Taste and See

My favorite thing about our Heavenly Father, is that He is never-ending. You never get to a point in your relationship with Him where you can say, "Alright. I get it. I've got this whole thing figured out." God is constantly bringing more revelation, more blessing, more refinement. Every day that I spend with Him brings more "oh yeah!" moments where I realize something that I hadn't before. Saturday night was no exception.

I had the privilege of sitting next to a lovely Intern on the plane ride back from Seattle. (By the way, the Prosperity with a Purpose Conference...awesome!) We were chatting and in the middle of our conversation, I realized something. I should probably tag this thought onto a previous blog concerning my "SO belonging at The City Church", but what are ya gonna do?

We were talking about our lives and how we ended up becoming Christians. I was telling her about my Dad and Stepmom and how they prayed for all four Youssi girls every single day. They prayed that we would come to Christ and have a relationship with Him. My Dad prayed for me for 23 years before I walked in the door of City Church ( how faithful, huh? I guess I should learn to be patient in my prayers too!) He specifically prayed Colossians 1:9-14 over each of his four daughters and would substitue our names wherever it said the word "you". It would sound a little something like this:

"For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for Leah, and to ask that Leah may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that Leah may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified Leah to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered Leah from the power of darkness and conveyed her into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom Leah has redemption through His blood,[a] the forgiveness of sins."

Amy (his wife), also prayed specific verses for each of us, but she had a different one for each daughter. Guess what mine was.

Psalm 34:8
"Taste and see that the Lord is good."

Sound familiar? Well that's only because it is The City Church's verse! Hahaha. If that's not the world's biggest confirmation, I don't know what is! Amy would pray every morning that I would come to know Jesus and I would "taste and see that He was good." I didn't even realize it until Saturday night that my church's verse lines up exactly with what my Stepmom had been praying over my life for six years. It's absolutely perfect. I just "happen" to find a church that I feel instantly at home in, and it "happens" to have the same verse as it's motto that was prayed over me for years before my salvation. God's plan is so perfect.

I think it is safe to say that I am, indeed, tasting and He is oh, so good.