Awaken: A Heart to Heart with God

This is an awkward blog post for me to write.  Over at my own blog, I've talked about the conference in passing several times.  Before the Valleydale women's retreat last year, God started repeating to me the word coffee in an unusual way.  And through that, I met Nikol because her blog is Coffee with Christ.  In the meantime, I was in the Beth Moore David study at church when God called me to write and to speak.  God had previously called me to ministry but I wasn't really doing ministry other than writing on my blog.  God had some things to teach me first.  Anyhow, I shared with Amy Harris that Nikol and I were being called to do some women's ministry together.  Through all of those events, we all discerned that God was calling us to write and to speak at the upcoming women's conference in January.  Nikol posted some great posts about it here and here.

Nikol and I are excited about the work God is doing and has been doing in us for almost a year now in preparation for this conference.  We expect God to move in mighty ways because we've been seeing Him move mightily already.  It started with Nikol hearing the word awaken, and then I thought we would look into men in the Bible who are literally awakened or had their eyes opened and that's how God showed us what material we are to teach.

The theme verse for the conference is "My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.  When can I go and meet with God?" (Psalm 42:2), because we believe God wants to awaken our unquenchable thirst for Him and that He is going to meet with us during the conference weekend.  We are excited to see what He does.  We hope ladies are awakened to His covering as we look at Noah, His voice as we look at Samuel, His presence as we look at Jacob, His battle as we look at Elisha, and His peace as we look at Jesus and the disciples.

 We will see how God promises us this:

"The LORD your God is with you (presence),
   he is mighty to save (battle).
He will take great delight in you (covering),
   he will quiet you with his love (peace),
   he will rejoice over you with singing (voice).”

Zephaniah 3:17

 
Make plans to join us for this exciting weekend!
January 20-21, 2012

We will have food, fun, 5 learning sessions, 4 breakout sessions (a chance to meet new people), some quiet time on our own, games, and worship, all while leaving the kids and housework at home for a few hours. 

Don't miss this opportunity to have a Heart to Heart with God!

Jamie Harper