If you asked me if I could share my testimony with you a few weeks earlier, I would have felt this heaviness inside of me and would have been full of anxiousness and hurt. This trip, God has freed me from that heaviness and dressed me in His love and tenderness.

For this new year we were told to listen for a word that God gives us. The Lord gave me the words “let go.” The next night, the Holy Spirit convicted me that I needed to let go in that very moment and surrender to His freedom of walking in forgiveness from past wounds. I had no idea I was holding on to the hurt of past things that have happened to me. I thought I had forgiven the people who had hurt me so deeply and was fine.

I got to talk to 2 amazing people that night who God used to help me see the hurt that I covered up and pushed down inside of me. They asked me questions that convicted me and uncovered roots. They spoke truth into me and they guided me into surrender and the renewness of God….

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