Sunday, February 10, 2008

A story for Daniel: Chapter Nine

A story about the Kingdom for children, by Elizabeth Poulsen

As Daniel waited for the bus,  he remembered the verse he had read this morning. Father had begun to teach him truth. Each day as he talked with his Father, Daniel would have a thought enter his mind. Sometimes it was a question. Sometimes it was something Father wanted to say to him. When it was a question, Daniel knew that something had been worrying him and Father wanted to help him sort it out. Daniel spent time sitting quietly or lying down each night now before getting ready for bed. This was his special time to go over his day and to learn from Father.

As Daniel sat in his room, he felt the warm hand of his Father touching his head. He knew Father would give him instructions if he waited a little longer. Daniel opened his heart to Holy Spirit to receive Father’s thoughts. The boy from Africa had taught them to say, “Holy Spirit I open my heart to You. Please cleanse me and remove any blocks to your voice. I give you my mind, my emotions and my will today and ask you to teach me all I need to know as a Son. Give me your strength and open the eyes of my understanding to discern what is right and good. Use me to build Your Kingdom Father.”

As Father’s love began to fill Daniel, his eyes felt clean and Father’s thoughts started to come into his own thoughts. It was funny how he always thought when God spoke it would be like when anyone spoke and you heard them with your ears, but he learned that now that he and Father are one, the thoughts of Father simply flowed into his own thoughts. He could tell they were Father’s because they were filled with so much love and they were always things he didn’t know or wouldn’t ever think of by himself.

This morning he had read Isaiah 41:17. “The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the Lord will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.”
As Daniel sat still, Father said, “Daniel my son, today I am going to teach you how to see the “poor” and the “thirsty”. Do you remember when I taught you that being poor don’t always mean having no money? It means having no relationship with me as your Father as well as many other things that are missing in a person’s life. Now I want you to think of what it might mean to be thirsty the same way. There are many things a person can thirst for Daniel. Did you know that you carry within you a special kind of water? It is “living” water. When I show you someone who thirsts, it is because I want you to give them this water to drink.  When people are searching for answers to important questions, it is living water or truth that fills them then. Because my Spirit lives within you now, you have the power to answer those questions as my spirit flows through your spirit. Just turn to me for the answers.  Remember, I am with you and love you. I am the Lord your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says “Do not fear”. I will help you.
Daniel felt strength from his Father fill him as he ran out the door to wait for the bus.

To be continued…
Posted by Carolin Sadler in 02:49:21
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