The Spirit

I read this in a devotional on Wednesday and I thought, 'how true!'.

"Understand this: If you cannot experience the spirit in the work you are doing today, then you cannot experience the spirit today at all."

I love my job! No. That's not quite the whole truth.  

I love living in the Spirit...through my job, my ministries, my life.

I love it when I feel the impression on my heart to search for something, maybe white doves for the Christmas tree at church. Going to the Thrifty Shopper and finding a bag of 60 white doves!

Is that being led by the Spirit? I believe so.

I believe that's the way it works. 

I don't know how many times that I end up going shopping or being somewhere and there is someone that I know. Maybe I haven't seen them for a long time but it's so important for me to talk to them.

I don't necessarily talk to them about Jesus but I know it's vital that I speak to them. Maybe they just need to be recognized or encouraged. 

But I know that I am blessed.

I'll never know who I would have seen if I had gone to a different store but I believe that God wanted me to be there.  If I hadn't followed the Spirit of God, would I have listened to Him at all?

I may never know what it meant to that other person but I do know that it meant something to me.

How beautiful are the ways of the Lord!

A bag of 60 white doves for the Christmas tree!  Who would have thought! My pastor certainly didn't believe that I would ever find them. "Where in the world will you find that many white doves?" The Thrifty Shopper!

The LORD! It's always the LORD!

Our Mount Sinai

Here's the finished project. 

The kids recognized this as a mountain. The thunder and shofar blasts on a cd created the atmosphere. The black thing at the top was a spot light that I used for the lightning. As the cd played, I wiggled the plug in the outlet to make the light 'flash'.

Then the children became the priests that had to 'barricade' the bottom of the mountain so that no one would touch it and die. We had cardboard boxes that were for poster boards and used them to create the barricade. The children added the caution and stop signs so that people would understand to keep back.

After we were done we prayed and declared healing for a few of the parents that had medical issues. The greatest prayer was from Andrew (5 years old). "Please God, don't do this again!" I totally agreed.

What a joy!

I am leaving all of these props up until the end of the quarter. We had been on a terrific journey and the children remember as we look around the room.

Now, we're on to the Ten Commandments!