Original Woman’s Conference
I’m now home from one of the best personal trips I’ve ever taken. Thank you SO much for sending me to the Original Conference. God definitely had an appointment for me there. I feel so refreshed and blessed from the opportunity. Thank you for caring for me and for your desire to invest into my life. The conference was incredible! I wish you all could of been there to experience it. You can check out the details for next years conference at [www.originalconference.com](http://www.originalconference.com). I highly recommend this conference if you’re able to attend.
I just want to share a little about what God did in my life through this conference. This year has been full of wonderful ministry opportunities. The past 5-6 months have been very busy within our ministry. Now we love what we do and I know without a shadow of a doubt that this is what God has for us. Unfortunately ministry can too easily become about doing and going and less about being. Going into this conference I was longing to just be in God’s presence without having to do and just receive from him. This conference was exactly what I needed in order to receive that. God can do some incredible things when we just enter into him, nothing else on our mind and just be. Psalms 23:5b portrays a perfect picture of my experience.
“You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.”
One Commentary explains this: “It is difficult for those living in a temperate climate to appreciate, but it was customary in hot climates to anoint the body with oil to protect it from excessive perspiration. When mixed with perfume, the oil imparted a delightfully **refreshing** and **invigorating** sensation. Athletes anointed their bodies as a matter of course before running a race. As the body, therefore, anointed with oil was **refreshed**, **invigorated**, and **better fitted for action**, so the Lord would anoint His “sheep” with the Holy Spirit, Whom oil symbolizes, to fit them to **engage more freely** in His service and **run in the way He directs**–in heavenly fellowship with Him.
It brings tears to my eyes how close to home this hits to my heart. Thank you for allowing me to be refreshed, invigorated, become better fit for action and engage more freely in His service. You have truly blessed my life!! My cup runs over. Now I’m excited to take my blessing and pout it out onto Europe and wherever else God may direct me.
When we felt God's lead to come to Europe we knew we would be working with Master's Commission and Convoy of Hope, but when we arrived here we realized that God had an even bigger plan with our involvement here in Europe...