Full-Time Training - Testimonies

The FTTA: An Opportunity to Participate in the Divine Realm, E.A.

When I was in junior high, I heard about the Full-Time Training in Anaheim (FTTA). It was then that I decided to come. I was young, I had not yet formed my life plans, and my heart, by God's mercy, was toward Him. I wanted to know who He was and I wanted to please Him. As I went through high school and college, my resolve to get to the FTTA was strengthened. I chose to stay at home for school so I would not incur a debt, and I took summer classes so that I could graduate in four years. I was also motivated by knowing that the Lord Jesus would one day return, and I wanted to know what He was doing on the earth today, and how I could participate and be ready for when He would come again.

By the Lord's preserving mercy and grace, I made it to the FTTA in the summer of 1997. Now for two years I have been under the hearing of faith, reading the Word, speaking the gospel, spending time with people, and spending time with God. This is the Christian life according to the Bible. The Lord Jesus told us in Mark 12:30-31 that the two greatest commandments are to “love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole strength” and to “love your neighbor as yourself”. During these two years, I have been encouraged again and again to love God, to open myself to God, to take God in as the Spirit (John 4:24; Ephesians 3:19), to live God out, and by this process, to be transformed (2 Corinthians 3:18) and conformed (Romans 8:29) to the Son of God, to become a mature son of God matching God my Father in His life and in His nature although never in His position as God (John 3:16; 2 Peter 1:4; 1 John 3:2).

This is what God is doing every day on earth. Not only am I in this process, but e need to speak this to many others so that they can too can be brought into this process to become the many sons to express God and represent Him. He will return for a group of believers who are matured in His life.

I do not regret one day of being in the FTTA. After two years, I am still not perfect, nor continually victorious; I am still a sinner, and I still love things other than God. I have a very long way to go before my experience will match what I have seen of God and His purpose. I am so thankful for this opportunity to spend two years of my human life in the divine things of God. Every day is worth it, and I enjoy every day that I take God in.

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