This weekend, I had the opportunity to attend one of my favorite events of the year, the E-Women Conference in Pensacola, Florida. At this conference I was able to hear some amazing speakers and see some gifted performers. Angela Thomas, Lysa Terkeurst, Carol Kent, Jennifer Rothschild, and Chonda Pierce all shared their heart-wrenching testimonies and Francesca Battestelli and Michael O'Brien shared their gift of music. during Friday night and during the day Saturday I took 8 pages of notes. This blog is going to be a compilation of verses shared and quotes by the speakers that really touched me. It has been a weekend of laughing, smiling, worshiping, singing at the tops of our lungs with hands lifted high for Jesus, crying on our sister's shoulders, and soaking in the Word. Now it's my turn to share some of that with you.
"I'm weary because my saying yes when I should not will never make up for all the people who say no when they should not." -Angela Thomas facebook friend
"I am weary, God, but I can prevail." -Proverbs 30:1b
"Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." Isaiah 40:28-31
"We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield." Psalm 33:20
"Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.” Mark 6:31
"Immediately he stood up in front of them, took what he had been lying on and went home praising God." Luke 5:25
"The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.” Acts 10:15
"If I get tired, so what? I know where to go when I get tired." -Angela Thomas
"Be the sunshine." -Angela Thomas's words of encouragement for her son during a tough soccer game.
"My calling became this, to love my life like Christ loves the church. My gifting is music. My gifting should never take precedence over my calling." -Michael O'Brien
“Anyone who loves their father or mother more
than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter
more than me is not worthy of me." Matthew 10:37
This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,” declares the LORD.-Jeremiah 9:23-24
"A smart girl doesn't have life all figured out, she just knows who the Source of Life is." -Meghan Clinton
"If you're not willing to ask for help, it means you're not brave." - Jennifer Rothschild
"You will have hope if you have courage" -Jennifer Rothschild
"Sometimes when we say "I can't", what we're really saying is "I won't"" - Jennifer Rothschild
"Don't be defiante and call it disability" - JR
"Eyes that won't see are far worse than eyes that can't." -JR
"You are not what you think, what you feel, what you struggle with.... you are who God says you are." -JR
"Because he is worthy, you can, and you will, and sisters, you will rise" -JR
Well, guys, It's almost 1:00 AM and we're only half way through all the quotes I wrote down and I have to get up early tomorrow for an hour and a half drive before I get to church, so I'm going to call this a stopping point for now. Tomorrow, I shall put up the rest of the quotes and verses and then over the next week or so, I can almost garuntee that there will be blogs that spin off of the things that were discussed at the conference.
I will leave you with this: Love yourself, love your neighbors, love your enemies, love complete strangers and love those people that you've met once or twice. In essence, love. You're not going to win people to Christ by showing anything less than complete and utter Jesus love.
Your Fellow Water Walker,
Ashlee
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