World Race training camp has come to completion! My squad, ‘P-Squad’ and our leadership have casted a vision for the year which is:
Because we bear the Image of Christ and are filled with the Holy Spirit, we will steward what the father has entrusted to us through truth, love, integrity, service, and faith.
Man, my squad is a mighty and bold squad.
Between sleeping in our tents in a rainy season, eating crickets at dinner, taking showers with buckets, and spending lots of time dancing with the Lord- my squad grew together and prepared for the field.
Beyond the wild things, I’ve learned how to be rooted in good faith and good soil.
Mathew 17 says ‘But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who continues to hear the word and understands it. This is the one who produced a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
Before I left for training, I thought I had good soil but when the wind and rain came throughout the past two weeks, God showed me parts of my heart that I still needed to surrender to Him. As my squad enters corners of the world, we need to be secure and faithful to our one true God. When the worries of the world come, is our faith strong and firm? Or does it wither and fall away?
God is calling me to abandon and make sacrifice. He has called me to abandon routines, material things, control, and the life that I once had. He is saying, ‘Here, step in. There is new life here. Life of deep abundance”.
I have also been learning to depend on God. Dependence looks like spending time in His word everyday so that our words and actions are instinctively rooted in Truth. Everything that is not truth has the potential to put us in bondage or limit us. Dependence on the Gospel has established a deeper intimacy with the Lord.
I am delighted to be growing in deeper intimacy with the father by just sitting in His presence.
He is the vine. He is the light of the world. He is eternal life. He is the way. He is the light.
My first team is team Gloria a Dios which means Glory to God in Spanish. We are a group of four women who desire to empower one another, raise each other higher, and glorify God in all we do.
My squad departs on Monday, September 11th. We will spend eight weeks in Guatemala where we will be doing ministry alongside our hosts.
Be well. Love well.
Mags
