By the third and fourth week I was used to the flow of the school schedule. It was a busy one but I enjoyed the structure. Week three was uncomfortable. We talked about freedom and entitlements. I realized that we are in a war and Satan will do and is doing everything in his power to keep us from knowing who we are in Christ. We must LET GO of our past, and partner with Jesus, standing firm against the enemy. We have to put our complete and total trust in God. If we are holding onto something, wanting to control it, that means we aren't fully trusting the Lord with it. We can so easily feel entitled to control, or to possessions, or to relationships but the truth is that we must give EVERYTHING over to God. The truth is we are entitled to nothing. We don't deserve something because we earned it... everything we have is because of God, therefore it belongs to Him and not us. Giving everything over to Him will make life a lot easier anyway. I realized it was time to start letting a lot of things go.
The fourth week was Corporate Week where all the schools come together for one teaching. We talked about beliefs. One of my favorite quotes is by Elisabeth Elliot. She says in her book Let Me Be a Woman, "Know what you believe and hang your soul on those beliefs". I love that quote because, as Christians, we must know what we believe and why we believe it. This really hit home for me because there are so many things that I believed but I never took the time to explore WHY I believed them. Another quote that hit home for me was by Darlene Cunningham "If you believe something is right but don't do it, you aren't living with integrity". WHOA! Convicting! This is basically restating "Don't just talk the talk, WALK THE WALK"!! I was very convicted by that statement... Darlene then went on to communicate that we are like trees. the soil we are rooted in is our worldview, our roots represent our beliefs, our trunk represents our values, our branches are our decisions, and our fruit is our actions. If our fruit isn't good, it's probably time to rethink some things in other areas of our lives. "Okay Micah," I thought, "it's time to test and examine yourself..." which by the way, is one of the hardest things to do.
All in all, both weeks went by pretty smoothly. Around the time of the third week I started experiencing intense chest pain, shortness of breath and became nauseous very frequently but I payed no attention to these things because I associated with anxiety attacks which I thought would go away... little did I know it would dramatically effect my life in just couple short months...
The fourth week was Corporate Week where all the schools come together for one teaching. We talked about beliefs. One of my favorite quotes is by Elisabeth Elliot. She says in her book Let Me Be a Woman, "Know what you believe and hang your soul on those beliefs". I love that quote because, as Christians, we must know what we believe and why we believe it. This really hit home for me because there are so many things that I believed but I never took the time to explore WHY I believed them. Another quote that hit home for me was by Darlene Cunningham "If you believe something is right but don't do it, you aren't living with integrity". WHOA! Convicting! This is basically restating "Don't just talk the talk, WALK THE WALK"!! I was very convicted by that statement... Darlene then went on to communicate that we are like trees. the soil we are rooted in is our worldview, our roots represent our beliefs, our trunk represents our values, our branches are our decisions, and our fruit is our actions. If our fruit isn't good, it's probably time to rethink some things in other areas of our lives. "Okay Micah," I thought, "it's time to test and examine yourself..." which by the way, is one of the hardest things to do.
All in all, both weeks went by pretty smoothly. Around the time of the third week I started experiencing intense chest pain, shortness of breath and became nauseous very frequently but I payed no attention to these things because I associated with anxiety attacks which I thought would go away... little did I know it would dramatically effect my life in just couple short months...
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