If you have ever met me you will know that I am a someone who is shy around people I don't know well, this stems from the fact that I don't trust easily. I don't trust the people who I first meet because I am instantly thinking, what if they don't like me, what if they hurt me, because of these thoughts that are going through my head I stay silent in hopes that I can fade into the background. When God started to break off my fear He did it in tangible ways, He gave me joy that overwhelmed my fear to the point where I was able to be who I am. Which is opinionated, talks to much, outgoing, adventurous, loves to laugh, and sometimes just a little crazy. I forgot to be silent and instead yearned to get to know my team, I wanted to know their names, their stories, joys, hurts, everything, so I asked questions. I was assertive, I was anything but the wallflower that I should have wanted to be.
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| The team of shy people dance |
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| We are being set free right here |
Its funny because on the second day of training camp they asked the students to ask the Lord what He wanted to tell them about our teams. The training team each team to know what God was calling our teams into, so the students specifically were told to ask him for specific words. It was amazing because so many of them got the word freedom. God wanted to give us freedom from all the lies, fears, brokenness, hurt, all the things that were holding us back from Him. Freedom was poured out from the Lord on to my team and it started in me and spread, the Lord set every person on my team free. Even more so though my team was going to be used to bring freedom to many they met on the field and even off later when they got home.
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| I don't know if you can see but you can actually see the changes starting. The smiles get bigger |
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| I will write more about this later but let me tell you this signifies a lot of freedom for my team. |
These first to two blogs where about how God set me free and next I will tell you about how he set the rest free. It is story that brings me such great joy that I literally dance and weep because my heart is so full of gratitude and love for the Lord who decided to love us so much. This trip taught me so much about the Love our Abba has for us. Our Abba sent Jesus (His son) to earth to set us free, I lived in a cage for far to long the door has been open and ocassionally I would step back in when I started to wander from my God. No more. Freedom is mine, it was paid for with a price and I want to take my free gift and run with it.
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