Throughout my past week, I've learned alot about God's grace, mercy, and love. GMC has been away for about a week now on the road to Texas. We stopped in Tulsa and are on our way to Tulsa again. What I believe is that on this trip God kept us safe, brought us closer together with him on a more personal level, as a GMC team and as a masters commission team overall. The road trip has been long and tiring yet we had many laughs.
When we got to Tulsa, we stayed at Heather Bryant's house, hanging out with her and her roommate. We were able to have fun getting to know a past GMC student, seeing old friends (Jaclyn and Josh), went out to see the movie "Red" and went to the local Steak'n Shake restaraunt. Tulsa just brought back so many fun memories from our October trip to there. Tulsa may be flat, no mountains but it is so beautiful out there. I don't necessarily like cities but Tulsa is definately a place I want to move to in the future. I'm so excited to be helping out our Freedom Valley Church Tulsa church plant.
We hit the road and then went to Texas. We arrived to our hotel Saturday afternoon, StudioPlus right beside the famous SixFlags amusement park. Though it was cold in Tulsa, Dallas, Texas was a different story. The weather was so beautiful! Our first night there, we went into the city and spent time with Lance, Daniel, and Lance's friend. We all went out to walk around and ate dinner at some kareoke Texas pitbeef bbq place. That was like a cultural experience for me because I never had tht kind of food before. We actually ate at many different restaraunts that were cultural experiences for me. We went to a chinese place, mexican place, the famous pizza hut, etc. The food was ok but not the best part.
Before we really did anything, obviously we went to church. The one highlight of my week was going to Gateway Church (Kari Jobe's church)!!! I was so excited to be there even though she was on tour at the time. I'm so glad we were able to just praise and worship God there, going back into singing old hymns such as "Blessed Assurance". We went to some church for the womans conference and then attended RealLife Church for the MC conference.
We spent time at the Bloom Conference with Lisa Bevere and the Masters Commission International Network Conference with John Bevere, Frontline Worship and many other speakers. We met other masters students, heard fantastic "sermons" and spent time taking hilarious pictures and video which anyone who reads this will not be seeing. So many great memories. Lisa Bevere really preached on Proverbs 31 and being a Lioness. Being a Lionness is so important because as that, women are so strong, more then what everyone thinks. I'm really hoping to read her book "Lionness Awaiting or Awaking" in the future.
To be honest, I'm so stressed with homework, getting caught up with everything we've missed the past week. I'm just praying and know God will work it out. i'm currently looking at some of the Roman Road scriptures, especially Romans 11:36. I think God pointed this verse out to me because of the MCIN conference. God has shown me throughout the conference/ trip that family is so important. Not only family but knowing "that God will work everything for the good of those who LOVE him and are called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28). God has definately pointed out Romans 8:28, family, and Jeremiah 29:11 out to me just about every day of this trip. Though I love my family and miss them, I think this was showing me to forgive and let go on certain aspects. Romans 8:28 was showing me that everything will and can work out but to trust in God's grace, mercy, and love. We need to give grace. God has a plan for us to prosper us and to give us a hope and a future (Jer. 29:11).
God is UNLIMITED! God gives us grace...it is unlimited. He gives us mercy...it is unlimited. His LOVE is unilimited. We need to learn an believe and have faith. We need to start paying attention to our dreams and visions. Looking at what God has destined for you us is so important to do. My innovation and creativity is mostly in music but I always want to expand that. When God speaks, he creates. Something we need to know is that the ONLY thing on the earth that is unlimited are DISCIPLES OF CHRIST!
This is why we need missionaries in the world. It says in the Bible that we are to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth. Relationships with people and especially God are so important. Do you know where you're at on the relationship scale with people? With God? People tend to go with the worldly views on relationships but to get the true information on it, you need to look in the Bible and at God's love for us (John 3:16). We should also not be having excuses for everything. Every human has an excuse for everything. What do excuses really do? People need to learn to just say how something really is and flow with it. I know I tend to have too many excuses at times. That is something i'm trying to work on now since hearing that sermon.
Are you only limited to changing the world for yourself, trying to receive grace, mercy and love or will you let God expand you? If we let him expand our horizons, we can preach his word to all nations and share his grace, mercy, and love. Where or who are you committed to? Where or who is your covenant in? I've committed these 9 months and the rest of my life into a covenant with my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We learned about fearing God. "It's not about fearing God but being away from him" ~ John Bevere. I loved how John Bevere said some quote by C.S. Lewis and I missed it. No, really I was upset about that but will be doing research on it soon! Live the extraordinary life. I've learned that I need to ask these three questions to myself a little bit more. Why have you come here? (John 6:10-15). What do you want to see? (Matthew 11:7-9). Where are you willing to go? (Matthew 10:37-39).
So, will you do whatever it takes to go UNLIMITED?
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
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