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When I say that I think God is a little nuts, I mean it. The idea that grace is what our Father had in His heart through all of the rubbish our forefathers pulled in the Old Covenant and poured it out to save us on the cross for once and for all. We can’t do anything to get it, we keep messing it up and rejecting it, we don’t deserve it and He still freely hands it to us as a gift because He is just an awesome Dad that is completely wild about everybody He created (Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV). He is a madman when it comes to showering His kids with His goodness and He gives it out, no questions asked. The only part we have to do is accept that He gave His Son out of pure love, recognize and follow Christ, obey Him and walk in a relationship with the ROYAL FAMILY of all royal families is just bonkers. The King of Kings is asking us to just let Him love us and come and get to know how good He is and how well He has made you. My gosh, why would we reject an offer like that? Are we out of our minds or something? 

Knowing that just a minimal amount of God’s ridiculous love for us is more than enough for me, but He is a good God who’s goodness never changes and is always wanting to show us more of who He is. He is, by His nature, perfectly good (Psalm 31:19 ESV) As for where I am standing right now, it is time to swallow the really big pill of His amazingly good grace and recognize that I am being trusted to lead a squad of 40 people this September. I am seeing even more now that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit have begun to really see me as a woman and a daughter in their family instead of a kid that hangs out in their house and they are about to throw me in a position of more reliance on them than I have ever experienced before. I have never been more excitedly ill equipped for something and I am looking forward to having no clue as to what the heck I’m doing. 
Squad leading is an opportunity to serve a squad of 40 people through discipleship, relationships, logistics, prayer and teaching through my own experiences on the World Race and at G42 Leadership Academy. I will spend the first 4 months on the field with 2 fellow squad leaders feeding into the individuals, teams, team leaders and logistical teams and eventually raising up new squad leaders from the squad to replace us. I will also attend field debriefs during the 8th and 11th month of the Race.

What’s coming up next isn’t just going to be big, it’s going to be HUGE. I have never been put into a position in ministry where 40 sets of eyes will be watching my every move, 40 sets of ears will be listening and receiving influence from the power of my words and 40 sets of lips will be ready and willing to speak and push me to greatness in my position as eagerly as I will be doing for them. This position will be putting me in a place of service that is allowing me to invest into the lives of 40 people in order to further them into their places as sons and daughters in the Kingdom of God. I am going to be taking what I learned on my own Race from my own Squad Leaders (after watching their Christ-like lives, I have a lot of incredible examples leadership to live up to) and run with what they finished with as my beginning. The World Race is a place that God wants leadership to elbow people forward and get them faithfully believing in a wild and crazy Father that they didn’t know existed. The Race is a place where love continually proves itself triumphant in all that we are and all that we do and GOD IS ASKING ME TO LEAD SOMETHING LIKE THAT. What I’m being asked to do is crazy! Our Father is full blown trusting me!

Man oh man, it’s going to be so great and I cannot do it without you guys. Please start praying now and I will be doing more writing later. I love you guys!