God started working on us in this area shortly after getting here. There were a few unresolved issues floating around that were just bringing death to our relationships with each other instead of life.
God got us together one day and got us into prayer for Angie for a sickness. Once He got us into prayer, He took off with us! We started a dialogue about everything that was not being said. It was an incredible time of understanding and of miscommunications being aired out. The feeling in the room actually started to lighten and I could actually feel hurts leaving and love growing.
After an amazing time of conversing about everything under the sun, God took us into a time of prayer asking what He wanted us to be doing or to be being. We were unsure of how our time here in Cape Town was going to look, and He answered that question quickly.
The Lord lead us to spend two days being. Only being. No food, no computer, no books, no journals, no nothing. One of the focuses for this time, we knew, was to be in prayer for Angie and her stomach issues. And the rest of the time was just for us to learn how to sit at His feet.
During that time of deprivation from so many of our distractions and time-taker-uppers, we discovered an incredible unity.
God was taking us through a process of healing and unity as a team. We realized a lot of things as individuals during that time, but the main thing the Lord was showing us was how to come together. We learned how to fight spiritually for our sister’s health, we learned how to understand one another and actually like each other, we saw relationships flourish, and we saw the incredible power of just being with our God.
Those few days spent fasting and being were a preparation for not only the rest of our time here in Cape Town, but for the rest of the Race as a team, and how to be in community for the rest of our lives. It was an incredible picture of God taking two days of obedience and using them so powerfully to turn death in relationships into life.
So, for all of that, I say, thank you my Father. And amen.
