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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