Walking in Freedom
Having the opportunity to serve with JZone Africa and witness the ways that the Lord is moving through this ministry truly changed my life. I traveled to Zambia in July of 2021, and the Lord genuinely revealed so much of his heart to me that I had never understood before. As we went to different villages being able to share the Gospel & testimonies, bring clean water, and provide Bibles, I began seeing the pursuit of the Father in a way I had never witnessed before. I began to catch a glimpse of how deep His love truly is for His kids and how far He is willing to go to communicate that love to us. I saw people hear the truth of who Jesus is for the first time and respond with fully surrendered lives. I saw freedom and healing in ways I had never witnessed before. So much of my life I have struggled with mental health as well as chronic physical pain, and I have really struggled to understand the Lord’s character as a healer or a deliverer. It was through ministry in Livingstone that He started showing me the tenderness of His heart, how he longs to restore His kids to His original design for them, and how He desperately desires to teach us how to walk in the abundance of life and freedom that He has on offer for us.
This was the first time I had ever truly believed that this is His heart for me too. I began learning how to loosen my grip on chains I had clung to my whole life and allowing Him to take them from me, restoring the joy of salvation to my soul. He was revealing the depths of His love and forgiveness and how He genuinely delights in seeing His children receive freedom, healing, joy, and abundance of life with Him. He began convincing me that my identity lies in being His daughter, that He delights in me, and that He calls me His beloved. He showed me myself as a piece of clay resting in His hands, learning to yield to the design of the divine creator who is making me into something new. He is gentle, kind, full of compassion, and abounding in steadfast love, and I’m still learning what it looks like to live in the freedom of being His daughter. It is a life of lightness, dancing in the freedom of His love and living captivated by the beauty and wonder of who He truly is. I get to spend the rest of my life falling more in love with Him, knowing Him even deeper, and being convinced even more of His heart for me.
Isaiah 61! Psalm 139! Psalm 126!
