I think my main takeaway from the class was definitely seeing how God is willing to change what He will do for us, and how it really is like a friendship. I feel lime this will help me in the future to just truthfully be genuine with God and honest with Him. Not just praying an every day prayer, but telling Him the things that I’m struggling with, and seeing how He responds. The story with Moses and how God was ranting to Moses really changed my perspective on God and helped me to see Him from a different perspective and see our friendship from a different perspective!

Honestly I think this season God is calling me to build the public alter. I feel like I can still find myself only trying to please other people instead of being obedient and doing what God calls me to do. So I feel building this alter of showing those around me the God that I serve, and not being afraid of what people think, will overall help me to be more free and less fearful if that makes sense. Not looking for validation in man, but instead showing them the God that saved me and can also save them. I feel like if I got the courage to build this alter, then the environments around me will actually begin to change, instead of me just waiting.

I feel like for me it’s definitely Scripture. I’ve been noticing that I’ve been reading the Bible less, and it’s crazy because we’re in a class thats telling me how important that Bible is so God is definitely telling me something. But I feel like I can take the Word of God for granted sometimes. Like not a lot of people have it or know it and it is literal food to our souls. So what I’m doing now is I’m making it more of a priority and being stricter with it. I’ve had this Bible reading plan for a while, and so I’m starting that up again and I’m reading two chapters of that a day, a Proverb a day, then studying the prophets at night(I’m in Isaiah). Then also in my free time reading Psalms!

I feel like honestly God is calling me to deeper consecration by having me step out of my comfort zone. With the people around me that I am comfortable with, I can tend to be scared to talk to them about God and stuff like that. I can do it with strangers but not the people closest to me in my life because I’m scared of what they will think. But God is calling me to step out of my comfort zone with that, to no longer live for the validation of man because their lost, and in order for them to be found I have to be the one to step out and introduce them to the only person that finds them (Jesus). So some habits that I can do is trying to do things like host Bible studies and invite people that I wouldnt usually invite, to get them introduced to Jesus

I would say one of the most important ways for me would be to not worry so much about what I can do for God, but instead actually seeking Him as a friend. Which I would say all develops in the secret place. I catch myself worrying so much about not doing enough for God, but instead of letting guilt and shame consume my mind, I can seek Him and actually sit in His comfort and love instead of trying to find it in my works for Him