The first 6 days of New Zealand were Launch training camp. To witness God’s beautiful love, creation and glory in such a beautiful country has been a breathtaking blessing. My first week included finance meetings, reuniting with my wonderful squad mates, tim tam slams, shooting videos of what the kingdom of heaven is even a day on the beach and prophesying.
Say what, prophecy? Oracles and predicting the future? Not quite. I mean HEARING AND SPEAKING THE TRUTH THAT GOD TELLS ME!
Before I left, one of my best friends, David and I had a conversation about spiritual gifts. We joked about how cool it would be to receive the gift of prophecy to kinda spook people out and what not….hmm…
Since training camp, I had fervently been praying for God to reveal to me my spiritual gift. I know that God has blessed me with encouragement for others and I have always been able to see the potential in a person and say uplifting words but never did I know that he would bless me with such a gift.
I have learned that that there are 3 types of prophesy: exhortation, encouragement and edify.
It happened to me the first time at training camp and I said what God told me to say to the person and I downplayed how amazing the gift was and brushed it off as me being on fire for the moment.
While at camp, God spoke loud and clearly to me and revealed to me some words I was supposed to share with some of my teammates, people I didn’t even know and some leaders.
“Really, God? Why me? I don’t know these people, I have no business telling them such a thing and they really don’t need to hear it from me?”
Ricki said that when she has become comfortable in her faith she does something uncomfortable to grow and glorify him….. Man that’s a woman of encouragement right there…
After speaking to the first person that God told me to speak to, it was never ending! I’m not gonna lie, it scares the boogers out of me but I fear my amazing God more and what would happen if I did not do his will. My prayer lately has been for God to make me more like him and like I have said in many of my other blogs, I desire to be the woman God has destined me to be in every single aspect!
