Dear Lysa, How can this be that no one has taken time to write you a comment on this amazing video that you have shared from the bottom of your heart!? The need to read the article you wrote on the power of thanksgiving and how it produces joy!!!! Thank you for your video and for that tender heart to love and know the Lord! My words feel so inadequate to tell you how refreshing it is to hear of someone who loves God in such a real way , because He is a REAL GOD!!!! I will be keeping you and your family in my prayers!
love to you in Christ, Elaine www.ElaineBarnett.com Writing to Encourage(YOU!)
I saw you speak two years ago at the National Convention for Hearts at Home in Bloomington, Illinois. As the key note speaker you were amazing and really opened my eyes, but what truly changed my heart was the smaller class you held. In it you talked about letting go and giving to God what is his and how he will bless you so abundantly if you do. I can honestly tell you that through your speaking that day I began a closer walk with Jesus than I ever knew I could, and I continue to discover new things about him every day. I would highly encourage ANYONE who has the opportunity to see you speak to do so. I know you will be back my way next April, and I plan to be there! Please continue to follow God's leading in all that you do, you truly are helping God change lives. I know. You did mine.
Thank you Lysa, for your honesty and I am thankful for whoever your friend was that was in your dreams whacking you on the head with the Bible! That was God not giving up and constantly whispering to your precious heart. He knew you would be a great voice in His service! Grace to us all, Tonya
Lysa, You are incredible! Thank You for allowing God to take you on a Journey to unfold everything he desires you to be!! It is awesome to see what he has instore for us women with a past of mistakes and things only God could raise us up out of! I know that in many choices I had made I should have never survived and he still kept his hand on me! He allows us to go through things so we are stronger and closer to knowing "Only with HIM all things are Possible" We are women pressing forward to the goal of the prize of the upward call for Christ Jesus! His grace and mercy saturates us even when we think he is so far away,it is then he is holding us the closest!
It's the age. My children used to sing that song all the time to one another. They do it until one screams "mom!". She sound so cute and intelligent. So, did she make it to the play? LOL.
Lysa, I just wanted to Thank You for your encouraging words. I have discovered a new deeper relationship with the Lord from going through a healing process called "Making peace with your Past". I had built so many walls around me and not letting anybody in my box.ha/ha I thought my past defined who I was. Well, I'm excited to say that I have embraced God's love for me and it feels so awesome to be able to love people with a whole heart because now I feel totaly loved and accepted.
I also wanted to mentioned that I can relate to your adoption story. I had been going to Nicaragua for 3-4 years on mission trips when one summer I felt the Lord tell me that I was going to be this little boys mother that he had put in my path.. of course I tried to forget about it because everybody thought I had lost my mind. So I finally said ok Lord, if you want this to happen then you have to do it.(I already had 3 children at the time) Well, in January 2006 My family took a leap of Faith and now we are a family of six. Thanks again for sharing your story and speaking your Truth,
I just watched your touching video. You just don't know how much it touched my heart. I feel as though I'm being called to do something great with God, but I just can't hear him. I want so much to be at peace. He also gave me the bible verse Jeremaih 29:11. I lean on that bible verse every chance I get. I pray every day that he will speek slowly and very discriptive of what he wants me to do. I guess I want him to make it easy for me. I'll continue to pray!! Thanks for touching my heart.
Thank you for reaching out to women and saying yes to what the Lord wants you to do. You are an inspiration to me and I feel the Lord prompting me to respond to one of your commentors, if I may... You had an anonymous person post (January 28, 2008) that "...I feel as though I'm being called to do something great with God, but I just can't hear him...". If we are trying to hear the voice of God and He doesn't seem to be speaking, perhaps the problem is not with our ears or with God's willingness to speak, but with our hearts willingness to comprehend. If we want to hear God's voice, we have to ask God for an understanding and "hearing" heart, as King Solomon did (I Kings 3:9). We must be willing to truly listen and follow what He has to say. If our will is to do Gods will, and if our heart seeks the truth and we are willing to obey it, we will not only find it, but often it will find us! I found this message in a track that was sent to me from the Open Door Ministry, and it has had a profound effect on my walk with the Lord. I was trying so hard to find Gods perfect plan/ministry for my life, that I gave up. But God had a plan for me and I had a lot of growing to do before I was ready and open to recieve Gods plan for me. I thank him now and forever for giving me the desire for a hearing heart. Anonymous, I know exactly how you feel, but you are not forgotten! God will never forget you and his plans for you are just a heartbeat away. May God move for you in a mighty way!
Lysa, I watched you on CBN online my favorite show to watch. While seeking God for the past few weeks he has been revealing to me the same vision he has given me for 9yrs now. I am frighten when I think of how big this vision is and it has left me in a place where no matter what I do in my life right now there is no peace. Because I am not doing what he told me to do. I walked away from my job to seek him. So to take my mind off me and on to others i started interceding on behalf of other young men and women hurting, that are dealing with the same things that God delivered me from. I was a product of daily abuse, phyical, mental, verbal, and sexual abuse. I was addicted to drugs, alcohol, to numb my feelings, I was giving my body to men & women, I was unhappy with who I had become. I was very confused until i meet a good friend, Jesus and started an initimate relationship with him. Lysa, I have had a very long life of pain and now God has asked me to take that life and teach others how to follow the path he has given me to love and trust him. I am so hungry to help others that when I see pain, hurt I cry out to God for them. But right now i am stuck in a rut, and God lead me to you. He lead me to your story on CBN, and now your website, I trust him and I know his voice. He wants you to help me out of the rut of knowing my next step why I dont know why. I have not stepped out in faith to do what he has called me to do out of fear. I dont know why he lead me to you, but I do know he sees far beyond what i can. I am in tears right now knowing he loves me so much he trust me with such a big vision. I want to be obeident to him because he has trusted me with such a big vision and I am longing to help free others from the bondage that kept me imprisoned for so long.
I just watched your video and it touched my heart immensely. I loved what you said about having a religion with God vs having a relationship with God! It is so true!
I plan on buying some of your books as a result of watching this video.
God bless you and your family as you serve and live for Him.
I so needed to her your story. As I sat here crying at 6:22am I found this video and was reminded that I am loved by god and that he has a plan for my life. You are a blessing...
Dear Lysa, God has truly blessed you with the ability to bless others. I have read several of your books. My husband is in the Navy and on one of his patrol's I sent the book Capture Her Heart, while I was home reading Capture His Heart. It has really helped in our marriage. Thank you for being so faithful, I pray God will continue to use you, and the ministry of Proverbs 31 ministries!! I am currently in Hawaii and would love to see a conference here as well as a Chickfilet. I'm originally from the South and I miss Chickfilet so bad!! May God continue to bless you and your family, Bekah
Your devotion thought on 11/20/08 just touched me in a special way. I am going through a rough time now after I found out that my daughter of 2 1/2 months was diagnosed with Sickle Cell Anemia. Thank you for reminding me to trust in Jesus and not let my worries of the unknown take my joy away. I know that we have a Savior that lives and is alive in my heart. Praise God for his goodnes and mercy.
May God continue to bless your family and your ministry.
Your video online, also the first part of your Dobson program hit home to me, in a different way. I have prayed that same prayer about dying, but god has done nothing to help me. I've prayed for over 20 years that God would make a difference in my life. That He would bring someone along side that could mentor me. That I could make a friend or have some kind of relationship that would help me get to know God in a real way. Here is a poem I wrote in 1989 and unfortunately through many ups and downs, I could still write that poem today. I haven't come very far but not because I haven't asked God to do His work in my life.
I KNOW so WHY?
I KNOW that God created the heaven and the earth, so WHY can't I thank Him for giving me birth? I KNOW that He knew me before I was conceived, so WHY has there been pain every since I was received? I KNOW that He loves me for the Bible tells me so, so WHY can't I feel it down deep in my soul? I KNOW that He died on the cross for me, so WHY can't I feel the pain He had on that tree? I KNOW that He he has forgiven all of my sin, so WHY do I have such turmoil within? I KNOW that He gave me new birth, so WHY do I want to leave this place called earth? I KNOW He will take all the burdens of my past, so WHY can't I trust Him to love me till the last? I KNOW I'm supposed to praise Him and my cup He will fill, so WHY does it have to be an act of my will? I KNOW that He promised to give eternal life, so WHY can't I get rid of my internal strife? I KNOW that He will protect me, keep me from harm, so WHY can't I feel Him? I wish He had arms.
Lysa, Your story touched me. I am in the midst of a divorce. 2yrs ago I was divorced. The Lord told me to seek reconciliation and most importantly to seek His face. I hope and pray my sons mother my X will someday hear your story and somehow in the future get saved.... May our Awesome God continue to Bless you and yours...Keep it up. Christopher
I am a 24 yr old girl who heard you in New Orleans Louisiana on Lifesongs! Let me tell you, you captured my heart! I was so in tune to listening to you on my way to college, I didn't hear my classmates honking at me! Your stories of obediance, pain, and embrassement, are so engraved in my head you reached out to me so much! I have told friends and family around me about your testimony and replay your stories in my head overe and over again. God has gave you a wonderful gift to help others you defintley helped and inspired me! I didn't catch your name so I wrote lifesongs to find out so I can hear more of your teachings! I even told my boyfriend when I sae your web page and the john deere shirt God wanted me to listen to you and see what you have to offer, because one day I am going to have a john deere wedding pulling up on the tractor and all lol. I could go on and on of how your stories touched me! Anway,thank you for making such an impact on my life and others and spreading Gods word.
Dear Lysa: I watched your video and it hit me right to the core. I realized I had a yes problem with God. That I had been saying yes to God by mind but my heart does otherwise, yet I wonder why things are not going so well. Thank you for reminding me that my past failures and circumstances should never define my present and future. You never know how truly blessed I am for watching your video. God bless you more!!
Lysa, I came across your ministry earlier this year. I scoured the website and just couldn't leave it. At some point I got distracted and did leave. However, I'm seeing this name Lyst Terkeurst all over the Internet and I'm thinking to myself that I recognize that name & it dawns on me that it's from this website. So, today, I came back and saw a link for videos. So, I clicked on it and voila, there you are. I was in tears listening to you talk on the video. Praise God for your heart and for allowing God to use you. I'm blessed being in HIS presence even as you talk about Him.
I have heard of the P31 ministry but I never really took the time to check it out. But tonight as I was searching for some info. on the girls night out event and was led the website. I saw your video tag and I began to watch it. I was going to close out because it was not what I was searching for but I decided that 8 min. is not too long. To make a long story short I have to say that can relate to your story I was a lost child myself, went out in the world and got myself in some mess-up situations. But just when I thought God was done and finish with me that was when He showed himself to be real. Just like you said religion and relationship are two different things. I had religion in my life but not relationship. Today I am free from religion and I have a relationship with my Father, and Creator. Christ died to set me free, and in my freedom I choose to make him the Lord of my life. Religion and the law that enslaved me caused me to sin but this freedom causes me to love my God. I am not perfect nor do I try to be, because it's my imperfections that show me just how much I need Him. So thank you for sharing your story. May the good Lord continue to bless you and your family.
Lysa, I, too, would love to watch the video that all the others commented so lovingly on. As of 8/17/09, it is still just a white square :( I'll check back next week in hopes of watching it. Tracy tracystravel@sbcglobal.net
29 Comments:
Dear Lysa,
How can this be that no one has taken time to write you a comment on this amazing video that you have shared from the bottom of your heart!?
The need to read the article you wrote on the power of thanksgiving
and how it produces joy!!!!
Thank you for your video and for that tender heart to love and know the Lord!
My words feel so inadequate to tell you how refreshing it is to hear of someone who loves God in such a real way , because He is a REAL GOD!!!!
I will be keeping you and your family in my prayers!
love to you in Christ,
Elaine
www.ElaineBarnett.com
Writing to Encourage(YOU!)
Dear Lysa,
I saw you speak two years ago at the National Convention for Hearts at Home in Bloomington, Illinois. As the key note speaker you were amazing and really opened my eyes, but what truly changed my heart was the smaller class you held. In it you talked about letting go and giving to God what is his and how he will bless you so abundantly if you do. I can honestly tell you that through your speaking that day I began a closer walk with Jesus than I ever knew I could, and I continue to discover new things about him every day. I would highly encourage ANYONE who has the opportunity to see you speak to do so. I know you will be back my way next April, and I plan to be there! Please continue to follow God's leading in all that you do, you truly are helping God change lives. I know. You did mine.
In Sister Love,
Shannon
Dear Lysa,
I'm so blessed by you. Thank you for answering God's call.
His maidservant,
Sarah
Thank you Lysa, for your honesty and I am thankful for whoever your friend was that was in your dreams whacking you on the head with the Bible! That was God not giving up and constantly whispering to your precious heart. He knew you would be a great voice in His service! Grace to us all, Tonya
I just watched the awesome video and can't wait to go to my local bookstore and get started reading your books.
Teresa
Lysa,
You are incredible! Thank You for allowing God to take you on a Journey to unfold everything he desires you to be!! It is awesome to see what he has instore for us women with a past of mistakes and things only God could raise us up out of! I know that in many choices I had made I should have never survived and he still kept his hand on me! He allows us to go through things so we are stronger and closer to knowing "Only with HIM all things are Possible" We are women pressing forward to the goal of the prize of the upward call for Christ Jesus! His grace and mercy saturates us even when we think he is so far away,it is then he is holding us the closest!
Thank you for sharing this video.
Wow, Lysa!
I won't forget what God just did in my heart today.
Keep doing what you are doing!
(((((((hugs)))))))
Reen~
It's the age. My children used to sing that song all the time to one another. They do it until one screams "mom!". She sound so cute and intelligent. So, did she make it to the play? LOL.
Lysa,
This is a great video!
Thanks for sharing it with us.
You shine!
Love,
Sue
Lysa,
I just wanted to Thank You for your encouraging words. I have discovered a new deeper relationship with the Lord from going through a healing process called "Making peace with your Past". I had built so many walls around me and not letting anybody in my box.ha/ha I thought my past defined who I was. Well, I'm excited to say that I have embraced God's love for me and it feels so awesome to be able to love people with a whole heart because now I feel totaly loved and accepted.
I also wanted to mentioned that I can relate to your adoption story.
I had been going to Nicaragua for 3-4 years on mission trips when one summer I felt the Lord tell me that I was going to be this little boys mother that he had put in my path.. of course I tried to forget about it because everybody thought I had lost my mind. So I finally said ok Lord, if you want this to happen then you have to do it.(I already had 3 children at the time) Well, in January 2006 My family took a leap of Faith and now we are a family of six.
Thanks again for sharing your story and speaking your Truth,
Lysa,
I just watched your touching video. You just don't know how much it touched my heart. I feel as though I'm being called to do something great with God, but I just can't hear him. I want so much to be at peace. He also gave me the bible verse Jeremaih 29:11. I lean on that bible verse every chance I get. I pray every day that he will speek slowly and very discriptive of what he wants me to do. I guess I want him to make it easy for me. I'll continue to pray!! Thanks for touching my heart.
Lysa,
I needed to hear this today! Thank you!
Callie
Lysa,
Thank you for reaching out to women and saying yes to what the Lord wants you to do. You are an inspiration to me and I feel the Lord prompting me to respond to one of your commentors, if I may...
You had an anonymous person post (January 28, 2008) that "...I feel as though I'm being called to do something great with God, but I just can't hear him...". If we are trying to hear the voice of God and He doesn't seem to be speaking, perhaps the problem is not with our ears or with God's willingness to speak, but with our hearts willingness to comprehend. If we want to hear God's voice, we have to ask God for an understanding and "hearing" heart, as King Solomon did (I Kings 3:9). We must be willing to truly listen and follow what He has to say. If our will is to do Gods will, and if our heart seeks the truth and we are willing to obey it, we will not only find it, but often it will find us!
I found this message in a track that was sent to me from the Open Door Ministry, and it has had a profound effect on my walk with the Lord. I was trying so hard to find Gods perfect plan/ministry for my life, that I gave up. But God had a plan for me and I had a lot of growing to do before I was ready and open to recieve Gods plan for me. I thank him now and forever for giving me the desire for a hearing heart.
Anonymous, I know exactly how you feel, but you are not forgotten! God will never forget you and his plans for you are just a heartbeat away. May God move for you in a mighty way!
Lysa,
I watched you on CBN online my favorite show to watch. While seeking God for the past few weeks he has been revealing to me the same vision he has given me for 9yrs now. I am frighten when I think of how big this vision is and it has left me in a place where no matter what I do in my life right now there is no peace.
Because I am not doing what he told me to do. I walked away from my job to seek him.
So to take my mind off me and on to others i started interceding on behalf of other young men and women hurting, that are dealing with the same things that God delivered me from. I was a product of daily abuse, phyical, mental, verbal, and sexual abuse. I was addicted to drugs, alcohol, to numb my feelings, I was giving my body to men & women, I was unhappy with who I had become. I was very confused until i meet a good friend, Jesus and started an initimate relationship with him.
Lysa, I have had a very long life of pain and now God has asked me to take that life and teach others how to follow the path he has given me to love and trust him.
I am so hungry to help others that when I see pain, hurt I cry out to God for them. But right now i am stuck in a rut, and God lead me to you. He lead me to your story on CBN, and now your website, I trust him and I know his voice. He wants you to help me out of the rut of knowing my next step why I dont know why. I have not stepped out in faith to do what he has called me to do out of fear. I dont know why he lead me to you, but I do know he sees far beyond what i can.
I am in tears right now knowing he loves me so much he trust me with such a big vision.
I want to be obeident to him because he has trusted me with such a big vision and I am longing to help free others from the bondage that kept me imprisoned for so long.
Denise
Dear Lysa,
Thank you so much for sharing your stories and your testimony. God is doing an amazing work through you! You're such a sweet blessing!
In His graces,
Michelle in CA
Lysa,
I just watched your video and it touched my heart immensely. I loved what you said about having a religion with God vs having a relationship with God! It is so true!
I plan on buying some of your books as a result of watching this video.
God bless you and your family as you serve and live for Him.
Teresa in TX
Oh Lysa,
I so needed to her your story. As I sat here crying at 6:22am I found this video and was reminded that I am loved by god and that he has a plan for my life. You are a blessing...
Vivianne
Dear Lysa,
God has truly blessed you with the ability to bless others. I have read several of your books. My husband is in the Navy and on one of his patrol's I sent the book Capture Her Heart, while I was home reading Capture His Heart. It has really helped in our marriage. Thank you for being so faithful, I pray God will continue to use you, and the ministry of Proverbs 31 ministries!! I am currently in Hawaii and would love to see a conference here as well as a Chickfilet. I'm originally from the South and I miss Chickfilet so bad!!
May God continue to bless you and your family,
Bekah
Dear Lysa,
Your devotion thought on 11/20/08 just touched me in a special way. I am going through a rough time now after I found out that my daughter of 2 1/2 months was diagnosed with Sickle Cell Anemia. Thank you for reminding me to trust in Jesus and not let my worries of the unknown take my joy away. I know that we have a Savior that lives and is alive in my heart. Praise God for his goodnes and mercy.
May God continue to bless your family and your ministry.
AKWJ
Your video online, also the first part of your Dobson program hit home to me, in a different way. I have prayed that same prayer about dying, but god has done nothing to help me. I've prayed for over 20 years that God would make a difference in my life. That He would bring someone along side that could mentor me. That I could make a friend or have some kind of relationship that would help me get to know God in a real way. Here is a poem I wrote in 1989 and unfortunately through many ups and downs, I could still write that poem today. I haven't come very far but not because I haven't asked God to do His work in my life.
I KNOW so WHY?
I KNOW that God created the heaven and the earth, so WHY can't I thank Him for giving me birth? I KNOW that He knew me before I was conceived, so WHY has there been pain every since I was received? I KNOW that He loves me for the Bible tells me so, so WHY can't I feel it down deep in my soul? I KNOW that He died on the cross for me, so WHY can't I feel the pain He had on that tree? I KNOW that He he has forgiven all of my sin, so WHY do I have such turmoil within? I KNOW that He gave me new birth, so WHY do I want to leave this place called earth? I KNOW He will take all the burdens of my past, so WHY can't I trust Him to love me till the last? I KNOW I'm supposed to praise Him and my cup He will fill, so WHY does it have to be an act of my will? I KNOW that He promised to give eternal life, so WHY can't I get rid of my internal strife? I KNOW that He will protect me, keep me from harm, so WHY can't I feel Him? I wish He had arms.
Lysa,
Your story touched me. I am in the midst of a divorce. 2yrs ago I was divorced. The Lord told me to seek reconciliation and most importantly to seek His face. I hope and pray my sons mother my X will someday hear your story and somehow in the future get saved....
May our Awesome God continue to Bless you and yours...Keep it up.
Christopher
Lysa,
I am a 24 yr old girl who heard you in New Orleans Louisiana on Lifesongs! Let me tell you, you captured my heart! I was so in tune to listening to you on my way to college, I didn't hear my classmates honking at me! Your stories of obediance, pain, and embrassement, are so engraved in my head you reached out to me so much! I have told friends and family around me about your testimony and replay your stories in my head overe and over again. God has gave you a wonderful gift to help others you defintley helped and inspired me! I didn't catch your name so I wrote lifesongs to find out so I can hear more of your teachings! I even told my boyfriend when I sae your web page and the john deere shirt God wanted me to listen to you and see what you have to offer, because one day I am going to have a john deere wedding pulling up on the tractor and all lol. I could go on and on of how your stories touched me! Anway,thank you for making such an impact on my life and others and spreading Gods word.
Brenda Abadie
Dear Lysa: I watched your video and it hit me right to the core. I realized I had a yes problem with God. That I had been saying yes to God by mind but my heart does otherwise, yet I wonder why things are not going so well. Thank you for reminding me that my past failures and circumstances should never define my present and future. You never know how truly blessed I am for watching your video. God bless you more!!
Lysa, I came across your ministry earlier this year. I scoured the website and just couldn't leave it. At some point I got distracted and did leave. However, I'm seeing this name Lyst Terkeurst all over the Internet and I'm thinking to myself that I recognize that name & it dawns on me that it's from this website. So, today, I came back and saw a link for videos. So, I clicked on it and voila, there you are. I was in tears listening to you talk on the video. Praise God for your heart and for allowing God to use you. I'm blessed being in HIS presence even as you talk about Him.
I have heard of the P31 ministry but I never really took the time to check it out. But tonight as I was searching for some info. on the girls night out event and was led the website. I saw your video tag and I began to watch it. I was going to close out because it was not what I was searching for but I decided that 8 min. is not too long. To make a long story short I have to say that can relate to your story I was a lost child myself, went out in the world and got myself in some mess-up situations. But just when I thought God was done and finish with me that was when He showed himself to be real. Just like you said religion and relationship are two different things. I had religion in my life but not relationship. Today I am free from religion and I have a relationship with my Father, and Creator. Christ died to set me free, and in my freedom I choose to make him the Lord of my life. Religion and the law that enslaved me caused me to sin but this freedom causes me to love my God. I am not perfect nor do I try to be, because it's my imperfections that show me just how much I need Him. So thank you for sharing your story. May the good Lord continue to bless you and your family.
Lysa, Today is July 12, 2009 - I couldn't get the video. Is it no longer available. There was just a white square. Sadly, Carlene rcbrown1991@msn.com
Lysa,
I, too, would love to watch the video that all the others commented so lovingly on. As of 8/17/09, it is still just a white square :( I'll check back next week in hopes of watching it.
Tracy
tracystravel@sbcglobal.net
where is the video?
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