Finished

For those of you who read the post I wrote on Sunday, will be aware that as the School of Intercessory Prayer SOIP we have been busy with the final touches to the school. But for those of you who haven't read my last post, the SOIP have gone into our last week of the school, with the character study presentations yesterday and the exam today. I'm kinda relieve that both are done now.

Yesterday, we individually presented our character studies before the other students and the school staff. I was the first person to stand before everyone to present my study and what I learned about Daniel. I was extremely nervous and that showed, but it didn't go as badly as I thought it would.

Then this morning, we had the written exam. In this case, I wasn't as nervous as I thought I was going to be. It was just a whole list of question about what I've learned over the last eleven weeks. We were allowed to take our bibles and our notes into the exam with us, which was an answer to prayer. You see, I'm quite an extensive note taker, but I'm not so good at remembering all the details of eleven weeks worth of lectures. Everyone was done at different times.

After the exam was done, we also handed in a paper with questions to evaluate our experience of the SOIP. Now there's vertically nothing between me and my journey to Paris except for the graduation tomorrow night and the deep clean on Thursday. I almost forgot to mention that on Friday we've got some things as a base... and I leave for my Christmas break on Sunday. I'll try and post more about what the future holds later this month. I'm just wait for a confirmation and then I'll start working on the drafts. However I will keep you up to date with my adventures between now and when that confirmation comes.

The End is Nigh

Zolle

News.

A lot has happened since my last post a few weeks ago. The Football & Classic Discipleship Training School DTS have left on their outreaches (again for safety reasons I'm not going to post where they're going). As a school, we're going into our final week of the School of Intercessory Prayer SOIP, after having our last lot of lectures, from a South African lady, Lynn, who spoke on Prophetic Worship.

The Last Week.

Over the next week we're going to be doing the final touches of closing the school. The base shuts down for the Christmas holidays on Friday, so we'll be finished by then.

Tomorrow, the students will be spending the day teaching on their character studies. I've done my character study on Daniel, so I'm swinging between being nervous about it and looking forwards to do it. I've learned quite a bit about intercession and prayer from my study on Daniel. Then on Tuesday, we've got our written exam. I'm not totally sure what to expect, but I'm strangely not worried about it. I had thought that the character study was the exam but evidently not. Wednesday is the SOIP graduation, we're going to be preparing all day for the graduation in the evening. We're going to be cleaning the accommodation building on Thursday, and Friday is the Gift to the Lord.

Lion of Judah. 

One thing God has really been talking to me about over the last few weeks is one of the aspects of his character, as the Lion of Judah. God really showed me why he's been called a lion. Its come up in conversation, in teachings and I've had a dream about two lions. God has really shown me that he's the lion protecting me.

When God is called a lion (as in the book of Revelation), it means that God taking the positive attributes of the lion. He's protective and all powerful, he has no enemies among the beasts. The roar of the lion carries about five miles (eight kilometres). A lion will roar in the morning, before it goes to rest, and again in the evening before it goes hunting. It will also roar when it's been successful eaten, to warn away strange lions (Satan can considered the strange). I've heard the lion roar and it's truly a frightening and beautiful sound to hear. The lion is the only large cat that will have an active presence in the lives of its cubs (the other big cat males won't have the same presence in the lives in their young). A typical pride of lions is lead by two male lions (usually brothers), with anywhere between four to forty lionesses, who do the hunting, due to being lighter than the males.