Today I said so many things and several times I
thought, "Oh my. That's what I should write about
in my blog today." Needless to say I sat down to do
it and all I can think is, "Oh my what were those
wonderful nuggets?"
What is coming to my mind is what someone said
to me. I have begun to meet with 2 great girls, well
Annie is a woman, and Chelsea is in her early twenties
I think, although after hearing her talk you might guess
she was older. We do a thing that we call DNA, it's small
group accountability.
Anyway- I was explaining to Chelsea the idea of having
things come up in your life, specific things, that you deal
with even after you are free from them. Debunking the misinformation
that you get easily free from things and they never come up again,
and if they do, that some how you are in the same place along
in the journey that you were the last time you dealt with that
issue. Instead pointing out that if you look closely you will find many
ways in which you are probably dealing better with this issue and
bringing attention to the fact that some issues we will always deal
with but this does not mean we are slaves to them anymore.
(this is one of those nuggets i was talking about.)
So I was sharing this and Anne told me this thing. She said
she had a vision while I was talking of me standing in front
of a mass of people teaching. She said she could so clearly
see me doing that. Discussing the things that we have been
sharing as a group and in my blog. She said the word masses.
It's not the first time, actually it's the 4th time, that someone
has used a word like that. National assembly and multitude
are my two favorites.
Before today those words seemed distant and dreamy. The
idea that God might use me in a big way and that people would
benefit from things I had suffered and been healed from.
Today, I owned that word. Masses.
I don't remember if it was Melissa or Dani who once told me
that a teacher told them once that you never teach something
until you have the resolution. At the time I thought it was
lame because I wanted to teach right then and had no answers
to anything. Part of owning it today is the fact that now I do.
And people keep telling me that.
I am choosing to trust God to complete His good work in me.
I am choosing to control the things I can i.e. my mind, will, and
emotions.
I am choosing to receive the prophetic words spoken into my life
by loving, gifted friends.
There has always been an undertone of doubt and fear before.
Even in the best of times.
This my friends, is freedom.
May you be surrounded by His messengers with words of
exhortation and encouragement that continue you on your
journey to more than you ever hoped, dreamed, or imagined.