number 3

DTS has begun. and it is such an exciting time. i am feeling so blessed to be a part of such an amazing time in peoples' lives. all of the students are just so great and it is so clear that God is already moving so hard in their hearts like He never has before. i am feeling so encouraged today especially by them. this morning we had such an amazing time of worship and prayer and just complete brokenness before the Lord. without going into much detail, so many were just simply "set-free" today. set-free of the bondages that were holding them down. and then God gave me such a good word that i was impressed by myself by just looking at our theme verse for the DTS as it was written on the white board.

Titus 2:11-12
FoR the grace of God that bRings salvation as appeared to all men.
it teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and woRldly passions, and to live self-contRolled, upRight and godly lives in this present age.

so just look at the verse carefully, the person who wrote it on the board tends to write with mixed capital and lower-case letters inadvertently, but as i was looking at the verse and just pondering it, i noticed something really great. i noticed that the words grace, appeared, and present each had lower-case "R's" and the rest of the words with the letter "R" had all upper-case. i really feel like this is no mistake. i believe that God purposely made the infamous katie g. write it just this way for a reason. it was so clear. i looked up in my bible the meaning of "grace" according to the word and this is what i got:

Grace - an undeserved favor or gift; the undeserved forgiveness, kindness and mercy that God gives us.

look at that! its so great! and so true! we are so undeserving off the goodness that He brings our way. the undeserving mercy and grace that He has upon us no matter our situation. this morning , students just gave up things that truly hold them back from entering into deeper intimacy with God, things that held them back from living a "normal" life. things that are just distracting. and what did God do to them this morning? gave them grace. gave them mercy. his GRACE APPEARED PRESENT!! sooooo good!