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A Really Bad Day Balanced by God with a Really Good Day

2/21/2011

A day with an overwhelming financial difficulty, a "nasty " note from a person I have tried to help for years yet they still can't recognize it, an attitude of jealousy and territorialism from a peer that just won 't go away, and an overindulgent and unhealthy coping mechanism. Retiring troubled, perplexed, persecuted, and cast down.

Waking the next morning with a memory of dreaming about my son who is in heaven; whole, happy, loving, as God created him. The one dream that the Lord knew would catapult me out of any despair. Reading scripture and applying it to present problems that only the Lord knows about. Yoga with a caring friend remembering that God is healing my body slowly but surely from years of neglect. Lunch and conversation with a beloved sister in Christ, sharing our hopes and dreams. A one and a half hour message I had forgotten about again recognizing the healing taking place due to nothing but God's grace. A conversation with my significant other about how the Lord never fails to meet me at my point of need. How can we and why would we want to face the "world" and everything the enemy throws at us without Him?

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Sunday Worship

2/6/2011

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    Rev. Maxie Dunnam at Christ United Methodist Church delivered a sermon that spoke to a very immediate and urgent need in my life. The title was "For God's Sake, Be As Christian As You Are". It was based on Matthew 5:13-16, "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again...You are the light of the world...put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven."
    Writing and advertising a book that displays my intimate relationship with the Lord is a scary and risky thing and fear has entered my thinking. But God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit have healed and continue to heal me in Spirit, soul, and body. How could I not share that experience and revelation!
    Maxie explained there are two kinds of hypocrites those who think they are something they are not and those who refuse to allow the light of God shine through them. Praise God for the Body of Christ and pastors who overcome fear to speak the truth and minister to all who hear!

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Nina Haines received her Bachelor of Science from the University Of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences in 1978. She completed her Masters and subsequently her Doctorate of Divinity from Shalom Bible College and Seminary in
August of 2010.

Nina voluntarily worked in the “Kairos Prison Ministry” for fourteen years and served on the local board. Mark, Nina’s husband and she served for five years in the “Second Chance Prison
Ministry”.

She has served on the worship and prayer ministries in five
different churches and on the ladies’ board at a non-denominational church. She has taught courses on prayer and
spiritual growth and in Sunday school classes. She was trained as a Stephen Minister at a large Methodist church and served as a prayer minister. She served as the praise leader at a weekly prayer and healing service for one year.

She was a member and leader in Lydia Fellowship International and served on the “Walk to Emmaus” and “Faith Walk” retreat
organizations.

She was a chaplain at her local YMCA in a pilot
chaplaincy program. She was on the board of a local prayer ministry, Celebrate Life.

Mark and Nina have been favored by the Lord to make four short term prayer walks to Israel and China. In several different organizations Nina has prayer walked Germantown High School, the University of Memphis, Germantown, Seattle, Washington, Washington D.C., Atlana, Gerogia, Nashville, Tennessee, and Chicago, Illinois.

Mark and Nina currently worship at City Hills Church. Mark and Nina hold services once a month at Morgan County Correctional Complex under Lonnie Greg from Trinity Community Church. Nina has a prayer group in her home the second and fourth Fridays of the month following the Christian Healing Ministries of Jacksonville, Florida under the leadership of Francis and Judith MacNutt.

Robert Anthony Haines owns Haines Structural Group and
resides with his wife, Erin in Knoxville, Tennessee. They welcomed Grady Armistead and Coley Marie into their family January 28, 2017.

Mark and Nina live in Knoxville .

Nina completed the Christian Healing Ministries Internship Program Nov. 7-11, 2017.

"An Odyssey of Deepening Prayer and Praise" is completed and under copyright. It is a 365 day devotional book of insight from the Lord.

Completed "Perspectives on the World Christain Movement" sixteen week course MAY 2023.

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