This past weekend James River Assembly held their Designed for Life conference, a women's conference. It is an amazing weekend where God works through the lives of girls from all over the country. One of the speakers, Donna Crouch, spoke Sunday morning, and the message she delivered is the reason this blog is back after a very long hiatus.
Her text was 2 Kings 4:1-8, the story of the widow who was about to have her sons sold to pay her debts (as of Sunday night, the message wasn't up, but I encourage you to check www.jamesriver.org and listen to the entire message as soon as it comes up!). Elisha instructed her to take the olive oil she had in her house and begin pouring it into jars. Donna's point was that Elisha didn't treat her like a victim, instead he took what she had and put it to use. She challenged everyone to look at their lives and see where they could start "pouring some oil." And that's when I got that urging. I really tried to ignore it, giving the usual excuses - "No one wants to read what I write", "I don't have any formal training", "What if I say something wrong." But as we all know, God isn't into arguing. He told me to get out the bottle of oil.
I really don't have any formal training, and I will probably never have some breakthrough revelation - although, maybe I will. This blog is God's, and I hope that he will use me to speak encouragement into people's lives. Sometimes we really don't need some deep revelation, we just need a little reminder of something we've known for a very long time. Today's reminder? God is bigger than your problems, and he can use those circumstances to help you have a positive impact on someone's life.
This blog is based on Psalm 139:13-16:
"You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb.
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous-how well I know it.
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of
the womb.
You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed."
You were created for a purpose, and God made you exactly the way you are on purpose! You truly were created to be fabulous!
