It's a Blog Party!

I'm inspired this morning by two of my younger blogging friends to post about the West Texas Girls Conference going on yesterday and this morning here in Abilene.  Six hundred middle school and high school girls and their sponsors have swarmed our good city and I pray they are being set free and released to go back and change their churches and cities.

This year I facilitated a Soaking experience two different times yesterday afternoon.  I used the same music both sessions.  Seventeen girls and women attended the first session.  It seemed so personal and intimate.  I received the coolest vision over them.  I saw all of us as children running to Jesus wanting to show Him all our stuff.  One came with a drawing.  One came with a song.  One came with a story.  One came with a dance.  One came wanting to show him how fast she could run.  Etc.  You get the picture.  And He had time for each one of us.  In fact, the cool thing was that as we presented Him with our "gifts" He literally received each one into Himself.  I don't know how to properly describe this except that the drawing became a part of Him.  The song became a part of Him.  The movement of the dance and race became a part of Him.  It's as if I saw His heart open up and envelop each gift.  He was so proud and thrilled with each of us.  And we beamed in His love.

The next session I had over 60 girls and women.  It was such a different feeling in the room.  Really interesting.  As we soaked I saw chains falling off of them.  I asked God what those chains were and I heard things like, "I'm not good enough."  "I'm not brave enough."  "I'm not strong enough."  "I'm not cool enough."  "I'm not pretty enough."  Again Etc.  You get the picture.  All the lies we go around trying to act like we're not believing.  Well, they were falling off because God was saying to them - "I AM good enough.  I AM strong enough.  I AM brave enough.  I AM cool enough.  And in Me you are all these things.  Believe in Me.  Lean on Me.  Lean into Me.  I AM ENOUGH."

At the end of each session I told them what I had experienced.  I pray they each had their own encounter that changed their hearts and moved them closer to His heart.  He loves us so very much!  Until we understand that love and can begin to incorporate  it into our identity we are pretty much flailing along out here on our own.  But when we begin to grasp who we are because of Who He is in us - watch out world!!  This is so my passion - these young women (and now some young men in our Huddle).  That they would know His intense love for them so that they can then not only love Him but love themselves and others.  Isn't that what this is all about?

Now let me tell you about Flora.  Each group was given some cash (we had $10) and we were challenged to go out and bless someone.  Our group changed our cash in for quarters and headed to a laundromat.  As we drove up there was a beautiful woman just getting her clothes out of her car.  We walked up to her and explained who we were and that we believed God wanted to bless her with this roll of quarters for her laundry.  Such a simple thing.  I wish you'd seen her face.  The girls had me do the talking so she hugged me...and hugged me...and hugged me some more.  Then she asked us to pray for her husband, Lorenzo, who is on the transplant list for a kidney.  So we did.  Right there in front of the laundromat.  We prayed a new kidney for Lorenzo right out of the storehouses of Heaven.  "On earth as it is in Heaven."  Then she hugged us all and told us that she was going to get up in church tomorrow and tell them about how God blessed her through these young women.  I wish you could have heard the girls back in the car.  All they talked about was how much they loved Flora and how amazing she was.  PRECIOUS!  We were blessed as much as Flora.  God changes everything.  His love shifts atmospheres.  Flora was no longer dredging through her laundry.  She had a smile on her face and I bet she went in there and blessed everyone in the place!  Her entire countenance changed.  She had hope.
Our girls went from idle chatter in the car to love chatter.  Chatter with a purpose.  I KNOW they will continue to pray for Lorenzo and Flora and a new kidney.  They had loved another.

I could go on and on but I need to get ready for the last session!  I can't wait!  By the way, the link to my amazing girls' blogs are:
http://carleelane.wordpress.com/
 http://jordan31.blogspot.com
Check them out.  They're amazing!!!