This blog is a little out there and you might not know what to think, but welcome to the supernatural and deep revelation of God. These encounters that go on everyday around the world, most of the time unspoken about and many don't know it even exists.
The Lord has led me to speak about this particular encounter on my journey.
Lets go back to the week before I launched on The World Race. Every year there is a 5 day Christian conference held in Atlanta, Georgia called Passion. Well known Christian musicians, book writers, and guest speakers come from all around the world to preach the Gospel, raise money for global missions in human trafficking, and powerful worship.
The last night of the Passion conference had a very powerful worship service. Over 20,000 people from all over the world shouting out to the Lord, singing, dancing and allowing the Holy Spirit welcome. Lets just say BAM! The Lord spoke to me, His voice was audible and my whole body was consumed with His presence. It was such a holy fear of love and excitement, I could hardly breath. He was healing a lot inside of me, talking a lot about my family and His love for me. One of the things He told me was, “Andrea, take your contacts out of your eyes and throw them away. When you get home throw your glasses away and follow me. Go where I tell you to go, Say what I tell you to say, love me and abide in me. I will heal your sight when your ready. TRUST ME.”
During all of this, Jesus showed me a vision of myself, walking down an aisle marrying Him and I was His bride. That is the night I received the spirit of adoption. Yes, I was already a Christian, believer of Christ, but He was showing me that I was His daughter, His beloved. I am not an orphan anymore I am royalty, I am the beloved. I thought I loved God with all of my heart, but He showed me my heart was not mine its His and we have no idea what true love is or feels like until we allow our Father to lay His hand on ours and guide us through.
Romans 8:15
“For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out “Abba, Father,” The spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. And if children, then heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.”
As women, a lot of us hold on to our first kiss, our first high school romance with the boy you were “in love”. You are filled with excitement and for the first time, there is this ‘someone’ that wants to take care of you in a deeper way. Compared to the touch of my Father God I experienced, I have a new understanding how I was created in love and to be loved. A burning passion filled with adventure, thrill, and intimacy.
TRUE TRUE DIVINE INTIMACY.
When It was all over, there I was a …….. A blind girl flooded with tears and mascara all over my shirt. Yes I was a hot mess hahahahha!!!!! God said, “Andrea, go call your dad and tell him you love him.” And it is all summed up in my blog “I love you dad” from month 2.
So I did what any “normal” person would do. I broke my glasses in half and threw every contact lens away.
Now, here I am in month 8 and my eyes are about to be healed. Yes, for eight months I have been practically blind. And I am so thankful to my amazing teammates and the Lord who have helped me get this far without falling in a hole or catching the wrong bus :).
To conclude everything, there is so much to this encounter. My biggest prayer for the race was to learn how to love all types of people like Jesus Christ does. To genuinely change from my old self and old sin to a new and beautiful loving creation of God. This has taken a lot of refinement and allowing God to dig out the ugly. Which let me tell you, is one of the most humbling, painfully hard things I’ve ever gone through, but so worth this season of my life. He is burning all the envy, strife, arrogance, pride, jealousy, contention, all of it, out of my life! I want to be ready for the day He comes back. I want to be His pure and spotless bride and I want to be a genuine lover of all people in this world because His love is all that matters, “Perfect love casts out all fear…” (1 John)
1Peter 1:5-9
“But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge.
To knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness.To godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our lord Jesus Christ.
For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
