Use Your Words: Finding Topics

Today on BlogTalkRadio (every Tuesday at noon EST), we talked about how to find topics to speak about! You can listen to the show right here.

When you’ve been asked to speak, here are a couple of things to think about when it comes to choosing a topic. First, let’s assume that we’re talking about a one-time event, like a dinner, a breakfast, or an outreach, where you’re speaking for between half an hour and an hour.

1. Ask yourself: What has God been doing in my life?

Don’t try to only teach; you need to inspire. And to touch people’s hearts, you have to open up your own. So ask yourself what God has been talking to you about over the last few years. Where have you been struggling, seeking, asking? Those are the areas where you have the most passion and the most insight. Try to sum up the main message that God has been giving you in your own life, and chances are you can share this.

2. What are the areas where others are struggling?

If you can speak to people in the areas where they’re having trouble, you’re more likely to get through to them. Give a talk which explains Scripture and they will learn something. But if you want to change hearts, you don’t only want to teach. You want to encourage them to change and move to a deeper level with God. For that, they need to see their need to change. So try to speak to an area where people are likely to be struggling. For instance, last weekend I spoke to a group of women, primarily middle aged. I decided to speak about “Redeeming the Time”, since one thing that women in general tend to be worried about is being so busy.

So think about the group you are addressing. What are the issues they face? What are they stressed about? Speak into their area of need, and show how God provides an answer.

3. Ask yourself, what is the take-it-home point?

Let’s move now to speaking at a retreat. Especially when you’re doing a retreat, when you’ll be speaking for more than just one talk, you need to think: what do I want people to walk away with? People, in general, will only remember one main thing, so make sure that you know what that one main thing is. What is the main message you’re giving?

Our tendency when we’re speaking 2-4 times over a weekend is to start with a big Scripture passage. We think what Scripture we want to share, and then we build our message around that. I think that’s going about it backwards.

What often happens when we pick the Scripture first is that we build our message trying to illuminate all the things to learn from that passage. We think we need to delve into everything and give a big commentary. But that isn’t really what changes lives.

It’s better to find your takeaway point, and then ask God to show you what passages speak best to that. Teach from those passages. Go into detail with them. Make them come alive! Retell the story in a more modern context. Help people to see it and live it. Even if it’s an epistle passage, explain how Paul, Peter, or John must have lived this out. But remember that your main point is the takeaway point, and make sure that everything points to that. If there’s something interesting in the passage, but it doesn’t point to that takeaway point, leave it out of your talk.

So, in summary, when you’re choosing something to talk about, look to your own life. Talk about things you’re passionate about, where God has been working! Think about what people you’re speaking to are dealing with. And think about your take-away point. Once you figure that out, the Scripture will come to you, and it will fit perfectly. I’m always amazed at the Scriptures that God brings to my mind in my devotions and in my prayer time that speak and teach exactly on the point that I think women need to hear.

I hope that helps! If you want to listen, the show again is right here. I spoke for an hour on this topic, and this is only a synopsis!

And if you want to go even deeper, my teleseminar, Crafting a Life Changing Signature Talk, takes you step by step through how to plan a talk, including how to use anecdotes, where and how to incorporate Scripture, and how to open your talk. Find it here!

Have any good ideas for my BlogTalkRadio show? Any burning questions you want answered? Leave a comment, and maybe I can make it the subject of a show!

5 Reasons to Record Yourself When You Talk

Ladies, you must record yourself when you speak. Every single time.

It’s non-negotiable.

Why? Because you never know when you’re going to say something brilliant! And besides, you can do so much with those recordings! You can:

1. Create CDs and sell them.
2. Use 2-3 minute clips and put them on YouTube
3. Create a promotional video that you put on Facebook
4. Use them for Podcasts
5. Combine different talks into a “Best of…” Feature

But you can’t do any of these things if you don’t have a recorder!

Don’t ever rely on the organizers of the event to record you, because invariably either the equipment doesn’t work, or you never get the CD sent to you. Even when everything does work, sometimes the quality isn’t the best. If you record it, then you know you have the recording should you need it. And if you don’t, you just erase it! It’s no real work to you.

Once you have that recording, you can use an editing program to create CDs. Take out all your “Ahhhs” and “ummms”. You can also use the audio as the background for a video. If you don’t have actual video, just plug in the audio, and use still photos for the visuals. It still makes a great introductory video to who you are!

When you’re choosing a digital recorder, choose one that your computer will read as if it is an external hard drive. It simply locates the file of your talk, and then you can move it onto your hard drive, edit it, or whatever you want. Don’t use an audio recorder where you’re going to have to change the file format.

A good one, that I’ve just purchased, is this Olympus Digital Voice Recorder (VN 6200PC). It’s compact, and you can attach a microphone to help it pick up just your voice. It’s not expensive, either! So start recording your talks, and then be creative with how you use those recordings!

If you want more training in how to create promotional videos with your audio, check out my e-course, Launch Your Speaking Ministry!

Why Can’t I Get Any Bookings?

Recently a woman who has started taking some of my online training wrote to me with a question.

I sent out a one sheet to pastors here where I live, with my business card and a letter about a year ago. We’ve only lived here for about a year and  a half.  I got absolutely NO response from these churches.  I do intend to try the other places you mentioned at the end of the module—great tips!   Should I try to contact the pastors again though, or just move on since they expressed no interest?  A professional speaker told me once that unfortunately, churches are some of the hardest places for a Christian female speaker to break into for speaking  —– especially if you’re not well known.   Your thoughts?

First, female speakers can make a dent in churches–though it tends to be talking to other women! But there’s a lot of demand for female speakers, so don’t fret and don’t give up!

But let me also say that I am not surprised by this story in the least. As I’ve said in other blog posts, it’s word of mouth that matters when it comes to getting bookings, not slick advertising materials. So don’t spend the money on one-sheets right now! Instead, invest in a good website.

Here’s another tip I gave her:

When you’re just starting, the best thing is to create your own type of engagement. Contact the churches and ask to talk to the women’s ministry leaders who run women’s Bible studies or monthly lunches or dinners. See if they want to have you speak—for free! I know it’s not fun to speak for free, but when you do, you get your name out there. And then you can get a recording of a live event. If you collect email addresses to build up your newsletter list, you now have potential people that can recommend you to others.

 You may have to do a few free events for a while, but you’ll find your name does get known. The two groups that I have found it most useful to break in with are stonecroft.org, which runs the Christian Women’s Clubs around the continent, and MOPS. They only pay about $50 an engagement, if you’re lucky, but it’s easier to break in, and you get a variety of women from different churches who then start to know you.

Just about every speaking engagement I have ever been given has been from word of mouth. It hasn’t been from sending around my business card or media kit. So the trick is to get word of mouth flowing! Do some free engagements to introduce yourself to the community. Put videos of your speaking up on YouTube and Facebook, and start befriending as many female Christians on Facebook in your community as possible. Talk about speaking on Facebook. They’ll see your videos, and then you’ll start to generate some buzz!

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Remember that videos don’t have to be hard: you can record yourself speaking, and then create a video on Windows Movie Maker with the audio in the background and some still pictures as the visual. It doesn’t have to be an actual “video” to be posted as a video. And it doesn’t have to be long! In fact, it shouldn’t be. 2-4 minutes is perfect.

Make it long enough that they get a sense of who you are. That’s so much more effective than an advertising one-sheet, and more likely to get your bookings!

Use Your Words: Making a Living from Speaking

Today’s Use Your Words BlogTalkRadio program addressed the question, “Can I really make a living speaking”? If you didn’t get a chance to listen live, listen in now right here!

If that question is nagging at you, though, here are my thoughts.

First, of course it’s a tension between income and ministry. We think that if we’re doing something for God, it should be free. And He may be calling some of you to speak for free, or to speak on faith! But I do think it’s okay to charge. If you are dedicating your time to speaking, you need to also make a living out of it. Few families can afford to have someone driving all over the place, gone for long amounts of time, without generating an income.

So if you need that income, here are some ideas:

Multiple Income Streams work best

I once heard a career coach say that it is easier to make $100,000 by making $10,000 from 10 sources than by making $100,000 from one, and I think she’s right. If you’re aiming to make a living speaking, you’re probably looking at wanting to make around $40,000. It’s easier to make $10,000 from 4 sources than to make $40,000 from one source. So what are those sources?

• Speaking Fees
• Product Sales
• Writing Fees
• Internet Revenue

You may be able to come up with some other ones, but in general, those are the four biggies. So let’s look at each in turn.

Fees

It’s hard to make $40,000 from fees alone without burning yourself out. Even if you charge $2000 for a weekend retreat (which only a few speakers can manage, and only in a few geographical areas), you’d be looking at speaking 20 weekends a year. That’s almost half of all available weekends, if you subtract Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, etc. Few of us would be willing to give up all of our weekends. And if you only charge $1000 for a full weekend, which is more the median fee, you’d have to speak for 40 weekends. Pretty well impossible.

You could do a combination of weekends/weeknights, of course. If you charged $400 for a weeknight, and $1000 for a weekend, you’d have to do 20 weekends and 50 weeknights. That’s ten full weeks of speaking each and every night.

Those who manage to do this tend to speak in bunches: they’ll speak every weekend and a bunch of nights in October, or they’ll be on the road all through April. They tend to get their engagements through a booking agent.

It can work, but it’s very tiring and it takes you away from your family a great deal. Fees alone will not take you to a reasonable income. You need to supplement with something else.

2. Book Table Sales

In general, I make more from sales at my product table than I do from speaking fees. And products can be very useful for the kingdom! If people like what you have said, and if they have felt God’s presence, they want to continue that. If they can buy a book, a CD, a Bible study, or a workbook that takes them deeper into your message, they’ll get great benefit from it.

So don’t think of it as “selling junk” (and please don’t sell junk!). Offer products that are useful and that expand on your message. The cheapest to produce would be:

1. CDs of your talks
2. Bible studies on the subject of your talk (publish them in a binder with an insert for the cover)
3. Workbook with charts, lists, or Bible verses that help them work through your talk

More expensive ones would be:

1. DVDs of your talks
2. Self-published (or royalty published) books

But the sky is the limit! Listen in to a teleseminar on how to create and sell these products here. It’ll give you so many ideas your brain will be working overtime!

3. Writing

Once you have gained some recognition, you can write columns or articles in your denominational magazine or newspaper, or in local newspapers (my column is published in secular newspapers, but it goes out to a few hundred thousand homes every week). You already know how to communicate by speaking. Learn how to communicate by writing, too! Attend some Christian writing conferences to network and get some ideas. Sally Stuart’s book Christian Writers’ Market Guide 2010is very helpful when it comes to breaking into magazines and newspapers. And don’t forget that many websites are popping up that pay for content!

In general, magazine and column writing will pay more than book writing, if you do it regularly. Unless you become a best-selling author, selling short pieces tends to make more money. So don’t dismiss these short pieces! Do your research, and see if you can turn some of your talks into articles!

4. Internet Sales

If you’ve been following along with my Use Your Words radio program, and reading this blog, you know that I’m a big believer in having a web presence to get speaking engagements. People want to check you out online before they take the plunge and hire you. So you need to set up a good blog or website. And you need to be engaged in Facebook or Twitter or other social media sites.

So you’ve done that. You’ve been writing high quality blog posts. You have readers. What do you do with them?

It is not enough simply to write. If you have the readers, you have to give them something to buy so they can take your message to the next level. Offer audio downloads of some of your talks. Create e-books of devotionals, or collections of your best blog posts or articles. Create reports on how to parent better, discipline better, pray better, or anything! If you speak on organization, sell a collection of reproducible charts or lists. Sell a collection of Bible verses people can cut out that speak directly to your topic! The list is endless. And as these downloadable products are purchased, the buyers get them immediately without you having to mail a thing. It couldn’t be easier!

If you’re confused about how to set this up, or you want to explore this idea further, this talk takes you through the steps.

You can also turn your internet customers into members by creating a membership site. Regular viewers can see your blog posts, but if they want access to articles or special videos, they have to pay a premium. It doesn’t have to be very much, but each little bit adds up, especially since it doesn’t mean any more work for you!

If you work steadily at each of these areas, you’ll soon find that you have little bits of money flowing in from different directions. And little bits can add up to a healthy income. Best of all, you’re enlarging the kingdom by reaching people in all different ways. So don’t create junk; create quality talks, products, and posts, and you’ll find that if you combine all of these aspects, you can indeed make a living by spreading the message God has given you!

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Creating a Newsletter for Your Ministry

As my long-time readers know, I firmly believe in word of mouth to market your ministry. It is virtually impossible to build a ministry based on traditional marketing and advertising, because when people hire speakers, they want to hire those they have already heard of. They want to hire people either they have heard speak, or others that they know and trust have heard speak.

That’s why it’s so important that when you speak, you help people remember you. And the best way to do that is by publishing a newsletter.

It doesn’t have to cost very much money, either! E-mail based newsletters are virtually free to send out, although you may have to belong to a newsletter help website like Aweber to manage your subscribers and to help you format the newsletter, but the cost isn’t too much per month. You can also do it yourself, but I think it’s worth it to invest the money and avoid hassles. 

In my e-course, How to Launch Your Speaking Ministry, I go into great detail about what such a newsletter should entail: it has to have stuff that is useful to people to read, or they won’t read it! It can’t just be news about you; it has to be something that adds value. I tell you exactly how to do that in the e-course, but just last week, when I arrived back from Africa, I had an email from one of my students proudly telling me that she had done her homework and had created a newsletter.

When I saw it I was blown away! It was so well-done, and so beautiful. You have to go look at it in its entirely here, but here’s a snapshot of it:

Isn’t that lovely? She goes on to list some thoughts, some links, and lots of great stuff!

Think about the person receiving this. She has heard Mari speak (because Mari just spoke at a whole bunch of Christian Women’s Clubs). She appreciated Mari’s message. And then she gets this very pretty newsletter, and she’s going to read it! Maybe she’ll keep it, maybe not. But the next time her church needs a speaker, or her sister’s church or friend’s church needs a speaker, she’ll remember Mari. And she’ll find her in her email book, or she’ll find a copy of the old newsletter, and she’ll forward it on.

That’s how I get the majority of my speaking engagements! They’re from people going to my main website from one of the newsletters that I send out.

So Mari must be a graphic designer, right? Or she must at least have tons of time on her hands, and be very artistic, and very creative, right?

Wrong.

Here’s what Mari said to me:

Sheila, the photo was a regular home photograph that I had taken in my dining room on a sunny afternoon (great natural lighting).  I then used the “photoshop elements” on our computer to get rid of the background.  It has a nifty little tool called the magnetic loop that helps you select the area you wan’t to keep.  Then you hit crop and voila…a not so bad looking photo to use until you take it to the next level and get a professional one done.

All the graphics (save the crocus in the snow) were pictures from my garden and text superimposed or images cropped to add that sparkle and color (and show you a little about who I am and what I love!)

I just returned from speaking 3 days for Stonecroft and I loved it. Rather, LOVED it!  It was absolutely delightful.  I met so many great women. A few who were instantly friends, like we’d known each other for years.

Thank you for your seminars.  Crafting an Effective Signature Talk proved invaluable.  The advice to open up with a little comment that tied to something that the group had already experienced or was familiar with.  I felt like each time, God gave me a quick little idea that fit just right!  Being a speaker is such a great gift.  I have put in a lot of hours of hard work (alone–save for God and the cats–which is difficult for this woman who needs people-time). Yet, it wasn’t merely hard work that enable me to stand before those women in peace and freedom.  It was like ballroom dancing–a man who knows how to lead well can make any partner look like a good dancer.  God was leading me–well–all the way.

Take care!

Mari Mayborn

So can you do it? Yes, you can! It takes a bit of work, but once you have the template of the newsletter done, it’s easy to send one out every month or two. You just use the same layout, and add different content. If you have a link to a funny video, you just add a new link to another video. It takes much less thought each time you do it.

Remember, it’s word of mouth that is going to bring you engagements, not advertising. Don’t invest a ton of money in a one-sheet before you get a good newsletter created. This is more important, because this you can send out en masse to people who have already heard you and liked you. And then you don’t need a one-sheet; they will simply click on links and end up at your website anyway!

Soon we’ll talk about what a website should include, but I wanted to show you this example of someone doing my “homework” while it was still fresh! And remember, you can take the course, too! It’s everything you need to launch your speaking ministry, and much less expensive than going to a conference!

Use Your Words: Building with Kids Underfoot

Today on Use Your Words, my BlogTalkRadio show through Christian Women Affiliate, we were talking about how to build your ministry when you’re primarily a mom! How do you balance your responsibilities, and how do you find time and energy to actually get some work done?

We were joined by Kimberley Chastain, the Christian Working Mom’s coach, who had some great things to say to us.

Listen in to the show here! Or head on over there too to subscribe in iTunes or download the individual show in iTunes!

If you are primarily a stay at home mom, then you’ll know the stress that comes with trying to build your ministry as you balance your main responsibilities. So let me summarize a bit of what we talked about, and leave you with do’s and don’ts:

1. DO realize that most SAHMs today are also WAHMs. And that demographic is growing! When you hear statistics that 85% of moms with kids under 3 work, realize that’s a false statistic. It doesn’t mean that 85% of moms leave the home from 9-5 everyday. That 85% includes anyone who reports an income on their income tax form.

So if you sell Mary Kay, you’re counted as working. If you speak at a few Christian Women’s Clubs events, you’re counted as working. Even if you yourself wouldn’t consider yourself working, but consider yourself home with your kids, the government is now classifying you that way.

Why does that matter? Just so that you know that you are not alone. Many millions of women with small children are working to earn even just a few hundred dollars a month to help with the family’s income. But you’re still honouring your primary responsibility, and that’s a good thing.

2. DO try to set aside “kid” time and “work” time. One of the mistakes I would often make is that as soon as the kids were quiet for a bit, I’d try to go get some work done. Then I’d be in the “groove”, and all of a sudden they wouldn’t be quiet anymore. That made me grumpy, which in turn made them grumpy. Kids need to be kids. Instead of trying to snatch five minutes here and there (which rarely works), try to carve out longer periods. Make it a rule that every afternoon during naptime you get two hours to yourself. When kids stop napping, insist they have quiet time in their room.

Or start getting up earlier, or taking an hour and a half after dinner while hubby gets the kids. Perhaps take one evening a week that is entirely yours. We tend to get more done in these extended periods, and then in the time that we’re not working we can focus on the kids.

3. DON’T expect that you will be as productive when the kids are younger as you will be as they are older. I sure wasn’t. But I did little things which grew my ministry, so that as they grew and I had more time, I had a ministry I could walk into. Do what you can, and know that little things do not go to waste.

4. DON’T assume that you can’t get anything done because they’re young, either! Make use of the time that you do have to plan talks, figure out how to create a website, or get a newsletter going. No, you won’t work as fast when they’re younger, but as you do little things, you get to know the industry better. You know what you will need to spend time on. You prepare yourself for what is coming.

If you haven’t listened in to the show, I encourage you to do so! Remember that every Tuesday at noon EST we talk how to build your ministry! Next week I’m addressing the question I get most frequently: “Can I really make a living at this?”. I’ll show you how you can–and also why it can be difficult! Check for the show here, or sign up to be reminded! And remember, you can always listen to the downloads after the fact.

Let me know what you want me to talk about in upcoming weeks! I love answering your questions!

Gaining Confidence to Speak

I have just loved getting to know so many of you through my BlogTalkRadio show and networking with you in the Facebook group, as well as talking to you all in teleseminars! There’s a wealth of information out there about speaking, and I’ve asked you to send me guest posts, which I’ll run when I think the time is right.

Today, then, Beth Jones joins us. She’s a speaker and a writer who devotes her ministry to making sure that it’s focused first and foremost on God. Today she’s written us a post on how to gain confidence–and how to project confidence–when you speak! Thanks, Beth!

Beth writes:

As Christian speakers we desire to please God first, to connect with and to bless women in the audience, to minister to their real needs, to impart the message burning in our hearts – and to have lots of FUN!  As we come up on stage and fight those pre-speaking jitters, one thing we really want to do is to have and to exude confidence.  Confidence in the Lord.  But how do we do that, especially if it’s a big crowd, we’re in a new region out of our comfort zone, and/or we’re not sure how the message we’ve prepared is going to go over?  What are some practical ways we can have and portray confidence in our speaking?

1.  Get your “rhema” word straight from the Source – by sitting at Jesus’ feet first before you speak!  A rhema is from the

   

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   Greek word for utterance, and is a verse of Scripture that the Holy Spirit brings to our attention applying to a current situation or need for direction. It is a NOW, right-on word, a word in “due season” that you really need!  (Proverbs 15: 23, AKJV)

 As Christians we’ve all heard stories from the Bible many times, and not to be irreverent or totally self-absorbed, but sometimes we may think, “So what? How does that apply to me today? What’s that got to do with me?” Your audience will think this, too.  “Moses led the people out of Egypt…” Yawn.  Peter walked on the water in faith. Yeah, yeah.  Make sure your prepared speech is a relevant message for your audience, that it will minister to their hearts.

 The way you can be certain of that is by spending time with God first and by hearing His specific word for that audience. Get quiet and still before God, and listen.  Even if you’ve given this same speech over and over, the Holy Spirit will tweak it to meet those women’s particular needs. Then you can speak with confidence to these women because you are sharing the very word of the Lord with them.

 2. Realize it’s not about you.  Don’t be ridiculous, right? As Christian speakers, we know that, it’s all about God and spreading His kingdom! He will share His glory with no one. (Isaiah 42:8)  If we know that, then why do we get nervous? Because we’re afraid of failing. We’re afraid of totally bombing this one, and people not liking us. We’re afraid of rejection.

 As we spend time in prayer with God, studying His word and hearing His small, still voice, and we recognize in humility that God is the one who gave us this assignment and mission to accomplish, then we can move out of the way and allow His Holy Spirit to flow through us. We didn’t do anything to deserve or earn this honor and opportunity; it came from God’s hands of grace. 

 With that humble knowledge, we can focus on what is important:  pointing everyone to Jesus. It’s not about you or me; it’s about Him and the good news of Jesus. Give your anxieties to God. Surrender this engagement to Him.

 As we keep our eyes on Jesus and not on ourselves and our own “perfect” performance, we will speak with confidence in the Lord. Our words will have weight and authority, because they are God-inspired and God-directed.

3.     Pray for God’s love for these women. What changes lives is God’s truth and love. We don’t want to just give some little generic message that makes the audience croon, “Oh, that was nice.”  I don’t want to be nice! Well, okay, I do want to be a nice person, but what I desire as a speaker is to IMPACT and TRANSFORM lives with the revelation of God’s two-edged sword word and the power of His Spirit!  And it is God’s love that changes lives. 

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 Ask God to give you His agape love for these women. They will sense it coming from your innermost being as you share –living waters like Jesus gave the woman at the well. (John 4: 5-40, NKJV)  We won’t have that love for the audience unless we first receive it from God.

 Pray and seek that love from God to give to them, and then you will confidently speak. When you really love others, you don’t have to perform or worry about messing up. That love inside of you is more concerned with esteeming others than self.  (Philippians 2: 3-5, NKJV)

4.     Let’s be real, authentic, ourselves. One of the deadliest things we can do to ourselves as speakers is to compare ourselves to others or try to be someone we’re not.  When you try to pretend you’re someone that God didn’t create you to be – i.e., trying to be being clown funny as you speak when you were born a melancholy, serious personality or acting demure and discreet when you’re really a loud, outgoing Sanguine – it doesn’t “gel” with the audience.  

 People can spot “fake” a mile off. Just be you.  You don’t have to try to be like the other great Christian speakers. God didn’t make you like them.  Stop comparing yourself to them, and stop envying them and their successes. When you’re authentic, truthful, sincere, this will minister far beyond what you can even imagine.  “Real” and “transparent” help people to relate to you, to connect their heart to yours.

 When you’re just being yourself, you will be confident as you speak. Pretending or trying to perform will just make you tense, and the audience will pick up on that.  Nobody can be you better than you!  We all have areas of our lives where we need shaping, refining, and improving, even as speakers, but God loves and accepts you just the way you are – and wants to use you just the way you are.  You are God’s masterpiece, created wonderfully and fearfully in His image!   (Psalm 139: 14)  It’s you He asked to give His message to them.  Just tell Him thank you, be yourself, open your mouth, and watch God work mightily!

There are other ways we can use to have more confidence as we speak, such as incorporating humor into our message, knowing our topic thoroughly, having our message well rehearsed or even memorized, using few notes, making good eye contact with the audience, and dressing attractively.  I know that whenever I buy a new outfit to speak, it sure helps me to feel more confident!  However, the most important confidence-boosters are internal.

 As you sit at Jesus’ feet for His rhema word for that audience, realize it’s not about you, pray for God’s love for these women, and just be yourself, you will speak with bold confidence in the Lord, and your message will deeply minister and make a life-changing difference in these women’s lives. They will take away the precious and priceless gem that God and you have given them in your important message, and you and they will be greatly blessed!

Find Beth Jones at www.bethjones.net, and at her Facebook page!