One afternoon during our debrief we had a special women’s meeting with all the girls on the squad, Ruth our coach, Stacy our squad mentor, and our squad leaders. It was a time to relax and share as women what was on our hearts and what God had done in our month. The good and the hard things.
God has recently brought me into a new thing. And that is loving myself. I told this to a few of my squad leaders earlier that day about how I was truly loving who I was becoming in Christ. I was seeing who I really was in Him, but the best part is, I was actually accepting it. Not only that, believing it fully. I am a beautiful daughter of Christ.
During our women’s time I felt the Lord lead me to share that with the group. So I spoke up and said just that, “I am truly starting to love who I am becoming in Christ.” The smile that came after, I couldn’t help. It was truth and I actually believed it to my core.
I guess I didn’t realize at the time just how profound it was. All the girls started to rejoice with me and at that moment Sara dared me to What are the Odds. Maybe you’ve never heard of it, it’s a game where you pick a number (Odds) and then on the count of 3 you both shout a number out within those odds, if they are the same number you have to do whatever they dare you to.
“What are the odds you shout that out right now on this rooftop?”
And so I guess you can see where this is going…..
1, 2, 3……
“7!” from both of us (God of course).
So I stood up and began to ring the words out. But not entirely loud enough the first time, so I cleared my throat and took a second shot.
“I AM LOVING WHO I AM BECOMING IN CHRIST!!!”
What freedom came in that shout. Not only was I verbally speaking this over myself, I was screaming this to the world. My voice, a voice thats taken a long time to find, carried loudly over the rooftops of Medellin in victory.
After my declaration had been made, we decided to all shout out a truth on the count of 3. The girls joined me on my feet and as one voice lifted shouts of freedom into the air. God liberated this group of beautiful women, from fears, and doubts, and lies. Because the truth is: we are daughters, loved, wanted, and pursued by Him. We are enough and it’s okay to love who He created you to be.
