SUSIE LARSON, Workshop 1
Naomi battles destructive disappointment = rehashing unfulfilled expectations until it damages your mindset & soul
When people accuse you, they’re almost always seeing things through their own pain filter.
“Step into the bigger story”
Naomi grieved and spoke bitterly.
Hannah grieved and prayed passionately.
Better questions:
What is this disappointment saying to me....
...that’s not true?
....about me that’s not true?
....about god that’s not true?
If your story’s not good yet, it’s because God’s not done yet.
Orphans beg & plead, heirs pray & believe.
John 1:12
“Do what you can with what you got but then work on your inner self. Paint the barn and get on with the day.”
Refuse to separate your problems from His promises.
Any gift from God’s hand pales in comparison to knowing HIM personally.
LYSA TERKERST, Workshop Session 2
A difference between being secretive and keeping some things private. Private is meant for healing, secrecy meant for continuing sin.
The point of “It’s Not Supposed To Be This Way” isn’t reconciliation with my husband, the point is redemption with God.
LYSA TERKERST, Main Session 1
Genesis 2-3
Adam & Eve stood in front of each other naked and with NO SHAME. because they had absolutely no other opinion to contend with, but that of God Himself.
The enemy would like us to believe that the Word of God is too difficult to understand.
First words from God to us: you are free. The enemy wants us to believe we serve a RESTRICTIVE God.
When God says don’t, we should be hearing “don’t hurt yourself”.
God is reminding them to come back to Himself, which He’s still doing today.
The enemy might be crafty but he is not creative. He wants us to believe not only that we’ve done something wrong, but that we ARE SOMETHING WRONG.
Gen 1:27
Man & woman we’re created to fill the earth with the GLORY of God.
Rev 12
Ephesians 4
Don’t lay in your bed at night and let all this STUFF sit in you. Because if you do, you will give the enemy a foothold. Constant offense = the accumulated impact of a heart that never gets swept clean. Then we get isolated because we’re afraid to open our mouths.
Why wasn’t it good for Adam to be alone? When Adam falls asleep, he doesn’t renovate him AT ALL. He doesn’t need to be fixed, he just shouldn’t be alone. We are to remind each other that we are the very design of God Himself. Divine echo of the words of God.
The enemy wants us reduced again to useless dust. His counterfeit echo is shame & insults & accusations, to reduce humanity. But you were created to be the echo of God’s goodness!!
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SUSIE LARSON, Main Session 2
there’s a time and a place for feisty, but it’s not the same as tenacious. TENACIOUS HOPE. A woman who will not be moved. Unwavering expectation that God will do as He promised.
The storms reveal the lies we believe and the truth we need.
We don’t outrun lies, we turn around and we face them.
I’m not gonna let you lose, but I’m gonna allow you to fight.
What happens in our souls happens in our cells.
Blessing guilt.
when your soil is distressed, you don’t see how blessed you are.
When you come through the storm with your faith intact, God gets the glory, and you get more AUTHORITY.
Healing comes in layers. The enemy wants you to believe you are just going around the mountain again, but God is just putting the plow deeper.
We have been treating symptoms too long! You have to feel it to heal it.
Your brain has only two motivational fuels: fear or love. Zero tolerance policy on fear!
YOU REST WHILE I WORK
let go, sink down, be quiet, and be still
YOU FEAST WHILE I FIGHT
YOU WAIT TO TAKE FLIGHT (weary)
rest & worship are 2 of the most powerful forms of warfare
Theres an end date to your suffering. There’s a thousand people on the other side of your healing. You pursue healing, and pray for a healing.
“I could heal you today, but you would lose it tomorrow.” You think like a sick person! You don’t have the infrastructure for it.
STOP WONDERING IF I HAVE A PLAN AND START PREPARING FOR IT. I WILL SILENCE YOUR ACCUSERS AND BLESS THOSE WHO’VE BEEN KIND TO YOU. YOUR TEST WAS THEIR TEST TOO. BE FIERCE IN BATTLE.
LYSE TERKHERST, Main Session
Eph 4
Forgiveness is not made possible by our determination, it’s made possible by our cooperation.
Forgiveness should flow THROUGH us, not just to us.
If you’re waiting for the other person, you are forever chaining your freedom to something you cannot control.
I forgive for this, and for whatever my feelings will not yet allow for, the blood of Jesus covers.
It didn’t fix my relationship, but it had settled something in me.
Even if reconciliation is never possible, redemption with God is.
We also have to forgive for the impact those actions have on us.
“the smallness of bitterness”
SUSIE LARSON, Main Session
For the believer, life on earth is as bad as it gets. It only gets better from here.
3 types of women SHE IS CALLED
ONE: A sense of calling, but so many obstacles.
TWO: You’ve been so beat up by life, you feel like a have not.
THREE: You’re an introvert, don’t even really like people all that much.
Two things that get in the way of calling: Self ambition or self preservation.
Faith plans for a future right in the face of her fears!
“I knew I was saved, but I didn’t know I was loved.”
God might be building a platform with your pain.
Fear and faith are opposing forces and you have to turn your back on one to behold the other.
If you don’t know who you are, you will misuse your time, talent, and energy to prove who you are.
Some of the greatest heroes are born into obscurity.
I’m not who I was, I’m not what I do, I’m loved by the King.
Dreams and conceived and acheived by intimacy with God.
3 phases we tend to go through when we tell God we’re all in:
ONE: a dream far off where the motivations are revealed. Gifts might open the door, but character keeps it open. He makes you wait, because he makes you ready.
TWO: the dream up close, where your fears are confronted. Sometimes you gotta do it afraid, it’s okay.
THREE: the dream realized, where your faith is strengthened. Spiritual agility.
James 3:15-16. Jealousy is a gateway sin.
There’s more than enough work to go around.
What will you do with what God’s offered HER?
TRAINING GROUNDS:
•Betrayal. Almost everyone successful has been through this.
•Financial Hardship.
•Rejection. Sense of being overlooked. The confident heart
•Disillusionment with Church or Ministry.
•Past baggage. When God is about to bring a new thing, the devil will bring up an old thing.
•Someone else’s blessing.
You’ll be given a thousand opportunities to die, take each one.
Insecurity is just another form of selfishness. REJECT REJECTION. There’s absolutely no excuse to stay where you are right now! HE can make you what you are not. Sometimes faith is interpreted as denial, but it’s not denial.
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