Beth Moore Weekend Recap

I feel so reenergized right now to run the race with perseverance. I spent Friday evening and Saturday morning at a Beth Moore Living Proof Live conference held at Grace of Eden Prairie. First off, how amazing to gather 4,300 God-fearing women in the same room! They had to convert most of the men's rooms into women's. I learned the hard way that the men's room only has 4 stalls compared to the ladies 15+ therefore even though the line looks short, it takes 3 times as long.

The worship was fantastic. Travis Cottrell and the rest of the worship were simply a blessing. What a gift to guide people into worship of Jesus through song. Then there's Beth Moore's teaching. God sure uses that lady as a mighty vessel to speak words of encouragement and truth. The focus of the weekend was "Untangled." Here's the 9 points:

1. God can untangle us when life's about to kill us.
2. Go can untangle us when we're tangled up inside.
3.God can untangle us when our motives are in tangles.
4. The Cross already cut the ropes of entangling sin.
5. Those entangled once can be well entangled, again.
6. A grudge can entangle us where we need untangling most.
7. If destruction fails to entangle us, distraction will do it's best.
8. God can make a mighty soldier out of anyone willing to get untangled.
9. Whatever tries to tangle with us tangles with God.

God is so good. He reminded me of such a simple thing, that is the most profound. God cares for me, and He will take care of me. I am a newlywed lady with 7 months of marriage under my belt. I love being married, but I have learned that it is easy to have unrealistic expectations of my husband. There are just some things that I can only get from God. My husband has been looking for a job for a year now. Knowing that it might take time for him to get a job and experiencing it are 2 very different things. It has strained our marriage and quite frankly, we're both sick of waiting. God reminded me this weekend to not depend on Tom to supply my physical needs, but on Himself. Even if Tom had a 6 figure job, it would still be God who was providing for us. So simply, yet I needed to be reminded of this. Not to mention, mentally releasing Tom from that expectation has already benefited our marriage.

God saves His children. God reminded me in point number 5 of how dangerous re-entanglement of sin can be. I have experienced this and the 2nd time you become entangled is definetly worse than the first. He warned me: "Stay Away! Flee! Don't Look Back!" Sometimes you don't even see the danger signs; God alerted me, and I am staying away from the temptation. Confessing to my husband that I was feeling tempted in the area was also a wonderful release. It's good to know that someone who loves you will hold you accountable.

Lastly, God convicted me of the distractions in my life that are getting in the way of my time with Him and allowing Him to mold me, shape me into the woman He wants me to be. It's amazing with 2 cell phones, 4 email addresses, 1 computer and 2 laptops that I can any else done besides work. I love my job at Parasole. I've been there for 5 years and plan on working there forever. I do digital marketing for restaurants which means that I need to be available; I need to handle online PR issues; restaurants don't work 9-5 and either do I. Still, balance is a beautiful thing and God showed me that I need to schedule time out of my evenings and weekends to "work," and stop. Give the rest of my time to Knowing Him, taking care of my house, cultivating relationships, serving Him and having fun with my husband.

God is so good to me. I know He loves me so deeply, unconditionally, and I have a responsibility to live my short time on this Earth for Him. To fullfill my destiny, my place in the line of Believers that are now watching from Heaven as I run my race with perseverance, strength and dignity. I feel very blessed.

Pure Barre

I've recently become inspired to start working out, again. This usually happens to me about this time of year.

My inspirations to start exercising again have come from:
1. my monthly gym bill
2. my pants that I can barely button
3. my co-worker Jodi who has been working out every other day and seeing results
4. God calls us to take care of the body He's given us, a Temple for the Holy Spirit

My NEW favorite way to exercise is Pure Barre!
Thanks to my very good friend, should be sister ... Megan who has been working out at a Pure Barre studio now for over a year and has an amazing figure to prove it!

I love Pure Barre, because I don't have to jump around and do goofy dancing moves that I can't manage to figure out. I don't break-out into a crazy sweat, can do it in my own living room and I see results. Besides I've always secretly wanted to be a ballet dancer; perhaps that's why I loved figure skating and always danced around in my room as a young girl.

Since there isn't a Pure Barre studio in Minnesota. I recommend everyone ordering a Pure Bare DVD. At a least, check out their web site and think about it: http://purebarre.com/index.html





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