"Life Interrupted"

This weekend, I attended a Priscilla Shirer simulcast at Bethel Church here in Fairbanks. I’ve never attended a simulcast before and didn’t really know what to expect, but it was very comfortable and the speaker and singers felt up close and personal. It was almost like being there. The ladies at Bethel did a super job of organizing it here and making everyone feel at home. I enjoyed seeing so many friends that I haven’t seen in quite awhile.

I was happy that Jami, Joan and Charmel were also able to attend.

Here’s some facts, figures and thoughts that spoke to me:

• About 80,000 women attended across the U.S., plus Canada and Singapore. 400 churches were represented.
• Worship team: Anthony Evans and 4 other singers, which included Janice Gaines (she sang on the worship team at the Women of Faith conference I attended in Spokane last year), and Melissa Green, who has sung with Avalon.
• Theme: “Life Interrupted, Jonah - Because God Wants to Meet You Where You Are.”
• This was like a week-end date with God.
• We’re seated under an open heaven. He’ll do great things in and through us.
• Interruptions in our life can be positive or negative, but they most always bring with them lifestyle changes and modifications. Amen to that!
• Interruptions are divine interventions even though we don’t see it that way to begin with.
• How will I respond to interruptions in my life?
• Give God more credit for what He’s doing in our life.
• If He brought me here, He can carry me through.
• If He (God the Son) loved us enough to die for us, He loves us enough to speak to us.
• God does not speak to be heard, but to be obeyed.
• God is not keeping us FROM something, but keeping us FOR something.
• If we’re not running away physically from our interruptions (like Jonah), have we run away on the inside? Do we go through the motions grudgingly? Are we discontent?
• With the interruptions in our lives, God is setting us up for a special relationship with Him.
• What is my Nineveh?
• It’s in our Nineveh that we’re exposed to God’s power. God’s power deserves more opportunities to work.
• Nothing happens in our life that escapes the eyes of God. Be encouraged for God care and concern for you.
• Be more committed to God’s Word.
• Don’t allow anything to replace the reading of God’s Word and allowing the Holy Spirit to open the Word to you.
• God will never convict you to condemn you. His conviction is always connected to grace.
• God can take our trash and clutter in our lives and make something beautiful out of it.
• The decisions I make today will mark the people who come after me.
• God will go with us into our circumstances and He’ll get us through.
• What transformation is waiting on our obedience?
• I purchased the book “Life Interrupted - Navigating the Unexpected”
• Other books and resources available at http://www.lifeway.com/priscillashirer

• Twitter.com/PriscillaShirer
• Blog: www.goingbeyond.com (check out “Jewelry box”)

Personal note: Like everyone else, I have experienced and feel like I’m living right in the middle of “life interrupted.” This simulcast has been just one more way that God has used to speak to me. He recently told me “it’s just the weather”, but that’s another story for another blog.