What is the Father Heart of God?

This is a question that you cannot just answer with a simple explanation or a long list of adjectives. It is an experience. YWAM Las Vegas was blessed this week to have Rich and Lynn Hodge here to walk us through this. I'm just going to be honest and admit that yes, I did indeed cry. I may or may not have cried every day during lectures, but that's beside the point. I learned so much about how Jesus is working in us. You, me, your mother, your father, your bestfriend, everyone - we are the Lord's address. He is about habitation not visitation. We are underestimating He who lives in us, not with us. There's just so many amazing and beautiful things about the Father Heart of God. He really loves us and knows us and He will use other people to let you know that.

This week has been a huge week for me. I celebrated my one year of sobriety and salvation! They threw a huge party and we were taking shots of communion left and right! Jokes. I did not mention it to anyone that day, but I had mentioned it earlier in the week and two staff members remembered and made me this cute "token" that had ONE written on it. It was so sweet of them and I was amazed that they even remembered. Everyone here just rocks my socks off. Also, we had our first local outreach yesterday. I went down to the strip and my group just walked around and prayed. We were able to pray with one business man. He was nice. I look forward to tomorrow when we do our tract focus. I finally get to do something directly with elimating human trafficking! Side note, there is another DTS here, Orphan Care, so out of the 24 students here, fifteen are Abolitionist DTS.

With that being said, some of the other girls and I have started doing a bit of a fitness class in my room. This is in fact irrelevant information, but I hope that if I tell people I will feel more accountable to continue this. So when I get back from YWAM, everyone has permission to ask me how much I weigh. Also, please be praying that God will just bless me with a higher metabolism. So far, we have succesfullly finished day 2 of the 30 day ab challenge and the 30 day squat challenge. The ten or so of us did break a sweat and did make my room smell, but it was worth it. The freshman 15 (when you gain 15 pounds during your freshman year - which is still true for YWAM) will not overcome us!

Also, we have work duties a.k.a chores everyday and yesterday mine was meal prep for dinner. Putting me in a kitchen with other people is like putting an elephant in a china shop. I am better at cooking alone and at my own pace. Automatically I thought, "Oh no, this won't end well" but I determined to make the best of it. All was going so well until it came tiime to fry the fish.... Me and a fryer do not mix well together. Before I knew it, my pinky was in this burning grease! My job was toput the fish in there and that's all, but you know me, I have to go the extra mile and put my finger in there too. Anyway, moral of the story: God is good and the chef, Wong, ended up making strawberry shakes for me and the other girls that were helping in the kitchen. I think they were pity shakes, but I didn't mind.

Sorry for such a long post, I just really do not want to type up my book report so I am trying to be productive in other ways until dinner. The book report is on Is That Really You, God? by Loren Cunningham, the founder of YWAM. It is such a great book. I'd highly recommend it. The end.

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