even more undignified than this

Lots of really cool things have been happening over the past
few days, but two in particular I’d like to share:

Most of you know- I’m going to
Fuller Seminary for my Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy in September. Satan at times has attacked me with lies that
I am not equipped for this- for example, a guy on a plane last year ridiculed
me for thinking that I as a single woman had anything to offer married people
and families. I don’t know exactly how
God will call me to use my degree, it may just be with child prostitution victims
in Peru,
but it could also very well be with married couples and families. Last Friday I met with Alejandra at the
prison, and we got into a conversation about her husband and some things
dealing with emotional unfaithfulness, etc. I was able to share with her about a number of
things- most of which I don’t have any experience in- but I am able to see God’s
plan for marriage mapped out in His Word, and so the Lord gave me His words to
speak to her about it. It was just such
a good reminder that God is the equipper, and when He calls us to do something,
He will provide the wisdom to carry out His purposes. I absolutely love David’s Psalm of Thanks in 1
Chronicles 16, and I felt God claiming verse 22 over me: “Do not touch my
anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.”

While hanging out in 1 Chronicles, this
morning I backed up a little and thought about David dancing around in his
underwear, and God just put it on me to not hide my worship, to let Him work
though me without being ashamed of His extravagant love that pours over us and
covers our sin- even if that means I end up sobbing before His holiness. That’s okay!
And I want all of us to as a group walk in that freedom! So I was
praying a lot for that in our worship- I can’t remember where this is, but I
was praying that part- maybe its in Isaiah somewhere- that says (well I adapted
it to me as a woman)- I am a woman of unclean lips and I come from a people of
unclean lips- and I just pictured God’s spirit cleansing our group so that we
could come before Him and worship without abandon, and that our motives would
be purified and He would just have His way in our hearts, that we would all
feel the gospel of peace washing over us, and that it would overflow in our
lives today, because readiness for evangelism comes from the Gospel of Peace. So then when we got to debrief time- we
usually open in 4 or 5 songs- this morning Jason said He wanted us to worship in
a different way today, just with more freedom, so it just went back and forth
between playing songs and reading different things, and God’s spirit just
worked in really powerful ways in a lot of people’s hearts, and I was just
astounded by His faithfulness in giving us such freedom, allowing us to worship
Him in Spirit and in Truth, which such reckless abandon! Oh He is so good! So just praise Him, the author of our
Salvation, for what He’s doing here among us and through us. Please let me know how I can be praying for
you, dear friends! I love you all so
much!

Me and Alejandra – Her lawyer was supposed to come this weekend to tell her whether she got out- pray for her!