I may or may not have mentioned it, but I got my first check from someone to help w/college. God is good. The last reference was received last Thursday morning... 4 days before the deadline of Oct. 1st. It's time to pray. Also, I'm finding it difficult to study and memorize for school at the moment. I spent about 2 hours studying for a 10 question quiz and still missed 2 questions! It was rather frustrating. As I studied, I noticed that some of the support verses for certain things either weren't direct or didn't seemingly have a lot to do with statement next to them. It also gave a huge list of references to memorize with certain contexts. I was studying how the Bible is supported through Archeological findings and documentation as well as through prophecy. These are interesting topics, but something told me there were probably better examples than the ones given. Remember... I had to memorize the references, not the verses themselves. Johnny tried to quiz me on them and it was so much that I would forget after 10 minutes of quizzing! Is it even worth studying that much? Maybe it was just the references...
The small group with the men from church seems to be going alright. There are already some disagreements on politics. In a way it's good to know they are real people and we have real differences.
Work is getting more and more stressful, while I probably haven't seen the peak of it yet. Yesterday I stayed an hour over just to get the basics done. Sales have been so unpredictable lately that the manager and I face a hit and miss when we order. Sunday was so busy unpredictably that the tables were blown when I came in. I had to take a break from normal stuff to fill up big empty holes. Then came the meeting that lasted for over an hour long. This Thursday there will be another meeting and the Produce Merchandiser said he'll be sitting in on it. He likes things to be done earlier than we ever get them done so I'll likely go in earlier and leave earlier that day. Hopefully that'll be possible. If God decides to send me to Moody, I'll be so grateful because I likely won't have the amount the responsibility and headache at work that I have now.
This past weekend was an awesome weekend for street preaching, while I'm always reminded of what Travis and I tell eachother quite often... every night is a good night. It's not good because we got a good response from the hearers, it's not necessarily a good night because we had a lot of "good" conversations, but it's always a good night because the biblical gospel is sent out. Last weekend Travis was spending time with his son for his son's birthday and I ended up with prayer and my Bible. It's actually been awhile since I was alone out there (in a human sense anyway) and I kinda enjoyed it. I had a conversation with a group of youth and a young couple (but they might have been brother and sister). I also had a skeptic Agnostic "debate" me. He said believing in God was like believing in a Pink dragon. I reasoned with him with logic for a bit and began taking him through the law. It's been a while since I've had someone justify themselves to the degree he did with each commandment. It's amazing the degree depravity runs. He even broke in his own logic and said he had the authority to do so. May God use His law to penetrate the man's heart. As he left, his Lutheran friend shook my hand.
There was PLENTY of encouragement that night as well. I was surprised really. Numerous people shook my hand as they walked by, a teen who used to attend a church near mine was encouraged, a couple gave me a few dollars, and a woman and her daughter said it was a very biblical message and they appreciated it (they were from Michigan and loved Moody), and another woman stopped and seemed to be inspired. It's interesting how God sovereignly brings others to encourage and be encouraged with or without my preaching partner.
Well, time to do some morning study before I hit the homework...
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