Ladies,
I would love some feedback on the event we had on the 26th. I was really pleased with several things:
The Leadership Teams put a lot of thought into the Ministry Tables to help everyone understand their purpose - thank you ladies!
Mary Ann Baker has one of the most magnificent voices! Mary Ann blessed my socks off with "It is Well with My Soul". Her range is amazing and her tone crystal clear....Thank you Mary Ann for sharing your tremndous gift with us - (The choir practices on Wednesday night from 6:30-8:00pm - I am looking for you there soon!)
Mary Kay Beard - what a sweet friend she has been to me for the past 15 years now - I am so blessed to share her story of God's grace and mercy in her life with you all. Her website is www.marykaybeard.com if you want to keep in touch or to encourage her at any time.... You can also order her book Rogue Angel there.
The tables were magnificent! Even when it is simple picnic fare, the women of Roswell Street Baptist know how to throw a party...what beautiful tables!!! thank you ladies....
Our food was out of this world! What talented women we had in the kitchen! Thank you ladies... Next time we'll add at least one more food line and maybe two to be able to fill up our plates and move forward with the program.
I had one suggestion that we open up our ministry booths at least 30 minutes prior to our next event because women felt they didn't have time to visit them all. We'll do that!
Now, it's your turn - what did you like? what would you change? what is your DREAM for our Special Events and for our ministry to meet women where they are, equip them and excite them about the Word of God?
Friday, August 31, 2007
Blogs......
You know one of the reasons I love BLOGS? Because they can make you stop long enough to reflect on teh glory of Almighty God - I went to James McDonald's blog just a few minutes ago and read what he ahd written a couple of days ago about his prayer that day and most days...I want to share it:
My Prayer TodayPosted by James MacDonald on August 29, 2007 07:43 AM
Here's a prayer I pray in some way almost every single day. When I don't, I wish I had. Pray with me today . . .
Ephesians 5:18, Be filled with the Spirit.
Lord, fill me with Your Spirit today. I can't fix yesterday, and tomorrow seems a long way off.
Today, Lord: Cleanse my heart from the fleshly residue of yesterday's fallen humanity.
Today, Lord: Scrub my thoughts and motives till they shine with singularity - wanting Your glory alone.
Today, Lord: Wash me and I will be whiter than snow, purposed afresh to follow Your footsteps.
Lord, fill me with Your Spirit today. The tasks ahead are too much. If I must go alone, I cannot go at all.
Today, Lord: I'm not smart enough to know what is best, and not strong enough to choose what is righteous.
Today, Lord: My wife, my family, my friends, my church . . . I am not sufficient for these things, and I know it.
Today, Lord: Or what unfolds in the hours ahead will fade into the abyss of worthless, wasted time.
Lord, fill me with Your Spirit right now. Come, make these 24 hours all You created them to be.
Now, Lord: You know how to 'give good gifts' and I am so thankful to be called Your child.
Now, Lord: By faith, I receive the Presence You've promised, and delight to know that Your Word is true.
Now, Lord: You are filling my life with peace and purpose and freeing my soul to sing.
Galatians 5:16, 22, Walk then in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of your flesh. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and self control.
Have a great day,
james
Did it make you stop and think about how you pray? It did me. It made me want to be sure that I talk to my best friend that way everyday, that I seek to fulfill all that He has for me to do and that I do it walking in the spirit and showing the fruit of the spirit as I go. Oh, I do lack just that on many days. Pray for me that I might be faithful to walk in the spirit....as I pray the same for you!
My Prayer TodayPosted by James MacDonald on August 29, 2007 07:43 AM
Here's a prayer I pray in some way almost every single day. When I don't, I wish I had. Pray with me today . . .
Ephesians 5:18, Be filled with the Spirit.
Lord, fill me with Your Spirit today. I can't fix yesterday, and tomorrow seems a long way off.
Today, Lord: Cleanse my heart from the fleshly residue of yesterday's fallen humanity.
Today, Lord: Scrub my thoughts and motives till they shine with singularity - wanting Your glory alone.
Today, Lord: Wash me and I will be whiter than snow, purposed afresh to follow Your footsteps.
Lord, fill me with Your Spirit today. The tasks ahead are too much. If I must go alone, I cannot go at all.
Today, Lord: I'm not smart enough to know what is best, and not strong enough to choose what is righteous.
Today, Lord: My wife, my family, my friends, my church . . . I am not sufficient for these things, and I know it.
Today, Lord: Or what unfolds in the hours ahead will fade into the abyss of worthless, wasted time.
Lord, fill me with Your Spirit right now. Come, make these 24 hours all You created them to be.
Now, Lord: You know how to 'give good gifts' and I am so thankful to be called Your child.
Now, Lord: By faith, I receive the Presence You've promised, and delight to know that Your Word is true.
Now, Lord: You are filling my life with peace and purpose and freeing my soul to sing.
Galatians 5:16, 22, Walk then in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of your flesh. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and self control.
Have a great day,
james
Did it make you stop and think about how you pray? It did me. It made me want to be sure that I talk to my best friend that way everyday, that I seek to fulfill all that He has for me to do and that I do it walking in the spirit and showing the fruit of the spirit as I go. Oh, I do lack just that on many days. Pray for me that I might be faithful to walk in the spirit....as I pray the same for you!
Monday, August 20, 2007
Saturated in the WORD
WOW! I spent the weekend at the National Conference for Precept Ministries International in Chattanooga. We didn't get there until late Friday evening and missed Kay Arthur receiving a Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from her alma mater Temple University. What an honor and one that was richly deserved. Congratualtions Dr. Kay!
The National Conference is for me a refueling station in my year. An opportunity to be "saturated" in the Word of God. And, you can trust that opinion is not on the platform when it's a Precept Conference, it's the Word of God. Thank you Jack and Kay and all the wonderful staff members that work so tirelessly on that weekend each year. If you are interested in getting tickets for next year go to www.precept.org - they are moving the conference back to the beginning of summer since school has been starting so much earlier.
I enjoyed each speaker but I enjoyed the Word of God from them the most. Can't you tell when a preacher/teacher gets up and starts whether or not they have had a fresh WORD from God? Pastors and Teachers who spend time in the Word studying the Word of God regularly, daily are to be applauded as the faithful gifts that they are to the Body of Christ...
Chip Ingram taught us Ten Practices that Great Christians Have in Common. It is late so I won't go into detail tonight but will later. You think about these and comment back please. The are:
1. Think Great Thoughts
2, Read Great Books
3. Oursue Great People
4. Dream, Great Dreams
5. Pray Gret Prayers
6. Take Great Risks
7. Make Great Sacrifices
8. Enjoy Great Moments
9, Empower Great People
10. Develop Great Habits
Concur?/....................................................................................
The National Conference is for me a refueling station in my year. An opportunity to be "saturated" in the Word of God. And, you can trust that opinion is not on the platform when it's a Precept Conference, it's the Word of God. Thank you Jack and Kay and all the wonderful staff members that work so tirelessly on that weekend each year. If you are interested in getting tickets for next year go to www.precept.org - they are moving the conference back to the beginning of summer since school has been starting so much earlier.
I enjoyed each speaker but I enjoyed the Word of God from them the most. Can't you tell when a preacher/teacher gets up and starts whether or not they have had a fresh WORD from God? Pastors and Teachers who spend time in the Word studying the Word of God regularly, daily are to be applauded as the faithful gifts that they are to the Body of Christ...
Chip Ingram taught us Ten Practices that Great Christians Have in Common. It is late so I won't go into detail tonight but will later. You think about these and comment back please. The are:
1. Think Great Thoughts
2, Read Great Books
3. Oursue Great People
4. Dream, Great Dreams
5. Pray Gret Prayers
6. Take Great Risks
7. Make Great Sacrifices
8. Enjoy Great Moments
9, Empower Great People
10. Develop Great Habits
Concur?/....................................................................................
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Still Time
This summer has been wonderful for me and my family. We just returned from our vacation at the beach. We don't do much on vacation when I get my way. This year was my vacation for sure. I just sat on the beach for 5 days with a good book that I read from cover to cover, napped some, dipped my toes in the water occasionally but mainly just sat quietly and listened. Listened to the most peaceful sound to me and that is waves crashing on the shore, It's like each wave settles a piece of my being into comfortable stillness. It clears my head that tends to run in so many directions at once. It settles my body as I don't seek to meet too many people's expectations but just be still.
So many times over the years since God called me to Women's Ministry, I would be ready to roll wide open with an idea or a plan and God would put Psalm 46:10 in front of me: "Be still and know that I am God" He would sit me down again at His feet and teach me in that stillness. They were wonderful times, heart wrenching times, loving times, times of discipline but always still times. I continue to need more "still times".
We are too busy. We do not take time to sit and be still and listen to His voice in the silence. Have you ever stopped long enough to sit still, turn off all possible noise in your life (radio, tv, friends, facebook, cell phones, and on and on and on), openly share your worship and admiration for who God is - glorifying His name. Then, humbly ask Him to tell you what He wants from you....then with a pen and a piece of paper write down your thoughts as He talks to you not later but right then in that stillness, write all that comes to your mind, write freely and openly and humbly as God reveals His plans for you....
Of course, your relationship with Him will take you to different places....your walk....your confessions of sins....your forgiveness of others....your repentance meaning to truly walk away from that sin that keeps nagging at you - that all plays into our hearing our Father clearly....
Take all you've written when God is done and test it with scripture....bathe it in prayer....trust in His Holiness.....don't just talk to Him. Sit in stillness and know He is God.
I can sit here at the computer tonight and close my eyes and hear the ocean. I wonder if I can hear His voice tonight....can you?
Oh, how He loves you - Oh, how He loves me - Oh how He loves you and me.......sweet listening; it's better than sweet dreams!
May God bless you and your family richly with still time....still time with God... May He redeem your time and the use of it so that you will allot Him more time....May you each be blessed by the time to honor and glorify our King with the desire to serve Him and to serve others...May God bless you as you come in and as you go out....May He abudantly provide you with "still time".
So many times over the years since God called me to Women's Ministry, I would be ready to roll wide open with an idea or a plan and God would put Psalm 46:10 in front of me: "Be still and know that I am God" He would sit me down again at His feet and teach me in that stillness. They were wonderful times, heart wrenching times, loving times, times of discipline but always still times. I continue to need more "still times".
We are too busy. We do not take time to sit and be still and listen to His voice in the silence. Have you ever stopped long enough to sit still, turn off all possible noise in your life (radio, tv, friends, facebook, cell phones, and on and on and on), openly share your worship and admiration for who God is - glorifying His name. Then, humbly ask Him to tell you what He wants from you....then with a pen and a piece of paper write down your thoughts as He talks to you not later but right then in that stillness, write all that comes to your mind, write freely and openly and humbly as God reveals His plans for you....
Of course, your relationship with Him will take you to different places....your walk....your confessions of sins....your forgiveness of others....your repentance meaning to truly walk away from that sin that keeps nagging at you - that all plays into our hearing our Father clearly....
Take all you've written when God is done and test it with scripture....bathe it in prayer....trust in His Holiness.....don't just talk to Him. Sit in stillness and know He is God.
I can sit here at the computer tonight and close my eyes and hear the ocean. I wonder if I can hear His voice tonight....can you?
Oh, how He loves you - Oh, how He loves me - Oh how He loves you and me.......sweet listening; it's better than sweet dreams!
May God bless you and your family richly with still time....still time with God... May He redeem your time and the use of it so that you will allot Him more time....May you each be blessed by the time to honor and glorify our King with the desire to serve Him and to serve others...May God bless you as you come in and as you go out....May He abudantly provide you with "still time".
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