H20 Retreat Notes 2012

We need mentors and need to mentor others.

The Bible:  This book will keep you from sin OR sin will keep you from this book.

Two ways we often do comparison.
1.  Worthlessness/Guilt
2.  Worthiness/Pride

Dangers of Comparison
1.  Comparison will cause ungratefulness
2.  Comparison will cause disunity
3.  Comparison will cause discontentment
4.  Comparison will cause self-condemnation

God can take anything away that shames us.

What is an idol?
Anything I love so much I try to protect it.

What is the #1 need for women?  Encouragement.

Do the possible and let God do the impossible and don't confuse the two.
He is the only one who can do the impossible. 

Expectations can be more self focused.  What can I do for Him rather than what can He do for me.

If I'm me focused I will never be satisfied.

Live with great expectancy but without high expectations.

We need to have freedom and accountability.

Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is take a nap.  Take a sabbath. 

Have a funeral for the expectations we place on our kids.  Bury those expectations.

We try to get babies to burp and we try to get teenagers to stop.

God will work in your children to become what He wants them to be.

Hope, life, strength, joy...comes when we say, "God what do you want to do?"

Satan loathes us because of Who love us.

Tell your spouse, friend, etc when in conflict, "You are not the enemy!"

Sue Eenigenburg's book, Expectations and Burnout
Another book, Screams in the Desert