God's Healing Touch

During worship at Steve's class today the Holy Spirit came and touched one of the students with physical healing. His name is Benny. He had a back injury that required him to wear a back brace. He felt that the Lord told him to take it off and that he did not need it any more. He felt fine after taking it off! Give praise to the Lord.





Another testimony was from a student that had been in a car accident and broke his neck, jaw and three ribs. He had been in a halo for four months. He decided to come to the school at the last minute and was accepted. He was praying with his friends and he felt his neck pop. At first he was worried because in the past that was not good. This time he had no pain in his neck!

The King of Romance

Romance: an intense emotional attachment or involvement between people; love.

This is God's love for us. He is intensely and emotionally involved with us. The King of the Universe, the maker of all things. What an amazing thing, God's love for us.

During a speaker's testimony at church, he shared how the Lord came to him in a vision and whispered in his ear, "Tell me something romantic."

At first I really struggled with this. In today's society romance is so frequently tied to sexual thoughts. I'm having to take some time to consider, what do I say to the King of Romance. He is waiting and desiring to hear from us.

How can we reciprocate the intense love He has for us? What would you say to the King of Romance? Something to consider.....

Sacrifice?

We are staying with Jeremy and Amy, a wonderful couple living near Shasta Dam. We are still finding spaces and places for all of our stuff. It is not easy to downsize from a 4 bedroom house that we have lived in for 20+ years to a 10 x 11 room, but we are determined and our host family has been very helpful.
Patty and I have been able to take in some of the local sites. The Sundial bridge is quite an amazing piece of art+engineering. We recommend it. Today we went to Burney Falls. The falls are up in the mountains. Lots of trees! Very pretty! We took the trail down to the base of the falls and enjoyed the cool air that the falls provide.



Here is a picture of local wild life. We found this guy sunning himself so we made it a photo-op! Unfortunately another
hiker came along and startled him...poof! Snake gone! Patty and I were wondering if we did the same thing to our financial future...POOF! GONE! Two middle aged people quiting our jobs and moving a few hundred miles away to attend a school which is run by a church that is non-accredited, does not use professional teachers and has a constantly shifting curriculum!! Na, it's all good! We haven't given up very much at all! Missionaries in the old days would sell everything and use their last bit of money to ship themselves overseas with no way back! Now that is commitment! In many parts of the world, just converting to Christianity would mean you were disowned by your family and in danger of losing your life! Think about Jesus. He gave everything up He had in heaven to come down to earth! He put on human skin, humbled Himself to the point of limiting Himself to what a mortal man could do! Then He suffered unspeakable pain and shame to save the very people who turned against Him! Now THAT is sacrifice! That is selling it all for the cause! This small inconvenience we are going through is not very big or noble compared with what Jesus did for us!!

And We Are Off

We are leaving Monday morning, Sept. 10 and driving to Redding. There is much anticipation as we will get to meet our host family: Amy, Jeremy and their two children.

I, Patty, will continue to work for Hallmark and begin at 7 am on Tuesday. The Hallmark job has been such a blessing for me and my desire is to personally lead at least one person to the Lord through this job.

I, Steve, and really looking forward to school and what the Lord is going to to through me, and to me.

Continued thanks to all who have blessed us in so many ways as we have prepared to embark upon this journey that we have felt called to do.