Good Monday morning, my beloved Siestas!
I am at the Houston Airport (IAH) with my man and we are waiting to get on a flight to Denver where we’ll then connect to Wyoming and join the Jones. We’ve got a slight maintenance delay and I’m a bit concerned about our layover. One thing I can tell you for sure. A life of airports will remind you over and over just how little control a folk has over most circumstances!
I am hoping some of you guys from North Dakota get on here today because I have to tell you something. Not only did I totally LOVE you and LOVE studying God’s Word with you, you guys gave $10,000 dollars to the poor through Samaritan’s Purse. Did you hear what I said???? $10,000! They were absolutely FLOORED. For crying out loud, WE were absolutely floored. I’ve never posted the charitable giving before but I had to this time. You need to know that you 4200 women outgave groups over twice your size. Please don’t misunderstand me to imply the least negative thing about a single one of our wonderful groups. We don’t ever measure our groups like that. People can only give what they can give and some areas of the country are suffering financially much more than others. At the same time, I just had to let you know how generous you were. Organizations like Samaritan’s Purse really get hit by financial crises like the one we’re experiencing so this was a huge help to them. They’ll turn that money into provision for the poor as soon as possible. Thank you so much, ladies! Thank you so much!
I love all you guys like crazy. You won’t waste a prayer on our family right now. At the top of our needs is a loved one with a health issue. That’s all I feel free to say right now but I cannot express how much we’d appreciate your prayers for healing. As much as I know it would be in love, please try not to get into conjecture in your comments on who or what it might be because it will inevitably lead to rumors. If about 5000 of you would say just one general prayer each, we’d feel blessed beyond measure. We would know that, no matter what, the heart of God was moved by the copious prayers of the saints. Thank you, Sisters. We pray for you, too.
Talk to you soon! And I will give you a general update on that situation before long, too.
Honored to be your servant,
Beth
UPDATE: Our flight was cancelled so we had to go down to baggage claim, reclaim our bags, go back through ticketing, get new seats and get booked on another flight five hours later. And we don’t have a car at the airport so we, two equally hyperactive adults, are just sitting tight. Yes, Michelle offered to come get us but I’m not letting her go to that much trouble. Just so happens we’re in IAH’s only small terminal and the lone one that doesn’t allow you to take the train to any of the hopping ones. Thankfully, a sparrow is loose in the terminal and is perched about five feet from Keith and me so we’re momentarily spared from perishing of unmitigated boredom. Because of the economy, most of the kiosks are closed so shopping is out of the question but there is a Rosetta Stone vending machine that keeps calling our names. Keith and I are thinking of learning Swahili while we’re here. I’ll keep you posted.
FURTHER UPDATE:
Nilikula – I ate
Nimekula – I have eaten
Ninakula – I am eating
Nitakula – I will eat
Praying for you and your family.
Trust in HIS timing…Rely on HIS promises…Wait for HIS answers…Believe in HIS miracles…Rejoice in HIS goodness…Relax in HIS presence.
Dearest Beth and family,
Please know I am praying for you and yours. I hope you get some rest while you are gone and enjoy being with your man and at least part of your family.
He is my Heart's Desire,
Becca
Hi Beth, i know you have 87 comments already on this post (how do you get to it all??) but just wanted to say that our little women's group in East London, South Africa have just started Esther and it's AWESOME! Yesterday was introductory session and it was simply fabulous. I get so inspired & energised by your sessions, really! Wanted to get stuck straight into homework last night, but alas, some slightly high maintenance little boys of mine needed me more…
Just needing to say THANK YOU (and to gush, just a little).
(hugs)
Kerry
I'm praying for your loved one. Have a wonderful, refreshing time with your family.
Naku penda
(not sure on the spelling, but that's "I love you" in Swahili.):0)
Christy
Praying for you and your family!
Hilarious! I love you and your family so much. I pray that you will all be reunited soon and will also pray specifically for your other request. Have a great time!
Prayed for your family as I walked this morning…I know the LORD included your loved one in that family group! Have fun at the cabin!
Jambo!!! That is Swahili for hello….but I'm sure you already learned that several minutes into your Roseta Stone lesson!! hehe!
Praying for healing and a special touch from God for your prayer request. So awesome to know there is a covering of prayer from around the world holding your request up to the Lord. Don't need the details just thank you for sharing! Love you Siesta Mama and family.
Could you post all the memory verses in one post? Please>
Lord, oh, Lord how majestic are your ways!? Let us remember that, and even though times of worry and sickness may shake us, that we could claim Your mighty Word bravely and believe it! Would You please heal Beth & Keith's family member from their health issue? I can't explain this any other way then to say I desperately care for Beth and her concerns, though we've never met. She has been obedient to you, Lord, and in so doing has blessed so many of us greatly. Grant our request, in the powerful name of Jesus I pray, AMEN!
Enjoy your beautiful getaway to Wyoming. I know you will be refreshed by the mountains. In the meantime, I hope you and Keith can settle into the delay. I do live a little closer if you need a rescue to brunch or something. I am praying for your loved one for complete returned health this morning. And, if you can figure out how to bottle and send it, that fresh, crisp air would be a welcome thing here in Houston. Safe travels. Love, Annette
Bethie…Praying for you today!
If I could ask for your prayers for my friend Wendi…she was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer on July 30th and has been given 2-3 years (with treatment). She just turned 40 (which is not much older than I) so this is hitting close to home.
Thank you! Have a wonderful time with your kiddos 🙂
Dear Beth,
I'm joining the other siestas and will be praying for you and your family.
May the will of God be accomplished!
For His glory.
Rachel
greetings!
this is my first blog entry – ever!
first, i want you to know how much i'm grateful for the work that you do in Christ's name. thank you so much. i have done four of your Bible studies in the last two years and cannot wait to start the next one in september. thank you!
a group of us from the ladies Bible study (beth moore) are looking forward to seeing living proof live in november at springfield il.
praying for you family and hope that all goes well.
and on a less serious note, thanks beth, for the work you do and looking fashionable at the same time! the girls always tease me because when we have to restart the video for each weeks lesson, i always know where we are for what you were wearing the previous week! i'm a little of a fashionista girl too. love being girly!
keep it up! and thanks again.
You and your family will be in my prayers! God Bless y'all!
Father, Please touch this preson with your healing touch. Comfort this person and release your anointing that will break every yoke. Father, some things have to be petitioned again and again. During this time let our confidence grow stronger and not weaker. Let our hope be overflowing. Lord, you are near to the brokenhearted. Compensate this person with your presence and with spiritual authority as this person endures suffering. Never leave this person without hope. Help this person to be content in plenty and in want b/c your grace is truly sufficent. Father, we need you. Apart from you we can do nothing. We can put no confidence in the flesh and at times like this we see just how flimsy our flesh is. Lord, you tell us that in our weakness your strength is perfected. Let your strength be perfected in this person as this person grows to rely upon you more and more. Lord, we know that this trial is not going to be in vain. You will use it to accomplish something far greater than anything that has been lost.
Lord, I think of how you have kept your servants strong. You gave Moses, Caleb and so many others supernatural health. We pray for that some gift to be given to this person. Grant this person a body that will be able to serve – for we are to serve with the strength you give us.
In Jesus Name – Amen
Hahaha
Jambo, sweet friends! My parents lived in Tanzania/Kenya for 2 years before my brother and I were born, and their favorite thing to do was to speak code at the dinner table. Whenever they had something secretive to disuss (aka: our birthdays, surprises, etc) they would just start speaking in Swahili so we couldn't understand them. We always got so annoyed, and eventually taught ourselves (with an English to Swahili dictionary) how to say words like "yes" & "no" (to pick arguments about doing our chores of course), and others just for name-calling purposes like "elephant", "cow" and "chicken". Needless to say, my parents always won the riveting afican safari name-calling games. Who says preachers kids can't have fun? 😉
Ya'll have fun in the quietness of your save haven and retreat away from home.
Love you more
Hey! I almost choked from laughing while I nilikuled by breakfast. Thanks for posting. You and your precious family have copious prayers coming from me today – and I'm sure from every other corner of Siestaville, too.
Between the sparrow and the Swahili I hope you and Keith survive your five hour delay.
Lots of love,
Warm in Alaska.
This is all I read: "I am at the Houston Airport (IAH) with my man and we are waiting to get on a flight to Denver where we'll then connect to Wyoming and join the Jones. We've got a slight maintenance delay and I'm a bit concerned about our layover. One thing I can tell you for sure. A life of airports will remind you over and over just how little control a folk has over most circumstances!"
All I have to say AMEN, Siesta!
And point out the fact that nobody seems to acknowledge that very fact…
"Precious Father, I lift up to you, this request voiced by Beth. You know the exact need and I pray you will heal, give strength and wisdom exactly where needed. In Jesus Holy name, Amen"
Beth,
I am McKenzie's cousin–she was the nine year old girl who accepted Christ into her heart at your conference in Fargo. I just wanted to let you know that McKenzie's Grandma also accepted Christ into her heart but didn't tell anybody so we didn't know she was suppose to be down on the floor getting prayed over. So instead of 19 there were actually 20. How cool is that for McKenzie and her Grandma to accept Jesus into her heart in the same day but they didn't realize each other had done that. Her Grandma has belived in Jesus all her life but never officially accepted him into her heart before. Thank god she finally did! Thanks again for coming up North.
Danielle
Enjoy your time together. I so wish I had the opportunity to shop, have lunch or just talk on the phone with my mother. She is losing her memory which makes coherent conversation next to impossible.
Seriously love on one another and never let any amount of upset get in the way of your relationships.
Of course you already know that and I am sure have been blessed by it.
I thought I would post for anyone out there who may be struggling with family "stuff".
God Bless All of You!
Praying!
-Amanda, a southern transplant living in Yankee territory
you make me chuckle…. thanks for brightening all of our days! Hope you have a wonderful vacation and trust the Lord with whoever is sick. God is right there with them. love you and your family!
Silly Mzungu! (white person)
Beth Moore I LOVE you. You are a scream!!! You could be my closest friend!!! Actually I think you are in a sense. I talked to my "real" friends as if I know you personally, by saying, "well, Beth, yadayadayada…" They usually think i'm talking about my sister whose name is Beth, then I have to clarify, no, Beth Moore. You are soo normal. You are precious. Hope you have a safe flight and have fun with your family. WIll be seeing you via sattelite next weekend,– can't wait!!!
Will be praying for the family member. Why do we always need specifics??? God knows the need and only wants the rest of us to pray. Will pray for peace over this situation for the rest of you….
Great work Fargo area!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blessings & Prayers,
Bible Bunny in NO MI
Hi Beth & Keith: Sooo understand the airport thing and not having control!! UGH!! Thankful tho' that God took you guys off the other plane…HE is your Protector!! Try playing "I spy something"…goofy, but laughter will help speed the time.
I sent up prayers for your loved one. I love the fact that we believers can join our voices together to touch the throne and heart of God.
Will be praying for your time in Wyoming as well. Will you have "dog sickness"?
Little Monkey's Mama
So fun! we were in Denver's Airport probably about the same time as ya'll. But we were headed home from the West.
Enjoy every moment with you sweet family and I hope the weather allows some goregous views of the mountains!
love,
rachel
I was in Fargo, and it was a delight to have you with us in North Dakota. The Live event was the high light of my summer….I have to tell you that I am a mother of 5 kiddos…ages 12,10, 8,6,and 4……and the only time I have EVER spent the night without them was to have another baby or to see you….thank you to your awesome team for the ministering to this mother who needed her pitcher filled before I poured out another glass to my family.
Love and Blessings,
Melissa
http://www.relevantmagazine.com/columns/deeper-walk/17902-a-whole-nother-monster
Hello Mama siesta! Here is great article on woman and self esteem from my favorite faith magazine Relevant magazine! Its a great reminder that the church doesn't talk about this often enough. Hope you enjoy as I know you have written a book on this PS cannot wait to read! Thanks again for all the hard work Beth, LPM, Moores, Jones and Fitzpatricks!
Hi Beth,
Hello from Canada. I was one of those first-timers in Fargo ND. Being part of 4300 women worshiping and learning together was an amazing experience. Praying for your family.
CP
So the Lord has been singing the words from this song over me last night and all day today. I feel His urging to pass them along to you~
Faithfulness none can deny
Through the storm and through the fire
There is truth that sets me free:
Jesus Christ who lives in me
Chorus
You are stronger, You are stronger
Sin is broken, You have saved me
It is written Christ is risen
Jesus, You are Lord of all
Know your family is being covered and so loved by those you have served.
I'm sorry but I can just see you being so hyper-bored . . . it came through loud and clear in that post. And, Swahili? Your breakdown of the verb was hilarious.
I say this with only love and laughter in my heart: You are so weird!
Ha,
Traci
Father
I pray just now for Beth, her family and the loved one with serious health issues. Lord you know their every need and I ask you now to meet it. May you grant mercy and strength for the moment and if it be your will raise that loved one up, restore their health. Father you alone know everything and every need. We trust you to meet those needs with your love, grace and hope. bless them, each one involved.
Amen
Awww..Beth! I'm so sorry your flight was cancelled. I was dealing with flight frustrations myself this past weekend. I hope you and Keith didn't get too bored to tears!
Wonderful news about the gift donation…woohoo!!!! Praise God!
I'll be praying for your family member who needs healing! Waiting to hear good news!!
Tell the Joneses HEY and I hope y'all have a wonderful time together!
Love ya 🙂
Missy
Just to let you know I lifted up your loved one in prayer this afternoon…
Prayers have been lifted up, my sister. All will be well. God is so God in this and in all things.
Big Hugs and Love in Him,
Kim
Hello Beth!
I was one of the many people in the Fargodome this past weekend! I was truly moved by your talk and the way Travis and the praise team lead us in worship. You all have been given such glorious gifts for reaching people's hearts through words and music. Friday night during the storm was so powerful! I shared some of the highlights of your talk during a devotional time at my workplace — out of my comfort zone! But I was thrilled to be given the courage to "sing my song" to others. You and your team are in my prayers! I'm one of the many that is lifting up your loved one with the health concern, as well! Thank you for having such a lasting impact on my "story!"
Allie
Prayers already said and will continue!
And by the way, you really just crack me up. Plain and simple.
Nancy
You update is just too funny. Made me think of a Passion CD, I think, that has the band playing I fall down and lay my crown at the feet of Jesus…in Sawhili.
May come in handy!
Nimekulu. It was spaghetti. Thanks for the new words to add to my repertoire!
Praying Jesus' healing for your family member. To Him be the glory.
i prayed for the one you love.
Beth, I am one of your 5000 praying and sending love to you, your family, and your loved one in need of prayer.
Never cease to crack me slap up!
Praying for your loved one.
His eyes were on all the sparrows in that airport.
Have a great time.
Val
Thanks for talking with my sister,who is from Iowa, at your church Sunday..you were such an encouragement for her daughter being treated at MD Anderson. Thank you for welcoming them to your church body while they are in Houston. God's Blessings to you and your family. We covet your prayers for a miracle !
Praying for you and Keith and the family. Thank you for your heart and commitment to God and to us. We love you!
Beth, I flew thru Denver on Monday too! Maybe we saw each other. 😀
I'm sorry about the frustrating day. Prayers for your sweet loved one. Claiming that healing!
*I love you * – in Swahili
Beth…
Swahili is fabulous!! I have dear friends who are missionaries in Nairobi, Kenya …you totally need to meet them!!! And i have been there 4 times!!
your next lesson…(spelling is probably wrong!!)
bwana asifiwe…Praise the Lord!!
twende – let's go
twiga – giraffe
farro – rhino
praying as well!!
karen
I'm praying for your loved one – I am from Montana and Wyoming but now live in Texas – I know you will totally be wrapped up in his love as you get to soak up his beautiful creation!!!
Sarah