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Romans 1: 26-27 Because they chose to worship nature instead of God, because they decided they would do whatever they wanted to do with their bodies, God gave them up to vile affections, the women wanted women, and the men wanted men, which was unnatural.
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Romans 1: 24 God gave them up to do what they wanted – they followed their hearts and dishonored their bodies.
How sad. Everything I do, is based on how I think. So why don’t I trust God sometimes? I sometimes wonder how amazing our bodies would have been if we had trusted God with them…if we had trusted God for money instead of working 15 jobs just to pay the bills, if we had trusted God for a husband instead of accepting the first thing that came around.
(And we’re back!)
Romans 1:23 Tells us that we looked at the awesomeness of God’s creation and chose to worship these things instead of worshiping God. We looked at nature at how beautiful and serene it is, we looked at the different animals at how wise they can be and how peaceful yet powerful they can be. We thought about their innocent bloodshed for us, for food, for clothing, for whatever, and we began to think that nature was god.
So I had to ask myself, if I could pick between a peaceful trip to the most exotic place or a trip to a Bible conference which would I pick?
Do I care more about saving the planet, than I care about saving children (created in God’s image)?
The main takeaway I will never forget is Ken Davis: If you’re a Christian, you should be happy, and let your face know it!
There was a Q&A session with Dr. Henry Cloud and Sheila Walsh.
And at the end, all the speakers shared things we could takeaway from their talks.
Then of course we had an amazing time listening to Luci Swindoll and gleaning from her life and knowledge.
She talked about how God gave us everything richly to enjoy!
And how we’ll never enjoy life if we keep wishing for what we don’t have
We also had the opportunity to listen to the phenomenal Lisa Harper!
She talked about her life experiences, and how the Bible is a love story and the psalms are the love songs on God’s ipod.
Ms. Nicole Johnson spoke about Anger and how it’s okay to be angry as long as we deal with it. Christ came to give us abundant life, let’s start living it!
We also had the opportunity to listen to Karen Kingsbury (famous novelist)
She talked about many things especially remembering that we only get to live once, so we might as well enjoy it.
Then Ken Davis the HILARIOUSLY funny comedian talked about how important it is to always laugh
Then Dr. Henry Cloud (Author of the well known book: Boundaries) Talked about the secrets to happiness.
1. Happy people are givers (not codependent)
2. Happy people are connected
Check out my doodle notes
The Women of Faith Conference began with Sheila Walsh sharing the whole notion of Peace, and why it was important for us to focus on the Peace that God gives us.
She used the woman with the issue of blood to emphasize how important it was for us to follow and seek God.
Sooo….how long have YOU been bleeding?
Take a look at my doodle notes.
Soooo…. I attended the Women of Faith Conference this weekend and it was PHENOMENAL!!!
There was a Mary Mary Concert and a Natalie Grant Concert
I will be blogging more about it as the week goes by…I will also share my doodle notes!
Here is a link to my doodle notes
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* Thomas Nelson provided me with free tickets to the event
