Hard to believe before training camp G-squaders were just facebook friends.…its crazy how one week can pick you up, turn you around, shake you upside down, break you, then somehow put you back together in a new fresh way. It started with anxious excitement and ended with overwhelming joy and love for my new family. This week was so much more than flying to Georgia and sleeping in a tent. It was so much more than eating some random food and meeting my amazing teammates. It’s hard to even put into words what happened. Its been a whirlwind of emotions and its hard to believe its all over, well maybe its far from over but really the start of something truly amazing. Its been a time where expectations have been abandoned, a time of intimate worship with a loving Father, healing, encouragement, and trust. A time of reflection, a time of vulnerability, a time to laugh, time to cry, and a time to lavish in love. Its been a time of breakthrough, and a time of triumph, a time to be flexible, a time of realizing WE ALL have greatness inside of us. I believe the theme of the week was FREEDOM for me. Free from the lies I have believed for so long. Free from pride that has held me back for so long. Free to step into all God has called me to. Free to love a little more like my Father loves me. I AM FREE……
I’m learning I am far from perfect, far from having it all together, I don’t know the Fathers heart as well as I should. I am ashamed of the lies I believed about myself, but perhaps more the lies I have believed about others. I am realizing we all see and feel God in a different way and who am I to say one way is more significant than the other. We must spend less time looking at where people are at and realize how far they have come, God is always at work and everyone’s process looks a little different. WE are all fearfully and wonderfully made, His thoughts about ALL of us outnumber the sand on the seashores. I am NOT who the world says I am, I am NOT who another says I am, I AM who my DAD in heaven says I AM and SO ARE YOU!
This is a glimpse of my breakthrough and my heart this past week (May 19-26). I can’t wait to share my stories with you all. God IS A HEALER. Jacob who is on my squad can now hear after wearing hearing aids since first grade, yes that means HE IS NO LONGER WEARING HEARING AIDS!!! Ellie and Kylee no longer have celiac disease, and this is just 3 stories of His faithfulness TODAY….not in the past, HE HEALS TODAY.
I have been blessed with an amazing team who is so meant to be its ridiculous. We are such a chill bunch of people who balance each other out so well. We are all gifted in different areas and together we are mighty. I am so excited to see what God is going to do in and through us. With that being said let me introduce you to MASHACH, which means anointed in Hebrew! Isaiah 61….read it…it’ll change your life
ME, JAMES, MARCIE, JOSHUA, BETTY, KAYLA
