Bold & Seen: Part 2

As you know, I was telling about how I planned on giving my key away, and I decided to give it to the youngest daughter of the man who owned the hostel we stayed in during my team’s time in Jordan. I prayed over the key for several days, sang praises over it and just filled it with as much love and care as I could; I wanted to bathe the key in so much Scripture, so much praise, that she would just instantly feel His presence even if she didn’t know what it is quite yet. Then, after I had finished praying and singing blessings over the key, I decided to write a short, sweet letter to her in order to explain what it was for and a bit of why I was giving it to her. I’m pretty sure her family is Christian, but I’m not 100% sure, so I wanted to expose her to Him as much as I could without directly sharing too much in order to be respectful of her parents’ religious beliefs and just be hopeful that God can reach her through me at another point, through my gift of the necklace, or another person who could come into her life. 

The gift for Lilianna: my prophetic key, with the card/letter underneath. 🙂

Dear Lilianna, 

You are such a sweet little girl, and you have made a much bigger impact on me than I thought. This is my gift to you. The two words on the key are “bold” and “seen”; they were given to me by a very important person in my life and they have been expressed through you to me a lot these past couple weeks. You and my team of course; I have had trouble letting others love me, see me or hear me because I was afraid to let more people in. You, however, have shown me that it’s okay to let people in; you didn’t know me at all, but because we shared a common love of art, you were willing to share in that fun with me. Even when you spoke to me in Arabic and I had no idea what you were saying, it still made me smile and nod along as if I understood. Two people, speaking two languages, from two very different places: and we formed a friendship I will be forever thankful for. So, as a thank you, and as a reminder to you: here is my key. I hope that you will treat it with care, and one day, when you have discovered that YOU are bold and seen, that you will give this key to someone else who needs it. I love you very much, and I hope that when I return to Jordan someday, I will get to see just how bold and seen you are! You are a beautiful young lady, and I am confident that you will keep growing into a brave, beautiful and kind young woman.

Here is Lilianna at her birthday; she dressed super cute, passed out cake to all of us at her OWN birthday party, and she took pictures with us as well.

Bold: being ready to take risks; confident and courageous/brave.

Seen: become aware of something/someone from watching them.

“Dedicate your children to God and point them in the way that they should go, and the values they’ve learned from you will be with them for life.” ~Proverbs 22:6 TPT

When my team and I gave our gifts to Victor and his family, his face was pure joy and he nearly cried. He told us, me specifically though, that Lilianna did cry and he almost did when he read the letter (above) that I had written to her. It was a very sweet time, and it was such a blessing to be able to present some love gifts to a family we had plenty of time ministering too, but also because they showed us so much love and kindness during our whole stay. From the first night Victor brought Juliet and Lilianna to do crafts with us, we instantly connected with them; he then proceeded to throw us a New Years Eve party, he blessed us with free breakfast (or at least tried, we didn’t often get it because we had bought our own breakfast and didn’t want to take advantage of his kindness), he threw a birthday party for Lilianna AND invited us to it and so much more.

We got to teach both girls how to play Dutch Blitz and Monopoly Deal, while they taught us some new art techniques, dances and just how to be kids again even though we are all in our 20’s. They were both such huge blessings to us, inviting us to play hide-and-seek with them, to play games with them, and so much more. Juliet and I tried to learn how to play chess, and we also tried to play some other games, but we ended up sticking to art, dancing or the card games we had taught them. Y’all we even played musical chairs and a little bit of freeze dance with them; it was so refreshing to be around them because their energy gave me energy, even when I wasn’t feeling well. 

Some really cool floral decorations that we’ve seen on many streets, but most of them on Rainbow Street; I, for one, am glad that walking to Rainbow street was very steep or else I probably wouldn’t spent WAY too much $$ up there.

“Children are God’s love-gift; they are heaven’s generous reward.” ~Psalm 127:3 TPT

Even though I gave her the key, I am still meditating on the words “bold” and “seen” so that I can continue to dive deeper into what they mean for me, and will probably post a part 3 when I figure that out, BUT I am really looking forward to seeing how God is going to keep working in Lilianna’s life in regards to how she will grow into being seen and bold. I had already been told by God to come back, but the minute I met her and her family, I knew that I’d come back for sure now because I want to see how she grows, to keep in touch with her and to minister to them too, even if I am a few thousand miles away when I do return back to the US at some point. My team and I have received some really awesome vision about what Turkey could look like for us, and if even a little bit will become true (because we are holding it with open hands), it will be an AMAZING month. Stay tuned!

“Jesus overheard them and said: ‘I want little children to come to me, so never interfere with them when they want to come, for heaven’s kingdom realm is composed of beloved ones like these! Listen to this truth: No one will enter the Kingdom realm of Heaven unless he becomes like one of these!’” ~Matthew 19:14 TPT