Packing my bags for my childhood home. My soul is stirred up like a mixer on high in a bowl full of cake batter splattering all over the kitchen. I feel gratitude. Grace. Homesickness. Happiness. Sadness. I have hard memories. I have wonderful memories. I have a faithful Savior who has promised to meet with us this weekend. Heading back to where you were raised rouses up all sorts of things. I love those hills and I am profoundly blessed and humbled to head back to Arkansas. Land of Opportunity. Arkansas, oh, what you do to me. Prettiest place I ever saw. Yep, I’m going back home to Arkansas.
Because of our wonderful Siesta Scholarship Fund, we have the joy of offering comp tickets to the Living Proof Live event Friday night and Saturday till noon to the first 20 Siestas who call our LPM office during business hours. If you would like to come to Little Rock LPL but can’t afford a ticket, call toll free 1-888-700-1999 and ask for Kimberly or Susan. And tell them I told you how much I love them and appreciate them when you call.
I’m crazy about you guys. Thanks for praying for us! Your surveys were incredibly insightful so rest assured that I am taking you with me in spirit this weekend.
Covering you and your team in prayer this weekend.
An early “Welcome Home Sister”. I know all those feelings you are describing as I am an Arkansas original that has now come home herself.
We are praying for your safe arrival,as God is already here (and you KNOW He ain’t gonna leave the building like Elvis!)
I am looking forward to hearing the Word He is giving you for this weekend. I so NEED refreshment in my spirit!
So come on home…the coffee’s on the stove.
Blessings,Tonya
Oh sweet friend – this brought tears to my eyes. I so wish I could be there physically, but I will be praying for you – have been on and off since you started the survey post. Wow – I love my siestas – never been prouder to be one of them! What a group.
So glad you are HOMEWARD BOUND – I esteem you in the LORD – never forget that. Those ladies are going to be pinging to see/hear from you – from Him!
Praying for sweet rest when you return full of JOY!!!
Love you,
G.J.
I know its going to be awesome! Welcome home Beth!
I know God will do an amazing work on LPL Arkansas this weekend through His Word and your team. I am praying for everyone this weekend that God could do a mighty work in Little Rock. Love you guys!
One day I hope to attend an LPL event. Beth, I cannot tell you how blessed I have been by your studies as God has spoken His many, many truths through you. The first study I did in church, just short of a decade ago (Breaking Free), helped to set me on a new path and a journey towards healing. I pray that the women attending this weekend in Arkansas would not only be spiritually and wonderfully challenged, but that each one would be individually touched to the core by God’s amazing wisdom and truth. I also pray that He would encourage your heart as you preach His Word, sister! All glory be to Him!
Prayers going up, Beth, that God’s richest blessings will fall on you and the team this weekend and that God will give you a special annointing as you return to the land that molded you and prepared you for the work He has given you to do.
Margie
Cannot wait! Prayers covering you as you come “home.”
I’m really looking forward to this weekend! I’ve been praying or you and those who attend. We will have a great time in God!
Beth, I’m so excited for this weekend! I too am a Texas girl. I am sure the Lord has many blessings for us this weekend. I have read many of your books and done many bible studies and have loved each of them deeply. Many have hit home with me and personal issues I’ve had. Thank you so much.
Love, Your sister in Christ
Leslie
“I have hard memories. I have wonderful memories.” That hit a nerve for me Beth. Last week I was cleaning up an old dresser that my husband and I are placing in our soon to be new baby’s room and my emotions were all stirred up because I was recalling the different experiences that dresser had witnessed. I wasn’t sure I wanted the dresser to be in my new baby’s room, but I have left it thus far. I feel the same way when I go back to my hometown-all stirred up. A word that keeps coming back to me is ‘resting in my father’s love’. I’m definately a work in progress and God keeps guiding me, showing me my past from his perspective, reminding me that I have a Godly heritage with him, and that I can just let him take all my frustration and confusion.
I will be praying and thinking of you this weekend. May God bless your time at ‘home’. I loved being at the LPL event in Spokane last fall and appreciate the love you pour out to all.
Maria
Love you Beth! God be with you! Jan Floyd
Yes, your heart must beat just a tad bit faster on this one.
Thinking the Lord must be giddy in anticipation of the things He is about to unfold through you and the entire team of believers working together in Little Rock this weekend. Praying you sense His great presence and pleasure from the moment you arrive.
Jesus, we pray you would do your thing and take your glory.
love you. xo rene
Blessings and peace to you Beth as you serve a mighty God who is eternally faithful. Annette
Welcome Home Beth! So looking forward to seeing you tomorrow. It has been waaaayyyyy to llooonnnggg! The last time was in Memphis two years ago. Coming up from Texarkana with anticipation in my heart to hear a Word from our great and awesome God. Praying for you and the team.
Love,
Teresa
Beth, I have been meaning to tell you this for years….I am a professional Christian Counselor, and I direct a Christian counseling center in Hendersonville, NC. You don’t realize it, but you actually partner with us in the trenches every week as we work with the wounds and the pains that come our way. Many women have completed your bible-studies as a required part of their counseling process, and the results have been amazing. I pray for a sweet time for you this weekend – it was just last week I was sharing with my staff the bitter-sweet experience for me of journeying back home. May you enjoy the sweetness of it, and also be reminded of what God can redeem!!
Going Home can be the most joyful stress we ever face. Like in the movie, ON GOLDEN POND, the daughter played by Jane Fonda, had conquered New York, but when she came home she reverted back to childhood.
You are in my prayers. May His anointing be on you greater than ever, to over come and break though any strongholds that may try to rear their ugly heads. You are beautiful, you are called and you are equiped!
Go Get’um girl! Love you!
Dear Sweet Beth, I’ve just prayed and asked the Lord to bless your socks off and keep you in His safe care! Praise Him and let your precious recipients know how crazy in love you are with Jesus!!
I am so excited to attend my first LPL in Little Rock this weekend!!! I am currently doing Breaking Free and wow has it rocked my world! God speak to us this weekend … heal my broken heart.
So may we call the LPM offices just to tell them how much you (and we) love and appreciate them even if we’re not going to AR? 🙂
Praying for y’all!
I will be praying for all that attend and for the lady who is going to be God’s mouthpiece for the weekend 😉
Praying that when you depart that all those ladies (and men)of Little Rock will stand on the Big Rock of Gibraltar, the Lord Jesus, until the end of days.
WE CANNOT WAIT FOR YOU AND THE PRAISE TEAM TO ARRIVE!
Out in the crowd somewhere there will be about 15 women from a Meadowlake Missionary Baptist Church of Conway AR.
We are so excited to praise and worship our Lord Jesus Christ with you and yours!
Prayers for safe travels for you and for the message that you have for us!
See ya there! Love ya!
Praying for you and the team, Beth! I’m also praying for all the women who will be attending that God will speak to them and show his GREAT love for them! love you guys! 🙂
jennie
Beth Welcome back to ARKANSAS—— GO HOGS GO
I can’t wait to hear/see what the Lord is going to do. I’m super excited!!! Be careful.
Whooooo Hoooooo
I am almost packed and ready to head out for that long crooked drive down from the Ozarks!
See you tomorrow!
This siesta is asking Father God to richly anoint you, Beth, that your ear would be completely tuned to Him. That your heart would beat in sync with His. I pray that every person that attends this LPL this weekend would have their hearts softened and prepared by our Lord God ready to receive what He has for them. I pray for healing, restoration, and reconciliation among His people that unity would abound and that His love would be the characteristic that is manifested as a result. In Jesus name amen
Kels,
My heart was so touched with the words of your prayer. I, for one, am claiming those words for my life this weekend. Thank you for praying for those who will be attending. I need the healing you prayed.
One of your siestas,
Teresa
Karen from Kentucky NIV 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
“My soul is stirred up like a mixer on high in a bowl full of cake batter splattering all over the kitchen.” How I love your descriptive words! Not hard to tell what you are feeling reading this. I have experienced some of those feelings myself when heading back to where some of the hardest times of my life took place. I also found God’s healing in that same place. I know God will bless you there and bless the women who attend through the message He has give you.
Oh how I love this blog and all the siestas and you dear Beth. Praying for you as you go! Ditto to all the comments left so far. Jesus be praised for His amazing ability to heal us from the inside out. Going home can sure stir us like nothing else can, but bring such wonderful healing too!
Women of Arkansas get ready to never be the same. God is going to do someting wonderful for you.
~Vickie~
I love you and I’m praying for you!
Beth, so sorry to miss this one! We always eagerly anticipate your coming to Arkansas or to Tulsa or Oklahoma City. HOWEVER, it’s my last son’s PROM on Saturday and I would not be able to get home until after the PROM activities had started. Would love to be with you all in worship and Word, but so excited for this last prom and praying that I do not cry!
Blessings to you all!
Praying for you and your team this weekend….You are such a blessing to us all, I pray for peace within your spirit in the coming days…
I have a prayer request: my sister attended your Fresno event and said your topic was exactly what she needed…however juts a couple of weeks later she’s praying for a reason not to give up. she says she has little faith left. Please pray for her. A refreshment of Jesus’ love in her life to come alive and renew her in Him. Thank you.
Connie, I am in prayer right now for your sister with you. I know the substance of the topic. I pray for the refreshement that only the Holy Spirit can bring. Father God, I come before you and I ask that from the very core of Connie’s sister you would bring to her heart and mind the words of encouragement that lifted her spirit a few weeks ago. Let the very word she needs rise up and displace any discouragement and fill her with with an overwhelming sense of your presence. In Jesus name. Amen
I will pray for your time in Arkansas. I thank the Lord for you regularly…your obedience, your humility, your sense of humor, your modesty, your love for God’s Word and the way He has gifted you to see other women grow in the Lord. I am reminded of something you said during ESTHER study videos: “You can’t amputate your history from your destiny.”
Thanks for sharing…..Kristy
Can’t wait to see you tomorrow! Safe travels!
Beth, praying for this to be a precious weekend for you to rest in the shadow of the Almighty in you homeland! I just have this feeling that the harvest this weekend is going to be HUGE!! I do hope y’all will tape this one b/c I would love to see how God shows up with my own eyes!
Love you so much!
P.S. I am specifically praying that the enemy will never be more sorry that he messed with you than he will be this weekend! Do it, Lord!
This Arkansas girl is stuck in Iowa but wishing I could be with all of you this weekend. Say hi to my MIL and her sweet Bible study group from Malvern, AR!
Have the most splendid time!! Going home is always the best ~
Praying for you and the LPL Team as you minister in Little Rock, Arkansas. Thank You, Lord for leading Beth and the LPL team this far. Give them Your directions for this event so that they may walk in Your path for them. “God is with thee in all that thou doest.” Genesis 21:22
I have so many friends going. Wish I could get 1/2 a ticket. HA! I could go Friday but not Saturday!! Will be praying!
I meant I’ll be praying for the conference, not a ticket. Did that make sense???!!!
Hi Ms. Beth.. LOVE, LOVE, you and your teachings.. I pray the women going to that conference are touched and that you leave all you were meant to in Arkansa, in Jesus, Holy, name, AMEN. Thank you for all you do for us, women! Have fun back home!
I wish I could be there with you, Beth. You are in my prayers and thoughts. I know you will have a spiritual impact on thousands of lives in your hometown especially because of the commonality that you share with these women. God Bless you!
Praying for you Mama Beth and all those precious ladies who gather at the feet of Jesus!!
Blessings!!
This Arkansas CPA sure wishes you weren’t coming on April 15!! I’ll be praying for your time in Little Rock & looking forward to hearing all about it from my “siestas” who will be there!
“I have hard memories. I have wonderful memories.”
And that’s why we believe you when you say we can do this thing called life.
We love going “home” —— Little Rock has certainly changed in the 35 years since I got married. Houston is home, but the hills of Arkansas will always be “home”. Peace and blessings on the weekend.
Praying for you as you head “home”. May God grant you many new sweet memories to replace the hard ones. Mostly, I pray for His presence to be so evident to you that you think of Him and praise Him for lifting you out of the pit and bringing you closer to Him each day. Bless you, In Jesus Christ,
Faith
May God bless your trip. Now, you can look through the eyes of a blessed, loved child of God at your past. May He bless you healing!
Oh, how I do so wish I could be there this weekend. Little Rock is the closest you well be to me this year but for the last few years I have been unable to purchase a ticket or be able to afford a hotel room for the weekend due to the fact that I lost one of my two jobs a couple of years ago and I am not even able to pay my mortgage and regular monthly bills much less be able to buy a ticket even though everything in me longs to be there with ears wide open waiting to see what our awesome LORD has to say to me. You and all of those attending will be in my prayers as God moves mightily in the lives of those in Arkansas this weekend.
“Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.” Jeremiah 32:17
Dear Sister, do not let the ticket issue keep you from coming this weekend! See yesterday’s blog post about a ticket offering, and call our office. Ask for Kimberly or Susan. 1-888-700-1999. Grin.
Beth, we have longed for this day & we’re so ready. Bring it.