Lord, I’m overwhelmed.
I live with twenty items on my to do list
And all of them vital.
The leadership gurus tell us to focus on the most important thing
And then work down the list one at a time.
Smart. Utopic.
Connecting with people and teaching and preaching.
Listening to students’ hearts
Chapel time and prayer time and conversing with the neighbors.
A trip to Ecuador to teach 85 educators over a weekend.
Should I have cut that item out?
Daily coffee time with Sherry.
I’m not cutting that out!
Teaching 77 students a class on revivals.
“Why not us? Why can’t we see the same signs and miracles and manifestations?”
Teaching evangelism to 65 on Saturdays.
Should I not have taken that one on? Hardly.
One of many comments: “I had such a difficult time witnessing before. In these three weeks I have shared with ten people and one whole family accepted the Lord.”
Totally worth it.
Clamoring needs all the time.
They’re cutting back on food for the students because prices have gone haywire.
The chapel PA system just burned out.
Students can’t sleep at night—
Mattresses have been worn so thin they feel the slats in the bedframe below.
For lack of space, we just turned down another couple who wanted to train.
That hurts. Really.
Ten rows of people standing in the back of the chapel.
The architects have come up with a fabulous new project.
Space for 432 per year to sleep, study, train, eat meals and even do laundry!
For only 1.4 million. That number numbs my brain. I am overwhelmed.
“Only need 10,000 people to give a hundred bucks each.” Yes.
“Or 432 who will provide space for one student at $3,200 each.” Keep talking.
“We have two ministries who offered matching funds!
Actionow and Builders International.” OK, Lord, you are in this!
Students are here from fifteen different nations!
One of them rode a bus fifteen days to get here for training. Wow!
Twenty six of our graduates of last week are helping start four churches.
Last night twenty new people showed up in church just from two days effort!
A three week missions trip working with Martha Lesperance-Garcia.
Just read throught the reports of our Missions majors. Trips to Chile, Northern Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay for up to a month.
Some learned and ministered on a total budget of $410 including travel!
Talk about productive seed, Lord!
International banquet this week with eleven nations represented. 1,100 people came. The neighbor who has harassed us so much came to the banquet!
She wants to sell us her apartment now. It’s adjacent to our School of Youth Ministry and School of Missions Training. Thank you, Lord!
I am overwhelmed.
Fifteen of our students go out weekly to preach at the train station. One day nine people accepted the Lord.
It was 3:20 A.M. last Wednesday when I put out an S.O.S. e-mail to help 47 graduate.
What enormous joy and relief when they heard you had come through for them!
So many tears, covenant tears have fallen to the chapel floor.
Just during this trimester!
So many changes in young people no one gave ten cents for just a couple years ago.
I am overwhelmed, Lord. I like living this way!
You have put together such a team here! The work is yours. The calling is yours. The workers and the results are all yours. Thank you for letting me participate.
I live overwhelmed. And amazed!
