This past year as an intern has been intense. It really is like a roller coaster. You will have days of feeling really great and then you felt like everything is an effort and a fight to get through.  My emotions have been stretched in every way and I think I have grown in every area. My thinking is different in response to some things.  I know whatever comes Jesus is going to prepare the way and make the crooked paths straight, as He always does.  I still don’t understand some things, but I look at it as King Saul and David opportunities. Pastor David is a great role model and mentor. He is a great asset to The River and I am glad to have served under him. I wanted more boldness when I started school and I feel like that was accomplished. After losing my job in 2008 when they moved the position to another city, and my husband was no longer going to church, I started feeling inferior to everyone even though I had been in leadership positions in ministry at my other church and another ministry. I tend to get too busy and am trying to not be available for everything that comes along, but it is hard when you are constantly being asked. I plan to spend more time with my husband because we haven’t seen much of each other in the past 3 years and he has been working very hard to support us. God has been so faithful in enabling him and helping us get through.  I will be able to hopefully have an income to give him a break from working too much.  I am so thankful for the opportunity to come to the River Bible Institute.

–Sharon

This is the day the lord has made I will rejoice and be glad in it. This year has been a good year. The lord has been showing me every day I can trust him with my life. Doing this internship is a big step of faith. I ran into a situation where I had to choose either to stay at my job or do internship. I had been praying and fasting about this. Finally, I had to make a decision whether to stay or leave. Well, I left my job to pursue the call of God on my life. I have no regrets because I know my father will take care of me. He owns the cattle on a thousand hills; he owns everything. Already the first week of school, I experienced the “Pentecostal hand shake”. The lord is so good he has gotten me through two years of Bible school.  I know he’s going to get me through the last one if I trust him and continue to follow the leadings of the Holy Spirit. It is certainly an adventure to be lead by the spirit. Just by experience of follow the Holy Ghost for four years he has changed my life, burnt out things that I never thought could be burnt. God is faithful to his word and if he’s leading you to do something step out in faith, even when it looks crazy in the natural. Don’t allow anyone to talk you out of doing what God is telling you to do. God has never failed, and he will never fail. Not in a million years. Amen.

–David