My whole beautiful G-squad walked into training camp bright eyed and bushy tailed, loaded up with our packs and tents, and absolutely 100% unprepared for what was ahead.
But then again…how does one prepare for glory?
Training camp was full of suprises. Like tiny fish floating in my breakfast soup, for example. And some crazy sleeping situations that horrified my dear old mum. 🙂 Good thing i'm a tough Southern girl…& that's all I'll say about that.
…I don't really know how to tell you everything that happened to me. But what I can tell you is that I have never been more broken, and I have never been so ALIVE.
All the things I have been resting in, waiting on this past year- the Lord is bringing those things to pass in my life. He set me free to completely and boldly live out everything He has enpowered me with the past 4 years. Let me just tell you, I am SO ready to just finally be who I am. No more shying away from my destiny.
This past week, my will was broken. Not in a way that implies I was beaten into submission. But in a way that I realized that my comforts, desires, space, time, possessions, views of myself, and everything else I hold on to are not my own. My desire and desperate prayer this upcoming year is to be wrecked for anything else but Him. And that starts with giving all of myself to my new G-squad family. I have never loved and been willing to lay myself down more than I am for my squadmates. I didn't know it was possible to love a group of people from every background in the book quite this much. But boy, do I ever. Just look at them. Don't you see love exploding?!
We also found out our team formations within our squad this week. God has called me to be a part of leadership within our squad and I am so flipping excited to announce to you my team I will be serving and doing life with- team O.I.L! (Overflowing Infinite Love). If you are praying for my journey, please be praying for each of these ladies by name:
-Krystyna Szymczuk
-Mary Middleton
-Meagan Kelley
-Christina Dombrowsky
-Hannah Latimer
-Brandi Wilcox
We chose the name O.I.L as we processed through what we wanted to God to make out of us this next year. This name is a declaration of the places we believe the Lord is going to take us and the women He is making us to be. The scripture we are standing on is Isaiah 61- the year of the Lord's favor, which exemplifies the kind of "overflowing infinite love" we want to bring to the world through the power of the Holy Spirit. This passage also talks about the oil of gladness. 🙂 Scripture also reveals in the Old and New testament the significance of anointing oil…wow. I can't wait to see what the power of that name will look like in our lives!
Did I mention prepare for GLORY? Let me share with you the testimony of what happened to my dear friend and squadmate Jacob this week:
[Disclaimer: this is just a taste of the glory poured out this week.
Warning: I wasn't kidding about being prepared.]
Get ready.
