Continuing my guest series, I recently emailed Cathy Cheshire from Arizona, friend and founder, of Discipleship Ministry International about a discipleship and counseling opportunity I just had in Green Bay WI over the last several days. She shared with me about a lady she has been walking with in an email and I asked her if I could share it here in the blog. It’s a great opportunity I’d like for, you, my readers to pray about as you pray for the men and women we are walking with at NWA.
This is the rich reward of being in ministry.
Last night I sat at Starbucks with a lady I have been walking with over the last three years. She heard my oldest son and I speak at a women event and said God told her to call me; that her life was going to change. Unfortunately her life has not changed yet. Her husband is an every day pot smoker, her two sons are on crystal meth and her daughter has disowned her. She is a former crystal meth addict, clean for 21 yrs but now drinks. In the three years we have been together and working on so many things and she has made some huge strides but keeps coming back to some of the same way of doing things. Her drinking is not to get drunk and it consists of an occasional glass of wine but she uses it to medicate instead of going back to hardcore drugs. It is a mask. I work with a women’s rehab center (Teen Challenge) and I had suggested to her last yearr to check in. It is a one year commitment. She thought she could make the changes with meeting with me and staying accountable. Last night we talked tough love. She is making an appointment to talk with the director of the rehab center and is planning to check in. She is a sophisticated professional woman and this will take everything she has to do something like this. It is amazing how her husband has learned to mask his issues as well and put up such a good front. No one knows their secrets. They are well hidden.
I know God has a passion for her just waiting for the right time to reveal her heart to her, but there is too much pain and seduction from the enemy and she can not see it. She is beautiful in face and gentle in her spirit. Please pray for her to accept God’s grace and make this huge decision to check out of this world for one year and check into what God has for her. This is a familial spirit as her sister, who I have met with, also has the same problems but with prescription drugs. They both want out of their cycle but do not know how to get out on their own. I pray this sister will make the right choice. I asked her where she will be in one year from today if she does not check in to rehab? She agreed she would probably be doing the same things. We prayed together and left. My heart hurts for her.
Meeting with women like her has changed my life. To help them walk through life, offering God’s Word as a solution and then watching God work in them is so rewarding…rich is the word. Life fulfilling. And I do not get it! All believers…followers of Christ, are called to do this and yet only a few understand and walk it out according to 1 Tim 2:2 and Mat 28.
The Great Commission
16Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
This is a powerful command….Christ’s last instruction. Sounds like you get it…
Tags: addictions, discipleship, Love
This is the proverbial: “your children teaching you about God moment. ”
