OKC Trip

I thoroughly enjoyed my trip to OKC last weekend so I thought I would update you all on the highlights of my trip.

First of all, the Beth Moore conference was AMAZING! We were led into an awesome time of worship by Travis Cottrell and the praise team. It was so wonderful to gather with a diverse group of 15,000 women and worship the God we all love. Beth spoke on trust. We may trust God in most areas of our life, but there is probably at least one area that you are not trusting God. She encouraged us to identify those areas on Friday night and then we explored why we don't trust God with those things. Here are some of the points that spoke to my heart:

• Trust is more intimate than faith. Faith comes from the head, but trust comes from the heart. Do you wish your heart would catch up with your head? Do you want to feel what you know to be true? Trust is a matter of the heart!
• Distrust manifests itself in two ways: 1) a persistently ailing heart and 2) a spewing mind, where your mind is not steadfast (Beth, of course, kept reminding us of what a spewing mind looked like - quite entertaining!)
• Any place our mind is not steadfast is the root of our distrust.
• Our distrust feeds more distrust.
• Our disbelief is not about what God can do, but what He can do through us and within us.
• When we distrust, we drop our shield of faith. Any area that we don't trust Him with is open for attack.
• There is no place we have been more hurt than at the root of our distrust. Distrust is the result of a wound.
• "There's only one person on this earth that I will trust." That is a formula for codependency! If there is only one person you trust, that's who the enemy is going to target.
• Deuteronomy 28:52 - "The walls in which you have trusted will fall down." We can either tear them down ourselves or they will be broken down.
• Psalm 115 - Definition of trust is to attach oneself. What is your biggest attachment? Where do you find your security?
• We're going to be blessed in alot of relationships if we just trust people to be people. They are not perfect! We have to forgive some people for not being God.
• The very area you are most tempted to distrust God is the very place that God has chosen to trust you. In the permissive will of God, He's allowing things to happen because He wants to use you. He knows that you have it in you!
• You bring out the feeling in God that small babies evoke in their parents. A nursing mother would forget it's baby before God would forget us!
• 2 Timothy 1:12
• Psalm 143:8 - "Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you."

After the conference, Winter and I hit both the Name Brand Clothing stores in Oklahoma City in search of some great bargains. We also got our first pedicures together. Let me assure you, it will not be the last for me! We had dinner at On The Border and I discovered that they had fried cheese empanadas much like the ones in Chile. These had either seasoned beef or chicken in them, but were still very close and yummy!

On Sunday, we visited Trinity Baptist Church in Ada, Oklahoma and were blessed by a great sermon on evangelism. A group from Team Impact happened to be visiting that week and we were convicted that we should spread the good news to those who were in our sphere of influence. I had just picked up a book the night before on how to be a witness to people at work. This was just another sign to me that God is at work in me and He's leading me in the direction He wants me to go.