I have been quite sick over this last week. It's been creeping up on me, but last week just hit me full force and I ended up missing Thursday and Friday at work. This week I have managed to be in every day, for a few hours, but I am not even able to make the 6 hour daily goal that I have set for myself.
Last night was particularly bad, I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep for four hours, so I laid there and thought about work and prayed. And the idea popped into my head that I got sick just as I was doing particularly well on my New Testament Survey Course Guide work. I have about half of the course to cover yet in the guide and mostly am just so busy with office management that I don't have time to write. I am the best person to write this guide as I am the one who produced the course. But from the beginning of the time I began to work on this course I have faced spiritual opposition. And this particular bought of illness seems to fall in that line. Not that I am not ill anyway, but the devil seems to be trying to use that to hinder my work on this course.
Please pray that I will be able to finish the course guide up next week. It will take a miracle because I have to go to Kyiv on Tuesday so I will be away the whole day and will very likely be completely exhausted from that trip. But it is not impossible. I just need to have 2-3 hours to dedicate to it with a clear and fresh mind every day. This course guide is the last major piece of this course, once I am done with that it is merely a matter of following up on details and seeing it through the Russian translation and editing process.
Pray also for the translation of the course and for the production of pictures for NTS. We have an artist working on it, but at the rate he is going he won't finish until the middle of June and since we are planning on sending this course for printing on June 1...
On a note of Praise: Church Dynamics the course that we are presently preparing for printing looks like it will be ready by the end of next week! That is over a month in advance of what I expected! PTL
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