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Hey friends! Nicole here. Wanna know what the Winter DTS learned this week? YEAH YA DO! Just kidding, I don’t know if you do, but I figure since that’s my job I’ll be enthusiastic about it (:   Well you see, this week, our speaker was Dawn Masucci and she talked about Spiritual Warfare.   When I read ‘Spiritual Warfare’ in our manual, I’m not going to lie, I was not looking forward to it. The only experience I’ve had with spiritual warfare was not a very good one, mostly because I was a ‘baby Christian’ and I didn’t really know much about the enemy and it was more enemy focused than Christ focused.   Which brings me to my favorite part of the week: Dawn’s most stressed point is to make Christ our focus and keep the enemy on our peripherals. There was a cool hand motion, but I don’t really know how to explain it.   As well as cool hand motions, every day we went over what spiritual warfare is. 1.       Knowing who God is. 2.       Knowing what He’s done for us. 3.       Knowing who we are in Christ. 4.       Walking Godly. 5.       Praying. 6.       Persevering. 7.       Proclaiming the gospel.   This really surprised me, and most students, because this was definitely not the way I viewed spiritual warfare. It was a very eye opening experience knowing that combating our enemy is all about knowing/being with/proclaiming Jesus.   Another really cool thing we did during that week was write down lies the enemy has told us throughout our lives through different experiences and identify them as lies, and then combat that with truths that we know and received from God. This was a very emotional and AWESOME experience for so many, if not all of the students. Dawn encouraged us to keep going back to those truths whenever the lies creep in because “The lies didn’t come in overnight, they won’t leave overnight.” And I think that is brilliant. We have this folder full of truths from God and our brothers and sisters to combat the enemy. RAD.   So, that was definitely a good week.   This week, Art Collins is our speaker. I was a little skeptical of his ‘awesomeness’ because everybody was hyping him up big time but, truth be told, he lives up to what everyone says. But I’ll talk more about him in the next post. And hopefully, I’ll have more pictures to share soon!   Please keep praying for health, and open hearts (:   Thanks so much for your support and time!

Hey friends! Nicole here. Wanna know what the Winter DTS learned this week? YEAH YA DO! Just kidding, I don’t know if you do, but I figure since that’s my job I’ll be enthusiastic about it (:

 

Well you see, this week, our speaker was Dawn Masucci and she talked about Spiritual Warfare.

 

When I read ‘Spiritual Warfare’ in our manual, I’m not going to lie, I was not looking forward to it. The only experience I’ve had with spiritual warfare was not a very good one, mostly because I was a ‘baby Christian’ and I didn’t really know much about the enemy and it was more enemy focused than Christ focused.

 

Which brings me to my favorite part of the week: Dawn’s most stressed point is to make Christ our focus and keep the enemy on our peripherals. There was a cool hand motion, but I don’t really know how to explain it.

 

As well as cool hand motions, every day we went over what spiritual warfare is.

1.       Knowing who God is.

2.       Knowing what He’s done for us.

3.       Knowing who we are in Christ.

4.       Walking Godly.

5.       Praying.

6.       Persevering.

7.       Proclaiming the gospel.

 

This really surprised me, and most students, because this was definitely not the way I viewed spiritual warfare. It was a very eye opening experience knowing that combating our enemy is all about knowing/being with/proclaiming Jesus.

 

Another really cool thing we did during that week was write down lies the enemy has told us throughout our lives through different experiences and identify them as lies, and then combat that with truths that we know and received from God. This was a very emotional and AWESOME experience for so many, if not all of the students. Dawn encouraged us to keep going back to those truths whenever the lies creep in because “The lies didn’t come in overnight, they won’t leave overnight.” And I think that is brilliant. We have this folder full of truths from God and our brothers and sisters to combat the enemy. RAD.

 

So, that was definitely a good week.

 

This week, Art Collins is our speaker. I was a little skeptical of his ‘awesomeness’ because everybody was hyping him up big time but, truth be told, he lives up to what everyone says. But I’ll talk more about him in the next post. And hopefully, I’ll have more pictures to share soon!

 

Please keep praying for health, and open hearts (:

 

Thanks so much for your support and time!

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