with thinking we are "too good" for this group (though we would never actually admit this outloud).  LIES!  The enemy uses LIES to separate us and keep us apart. 

John 8:44 "...there is no truth in him [Satan]. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies."
 

Has anything struck a heart chord with you yet?  Then stop and pray and give it up to God.  If you've been operating in the flesh, stuck in a rut, isolated from others, believing the lies in your own mind, then this is not His will for you.  It's time to move on over to the spirit world.  Take a chance to get out of your comfort zone, for that is where your victory and greatest desires will be met!  Allow God to use those around you to speak life to your spirit.  Invite His Holy Spirit to penetrate your heart so that you might find conviction that leads to Godly sorrow and repentance.  Ask Him to show you where you are missing the mark.  You are not reading this or attending a group by accident, there is something He wants to reveal to you so that you might reach the next level in serving Him.  Will you seek Him and find out what it might be?  It's time.