In the last 3 months I have had the privilege of getting to know and learn with these incredible people on the School of Worship.
Ephesians 1 says:
"For he
chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and
blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and
will—to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in
the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that
he lavished on us...
....In him we were also chosen,
having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out
everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were
the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. And you also were included
in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your
salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the
promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the
redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory....
I keep asking that the God
of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of
wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of
your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which
he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy
people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe."
As a Christian, I thought I
knew my place. I thought I knew what it meant to call God “Father” and to pray
to my Father in heaven knowing that he is really listening…But it turns out, I
was created to know much more than this! This last 3 months I have been
learning alongside this small but powerful crew of great people what an
absolutely mind blowing privilege it is to be called a daughter of the Living
God. A daughter of the King of Glory. A royal princess to put it in other
words. HE IS MAGNIFICENT. HE IS MARVELOUS, GLORIOUS, AMAZING, AWESOME, BETTER
THAN ANYTHING I’VE EVER KNOWN! And it says here in this scripture that God
predestined me for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ. God PICKED me. He
chose me. I don’t know about you, but that gets me. It stirs up all these
questions like Could it really be that God actually made me? That he actually
wanted me…. In the form of being that I am today to be here on earth…. That he
may actually have planned for MY life specifically all along?” This reality hit
me in a whole new way after weeks of teaching on the truth of adoption and what
God invites us to be a part of. It’s so much more than getting saved… I actually
bring glory to God in a way that Molly, my sister can’t. Because of my
uniqueness in my body, my personality, and my spirit, there is nothing like God’s
glory coming through me….and the same goes for you. I never realized it was
this in depth and that God even cared for us to understand this. But he does!
We just have to look a bit further. We have been made to receive destiny, to receive
inheritance, to be a part of a kingdom. And he’s given us authority to take up
when we reach certain areas in our lives.
One of our outreach locations is a
Buddhist nation in Southeast Asia.Ok. So this was not God’s original intention
for this nation. He wanted its people to know him because he knew how to best
disciple and help this nation to become all it’s meant to become! But somewhere
along the line people chose to believe in something that was not the truth, and
because of that, Christianity is scarce in this region of the world. They are
very “spiritual” people, but the Holy Spirit is not involved in any way shape
or form. They’ve taken on this false god to get to something they’ll never
reach, which is nothing. It’s so meaningless, and people’s lives don’t really
mean much to them as an effect of this deception.
So, back to authority. God
has made a way to get into these places and be prayer warriors to find openings
through opportunities to talk with people speak truth
into their life. We are gonna take authority over these nations... meaning we are going to speak forth the truth because we know we've been given the power to speak it. Not in a
controlling way, but in a righteous, God-giving way! We may not be able to go in and transform a nation, but we might be able to have the opportunity to change one person's life... and a nation is changed one person at a time. You see, God predestined these people to be his sons and daughters too.. and he so desperately longs for them to know this just like we do. I can’t wait to see how
God will move! We are his heirs! We are able to do exactly what Jesus did! It
says in the bible that we will do even greater miracles than Jesus. Well, I don’t
know about you but I am incredibly encouraged by that scripture and I wanna see
to it that I do whatever I can to let God use me to take back what originally
belonged to us as citizens of heaven! Imagine the possibilities of what might
go down…
This is just a glimpse of
what I have been learning about. And I’d love to share more with you if you’re
interested in understanding it a bit more.. just e-mail me!
OUTREACH: It’s time to take
you on again. ---> TO THE NATIONS WE GO!!!!!
Love,
Erika
