Uncensored

A month or two before I moved to Burkina Faso, during one of my morning prayer times in D.C., I heard the Lord give me a word.

One word. Very specific. Very clear.

I didn't share the word with anyone at first, and then over the phone I told it to my mom. This word excited me, because it held unlimited possibility. I thought about the word and dreamed about how God might want to use it through my life during my time in Africa.

But, even though this word was still very abstract and had yet to take on real form because I hadn't yet moved here...the word was clear, as was the challenge that came with it.....

Uncensored.

I try to describe it, and add things to it, to expand upon what this word means for me and will mean for me....but there is nothing else to add. God's word is perfect. God's Word is perfect. It stands alone.

Uncensored.

I don't know in all the ways that God wants to use that word in my life. I get little flashes of this at times, but nothing whole. I will be riding in the car, and all of a sudden I will hear the Lord say, "see that! right there! UNCENSORED."

Or as I'm walking, again He will whisper, "Look, uncensored."

Or in our home, "uncensored."

Or in my heart, He tells me, "this right here, what you're feeling, uncensored."

I have been bucking this word though lately. I have been hearing Him encouraging me to be "uncensored" in a particular area, but it is hard. God rarely challenges us with the easy. But He knows me, and He knows what I need, and what others need, and somehow He merges those two together. For His glory.

So, with His grace and strength I hope to begin to be obedient to live out this word.
In whatever way it is going to look like.
In whatever way He challenges me to use it.

So that is my word. My one word challenge that God gave me even when I didn't ask for it. With a plan and a purpose in mind, even while it is still abstract to me, it's not to God, because He has a vision and a course for my time here in Africa. And I know that part of it has to do with this word.....

uncensored.