Eat, Pray, Love: Traning Camp, Part 3: Reflections

I promised that I would write another blog about training camp… thats true. SO, about a month later, here we are.

 

Today is Thanksgiving, the 26th. I’ve been home from camp for exactly a month now. I have had exactly three conversations with people that truly express how much I have changed, and how much God is going to be using me this coming year. One was today, one was last week, and the other 2 weeks ago. God has an epic agenda in mind for me, for my team, and for Mercy Squad. EPIC.

 

I feel like being at camp was some sort of secret society that was safe and vulnerable all at the same time. I long for the community that I felt while in Georgia. I long for someone to know me as intimately as my creator, and as uniquely as M Squad knows me. I came home changed. I came home on FIRE for God and what he is doing in me and through me. God will use me to heal people. God will use me to speak LIFE over people. God will used me in ways I have never even imagined. I mean, I cant even get my mind around it. God is so creative. I am humbled to be chosen for the Race, to be chosen to heal people, to be chosen to glorify him. Its almost intimidating.

 

So as I look back at camp, probably the most “radical” week of my life thus far… I cannot help but wonder who I will become over the course of the next year… who I will become for Christ. 

 

I need to tell you a story that got left out from my last blog. I was getting there… but just didn’t finish it. After getting back to camp from the session where God confirmed to me and Charity that I was going to heal, I was just in awe of God, standing around the camp fire. I don’t really know how the next part of this happened, obviously God. A squad mate, John Blair, asked me if I had any stories – out of the blue – and I said yes, of course, and that I had to share with everyone what just happened. As I shared, I was filled with the Holy Spirit and love and just AH! Everything was amazing in that moment, sharing with my “secret society” what God has planned for me. It felt like Christmas. Immediately following that, another squad mate, Nate Evans pulled me over to him to lay hands on him. As I did, and this was the practice Jimmy was telling me about, I just followed what God was telling me, I just listened. Not only did God lead me to the exact reason why I was laying hands on him, but I pinpointed several things that were going on with him currently, I guess I would call it prophesy. It was SO cool. I’ve never really experienced anything quite like it before. Now that I know what this whole healing/prophesy thing really looks like, I feel more equipped to do what he has asked of me.

 

One month ago, I was leaving camp, and about one month from now (give or take), I will be getting on an airplane headed to New Zealand. What a difference a month makes. And, after that, life will roll month by month. Weird. Good weird. So going back to the theme of my life currently, Eat, Pray, Love… Today, I ate. Literally, since its Thanksgiving. I will continue to eat spiritually and pray until I get to LA. Lots of praying.