Ever feel like you don’t have the words to explain an
experience you’ve had? Like you could explain all you want, but the things you say would not have as big of an impact as the actual experience? I am in that
place right now, wondering what just happened to me. It’s a good feeling! don’t get me wrong; just
a little unclear. So if I may, I will begin with a journal entry
that happened this week and end with some of the songs we sang!
“Training Camp for the World Race! boot camp?… some would
call it that. Whatever it is and
whatever happens there, participants walk in as someone living a “half-life”
and come dancing out a new creature with purpose. So what happens? Sparing all the details, we miraculously
learn that God loves us. Oh, how He loves us.
Through what God had for me this week, and because of Jesus dying on the
cross, I have been saved from living my life centered on me. I have been taken from hopeless fears and
strongholds I didn’t even know I had.
And I am offered life, freedom, and genuine love as substitutes. Not a bad trade if you ask me!
I have been given the opportunity to think about someone other
than myself. Instead of being ensnared
all day long with concerns about me; my looks, my thoughts, my agenda, I was
given a ten-day opportunity to bring life to dead places and speak truth about
what God thinks about me and others. And
then I have been offered the opportunity to bring this truth with me everywhere
I go in the next 11 months and for the rest of my life-time!”
Here is another portion of a journal entry that I wrote as I
was asking God to give me insight into how to best claim His work in my
life. These also represent the changes
that have happened and will continue to happen in the future. These are what God has said are true about
me!
- I am
bold and free to speak life into dead places - God,
my Father, sings songs of deliverance over me as I wake up in the morning
and go to sleep at night. - I am
Jesus to the nations with all of His power, love, and abundant life - My
praises matter - My
words matter and make a difference (good or bad) - Because
of Jesus, I have boldness beyond my what my flesh thinks I have - It is
not about me - Even
though my sins and burdens are precious to me and close to my heart, God
says to me, â€ŔYou, Annie Rose, are close to my heart and precious to
me. So I will do whatever it takes
for you to live in complete purity and freedom� - I am
no longer afraid - I will
bring life, not only into the nations, but into my family and friends as
well!
So I have been taken from being a hopeless, unwanted orphan,
to being adopted, chosen, wanted and loved!
Here are some of the songs that I will be singing as truth
for the next months until I go on the World Race.
“He is jealous for
me,
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realize just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.
And oh, how He loves
us so,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all.
We are His portion
and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.
So Heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets,
“You dance over me
While I am unaware
You sing all around
But I never hear the sound
Lord I’m amazed by You
Lord I’m amazed by You
Lord I’m amazed by You
How You love me”
