Lessons being learned

Thought it was time to write about what God has been teaching me over the last couple of weeks.
First of all I spent 9 days relief milking for a guy. You know, I didn’t mind the work (10-12 hr. days), actually I rather enjoyed it. God created me to enjoy physical labor. What I didn’t enjoy was the fact that I did not have any time for much of anything else. Like doing my Acts Course work, my daily readings, doing anything with the family, I missed the prayer meeting and Bible study. I just plain did not have the time or energy for it. Felt a dryness with in my soul, I got run down and then got I’m sick. LESSON LEARNED: pace myself, set clear priorities, must take time for myself and for Kelly and the kids. The work can and will get done just maybe not all today. I also worked with someone who definitely tried my patience, who did not except instruction well. I pray God wasn’t trying to show me what I was going to be dealing with over there. Maybe He hit me hard here just so I have something to look back on.
Something else I thought about now that it is harvest time. Here we don’t think about the amount of crops (food) we grow. We don’t think about the number of people we potentially feed. Once the school is complete, essentially I will be responsible for the growing of the food for potentially a 1000 people. It becomes rather personal when you put a number to it. It becomes very, very personal when you put faces and names with those numbers. Your sense of responsibility just went sky high! That is what God is calling me to do. To feed His soldiers in training (my brothers and sisters in Christ) to see that they are nourished both spiritually and physically. So that they are prepared to go out into the battle and win souls and train disciples and plant churches for Christ!
Over the last couple of weeks support (financial, prayer, donations) has been slowly coming in. And to tell you the truth, it’s one of the most humbling experiences you can go through. To know that some of these people are really sacrificing to support us and what God is doing in and through us. Saying thank you just never seems like enough. I pray that God will bless each and everyone that supports us. I pray that I am a good steward of what the Lord provides.