Gateways to Joy

Today's post is about another woman I will be privilege to hear come August 26-27 at the Woman of Faith Conference in Dallas. To give you new readers a bit of background on what I've been doing this week, I'm highlighting the folks that you've been seeing here, to share with those of you who stop by and are interested in what's going on with me, the people God has opened the door for me to hear speak at the conference. Much thanks to Thomas Nelson Publishing Company for finding me to be a fit for the assignment. Anyway ... Sandi Patty is a name that I've heard spoken quite a few times in my Christian circle.  I even think I've heard her on a few of the Christian radio programs I listen to.  And I'm most certain that I've heard her music played on KHCB, one of my all time favorite local Christian radio stations here in Houston. Still, though, I didn't really know much about her so I did a little digging.  Thankfully I didn't have to...

What has God placed in you? You know, that gift that He's gifted each of His children with in order to do Kingdom work here on earth? Are you using that gift?  Or do you feel as if you've been over-looked? Maybe you don't exactly know what your gift is yet. Worse, maybe you feel "unlikely" to have been given one. Are you one who sees yourself as "unlikely?" Hm? "God chooses to use the most 'unlikely,'" says author and speaker Patsy Clairmont. Throughout Scripture we can find that statement to ring true.  Seems that all God used were the unlikelies.  For crying out loud, look at Jesus.  It was said that nothing good can come out of his home town when people found out where He was from.  I would call Him a pretty unlikely in the eyes of the locals. Maybe you've been told you're an unlikely.  Unlikely to do this and unlikely to accomplish that.  I sure have. Though it wasn't always with words.   Sometimes it...