Columbia Commissioning
Hey, Darling Ones. I know that the Virginia Tech tragedy is what is utmost on our minds today - even mine as I wrestle to stay focused on my lesson for tonight - but I wanted to do as I promised. A number of you who attended the LPL event in Columbia asked for a copy of the words we spoke over one another at the conclusion. I didn't have it at work with me yesterday but I have it now. Here it is! May God manifest His tender mercies to each one of you today.
Count it a joy, Dear One
When life gets hard.
God is doing something huge!
He is also proving
That you are NOT a fake.
Be brave, Mighty Warrior.
Your God is with you!
When waves are crashing,
Stand to your feet,
Throw your head back
And feel the wind of the Spirit!
God is painting a masterpiece
With multi-colored trials.
Go forth and display
Divine special effects
To the great glory of God.
YOU CAN DO IT!
PS. If you get a moment, would you be gracious enough to pray for us in our Houston Tuesday night Bible study as we conclude our series on Proverbs tonight? God has been speaking a fresh word to me about prayer recently and I am more convinced than ever that certain things will happen in our individual lives only as a result of our prayer. I believe if you'd stop and pray, God will accomplish some things tonight among my beloved home girls that we'd otherwise miss in our here and now. Thank you so much!
posted by Beth @ 1:52 PM
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86 Comments:
Praying for God to give a new Word, a fresh Word just for you girls. May it minister in a deep way to each one and spill out over each family...wish it was a simulcast every week! Know that even as I go about my day, your Tuesday night study is on my mind and in my prayers.
Love,
Holly
Mrs. B,
After the way that the Lord has used you in my life--and everyone reading here--we would be cRaZy not to get just absolutely giddy over the opportunity to pray for you and your home girls as you continue to seek His face. The PRIVILEGE and the JOY is ENTIRELY ours.
Thanks for teaching me to keep my face in that book and speak up from my knees. You are too precious to me. Love you a million mexican burritos :D
Precious Beth, I stop right now to pray for you and your beloved ones in Houston. I pray for your fresh word about prayer to speak deeply to each life and for the Lord to use it mightily for His glory, drawing His dear ones closer to Himself. I pray for you to be strong and courageous and Spirit-filled as you teach, for your final Proverbs lesson to be rich and meaningful in the lives of those who hear you tonight. I pray for your group to experience His presence as never before as we all long to do - especially as we see the VT campus mourning today. May you speak His words creatively and in His truth and power tonight!
I love you!
Yes mam. Thank you for the privilege to be a part of it. Hugs and love from a youngin'...We believe you for 'more' Lord.
I will be praying for you and your study tonight.
I love you lots and lots,
Kristi
miss beth!! oh how sweet those words are! i wasn't able to go to the sc conference, but through the blog was able to give a precious lady and her friend (who were absolutely supposed to be there) my tickets! i can just hear you and the 17000 sistas (and travis..hehe) speaking these words over one another...
makes me think of 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 (and then some)...
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father oc compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have receieved from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation...."
our suffering is for our salvation and brings us closer to God! and we are able to relate to and comfort others in a way that we never would have been able to before!!
praise the Lord! for what the enemy means for evil, the Lord can turn to good!! :)
...kay back to paper writing...last one of my college career!! ahh! :) (give Him praise!)
Beth, I am honored to pray for you and your home girls and actually I prayed for you all very early this morning. Speaking of prayer, I have been reading David Jeremiah's book, Prayer the Great Adventure. This book is truly life changing and gives a whole new perspective on prayer. I learned that in Matthew 18:19-20, "I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in my name, there I am with them". I have that verse memorized but the new perspective I have on this verse is the word concert is another translation of the word rendered "agree". How cool is that? He said another word we could use here is symphony. We all can have a symphony of prayer or a concert of prayer for you and your home girls!!! Our prayers are music to God's ears! May God show up in a unique way and do something your eyes have not seen, ears heard, or mind conceived and may God reveal it to all of you by his Spirit!!
Beth,
I am one of your Houston homegirls and I saw those words that you spoke over you Columbia girls, I just wanted to weep. I had a conversation with the Lord the other day where I had a fit, and then after word I felt as though I should have known better.
The words that you posted were like a balm to me, and I wanted to thank you for your obedience in sharing them. God Bless,
Jennifer
You're right that this is a day of heaviness but THANK YOU SWEET ONE! These words you wrote for us came straight from the throne and were an arrow right into my heart! To God alone be the glory!
I believe the Father is speaking to all of us about the power of prayer as well and I will certainly be lifting you up this evening. Big things will happen if we but ask according to His will!
May God anoint you afresh tonight and may He alone be honored by your faithfulness!
SPEAK A WORD SISTER!
I am PRIVILEGED to pray for you - thanks for asking!!!
Your words are timely a girlfriend of mine is struggling at the moment and your commission is going directly to her - God is so faithful at times that it hurts!!!
Bless you Lord!
stopping to pray for you guys now. I teach bible study on Tuesday nights as well and I am trying to stay focused. I always include your study in my prayers as I pray for mine. Yesterday I prayed for yours then I was like "God and while you are there with Beth...please show up in power at mine...thank you that you are omnipresent!"
Off to pray now! love jenny
Beth, can I quote you on my blog? I know a lot of hurting believers who would find your words a healing balm...thank you...
It was such a blessing to join you and your "home girls" in Houston the evening of April 3rd. (I was the visitor from the little town of Tremont, Illinois). Little did my sweet husband know when he promised to take me to Bible Study, (while we were on Spring Break,visiting our oldest son who is on a two year teaching opportunity with TeachforAmerica in Houston), that he would be the direct beneficiary of the Bible study that night!!
To all the "home girls" who made me feel welcome...may God bless you richly. You will be in my prayers.
And as we closed our Breaking Free study this morning with session 10...a note to Beth. The message is timeless, you are so, so tender to it on these tapes that it makes all of us tender and vulnerable to what God has for each of us...please, don't change the tapes! If you want to update the introductions, perhaps that will "freshen" the package...but please, consider just keeping the originals...God is speaking mightily through a vessel that is humble, real, approachable and on the same journey with the rest of us...the passion is there, even if when you first recorded these, your current level of "confidence" in presentation or professionalism, might not have been.
Thank you for letting us see Jesus in you.
God bless you!
Vera Koch
Tremont, Illinois
Abby! lol....Can I please throw in 'a million chips and salsa' b/c I just feel incomplete without them.
Amanda & Beth: I know God has used this blog in incredible ways that I'll not list here. But I just had to give Him praise today in the midst of a heavy heart for one thing He's done here. I've met, and been united via email, with another college-aged 'sista' on here - Abby. Can I tell you what joy it has been to boast in the Lord with her!? (we'll spare you all of everything we get to share :) ). I am pretty sure we are going to get the chance to meet at the NC Conference. I suspect we'll be the ones bee-bopping around squealing for a bit too long. He is just too much fun sometimes!
Beth, I count it a privelage to pray for you and your ministry. May God do what only He can!
BETH, consider your sweet head prayed over (and your "home girls" too) may He bless you all with His mighty presence...as He so graciously did in SC for us this weekend!! Have a blast in His Word tonight!!
Beth,
I was in Columbia! I am a changed woman... I came in dead inside and left with a fresh touch of the Holy Spirit.
I love you!
N
Thank you for the commission! It made me cry when I read it again! I can't tell you what an impact it made on my life when you said..."Girl's you don't realize what we could be missing out on when we roll over and turn the alarm clock off!" (I know that is not exact...) but WOW I have been on my face since I have been home! The Holy Spirit really used everything you said about prayer to really minister to me! I have such a hunger for prayer I have never had before! THANK YOU PRECIOUS JESUS!! LORD PLEASE DO NOT LET ME LOSE THAT HUNGER!!! (I know there were a lot of people praying for me (us - at LPL Columbia) to get it! So it will be an HONOR for me to pray the same for your group tonight!
With much love and PRAYER! Emmy : )
Praying for you all right now.
And what beautiful words. Thanks for sharing it, I already printed it out for my devotional book.
Love, Michelle
Beth,
I will pray for you! I was at the Columbia conference. I came in, as Travis descibed, as looking alive outwardly, but inside I was dead.
I left with a fresh, life-giving touch of the Holy Spirit.
I love you!
N.
Beth,
I do not even know how to begin to express my graditude to our Father and his Holy Spirit and to you for your obedience and the laying down of your life to serve his body of believer, which I am so privileged to be counted as one. God has blessed me richly in so many different ways through you. I hope He's recorded them all and in eternity you will have time to see exactly the ways He used you and the impact your service had on my life, as well as many others. I know it will have to wait for eternity, for only then will there be enough time to express it all...
In the meantime, God's working in my life has taken on a new dimension this year and just the week before your event in Columbia, the enemy began trying to convince me that I was a fake or that this new depth of relationship with my God was fake. Holy Spirit strengthened me and I was able to take those thoughts captive, but how precious the words you posted on this blog, the words you spoke over the sistas in Columbia..."God is doing something huge! He is also proving that you are NOT a fake." How just like our God to prove Himself to me using the same words the enemy tried to use to distract me, to encourage me. Any and every thing Satan tries to use for harm, God uses for my good. Praise be to God, I can say that, and that I can see that.
I too will pray for your meeting this evening, knowing God hears and answers.
I'm so looking forward to Albuquerque next weekend. I'll see you there!
Much love and thanks,
Pamela
"Thank You For Virginia Tech Prayer"
Dear Beth,
Yes, I would be honored to pray for you now and everyday as I am one of the "prayer warriors" for LPM.
I am sitting here in tears with my VT hat and t-shirt on as I read that everyone of you there had been on your faces crying out to God for VT and families yesterday. God bless you mightily Sweet Girl - you and all the precious ones who prayed and are still praying!
We are Hokie Alumni here and live only a short distance from Blacksburg. My husband, Mark, played four years of basketball for the school from 1977-1981.
My nephew is an engineering major there now and he was not at Norris Hall that early so he escaped harm by being in lockdown at Hillcrest (dorm).
However, we do know one acquaintenance that was killed and also we have learned the shooter was from where my immediate family lives, Centreville, VA. This troubled young man lived only 5 miles from my former home and where my brother and family live now.
I feel like this is all so unreal, but it is real and I prayed and cried out to God on behalf of everyone and also to help me to help the others who will surely ask, "Where is a good God in all of this?"
We, who know and love HIM, would be in shock and grief but not without hope as many people may be.
Pray that God will use me in some way. I just want HIS light to shine through me and out to anyone and everyone daily!
I love all of you sista's,
Teri S.
Mrs. Beth, I'd be honored to pray for you! I've gotta tell ya, its crazy that you mentioned that about the importance of prayer in todays post because I've been thinking about what you said about it in SC so much..it's hit me so hard because as you said, when we sleep through that alarm in the mornin..we're not too convinced that certain things are going to happen as a result of prayer..haha i was gonna say that when you were askin us on sat. mornin what we had learned..you got right in front of me and even loooked at me, but haha i couldnt think fast enough...God blessed me so abundantly last weekend! I'm still overflowing with all that dang energy I got from you! I love it! I'm so thankful for your faithfulness to Him..it speaks volumes to me. Much Love in Him, Krista
My dear Beth, I'm praying that God will do more tonight at Bible Study than you could ever hope or dream.
In light of the tragedy yesterday, hearts may be ready to truly listen tonight and recieve what God has for each one.
The enemy meant it for harm but our God is going to use even this for His glory.
Keep lookin' up to the One who calls us by name.
I pray that the EVERYONE experiences the very presence of the Living God tonight. May He give you and the participants fresh wisdom and insight into His word which was written so long ago but is still applicable to us today. I pray that each person there falls deeper in love with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you for allowing us to work with you in this ministry through the power of prayer.
Our God is Amazing! I tell you, today I was having a really hard time and those words that you posted spoke to my heart! God knew what I needed to hear today, THANK YOU for sharing! As an English major and lover of words, that paragraph is beautiful! Thanks again and your bible study is in my prayers!
Love,
Anne Fruge
Little Rock, AR
Girl, it would be an honor to lift up specific prayers for you and your girls tonight!! I am thankful for your "weirdness," your honesty and your humility. The Lord has used you in my life more than you will know! Columbia was AWESOME! I pray that you and your team are well rested to be able to focus on Him better than you would weary!
Love you much!!
Mindy
PS And, I GOT IT this weekend. :)
Praying Deuteronomy 32:2-3 over you my precious sister...."that your teaching would drop as the rain, your speech distill as the dew, as the droplets on the fresh grass, and as the showers on the herb...as you proclaim the name of the Lord and ascribe greatness to our God!" May our God thwart the plans of the enemy for the Bible study tonight and may those in attendance see and hear Him and Him alone! In the name of Jesus, I confidently ask, AMEN!
I will be honored to pray for you and your Houston Girls tonight.
Thanks for teaching me, Beth!
Hello Ladies:
I have never done this blog thing before! Anyway, I have been praying for the event coming up in Albuquerque, NM, for months. A friend and her older teenage girls are coming with me, and they have no background with our Savior! I know God will be huge, like He was for this conference!
My 4-year-old little girl looks in the sky and during a sunset where there is hot pink, she says "mommie - just look what Jesus painted for me!" I say yes he does love you that much to paint your favorite color in His sky, just for you! I know He will do the same for all of you, and for those hurt at Virginia Tech.
Love,
a fellow sista!
Every Season has a Reason -- Beth: thank you for the Word this weekend! Praying for DSFX in my life - I GOT it!
Precious, precious Beth!!!
I have just prayed for you, your homegirls, (OHHHHHHHHH to be one of your homegirls!! Father, can I move to Houston?? Huh, huh, can I, can I????) and your Tuesday evening study. Not only am I praying about your study there physically located in Houston, I'm praying for God to open the podcasting lines so that we all might learn as He teaches you.
God bless you real BIG!!!
HUPOMENO!!
Beth,
What a blessing you are to my heart. Thank you so much for sharing your heart - your REAL heart. I am happy to pray for you and your "homegirls" tonight. I know that God will bless you. My heart was changed in Columbia. I know He works in mighty ways.
Precious Beth,
I am so jealous for you and your home girls tonight, to know the overwhelming power of God as you conclude this final chapter in this Study. It is indeed a sweet privilege to lift you before His throne, and know that He will answer beyond our wildest dreams. I so wish I could be there to sit in on the teachings! Can I consider myself a "home girl" even in Louisiana?
How awesome to realize that God's power, peace, and love is not dimished no matter how many call upon Him in need. He is able to minister to all of the hurting ones in Virginia, and still show up in your study in Houston tonight with EVERYTHING that each of you need from Him. I know He will show up big!
Love you,
Linda
Hey Beth,
God already put you and my Houston sisters on my heart when I was in the prayer closet at church this morning and I prayed for you - maybe at the same time the prayer team was consecrating the sanctuary. As I type this I'm praying from Romans 8:26-27. Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
It is my joy to pray for you.
Blessings to you and all the Houston home girls,
Anonymous Prayer Warrior
PS: God is teaching me something during this season of my life and thus requires me to remain anonymous.
Wow, very powerful.
Praying for you. Thank you for sharing with us. God has been talking to ME about prayer in my life, too...
This is the first time I have ever blogged so I don't know if I am doing it correctly. I was in Columbia! Oh what a BLESSING! I turned to my sister and said, "Beth and the Lord are speaking directly to me, what are all these other people doing here?" My sister knows my situation and said she thought the same thing.
On Monday of last week our home was auctioned in a foreclosure auction. We are trying to get the mistake straightened out. It is a mistake but we ARE in terrible financial trouble. I teach high school special ed and my husband works construction. I am facing the storm and feeling the waves crash upon me. I know there are DSFX all around me. God will not forsake me. My husband quit going to church about a year ago. Please help me with your prayers.
Done! With lots of love and thanks for your wonderful ministery!!!
YES! Consider yourselves prayed for. Prayer opens doors and changes things that, I believe, wouldn't happen without it. I'm more and more convinced that I need to be on my knees more and more.
Thanks for sharing the blessing with those of us who weren't in Columbia. It struck a chord with me today after viewing session 2 of When Godly People Do Ungodly Things at Bible study this morning. God uses suffering to teach us things we wouldn't learn any other way--it's been so true in my life.
While I wouldn't wish heartache on anyone, I also wouldn't trade the suffering I've experienced for anything. It, more than anything else, made God real to me in a way he'd never been before.
God bless you abundantly!
Beth, your "Columbia Commissioning" was such a blessing to me today. I truly needed to be reminded of those truths. My prayers are with you and your wonderful women tonight!
Love,
Vickie
Lord, I just thank you for women like Mrs. Beth who pour out their heart for your glory. Use her, dear Jesus, to bring about streams of living water in the women under her. Lord, teach them new and unsearchable things tonight as they meet. Things about themselves, things about you and things about your word. Be Big, Jesus. Show them your glory! We trust you to do that which only you can do. Spark their spirits. Give them a new fire for you and life in you. May your Proverbs settle into their hearts and may it come out of their mouths. Thank you for what you have planned. I come to you, you alone, dear Jesus, and ask you to do something amazing in that place tonight. Thank you, my Lord. I love you and wait to hear of your glory!
In Jesus's holy name, Amen!
I am sitting here thinking of you guys rocking out praise in Houston. Sending prayers up for all of you beautiful women.
Dear Beth
I have and will continue to pray for you and your ministry. (may our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ bring hope and healing to our sistas in Houston.) It is an honor to pray.
I teach in a small private Christian college for women. I love my girls and we have all been reminded how fragile and temporal this life on earth is. But I know our Lord is doing something huge. How much longer, Lord? As the song goes I believe "soon and very soon we are going to see the King. Hallejuah!"
Much love and prayers to you Beth and my sistas!
Kristi B.
Beth,
Thanks so much for sharing the words we spoke over each other on Saturday. It is a true privilege to pray for you and your Houston girls tonight.
Love,
Dianne
Thank you for allowing my husband and I to pray for you. We stopped what we were doing and went to the throne of grace for you and your "home girls". As we prayed the spirit was all over us. He is definitely going to move tonight! Praise Him!! My "home girls" and I were at the Columbia conference and God really moved and spoke to all 15 of us. God is so good how He can minister to each of us on such a personal level.
Thank you sista! You are always in our prayers - God bless!
Beth,
As I looked in my sweet friend's eyes and gave her this commission while receiving it myself, tears just rolled down my cheeks. The words pierced like nails into my soul, and I GOT IT!!!! I so got it. Thank you for bringing from our precious Lord right to me. I have already copied the commission and placed it above my family's daily schedule. I will look at it multiple times each day and remember who I am in Christ. Thanks for an awesome conference.
Beth,
What can I say - this past weekend was a technicolor, DSFX mark on my lifeline...I attended the conference in Columbia with my 86 year-old mother and my two daughters - 21 and 26. We came from Tampa, NC and SC - meeting at my Mom's house in Sumter. We even brought along my mom's close friend and Sunday School teacher who is also 86. It was difficult for them to move through the crowds and handle the steps, but what a wonderful experience they had!!! I heard Miss Lucie Anne tell my mom on Saturday morning, that they really could use this for a Sunday School lesson!! Sharing the time with three generations was just about more blessing from God than one aging Carolina Girl can handle. My prayers were that my daughters would "get it" - they more than got it - we all got in the car and listened to this song by Susan Ashton over and over -
Artist: Susan Ashton
Song: Stand
With visible breath, I'm calling your name
With visible tracks, I'm finding my way
With a sorrowful heart, I honor this pain
And offer these tears to the rain
In a moment of truth at the top of the hill
I open my arms and let go of my will
And stand with my face to the wind
With the storm beating down on this sacred ground
If I stand for the grace that I've known
For what I believe
Then I won't stand alone
No I won't stand alone
There's a new pair of eyes to embrace all I see
A new peice of mind and it comes quietly
There's a joy in my heart that you've given to me
And I offer this soul's melody
So I beat on my chest till my song has been sung
And I cry like a wolf at the top of my lungs
And stand with my face to the wind
With the storm beating down on this sacred ground
If I stand for the grace that I've known
For what I believe
Then I won't stand alone
No I won't stand alone
When the thundering voices of doubt try to shake my faith, oh
I'll be listening from inside out and I won't be afraid to
Stand with my face to the wind
With the storm beating down on this sacred ground
If I stand for the grace that I've known
For what I believe
Then I won't stand alone
No I won't stand...I won't stand alone
Thank you Beth for sharing the gifts that God has blessed you with, thank you for sweet, sweet moments, Kathy
Sweet Beth,
I have just had time to read the request for prayer for the Tuesday night Bible Study and I have prayed for you and the Houston girls. Thank you for being so transparent. God is using you so tremendously in my life.
As my sweet dear friend and I spoke those commissioning words over each other, tears spilled down both our faces. It was so very precious to us both. I love you for bringing those words to us.
Thank you again for an awsome conference in Columbia. God so blessed us with great weather for our 6 hour drive and some sweet fellowship in catching up on many things.
God has so blessed my sweet friend and I to allow us to come to many of the conferences. Each one providing a different message so "right" for our hearts to grasp at that very time. God put us in Columbia "for such a time as this"
Praise Him!!!!!!!!!
We so got it!!!!!!!!!
Blessings to you and your sweet family.
Love,
Sharron
Beth,
I am praying for your ladies tonight...that they would come to know the reality of how important prayer is and that it truely is our direct link to Our Father. May your words be a blessing to them.
PLEASE keep praying for us here in VA. I have received word that a dear student I mentored during her high school years has been directly affected by this tragedy......her dear friend is in the ICU. The shooter lived not far from me and the police are an even greater presence in our high schools because many students who died were from the schools here.
Our area was turned upside down during 9/11 because of the Pentagon and now the Lord is allowing us to face this crisis. PLEASE pray that our churches will be a place of healing for all the people here in Fairfax County and that the gospel message will be spread. Pray that people will hear the healing message of Jesus Christ and that there will be no retaliation on the shooters family. Pray our high school students will put their trust in Jesus and seek security from Him and that the Lord will give us the right words at the right time for the VA Tech students who are coming home this week.
God IS a God who answers prayers and I know HE will show Himself glorified through all of this. Thank you for praying!
On my knees in Springfield, VA
EVT
Lord God, do Your thing in the Tuesday night study. May lives be forever changed by Your truth and love!
And may each one including the teacher gain new understanding about Your wisdom, and what a precious gift you desire to pour out in our lives!
Bless each one and pray for traveling mercies for their way home!
In Jesus name!
Amen
k
Dear Precious Beth,
It is an honor to pray for you and your girls. May God be with you and spill His love and wisdom into each heart.
love,
Tammy
Prayer is with you as
The Journey Continues~
"Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me.
Psalm 119:133
I have been sitting here at the computer reading each one of the above sista's blogs and find such peace in knowing there are believers all over this world uplifting one another in prayer.
My heart aches for the families that have lost their precious ones in this horrific ordeal at VT. Sista's lets pray for healing across our nation. WE MUST LOVE OUR CHILDREN!!! I recall my son inviting a young boy (who had no friends) over for dinner at our home and as we held hands in prayer he was shaking. Then during the meal he shared that his goal was "to become just like the Unabomber."I talked with this young boy and began praying for him. I ended up contacting the school because several young people were afraid of him and his actions. He ended up leaving the school ~ I ran into him several years later on our vacation and he pulled me aside and thanked me for taking the time to pray for him. He said he really wanted to hurt others and that he was so angry at life. I don't no what the future holds for him but we MUST REACH THESE CHILDREN WHO ARE IN SUCH DARKNESS. Be aware of who your children are playing with, hanging with, talking online with, Help us direct our footsteps according to YOUR WORD.
With " Heaven Bound" blessings,
Kim Safina ~ Exeter, CA.
Wow! I wasn't at the conference but I sure wish I was. I read this blog almost everyday and it speaks to me so much. I am going through the most difficult trial of my young adult life and God has used this blog consistantly to light the weight I am under. Thank you Jesus for this ministry. I hope on day I can join some of you ladies in person. I would move to Texas if I could!
Beth,
Could you provide us the words you used to commission us in the March Simulcast? That was so very powerful and I've love to have a record of it.
Beth and Lifeway Team,
What an incredible weekend in Columbia. I thank all of you for being God's servant's for all of us.
As I read today the words that you closed with there, I had to write and tell you the story of Sat. for me at the conference. Upon "opening" the center at 7:00 A.M. with our group fom Athens, GA, we met 2 sisters from Columbia and began swapping "dog stories and photos" on our cell phones...just having a ball waiting for the day to start.
Then as Session 2 ended with the Team Hoyt video, I heard my "new found friend" becoming a little emotional and sniffing. Not really "knowing" this lady or her sister, this was not discussed during our break. But, as we were closing with the prayer, I was huddled up with the two sisters. One could not even repeat your words. Her sister and I finished it for her. At the end, I hugged her and said that I didn't know what was troubling her, but I wished her peace. She then looked at me and told me that her 18 yr old son had been killed in an auto accident 3 months ago and she had no clue how God was going to use this time period for any good in her "poem of life", but she was sure that He would show her. Having a 23 yr old son, myself, I wept for her right there. I felt her pain. She had probably bought her ticket like the rest of us in Sept, and look how her life had drastically been changed in the months before this event? Now tonight we sit in our homes and hear of others who have lost their children at VT.
Your words from Him this past weekend are even more important. May the trials of all these Moms and Dads be "assigned divine tasks". May evil only see "poetry of reality in motion" and their mouths drop open. May these parents stand with their faces to the storm and "inhale fresh breath of God". Please Lord, don't let them forget to "inhale". Love, Karen
God gave us a great word tonight here in Houston. Beth was all over it and it was incredible. Thanks for your prayers- He moves in awesome ways.
Love, Jackie
A big thank you to all who prayed over us tonight. My 16 year old daughter came with me. This morning we had been discussing fear, how much God loves us and how we must have that belief as the bedrock of our faith, as well as death and other things. All of these topics were covered by Beth tonight!
My daughter was "all ears" and Beth's contagious faith and love for God made a huge impression on her. Thanks again!
Dear Sweet Beth,
What a privilege to pray for you and your "home girls!" My prayers were that the Lord would open the eyes of their hearts and the ears of their understanding to know His presence and to hear what He wanted each individual to receive; that they would be transformed by His Word, going from glory to glory; and that they would grow in their love for and trust in the Lord, increasing their faith, so that they would be like Moses and be God's friend. My prayer for you is that you would know the power of His merciful grace as you continue to bring God's Truth to your Home Girls and to the women of America and as He continues to transform you from glory to glory. You are the face of Jesus to so many. I hope God showed up BIG TIME!!!
Thank you, dear one, for the commission we spoke through our weeping in Columbia. I am printing it out to take to my Beth Moore Bible study tomorrow morning. I came so weary and dry and left refreshed in the Spirit and ready to get out of the pit forever.
Love and hugs to you,
Healed by His Amazing Grace
Hi Beth,
I have a "SPECIAL" request....When you were here in Feb. (OCC - Redmond, WA) at our event, I remember looking at my friend Lisa (Hisfivefooter) and you had us speak a commission to one another but it was different from the one I just read here, so I see these too must be "tailor made" to fit each conference. Could you PLEASE bless me with the words that you had us speak over each other. I remember the tenderness of this moment as the spirit washed me with these specific words and I want to add them to my journal entries. If you don't want to post them here, I would so deeply, deeply appreciate it if you or one of your staff could e-mail it to me at: angelalarson65@hotmail.com
I am one of your regular prayer partners and it is such a privledge to lift up your needs before our Father in heaven. It's the only way I know how to say thank you for all the ways your ministry has touched my life!!
Thank you for being one of the "pieces in my puzzle" that God has used to put my life back together again for His Great Glory!!
With Much Love,
Angela Larson
THANK YOU BETH for sharing these words; unfortunately I wasn't in Columbia as I'm 6,000 miles away, but they touch me all the same!!
I know I've asked this before... but when will you be back in the UK ? :o*(
Love,
maria cristina
Beth!!!!! Things do happen that wouldn't otherwise!! God convicted me of that this past weekend when I wrote those words that you spoke in BOLD letters at the top of my conference notes. I changed my terrible habit of squeezing God into my spare time during the day and making the excuse that it is too hard to get up early to meet with Him because of my 3 little ones that wear me out. Since Saturday, He and I have met at 5:15 am and already He has answered three small but very specific requests that I wouldn't have even thought to have prayed had I not met with Him intentionally! The way these requests were answered were in such a way that it was blatant confirmation from Him that he was working in the situation. I don't know that I've ever had that happen so clearly!!! Thank you Beth for that one sentence "How convinced are we that if we pray, things will happen that wouldn't otherwise." that you spoke Friday night. We love you here in SC...please come back soon!
Dear Beth,
Not only a Woman of the Word, but a Woman of your Word -- thanks for posting the commissioning from this weekend. It is powerful to me even though I wasn't at the event. Talked to Wes (travels with Travis) on Sunday and he was just gushing about how he sits at the LPL events and soaks in everything. He said, "I know it's a woman thing, but I sit there and just write page after page of notes!"
Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for the Commissioning. It is posted on my fridge because it was such a timely word for a spirit of heaviness that has come on me recently -- so powerfully applied directly to my heart. Bless you!
Dear Beth,
My body was weary when I got home from Columbia too, but my heart was soaring. I am so glad I got up at 4:15 Sat. morning to get in line early enough so I could sit down front. It meant so much to me to study God's Word with you up close. I have been pouring over my notes, praying & processing all that we learned & I want to thank you with all my heart. God has used you mightly in my life since He brought me out of a pit 10 years ago. No one had ever showed me just exactly who my wonderful Savior is & who I am in Him like you did. Thank you Sister!! To quote Rich Mullin's song..."thank you for giving to the Lord, I am a life that was changed"...and is standing immovable in Christ.
I love you!
To my Sisatas - please pray fervently for the parents in VA. & for the woman Karnen mentioned whoe son was killed in a car accident. My 8 yr. old daughter went home to the Lord after a car accident several years ago, & it was excruciating. I would never have thought I could experience such anguish & pain and it not kill me. But our God is AMAZING - with His strength, I chose to stand & face the waves of sorrow and trust Him completely in it, and He brought me through in ways that astound me - true DSFX that take my breath away to this day. HE IS SO AWESOME!
Also, Satan attacked me viciously in this time as well - wanting me to curse God for taking my child. How I praise God & give Him all the credit for giving me His strength to stand firm.
Please pray for these whose losses are so fresh - that their faith in the midst of this painful time will display such DSFX that Satan & everyone around them will stand with mouths dropped open. God can do it - I am living proof. Oh praise His wonderful Name!!!
-VillageSista
thank you so much for putting this on the web. I was there this past weekend and God was the one that provided the ticket-literally! I had been praying for Beth since I knew I was going because I knew God had something BIG for me to hear....and He did! I have also been praying for something to give my mom for her birthday and got a thought when I saw that the commission was on the blog. I am going to print it out and embellish it with rubber stamps and make it pretty and give it to her. She will appreciate because she has been and is going thru trials right now. WHat encouragement! Thanks so much!
Hi ladies,
I just want to give a little reminder that it is very hard for us to answer any questions that are posted in blog comments. Many times we have no way to contact you. Even if we do, it's a lot easier to deal with a question sitting in an email inbox than it is to see one mixed in with 50 other comments. Thanks so much for your understanding! Please go to "about us" and then "contact us" on our main Living Proof web site. Have a blessed day!
Love,
Amanda
To Beth, Amanda, and all my blog sisters,
God is using this blog in so many ways, but who knew He would use it to teach me this lesson!
I can't sign my name to any of my comments because when I do, my flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: for these are in opposition to one another, so I may not do the things that I please. (Galatians 5:16-17 NASB) In other words, when I sign my name, my flesh takes over and wants attention - wants Beth or Amanda to take note of what I've said; however, when I remain anonymous - the Spirit remains in control, my flesh doesn't get in the way, and I pray in the Spirit with the mind of Christ. He tells me the exact verses to pray over every request.
I realize now that God was trying to bring this lesson home to me with Amanda's post following Jackson's birthday. For months, I'd been back and forth over whether or not it was okay with God for me to even visit the blog, much less leave a comment because I'd had such a struggle with my flesh over craving attention, not just from Beth or Amanda - but from other blog sisters as well. Well girls, I confess. I was the anonymous sister whose comment was the culprit that set Amanda's tears to flowing in earnest. (At that time there were 76 days until the wedding of my firstborn son, now there are only 16, so don't worry, Amanda, my tears have not stopped.)The one time during that season when I WASN'T trying to get attention and what should appear on Amanda's post but a quote from my comment - go figure.
God has now confirmed that it is not only okay with Him for me to visit the blog - He's calling me to do so - to pray without ceasing for all the saints. I may not always be prompted by the Holy Spirit to leave a comment, but I will always bring an open Bible, a willing spirit, and a serving heart, so you can be assured that as I'm reading your comments, I'm praying without ceasing. I love you girls and will remain the anonymous prayer warrior because He must increase and I must decrease. (John 3:30) Blessings to you.
PS: Can I ask you to agree in prayer with me on May 4th, that my son's wedding and marriage will honor God, lift high the name of Jesus, and celebrate their love for each other as we celebrate God's love for us. Pray with me that the gospel, the power of God unto salvation, (Romans 1:16) will be proclaimed and that the seed of the gospel will fall on good soil so they will hear the Word and understand it. (Matthew 13:23a) As usual, my apologies for the length of this post. Now I'm signing off for real.
Love to all of you,
Anonymous Prayer Warrior
Good thing I’m retiring soon and will be reading this blog from home where it won’t matter that I’m crying my mascara off. Psalm 56:8 says God puts my tears in His bottle and records them in His book. I don't know anything about the room where that bottle is stored - but it's gonna need extra floor supports! Some of those tears are testimony to the work of LPM. Thank you for your faithfulness and commitment to speaking truth - you are loved!
Hi Beth,
Had to let you know about the awesome, spectacular way God moved at the Columbia, SC event. I invited an 18-yr old young woman to attend with me and a few other family members and she agreed although she has turned down several invitations from me in the past to attend "church" type events. I have prayed for this beautiful girl daily for the past three years as I have watched Satan lead her down one dangerous road after another. On Saturday morning when you issued an invitation from the Lord, I had the unspeakable, breathtaking privilege of kneeling with her in a prayer of salvation from the upper deck as 17,000 women stood around us singing "In Christ Alone" and "He is Alive"! Were it not for many, many others who still need to accept this invitation from the Lord, He could just take me to heaven right now. I cannot imagine my human body surviving any more of His glory than this! And...as we drove home, she questioned me regarding what she should do when she tells others about Jesus and they want to get saved also!!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! for your service to the Lord and for creating this opportunity for Him to draw another precious heart into harmony with His. In case anyone would like to raise a shout of praise and a prayer for her discipleship, her name is Corrie. She is telling anyone who will listen about the decision she has made including friends, family, coworkers, teachers in college, etc... Praise the Lord! He is so good! Abiding in His Amazing Grace, Debbie
Praying.
Wanted to Share (Let me know if any copywrite concerns should have me remove it, please):
http://5purposedriven.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/beth-moores-columbia-commissioning-an-artistic-interpretation/
I read:
God has been speaking a fresh word to me about prayer recently and I am more convinced than ever that certain things will happen in our individual lives only as a result of our prayer.
I have goose bumps...this is exactly what God has been saying to me too!
Wow! That was just what I needed. Thank you so much.
Please take a moment (on my blog) and see what Dennis Rainey of Family Life just sent out on the Virginia Tragedy. It just took one person with a heart for God to begin prayer across our campuses in the Nation on Thursday.
Please pray with me...this may be the beginning of a great awakening.
Let Him Reign Down on us!
Holly
Oh Beth, thank you for your faithfulness to your home girls. My mother attends your Tuesday night study and it's one of the highlights of her week. She called me last week in hysterical laughter over some of the parenting challenges she shared with you--she also remembers hanging onto the doorknob for hours at a time until I exhausted myself on the other side of it! Dobson's "Strong Willed Child" was practically a second Bible for her. We laughed about how I just gave her fits--and how surprised she was when she had my little sister and realized not every child was as difficult as I had been! It was fun to hear those stories again. Bless you, sister.
Oops! quiz cancelled. I scrolled down to find the decoder message. DSFX stands for Divine special effects. PDLAM!
Thank you so much for posting the commissioning, Beth. I was so blessed to get to speak it over my mother and have her speak it over me in Columbia. It is very special to us, and I'm glad we get to have a hard copy to keep in our Bibles.
Thank you so much, ladies, for posting your prayers for the Va. Tech victims. I was just sobbing reading them the other day. How great is our God that He instills in us such compassion for others? How much greater, then, is the compassion of the Father for us!
My women's circle at church is making crocheted and knitted prayer shawls and fleece blankets to send to the victim's and shooter's families. God has been so faithful to provide EXACTLY the number of fleece blankets we needed! Honestly, we just HAPPENED to have about 12 bags of fleece donated yesterday. And we just HAPPENED to have enough completed blankets waiting in our closet to be sent out. God is so good. How He prepares us for things that haven't even happened yet!
If anyone has any information on hospitals or churches where we could send these, it would be much appreciated!
Give Him praise!
Beth,
I am a Houston girl and one of your volunteers. I always get tongue tied in my ability to thank you while you are in the midst of thanking me. It is so MY HONOR to serve with you and your staff at LPM. I have volunteered in many other ministries, and work with many on a daily basis in my job, and there are none more consistantly genuine than yours. Your staff is perfectly placed and annointed of God, just as you are. I live for Tuesdays and digging into God's Word with my sisters. September is such a long way away!!!
I bet many of your volunteers would say something similar, or have found their tongue to tell you in person: You Rock Sister! And if you had any idea of the way that God has used you to totally transform my life, you would never again feel the need to tell me thank you for my service...You would just KNOW that I will never be able to serve HIM ENOUGH thru LPM. He is working all over this ministry, and I don't want to miss a thing!
His word multiplied and growing in hearts with fruit in lives....to change a city to change a nationa and in His time... change a crazy world.
i have no idea what this blog is about but it said beth moore so i feel safe telling what i think .
in the last two weeks 2 of my peers have died . i am in 11th grade so this, to me and my friends is one of the biggest tragedys we've ever had to deal with . it's hard knowing that one day a girl seems happy and alive then finding out that she killed herself the next day . and the boy he died in his sleep from a seazure . i've never felt this way in my life and it hurts . alot of suffering goes on in this world but i never thought it would show up at my door step .
so basically i think that i know what it feels like to loose peers , you may not be close to them and they may not even had liked you or you them , but a life is a life . and it's just hurt me so much these past few weeks. i really needed to let it be know that i hurt . because i haven't been able to express that feeling lately . i hope this is alright to be said . i think God for my life and my peers . <>< sydney
Thanks to all of you who prayed for VT and the families!
GOD is working mightily even through this horrible tragedy. HE was so present at a prayer service we had last night!
I am so in LOVE with HIM!!!
Teri
Dear Beth,
I love the commissioning verse for many reasons - one of the main ones being that I've been telling the Lord lately that the hardest parts of trials in life is the "up and down-ness". It'a surely not a coincidence that Jesus allowed His disciples to experience great miracles by Him in the middle of a storm. The waves lift us up and at times we can see land and just as we think we're nearing the shore - wham! We're broadsided by another wave.
Satan's plan is to catch us off balance but God uses it to strengthen us as we keep our eyes on Him. I came across a poem this week with similar thoughts:
Suddenly Mine
"O Lord,
May I believe in the darkness
When all hope has vanished
When waves beat with fury
And no star lights my sky.
May I believe without
Feeling, or knowing or proving -
Till one shining moment when
You shatter the darkness
And all I believed for
Is suddenly mine."
Ruth Harris Calkin
It's such a joy to know specifically how to pray for you.
Love,
PK
What amazing, awesome, God-inspired words! They went out to so many of my loved ones before I could let myself get on here to comment.
I was recently inspired to pray a new way, and the thought came to me because of a Beth Moore bible study I attended. I'm constantly reminded of God "breathing" on me, into me. I often specifically ask Him to do just that. When I'm frazzled, anxious, or uptight, I will breathe slow breaths, asking God to breathe into me and fill me with His Holy Spirit. And it never fails to work for me.
I've taken this one step farther now, and when I'm sending an email to someone who I'm praying will hear God's Word through me, or to whom God is maybe using me to speak, I now say a very quick prayer before I hit "send," then I blow on my computer screen, all the while asking God to breathe His words into my friend.
God, my incredible God. How can you not love Him?!?
OK I have not blogged b/4-
but I was in Columbia-and as my 10 girlfriends who were there have also said-the HOLY SPIRIT was there-big time!!!and I am still on that mountaintop-!
there is such a hunger out there for the good news-and I thank GOD for Beth Moore! God has truely blessed you!
the mountaintop of Boone NC is sold out next month-any way to simulcast the live event ?Please , please, please-
God bless and keep you and yours,
Suz
sweet sydney you are so loved and prayed for by the sistas on this blog! please know that we are lifting up you and your friend's families. you are ALWAYS welcome here :)
welcome to the family!
Dear Sydney,
I'm praying that God's unfailing love will rest upon you even as you put your trust in Him.
(Psalm 33:22)
You are loved,
Anonymous Prayer Warrior
Thank you, dear sister in Christ, Beth for the uplifting you brought my spirit. I am a single parent struggling, and if it wasn't for someone in my church to think of me in such a way by signing me up and paying for my ticket to come share in Christ with you it wouldn't have happened. I know that was only the Holy Spirit working because I so needed every word the Lord spoke through you
with sweet emotion that birthed His grace in laughter, tears, and humility. My life group is presently doing your Daniel study, very deep, it has been a new journey for me and challenge. Everything you spoke about in Columbia when straight to my heart. "We are poetry in motion when we start living His word!" I also write poetry so this was very personal to me. Thank you for making a difference in my life and so many lives. God bless you & your ministry! I will keep you and the ministry in prayer. I wanted to share a poem with you called "My Cry for Love".
Breathe Him ~Leigh Carraway
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