"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
I have heard this quote several times but when I heard it today in lectures...it was a whole new meaning!! We are learning about hearing God's voice this week by a woman named Joanne. She is awesome and through her story, her knowledge and her experience she is is teaching me a lot!
Hearing God's voice is something I have often had a hard time with because I can never decipher if it is mine or his. Joanne started off with telling us before anything we needed to realize who we were in Christ. He is our King-making us children of God-Princesses or Princes. That is so awesome to think about. Song of Songs 4:9 says "You have captured my heart, my treasure, my bride. You hold it hostage with one glance of your eyes, with a single jewel of your necklace." That is God talking about us!! We mean that much to him! Therefore..he cares, he loves us and he is going to speak to us.
After beginning to grasp that concept she proceeded to challenge us on hearing his voice. Like any relationship, we need to get to know His voice before we are going to be able to recognize it! Like our best friend's voice-it is after many many long talks that we now recognize their voice when we hear it. Same goes with Jesus! She also used this great example of mountains. The closer you get with the Lord-the less you know. Seeing mountains from far away they look smaller and you feel like you know exactly what it looks like. The closer you get-the more detail there is, the more you notice and the more your perspective of the mountain-changes. All of this was so eye opening it was great. Tons of ahhh hhaaaa moments! God is a personal and loving God-he knows the number of hairs on each of our heads therefore he knows the way we listen, the way our brains think and the way we communicate, he WILL speak to each of us individually and in our own ways!! Gosh I just love it!!
We have been having some intense volleyball matches here at the base-it is so fun to all come together and get a little competitive! The other night we went down to the strand(beach) and played some rugby after having a community bbq!! We got assigned our work duties yesterday as well and I will be helping out before dinner to prepare the meal. That will be 2 hours a day! Other fun news...we are having a ton of stuff going on at the base within the next couple months with tons of conferences and stuff so more people than normal sooo...they need more places for people to stay...and the medical ship comes home to townsville on Friday....so in about 2 weeks us girls get to move down to the ship which is at the beach and we get to stay there for 2 weeks!! We are all super excited because the beach is about 45 minutes away so for 2 weeks we get to live right on it! It will be a fun little adventure!
Okay this post is super long but I am learning lots and wanted to update you all on it!! Oh ya one more thing :) we are also going through the book...Is that really you God? and it is awesome I recommend it if you are looking for a good book on our faithful God! Alright well I miss you all and continue to ask for prayer and support...you all are awesome and I don't know where I would be without any of you!!
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