Even the Wind and the Waves Obey God’s Children

A Devotional for Kids!

Do you believe that Jesus actually stopped the rain storm by speaking to the wind and the sea?  Well, I do because I experienced it. I wasn’t there with Jesus and His disciples way back in time when it happened, but God did the same thing for me.

I had a dayhome and I needed a large pad of concrete for my young clients to ride their tricycles and play games.  My son who was experienced in cement work offered to come for the one Saturday and help my husband pour the concrete.  The day came but it looked a lot like rain and my son, Michael, had warned if it rained he would not be able to do this task for me. 

I was worried because I needed this cement pad and if Michael didn’t do it today it wouldn’t get done until fall.  He was just so busy and lived out of town.  Then I remembered how Jesus had stilled the wind and stopped the rain during the storm out in the lake.  I thought of how I am His child and He has said we would do even greater things than He did because the Holy Spirit enables us.

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So while Ed my husband and Michael my son dug out the dirt and poured the cement I stood on my back step and prayed for God to hear me.  Then I talked to the clouds to hold back their rain and God heard me.  Even though the humidity that day was 100%, God held back the rain until the evening after my cement pad was mostly set and dry. We propped a tarp over it to protect it from the light rain overnight. 

If you are God’s child your prayers are powerful with God. He hears you just like he heard Elijah who was a lot like us. “Elijah was as completely human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for the next three and one half years!  Then he prayed again, this time that it would rain, and down it poured and the grass turned green and the gardens began to grow again.”  1 Peter 17 and 18 [The Living Bible]

Maybe you have prayed for a long time about something but so far God seems not to have heard you. Don’t give up. Just keep praying and trusting God and wait to see how He answers your prayer.  He might not answer exactly the way you thought He would but God never ignores the prayers of His children.

That’s exactly what Darian experienced in The Lion Tree. He needed a million dollars to help his dad who had been badly hurt in an airplane crash. He and his family tried so hard to raise that money but nothing seemed to work out.  He was about to give up and then tried something very unusual.  You will have to read the book to find out what he did and if he was successful.

In the Bible God says, “Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.”   Jeremiah 33:3 NKJV
 God is omniscient; He knows everything.  He knows what will work and what doesn’t. He can give us that great idea that makes it all work out right.
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I want to walk with you spiritually this year, inviting you to read the Bible through from cover to cover; from Genesis 1 all the way to Revelation 22:21.  If that sounds too difficult for you and your kids, you can join in again after you have taken a break or join us for the days you’re up to it.  We will start on Sunday, January 18th and finish Saturday, January 16, 2010.  I promise that you will understand the Bible in a much deeper way if you read it through from cover to cover in a year’s time.

Accept my challenge to read the Bible through in one year chronologically, including the Old and the New Testament.

I’m going to give you an extra challenge for the next few days only. We need to read 2 days readings each day until we catch up on the right day of the year, so we can finish by December 31, 2009. 

Day48: Today read:
Leviticus 7:28-9:6
Mark 3:31-4:25
Psalm 37:12-29
Proverbs 10:5

Day 49:
Leviticus 9:7-10:20
Mark 4:26-5:20
Psalm 37:30-40
Proverbs 10:6-7

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