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Beth Moore Profile picture
@BethMooreLPM
Sep 9, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
This morning I'd like to talk about being what Paul calls Timothy in 1 Thess 3:2, "God's coworker in the gospel of Christ." Can you imagine? God's coworker?? But, yes, that's what we are when we engage in gospel work. God reminded me of it in my reading in Isaiah 26 this morning:
Is 26:12 says, "Lord, you will establish peace for us, for (here goes->) you have also done all our work for us." Now, beside it, see Paul's words in Col 1:29 in reference to his gospel labors: "For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me."
TOIL. STRUGGLING. ENERGY. POWERFULLY WORKING. This phenomenon I'm about to describe is astonishing to me but it may be so obvious to everyone else that it doesn't seem like a big deal. @MelissaMoore77 & I are just finishing up an enormous project so it's really fresh on my mind.
I began serving Jesus at 12. That wasn't unusual in my tradition. The moment you graduated out of vacation Bible school, if you wanted to, you then got to start helping with it, assisting the grownups. 50 years later, I've had the privilege of teaching 4 year olds, 6th graders...
then adult women in Sunday school &, over the years, taught a jillion lessons. Then speaking & writing books. Then the biggest projects of all & the ones that mean most to me, Bible study curricula. I've worked my spine out of alignment.Known the kind of stress that'd kill an ox.
Blood, sweat & tears. Not even kidding. But here's the thing. The thing I'm absolutely positive about. The thing that makes me marvel: Anything decent. Anything the least beneficial to a single soul. Anything of remotest value. Anything that brought Jesus a whit of attention...
WAS JESUS. I don't know how to explain it but Melissa & I had this very conversation yesterday and both of us on the verge of tears. We who serve Jesus toil, we labor, we STRUGGLE with all HIS energy that He works within us. And somehow we get to the end of HARD WORK & can say...
without hesitation or a moment's doubt, Jesus did the whole thing. Couldn't have done it if we tried. Couldn't have stood the length of it. The demonic harassment through it. Couldn't have managed the personal crises constantly coinciding with it. It's a miracle. No, I mean it.
This morning I got up from the table where I was having my morning devotions and walked over to a different part of the den, sat down and, with tears streaming down my face, marveled over the grace and kindness and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ who invites humans into His work.
I've been asked a million times how I've hung in there all this time amid all the hate, ridicule & constant scrutiny. It's the easiest question on earth for me to answer.

Are you kidding me? I would not have missed one single moment of serving Jesus for anything in this world.

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Feb 28
This is a fairly niche tweet to any of you who are heads of ministries and nonprofits or are long time pastors of a church and you are nearing or well within retirement age. Assume that those who are working for you are wondering what your plans are. Don’t leave them hanging.
Denial is not only unhealthy for you, it is extremely unfair to those who work for you. We who are in Christ ought not fear facing natural decline. We can say all we want that we still have the energy of a teenager and the gifts and calling of God to stay in the lead but for most
it’s simply not reality & sometimes we can be the last to know. Do you have trustworthy people with the guts to tell you when it’s time to transition if even just a little at a time? Refusal to think about/talk about it signals that our identity is in our position, not Christ.
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Dec 21, 2023
After your graciousness, I’ll share a couple of good recipes with y’all in a thread. I have to admit when someone has me beat and my friend Jan Morton’s southern cornbread dressing surpasses mine. The best, most consistent recipe for it I’ve ever tasted. granjansjoy.com/2016/11/dressi…
This is my high school boyfriend’s mother’s (lol) recipe for chocolate pecan pie. Makes two so, of course, half the recipe if you’re only making one. It’s absolutely fantastic. The alternative at the bottom is mine. My problem is, I think everything is better with cream cheese. Image
Best pancakes of your life. Image
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Oct 30, 2023
On keeping our sanity (and whatever is left of our relationships) here on X-Twitter or whatever the heck it is until we can’t take it anymore. (Which admittedly may be today.)

Yet another person I really enjoy following left this platform yesterday. This on the heels of one of
the kindest, most gracious, gentle-hearted individuals I know being driven off here last week or so. What a shame. I’ll quickly interject here that we will be held accountable by God, whether we believe in him or not, for the way we treat people including people on social media.
So, a few thoughts on making the best of a place getting worse:

1. Avoid just coming here for a fight. If we hate the constant contentiousness on here, we have to ask ourselves how often we feed it. If we love the constant contentiousness on here, we probably need therapy.
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Sep 6, 2023
When I was in my late 20s, the Lord began to teach me a very simple but life-altering practice. What did I wish I had in him but lacked? “Ask me for it.” I was 27 when I sat in the classroom of a Bible doctrine teacher who loved the Scriptures more than he loved his next meal.
And this was no small man. He loved his next meal. I couldn’t even identify what it was at first. I got in my car after class and cried out to the Lord, I don’t know what that was but I want it!

“Ask me for it.”

I did and did and did and did. Still do. And he gave it to me.
I wanted to want what Jesus wanted but my heart was so malformed and my desires so deceitful that I wanted what would destroy me.

“Ask me for it.”

I did and did and did and did and did. Still do. Though the flesh and Spirit will still war within me till I see Christ’s face,
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Sep 2, 2023
Something kinda dear happened yesterday. Several days ago, I came into my office and my assistant had printed out an email that had come for me from a very gracious pastor from my longtime faith tradition. I took it home and left it out for Keith to read but forgot to show him.
I was at the sink in our bathroom washing my face, getting ready for bed when he walked in holding the letter with tears streaming down his face. “I needed this so badly,” he said in broken words. “I’ve hated them so much.” Grace him for that. It’s been a lot for my family.
It’s much better now but Keith’s health crisis delayed him grappling with it fully. Also, you know how most of us are. Mess with us but don’t mess with our family. We’ll come out swinging.

As I walked out the door yesterday to work, Keith said, “The man left contact information.
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Jun 5, 2023
Ok, a couple more thoughts on the Bill Gothard influence highlighted in Shiny Happy People. I’m only a couple of episodes in and never got into the Duggar reality show nor did I ever attend a Gothard seminar or read his materials though I constantly ran in circles that did.
Here’s the convoluted part and what I was too tired to get into last night. If any of you have read my memoir, you know the name of it is “all my knotted up life.” Here’s a perfect example of what I mean by my knotted up thinking. Main reason I wasn’t drawn to BG or the Duggar’s?
A tangled up mess of toxic guilt and good discernment. I’ve told you guys before that I’ve spent a lifetime trying to figure out whether or not I could trust my gut. I wasn’t totally off base for wondering because I had such unresolved brokenness and had made so many mistakes.
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