I have officially been a Joshua Wilderness Institute student for 4 days now. And let me tell you, it has been 4 of the most intense days of my life. Not because we have been working non-stop, or suffering from sleep deprivation, but because in 4 days...I repeat, FOUR days, I have learned more about God than I have in the past year. Sam Meier is our guest speaker for the first 2-weeks of JWI, and he is incredible. He is teaching us what it means to be a "seer"...one that sees from God's perspective, and not our own. We have all taken a trip down the road of being completely MIND BLOWN by what Sam has to say...ideas and perspectives we have never really understood before.
Pastor Brad Bell from The Well in Fresno also came up for a day to teach us on the Old Testament. In 2-hours we covered general/historical information from Genesis to Nehemiah. Dude. Crazy stuff. To be honest I have never been that interested in the O.T. in my life!
God is good. He is already starting to rock my world up here and shape me in ways I never thought I needed to be shaped. Rich Ferreira likes to say that JWI is like a rock tumbler. We all enter the program with rough and sharp edges, and by the end of the year, after living with the same 55 other students and working like crazy, we will be smoother...a new creation.
Until next time (soon hopefully), grace and peace.
-Hannah
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