HEY YALL!! So I have officially been home from training camp for 30 days, and I am just now sitting down and writing an official training camp blog.
In my last vlog, I touched on training camp a bit and I explained what we did and the situations we were in, but I didn’t really explain what we had learned. So here at my TEN TRAINING camp TAKEAWAYS (that’s why this blog is titled triple t)!!! There were ten days of camp so here are my takeaways from each day!
DAY 1: Living in the kingdom will cost EVERYTHING
This was a good start to the whole camp. Our speaker sat us down and taught us about the cost of discipleship. He explained it like this, “if you sugarcoat the gospel you get cupcakes, that doesn’t taste like the salt of the earth.” In order to be a disciple, we must 1) disciple ourselves 2) deny ourselves and 3) learn how to carry our own cross. God didn’t make us to be comfortable, he made us to be efficient.
DAY 2: Believing in God is an experience
Ya know what, the gospel of God is just so cool. I mean everything I read about Him, I can never expect less than that. And c’mon the guy ROSE FROM THE GRAVE TO SAVE US LIKE WOW. I love the verse 1 Corinthians that says “and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power” this perfectly encompasses the true beauty and power that is the gospel. Our speaker gave us a quick “how to” lesson on living out the gospel everyday…
step 1: Love God. Love people. If you ever forget that, just look at my instagram bio.
step 2: Love yourself. This is a big one. In order to love other people well, you have to love yourself.
step 3: Trust the Holy Spirit. I mean the guy is never wrong, just trust him!
DAY 3: Mission is the plan of God to bring about the purpose of God
What is missions work? It is universal reconciliation for universal worship. Gods purpose of missions is to unite all things in Him so that all things might praise His glorious grace. Mission is the plan of God to bring about the purpose of God.
“missions exists because worship doesn’t”- John Piper
Worship doesn’t exist globally, so missions exists.
DAY 4: Forgiveness is a choice, not a feeling
I mean the Lord forgives me everyday, why not forgive others? Emotion comes after obedience.
DAY 5: Be obedient when God talks to you
When listening to God, my responsibility is to obey Him. Even if he is telling me to go pray over a prostitute, I will have a yes in my spirit and i will pray over her with joy.
DAY 6: The only thing that will set you free is the truth
Truth is a person, His name is JESUS!! CAN I GET AN AMEN!
DAY 7: We can not antagonize and evangelize
We were made to witness, not judge. It is Gods job to judge. It is the Holy Spirits job to convict us of sin. It is Jesus job to save us. Our job is to love.
DAY 8: Worship is ascribing worth to God
Worship is everything we do because God is worthy.
DAY 9: There is freedom in the name of Jesus
I am free from any condemnation brought against me and I cannot be separated from the love of God. Again… CAN I GET AN AMEN!!
DAY 10: Be who God made me to be
On the last day, they told us the time in between camp and launch has been described as numb. There is just this kind of dull feeling over everything. Its almost like I’m in a cartoon and there’s a rain cloud only over my head. Its been a very dry season, well my eyes aren’t dry but every other aspect of life is.
I have had a really hard time saying goodbye to all my people.
That’s been the thing that the devil has been picking at the most. He keeps telling me that no one is going to miss me, no one cares about what I’m doing and I’m going to be all alone when I come back. Those are all NOT TRUE and I HATE that the devil had that power over me. He is really good at picking out all of our insecurities and making them seem so much larger than they actually are.
I don’t remember who shared this exercise with me but for every lie Satan tells you, find 3 truths in Jesus name.
So when Satan says, “Katelyn, no one is going to miss you because no one loves you” I say to myself “well haha satan, nice try. I am a child of God. He made me for His good works, to spread His kingdom. I am complete in Him. I am born of God and the evil one cannot touch me” and poof satan just runs away with his tail between his legs.
I guess in a sense, I’m thankful for this rain cloud period. It has really stretched me and caused me to look for Jesus in the hardships.
With all of that being said, I leave for launch in 19 days (oh my goodness). I ask that y’all pray over my heart and help keep me accountable in recognizing the lies satan tries to tell me, not just over these next few weeks but over the course of the race and just life in general. These next few weeks are going to be HARD. Actually having to say goodbye to my friends and family is really going to hurt, but as my friend Winnie the Pooh says “how lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
So please also pray for peace and comfort in my whole being.
And please continue praying over my squad and our team and our leaders. Pray for protection and guidance and for our community to continue to grow in love and discipleship so we can spread the kingdom of God!!
All my love always
Katie <3
ps. I got my wisdom teeth out last week and I was loopy and thought it was funny so enjoy!
