Week 9: June 25

This past week I went through a LTS (Life Training School) through my church, the Bridge.  It was one of the most life changing and challenging expereinces of my life.  In a nut shell, the leader (Graham) took the basic truths of the Bible and who God is and helped me to better understand them, and Him (God).  Through this school I was able to better understand God, on a level that I have never done before, as well as to better understand who God created me to be, and how to truely forgive people so that I can walk in the freedom that God intended me to walk in.

Here are a few of the truths that God reveiled to me this week.

1.) God LIKES me.  I know that God loves me, in fact I take that for granted (but will not anymore).  But God LIKES me.  He created me just the way that I am because He wants to spend time with me.  He wants to be my Father as well as my friend. 
2.) God is my Father first. And then he is a creator, judge, redeemer, and king. Everything that He does in my life He does first as a Father and then as a _____________ (fill in the blank).  And God longs to be my Father, my Daddy.  He LOVES me as a daughter.
3.) Forgiveness is the key that will set you free.  God has intended for me to walk in freedom.  Through this class I have been able to forgive people for wrongs and percieved wrongs in my life and forgive myself.  I have been able to break free from the lies that Satan has keep me in and am now able to walk in truth and in freedom.
4.) I am not unloveable.  I am loveable!  God loves me and made me in His image.  He made me to be the person that I am.  I am no longer going to hide who I am from the world but rather use who God made me to be so that I can be a light to the world.  

God is amazing!  I have found a new found love and desire to get to know God better.  When asked before if I was a Christian I would say yes.  But I think that I am just now beginning to really understand what it means to be, not a Christian, but a child of God.

In honor of all that God has done this week for me and in me, this week's photos are dedicated to Bible verses that God has brought to my mind and Bible verses that are dear to my heart.