What Did God Say to You?
“What did God say to you?”
I asked this question during a kid’s session of the Summons to Sacrifice conference a few weeks ago right after we lead the children in a time of listening for what God wanted us to do. An eight year old answered it. “God said, we are to keep praying!”
As simple as it may seem, this occurred after an extended time of prayer had already taken place. We were beyond the time for our lesson, bathroom break and even snack. Instead of the children choosing those things, they wanted to pray; they were hungry for something deeper. An intense move of God’s Spirit moved over the room as children cried, travailed, and interceded for others. Several that night received the Holy Ghost and others felt God shared with them direction in ministry for their life. This intense move of God continued for the next two days.
What made these kids sessions so intense? What made them so packed with God’s anointing and presence to the point adults were coming up to see and experience what God was doing, standing amazed at what they saw? The answer is very simple – we led them and we trusted them. We laid aside our schedules, led the children in times of listening as God spoke to them what to pray and trusted them to pray for those things. And did they ever! I would even venture to say they prayed as effectively as adults. We trained them, we lead them, we trusted them, and God moved.
If we as adults, believe that our children receive the Holy Ghost, we must also believe that the Holy Ghost is just as powerful in their lives as it is in us. We must trust that the children really can hear God speaking to them. We must train them to hear His voice and to answer, just as Eli trained Samuel. We must see them not just as the church of tomorrow, but an active part of the church of today.
When we trust a child to experience spiritual things we enable them to actively use the Holy Ghost power God has given them. If we are not enabling them, then we are hindering them, and may very well be hindering the move of God.
Trust them. Train them. Enable them. And watch what God will do.
Collen Clabaugh
WNOP Kids Prayer
I just have to share that two of my children were able to go with two of their prayer class teachers. They came back so excited of what God did and how God used them. As they said we are kids and adults asked us for prayer. I know that this is an experiance that they will never forget! Thank you to all who worked so hard to make this possible!