GOOD Friday

I was planning on posting something earlier today...a sort of accumulation of things God has confirmed/put on my heart this week. Lots of His goodness...probably will still post it later :)

But, after this evening---I don't even know what to say.
I am feeling profoundly humbled. loved. undeserving. blessed (beyond measure). burdened (in a good way). free. awestruck. humbled (again). encouraged. set apart. satisfied. motivated. useful. fulfilled. redeemed. cleansed. humbled. ---> I really shouldn't be surprised that I was repeatedly brought to tears, considering I woke up asking God to break me today...ohhh, did He. hallelujah. (thanks, Beth Moore!)

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Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood;
How His kindness yet pursues me
Mortal tongue can never tell,
Clothed in flesh, till death shall loose me
I cannot proclaim it well

I'm praying that you're brought to your knees this Easter...blown away and completely wrecked by the incredible love and healing power that our Father God has for you.
((ahh, God is AWESOME!))
The Good Friday service was incredible...an abundance of tears, praise, and thanksgiving.
All of it was a stunning reminder of all that He's promised, all that He's done, and all that He's going to do. (Jesus, I thank you) So blessed by absolutely everything...a favorite moment had to be the Wailing Wall. Loved, loved, loved seeing that red paint cover those prayers---ah, if we would believe that His Blood covers every single prayer we lift up, that God IS who He says He is...Father, help our unbelief! the price has already been paid!

Something I had wanted to post earlier, actually ties in more appropriately now:

And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. (Mark 13:11, ESV)

Actually got to see my video testimony before we danced this evening. (ps-thank you, Lord, for Refuge...I'm so grateful to be a part of this Jesus-loving/dance-loving/food-loving family! ;)
I honestly felt kind of (really) lame to be crying over my own words - but the Holy Spirit was so quick to fix my thoughts - 'Emily, those are not your words - they are mine!' (ah! makes so much more sense now) Praise God.

Psalm 146 (AMP)

¹PRAISE THE Lord! (Hallelujah!) Praise the Lord, O my soul!

²While I live will I praise the Lord; I will sing praises to my God while I have any being.

³Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no help.

⁴When his breath leaves him, he returns to his earth; in that very day his [previous] thoughts, plans, and purposes perish.

⁵Happy (blessed, fortunate, enviable) is he who has the God of [special revelation to] Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

⁶Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, Who keeps truth and is faithful forever,

⁷Who executes justice for the oppressed, Who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets free the prisoners,

⁸The Lord opens the eyes of the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the [uncompromisingly] righteous (those upright in heart and in right standing with Him).

⁹The Lord protects and preserves the strangers and temporary residents, He upholds the fatherless and the widow and sets them upright, but the way of the wicked He makes crooked (turns upside down and brings to ruin).

¹⁰The Lord shall reign forever, even Your God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)


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Happy Easter!