I thought about all of you at the end of month 9. I was praying and talking to the Lord about some things. In that, my mind for some reason wandered to Amy and the excitement to be friends after the Race.
I thought about that for a moment and imagined keeping up with her. Keeping up with how her new squad was doing on the field. The idea of it just made me really happy.
And now I know that squad, your squad, has a letter “O” in front of it.
It’s kinda weird, honestly, knowing that Amy has already met you and spent 10 days with you. But man am I glad she is your squad mentor. I’m sure you know now, in just that short amount of time, how incredible she is. I’m sure you’ve seen her discernment and the wild, supernatural perspective she has in the Lord.
She told me about you, too. I was so pumped for her to meet you guys. After a couple days of training camp I asked how it was going. How you guys were.
“They’re powerhouses! Praying healing and prophesying over each other and getting after it in worship [double heart emoji] so good.”
Her response actually caught me off guard. I didn’t expect for you guys to be so bold after just a couple days. I remember back to my training camp, and that just wasn’t true for me then. It definitely was true for people in B Squad, but I’m not sure I would have summed us up with those words.
We were and are different. It’s beautiful how the Lord puts together a group of believers with gifts and strengths different from another.
It makes me that much more excited for you. To see how the Lord uses your prayers of healing, your prophecy, and hearts of worship to glorify Him this year. I have a feeling it’s going to be radical. My prayer is that it will be.
I will be praying for you. Praying for unity, for discernment, for words that build each other up, for boldness, for healing, for prophesying, for worship that is pleasing to the Lord, for joy in all circumstances, for laughter, for adventure, for wisdom, for sensitive ears that hear the Lord clearly.
Gosh, I can’t wait for you to live out this year and see what the Lord walks you through. I learned more about the Lord more in this 11 months than I have in the rest of my years combined. And it’s just the beginning.
I pray that to be true for you, too. That no matter where you’re at in your walk, that this will be a year that the Lord shows you and teaches you more than you could have ever have imagined. Whether you can hear the Lord yet, whether you’ve walked in His supernatural gifts yet, or whether you have lived in 24/7 community for months on end before, I pray that your relationship with the Lord is stronger than when you left.
Enjoy and cherish these next months. They are going to be so good, but are also going to be hard at times. Keep pressing in. It’s cliche to say that it’ll be worth it, but it’s just is.
With love from a person you don’t even know,
Linds – 5th Gen B Squad
O Squad is the next group that our Squad Mentor will have out on the mission field after us. They leave during the same timeframe this year that we did last year.
The cycle is normal and it’s just part of how the World Race works, but with Amy meeting them right before our last week on the field, I wanted to reach out and write a note to them before they launch in October.
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