Perfectly Imperfect - how God was speaking at Lee Abbey. A personal reflection.
- Mark Newberry
- 3 hours ago
- 2 min read
It really was a great time away in beautiful surroundings, with more quality time to really focus on the Lord and what He wanted to say to us.
Lee Abbey is such a special place and has been used for over 70 years in the Lord’s service to bless many people. The Community that lives and works there are an amazing group, who looked after us and fed us so well! But also ministered to us in worship leading, pastoral input and just each of them wanting to be used by the Lord to bless us!
James and Liz Grier were just outstanding as they opened up and ministered the Word to us- an amazing double-act and so hilarious! The title of “ Perfectly Imperfect” looked at the life of Moses and actually how he had many flaws and was quite ordinary but did extraordinary things with God.
For me, it was as if in every session God really was speaking and challenging me about how all the past disappointments and failures in my life had after all this time made me hold back on a closer walk with God, in case I’d get “burnt” again. I felt the Lord really challenging me to allow Him to heal, refresh and strengthen me so that I could “get back on the horse” in my walk and service to Him.
There were so many things we felt the Lord was saying to us:
That he wants to mobilize every age-group in the Church- most of us were in the older group. He still has a lot of purpose for us- Moses was 80 when he STARTED his ministry!
The Lord wants to increase the younger age groups and see them coming into ministry and see those who don’t yet know Him to come to faith and in time to serve too.
We felt from the Lord the key to this was ALL of us, whatever age working together not disparately to accomplish His plans and for His Glory.
We were challenged regarding provision to fulfil the vision the Lord has given us, with all the financial and man-power issues we face. But through PRAYER the Lord WILL PROVIDE.
It is a very exciting time for us as a Church, a new Season with new vision and we’re all invited in on this journey.
The time of worship and waiting on the Lord was also very significant- it seemed we moved in further to the Lord by His Spirit, led wonderfully and sensitively by Stephen from the Community.
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