Wow.. I don't know where to start? So I've been here for about a week and a half now and I've learned and grown more than I ever expected! It's funny to me how comfortable I am here. I feel like I am more myself than I ever have been before. I feel like I am really becoming a new person and it is so exciting! God is really opening my eyes and made me realize that I have had my faith wrong all along. You see, we have “lecture” about 2 or 3 times a day. This past and current week our speaker has been Astrid, she is an amazing Godly woman! She grew up in the Netherlands but now has given up her old life and now lives in the bush bush in Burundi, started and running a children's village. Anyways, the first week was about the character and nature of God. To be honest, I kind of had my nose up in the beginning and was like, oh I know God's character, I've been to a christian school all my life and taken SO many bible classes! This is might be boring. Oh wow, was I soooo wrong! Thank you Jesus! We talked about how God is who He says He is. If we would just knew who God TRULY is, know what he has called YOU into, know YOUR inheritance, know His power FOR you. “If we would just understood, it would change everything!!” We talked about how we believe God to be only according to the limitations of our personal experiences with Him. And it's so true, I don't even know how to explain it but the way she used scripture to show us who God is, He became so alive! “But God's word only REVEALS him, it does not CONTAIN him.” We studied how God spoke in the scriptures and then we began to learn how to Hear God's Voice today. (That was the next topic) And at first, I was so discouraged! I just couldn't do it! We began to practice and to build our faith and I can't even explain it in words but I have had such a revelation and I am beginning to really be able to identify his voice. I have had tears of joy! After several days of practicing that, we began to talk about our Identity in Christ! We talked about if God is who He says he is.... then I am who God says I am! So we studied what our identity in Christ really is and what we should do with that. It has been so powerful and so revitalizing!
So besides classes, we just all hang out on the base or walk into town and just rome the streets. We're in a safe area so it's nice that we can just walk around outside and do whatever our heart desires. Haha. We have a lot of worship and intercession meetings, which have been amazing. The African culture truly takes advantage of being free in the Spirit to worship, they go full out and dance their hearts away! We play a lot of volleyball or futbol during free time. And we have to read a lot. We have to do a journal with questions for each lecture and we have to read 3 books and write papers or book reports on them and then we have to read different books of the bible each week that they assign and we have to write a paper on that as well. So during free time you really have to prioritize and get it all done.
So it has been great. I love love love it! There's much more to tell but for now, just know that God is real and that he is alive and he is doing so much in my life, and in my teams life. Prayers are always appreciated. Thank you all for the support.
In Him Alone,
Lindsey Dawn
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