Oh the fateful day of February 25th, 2013. It was the week Adam Cox came to speak on the life of Christ. Never have I heard someone describe Jesus' life and ministry in such amazing detail with such a deep understanding of His love. It was only his first day to speak and we were all wrecked by the love of Jesus, by the realization of just how much He LOVED (loves) us!! But that wasn't the only thing that wrecked our hearts that day, we also received news that one of our Team India leaders had gotten in a bad moped accident that day. She was in the hospital with many broken bones, we all began to pray and continued to pray all day. The doctors rushed her in for surgery but by the time she got there, all the broken bones were healed and she just needed the gashes in her leg to be stitched up. It was a miracle. We were all rejoicing and praising Jesus for her healing!
Though there we no more broken bones, she could no longer go on outreach with our team because she had to have physical therapy due to the trauma her body had experienced. When I got this news my heart broke. She was one of the first people I met when I first arrived at DTS, she was my bud... "God!" I thought "WHY?" I found her in the prayer room later that week, I went with a few other girls from my team and we all just sat down by her are cried our eyes out. I could hardly look at her, my heart hurt so bad.
Though we were all upset about the accident, the week went on, we continued to be blown away by the words Adam spoke about our Savior. I was falling in love. I was falling in love with Jesus in ways I had never thought were possible. "What comes into your mind when you first think about God is the most important thing about you because it defines your identity." Now, let me stop my story right here and give you a little side note.
*There are many people who have a tainted view of who God is. They have a warped view of God thanks to the world and to the enemy. I was one of those people not too long ago. You see, when someone gets hurt in this life or something bad happens to them, they somehow automatically think that God wanted it or God caused it... When the truth is that it hurt Jesus just as much as it hurt the person. He LOVES you. HE LOVES YOU A LOT. And when we get distracted by the lies of the enemy, lies like "God wanted that to happen to you" then it becomes so easy to look past the truth (Jesus would NEVER want something bad to happen to you) and believe the lies. In short, when we believe lies about God, we distance ourself from God because we stop believing that He is good and start believing that He isn't.... Which is exactly where Satan wants us to be. Satan's worst fear is that we will find out who we are in Christ, and become it.
Anyway, that statement struck me, it struck me because I had SO fallen into the trap of believing falsehoods about God. I had believed that He didn't want me when the truth was I was all He ever wanted. YOU are ALL HE EVER WANTED. "Jesus says 'I have loved you more that you love yourself. YOU are no longer the standard for love, I AM!'"-Adam Cox. God loved us so much that HE DIED for US so that He could live in us... "God Hated the distance, can you get any closer than IN?"-Adam. I sobbed and sobbed... Thankful for the love of a King, who died for me... because He couldn't stand the thought of living without me.
Though there we no more broken bones, she could no longer go on outreach with our team because she had to have physical therapy due to the trauma her body had experienced. When I got this news my heart broke. She was one of the first people I met when I first arrived at DTS, she was my bud... "God!" I thought "WHY?" I found her in the prayer room later that week, I went with a few other girls from my team and we all just sat down by her are cried our eyes out. I could hardly look at her, my heart hurt so bad.
Though we were all upset about the accident, the week went on, we continued to be blown away by the words Adam spoke about our Savior. I was falling in love. I was falling in love with Jesus in ways I had never thought were possible. "What comes into your mind when you first think about God is the most important thing about you because it defines your identity." Now, let me stop my story right here and give you a little side note.
*There are many people who have a tainted view of who God is. They have a warped view of God thanks to the world and to the enemy. I was one of those people not too long ago. You see, when someone gets hurt in this life or something bad happens to them, they somehow automatically think that God wanted it or God caused it... When the truth is that it hurt Jesus just as much as it hurt the person. He LOVES you. HE LOVES YOU A LOT. And when we get distracted by the lies of the enemy, lies like "God wanted that to happen to you" then it becomes so easy to look past the truth (Jesus would NEVER want something bad to happen to you) and believe the lies. In short, when we believe lies about God, we distance ourself from God because we stop believing that He is good and start believing that He isn't.... Which is exactly where Satan wants us to be. Satan's worst fear is that we will find out who we are in Christ, and become it.
Anyway, that statement struck me, it struck me because I had SO fallen into the trap of believing falsehoods about God. I had believed that He didn't want me when the truth was I was all He ever wanted. YOU are ALL HE EVER WANTED. "Jesus says 'I have loved you more that you love yourself. YOU are no longer the standard for love, I AM!'"-Adam Cox. God loved us so much that HE DIED for US so that He could live in us... "God Hated the distance, can you get any closer than IN?"-Adam. I sobbed and sobbed... Thankful for the love of a King, who died for me... because He couldn't stand the thought of living without me.
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