It’s what you’ve all been anxiously waiting for … my Training Camp BLOG!! YAY!! :)!
For me, the past 10 days have been every kind of emotion a person could ever feel!! I’ve been happy, sad, nervous, excited… but most of all anxious with anticipation!! What would God do in me?! Who would I meet?! Would I actually wanna do the race after this camp!? These thoughts plagued my mind, and left me overwhelmed. Thankfully so, camp was an incredible experience in which I truly met God… and survived not mention :)!!! However, I can’t say that it was all easy, and that there wasn’t brokenness… because there definitely was!! But I tell you this, I found freedom like I never had before, and even better, I found God like I never knew him before! He’s all I need, all I want, my everything, and I would give everything to serve him!!
One of my favorite memories from training camp went like this ….. !
It was the second or third night of training camp and our director had just finished speaking to us, after he spoke we were asked to seek prayer if we needed freedom, and I had wanted to receive freedom from fear for such a long time, so I took this opportunity and I asked for prayer… all the while the right side of my back was in excruciating pain (I’ve had an offset rib that tended to bother me for a few years). I remember thinking God if you really speak and are moving in our generation today, have someone pray for my back!! So I sat down after I was prayed for and I began to write in my journal, I titled the journal entry Healing… little did I know what was coming!! My entry talked about how I felt I was free from fear and that I no longer had to walk in a spirit of timidity but one of boldness. Anyway right in the middle of me journaling an alumni walked up to the front of the stage and said that he was having a terrible pain in the right side of his back and that he believed God was telling him to pray for whoever else was having this pain. I hesitated … but went up despite all the thoughts in my mind telling me not to. That night I truly 100 percent believe that after receiving prayer my back was healed. I haven’t had any pain since, God is so good!! He’s still healing today!!
Matthew 10 vs. 8 says: Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy,<sup value='[a]’> drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.
