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Count Your Blessings
Throughout my recent two-week trip, I was able to count many blessings, especially those for which we prayed specifically.
Before starting the list, I would like to recognize the blessing of you joining me in prayer. Thank you!
• No hassles when taking food through customs.
• Health and smooth logistics during travel.
• While in Lima, the opportunity to visit and encourage missionary and former coworker in Venezuela, Jonathan Hanegan (now serving in Buenos Aires, Argentina).
• Deeper connection, spiritual conversations, and prayer time with many women in both cities.
• God spoke through me powerfully through the classes.
• God used me to inspire many women.
• The blessing of time spent with Butch and Trish Sandoval, tremendous servants in the kingdom and lifetime missionaries to South America.
• The chance to reconnect with many Bolivian Christians who are such a special part of the lives of Jeff & Katie Forbess and their family. (Katie is the IRSM Board President. She and her family were missionaries to Cochabamba for seven years.)
• Meet and encourage missionaries to Lima, Peru, Jonathan and Bani Cooper, and their son, Andrew.
• Bible study, encouragement visits in several women’s homes.
• Follow-up conversations and prayer time with women met through the area-wide event.
Other days, when I count my blessings, the list is not so glorious. Either way, when I count my blessings, the list serves as a reminder of the countless ways God has blessed my life—guided, protected, provided, and redeemed.
When I feel down or discouraged, the exercise of counting my blessings lifts my eyes, transforms my perspective, and renews my spirit.
What blessings can you count today?
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This weekend’s topic at the Remmel Church of Christ, in partnership with the John 3:17 ministry, is Sisters Connected in Christ. We will look at what it means to be an Iron 
Rose Sister—how to be like iron sharpening iron, encouraging each other to be as beautiful as a rose in spite a few thorns.
These relationships are impossible without Christ in the center. And God has designed us to not have to go it alone. The body of Christ, with all of its unique members, was created to work together, spur one another on, encourage, challenge, and lift up each other.