Only the passionate and the inspired dare to become carriers of God's fire. Tommy Tenney
Saturday, October 11
Wednesday, October 1
MIRACULOUS MULTIPLICATION
I was blessed by this reading this morning-thought I'd share it.
"This is the Season for MIRACULOUS MULTIPLICATION"
As the situation on Wall Street recently developed, many Americans became nervous about their finances and their future. The foundations of financial security are now shaking.
The kingdom of this world functions with a system of mathematics that is based on the equations of natural addition and multiplication. This system draws its data from what can only be seen and understood. God's Kingdom invades what is known and violates the rules of natural addition and multiplication with "miraculous multiplication."
Miraculous Multiplication Changes Remote Places
One of the most profound narratives in the Word is the feeding of the 5,000 people. In Mark 6, Jesus takes what amounts to a kid's lunch and turns it into a miraculous feast for a crowd many believe was in excess of 20,000 people (when you take in account the women and children who were also present that day).
"Jesus saw the huge crowd as He stepped from the boat, and He had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So He began teaching them many things. Late in the afternoon His disciples came to Him and said, 'This is a remote place, and it's already getting late. Send the crowds away so they can go to the nearby farms and villages and buy something to eat.'" Mark 6:34-36
These people had been following Jesus for hours and made no provision for an extended outing. Have you noticed that our greatest needs sometimes surface in the most remote and resourceless places? That was what happened in Mark 6. There were no backpacks filled with camping supplies or stores nearby from which to buy food. People had been following Jesus across the countryside. The place was remote and the need was overwhelming.
The disciples saw the need of this immense crowd of people and provided their own solution. They said to Jesus, "Send the crowds away..." In other words, "We are tired and hungry and our patience is thin; make this problem go away." But Jesus invited the disciples to participate in a miracle that He was about to set in motion.
Miraculous Multiplication Begins With What We Have Now
In verse 37, "Jesus said, 'You feed them.' 'With what?' they asked. 'We'd have to work for months to earn enough money to buy food for all these people!'"
This is natural addition and multiplication speaking. "With what?" is a phrase that is spoken when we take a look at our remote place and our lack of visible resources and assume that the source and supply for our miracle is only what we can see.
Then Jesus asks a question in verse 38, "'How much bread do you have?' He asked. Go and find out.' They came back and reported, 'We have five loaves of bread and two fish.'"
Do you have a remote and resourceless place in your life? Has your retirement fund taken a dive? Is your marriage in a challenging season? Are the partners in your ministry diminishing? Are you unsure about the next step in your life? Maybe you find yourself in a remote place and the little resource you have seems ridiculous to meet your current need.
Miraculous multiplication begins with what we have now. There were thousands of hungry people in this remote place. The disciples went out to see how much food they had to work with. They came back with only two fish the size of sardines and five loaves of bread the size of muffins. This was all the disciples could find among all these people!
Verse 39-44, "Then Jesus told the disciples to have the people sit down in groups on the green grass. So they sat down in groups of fifty or a hundred. Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward Heaven, and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, He kept giving the bread to the disciples so they could distribute it to the people. He also divided the fish for everyone to share. They all ate as much as they wanted, and afterward, the disciples picked up twelve baskets of leftover bread and fish. A total of 5,000 men and their families were fed from those loaves!"
Miraculous Multiplication Brings Shouts of Astonishment and Joy
If you do the math on how many groups of 50 and 100 there were within all these people, it's not unrealistic to conclude that it would take several hours to distribute this miraculous meal. Can you imagine the cheers of excitement as the miracle begins to sink in? This was not a single moment of miraculous multiplication; it went on and on.
When we begin to live in the environment of miraculous multiplication, we will hear what must have echoed across the fields that day: shouts of astonishment and joy at what God was doing.
There is coming a season when these sounds of joy will be heard in those who do not yet know the love of God. God will miraculously multiply provision within His Church and then move into the streets where supernatural evangelism will take place.
Can you imagine what would happen in our cities if miracles of miraculous multiplication began to take place in the town square? God's goodness is our best advertisement for His Kingdom. The Word tells us that it is the kindness of God that leads us to repentance.
Miraculous Multiplication is Waiting in Heaven...Look Up!
There are two postures we can choose when we find ourselves in remote and resourceless places:
1. WE CAN CHOOSE TO LOOK DOWN. Jesus told the disciples to feed the people. Like the disciples we can look down at the kid's lunch in our hands and ask, "With what?" and only see our lack in comparison with the impossible need before our eyes.
2. WE CAN CHOOSE TO LOOK UP. Jesus modeled a different posture - He looked up. In Mark Chapter 6, Jesus took the lunch, held it up to Heaven, blessed it and then began to give it away. Jesus reached up and away from that remote and resourceless place and touched Heaven.
Our provision is not what we hold in our hands. Our provision is not what the current situation on Wall Street reveals. Our provision is waiting in Heaven to be laid hold of and pulled back into our lives. Everything we are and everything we need exists in and around God's Throne.
If we believe our provision is only here amidst the current signs of doom and disaster, then we will reach towards that limited resource. God is asking us to take our finances, our broken bodies and our failed relationships and raise them towards Heaven and choose to bless them. The blessing of a raised need connects that need with the glory of God.
His glory is what transforms the little we have into an overflowing abundance. Once our need has touched the hem of Heaven's garment, we then pull down that transformed need back to earth with the glory of Heaven upon it. While the kid's lunch is still in our hands, not yielded to God, it can only remain a lunch and not a miraculous feast.
We need God for miracles in remote places that seem like dead ends. The Church can live in fear like the world, or she can raise what she has to Heaven and bless it - expecting our loving Father to send the little we have back to earth - transformed by the glory of God and ready for a supernatural transformation.
Today, take the need you have, no matter how small your resource may be, and raise it to Heaven and choose to bless what you have. Ask God to touch your need as it is raised to His Throne. Then bring your need back into your remote and resourceless place and begin to give it away. Heaven's touch on what you have is never to possess, but to release. What you give away will begin to multiply into a new and on-going provision.
Each time you sense fear trying to raise itself up, say this in the face of that fear:
"I have raised this circumstance to Heaven and God has touched my need. I am pulling down from Heaven a miraculous multiplication of what I have. I am expecting a miracle in a place that the world says is impossible. I am believing that with God all things are possible - even turning a kid's lunch into a feast of miraculous multiplication."
Written by:
Garris ElkinsLiving Waters ChurchEmail: info@livingwatersmedford.org
About Garris: Garris Elkins serves as Lead Pastor of the Living Waters Church in Medford, Oregon. His ministry, both nationally and internationally, is to strengthen and encourage the Church through teaching and prophetic ministry. Prior to coming to Oregon, Garris was based in Berlin, Germany, where he helped nurture and develop Eastern European church leaders. Garris has been married to his wife, Jan, for 34 years and they have two grown children.
Published in:
The ElijahList & ElijahRain magazine http://www.elijahlist.com/
"This is the Season for MIRACULOUS MULTIPLICATION"
As the situation on Wall Street recently developed, many Americans became nervous about their finances and their future. The foundations of financial security are now shaking.
The kingdom of this world functions with a system of mathematics that is based on the equations of natural addition and multiplication. This system draws its data from what can only be seen and understood. God's Kingdom invades what is known and violates the rules of natural addition and multiplication with "miraculous multiplication."
Miraculous Multiplication Changes Remote Places
One of the most profound narratives in the Word is the feeding of the 5,000 people. In Mark 6, Jesus takes what amounts to a kid's lunch and turns it into a miraculous feast for a crowd many believe was in excess of 20,000 people (when you take in account the women and children who were also present that day).
"Jesus saw the huge crowd as He stepped from the boat, and He had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So He began teaching them many things. Late in the afternoon His disciples came to Him and said, 'This is a remote place, and it's already getting late. Send the crowds away so they can go to the nearby farms and villages and buy something to eat.'" Mark 6:34-36
These people had been following Jesus for hours and made no provision for an extended outing. Have you noticed that our greatest needs sometimes surface in the most remote and resourceless places? That was what happened in Mark 6. There were no backpacks filled with camping supplies or stores nearby from which to buy food. People had been following Jesus across the countryside. The place was remote and the need was overwhelming.
The disciples saw the need of this immense crowd of people and provided their own solution. They said to Jesus, "Send the crowds away..." In other words, "We are tired and hungry and our patience is thin; make this problem go away." But Jesus invited the disciples to participate in a miracle that He was about to set in motion.
Miraculous Multiplication Begins With What We Have Now
In verse 37, "Jesus said, 'You feed them.' 'With what?' they asked. 'We'd have to work for months to earn enough money to buy food for all these people!'"
This is natural addition and multiplication speaking. "With what?" is a phrase that is spoken when we take a look at our remote place and our lack of visible resources and assume that the source and supply for our miracle is only what we can see.
Then Jesus asks a question in verse 38, "'How much bread do you have?' He asked. Go and find out.' They came back and reported, 'We have five loaves of bread and two fish.'"
Do you have a remote and resourceless place in your life? Has your retirement fund taken a dive? Is your marriage in a challenging season? Are the partners in your ministry diminishing? Are you unsure about the next step in your life? Maybe you find yourself in a remote place and the little resource you have seems ridiculous to meet your current need.
Miraculous multiplication begins with what we have now. There were thousands of hungry people in this remote place. The disciples went out to see how much food they had to work with. They came back with only two fish the size of sardines and five loaves of bread the size of muffins. This was all the disciples could find among all these people!
Verse 39-44, "Then Jesus told the disciples to have the people sit down in groups on the green grass. So they sat down in groups of fifty or a hundred. Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward Heaven, and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, He kept giving the bread to the disciples so they could distribute it to the people. He also divided the fish for everyone to share. They all ate as much as they wanted, and afterward, the disciples picked up twelve baskets of leftover bread and fish. A total of 5,000 men and their families were fed from those loaves!"
Miraculous Multiplication Brings Shouts of Astonishment and Joy
If you do the math on how many groups of 50 and 100 there were within all these people, it's not unrealistic to conclude that it would take several hours to distribute this miraculous meal. Can you imagine the cheers of excitement as the miracle begins to sink in? This was not a single moment of miraculous multiplication; it went on and on.
When we begin to live in the environment of miraculous multiplication, we will hear what must have echoed across the fields that day: shouts of astonishment and joy at what God was doing.
There is coming a season when these sounds of joy will be heard in those who do not yet know the love of God. God will miraculously multiply provision within His Church and then move into the streets where supernatural evangelism will take place.
Can you imagine what would happen in our cities if miracles of miraculous multiplication began to take place in the town square? God's goodness is our best advertisement for His Kingdom. The Word tells us that it is the kindness of God that leads us to repentance.
Miraculous Multiplication is Waiting in Heaven...Look Up!
There are two postures we can choose when we find ourselves in remote and resourceless places:
1. WE CAN CHOOSE TO LOOK DOWN. Jesus told the disciples to feed the people. Like the disciples we can look down at the kid's lunch in our hands and ask, "With what?" and only see our lack in comparison with the impossible need before our eyes.
2. WE CAN CHOOSE TO LOOK UP. Jesus modeled a different posture - He looked up. In Mark Chapter 6, Jesus took the lunch, held it up to Heaven, blessed it and then began to give it away. Jesus reached up and away from that remote and resourceless place and touched Heaven.
Our provision is not what we hold in our hands. Our provision is not what the current situation on Wall Street reveals. Our provision is waiting in Heaven to be laid hold of and pulled back into our lives. Everything we are and everything we need exists in and around God's Throne.
If we believe our provision is only here amidst the current signs of doom and disaster, then we will reach towards that limited resource. God is asking us to take our finances, our broken bodies and our failed relationships and raise them towards Heaven and choose to bless them. The blessing of a raised need connects that need with the glory of God.
His glory is what transforms the little we have into an overflowing abundance. Once our need has touched the hem of Heaven's garment, we then pull down that transformed need back to earth with the glory of Heaven upon it. While the kid's lunch is still in our hands, not yielded to God, it can only remain a lunch and not a miraculous feast.
We need God for miracles in remote places that seem like dead ends. The Church can live in fear like the world, or she can raise what she has to Heaven and bless it - expecting our loving Father to send the little we have back to earth - transformed by the glory of God and ready for a supernatural transformation.
Today, take the need you have, no matter how small your resource may be, and raise it to Heaven and choose to bless what you have. Ask God to touch your need as it is raised to His Throne. Then bring your need back into your remote and resourceless place and begin to give it away. Heaven's touch on what you have is never to possess, but to release. What you give away will begin to multiply into a new and on-going provision.
Each time you sense fear trying to raise itself up, say this in the face of that fear:
"I have raised this circumstance to Heaven and God has touched my need. I am pulling down from Heaven a miraculous multiplication of what I have. I am expecting a miracle in a place that the world says is impossible. I am believing that with God all things are possible - even turning a kid's lunch into a feast of miraculous multiplication."
Written by:
Garris ElkinsLiving Waters ChurchEmail: info@livingwatersmedford.org
About Garris: Garris Elkins serves as Lead Pastor of the Living Waters Church in Medford, Oregon. His ministry, both nationally and internationally, is to strengthen and encourage the Church through teaching and prophetic ministry. Prior to coming to Oregon, Garris was based in Berlin, Germany, where he helped nurture and develop Eastern European church leaders. Garris has been married to his wife, Jan, for 34 years and they have two grown children.
Published in:
The ElijahList & ElijahRain magazine http://www.elijahlist.com/
Tuesday, September 23
Caretakers!
Last Sunday night I was watching a segment on 60 minutes about elephants in captivity. What fascinated me was what reseachers discovered - elephants have emotions and they have the ability to store alot in their memory. They gave examples of elephants retaliating against their carers and they found that these elephants must have witnessed something horrific in their childhood. In Africa(can't recall the country), they run a farm for orphaned elephants. They re-program them so that they can form bonds with other orphans there.
As I sat there watching the show, I thought WOW!!! this creative , intelligent Creator made all these. Thank goodness for those who have a heart for wounded animals.
I take my hat off to people who look after animals either at home or in sanctuaries. Genesis 9:3 says '............I now give you everything'. As the most intelligent of God's creation we should be caretakers of all that He has created. They cannot defend (well not all!!) themselves so we need to be there for them.
As I sat there watching the show, I thought WOW!!! this creative , intelligent Creator made all these. Thank goodness for those who have a heart for wounded animals.
I take my hat off to people who look after animals either at home or in sanctuaries. Genesis 9:3 says '............I now give you everything'. As the most intelligent of God's creation we should be caretakers of all that He has created. They cannot defend (well not all!!) themselves so we need to be there for them.
Monday, August 11
E rui totoka!
During quiet time today I sat listening to this song.
Lord You're more precious then silver
Lord You're more costly than goldLord You're more beautiful than others
Nothing that I desire compares with You
You're fairer than the lily of the valley
You're brighter than the morning star
You're purer than the snow
Fresher than the breeze
Lovelier by far than all of these
(sung by Irene Drauna)
What a lovely song of adoration. The beauty of our God is way beyond description. Our human language is limited and words cannot describe the magnitude and splendor of His beauty.
To help us understand His beauty, we compare Him to the finest things around us but we know that He is way, way beyond that!! We look at the diversity and creativity of things around us and it speaks volume about the One who created them.
WOW! What would I say if I saw Him in ALL His beauty? I know I would be lost for words! I would be in awe! Creation gives us a glimpse of this beauty!
Sunday, August 10
Saturday, August 2
It's You Alone
This morning as I read Isaiah 25 again, it stirred up my desire to know this God even more. When my eyes are fixed on Him, His faithfulness which is so 'spot-on' and perfect becomes my shield. By reading His Words and allowing His Words to speak to my heart it strengthens my faith in the shield.
May there be no other God except Him alone! When I seek Him first and thirst for His Presence, everything else will seem so insignificant. Why would I worry about what concerns me because I know that He reminds me through His promises '..... all these things will be added unto you' (Matt.6:33). Just as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it yield seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it (Isa.55:10-11).
My prayer this morning was: That the Lord would help me not to form ties,bond or roots with the material possessions He has blessed me with because when these ties become so promininent they would become idols. I would worry about them and when I worry about them, it would belittle my faith in His steadfast promises.
May there be no other God except Him alone! When I seek Him first and thirst for His Presence, everything else will seem so insignificant. Why would I worry about what concerns me because I know that He reminds me through His promises '..... all these things will be added unto you' (Matt.6:33). Just as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it yield seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it (Isa.55:10-11).
My prayer this morning was: That the Lord would help me not to form ties,bond or roots with the material possessions He has blessed me with because when these ties become so promininent they would become idols. I would worry about them and when I worry about them, it would belittle my faith in His steadfast promises.
Tuesday, July 29
Perfect faithfulness
O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt You and praise Your name, for in perfect faithfulness You have done marvelous things, things planned long ago.
......You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like a storm driving against a wall and like the heat of the desert. You silence the uproar of foreigners; as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled.
In that day they will say, "Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the LORD, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation." Isaiah 25:1-5, 9
To me, this passage speaks about that sense of security and confirmation about His powerful protection. I love where it says '.......perfect faithfulness'. Not tainted or broken BUT perfect!!The God who sees my tomorrow from today (Ps.139:16) sticks to His plans. If that was me planning something a week ago by this week, I would have added or deleted items that were on the list. But His plans stand firm forever (Ps.33:11).
He is our refuge, shelter and shade. I can be confident that when the enemy comes at me like a storm or heat, He will 'still the song of the ruthless.' What a comforting and reassuring passage!!
Because of His perfect faithfulness, He will never fail us.
......You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like a storm driving against a wall and like the heat of the desert. You silence the uproar of foreigners; as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled.
In that day they will say, "Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the LORD, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation." Isaiah 25:1-5, 9
To me, this passage speaks about that sense of security and confirmation about His powerful protection. I love where it says '.......perfect faithfulness'. Not tainted or broken BUT perfect!!The God who sees my tomorrow from today (Ps.139:16) sticks to His plans. If that was me planning something a week ago by this week, I would have added or deleted items that were on the list. But His plans stand firm forever (Ps.33:11).
He is our refuge, shelter and shade. I can be confident that when the enemy comes at me like a storm or heat, He will 'still the song of the ruthless.' What a comforting and reassuring passage!!
Because of His perfect faithfulness, He will never fail us.
Sunday, July 27
Humility fashion
All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, 'God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.' Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:5-7
According to the wikipedia definition, 'Humility is the defining characteristic of an unpretentious and modest person, someone who does not think that he or she is better or more important than others.'
The fashion industry is continually changing. Fashion trends come and go. What maybe considered 'in' today maybe 'out of fashion' by a year's time! I've noticed that some clothes or fashions of yester years are becoming more stylish today. In society today, clothes speak alot about the person........(in some cases).
God instructs us to wear humility, no matter what the trend maybe. Humility does not change with fashion but is consistent. So why does He want us to wear humility? Because 'He opposes the proud....'( vs 5). Pride makes no room for God because it 'me' who gets the praise!
Oh that's a hard one to wear but I trust what God says in His word. At the proper time, God will be the One who will do the lifting up.
Lord, help me to dress in humility. I realise I cannot do it on my own.
According to the wikipedia definition, 'Humility is the defining characteristic of an unpretentious and modest person, someone who does not think that he or she is better or more important than others.'
The fashion industry is continually changing. Fashion trends come and go. What maybe considered 'in' today maybe 'out of fashion' by a year's time! I've noticed that some clothes or fashions of yester years are becoming more stylish today. In society today, clothes speak alot about the person........(in some cases).
God instructs us to wear humility, no matter what the trend maybe. Humility does not change with fashion but is consistent. So why does He want us to wear humility? Because 'He opposes the proud....'( vs 5). Pride makes no room for God because it 'me' who gets the praise!
Oh that's a hard one to wear but I trust what God says in His word. At the proper time, God will be the One who will do the lifting up.
Lord, help me to dress in humility. I realise I cannot do it on my own.
Wednesday, July 16
Jabez Prayer-a simple yet POWERFUL prayer!
The Jabez prayer is found in 1 Chronicles 4:9-10: "Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, 'I gave birth to him in pain.' Jabez cried out to the God of Israel,
'Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.'
And God granted his request."
http://www.allaboutprayer.org/prayer-of-jabez.htm
'Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.'
And God granted his request."
http://www.allaboutprayer.org/prayer-of-jabez.htm
Saturday, July 12
A God of ORDER
'Dominion and awe belong to God;He establishes order in the heights of heaven.' Job 25:2
As the models of the planets hung suspended in my room, we were all pretty pleased (both the students and I) with our research. We tried to recreate the solar system.
I stood under the 'solar system' in awe and amazement at this creative God. According to research, the planets orbit the sun but they don't crash into each other! Just the way the Creator intended for them to be! There's beauty and order in the heavens above and also on the earth below.
WOW!!!He is indeed a God of order. When too many things are happening in my life and I do not know where to start or what to do, I know that the God I serve is not a God of confusion but a God of order-my Bible tells me and creation speaks it! He will place events into order because it's not about me BUT about Him!
As the models of the planets hung suspended in my room, we were all pretty pleased (both the students and I) with our research. We tried to recreate the solar system.
I stood under the 'solar system' in awe and amazement at this creative God. According to research, the planets orbit the sun but they don't crash into each other! Just the way the Creator intended for them to be! There's beauty and order in the heavens above and also on the earth below.
WOW!!!He is indeed a God of order. When too many things are happening in my life and I do not know where to start or what to do, I know that the God I serve is not a God of confusion but a God of order-my Bible tells me and creation speaks it! He will place events into order because it's not about me BUT about Him!
Tuesday, July 1
Loloma
When you come face to face with death alot of things change, especially your perspective on things. My experience last weekend was a massive shock and a wake up call for me. I've labelled this entry 'loloma' meaning love because I know that if it wasn't for the MIGHTY HAND and LOVE of God, the story would have been different.
The car that I was driving is 'a total write off'!! The tow truck driver and the medics who were there at the scene could not believe that I had survived.
Psalms 91:4
He will cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you will find refuge;His faithfulness will be your shield and your rampart.
I testify to this. PRAISE HIS MATCHLESS NAME!
The car that I was driving is 'a total write off'!! The tow truck driver and the medics who were there at the scene could not believe that I had survived.
Psalms 91:4
He will cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you will find refuge;His faithfulness will be your shield and your rampart.
I testify to this. PRAISE HIS MATCHLESS NAME!
Sunday, June 22
He alone can change situations.
Can I take a moment of your busy schedule to share something that happened to me at work this week....it was God revealing His faithfulness!!! Let me take you back........
When we started the year, I was told that the new boy joining my class was a problem kid. According to his previous school reports, he was a difficult child, did not do work- defiant and rude. I argued because I had another boy who also had similar problems already in my class. All you could hear about these boys were negative comments. To cut the long story short.......they gave me headaches at the beginning of the year...
Well, I decided to PRAY for them each day. I knew that I could not change them and no one else could except the ONE who created them. He could mould that heart of stone into a heart of flesh!!!! Over the last few months everyone had been commenting on how these boys had changed!PRAISE THE LORD! So fast forward to this week Wednesday......
Just before our Maths session started, one of these boys kept on begging me to make very important announcement to the class. I said to him 'make it quick-2 minutes only'. He got everyone in class to sit down then he made his speech. His little speech was: Miss, I want to tell you have been a really good teacher to me. I've made something for you to say thank you (it was a mini hat)- please put it on'. The class erupted with a clap!!! We were all shocked with his speech because it was unexpected. It almost brought me to tears because here was someone who woud refuse to listen nor do any work at the beginning of the year and now he blended in with everyone else.
After school, I had a surprise visit from the mum, her comment was I don't know what you've done to my boy but he is not the same person anymore!!! Thank you!He even said to the mum ,he wants to go to church now!
When she left, I said to the Lord, that comment and the speech given today was not mine but Yours because You're faithful!!! It was You who changed them not me!
This AWESOME God, is indeed faithful!!! A God who answers prayers!!!
When we started the year, I was told that the new boy joining my class was a problem kid. According to his previous school reports, he was a difficult child, did not do work- defiant and rude. I argued because I had another boy who also had similar problems already in my class. All you could hear about these boys were negative comments. To cut the long story short.......they gave me headaches at the beginning of the year...
Well, I decided to PRAY for them each day. I knew that I could not change them and no one else could except the ONE who created them. He could mould that heart of stone into a heart of flesh!!!! Over the last few months everyone had been commenting on how these boys had changed!PRAISE THE LORD! So fast forward to this week Wednesday......
Just before our Maths session started, one of these boys kept on begging me to make very important announcement to the class. I said to him 'make it quick-2 minutes only'. He got everyone in class to sit down then he made his speech. His little speech was: Miss, I want to tell you have been a really good teacher to me. I've made something for you to say thank you (it was a mini hat)- please put it on'. The class erupted with a clap!!! We were all shocked with his speech because it was unexpected. It almost brought me to tears because here was someone who woud refuse to listen nor do any work at the beginning of the year and now he blended in with everyone else.
After school, I had a surprise visit from the mum, her comment was I don't know what you've done to my boy but he is not the same person anymore!!! Thank you!He even said to the mum ,he wants to go to church now!
When she left, I said to the Lord, that comment and the speech given today was not mine but Yours because You're faithful!!! It was You who changed them not me!
This AWESOME God, is indeed faithful!!! A God who answers prayers!!!
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