People kept asking me if retreat changed my life and I would just kinda look at them and think, "Are they serious? Nothing changes my life that easy."

But all of them were serious. And several of them had crazy encounters with the Lord, so I began to self exam to see if there was a change. One of the nights of retreat we talked about love. The speaker said that we need to let others pay a price to love us and be willing to pay that price in return. She also talked about how not seeing others as God sees them is a violation of love, and she gave practical advice for improving. As an example she gave a conversation with her husband where she had teased him and said "Ye of little faith." Later the Spirit convicted her and showed her this was a violation of love, so she went back to her husband, repented, and said that she did not want to speak death over his life and that he is a man of God with great faith.

This blew my mind. To be that careful, is it that necessary? But God's really been convicting me that the standard has been set and the expectation is I will meet it. With the Lord's help I have been stewarding my mouth, the giver of life and death, and the fruit I've seen in such a short time is amazing! Everything that is spoken has incredible power. So yeah, retreat changed my life, the bar has been raised.

She also talked about how God is the God of seeds and babies. He loves the process. I think so many see the journey as finding that God is real. That is where you hop on the road, it is not the journey. Yes, it is vitally important, but God doesn't want us to be stuck there. There is no end to God's ability to increase. Woo can't wait for heaven where the increase in our encounters with God will NEVER end!