How does one express the deepness of the well within? How can you grasp something that is so big, something that goes far beyond even your own comprehension? I have been touched and set free by the grace of my sweet Jesus.. being here at Bethel has literally unraveled my own understanding of what I thought my tapestry would look like and has started the work of something unrecognizable, something completely different and new, yet, it is completely Audra Lyn Montoya. I haven't had the chance to really sit down and meditate on everything that Daddy-God has done for/been to me since I first arrived in Redding. There aren't enough colors to paint, not enough chords to play, enough lyrics to form in a song to tell of just how faithful He has been to me, how patient, how full of grace and how unconditionally His love has encountered me. In His mercy, He has revealed to me lies, old-covenant ways of living and areas of bondage in which I had been living. The greatest thing about experiencing His endless freedom is that, in that very freedom, He is glorified. To know that He is glorified when I gain all that was meant to prosper me, is absolutely incredible. He has been faithful to me in relationships, in giving me grace to extend toward others, and by answering my prayers of seeing financial breakthrough. He has called me into His marvelous light and I have had an awakening of the greatness that I possess. He has led me into a new understanding of what faith looks like...and that faith that I have called my own has taught me that I can believe for ANYTHING, and by faith it will be given to me.
But the greatest thing that I have experienced is His love. You truly are changed by Love. When you know that you are deeply, irrevocably, unconditionally loved by the Creator of ALL things..everything else is found within that-hope, trust, strength, joy, freedom, truth, life abundant, forgiveness, grace, all things good.
I have experienced this, and will never be the same...yet I have not experienced anything close to the fullness of Him...but I cannot wait to spend my life discovering more.
This is my life as of late.
"Three things will last forever--faith, hope, and love--and the greatest of these is love." 1Cor. 13.13
