My beloved Sisters,
Thanks is too small a word for the privilege to serve you. You are graces of a merciful God to me. How I pray God revealed Himself to you in an intensely personal way today. Here is the equipping that I promised in the simulcast to those who are ferociously ready to forsake fear and take courage. You will find a cover sheet for your notebook, a letter from me suggesting how to use the resource, and enough verses to keep you well immersed for a good while. They are life and liberty to any of you who, like me, have battled a stronghold of fear but they are also vastly useful when you are facing a temporarily intimidating or frightening situation, like surgery or a speech in front of your class or a hard conversation requiring you to speak the truth in love. It doesn’t matter what circumstances are tempting you to fear and to shrink back from your faith and your calling, you are invited and even commanded by God to take much courage. It is your right of daughtership, “for you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons [and daughters!], by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’” (Romans 8:15)
By all means, you are welcome to openly share this link with anyone else who could use this kind of equipping, whether or not they joined us for the simulcast.
You’ll need Adobe Reader to download the booklet, so if you don’t have it already, you can click here to download it for free.
Stay in the Word, Sisters! You are chosen and loved by the sovereign King of all creation and the calling on your life demands power and insight that only He can bring. Trust Him. He cannot do you wrong.
Christ is life,
Beth
Hi Beth,
I was so blessed by your encouragement and message. I feel like I’m in a “waiting” period – in His Word, listening for His voice, and watching where I can join in with what He is already doing – so your message was spot on for me.
Can you share the prayer you prayed for this “sister”?
Blessings and Love, Gail
How God works, I just asked for the same thing-a copy of the prayer that this sister also accepted!
Warmest of greetings to you, Beth:) I completely felt the prayers of many at our simulcast location. You spoke a lot of truth over us via His direction and empowering of the Spirit. The Lord showed me things about myself that need to be repented of and prayed over, and courage taken over. I plan on using those verses you have posted for us. I’m thanking God for you today, Siesta Mama Beth. I’m praying that you are still being blessed in His Presence. Many ((HUGS)) to you. Love you much Sister.
Oh Beth if I could only telling you want a great word you carried to me and god Place in my hearts. Weeks before sept. 15 God has bought a teacher in my life. I ask why would this woman that doesn’t know me help me. He told me that I asked for help. I asked for the relationship with him the closeness with him. So I sent you help it is your choice. this Woman listens to me helps me to know how to Stop, Ask and Listen to our Lord. Wow what a change of heart he is doing in my life. I am not complete yet but I am on my way. Then the message you bought to me. do I want to live Fine or do I want to live an unexplainable life. Fear… has been the block that As stood between me and freedom. (along with so many others that he is working on.) fear to face the past… Fear that he will leave me not forgive me. but do I want to give up my fears and replace them with the truth that he tells me or do I just want to go through life fine…again he tells me just believe my choice… went to church today want was the message that God wants a relationship with me am I willing to to give my whole heart to him… WOW what a Lord we have….praise him and his Holy name… this year alone he sent me a friend to walk me into church ( fear over took me and I was having attacks just thinking about walking in the door) He bought me a friend from miles away to give me the tools to overcome and draw closer to him… He sent you with a message to give me… This year is a year of Change for me… I pray that God with Bless you, your family and LPM thank you for being a part of my story.
Thank you Beth and Living Proof Ministries for the September 15, 2012 Simulcast! It was amazing! Just what we needed to hear. Our pastor of 20 years Dr. Mike Shy from Eastside Baptist Church Mountain Home, Arkansas was killed in a motorcycle accident September 3rd and he had been very excited about hosting the simulcast. Our ladies ministry, although still hurting, worked and prayed hard this past week to go ahead and bring the Simulcast to the women of Mountain Home. The charge given to us to go! March on! was exactly what our hearts were feeling before the simulcast and to have it confirmed was absolutely life changing! Love you! March on!!!! Till He returns!
Jayme
Our Dear Beth, I cannot begin to tell you how much your Bible studies have helped not just me, but so many other women at our church in Bethlehem, PA. It was a joy-filled thrill to see and hear you yesterday in Reading. Your knowledge and enthusiasm that you convey in your studies has helped me to become better acquainted with God and Jesus and to feel them more deeply in my prayer life. Thank you for your tireless ministry—and all of your energy!! Many of us would love to sit and talk with you for a few hours, in comfort, of course, and with a bit of shopping before we get to the really serious stuff. Thank you for bringing more blessings into our lives.
Thank you, Beth! I prayed in the morning that God would show up for me in a big way. He did in such a big way that only God can do. Can you post the prayer that you prayed over me? Thank you, sister, for coming along side God in His work! Joni
Thank you so much for the blessings and the information during the simulcast. I look forward to seeing you if/or when you come to visit Seattle/Tacoma, Washington State-,
With Christ love, Jodi
Thank you for The Great Forsake and Take! I started this morning…Lord, increase my faith! I am ready to trust you more, to know you more, to love you more!
And thank you, Beth, for the beautiful prayer you prayed over me yesterday. That was so powerful. Is there any way you could publish that on the blog too? I’d love to have that to pray back through!
As one of “many many women” I feel inspired and uplifted to spread the good news. Thank you Beth, from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you and Thank God!!! I attended the simulcast yesterday as part of Northridge Church in Saline, MI
Blessed beyond words!!!!! Beth you are a remarkable woman!! Thank you for allowing God to use you to change so many lives by sharing his word. I pray for you and your family to be blessed!!!! I just loved the entire worship service, and everything about the day!!
Just wanted to tell Beth, Travis, Praise team and all those that work together in making a simalcast go on. I applaude you. For hours of work, study and preparation for the simulcast, that our God receive the Glory for working through you and in you as only He could. You were right in my world. Right where I am at, in my lessness world. I have had many bad things go on with my youngest daughter for nearly 7 years or so, and this year, one thing after another, praying and praying, and seemingly things just get alittle worse. I want God to show up and show off in my world. I want Him and Him alones to get the glory, but this soilder is weary. Thank you for the Word that brings life, I do want to finish well. I want 5 months from now to say, who is this Lord?
In Christ, with much gratitude for your obedience.
Cindy Bowen
Hi Beth, family and team! I thank you and the Lord with everything in me for yesterday’s conference. Until the third segment of that conference, I was held down by enormous and destructive fear, most of my life. I always saw it, knew it and felt it as “inside” of me, hopelessly so. In my 20-year walk, I was never successful at conquering it, even though, I knew how. God sent you to come alongside me. You helped carry my burden by praying for me. During the third part of the conference, during prayer and listening, and then you, Beth, praying over me, Jesus supernaturally removed all of my fear. I was so ready, so tired, so ashamed of it. But it helped so much to consider whether I wanted to continue being one of those people that everyone thought “had it all together”, or whether I wanted to be set free. Once my fear was removed, Jesus showed me that it was no longer “in” me, but was away from me, beside me at a distance, and He and I were leaving it behind. I am filled with joy! And so grateful for the “Forsake and Take” scripture list. I will use this to equip me to help others, and to protect me. Thank you for your labor of love. Huge fruit!! May God Bless each and every one of you! Love and joy, Tammy Lueras, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
The simulcast was INCREDIBLE. I watched it solo at home due to a back injury but I felt like I was surrounded by 6,000. Praise God. I watched using the delayed feed and i wanted you to know that after the event I went back and wrote down the prayer you said over all the sisters. I did that with one plan in mind and that was to pray it over you Beth. God Bless you. He sure showed up yesterday. I downloaded your Great Forsake and Take to “spred the news” to 2 friends that couldn’t be apart of the simulcast. Thank your for sharing.
Blessed beyond words – and so thankful that God takes every message and applies it to the individual needs of 150,000 people at one time!
I’m wondering if there is a way to get the video that played during the afternoon intermission – I wrote all the phrases down, but if there is a place to get the entire video, I won’t have to reinvent the wheel : – )
Love you, Beth – thank you for being my mentor for all these years!
WOW! The simulcast was awesome. Thank you Beth, the Lord spoke to me now I need to get busy with my Fear & Courage scriptures.
Thanks Beth for your faithfulness to be passionate to God and to us ladies. This year I missed the first simulacast that I have been able to go to in a long time as I was away retreating last weekend. Your booklet was a great idea for those who missed what was said. Fear is the opposite of faith. Increase our faith Lord!
Thank you for always speaking the truth! God has truly anointed you with His Holy Spirit! You bless so many people! I can see that Jesus Christ lives in you! Thank you so much for sharing your message of revival to women all across the world!
Beth, you rocked the house today, and your love and “faith” fullness could be felt through the screen.It was so awesome to see how much you prepared for this day and truly want to bring all women to Jesus! You love us so much, and it is easy to feel it. September 15, 12…… the day that FEAR became a 4 letter word and left my vocabulary. No more of it, SHALOM, get up and out of my life!! I have my own jar of oil, and it will be a constant reminder of the day that will forever change my life, and I re-commited my life God. I will be the recipient of an unexplainable, miraculously, abundant life enjoying all of the promises of God. Thank you just doesn’t seem enough. I love you so much for pouring your life into us! Your Sweet Siesta in Christ, Kelly
Hi Beth & Crew,
Yesterday Sept. 15th My friend Claudette & I went to your conference in Griffin Georgia at Oak Hill Baptist. We had an awesome time. We were both blessed.Your message was clearly for me!
Thanks for your ministry& you! You are one-in-a-million! Thank You
As always I am in awe of our AWEsome God!My husband and I pastor a church in Richmond VA and I was at the live simulcast yesterday with some of my sisters. I have to tell you that what you spoke on was confirmation for us in so many ways! Beth you spoke words that the Lord led me to speak the very same words the day before to a dear sister. Second hand stories, opening the jar ( which was prophesied over us the Saturday before!), the pull of the enemy! I went home so fired up it was amazing! I swear I preached a sermon at the dinner table! When i shared with my husband what you spoke on his mouth dropped open and said he was sharing the same story of the Shumanite woman (girl z) tomorrow at church! Thank you for being obedient, thank you for getting past your fears. You have paved a road for your younger sisters and made some of it easier for us to believe in our miracles because you so willingly share yours! I praise God for you and your team and of course Mr. Travis Cotrell! Tell him the worship was right on!
Still thinking about Woman Z. Still relating to “don’t mess with me”. I read and study Scriptures, but there are times I do not believe they can apply to me. I believe for others, but not myself. It has kept me frozen and fearful to grow. I pray this booklet will help me believe that ALL God’s promises are for all who believe even me!
Thank you for your message and your FAITHfullness.
Dear Beth,
This is going to be long, for there isn’t a way to shorten the incredible works of God. After attending your simulcast with my coworkers and friends I God chose to reveal Himself in a very tangible yet applicable way to what I learned about myself yesterday. Yesterday I made a promise to Him that I would go home and download and print the fear scriptures you had commented about. The reason for this is I have been dealing with fear for a long time and as someone who is serving and has served in leadership in ministry, the first fear to overcome is that others will ‘find out your not perfect’… that was accomplished at lunch as I told my coworkers how fear often grips and paralyzes me from moving forward. I am currently a student at Southeastern and a grandmother of 2 incredibly beautiful gifts from God. God chose to wait until I had the realization that I was old enough to be my classmates’ mother before He called me to become a teacher of His word with a degree in Practical Theology. Who says He doesn’t have a sense of humor? I have been teaching His word through Sunday School, Women’s ministry and children’s ministry for years, but He decided I needed a formal education, so now to add to my grandmotherly duties and wifely duties is school. All that to say I had an assignment that was due and I hadn’t had time to work on it, so I was determined to take the time that I had promised to set aside this morning for “Him” and devote it to studying and completing the project becaue of my fear it may not be done on time. It was then the Holy Spirit kind of nudged me on the inside with a throat clearing sound and a quick glance at my devotional spot which drew me away from my school work and enabled me to begin my download and spend time in the Scriptures before having to go to teach children’s church. After I finished reading them I felt good, but nothing really jumped off the page but the title “Fear and Courage: The Great Forsake and Take”. Two days ago my husband was running and found a ring. He had told me about it but it was in casual conversation and I kind of dismissed it. He said that the ring was not real gold or silver and it had something written on it but he didn’t remember what it was. This morning after I had finished my reading of those scriputures and was getting ready for church he came into the bathroom and said “oh yeah” I forgot to give you that ring I found, let me go and get it. You don’t have to keep it, maybe just give it to the girls if they want it. He handed me the ring and for a moment I couldn’t say anything, thr greatness of God in the small and insignificant things became so relevant to me that I remained speechless. The ring does not fit on my ring finger or else it would be there, but it does fit on my pinkie. I now proudly display a ring that says “courage” on my pinkie my tangible reminder that without fear God has called me to be one of the many many women who spread the good news about Jesus and His endless loves toward us. Thank you for being so transparent with your struggles, it has given me the ability to know that I can be transparent with mine and do so without fear….God bless you.
Love this!!! Abba Father is sooo amazing to let us know He is right here with us
Dear Beth, Travis and the whole team. A mighty thanks on behalf of myself and the other 5 women who joined me in my living room, here just outside Oxford, England, to watch the simulcast yesterday. It was a joy and privilege to be a part of such an incredible day and I KNOW the Lord is going to answer our prayers and will do a MIGHTY thing in every one of us who opens our heart and lets Him in. Even this morning the Lord worked mightily in me during our church worship service and enabled me to let go of things that have been holding me captive. Praise you God. I already host a weekly bible study with some of the women from yesterday. But the others have asked me today if I will meet with them. They want to be serious about their walk with the Lord and want to get deep into His Word. I am trusting God to work mightily. Beth, will you ever come over to England? May you know a season of refreshing after all your hard work on our behalf.
Thank you so much, Beth. I attended the simulcast at FBC in Cross City, FL. It was truly a blessing. My friend and I were talking about how much your prayer touched us. Would it be possible to print that here? God really used it to speak to my heart. I’m praying that God will continue to strengthen you as you teach. God bless you.
Thanks be to our God! What an amazing day and weekend! My personal and work related schedule was so full this weekend, I just didn’t see any way I would be able to watch the simulcast. Late Friday night, I decided to sign up, get up early Saturday morning and start the download on my office computer. Then I went to compete in a 5K Walk/Run and even placed 3rd in my age division. I returned to work and sat at my desk to join the worship which had already begun 90 minutes before. With the miracle of technology and Silverlight Player, I was able to rewind to the beginning and pause throughout the day as I was interrupted during the presentation. Because of a previous commitment on my calendar, I had to pause the playback and was unable to return until Sunday evening. There was my paused simulcast, waiting patiently for my return. I rewound a little to get back into the message and was able to pray, praise, and worship as the presentation was completed by Beth, Travis, the Praise Team, and the wonderful host city in the Sovereign Center. What an awesome presentation and oh, how the Holy Spirit spoke to me through Beth’s prayer. Praise the Lord for His Mighty Power and work through this ministry. Thank you for sharing the booklet “Forsake & Take”. I’ve already printed out several copies to share with friends and family. What a Mighty God we serve! May many, many women take the challenge to share the good news! Amen & Amen!
I have a request that I hope won’t be too difficult. I really enjoyed the music that played over lunch break. There are two songs I cannot figure out/find.
One is a female singing, ” you have called me higher. You have called me deeper and I’ll go where you lead me, Lord.”
The other one is a man singing, “We are loved at the end of our rope. When we’re less, there is more of the Lord.”
Hope you can help! And thanks for the music on the break. It was encouraging for me listening in my home.
Hello Beth, In wanting to see God reach our city, I joined a prayer meeting for the recent event in Reading and there received a free ticket and so was able to be present on the 15th. I just want to say thank you for listening to the Lord. As I’m sure many others can say, you spoke right to my heart. The day was a great encouragement to me. I’m sharing the Forsake and Take scriptures with others.
I want to thank you all so much and give praise to the lord for you and your work. I have never seen you ministry before and yesterdays simulcast has changed everything. I felt electrified by the words, my eyes are turned to Jesus.
This week I am taking up the challenge, the printer is buzzing away as I write. I will be making special time for a relationship with Christ instead of flumping on the sofa at the end of the day! His spirit is coursing through me and I don’t ever want to let it go.
I was with a fantastic group of ladies at McDirmid Drive Alliance Church in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada to watch the broad cast.
Thank you and may God bless you all
Catherine Leslie
To Our Mama Beth
My heart is filled with gratefulness and amazement how our Lord works…words spoken…individual circumstances all different spoken to individually and…lives changed! The Lord showed Himself in a VERY BIG way at our Siesta gathering in January that my daughter and I attended together. Attending this conference in person was a gift in more ways than one….physically ~ it was a birthday gift from my daughter as well as spiritually – so desperately not “fine” with living life “ordinary” any more. I want to be ALL IN!(Z) I came to the conference with my heart grieving for my sister in Christ who is so empty today (A). I had asked to see if she would want to come but it was too soon. Just three weeks ago to the day of our gathering was asked to bury her 27-year-old daughter. As she wept last week at her daughter’s grave and spoke the words EXACTLY that you spoke regarding the Shunammite woman who said “If you were going to take “her- why did you even give “her” to me”. She prayed earnestly for a different outcome…she trusted…and now is dealing with picking up the pieces of a fractured marriage and family trying to just make it through to the next day. I desperately would love to be able to get her a copy of this event so that when she is ready…she can receive it as I am afraid I will not be able to convey through my notes the POWER of the Word! Thank you for the reminder that as Girlfriend Z and Girfriend A “do life together” we can trust Him with ALL our mysteries… We can forsake all the fears we have….bind our thoughts and claim the Word of Christ to demolish the enemy who can no longer kill, steal or destroy!
Beth, I thank you for your obedience. I heard myself in the stories of both women in 2 Kings. My beloved and precious daughter is dealing with many issues at age 14, and the joy of having her in my life has been robbed. I feel like God is messing with me. But I was reminded yesterday that there is hope. I would love to share my story with you in a less public setting. Thank you for blessing my life. Oh, and I too would like a copy of the prayer you prayed for ME! I hope you publish it here.
Thank you so much!!!
Shannon
Thank you for the awesome teachings yesterday!! You truelty are a gift to all of us!
Second msg : Can someone give me point #6 please and I too want the commission prayer . Many blessings
I am still flying high from the simulcast. Beth your prayer over us was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever felt. Praise God that He hears and that no distance is too great for Him to move through! I will never forget the message that I recieved from 2Kings 4. Thank you for sharing what God laid on your heart.
God didn’t call us to fine, He called us to faith. Maybe I’ll get a t-shirt with that on it.
Now is the time for many women to spread the good news!
Grace and peace
THANK YOU SO MUCH for being HIS vessel yesterday at the Simulcast! IT WAS AMAZING!!! God is already starting to do such a work in me. Yesterday was confirmation that with God NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE! I will continue to lift you and your family and their ministries up in prayer. Also, is there a place that I can get a copy of the prayer that you prayed at the end of the session yesterday…IT WAS SO POWERFUL!!! No matter what anyone says to you, Ms. Beth…You are truly anointed by God to teach HIS WORD! Thank you so much for sharing your life and ministry with us on such a personal level.
Blessed in HIS Presence,
Michelle
God definitely worked in our circumstances to get my friend and I to the simulcast … and our worlds were rocked. The material was fantastic, and hit home for both of us, although in very different ways! From A to Z, it was fantastic. Hope – and pray – this was recorded and will be available by dvd sometime soon!
Thank you so much! Great day yesterday, still can’t put it all into words but so thankful I could be there. Is there any chance to get a copy of the commissioning prayer?
Beth thank you for being a willing vessel to share the word with us with passion and power from the Holy Spirit. Is there any way that you could put a copy of that promise we paired up and shared with our sisters. It would be greatly appreciated.
I attended yesterday with a few of my friends at a sister church. I am woman A in this moment, struggling with the “right” thing to do with my spouse of 20 years. I grew so much yesterday, it’s a wonderful thing to have a woman that I can identify with from scripture and to have such a Word from God.
Now to the sweet part. Beth, I’m sharing because I can almost anticipate your reaction and because this will be your Word from God. My friend showed up at church today with a gift bag and handed it to me and inside………….. A JAR!
I will treasure it and yesterday for all of my days, thank you so much for being obedient to our Living Lord and Savior!
Dear Beth,
The simulcast yesterday was incredibly moving! At one point, something you said literally felt like you had knocked the breath out of me. My girlfriend sitting next to me felt it to and we were both immediately moved to tears. Wow. The ability God has given you to convey His words with meaning is a mighty thing. I suffer from anxiety and I am thrilled to hear you have taken back your ground from the enemy. How encouraging that is! I look forward to praying The Great Forsake and Take verses in the coming weeks. Thank for this gift, it is very much appreciated. I lead a study with several women and I am holding tight to this resource knowing it will be needed by someone in the future. Also, can I just say how amazing it was that you prayed for me at the end of the simulcast. You set it up perfectly, your writing was amazingly comprehensive and beautiful, and I could feel God’s presence in our location during. I was truly humbled that you would offer that prayer to those of us who want it. Thank you very very much. Hugs to my sister in Christ,
Karla
i just wanted to thank you. the worship yesterday was wonderful, i just print your blog and plan on getting into it. i first was blessed with your teachings 6 months ago, we did the proverbs lesson, i had just lost my husband and had alot of challenges in my life, as you could imagine, but your ministry really help me alot in so many different ways. i told other women, if your a women and you life on this planet, you need to do this. i plan on buying it so i can share with my sisters. going to start dueteronomy in a couple of weeks and looking forward to it and many more of your teachings. if god is willing, my sister lives in tucson and im going to try to go to the phoenix seminar in march of next year. again thank you for being such a wonderful vessel of gods words.
Dearest Beth, Sister in Christ,
What an amazing, amazing Simulcast yesterday. I got up at 6am here in Portland, OR so I could get all ready to watch and worship from my laptop. The devil was up to all kinds of havoc…trying his best to get me to miss out. But I just kept sating Jesus’ name over and over whenever I could feel the enemy scheming. The Lord was so faithful! There were no glitches that weren’t immediately righted, my family was occupied for those few hours and I just got to spend the morning with you and Jesus. Heavenly.
The message you spoke was powerful, to say the very least. The prayer you prayed over all of us at the end was heart stoppingly beautiful. I am so grateful for the ways you continually usher each one of us to the very throne of our God and teach us how to truly, madly, deeply fall more in love with our Lord and Savior. My pitiful ‘thank you’ can’t begin to tell you how blessed I am to be a student of yours.
May the Lord continue to pour His favor out on you, your family, and your ministry. You are a treasure and I thank my God upon each remembrance of you.
Blessings,
Shelly
Thank you
Dear Beth,
I am speechless. Completely speechless… You have received such an amazing talent. I am SO THANKFUL that you share it with me and every other women out there. Yesterday was a complete blessing for me. I have battled with fear unknowily for years. I was so moved by your message. I can’t thank you enough for your being so vulnerable and sharing your life with us. Thank you for being so obedient to the Lord. You encourage me to be a better woman, wife, mother, daughter etc. I look forward to studying the homework you gave us. I can’t wait to share it with others. Thanks again!
Under His Wings,
Your sister in Christ
Melanie Joas
P.S. Are you avaible for coffee sometime soon?
Beth, this was the first time my church has hosted one of your simulcasts and having no idea what to expect. I am still in awe of what happened in that building today. 102 women from around the central NY area gathered together not as women from this congregation or that, but as sisters in Christ. They talked back to you, laughted, cried and prayed together. I was moved to tears over and over. Many are requesting a copy of the prayer thst they feel you prayed just for them i hope you post it. I want to be that walking talking miracle with No more fear. So freeing and so blessed. Thank you for being obedient to His word and speaking a much needed to truth to all 150,000 of us. May He continue to use you mightly. And thank you Travis for the power and truth in the words you spoke and sang.
I really enjoyed the simulcast. Is there a copy of the prayer that you prayed at the end available?
Thank you,thank you,thank you!I wasn’t able to go because it was the same day as my Aunt Mildred’s 100 year birthday party in Point,Texas!
Hi, I was at the simulcast Sept.15 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada with 4 sisters. We thought the event was going to be thwarted because of technical difficulties; and we were prepared to pop a DVD in of another Beth Moore teaching event. We received the signal 10 minutes late and turns out you waited for us! Thank you!!
I just want to tell you that I (and my friends) were thoroughly blessed by what God was saying to us through Beth today. There were many tears of joy at the end of the day when Beth prayed for us. And she did pray for us – we were the ones that she was praying over.
Without going into alot of detail, our church small group ladies rented a Bed and Breakfast and made a weekend of it. One of us is well down the road of cancer and all of us were either Girl A or Z. So we had much to talk about and the time together was precious. Thank you, Beth, for being you and sharing this weekend with us. hugs.
I am so blessed to have experienced the live simulcast at the FBC in Wascom Texas. I am that woman you were praying for at the closing of the program. In the 10 years since I surrendered my life to Jesus Christ He has used me many times while reassuring me of His devotion in countless miraculous ways. The adventure was soo satisfying and then abruptly 4yrs ago my health changed drastically. The energy to serve was no longer abundant and I had to struggle to hang on to the hopes and desires of my heart. I wanted to be used because the thought of showing up empty handed when I am face to face with my King brings tears to my eyes and my heart breaks as I imagine that scene. As my energy wained the enemy came like a flood to tell me God did not want my sacrifice of service and in fact was against me and that was why this or that prayer was not answered as I had hoped. During this time of trial I would receive encouragement from many of my brothers and sisters in the faith and their words of love would bind my wounds. However deep down inside it became so hard to keep doing all I had to do. Going to work and raising my children as a single Mom is alot and I had service at church that I refused to give up. I would get in line to receive for every alter call for healing, knowing God was the only one that could restore my health. I just couldn’t understand why when there was sooo much I wanted to do I would have to suffer debilitating chronic exhaustion until I realized I had become girl Z. I had been telling of all His blessings in the past although I see he was trying to jolt me into having more faith for what He could do for me presently. I needed to stand on my blessing of healing rather than say its fine if its cancer or my time here is at the end. It never occurred to me anxiety was fear, as I became more and more anxious as prayers seemingly were going unanswered. I waited and waited and learned patience that not now didn’t mean not ever. I took comfort that the trial and tribulations did not keep me from clinging closer although the thought to run away was ever present. The enemy would say If He doesnt love or want you why beg to be loved and keep doing all you do? Praise God for the discernment that He doesn’t love like the world does. I was bombarded with thoughts of well am I not doing something right. I wondered about the formula as I felt like I was experiencing a Job experience. Friends were far off. Health and quality of life was diminished. There was ittle peace within my family. If there was some step I was failing to follow inorder to receive that which I know my God can provide then somebody PLEASE clue me in!!!! My Faith rested that God resurrected Jesus and I tell everyone that I can and encourage everyone I can. Woman can run her mouth for Jesus….I want you to know that there was a mighty move from the Holy spirit in the sanctuary yesterday. You empathsized the date Sept 15. I received a door prise from the lovely women’s ministry and one of the items was a daily devotional. When I got home exhausted but standing on the fact that my healing is on the way I opened the page for 9/15 It said rest in me my child this time devoted to me is meant to be peaceful not stressful. You don’t have to perform to receive my love. I have boundless, unconditional love for you. How it grieves me to see my children working for love trying harder and harder and yet never feeling good enough to be loved.. This devotional by Sarah Young was written by the grace of God and purchased by a woman of God I have never known and was presented to me at another Mighty Woman of God’s live simulcast that I was blessed to attend because another woman of God thought of asking me to attend with her. That is how God works…His unseen hand places so many intricate movements in place to bring about His good will for us to partake in. God brings the very thing His children need to receive the most to let us know He is right there along side us and He is as tangible as we will allow Him to be… many many women are called to speak so the ear that can’t hear his whisper will be told ” He is right here with us and He has died so we can be comforted in His embrace Wont you let him hold you now” The enemy will never be able to tell me I am unlovable God went out of His way to tell me I am.
You are right, Kim! The enemy will never be able to tell you that you are unlovable…He is so good to us and reminds us even when we forget. I praise God for meeting your need in a mighty way!
I also am in awe of the truth of Scripture: Luke 6:38. You stated in your post “This devotional by Sarah Young was written by the grace of God (SHE GAVE HER TALENT) and purchased by a woman of God (SHE GAVE HER FINANCES)I have never known and was presented to me at another Mighty Woman of God’s live simulcast that I was blessed to attend because another woman of God thought of asking me to attend with her (SHE GAVE HER TIME). This verse says:
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your lap. For with the same measure that you measure it shall be measured to you again. Their gifts have been relatively painless, and yet they blessed you and in turn you have blessed me! You are a living testament to this, Kim! Thank you! And God receives the Glory, Forever and Ever, Amen!
Dawnya,
I am so grateful to God for allowing us to see that His Word is Living and True…Then…Now.. and Forever more. It is just so cool that when He lives in our heart He shines for all the world to see through our faces… His Children….
I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your simulcast,I came away feeling do different,I so needed my faith back in my faithfulness.The prayer you prayed for us sisters,it just helped me and changed me in a mighty way.God Bless you Beth and your precious family.Terri