Done with School

Today, I’m kind of winding down from everything the past few days.  William is now done with school for this semester – we turned in his last paper today.  The class wasn’t exactly what we expected and the school itself is a great disappointment so far – for the money, and only getting $833 back in financial aid to live on in a semester, and that even 2 months into the semester – it is definitely not worth going to school and getting into debt.  And for what?  An AA degree in Biblical Studies from a watered down school.  William works harder now than ever before and is so worn out most of the time that he has been getting sick more and doesn’t have the energy for anything more than going to work and coming home and going to bed.   IF we sign him up for school for spring semester (sign up is Nov. 7), we have to have several thousand for him to live on and NOT work – he can’t do both.  If we get to that point and find that we are only getting $800 again, we’re not doing it.  His call is to preach the Word, to bring unity to the Body, to call pastors (and people in general) to prayer, to disciple others  – not to chase after the wind and do the world thing of working as a slave to the system just to pay the basics and get into that never-ending cycle.   We are here to do God’s will and I know that He will continue to provide for us – it just has to be less physical work and more spiritual work!  I pray that the income for the art gallery/studio starts coming in so that William can spend more time in prayer and in the Word so that he can become what God intended for him when we came here to Colorado.

At prayer meeting last night, we were totally blessed by listening to this sermon by David Wilkerson called the Mission and Ministry of the Holy Spirit:  http://media.sermonindex.info/4/SID4263.mp3  -  based on 2 Cor 13:14.  The Holy Spirit is the most ignored person of the Godhead … Jesus sent Him and His whole purpose is to lead us to Jesus and prepare us to be the bride we were called to be – pure and spotless.  We are a work in progress and the Holy Spirit is given to us as a gift to help us through that process – and how do we react most of the time?  We ignore Him!  I totally agree with David in his sermon – we must seek after Him, learn, grow, and become all that God intended.  We are depriving ourselves of a most wonderful gift if we leave Him out of the loop!