For those of you that don’t know, on the World Race we do a thing called feedback EVERY SINGLE DAY of the race. Can I be honest for a minute and say that I wasn’t excited about doing these after a full day of ministry every day but I did see the benefit and was willing to do it. However I NEVER thought that it could be a worship service, but Saturday night the presence of the Holy Spirit fell and it was a worship service.
We invited our lovely hosts to join our feedback time and I am so glad we did otherwise we would have missed out on some amazing words. For those of you that don’t know how feedback works one person is in the “hot-seat” and everyone else gives them feedback both positive and constructive, then the next person is in the hot seat and so on until everyone has gone. We started feedback on Saturday at 10:30pm and had 11 women to get through, which when each person receives from everyone else takes a LONG time. We were all exhausted and I initially came into this feedback with the attitude of: can this be over so I can get some sleep? I’m so glad that I stuck it out, wow!
We started and the Holy Spirit had quite the agenda for that night and started giving us prophetic words for each other. I mean these women had my number and spoke things into my life that I hadn’t shared with anyone much less these women. My love cup was filled and was blessed by the Lord through these women. The power that was in the atmosphere in the room that night was thick and the affirmation that the Lord was giving to each of us was thick as a healing balm. One prophetic word from 4 years ago became an affirmation for a ministry for one of hosts, wow. It was incredible and all I could think was how am I so blessed to be a witness to this? I didn’t get to sleep until 3AM that night and even then I wasn’t even tired. God is Good.
I have been yearning for a sisterhood among sisters in Christ, because the truth is we don’t love each other like we should. We can’t love each other like we should because we don’t love ourselves like we should. I desire that we live in freedom, freedom from comparison and freedom from judgement and start appreciating each other as unique and different and in that difference find beauty. We are different parts of the body but equally important to the Lord, one is not better than the other because she has this specific gift, no we are all important in our unique ways. That night I felt that sisterhood I’ve been longing for. That night I got a glimpse of heaven, I got a glimpse of the plan of God. It was something I won’t forget soon. Of course this sisterhood is something we will have to fight for every single day, but it is so very worth it!
