Prayer, precious women, and the IF Gathering

I don't think one can really be fully prepared for something God wants to do. And it certainly doesn't have to be "work". I just really want us to lift this event up to God for this very reason; we can't hold it up. There's precious lives saying "yes" to the IF Gathering. To our IF Gathering. God, I feel like precious is an understatement. And so my heart is bursting at the seems in a cry out to God, "Help us! Guide us! Speak to us! Move! Heal! Restore! Pour out! Give us the strength! BE this! We need you." Because there's precious woman saying yes to gather on Your behalf!

I'm longing for this to be something, LORD. Not for any other reason than this;  precious woman are saying yes and we can all use a touch from You. We can all use a place to go where we can empty ourselves and then get filled back up. Where other woman wrap around us. A safe place where we can fight the good fight, together. The fight to take masks off and let our walls come down. To let You in just a little more. To let others in, just a little. God, I'm dying for unity within your body. Between women. Because you see how hard it is down here. To be our raw selves. To not compare and compete. You see us wanting significance and acceptance. Holding our brokenness in. Covering it. Protecting the places where we feel we finally have it together. You see us loathing our insecurities and believing the lies of inadequacy. Sometimes we struggle joining hands because our fists our up. Not always ready to fight. But mostly ready to protect ourselves from another blow. We become accustomed to defense. Some of us so fed up we started to play offense.

And so, we just. need. You. To remind us how precious we are. Nothing like we see ourselves or each other. But how YOU see us. We need a renewing. A refreshing. To feel YOUR love. To be pierced with YOUR Truth. We need to see You. We need to know You. This year, the IF focus is Faith. And God, you know how much we need it. How desperate we are for You to show us who You are and who WE are and actually BELIEVE it. And THAT be what we protect. So that we can break out of the oppression women sometimes lay weighty, under. Like we're hatching out of an egg. New life. Cracks of Light. A type of FREEDOM. To be everything YOU made us to be. So we can break out and Love the world with Your agape Love. So we can look a little more like you. And not like what we're trying to make ourselves into, because the earth was without form and VOID. We were meant to be formed and our voids were meant to be filled. Just not by what we sometimes think. We were meant to be formed by YOU and our voids were meant to filled by YOU. So, God....LET THERE BE LIGHT!

Sisters, join me in praying for our upcoming IF Gathering.
LORD, bless my precious, precious sisters.

I cry out...
This Luna's Heart