Try Harder

Registration Desk, 2010 Weldon

The 2nd 2010 Regional Wellspring Womens’ Conference was held in Weldon at Valley Community Church this past weekend.

Gloria Cotten continued the theme of the Presence of God with three new and exciting messages.  The message on Sunday evening was particularly powerful to me.

If you look back over the past month’s posts to this blog you will notice that many of them have been about turning our situations over to God and  trusting Him.  I don’t know about you, but I have always had the resolution  that if you just try harder, you can do it and if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

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God gives us talents and gifts to operate and use for His glory.  However, we sometimes go too far by using these gifts without Him.  As Gloria explained God created us for dependence upon Him.  God wants us to depend upon Him, to be in fellowship with Him, to come to Him.

On the way home from the conference I had not one, but two flat tires.  God put the opportunity before my friend and myself through these flat tires to depend on Him in areas where He had been speaking to us during the conference.  I can report to you that God is faithful and when you call on Him, He answers.

In the past when I have tried harder, I end up walking down that same street and falling in the same hole.   When you depend on God and you happen to walk down the same street, God can keep you from falling in the hole.  If you depend on him sooner, He can keep you from choosing that street.  As Gloria says, He likes it when we depend on Him.  I’m learning to depend.

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There is one more regional conference in 2010.  I have been to both and I encourage you to attend.  I have gotten something new from each one.

The next conference will be held at Rockfish Church in Raeford on October 8,9.   To kick off the final regional conference of the year, we are holding a contest with fabulous prizes.  See our contest page for information on the grand prize, contest dates, and rules.  Check the page often for updates to the prize list.

For more pictures from Weldon, go here.

Karen Sleeth

Karen Sleeth has lived in North Carolina for 26 years and in her house for nine years. She shares her yard with a herd of about fourteen deer, a raccoon, a family of possum, a hawk and her young, a wise old owl, many birds, snakes, and a bunny she has seen only once. “I assume it took the warning I gave ‘Run for your life!’” This is Karen’s first year attempting to convince the deer that the yard is not their salad bar. Karen is a member of Christian Assembly Church in Durham.