To start this story off right, I have to start with way back before I started Bible College in 2003. Back then I was working at a preschool in Palm Springs about to graduate from College with my 1st (of three) Associate degrees. I technically didn't really graduate, but that's another story for another time. A couple of months prior to my graduation I had gone to a women's retreat at the Bible College which also shares its campus with the conference center. Don't ask me what that weekend's theme was, because I really don't remember. What I do remember is this, the Lord spoke to me heart and told me that I was going to go to that college. I kind of laughed because I didn't believe it was possible. But I downloaded an application anyway. I filled out the application and wrote the essay and then put it in a drawer, forgetting it for about a year. Fast forward a year later...
So this preschool that I was working at...It was ending another year and they just told me that they weren't able to renew their lease on the building and they were going to be closing for good at the end of the year. I was a little bummed out and during lunch one day I was talking with the director and she was asking me about what I might do after the school closed. I had nonchalantly mentioned that I kinda wanted to go to Bible College and the only thing I needed to do was send in the application with a photo and the application fee. She said, "Well, what are you waiting for? Do it!" What was I waiting for? So I got everything together and sent off the application in faith knowing that God was going to provide the tuition if He wanted me to go.
During the next couple months I just prayed about it...and prayed..and prayed! I had got accepted, but didn't have any money whatsoever to go. But I had faith that God would get me there. So I packed up my things preparing to go. Up to the day of move in I didn't have any money and I didn't know how I was going to get the money. But God did! And that He did. The day came that I was going to pack up my car and leave. I called the school that morning to inquire about my financial situation and God had answered my prayers!
THE WHOLE SEMESTER WAS PAID FOR!!
To this day I don't know who did it, and you know what? I really don't want to. Because God did it. Glory be to God and God alone!!
The next two years went kind of like that. The ups and down of not knowing where the money would come from...and every time God came through. Now, He didn't always just miraculously shower money from heaven, which I'm sure He could. We serve a God with unlimited resources!! He provided work of all kinds to earn the money that I needed or He put it on the hearts of my brothers and sisters in Christ to bless me.
And so, in may of 2006, I graduated with an Associates in Theology from Calvary Chapel Bible College. What will I do with that, you might ask? Who knows, but God has a purpose and He will fulfill that which He has begun in me!
Stay tuned for part II
Stay tuned for part II
Philippians 1:6 For I am confidant of this, He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it until the day of Jesus Christ!
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