When we felt the Lord asking us to take a Sabbatical, we didn’t feel like we could afford the time off. What would our supporters think? It was a huge step of faith, but we also realized that life was about to undo us. Emotionally we were coming apart. We had buried so much pain, so much disappointment, and disillusionment that we were just simply clinging to Jesus. Thriving and abundance were the furthest things from us, and we didn’t have even slightest bit of hope that things would, or even could, improve. When we arrived at Eagle’s Rest it was only by the providence of God.
David and Jan asked us the first day what we would like to see happen during our few short months with them. I almost couldn’t say it, because I didn’t believe it could actually happen, but somehow through tears I managed to get out: “I just want to love my wife again and have her like me. From there, it might be nice to be on the same page with her again in ministry.”
I can now say, with no little amount of gratitude and wonder, that in a little less than 3 months we went from completely empty to seriously full and overflowing.
Some of the keys were:
- Experiential intimacy and rest with the Father.
- Finding our specific identities and roles (through Living the True You retreat)
- Lots of forgiveness and inner healing.
- Coaching. Lots and lots of coaching.
David and Jan are uniquely anointed to walk alongside leaders, minister restoration and healing, offer tools that will sustain you after you leave, facilitate God encounters that you can’t walk away from without being changed, and help you discern your own unique, God-ordained role in the Kingdom that will keep you from doing all the things you’re not supposed to be doing, and don’t like doing anyway.
We are heading back into our ministry context with renewed minds, refreshed hearts, fully alive in our God-given identities, with a unique and exciting vision perfectly suited for the way God made us; and most exciting of all, with a love and passion in our marriage we’d nearly lost hope for.
The Limieros are a power couple who possess a mixture of the Spirit’s shepherding and prophetic authority. Under their loving care, prepare to be restored, filled-up and unified in vision and calling, as you learn to let your life direction and ministry flow from abiding in Christ (Ephesians 4:10-16).
