Greetings from Kansas City, MO! These past few weeks have been a whirlwind, when I got back from spring break I saw my work schedule and I was scheduled for 40 hours a week and it couldn't be changed until the next schedule came out. That meant working until 11pm every night and waking up at 4:30 am as well as doubles on the weekend. I have been praying for financial provision to pay for summer classes and throughout that crazy time I was able to save almost enough. Praise God! On top of that, He gave me the grace to work a 40 hour work week in a high stress job, and also the grace to give 100% to my classes at IHOPU. Amen! He is so good! This week was my first week of normal schedule so I've been catching up with everything from cleaning the bathroom to correspondence with everyone back home. :)
In two weeks we will be finished with the first semester. :( After this semester I will have logged over 500 hours in the prayer room, I still can't believe what a privilege it is to be able to dedicate so much of my time to cultivating intimacy with the Lord. I'm so grateful! This semester we studied the book of Revelation and the role of the church in the end times, Intercession and the praying church, Song of Songs (whew!), Jesus the bridegroom God, and the Life and ministry of a Forerunner. We also had a practicum on prayer, fasting and being faithful in the little.
I feel like the Lord is leading me to stay and do the Summer Early Entry Program, which is a summer fast track program that will put me in my 2nd year next fall. It's so sad to see most of my classmates leave for the summer, but I do get to ride home with one of my friends to spend a couple of days in New Orleans, I'm very excited to see that part of the country.
A couple of months ago some of my classmates and I decided to start praying together and for one another after class on Wednesdays. It makes me smile so huge to think of the mercy and grace that the Lord has poured out on our little gathering. He meets us every week in a completely different way, many times it begins with open repentance and then prayer for our generation on that matter. Every week someone has gotten delivered from something major in their past. This past Wed it began with one of the girls repenting for having the wrong view of men, and then the men repented for having the wrong view of women(we went into specifics) and we all prayed for the Lord to purify our hearts and the hearts of our generation. It was so intense. I had a picture of Jesus during this time going to each one of us and tenderly and lovingly washing our feet. While we were interceding one of my girlfriends started lamenting so we started praying for her and we found out later that the Lord was delivering her from hatred toward a man who had sexually abused her as a child. God is so good! I love how he will move on our hearts corporately to set someone free! We always break bread together as well so it's a very sweet time. It is probably my favorite part of my week.
Jesus is so good, I hope you are falling more and more in love with him every day! I miss you all so much and you are on my heart and in my prayers daily.
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