I have now received enough donations to pay the first installment (half of the total cost) for 24/7 tuition!!! Everyone has been telling me that it takes a miracle to raise the $4,000 that is required of 24/7 students, and I have experienced one of those miracles! Former and current 24/7 students as well as the staff members have been saying that I just need to pray, pray, pray and God will somehow miraculously provide the funds needed to be a part of this amazing, life-changing program. Not that I didn't believe them, but having faith that God will provide something for you that you could never obtain on your own is tough! And I don't mean that it's tough to trust God. I mean that it is so difficult to humble yourself enough to admit that you couldn't possibly do this on your own and commit turn over your life completely into His hands and trust that He will come through for you. There's almost always that voice in the back of your mind spreading that seed of doubt, telling you that something will go wrong and He won't fully take care of you. But God amazes me daily, like he did today!
I received an exceedingly, unbelievably generous donation from my Grandma Hall today that marked the halfway point in my saving. I have enough to pay the first installment due in November! Her donation plus several others that were above and beyond what I could have ever imagined that I would receive has sparked a hope in me that this really can be done. God really WILL provide this for me, and He is showing me that daily. If this is what God is willing to do for me when I am constantly falling short of anything that could be considered pleasing to Him, then what is in store for me during 24/7 (and after) when I am encouraged to praise Him, read His word, and serve Him and others every day? I am so excited to see what else he has in store for me and my classmates over the next 10 months and then for the rest of our lives!
All this is to say that I feel so truly blessed and I am so grateful for such generous friends and family that have sacrificed so that I can have this experience in 24/7. I am reminded today of the verse that I hear every weekend at the end of the church service, a verse I've probably heard over 50 times, that never really sunk in until today:
"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever!"- Ephesians 3:20
Praise the lord!
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