Wrecked
Ever since I found Jen Hatmaker through my running buddy Sarah, and found Ann Voskamp though a Jen Hatmaker's comment "I wonder what Ann Voskamp would do?" I ended up spending a lot of time on their blogs, reading their books, reading books and blogs they suggest. Friends I don't know where in the Inter-Web world I've been that I hadn't known about these ladies.
I've read She Reads Truth for a year, I started last year with Fresh Start and I read all year! I formed a bond with the ladies of SRT. Well I formed it with them…. I'm pretty sure they think I'm a stalker! Pretty Sure of that! I email them, I tweet them, I follow them, I like them. If they have a stack of books, I have a stack. Anyway.
Those ladies led me to more resources, resources that tell me You Are Normal. We All Struggle. Some Days Parenting Just Sucks.The.Life.Out.Of.You. Perfection Is Unattainable. Fix Your Eyes On Jesus. Find One Word Instead Of A
I say all of that to day, one day while reading a blog, we'll give Jen Hatmaker credit. I read about IF:Gathering. I see a lot of ladies I admire will be there, ladies I don't know or heard of, and one I held in my arms when she was born.
I read the blog, I longed to be in Austin. Oh don't I always. But totally wanted to be there for this. I only know one person who will be there and well she's speaking. It's too far out to make plans, who knows what will come our way by then. Hope it's really good!
I follow along more and Whaaaaaaatttttt….. A Live Stream!! A. LIVE.STREAM! Put that on my calendar. Talk to my girlfriends. Get ladies together. This will be fun!
As it got closer, I just felt this anticipation come over me. Alysa Bajenaru said it best: "There has been something stirring in me for a few years… I'm tired of comfortable Christianity, frustrated with how my faith is portrayed in social media…. I crave authenticity, messy authenticity….. Real people having real conversations. And I'm not the only one."
Indeed, she's not the only one.
A tweet from her later that day, Strip away that which usually defines me and get to the core of how I really am I have been feeling RESTLESS!! I am ready to be brave, ready to be bold, ready to run the race Jesus has marked out for me. Run the messy race of authentic faith.
DITTO! Ditto to it all!
I'll just write my notes out. Maybe later this week I'll be able to process more of it.
Day One:
Jennie Allen
I was built to run races for God, eyes fixed on Jesus, but I was missing it.
Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the Substance!
Jesus says two things:
Repent!
Believe!
Repent, confess, be honest, broken, throw off your sin, don't miss this moment!
We have prayed for a movement of God, that women who are afraid, scared, in bondage, would be set free! That you would run your race. Because this is our time, this is our leg of the race! By Faith!
RUN!
It's okay to be terrified, just obey! Quit with the comparisons and just do what you are called to do! Throw off all the junk and live like God is Real!
My biggest fear is that we would walk away and do a bunch of great stuff. A great movement of God isn't doing a bunch of great stuff. a great movement of God is 10,000 women all around the world on their knees depending and coming to God in brokenness.
By faith, we could be a generate that wasn't fancy, wasn't perfect, but we lived like our God was real!
Get back in the race! We are all human and we are all jacked up, just fix your eyes on Jesus!
Christine Caine:
The wilderness did not denote freedom, but deliverance. It was for freedom that Christ set us free, but many of us settle for deliverance!
It was an eleven day journey to freedom that too FORTY YEARS because of fear, doubt, murmuring, grumbling and complaining! It's time to lay aside the weight and the sins that ensnare us - the unforgivness and jealousy and bitterness and anger. If we set these aside, some of the injustices of the world would be solved overnight!
Redefine your comfort zone, because wherever you go you are with the Great Comforter! Just as he was in the wilderness! A pillar of fire at night, a cloud by day!
You came out of Egypt, but Egypt is still in you. But God want to get Egypt out of your so we can walk into the Promised Land free! Go from Deliverance To Freedom!! The wilderness is where you shake off Egypt!
A generation came out of bondage and slavery. But they died in the desert! That generation is Gone!! You have to have our own "cutting away"
LET US lay aside the weight…
A weight could be anything, it could be good, but holding you back.
An anchor.
A thought.
Culture.
Tradition.
The Weight of:
Opinion
Entitlement
The day after they ate of the promised land, the manna stopped. Because God is doing a new thing! Don't become so used to the systems of God that you don't need Him!! The manna Ceases!! Don't get stuck in the past!
You allow the past to define you like the Gospel isn't True!! When you owe it to the next generation to get free! We either believe in this Gospel or we don't!
The most potent force on the planet is not a missile or the atomic bomb! The most important force on the plant is the Blood of Christ. It sets people free!
Many of us prefer the comfort of victimhood over what it takes to be free!! Time to move on girls, get a new problem!!
God starts with impossible! A Virgin, A Stable, A Cross, A Risen Savior! It's all Crazy, so believe the impossible anyway!
If you want to see the promises of God worked out in your life, then you must believe the truth of God's word over your circumstances. Yet most of us base our lives on the facts, and that's why we never go into the Promised Land, why we never walk in freedom.
Let's build our lives on the truth of God's Word, not the facts of our circumstances.
Sue Davis and Shauna NeiQuist:
Table People
Stop
Gather
This Time Matters
Toast - raise a glass says I see you. You matter.
Prayer - every good thing we have is from God.
Where ever you are BE ALL THERE especially at the dinner table. Acts 2:46 They worshipped together, they ate meals at home, with glad and sincere hearts.
Once a Month IF:Table
6 Women from all walks of life, some you know well, some you don't (you count as 1 so you can 5 other women)
4 Questions about God (see the website….information coming soon)
2 Hours (Present not perfection)
Revival Starts At Home!
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