As I returned home from Training Camp, the first three words I could muster up to write in my journal were, “WOW, GOD, WOW!!!!!”
10 days was all it took for me to fall more in love: with Jesus, with the power and presence of God, with my squad, and to fall so much more in love with the person I am in Christ.
Training Camp was a whirlwind of emotions. The first 3 days of camp I was so overwhelmed to actually be at Training Camp…..with my squad…..preparing to go on the World Race. WHAT!!!! Everything seemed like a dream. Something I have prayed so fervently over the course of 3 years was finally (THANK YOU JESUS) coming to fruition and being in the presence of God and the presence of godly community was needless to say, overwhelming.
I can honestly say, I have never tangibly felt the power of the presence of God like I did the past 10 days. God is alive y’all! The same God that split the Red Seas, the same God that showed up in the presence of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2, the same God that told the lame to walk and gave sight to the blind is the EXACT same God we still serve today. Try to wrap your mind around that.
God has HABITATION in our lives; not VISITATION. He never leaves, never changes, and never differs.
In John 14:12-14, Jesus tells his disciples,
“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.”
Jesus says we will do greater works than He did. Let that sink in for a moment.
WOW, GOD, WOW.
I saw John 14 play out in front of my very eyes over the past 10 days. I saw people with injuries healed in the name of Jesus. I saw a friend who had one leg shorter than the other grow 3/4 of an inch in front of my very eyes (YES, THIS REALLY HAPPENED). I experienced healing in my jaw from a lingering basketball injury in the name of Jesus.
This is real life.
This is Jesus.
He has not changed. He is still the same. The Constant One.
The box that I had put God in during middle school expanded when I went to high school. The new box I created in high school expanded when I went to college. The even more new box I created in college got completely shattered when I came to know the Jesus of the Bible—rather than the Jesus I created in my mind or the Jesus I confused with religion. And now the shattered box Jesus completely tore down in college is being built into something new & beautiful & this box never seems to end & it looks more like the very heart of God.
If there is one thing I know to be true, it is that God can and will continually do immeasurably more than all we could ask or imagine (Ephesians 3:20). We just have to allow Him to break down the box that we wrapped him up in.
Because He can do more.
He will do more.
Yes, this is real life.
This is Jesus.
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