Coming back to Bible school has been a great blessing to me.  It’s almost difficult to list the changes that have taken place.

I do remember feeling awkward the first two days of school.  Many doubts and many fears, I had longed to come back, but now that I was back, I wasn’t sure I wanted it!  The revelation of change that needed to take place within my heart (again) was overwhelming initially.

Now, however, I welcome it. The feeling of a bigger purpose is back in my life. And this school is exactly what my life needs: discipline and the anointing.  It’s also a good feeling to know I’m going to complete what I started.  When I was unable to continue in the internship 1 1/2 years ago, the attack that came against my thought life was intense. “Hope deferred makes the heart grow sick…” (Proverbs 13:12).

The greatest message ever preached contained three words: “Never give up!”  I know at times I go the long way around life, but God proves Himself to be faithful when I don’t give up.  “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength…” (Isaiah 40:31a). “Now faith is…” (Hebrews 11:!).  Faith is now.  Faith is today.  It is hope activated.  Being back in Bible school has

caused hope to rise up in me again with a determination to run the race the Lord has set before me. The entangling of sin in one’s life truly is clever and deceitful.  It simply takes what’s right in your life and subtly adds a little extra weight here, and a little weight there.  You don’t recognize the added “burden” in your life until symptoms appear. I thank God for this opportunity to be here.  In these short few weeks, clarity of mind is back, weights are gone, and the crooked path has been made straight….Margaret W.

Recently, I have moved into a managerial position in my internship. I have learned a lot already just in these few short weeks that I have been a manager over Studio C. Not only did I take on managing the studio, but I also took over all of the scheduling. Now, when it comes to scheduling, I never really was good at scheduling mass amounts of people into different positions. I am okay with scheduling my own life but it was really hard for me when I first started scheduling everyone else. One thing that I learned through was the power of my words. I was always saying “I’m not a scheduler, I’m not a scheduler. I cannot put schedules together. I’m just not good at it.” People began to tell me that I wouldn’t get better at scheduling if I kept saying those things. So, I changed my confession. I started saying, “I am a scheduler. I can do this. I can schedule people and fill the schedule.” Once I started changing my confession and asking the Holy Spirit to guide me, scheduling got a whole lot easier! Another circumstance that I learned from is how to deal with students and volunteers from a manager’s prospective. I had to shift my stand point from friend to manager and realize that sometimes I will have to correct people and I will always have to be encouraging my volunteers and letting them know that we appreciate all of their help. Being a manager, there has been so much more drawn out of me because people look to you for a lot. I have definitely learned that everyone may have to be approached differently when bringing correction because some people might get defensive or depressed or they may even think that you are in a sense “out to get them”. My view as a manager is to improve my department as much as possible and I want my volunteers to be trained and taught in every area to the best of their ability; that is my job as a manager.

— Nicole