College Training Overflow

What a summer!  Now that I'm back from all my travels, I finally have time to share some highlights.  Here's some college training overflow:

1. Learning the lessons on church history - God's heart's desire is to gain the church as His counterpart.  But how do we be the church that He desires?  We find the answer in reading Revelation 2 and 3.  There we see a letter written to 7 local churches with only 1 church, the church in Philadelphia, whom the Lord approved of.  Although it was written to 7 local churches, there is only 1 church in this universe.  The conditions of the other 6 churches show us the causes of their degradation.  For example, Ephesus lost their first love, and even though they had good works and endurance, the Lord still did not approve of them.  Oh Lord, gain our best and first love for You!

2. God ordained way - 1) Begetting = go, 2) Nourishing = visit, 3) Perfecting = gather, 4) Building = prophesy.  In our shepherding of others, the first three steps are to gather the material, but we must keep in mind the goal, which is the build up the Body of Christ.  Many testimonies were given by new ones of how they were brought into the churchlife through all of these steps.

3. Exercising our human spirit - Practically, how can we remain on the orthodox line of the church and practice the God-ordained way?  It is to simply exercise our spirit.  The brother shared that if we don't exercise our spirit, nothing happens!

I'm going to miss being in Montreal but...

“What matters where on earth we dwell?
On mountain top, or in the dell,
In cottage, or a mansion fair,
Where Jesus is, my joy is there.”
- Hymn 348

Hallelujah, it doesn't matter where I am.  Lord, as long as I exercise my spirit to turn to You, I can experience You as my true joy.