Hi family!
So I just got back from ten days of World Race Training Camp on Sunday. I have yet to write a blog, mainly because I just have not been able to gather all the words. But we’re going to try now. 🙂
Today my favorite song is Good Good Father. Some of the words are this:
“You’re a good, good Father.
It’s who You are, it’s who You are, it’s who You are
And I am loved by You.
It’s who I am, it’s who I am, it’s who I am.
You are perfect in all of Your ways.
You are perfect in all of Your ways.
You are perfect in all of Your ways to us.”
Training camp was real hard. Training camp was real intense. Training camp was real real. Training camp was real Spirit led. Training camp was real raw. Training camp was real freedom. Training camp was real cold. Training camp was real Truth. Training camp was real life changing. Training camp was real community. Training camp was real worship. Training camp was real challenging. Training camp was real boldness. Training camp was absolutely incredible.
I could write a novel at this point of all the incredible things Jesus has done in my heart these amazing ten days. I could also write a novel of the really, really neat things that we got to experience at Training Camp like an “African marketplace,” sleeping in a tent in the 30 degree nights, sleeping in the “airport,” the FOOD, my incredible SQUAD and leaders, camping out and cooking our own dinner, the fitness hike, and BUCKET BATHS vs. the faithful baby wipes. I could write a lot, but today I feel like this is what needs to be spoken.
I AM ENOUGH.
A POWERFUL truth that the Lord spoke over me at Training is this. He revealed to me in such sweet love that deep, deep down I have struggled with not feeling like I was enough, not feeling like I was worthy. This struggle has come up from different things in my life and different responses to different seasons and events in my life and has caused different struggles in my life- but this is the deep root.
During the first days- the Father so powerfully and continually kept telling me that HE IS ENOUGH. HE ALONE IS ENOUGH FOR ME. We talked about the Lord emptying us of things in our lives sometimes so that we can be filled with more and more of Him. He so sweetly kept showing me that HE IS ENOUGH- something I know, something I’ve heard my whole life, something I have believed- but just really, really grasped and have been so sweetly reminded of these days.
After that, He revealed to me this deep struggle I have had and oh how He completely drowned me in love to show me that I AM ENOUGH. I AM WORTHY BECAUSE I AM A DAUGHTER, A LOVED SO DEARLY DAUGHTER OF GOD. Take that in, friends. This is HUGE. All my life, praise God, I have heard that God loves me- I have believed it for sure. But oh how He has lavished this on me these days. The Father loves me. Me. He loves every part of me. This isn’t just a blanket, “God loves the whole world,” but this is an intimate LOVE. He loves who I am, He loves every part of me- just as I am, me- and I AM ENOUGH.
This is so empowering, friends. One night we did listening prayers. We got a partner and prayed for one another and listened for anything that the Lord placed on our hearts and spoke to us about our partner to share with them. My partner was Allie. Allie didn’t know that this was what the Lord was so beautifully and so refreshingly placing on me. She prayed. The Lord gave her a picture to share with me. This is what she saw:
Jesus is walking through a big crowd of people and He is pushing them to the side, not in a mean way, just pushing them out of the way so that He can get through. He’s pushing these people out of the way and He gets to me. He sees me and comes to me. He hugs me and holds me as a Father does. Then He begins to wipe my face in love.
Do you see it? Oh the tears that have been cried just thinking about this. The Father is ENOUGH. He pushes the crowd away- He alone is enough. He comes to me and washes my face, washes away anything dirty or makeup to hide things- He says I am enough just the way I am and HE LOVES ME.
Incredible.
I could share SO MANY things with you, friends, of Training Camp. It was absolutely incredible, life changing, and exciting. I am absolutely in awe that I get to be a part of something so incredible.
He’s a good, good Father! And I am loved by Him- that’s WHO I AM. Oh what FREEDOM to walk in this.
I cannot express to you how PUMPED I am to share this truth- to share that JESUS IS ENOUGH, to really live that out, and to share that WE are ENOUGH to people so in need of this Hope all around the world. I just cannot wait to share this LOVE that overwhelms my soul with people who desperately need it all around the world. Praise His name for this incredible opportunity to bring His Kingdom!
Dear friend reading this- you are ENOUGH. YOU ARE ENOUGH. The Father loves you so sweetly, so intimately, so much- just the way you are. You are enough. And just REST in the truth that HE IS ENOUGH. He pushes through the crowds in our lives, the fleeting things we fill our lives with that are not of Him or for Him, and proclaims that He loves us and that He alone is more than enough for us. Trust Him in that today; He is PERFECT in ALL of His ways.
With so much love,
Megan Fridell
“…I came that they may have LIFE and have it ABUNDANTLY.” John 10:10
“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!” Romans 8:15
“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” Matthew 7:11
