For the past year, every morning when I wake up and get around to checking my email there's always a little gift there for me. I receive a morning devotion from Proverbs 31 Ministries called 'Encouragement for Today'. I encourage you today, to go to their site and subscribe to it. It has blessed me so many mornings. I have even thanked one of their devotional writers Micca Campbell for her timely 'apples of gold in settings of silver' devotions that I knew surely she had written just for me.
While perusing the blogosphere I came accross Lysa TerKeurst's blog, another one of the gals from the Proverbs 31 Ministries. She is giving away a scholorship for the 'She Speaks' conference. This is a conference that encourages women in ministry to use their God given talents and gifts to speak and to write for God's glory. Just like every time I see the Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes commercial and hear Ed McMahon's voice, I started to get excited that maybe my name would be drawn! Maybe this time it would be me!
My mind went into overdrive, "Is it my time Lord? You know I love to write Father. I would just have to bring my teenage daughter Meghan along if I won. Oh, she would LOVE it! When would we ever have an opportunity to go to North Carolina again?" On and on my mind raced...then I saw it....the very long and talented list of bloggers who had already thrown their hat in the ring. "Forget it." I said out loud. I had forgotten my husband Paul was sitting in his office while I perused. He asked me, "Forget what?" I explained to him the giveaway and that I wasn't about to add my name to that gifted list of godly women. He said, "Joanne, don't underestimate what God can do." I thought to myself, "He's right. Our God is a God of impossibilities."
My mind went into overdrive, "Is it my time Lord? You know I love to write Father. I would just have to bring my teenage daughter Meghan along if I won. Oh, she would LOVE it! When would we ever have an opportunity to go to North Carolina again?" On and on my mind raced...then I saw it....the very long and talented list of bloggers who had already thrown their hat in the ring. "Forget it." I said out loud. I had forgotten my husband Paul was sitting in his office while I perused. He asked me, "Forget what?" I explained to him the giveaway and that I wasn't about to add my name to that gifted list of godly women. He said, "Joanne, don't underestimate what God can do." I thought to myself, "He's right. Our God is a God of impossibilities."
I am leaving this wholly up to Him.
So...I am not going to bore you by going on and on about why you should choose me. I am not going to try and convince you of my close walk with the Lord, or every reason why it should be me you pick from that list of godly gals. I am only going to say that my God is the God of impossibilities and if it is meant for me to go, then He will make it happen.
So...I am not going to bore you by going on and on about why you should choose me. I am not going to try and convince you of my close walk with the Lord, or every reason why it should be me you pick from that list of godly gals. I am only going to say that my God is the God of impossibilities and if it is meant for me to go, then He will make it happen.
"For with God nothing shall be impossible." Luke 1:37
