Will be uploading all my blogs from the past month in the next couple of days!
Yesterday I was on the Hot Seat.
What does that mean? That means everyone on my team gets to answer two questions that I have picked.
1. How do you perceive me?
2. What can I bring to this team?
It was awkward & life giving. It was challenging and convicting.
So how do people on my perceive me?
Many people said that I was someone that challenges them to serve. Someone that is like a horse — Consistent in my ways. That I was beautiful and that they love laughing with me. That I am a perceiver. Someone who can be the voice of reason. Someone that loves to hear peoples story and sincerely care about them. A thinker. Flexible. An Encourager. Compassionate.
What can I bring to this team?
My teammates challenged me to follow through. I have so many ideas and convictions, but I don’t really carry it out. That I’ll take ownership of it and actually do it. That i’ll pray for other people more often because they love hearing me pray. That i’ll share my testimony more. Speak up more when I feel a conviction because I good comes out of it. Ask intentional questions to them about their walk with God.
I overall loved this team time session because it revealed that my teammates see my strength and weaknesses. This shows that they see me and know me. That they care and love me. That they desire more of Christ in my life. It made me feel special as a teammate and a friend, but also as a daughter of God.
Last month in Bolivia, Kaylayann, shared a short devotional about the power of words. I’ve heard this so many times throughout my life, and was always led to the book of James chapter 3. I knew it was true, but I didn’t know the weight of words. The way people talk to me, encourage me, and challenge me affects my mood. Like the Japanese rice experiment, If i’m constantly told (mostly by the lies in my head) that I am lazy, fearful, unloving, impatient, judgmental, and sinful… I am prone to go deeper in those thoughts and become sad, quick to anger, and try to justify my actions. However, when people see me in those moments, and encourage me by reminding me of who I am, It allows me to come to my senses. It continues to build on forgotten convictions, I am more confident in the person that I am and am able to remember the person Christ has created me and called me to be.
I’ve always struggled with remembering things in life, and the worst thing I can do to myself is forget the person I am, a beautiful daughter in Christ. Before a Myers briggs test, or a love language test, I want to be identified & remembered as His child.
