(photo by Krystle)
Training camp for the world race was amazing!
Camp started by revealing things in our lives and hearts that were holding us back in our relationships with Christ. The second part of camp was spent providing us with tools for our race/team and ending by building us into our team units.
While the overall experience was wonderful, the amazing changes were the ones made in my heart.
What happens when you pray:
“I have done it my way too long and it’s time for me to turn my heart to your will. Break me, turn me into the woman you have created me to be. Challenge all of my comfort-zones. I don’t want this to be easy, I want to be made raw, I want to grow in your will, and let go of the things that have kept me from you.”
While this prayer is going to be answered throughout my life, the start of Christ answering my prayer has already rocked my world and proven to be a request that will change me forever.
It’s amazing to see the changes God makes in your life when you set your heart, eyes and mind to His will. When you decide that the Father knows best.
After three days of camp I was on a high, I was uplifted by amazing worship and had realized some things In my life I had let stand in the way of my relationship with Christ.
While I was redirecting my heart to Christ, I didn’t realize that Satan was getting jealous and planning his attack on my thoughts and heart.
In the days leading up to our teams being assembled, Satan started pouring lies into me. He told me I was unwanted by my squad and had no gifts to contribute. I was breaking and I was pulling back from my squad.
On the third day Father said ENOUGH! he spoke through others to help me hear His truth and see Satan’s lies. I was reminded of my initial prayer, and humbled by the thought that I didn’t have it all together. I came to realize it was time to let go of things, things I had let become more important than my relationship with Christ.
On Thursday afternoon teams were announced.
I had asked Christ to give me the perfect team, but I still had my own idea of what that looked like. The first hour after hearing my team was brutal, it came with an accumulation of the lies Satan had been planting and I felt I would be alone on my journey. I was raw, I had been taken out of my comfort zones and it wasn’t easy.
I knew I was going to have to swallow a slice of humble pie and admit that maybe my idea of my team wasn’t the best. I opened my heart and reminded myself that this was my prayer being answered and His will/love in action.
I am on an all girls team. Girls I had not really spent time with, girls I hadn’t expected to be teamed with, girls I now love dearly. We all have different things to learn from one another and are in need of seeing the power and strength that comes from the Lord’s daughters coming together in community.
I have no doubt that I’m starting this journey with the perfect team.
I have no idea what is going to be next, but I know that this journey is going to push me to limits I did not know existed and prove that I am stronger than I ever imagined.
I am being dared to move
A Squad Packs
Team Fierce
(this beautiful picture was taking by our fiery team leader AJ)
(photo by Krystle)
Krystle and I…LOVE THIS GIRL ( photo by Krystle)
