3 down...63 to go

well as you can see by the title i have completed 3 books!! woot woot-we are told to celebrate when we complete a book. I have done Philemon...Titus...Ephesians and i just started Galations-read it out loud and am currently working on paragraph titles and doing horizontals (main idea charting). It feels so great to be accomplishing these things. Tonight as my friend and I read Galations out loud by the creek, and it was so awesome reading it. I feel like i am getting to know Paul-learning about his character, seeing him upset, excited, proud and disappointed with the churches. While reading he mentioned Titus-and my friend and i both were like--ah we know Titus (cause we already completed the book). And as i was reading i found a great verse and shouted ah that should be my key verse-i love it! I love how everything is starting to coming together and once SBS is completed it will be like a complete masterpiece!

This last week was pretty overwhelming-with a few minor breakdowns and crying sessions-but its good. There is no way i could do this all...without God. He is my strength, i continue to pray for a hunger for the word and a mind that can stay clear and comprehend. I pray that i will be able to apply everything that i am learning to my life-my relationship with God, friends and family.

I feel so blessed..i went to the office to ask how much i still owed for the school, and the lady was like wow well actually we owe you money! so many people had helped me out with paying for the school that i had overpaid when i brought in my money order, how amazing is that! thanks to everyone who helped me out financially, i appreciate it so much, and feel so blessed. its so good to not have to worry about school fees for the rest of the year. I love how God works out every tiny detail. Currently i am still figuring out a few things with student loans that i had taken out last year for school-i am just trying to prove to them that i am attending school-YWAM is an accredited university so i am just working on some paper work-if you can just pray that it all works out.

Another thing that i am learning is to be quiet before God and listen. Sometimes during worship i always felt that i needed to sing every word out an move around but i am realizing that God wants to speak to me and i need to listen and be sensitive to his prompting whatever that may mean. In Ephesians while i was reading about the armor of God some things came to my mind. Firstly i know that whenever i thought of the armor of God it was like oh if i am going through a difficult time i need to put on the armor of God and ask him to cover me-not that that is wrong but i am realizing that in order to put on the armor of God i need to know him. In order to have the sword of the spirit i need to know God's word and read the bible often, to have the shield of faith i need to have faith and trust in God....and so on. I think the armor of God is something that i am striving to have, for we are in a constant battle with evil and in order to stand up against it we need to know God, understand his works, his word and go for it! Also the major theme of Ephesians is unity and realizing how we need to work together as a body-all with different parts none not more important or less than another. God uses us all. And of course we covered the wonderful verses of wives submit to your own husbands....and i have a better understand of that chapter and what Paul is meaning.

I could write so much more but i really need to concentrate on Galations now, i cannot wait to see what God is going to teach me in this book!!

miss you all....