Every morning our team has group worship, which is led by someone different each day. The goal is not only to communicate with God, but to stretch ourselves by learning each other’s ways of worship.
Well I decided to do declarations followed by what I like to call empowerment.
We will satisfy the needs of the hungry, poor, and needy.
We will punch the enemy in the face!
Personal Declaration: God will use me as His hands and feet.
For me, saying the personal declaration was hard because I had been struggling with lies from the enemy. During empowerment, God completely blessed me and the team for stepping out in faith and yelling those things.
(Empowerment, is anything the team felt like doing as far as positive words/energy, speaking life/blessings into people, or practicing prophecy for others)
Many more words than I expected were spoken that morning. I hope I never forget the day I realized that WORDS are soo powerful, and the words that God places on our hearts to tell others can have an awesome impact. I hope I never forget how truly powerful having obedience with what God wants you to do or say is.
For people who don’t know, I am one who is embarrassed fairly easily. God is totally working the kinks out in that region of my life as we speak. Ha-ha. Ok so, I’m sitting there trying to listen to what God wants me to say to my team. I look straight across and see Amber, and I can feel that God has a plan. The thoughts, “Don’t worry, Amber, don’t worry” flash through my head. At this point, I’m thinking, “What? Don’t worry? That can’t be right. God, I want something nice to say…”
Time goes on and so I try to move on to someone else. Nope, ha-ha, that was obviously not God’s plan, and by now those words were like a broken record player, screaming in my head. I couldn’t take it anymore! I knew I had to tell her. In my slight embarrassment, I stuttered through the words, and pretty much felt like an idiot the entire time.
God knew (of course) exactly was His precious baby girl needed to hear in that moment. The glass-like water leaking from her icy blue eyes wassign enough. “Did that just happen? Did God just use me?! Wow…” I realized in that moment how true Proverbs 15:4 was. “The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but the deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.” (NIV)
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