HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!

Yesterday 10-18-09 was our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! We have celebrated all weekend and will continue to celebrate all week (all year for that matter (:). Psalm 37:4 says "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart".

Hubby and I

Snow up at Clingman's Dome

Beautiful Fall Colors!

Riding Roller Coasters at Six Flags

Great Friends!!!

Beautiful Flowers

But the most amazing time came on Sunday evening. Zac and I were hungry (not for physical food, but spiritual food) and I suggested to Zac that we go to the Hispanic Church right by First Assembly. We called up our friend Ernie, who picked us up and we headed to church. We had met Pastor Francisco and his wife Wendy at our church and loved his heart. When we walked into the little building where they met you could instantly feel the Spirit of God. We knew we might not be able to understand everything that was going on because we do not speak Spanish, but we serve the same God and could worship together. There was such freedom in the place, and we found something there that was so very real. These people were only after God, nothing more. There could not have been more than 15-20 people in the building including children and even still Pastor Francisco brought the Word of God with such passion and fire. Incredibly for us his wife, Wendy, translated so that we could understand the word. Zac and I both went to the alter to pray and Pastor Francisco and his wife spoke a blessing over our lives, and spoke some prophetic words over us that were so encouraging. What a blessing to be around people who are hungry for more of God. After the service we went out to eat with Ernie, and Pastor Francisco called and invited us to come to his house, we were very excited to go. Everyone from the church was there and they were just fellowshipping and having a great time. One couple who had attended the chuch that night for the very first time was present and a few mintues after we had been there Ernie started speaking directly to the man about his life, things Ernie would not have know if the Lord had not shown him. The man started sharing about his life how he had been in gangs, had been shot and stabbed and that he should have died but he knows that the Lord saved him for a purpose. The man wanted freedom in his life for him and his family, we all gathered around him and prayed for his deliverance and he was delivered that night from the oppression of the devil. His wife and son testified later, that they had hated him for what he had done, but the Lord washed them in His love last night and they forgave the man. You could see the love and joy in his eyes when he felt free. His whole family was crying and thankful to be restored. We serve a faithful God!