God is moving in CR

By Kareena Holloway, CR Ministry TEAM Women's Encourager Coach at Fellowship Bible Church 2/27/2019 Change is challenging.  Change can be scary.  Change can be hard.  Left to my own vices, I am overcome with anxiety over uncertainties.   How do you handle change?   I did a H.E.A.R.T check. Am I: H urting, E xhausted, A ngry, R esentful, or T ense? In some recent changes going on around me, I began to see that I was triggered by my childhood fear of abandonment.  I could easily have stayed on the spiral downward and let it affect how and where I serve.  "For I know the plans  I have for you,” declares the  Lord , “plans to prosper  you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."   ~Jeremiah 29:11~ In spending time and processing all of this with the Lord, He is showing me something new.   God is showing me today that change is a challenge to grow closer to Him, therefore exuding His truth to others who also may struggle with change.  God

By Carl Kimbro, member of the Devotional Team at Fellowship Bible Church NWA Celebrate Recovery, 2/20/2019 “Jesus loves me this I know, for the bible tells me so.  Little ones to Him belong, we are weak, but he is strong.” I sang these verses often as a child never really understanding them. As an adult in my addiction I sang them  again desperately trying to believe them. I was miserable and needed relief. I had a God size problem that only  could be solved in His strength. “I am a grateful believer in Jesus” … As a born-again believer, these opening words were a comfort to me as I  began to attend Celebrate Recovery. I was learning how to truly rely on Jesus for my strength. It wasn’t an  overnight change, and it wasn’t easy. “ He gives strength to the weary and  increases the power of the weak ”.  Isiah 40:29  I was weary and I  was hiding in denial. I wanted to see change take place, but I couldn’t do it on my own. Through Celebrate  Recovery I put my hope in a renewe

By Eric Hutchinson, Fellowship Bible Church NWA CR Ministry TEAM Men's Encourager Coach, 2/13/2019 I  recently read this quote, “ Darkness is great when we are trying to hide something, but light is needed when we are trying to walk without falling .”  This quote reminded me of a night when I came home late when I was in high school.  My parents were already in bed and the house was dark.  I let myself in and because I knew where everything was, I didn’t think I needed to turn on any lights.  Boy was I wrong!  My mother had moved all the furniture around in our sunken-in living room and when I stepped down into the living room I fell over a lamp table and made all kinds of noise trying to get back up and turn the lights on.  HA!  At Celebrate Recovery I discovered things in my life that I needed to deal with that I didn’t even know were there.  That’s because I had previously been walking in the darkness of denial.  I kept stumbling over these things over and over again.  It’s ama

By Kareena Holloway, Fellowship Bible Church NWA C|R Ministry TEAM Women's Encouragement Coach I remember a time when I was a young girl playing in my room and the power went out.  Everything went pitch black.  The darkness and the unknown were so scary.  My parents were out in the living room watching television.  I called out to my Dad for help, and he said "I'm on my way".  Soon, the hallway to my room lit up.  He had fired up the kerosene lantern which illuminated everything as if the power had never gone out!  I quickly went to him and he led me back to the living room with the family.  My Dad always did the best he could with what he had.   Have you ever found yourself in a scary, dark place, afraid of the unknown?  God says to us in Deuteronomy 31:8 that he is with us, that he will never leave us or forsake us.  Just like my Dad did for me, when we call out to God, he will light the way and lead us out . Let those who fear the Lord say: “His love endu