Sometimes God really wrecks you. The Holy Spirit comes and shakes up how you look at life. I had this experience recently and I want to cling to it. My husband and I took eight students to Louisiana for a Christian Youth Camp and it wrecked me, and I want to stay in the wreckage. I know it sounds weird to want to be wrecked but friends, when you're wrecked by the Holy Spirit you want to stay in His presence. God wants to come into our lives and break them for what breaks His. He wants us to feel burden for something. I didn't really know what I would receive from the Holy Spirit at camp but I found myself burdened with a desire to preach to young women. My husband and I have been leading the youth ministry at our church for a little over a year and I have always felt a burden for young women but it became ever more apparent at this camp. The Holy Spirit broke my heart for cries from the Father. The Father cries out for young women that are insecure in who they are or what they should do in life. He wants His beautiful daughters to feel just that, beautiful. He wants them to feel valued and loved and I believe it is now my duty to do just that. There are so many young women who look in the mirror and hate what they see, including myself, honestly. Sometimes I look in the mirror and despise what God created. Why am I flabby here? Why do I have this mark here? I find myself asking, why did you give me this body God? The thing is, God knew what He would do with it. Our bodies are a vessel. They can produce fruit and speak life into others. They can also harm. I think it's important for us, as young women, to recognize the beautiful creation that God breathed life into. We are vessels. God wants us to care for the vessel He created. Eating well, exercising, and giving thanks to the vessel He created is a huge part of caring for it. So my burden - to love on young women and remind them of this fact. In our insecurity. In our doubt. My job needs to be to remind and redirect women towards a secure relationship with Christ. My heart really breaks for young women that do not like what they see when they look in mirror. That was me. For so many years. I didn't like my personality, even. And I am here to tell you, wherever you are at in your spiritual journey, God wants to meet you and remind you that you are loved, cherished, and adored by Him. He cares for you and He wants to do something with your life.
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