Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Kids ears to hear: October

KIDS EARS HEAR
Follow the leader



A young girl from Quebec saw this picture when she was praying. She saw a stage where there were many actors but then the stage cleared and Jesus was the main actor. As the main actor the rest followed His cues.

A young girl in Ontario…saw a crowd of people and saw herself mingling in the crowd. Then she saw Jesus in the crowd but no one recognized him. Because she did, she turned and started to follow Jesus as he walked among the people. As she got closer she started to do what He was doing.

To follow Jesus doesn’t mean just walking behind him and watching what He does or listening to stories about Jesus. He is asking us to be an ambassador and work WITH  Him. However we can’t do that unless we come real close to Jesus and find out what He does.

Something that Jesus says in the Bible really makes you think. In John 10: 17 it says,

“The reason the Father loves me is that I lay down my life - only to take it up again. No-one takes it from me but I lay it down of my own accord.”

The disciples didn’t get it at first and Peter spoke up and said to Jesus, “No but you can’t die!”…Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan.” Whew pretty harsh! But Jesus knew that without His death we would not have been able to go to heaven. He loved us so much that He cried out LET ME DIE! (John 3:16)

When we think of God’s kingdom coming to earth, we often think about the sick being healed and dead people coming to life again, and that is true it is part of God’s kingdom. BUT to get there we have to die to our self. What does that really mean? Well in a nutshell it means that we don’t insist on our rights but say “Your will be done Jesus”, and allow Him to come closer and closer. When we do we can see with
“Kingdom goggles” and hear what He hears and see what He sees and then respond with His heart. Remember Jesus only did what he saw the Father doing, so as His followers can we do any less?

Do you remember the story about Moses where God asked him to lay down his shepherd’s rod? That was an important tool for a shepherd so it didn’t really make sense. But Moses did and then it became a SNAKE! NOT GOOD…but then… he was told “pick it up by the tail!” Not a good idea… but he did and … and it turned back into a rod…WAY COOL! NOW it was a much greater tool. He could still use it to guide sheep but it was also God’s tool and He used it to part the Red sea, and do many other miracles. We never give something to God that He doesn’t make better. (Exodus 4:1-5)

ACTIVITY

Play Simon says or follow the leader. For a variation have the “followers” be blindfolded. The “leader” is responsible to make sure that the “followers” follow without getting hurt. The “followers” will soon realize how important it is to follow instructions exactly and listen carefully! This is especially fun out doors in the woods!

follow-the-leader1

Pray that God would show you areas of your life where You still want to be “boss” or want YOUR way.

How about “It’s MY turn to have a shower get out of MY way!” or “Its not fair, he got a bigger piece of cake that I did.” These are ways you can lay your life down for someone else and that is where it starts.

Say sorry for wanting to hang onto those areas and ask God to help you change your way of doing these things.

Pray that God would give you a desire to be pure. Ask Him to open your eyes to see what He sees and hear what He hears.

When you feel a check in your spirit…stop. Ask Him what is it that He wants you to do or not do. As we are trained first in the small things and obey He will give us bigger things to do as well. Many people in Canada are feeling that they are to spend extra time with God the next while because He wants to prepare them for a change that is coming. What about you… You in?

Pray that many people in Canada would respond to the call to spend more time with God right now and get closer to Him. Pray especially for people in Quebec this month.
Pray that many young people in Canada would want to stay pure, and learn to listen and obey the prompting of the Holy Spirit.

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Thursday, September 3, 2009

update

I’m sorry not to have posted anything since June. I had felt that the Lord would have me take a rest from this and then to confirm it I couldn’t get access to the blog to write anything. I was able to a access my other websites but this one seemed blocked. In the meantime Blog.com has migrated and has a new look so I have to get used to that. I also noted that some of the text in the last entry didn’t migrate so there is a blank space I will fix that soon. Today my son upgraded the internet server and I am now able to access the blog…

So I will try and post again or maybe start a new blog, we’ll see.

blessings Carolin

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Friday, June 5, 2009

On Daddy’s Knees



Imagine yourself on Jesus knee. You have some concerns and would like to talk to him about them. Look below and see if any of these concerns are there. He is able to help with ALL your problems. Isn’t that wonderful!

HANDY LITTLE CHART - GOD HAS A POSITIVE ANSWER:

YOU SAY

GOD SAYS

BIBLE VERSES

You say: ‘It’s impossible’

God says: All things are possible

(Luke 18:27)

You say: ‘I’m too tired’

God says: I will give you rest

(Matthew 11:28-30)

You say: ‘Nobody really loves me’

God says: I love you

(John 3:16 & John 3:34 )

You say: ‘I can’t go on’

God says: My grace is sufficient

(II Corinthians 12:9 & Psalm 91:15)

You say: ‘I can’t figure things out’

God says: I will direct your steps

(Proverbs 3:5- 6)

You say: ‘I can’t do it’

God says: You can do all things

( Philippians 4:13)

You say: ‘I’m not able’

God says: I am able

(II Corinthians 9:8)

You say: ‘It’s not worth it’

God says: It will be worth it

(Roman 8:28 )

You say: ‘I can’t forgive my self’

God says: I Forgive you

(I John 1:9 & Romans 8:1)

You say: ‘I can’t manage’

God says: I will supply all your needs

( Philippians 4:19)

You say: ‘I’m afraid’

God says: I have not given you a spirit of fear

(II Timothy 1:7)

You say: ‘I’m always worried and frustrated’

God says: Cast all your cares on ME

(I Peter 5:7)

You say: ‘I’m not smart enough’

God says: I give you wisdom

(I Corinthians 1:30)

You say: ‘I feel all alone’

God says: I will never leave you or forsake you

(Hebrews 13:5)



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Monday, June 1, 2009

South Africa

Josh who has written some of the devotions for kids by kids in the past has had an amazing opportunity to live in South Africa the last number of months. He writes..

We have been going to Hillsong Church here in Cape Town. It has been a great experience of the power of God through music and praise. It has been a real blessing to be a part of the Thursday night worship nights and seeing people from many different places coming together to worship God. Hillsong recently had a “Touching Heaven” night. The entire service was just singing and praising God. It was amazing. It seems to me that South Africa’s worship is something that they could offer to the King. It could be one of the glories of South Africa

My favorite song that they sang was “Revelation Song”

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Monday, May 25, 2009

Kids Ears 2 Hear

PUTTING ON THE RAINBOW COLORED COAT


Last year a young boy in Edmonton drew this prayer picture. He said “When the church puts on Joseph’s rainbow colored coat God’s glory will dwell there.”
Hmm, what do you think God was trying to tell us?

rainbow church


Let’s look very quickly at Joseph. He was the 11th son of Jacob. He was loved wherever he went and didn’t give up no matter how hard it was. He heard God’s voice and God gave him a strategy to preserve and provide for many people. He obeyed what God showed him and prepared and was ready when hard times came. Because of that he cared for the hungry and the poor. He cared for his family, the Jewish people. He had the authority that God had promised him he would have when he was a kid. He could have given up and thought that the dream that God had given him was dead. But NO in God’s time it came true. He became the deliverer of Egypt.

Read all about Joseph in Genesis 37, 39-45

think about it

Did you know that the rainbow was Gods’ signature so to speak? Here is a picture Ezekiel had of God.

All around him was a glowing halo, like a rainbow shining in the clouds on a rainy day. This is what the glory of God looked like to me. When I saw it, I fell face down on the ground…Ezekiel 1:28

Where else have you seen a rainbow in the Bible? Look at the thoughts about Joseph to help you figure out how you can put on God’s rainbow colored coat. Can you figure out who Joseph was like in the New Testament?

KIDS EARS HEAR

SING THIS SONG AS A PRAYER:

Open up my eyes Lord, that I may see
Open up my heart Lord that I may believe
The love you have for me

1. Pray that God would give people of all ages dreams, to see what is on His heart for your nation.

2. Pray that God would reveal His game plan or strategy, so that many people would see God’s love and provision and care. Pray that many people would turn to Jesus.

3. Pray that God would raise up someone or many people like Joseph in your nation, that would obey, and walk in God’s authority and love God with all their hearts.

  • pray that families would be united and cared for
  • pray that the hungry would be fed
  • pray that the dreams and visions that God gave people long ago would be restored.

4. Pray That the eyes of the Jewish people would be opened up so that they can see who Jesus really is, their deliverer!

Lord Jesus we pray as Kids that you would speak to us as you spoke to Joseph. Help us to be bold and obedient like Joseph and trust you, no matter what. Amen

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The story of Tiny, the Bear

THE STORY OF TINY,THE BEAR - David Walters

The Story of Tiny, the Bear -or , add an “e” and change your vision. A short story - bear with us.

Once upon a time there was a grizzly bear called Tiny. No one knows why he was called Tiny because he was enormous. In fact he was the largest bear in all the Land of Lilliput. It was believed that he got his name from the Land of Giants. It was probably because being a Lilliputian bear the giants saw him and he was tiny in their sight so they called him ‘Tiny’.

Lilliput is where Gulliver traveled to where all the people were only about six inches tall.
One day Tiny went for a tiny walk to have a tiny adventure. He brought a tiny jar of honey with him to have a tiny picnic.
He sat down by a tiny tree and while he was enjoying his tiny jar of honey, (Well he wasn’t really enjoying the tiny jar, but the tiny honey inside the jar.) there came a tiny shower of rain. He thought, “This tiny shower will make me a tiny bit wet.”
Just at that time a boy came up to him and said, “Tiny will you please eat me?” Tiny said, “You are not a Lilliputian, you are real big and it would take me about two years to eat you up. And I am already full. For my tiny tummy is full of tiny honey. And why do you want me to eat you?” “Because I’m Flippin Awful,” said the boy. “I can see that”, said Tiny.
“You don’t understand,” said the boy. ‘Flippin’ is my first name and ‘Awful’” is my last name, and I really live up to it. Every time I mess up, my Mom says to me, “Flippin Awful you are flippin awful.’ When I go to school the teacher says, ‘Flippin Awful, your grades are flippin’ awful.’ And all the kids laugh at me. In fact they flippin’ well laugh at me all the time. And it flippin’ well hurts me, because they are flippin’ rude. “What does ‘flippin’ mean?” asked Tiny. It just replaces a bad word said Flippin. English people use it a lot.” “Are you flippin’ English then?” asked Tiny. “No! But my mom and dad are,” replied Flippin.
“Why is your last name so bad?” asked Tiny.” Because it’s awful” replied Flippin’. “What does ‘awful’ mean then?” asked Tiny who was very clever for a bear. “Yuckie! Disgusting! Stupid! Ugly!” “Well we can put an ‘e’ in the middle and it wouldn’t be awful at all.
Aweful means ‘full of awe.’ Awe means ‘wonder’, so the real meaning of your last name would mean, ‘full of wonde’r or ‘awesome’.'”
“Is that for real?” asked Flippin’. “Absolutely! Remember now your name means ‘Flippin Wonderful’ so when anyone calls your name or says you are Flippin Awful take it as a complement,” said Tiny.
So that little conversation changed the life of Flippin’ Aweful. Don’t let other people’s opinion destroy your dreams. You have the potential to succeed in whatever you do.
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Friday, May 8, 2009

Bowls of prayer

Over New Years a few years ago there was a LARGE gathering of mostly youth that came together to pray for the United States, in Kansas City, U.S.A.

One young man, a 12-year old, shared a vision he had in prayer several days earlier, in which the Lord showed to him that on Dec 31 God was going to “pour out all the bowls and let them run over”. Then yesterday, on Dec 31, the front-page headline of USA Today, speaking of the football “bowl” games, declared “The Bowls Runneth Over”. Here was a regular newspaper saying what this young boy had sensed in prayer.

In 1996 while praying for reconciliation between people groups and regions in Canada, a nine-year-old girl had a picture of “a huge bowl filled with rainbow colored liquid that was about to be poured out, over a dry area.” This was at the beginning of an outreach to Mexico and on that outreach a pastor at one of the venues we were at mentioned. “Ever since you have been here there have been rainbows in the sky every night! This really reassures us that God has not forgotten us!” In the following years we were involved in numerous other reconciliation events and VERY often there would be a double rainbow either at the start or end of the mission.

Now these prayer pictures are they scriptural?

Well, check out. Numbers 16: 41-50. Here is a story of a time that the Israelites sinned, and God punished them. Moses instructs Aaron to take a censor (or bowl) and fill it with incense and fire and run into the midst of the dying people holding the bowl up as a symbol of prayer, and as Aaron stood between the living and the dead the Plague stopped!

And again Revelation 5:8 …

the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and was holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints….

When it speaks of the bowls being poured out it means that God is answering the prayers of those praying.

Last year a lady Jan Aijahn showed me a picture of a huge Metal sculpture that she had made. It was called “the prayers of the saints”. I thought this would be a good picture to have to remind us of the importance of filling up these bowls in prayer. The next while we will be posting a number of prayer initiatives, such as the Global Day Of Prayer, Children at Risk and the Ears 2 Hear prayer alert. So as you join in think of these bowls that are being filled up in heaven in response to your prayers.


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Thursday, April 9, 2009

John 3:16 Follow the light.

About 40 years ago there was an incredible working of God in Indonesia. They tell how the teams of people who went out to share the good news about Jesus. Included in them there were 8 groups of children. There were from 8-10 kids in each group ranging in age from 6-10. They were known as the children’s teams.

These kids went to school from the 1st to the 4th grade. Every morning they left for school at about 7:00. School lasted to 1:15 and then they went home to lunch. From about 4-7 every afternoon Monday to Friday instead of playing like most of the kids , they would come together to pray. They would kneel and put their hands together and pray - not only for others right around them but for the whole world. And they would be so concerned that they would weep. Then the Lord would give them perhaps a word of prophecy , or instructions or reveal something special to them

On Saturdays school only lasted to 12 noon. About 2 o’clock on Saturday afternoon the team of kids started to walk to a nearby village.Nearby could mean anywhere form 5-15 miles away. through the jungle. This was a weekly thing, and no adult ever went with them. When they were asked if they were afraid, they replied. “Why should we be afraid ? There is always an angel going ahead of us, and one on the right side of us, and one on the left side and one behind us. We just follow them through the trails and they keep us safe.”

Many times when they walked through the jungle it was dark. They didn’t have maps. God told them just to pray for light. He gave the children of Israel light, so why wouldn’t He give light to us too, they thought. The Bible never changes.The light God gave after they prayed would be like the landing light of an airplane. When the light would go left, they would go left and when it moved to the right they would move to the right. As it went forward, they would go forward. Finally they would find the village, church or home God wanted them to minister. The Lord led many times like this through the darkness of the jungle. “We wouldn’t know the way but we just followed the light!”

Wherever they went God used them to bring many people to Jesus.They just believed what the Bible said and as they went out, God healed people, and showed Himself mighty with many signs and wonders.

(From “Like a mighty wind” by Mel Tari published by Creation House 1971)

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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Follow the Light

OPEN YOUR EYES AND FOLLOW THE LIGHT

follow the light

Here are some things to pray for this month.
1. WAKE UP: Prayers Harvest
When you wake up each MORNING ask God to help people to wake up and be able to tell what is good and what is not good. Pray that they would have the courage to speak out for what is right

2. BE SALTY: Jesus told us that we were to be salt in our world. That is a funny thing to say. BUT did you know salt was used to keep food from going bad. It also puts flavor into food. AND in some countries Salt was used to show that you PROMISED to keep your word. So maybe it isn’t such a funny thing to say. So each time you reach for a salt shaker this month;
-pray that God would use you to bring God’s flavor wherever you go.
-pray that He would help you ksalt shakereep your promises.
-pray that moms and dads would keep their promises to each other and to their kids.
-pray that God would use you to speak out for truth and purity wherever you go.

3. Praise and Thanksgiving: Think of all sorts of things you can be thankful for when you go to bed at night. Find some verses in the book of psalms and make up a song to sing before you go to sleep. (eg: s. 33 1-3)GOOD NIGHT

KIDS EARS HEAR


Last month a number of kids heard from the Lord.

kids prayingTtThey were different kids of different ages all across Canada. BUT do you know what was SO interesting? They all shared just about the same dream. So do you think God was trying to tell us something?

In the dream they saw a city that was all dark. Some saw the city in ashes and some like a deserted city. Then they saw a light. As the people in the city looked at the light and focused on the light they started singing praise songs, the light got brighter and brighter. Eventually the city became all light as the people went from the dark to the light. The word was “follow the LIGHT!”

Now Who is the Light of the world? Who brings us out of darkness into the light? Who spoke Let there be Light when the world was empty and without from? Would you agree that God was telling these Kids to pray for their cities that they WAKE UP and follow God’s light and go from darkness to Light?

SO if this month when you are “ON THE WALL” watching and God gives you a picture of a dream or a word from the Bible send it to…and we will let you know what Kids ears heard!

From Ears to hear Kids: To subscribe to go to info@cityscapeprayer.org;

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

God of the City… Passion Tour

“Passion” is a conference hosted by Louie Giglio, with worship leaders like Matt Redman, Chris Tomlin, and the David Crowder Band. Their official purpose is “to glorify God - uniting students in worship and prayer for spiritual awakening in this generation.”
Their website is http://www.268generation.com/2.0/splash1.htm. The name comes “268 generation” is because they desire to see a generation who are radical followers of God rooted in the verse,

“Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are
the desire of our hears,

They recently did a world tour, stopping in seventeen major world cities including Mexico City, Vancouver, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, Sydney, Cape Town (South Africa), Paris and many others. Each city was asked to pray for the people of that city/nation (hence the song “God of this City” ) and also to pray for the nation that would come AFTER it. For Japan, this mean that the people of Korea were praying for Japan. This is really significant because there is still a lot of bitterness from when the Japanese occupied Korea before World War II. The time of prayer was also a time of RECONCILIATION, In Tokyo, we prayed for Hong Kong. It was a huge night of praise, worship, preaching, and prayer - celebrating God’s glory, His passionate love for the people of this earth, and being inspired to share that love with our world!

God of the City

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