FREEDOM 5:8
Top: Myself, Lauren, Nani
Bottom: Jenna, Julie, Kristen
“For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord! So live as people of light!”
– Ephesians 5:8
There is freedom to be found! To live is Christ – I am privileged to seek after a God who seeks after me first, to love a God who loved me first, and to die for a Savior that died for me first. I am grateful and I owe Him my life!
Unfortunately, most people don’t know God. I literally can’t imagine living a meaningless, repetitive, and mundane life. I have no desire for it. I have found more purpose and meaning and adventure in Christ than many people will know in their life. But not only can I not imagine settling for less, but I can not imagine stepping back and letting others settle for less.
There are some in the sex industry who do not know God’s unfailing love. Some wandering in Meijer’s stressing out because they don’t know God, let alone Him as their provider. Some are in local high schools and colleges putting all their hope in education rather than the God who has a future for them. Some are in church and content to get to the heaven that they’ll never see.
That’s not the point. The point is not where they are, but where they’re not. At this moment in time, they are not enjoying an incredible journey with Jesus Christ. That’s a problem.
I could go on a huge rant about how we should preach the Word wherever we go, which is true, but that’s not the point either. The point of this is to introduce you to a beautiful group of women, my team, that will be my family for the next chapter in my life. We are six women who are moving forward with the Lord; we are saying, “God, we know they’re out their… lead us to them!” Them being those that do not know Him.
We are proclaiming freedom where there is none. We desire to be vessels through which Jesus can introduce people to Himself. The word “freedom” is defined as “exemption form external control, interference, regulation, etc.” We are believing that our God will use us to exemplify people from controls like fear, codependency, guilt, lust, intimidation, shame, and perverted desires; from interference like religion, sickness, depression, and poverty.
We are better together. Together, in unity, we are Team Freedom 5:8. All of us have our own histories of darkness, but thanks be to God that now, all of us are living as people of light and are determined to share the treasure we found with others, to awaken others spiritually, and please the Lord by exposing the evil deeds of the world.
Please be a part of this journey by praying for us. Unity, discernment, spiritual rest and energy, provision, encouragement, and an unquenchable desire for the Lord are all necessities for this journey.
Thank you for taking the time to know me, my time, and praying for us. I love you and pray you are blessed today! 🙂
Dear Lord, thank you for my team! Thank you that you placed each of us here because we are a perfect match for each other. Thank you that we are better together, and I pray you’d remind us of that when we need to hear it. God, I pray that unity would be strong in our team, that we would be unbreakable. I pray against the enemy’s plans for our team, and that selfish desires, complacency, bitterness, envy, gossip, and all other evil things would have no place of rest on our team. Rather God, I pray that humility, generosity, encouragement, a desire to grow and a willingness to change would be rampant among the six of us. I thank you, Lord, for all of those who are praying for us individually and as a team. I pray God that you would bless each person who backs us up in prayer and that today, each would desire you more. Thank you for that, Lord. You are incredible, God! Thank you for everything you’ve done for me, especially this week. I don’t deserve a bit of it and I am thankful that you use me to bring glory to you. I love you. In Jesus’ name, amen.
