I’m going to share with you all a lesson I learned from my race that the Lord wasn’t finished teaching me.
It was so weird to go back to the same hotel in Atlanta, once again on the edge of beginning the race. I’ve done the race already, and the Lord brought me to start this year off doing the same. Naturally I asked God, “What are you doing? In this squad? In my team, and in me Lord? Why am I starting again at the same place?” Of course, God being the creator of humor, has the funniest way of reiterating lessons.
On my race, the phrase “life is ministry, ministry is life,” was ALWAYS spoken over us. We heard it at debrief. We heard it at one on ones. We heard it in our dreams. It was everywhere all the time. It was something I said and was reminded of on a weekly basis. Now looking back I can see that I was sowing the words of truth into my heart and learning how to recognize the heart of God in everyday things.
Now starting this race with my D-Squad, God has been blowing my mind. People are being welcomed into the eternal family of God, and people are getting healed. ON THE DAILY. We are praying healing over each other and walking in step with the Holy Spirit who gives the authority of Christ. Our prayers are breaking things in the spiritual and physical realms. We intercede for each other on the regular and our first response to a majority of things is, “let’s pray for it.”
I know for me, I wasn’t walking as closely as I am now when I was on my race. Guys. THIS IS EVERDAY LIFE. I think God really wanted to show me that I had been low ballin it for a long time. He wanted to show me how much I had been missing out on. These things happened daily on my race as well, but I played the background. That’s not to say I wasn’t actively praying but I wasn’t walking in what the spirit made available to me.
Now; I have to brag for a second. I LOVE MY SQUAD. I could not have survived the race without Jesus working through each of them at specific times to help me grow closer to Him everyday. Those are bonds that can NEVER be broken and a love that runs so deep. I would not be walking in what I am now if I hadn’t been sown into, and sown what I was receiving into the ground. It could seem like you all aren’t apart of this now but you are. Y’all are the ones who urged me to have my roots grow deep. I grew more than I could have imagined and even in my failure God has been exactly who he says he is. FAITHFUL.
This is me praising the name of the Jesus who fought for me every single day and pleaded with the Father on my behalf for more time. This me saying how honored I am to have a tool as powerful as prayer in my arsenal. This is me bowing low before the Lord of Lords for he gave me a gift that cost him his own son. This is me saying how thankful I am for a love that goes beyond my own life. A love that broke through time and gave me eternity to carry within my own heart.
“Look at the nations and watch-be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.” Habakkuk 1:5
Alisha
