Bolster Up Hope

This weekend I had the privalage of speaking to a group of 10 young kids that were participating in the Youth Track of the Signs and Wonders Conference that was in KC this weekend. It was definetly a time for me to prepare for what is coming in the summer with STI.

I shared on the important of staying pure in this day and age. It was a blast for me until one of the kids heads began to role back and come to a stop hanging over the back of his chair, mouth wide open. I was half tempted to wad up a small peice of paper and try to score 2 points. I restrained myself and instead became loud enough to wake him from his small little slumber.

It was still a good time of learning, i made sure to ask them for feedback at the end of it to see if they had gained any knowledge from what i had just spent the last thirty minutes laying out before them. Still i was encouraged, what i was encouraged most at though was a small passage i cam across in a book i am reading. It is about John G. Lake and his ministry, right now i am at a point when he is still in africa and i came across this passage and shared it with the kids to show them that there is coming a day when they themselves will move in this type of power, it just requires a rigorus lifestlye of prayer. So here is the passage:

– I was in the home of DeValeras, in Krugersdrop, South Africa one day, when a man came in who had traveled all over the country with a sunstroke, which had affected his mind. He had developed a great cancer. He had been following us from place to place, trying to catch up with me. He cam into the house and proved to be a friend of the family. In a little while a 6-year-old child, climbed on the man’s knees, put her hands on the cancer on his face and prayed. I saw the cancer wither and disappear, so that in one-half hour the thing had disappeared. The wound was there, but it healed in a few days. When the child laid her hand on the top of his head, he arose, saying, “Oh! The fire that has been in my brain has gone out.” His mind was normal. Power belongs to God. The simplest soul can touch God and live in the very presence of God and in His Power. -

When i read this passage i got so excited, and i wanted these kids to hear a story about someone around there age that moved in the signs and wonders that God had placed on thier lives.

So with that being said i am sure that if kids around my sisters age will grasp the concept of a life of prayer and worship continually, when the trials come they will not be swayed and will be able to stand in the face of the oppression and say no to it, then move in a power that no other generation has ever seen.

My thoughts!