I previously shared this post of mine on an earlier blog. I would like to share it again. I feel as though this is a good post to start off this new blog and new chapter of my life. This topic has been a stepping stone to lots of doors opening that have caused new words and visions to be spoken over me by God. I pray that as I begin this new journey and chapter you would become encouraged by what the Lord is doing in my life and what He can do in your own. Blessings!
Shared on my previous blog on January 23rd: So some of this might not make sense because God hasn’t revealed all of it to me yet, but here are some of the things He has been teaching me the last 6 weeks. I got a few notes from a couple of the other girls in my Discipleship Training School (DTS). One at the beginning of the outreach and one in the middle of the outreach. They both mentioned a little about comparisons. I have always felt like comparison wasn’t a thing for me because I don’t easily find myself wishing I was like a lot of other people, I never really struggled with that all that much, at least not in the last few years. So I asked God, why comparison? Are you trying to teach me something? I felt God calling me to step out in leadership during my course here in YWAM as well as my outreach but I was so confused as to why comparison was coming up if I felt I was being called to be a leader. Doesn’t that mean their shouldn’t be comparison. Was I failing at being a leader if I had comparison in my life? Here are some of the things God revealed to me when I asked Him this question. “I AM BECAUSE HE IS…” I am a woman who knows who she is. I am God’s daughter. I am strong because God is strong, I am faithful because He is faithful. I am love, because He is LOVE! God was revealing to me IDENTITY. Not about my earthly identity. Not who is Sarah Martinez, but who is Sarah daughter of the KING, daughter of GOD! He was telling me that when it comes to leadership in my life, it doesn’t have to look like the leadership qualities that others have. God has created me with my own unique leadership qualities, He has created me with my own talents, and dreams and aspirations. I can be me, because there is nothing else to be. If I act like someone else than God won’t be able to use me in the ways He wants to use me. And in revealing this to me, He taught me what it meant to rely on the Holy Spirit for different aspects of leadership that scare me, He taught me to fully put my trust in Him when it comes to uncomfortable situations where I don’t have words to say because out of those situations is when God can work the most. He says “Be still and know that I am God.” I don’t have to worry because when I do things in God regardless of whether or not I see fruit I can be assured that what I do in Him will not return empty or fall short. (Isaiah 55:8-13) God also told me that just because I haven’t seen particular things happen through me doesn’t mean I can put limits on what He can and cannot do through me. Because “I can do anything through Christ who gives me strength!. Phil 4:13” Regardless of what I see in life, what I do in life, whether there is joy or bumps and bruises. I don’t care. I’ve seen the Father’s love. From city dwellers to the poorest of the poor. God has lavished His love on each and every one of us because we are called children of God, and that is what we are. (I John 3:1) So in conclusion, I AM a daughter of God. And He has spoken these things over me. I am a risk-taker, an adventurer, a seeker, a lover, a fighter and a leader. God called me out, and I am answering the call. I”M ALL IN.
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