In my last actual blog I talked about heading to Romania to pour into a few squads of world racers, followed by some backpacking hostel ministry. Well, there’s a slight change in that plan – instead of going from here (Brasov, Romania, where we just finished up the awakening yesterday – more on that in a minute) to the backpacking plan, I’m going to continue to pour into world racers by tagging along with Caitlin Woodward, who is the amazing tumber/artist/writer that was on D Squad with me and is now a squad leader for K Squad! So I will head off to…well, I can’t remember if it’s Croatia or Serbia at the moment, but somewhere where a world race team is rocking out and I get to join in the awesomeness with them! I’ll just be doing what I can to pull them deeper into their walk with God this year, prophesying with them, praying with them, worshiping with them, and possibly ministering with them as well. You know, whatever I’m needed for, as always. Be praying for them all as they learn more and more about what it means to walk a spirit filled life in community with others. Pray for Caitlin as she seeks how to serve, lead, and minister to them best, and for me as I fill in wherever I’m supposed to.
Ok, so I know I said I’d give you more on the awakening now, but to be honest I have NO IDEA how to capture this in words. First off, getting to be physically with the World Race community again is beyond awesome, with people from every squad that’s gone out since before they even gave them letters to tell them apart. I love being where we can go to people we’ve never met before and start a conversation about the deepest stuff possible without any preface. Beyond that though, I spent every day this week seeking time with whoever God would put in my path, just doing my best to listen to what God had for each of them and then delivering those words to them. Getting to be a part of God opening someone up to new giftings, freedoms, and understandings is just….mind blowingly stupifyingly bodaciously awesome, to put it simply (and mostly not in English as far as my spell checker is concerned). And He let me do it all week, whether when sitting in on teaching sessions or during worship or getting to share a vision God had for all 250 of us sitting there or just having lunch with some one person. I think m
y favorite part though is watching people take what words or gifting they’re given by God and go give it away to someone else. They don’t wait till they have all their stuff figured out, they just step forward in complete trust that what they have been told to share desperately needs to be said or done. When I do this at home, it’s always like the message is getting tangled up in people’s doubts, like they’re not quite ready to trust God’s word about them, so they kind of absorb it and dwell on it. Which is good, that’s what they need at that time. But I love being here where such a large group of people are ready to just trust in Him, ready to be completely broken by God in really hard ways knowing that His plan is best. So when they are told that they are a child of the king and that they need to let go of the belief that they don’t know enough to teach on the bible because they are only the voice and God is the Word, they are willing to step away from the fear they have and walk across the room in complete humility to teach something to someone that they have been mentored by and led by and that they view as having all the answers and could never need a word from the likes of them. Or they go share their testimony with a table of guys at the pub we’re hanging out at, or they go unlock someone’s prayer language when they only just spoke theirs for the first time a moment ago. It doesn’t stop. I love it, seeing it, being in it, living it, and I love speaking God’s words to people. It’s been a good week.
