I was just reading the Encouragingwomen Spiritual lunch lesson (https://encouragingwomen.org/milestone-testimonies-4/) and also Atarah’s Praise Report about spending Sundays with Him.
It made me think back to my own journey and how I let go of my church and just spend Sundays with Him.
Before my divorce we moved to another town, and I just found a church in this town that me and the children attended. The children enjoyed the Sunday School and I thought I was doing the right thing by attending church and taking my children to Sunday School. During that stage I just started with Course 1 on Hopeatlast, just after He led me to find RMI.
I continued to attend the church every Sunday until I started reading and journaling lessons about our Spiritual Leader. That when we are married our husbands should be our Spiritual Leaders and we should follow their lead in attending church. So, I was going against that principle because although I was separated at that stage, my eh didn’t lead me to that church, yes, he insisted that I take the children to Sunday School and was okay with the church we attended, but he never led us there or went with, if he went, he went to another church.
I felt led to let go of my church, which was not a difficult descision to make for myself, but I had to Seek God about my eh insisting that the children attend. I thought I would ask my former Mother in Law to take the children to her church (which my eh also attended) so they could attend Sunday School, but my HH never made that happen, for a reason.
I now spend more time with Him, and not only on Sundays, but every day. I don’t have to feel out of place because I am sitting alone in the service, and He just filled me with so much peace about my decision to leave the church. Now I am blessed to spend more quality time with Him on Sundays, just being in His presence and I can have more relaxing Bible Study with the children because I don’t have to struggle to get them up and ready for church. And I can use the material on Homegrownministries.com to minister to them and to teach them how to be young Wise Women and Men.
Then He also blessed me with the wonderful Restoration Fellowship meetings (https://encouragingwomen.org/fellowship/) on Sundays where we as His Brides can just praise Him for everything He does in our lives, and just be blessed to hear the praises from other brides and what He is doing in their lives. It’s amazing to meet with likeminded brides, every one of us on a journey with Him, and just being His church without walls!