Lucia Rossman

Anticipation in my Spirit is Building

Sep 152010

The anticipation in my spirit is building! I can feel it more and more with each passing day. It is the beginning of September and school has started. I am still surrounded by boxes from the recent pcs, but the thing I am looking forward to is PWOC Kickoff! It should be starting on military installations around the globe any day now. There are women out there who will be introduced to Jesus for the first time ever in the coming weeks. There are new Bible studies to be opened and read through for the first time. The anticipation of Bible pages turning is enough to make me giddy! Can you feel it too? As you prepare for kickoff remember the words of Christ, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.” Through tears I pray for us all to be about the Lord’s harvest and nothing less. Come take over our PWOC’s Father and fill them with the fragment aroma of Christ. Bring the harvest Lord and help us to shine in this dark world until Christ returns! Yes, I can feel the anticipation in my spirit building, can you?

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Sometimes we reap and sometimes we sow, but all to the glory of God!

Testimonies

Aug 242010

Ten years ago I told my chaplain in Heidelberg, Germany that I would be a better witness for the gospel of Jesus Christ if I were equipped. I told him that I did not know how to tell anyone about Jesus. He took a long look at me and said, “I can train you Lucia.” Immediately I felt the fear of God upon me. Over the next several months he and his wife trained me, equipped me and we did have the awesome privilege of leading people to the Lord. However, that is not the reason I am writing this. I wanted to share with you one of the most powerful times I was ever a witness for the sake of the gospel.

It was five years later and I was sitting on an airplane flying home after attending a PWOC conference. The rest of the board was sitting together, but I was next to a woman who was not part of our group. This woman proceeded to share with me how she had just completed a spiritual retreat and how wonderful she felt. My heart sank as she continued to share. I knew she did not know Jesus and I knew that God wanted me to share with her right then and there. I would love to tell you how I shared the gospel with her and how the flight ended with a prayer to receive Jesus, but that is not what happened. When the woman found out that I was a Christian she began to share with me every offense that Christians had ever committed against her, and they were big. I spent the rest of the flight following every one of her horrible experiences by asking for forgiveness for what had happened to her. I knew that the Spirit wanted me to humble myself and ask her for forgiveness on behalf of my Savior.

As we were leaving the plane, she looked at me and said, “You know, you really seem to care about me”. “Of course I do” I exclaimed. “Then you should know that I was baptized when I was a baby and so if there really is a God then I have my ticket punched” she said. “Oh no” I said. “It is all about that Jesus I was telling you about.”

“OK” she replied. Then as she walked down the terminal with her husband I heard him say. “So how was your flight?” “It was good, and I sat next to this Christian. This is what she said…..

God is Love

Seasonal teaching

Dec 082009

Did you know that God is love? Not just that He has the capacity to love, but that He is love. This is an immutable part of who He is. It is as true for Him as it is for me to say that I am a woman. No matter my emotional or physical state, my womanhood never changes. Likewise God is love. In fact, He is perfect love. I just love that about Him and knowing that it will never change gives me peace. The truth that God is love is foundational for me. I learned it as a young girl growing up in church. I can still hear the Sunday school teacher reciting 1 John 4:7-8 to us. “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”

I am so thankful for her teaching because as an adult I have learned that the highest calling we will ever have is to love. The reason the calling is so great and so high is because our love is not to be limited to only those who are nice to us, or those who never give us any grief. As believers in the Lord Jesus Christ we are called to love everyone. When Christ was asked which is the great commandment in the law? He responded, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ “This is the first and great commandment. “And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’ “On these two commandments hang the Law and the Prophets.” Notice the love we are called to have for the Lord and the love we are called to have for others. None of Christ’s words of love were conditional. If it were conditional then it would not be supernatural.

As I read on in 1 John 4 I discovered that I am not just to have an earthly kind of love but according to verse 18 a love that is capable of casting out fear. This verse speaks to me of a powerful love. Now before we all get overwhelmed with thinking that this kind of love is impossible, let me just say that apart from God we can never love like that. I can testify that I have tried to love people apart from God and I always fail miserably. Learn from my mistakes and run to He who is love and allow Him to fill you with His love that your joy may be full. He will take all His perfect love and pour it into your imperfect heart and enable you to love everyone. You will find yourself loving beyond your mind, will or emotions. You will love with power and without fear. You will begin to run to Him every day asking Him to fill you afresh with His perfect love. So I ask you again sisters, did you know that God is love?

Praying that you allow God to minister His love to you that He might minister through you this second week of advent.

Who we are!

Leadership Wednesday, Who are we

Jul 152009

Welcome Beautiful Ladies, My name is Lucia Rossman and it is my blessing to serve you and to talk with you on this wonderful new blog! Go web team! We pray this new addition will bless you and connect you to what God is doing on a global scale within this ministry. I pray that this blog and the other amazing resources found on the website blesses and equips you. I pray that God’s presence is with you and that you permeate with the aroma of Christ in all you do. Praising God among the nations (Psalm 57:9-11), Lucia