God Spoke

On the night we returned from the Taj Mahal, I couldn’t fall
asleep. We had slept a lot on the trains so I was just very restless. Chandler
had taken her tent to the roof  so
I was all a lone in the room.  I
needed to worship! So I popped in the iPod and went at it. I was praying and
singing in the room all by myself when all of a sudden I just felt it “The
Presence of God� not like a little tingle you know on my arms or anything we’re
talking like knock knock I AM HERE! I was overwhelmed by his presence and was
anxious to figure out what he was trying to tell me. Through prayer and a couple
of days I felt that God was trying to say “you need to do something in remembrance
of what I did for you� (This is the week before Easter, so yeah).

So I thought about it and decided I was going to take some
time to fast and prayer. I’m not much of a faster, I tried it once in high
school and well I didn’t pick a very good day and ended up almost passing out in
track practice. So, it is something I needed to do. I was going to do like 3
days but travel day was mixed in there and I needed my energy so I decided to
just do it on Easter Sunday.

We got to debrief on Friday evening and got the schedule and
everything for the week. On Saturday night they were having an all night
worship and prayer session. Initial reaction: No thanks. Then God was like
“what was that?� and I was like really? You want me to stay up all night, I like
sleep. So on Saturday night I didn’t make it all night but until 3ish. It was
an awesome time of just hearing God and gaining revelation from him.

That night I finished my first notebook that I brought on the race. God
told me…

“here, here is a clean slate for the next 3 months. You get a new team,
new dynamics, and a new notebook take full advantage of it. But first so you
have some bitterness built up from the last 8months. Get rid of it then walk in
the freedom I have for you.”

Bitterness. yes. How do I get rid of it. Well after seeking
some counsel from the beautiful Tricia Wegman I knew that I just needed to let
it out. I needed to try to do it in the most loving way possible. So during our
debrief I let it out, some not so loving but I tried. Let me tell you what I walked out of those doors a new women. People could see the change and just
know the joy I was experiencing.

So, God Spoke, I listened, and now I’m free. I’m so excited
for the next 3 months and the team I’m with and the ways they are going to push me!

Take some time and let
God speak in your day, you never know what could happen!