One of the coolest takeaways from my race was the fact that I learned that when I worship, I get the chance to intercede for other people who may not have the opportunity or just don’t worship themselves.
When I was about seven or eight years old at a Christmas/New Years party with my family, some man came up to me and said that he saw me being a dancer in my future. Which I thought was insane. I never really thought about it much and continued to live my little seven year old lifestyle.
Jump forward to my eighth grade year of school, one of my teachers decides to make an announcement that there is an opportunity to learn sign language as an extra curricular. At the time I thought I would be going to college for special education and I jumped at the chance to learn some sign. (Not the story for now, but it really did impact my life learning sign language even outside of worship and ministry).
Just about a year ago I left for my own race and started this amazing journey with the Lord about what our time together looks like. He has shown me so many amazing ways that we connect, but one of the most impactful for me is through worshiping. I have always used sign language when I worship ever since I learned how to sign. So naturally I continued that pattern during the race.
As my confidence in my identity of the Lord grew, so did my sign language using and dancing during worship. One night during a prayer burn in India the Lord gave me such a sweet vision –
I was standing on a white stage in the middle/front of thousands of people with Abba sitting above them on his throne. (I was signing at this point in real life) Every time I would close my eyes I would be standing on this stage signing and when I would one them I was back in India. When the song was other everyone stood up and started signing “Thank You” to me.
Then it was over.
I walked away from that night super weirded out because I had never had such clear vision before and I had NO CLUE what it meant. When I got to Guatemala, we had many worship sessions and one of the members on staff at the base told me that he saw mw as a dancer for the Lord. I thought it was sweet but didn’t think that much of it. He then proceeded to say “Hey Dancer” every time he saw me and I slowly became more and more annoyed, but allowed it to happen because I was going home soon enough. About a week before I was headed home, I went to a worship night with my friends at the church a team did ministry at. I was dancing around and doing my sign thing when he walked up to me and said “Hey Dancer”. I just smiled and just kept telling myself that this was the last time I would have to hear that again. He then said he wanted to speak something over me and I was all about that. He said that when I sign or dance during worship that I get the opportunity to intercede and fight on behalf of those who don’t get to worship or just choose not to themselves. I took it to the Lord and asked Him what He says about that and He IMMEDIATELY reminded me of that vision and said that all those people were the people that I got the chance to intercede on behalf of.
Now, whenever I get the chance to worship the Lord will specifically put people or places on my heart and I know that in that moment those are the people or places I’m supposed to pray over and intercede for. It is an awesome ministry opportunity that I get the chance to do and such an intimate way for the Lord to speak to me.
I cannot wait to see what the Lord does through this time I have here in Thailand and as a Team Leader.
Thank you everyone for your prayers and how well you all loved me during my second time funding. Pray for unity and freedom within team Ahava would be much appreciated. The Lord has some amazing things in store for them and I cannot wait to see what He does, no matter if I get to see that in the three months I’m here or in ten months when I hopefully see them again state side.
Love you all,
Liz
