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News from France
Each
Spring two regional meetings are held in France, one is in the central
west area and the other in the north east. Here is a brief summary of
the two meetings.
Central West Meeting
The
subject for the two day meeting was “Forgive, yes, but...?”
and about forty women met together. The speaker was Imke Genee who
spoke about the different steps involved in forgiveness. There is not a
simple recipe that can be applied to every situation, each one is
unique and needs a different approach. We looked at the life of Jacob,
both the positive and negative aspects of his life. Sunday morning we
spent time looking at the Psalm 103, and were invited to remember good
memories as well as the more negative ones. We then had a time of
prayer in small groups, during which, we really felt the presence of
God. Victories were won and real liberation was felt by a number of the
women present. A number had arrived with a “heavy heart”
and left with a feeling of joy and as if a weight had been lifted from
them. “Oh my soul, worship the Lord and don’t forget His
goodness towards us” Psalm 103,5.
North East Meeting
We
met in the lovely old building of the Saint Vaast Abby the 30th and
31st March. Fourteen different churches were represented, we were some
90 women present. The theme chosen was “Our intimate relation
with God”. Jeanne Fombeur was the speaker, who is responsible for
a local group of prayer, and also national co-ordinator for
“Lydie Fellowship International”.
Over
three sessions of teaching, she shared how she personally lives her
intimate prayer life with the Lord, which starts by choosing to spend
time with God and looking for His will in your life. Before each
message we were led in some moving times of worship with a talented
group of musicians. During these moments of worship some ladies really
felt the presence of God, and received direct words and healing from
the Lord.
All
were in agreement that in one way or another, the Lord had spoken to
many of the women and it is with a joyful antici- pation that we look
foward to next meeeting.
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