My ENLI Testimony

As some of you know, I've been attending ENLI to better equip myself in engaging and sharing the Word of God to the lost. Every Nation Leadership Institute is a program that helps people develop a more thorough understanding of God’s Word and also enables us to live out its truths and impart it to others. It's a two-year program but it was cut a bit short and come March 24, my classmates and I are finally graduating. We were asked by our professor to make a short ENLI testimony and here's mine.

God spoke to me about using me for a specific assignment. But just like Jonah, I hid and ran away from God’s call. One of my reasons was, “I have no plan to be a pastor so I don’t need ENLI.” Guess what, I was swallowed up by a big whale, figuratively, and was spit out right smack in the middle of, yup, ENLI class. Again, God showed me that it’s useless to wrestle with Him because His purpose prevails.

ENLI taught me discipline. Because it required me to attend the Thursday Prayer Meetings, God provided me an avenue where I could get encouragement to counter all of life’s troubles. He gave me an opportunity to help others know who God is by allowing me to jumpstart my own small group. Certainly, God is using ENLI to train me specifically for that assignment He told me about. Lastly, because of ENLI, God empowered me to experience more of Him like never before. My life is changed.