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My
name is Chantal Teague. I go to New Life Center,
Pastored by Bro. Garry Tracy. I go to Shekinah Kids on
Wednesday nights. From going to these sessions as a
teenager in High School I have learned a lot about
prayer and how to pray.
Before I started going to these sessions I really didn’t
know “how to pray”. Although I have grown up in the
church I really didn’t have the teaching from someone of
how to pray. But seeing these children pray to God and
being sincere has proven to me that “if they can do it,
so can I”. Prayer to me before these sessions was
telling God “I love you!” or asking Him for help. Now,
it is alone time with God, not just asking him for
something. It is also a time to get with God and giving
your time to Him and not the world.
These
children just don’t pray, they pray until something
happens. They PUSH until someone is healed. For
instance, a guy at our church, Bro. Craig, had to have a
liver transplant. Well, to make a long story short, one
of the teachers in these sessions recorded all of us
praying for him to be healed. He came out of the
hospital and was put into isolation for 3 months, but he
was out of the hospital and with his family. Now last
Sunday, May 7, 2006, he was in service praising the
Lord. Just this experience alone has helped me with my
faith. I pray every night that something will happen in
my life that will help someone else. Yes, I prayed every
night before, but I didn’t pray to God until something
happened.
That is how my life has changed through Shekinah Kids.
Now when they worship God, I want to worship more so
that I can be an example.
Submitted by: Chantal Teague
(c) 2006
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After the release
of last month's When Children
Pray video clip, I received approximately
130 responses. Out of those 130, only two said they
didn't
think the praying was done by young children or that it
sounded fake/scripted.
The rest of you who responded seemed to have the same
sentiment as
Chantal in her second paragraph, "If they can do
it, so can I." Thank
you for your response last month may your energies in
the area of prayer
be renewed and refreshed as you minister to children who
are truly
hungry for the power of the Holy Spirit to work through
them.
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Teaser: Find
out next month (via "The Listing") about resources that
will
help you understand the spiritual hunger of children and
why their
hunger is driving a renewed sense of urgency for
spiritual development. AC |
