Day 1: Come And Leave Different

Now WHAT? 

WHAT is NEXT after you do

 what GOD ASKS you to do,

and now you have to GO?

To GO. 

To LEAVE.

Yet you don't want to GO?

What if JUNE wouldn't leave,

where would JULY be?

Today my hubby and I have to GO.

We CAME afar, because GOD ASKED us.

When GOD opens a DOOR,

you don't question if you are supposed to walk through it.

You COME. 

We CAME.

I was INVITED to COME to South Africa.

A country that felt like home,

from the moment I touched the ground.

For where GOD sends you,

HE greets you from the moment you arrive.

To run off the plane into the arms of a woman,

 who I only knew for a month

through our conversations through the computer,

yet felt as if we KNEW each other for a lifetime,

because GOD KNEW.

Because this was GOD's plan,

for such a time as this.

Oh when HE ASKS you to COME,

you COME

for HE KNOWS what HE is doing.

As I ran, and yes I ran,

  to my NEW SISTER in CHRIST,

who greeted usat the airport.

We embraced

and couldn't let go.

For when GOD ASKS you to COME,

HE is waiting for you

with HIS EMBRACE.

For when GOD OPENS a DOOR,

HE has BLESSINGS upon BLESSINGS,

waiting for you,

 that are

IMMEASURABLY MORE than you could every imagine,

because you can not out think GOD.

GOD knows what HE is doing,

for when HE ASKS you to COME,

you COME.

I CAME. 

Why me?

Only HE KNOWS.

And I think,

what if I didn't COME?

Oh tears are streaming down my face,

because I would have MISSED

HIS BLESSINGS that HE had for me and my hubby.

As I stood before women who I have never met before,

yet as I looked into their eyes,

it was if our HEARTS were attached since birth,.

For when you are YOKED in CHRIST,

you are YOKED together in a way

that transcends all understanding.

And when GOD asks you to COME,

HE prepares you and HE equips you,

 with what HE wants you to share,

because it is always about HIM.

And you wonder why HE choses you to GO.

As I am just a cracked vessel, yet HIS cracked vessel,

for where I NEED HIM to pour HIS LIVING WATER into.

GOD opened a DOOR that I never KNEW existed,

as HE poured out of me all that HE poured into me,

to SHARE for three days,

with women who I didn't KNOW,

yet I KNOW now.

Woman whose HEARTS beam HIS LIGHT.

GOD gave me a message with a question,

WHO ARE YOU WITH NOTHING ELSE?

As we all took off all our NAME TAGS,

replacing them with a BLANK NAME TAG,

that strips off our other NAMES

that we define ourselves by.

Our ROLES. 

Our TITLES.

Our MASKS.

Our NAME. 

To get us back to the simple TRUTH.

WHO ARE YOU WITH NOTHING ELSE?

HIS!

To COME before JESUS

NAKED and UNASHAMED!

WHO ARE YOU WITH NOTHING ELSE?

Think about it.

Today you are to put on a BLANK NAME TAG.

WHO ARE YOU?

Oh when you experience that you all HIS,

you become so FULL OF HIM, 

that you experience

THE ABUNDANT LIFE that JESUS was BORN to GIVE. 

JUST you and JESUS

is where REAL LIFE begins and never ends.

You become EVERYTHING.

For JESUS meets all your HEART DESIRES,

that can not be met in another human being,

and even yourself.

For HE fills you from the

INSIDE OUT. 

For JESUS

LISTENS,

HEARS,

and

UNDERSTANDS you.

For JESUS

CHOOSES,

TOUCHES, 

and

INCLUDES you.

For JESUS is

your SAFE place

as HE

BLESSES you

with

HIS ASSURANCE

that you are HIS.

100% at all times, in all times.

I got to KNOW women without knowing their names,

but their precious hearts.

To LISTEN.

 To HEAR.

To UNDERSTAND.

To be INCLUDED in their lives. 

 To be TOUCHED by their stories.

 To feel so SAFE for we are yoked in CHRIST.

To be BLESSED.

 To be fully ASSURED

that I was in the right place for such a time as this

Because it is where GOD invited me to COME.

It is time to GO,

but I don't GO empty handed,

So today my hubby and I have to GO,

to leave behind this country and these women,

yet I am leaving with

IMMEASURABLY MORE than what I CAME with.

I am going home DIFFERENT.

For when you EXPERIENCE GOD ANEW,

you can not not be DIFFERENT. 

And I am bringing all these women home with me,

for we are YOKED together forever IN HIM.

Where is GOD ASKING you to GO?

Therefore,

let's COME into a NEW MONTH,

by

COMING to the ONE ASKS us to

COME.

Good Morning JULY.

There is a new girl in town,

who you KNOW way better than she KNOWS herself.

WHO AM I WITH NOTHING ELSE?

Oh ALL YOURS, 

for

"YOU KNOW MY NAME"

(listen to the song below)