After our 4th month on the World Race our leadership decided it was time for our squad of three teams to switch it up a little, so we had team changes! Before announcing the new teams to us, our squad mentor, Amy, prayed a specific word over each of the new teams. For our team, now called Empower Rangers, she prayed over us the word Tehom. It’s a Hebrew word meaning the great deep…existing for all time. Referring specifically to the waters that existed before the creation of the world in Genesis 1. Amy recently wrote out her explanation for choosing this for our team, and my excitement grows more and more each time I read it. I just had to share with you!
While reading this, though, I want you to think about your own life. If you are a believer, you fit right into this! You carry the Spirit of God with you, and through His deep, never ending love for you, you have the power to love others and speak life into them. Gosh. I just pray that you can read this with such excitement, because this is so real for all of us!
“When I think of team TEHOM, I think of the very beginning of Genesis when the Spirit of God is hovering over the waters. It’s that moment – right before the creation of the whole world as we know it. Each of you women are like that water; before the Lord spoke, you were without form, void, and dark. But when He spoke, He brought LIGHT and LIFE. Then that was just the very beginning! Out of that formerly void depth, He brought land and plants and animals and all sorts of wonderful, beautiful LIFE! When we remember that in the beginning God created our world by pulling it up out of the deep water, the ocean becomes a symbol of His overwhelming, wide, long, high, deep love! All that land and all those plants and animals were hidden under the water just waiting to be pulled out. Just as the Spirit of God hovered over the water, you’ll meet men and women everywhere who are still formless, void, and dark, just waiting for someone to speak LIGHT and LIFE over them, and pull out the beauty that’s hidden down deep in them. You are that voice. You’ll reach down deep and draw out people’s potential from within. You’ll know the depth of God’s love first for yourselves and then share that deep love with others. And you’ll make a deep impact that, in the name of Jesus, will exist for all time – beyond even your own lifetime! Each of you carry the Spirit of God and that deep love inside of you!”
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Shout out to Amy for these beautiful, encouraging words!
