The Rain in Spain - Part 5

The third week of the LCD was about our Signature Sin and Conflict. Kind of a heavy topic, but I’m learning some great things!

Good quotes from the week:

• Bottom line of our sin is - We don’t need God. OH BUT I NEED HIM.
• We need community to help us where we are unaware of our sin. When it’s up to us, we always think we’re better than what we are.
• We judge everybody else by their behavior, but we judge ourselves by our intentions. Ouch!
• Leaders are learners; we don’t have to know everything or be experts or be in control!!! How freeing!

In the middle of the heavy topics we had a Blessing Workshop. There were different ways we could receive blessings, so I chose to attend a few. The one that meant a lot to me was the Memorial Alter. I celebrated a fruitful seven years of Y in Wyoming! Leaders prayed for me and blessed the fruit of my time there. I had a blast cheering for my friends as they celebrated their memorial! There was a blessing for the meaning of my name! My name means Honey - All Sweetness. What does your name mean?

The Rain in Spain - Part 4

Week 2

We studied the different phases that everyone goes through in life.
1. Sovereign Foundations
2. Discipleship Phase
3. Ministry Development
4. Wilderness Experience
5. Convergence

Of the people in the Bible, only 30% made it to Convergence. Yikes. What we don't learn(deal with) in Ministry Development will come back to bit us in the Wilderness. So, I'm really challenged to deal with my stuff and learn so that I go through the Wilderness well.

The Rain in Spain - Part 3

My first sunrise in Spain! I'm really happy to be living outside the city with a 15min walk to classes everyday!

The first week of the course was FULL ON amazing! Lots of ministry time with prayer, worship, tears and breakthroughs! We did the DISC Personality Profile to find out how we tend to lead.

Personalities and the value they bring to a team:
D - Developer - Takes initiative
I - Influential - Influences people
S - Stable - Builds relationships
C - Conscientious - Focuses on details

Now everyone is labelling each other as D, I, S, or C and having a little fun saying "you're doing that because you're an I" or "That's my C coming out"! It's very enlightening. I feel that this has shed a WHOLE new light on the way I see myself and the way I see others. Not to put us all in boxes, but I understand why I would see things differently than others. I would encourage everyone to take the profile test if you can. I am a C with S as my secondary personality. If you have and know what you are, I'd love to find out what you are! :)

I was being hard on myself for being a C so a friend shared this analogy with me. A shepherd is like a D leader while the sheep dog is a C circling the herd of sheep making sure they are safe and going in the right direction. Wow! I'm making every effort to embrace my gifts - Ps 139!

We see sheep in the field at least once a day and we run into him moving his herd around a few times a week.