It all started when I was 8 years old….
I was baptized BUT I had no idea why I was getting baptized or what it even meant. About a year ago God put it on my heart to be baptized again so I studied more into what baptism really is. I asked my mentor, Korleen, about it and the more I prayed and seeked His face about it He kept answering, "you'll know when it's time, I will tell you." Since then I've been really patient in waiting for God's timing. In my own convictions I knew that I had to release some things in my life and get spiritual healing before taking this big step.
Well in Guatemala ( month one ) I told my Beautiful Feet Team that I wanted to get baptized on the race. I want it to be my decision this time! I believe this is something special between me and the Father and I wanted it to be something very intimate. It was always very important to me that the person(s) baptizes me is someone(s) that I look up to and trust COMPLETELY! and I knew God would reveal to me who that would be as well.
Month Four rolls around and I still haven't been baptized and quite honestly hadn't thought about it again until I shared my story with my team. While prayer walking one day God told me/reminded me that I needed to release some things in my life and get spiritual healing before he'd give me the 100%. I needed to give him all the junk so that I could fully give Him my life.
Tonight, debrief in Cambodia, was such a spirit filled night of worship and God was just giving me word after word. I hadn't been that filled with the Spirit in a while and man was it AMAZING!!! I love it when He does that to me. Crying my eyes out to the Lord and Jaime comes over to pray over my knees (which had been in pain) and the Spirit spoke through her and in that moment was when I gave it to Him. I couldn't hold on to it anymore it was tearing me apart. I could literally feel all of that coming off of my shoulders!! Noe taught after that and most of what he taught on was for me! HAHA After that Noe had us get into our teams, and one person was to be "it" and that person was me. Everyone else was to pray and ask for a word or vision from God to give to me. I got some amazing things from the Lord!! After that, Noe is talking to us again and PLAIN AS DAY I heard the Lord's voice and He said, "IT IS TIME!" I accepted it….. grabbed a notebook and pen as fast as I could to write Renee a not saying, "I think it's time to be baptized, TONIGHT!!" She silently freaked out 🙂
After Noe was done I told my team SOMEWHERE BEAUTIFUL and all the BEAUTIFUL FEET and asked them to come be apart of this with me. I asked Dave and Renee if they'd do the HONOR of baptizing me. They're probably wondering why I picked them …. Renee… the first racer I ever met. One of the most Godly women I know, she's full of wisdom and love. I respect, trust and love the heck out of her. I look up to her in so many ways but espeically when it comes to her walk with the Lord. Dave…. my fearless leader. A strong man of God. A man that I highly respect in every way. He's taught me so much and he probably doesn't even know it. Since camp when he gave me a prophetic word about me being a pretzel ( I'll never forget the truth he spoke into me) I knew that God was going to use him in some way in my life. They BOTH have impacted my life in more ways then they could ever know. I love and respect them greatly! I'm so honored to have them in my life!
THANK YOU BOTH!!
After worship we got our suits on and met at the pool. I had a moment with the Lord before hand and they all layed hands on me and prayed over me. It was very important to me that it be an intimate setting with my family, the people that know me and love me for who I am. We got into the pool and I shared with everyone why RIGHT NOW! Dave & Renee baptized me and Nate, Wade and Rachel jumped into the pool out of celebration for the new woman in Christ and I am! Dave finished the celebration with Amazing Grace…. BEAUTIFUL and INDESCRIBALBE moment for me. I left all the lies and the negative things people have spoken into me at the bottom of that pool. They were washed away!!!!
I AM A DAUGHTER OF THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS!
