Life Church Prayer Team

Okay, I finally started a draft after posting how things will look a little different, and then our computer stopped working. Once we finally got it fixed and back home, my draft was gone. So I'm just going to go back to were the Spirit leads me and go from there.

 

Just a reminder - this is going to look a lot less pretty

and will look nothing like your normal blog .

 

Back a couple months ago I joined the Prayer Team at church and my first experience was definitely full of the Holy Spirit - let me explain.

 

At the end of our church service, we have a song where the Prayer Team comes up and is available if anyone wants prayed with or for during the song. First of all, I will say, I was incredibly nervous the first time, not knowing what would happen or who would come up but I trust that God will guide me to have the right response to the Spirit.

 

Okay so one Sunday there was a lady who walked up during the song "Come to the Alter" and as she came up, another woman from the Prayer Team went up to join her. As they were praying .. I felt the Holy Spirit telling me to just go up and sing over her... "Sing over her?" I replied .. "That seems silly." but I felt the spirit say it again .. This time I listened.

 

 I walked over behind the two ladies praying & immediately both my arms went straight out to my sides. As I continued to sing, I was overcome with grief as if I could feel her pain.. I started sobbing as I could barely sing anymore. The spirit of darkness was so strong, I felt like God used me as hedge of protection around these girls as they prayed.

 

As the Service ended, I was so full of the Spirit, I was almost shaking & my heart was racing but it was the most amazing experience as I could feel the Holy Spirit work. I wish I had more interactions with  God & with others like that more often!

 

God is so so so unbelievably good!

 

 

 

love you all,

Carlie

 

 

 

 

just a heads up .

Okay, so my dream for this blog was to use it for me, for a journal, for writing down my prayers & God moments . I can easily say I have failed to do so .. I have fallen into the trap of

How does my blog look

How does it compare to other blogs

What do others think about my blog – is it worth reading

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I was doing this for you ; not for me . which was NOT my dream . and I noticed how I dreaded blogging & it actually made me more stressed because I cared too much about how it looked and putting stuff in that regular bloggers would blog & not what I really wanted..

So things are about to change. Its gonna be less pretty & well um.. more me ..

I am going to stop caring about how it looks and whether or not people read it .

I want to share what God is doing in my life so I hope you will follow along – but this will NOT be your regular blog .

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What will this blog be then?

This blog will be truth. It will be vulnerability, it will be ugly, raw, and simple

But it will also be joyous and there will be stories of  overcoming & breaking through bondage. It will also be full of what God is doing in my life – we call them “God moments”

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so I hope you follow along & even join in with me, comment your stories & what God is doing in your life so we can share truth, strength and encouragement!

love you all

Eva Elizabeth ♡

Wow. Its been a looooonnnggg time since I’ve actually had time or energy to blog. A lot has happened in the last 6 months – the most exciting news being having a new baby!

After a painful Sunday night of "sleep" I woke up around 11:30 a.m. on Monday & my contractions started around noon. I began timing them because I've had contractions on & off all weekend but the closest they would get was 8 minutes apart .. so as I counted the first few contractions I noticed they were only 5 minutes apart!! After a half hour they were still about 5 minutes apart so I called Adam & said he needed to come home since this is the real deal! I called my doctor & they told me to come in - so while waiting for Adam to come home, I took a shower & finished packing last minute things.

Finally around 3p Adam came home! (that's 2.5 hours later people! no big deal, I'm only in full blown labor!!) Thankfully around the time Adam got home, his dad showed up to pick up Adlie! (thank you Dean Gerber!!) 

We live right down the street from the hospital, so we show up around 3:30 & register. After we get up to the room, my dearest sweet friend Natalie Nickols was ever so kind enough to meet us there to help me best cope with labor. She is amazing! She was such a help to be my voice when I didn't know what to ask to make my labor as pain free as possible. Finally around 4:45 I could get my epidural. Unfortunately the doctor hit a vein the first time & had to do it again -  but yay for doing it right the second time!

Finally about 3 hours later I was able to push & after pushing TWICE sweet Eva Elizabeth Gerber joined our family on January 23, 2017 & she is such a sweet baby. 

Her middle name comes from Adam’s Grandma Ringger & my Grandma Johnloz 💜 

Maxine Elizabeth Ringger

Olive Elizabeth Johnloz

life with a newborn has been nothing short of fun & exciting - she is such a good baby & we love her so much!

and of course Adlie loves her baby sister too!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

we love being a family of four 💗 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

thanks for visiting

more fun news coming soon

xo.