Strengthened for the Battles yet to Come

"If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out,

how can you compete with horses?

If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?"

Jeremiah 12:5

sometimes when i prepare for morning reflection for the school, God teaches me.

recently my heart has felt more certain and stable than it has for a long time. i guess thinking and talking about the children ministry with others who share the same vision and passion has helped.

and with the beatings and batterings and bruisings we and the ministry have taken, my heart is awakened:

be it now, or in july. in the year 2000, 2002 or 2007, when i'm 48, or 88, i know what matters to God must matter to me.

i know that children need to be loved, they need to be shown attention, affection. i know that they need us to pour beautiful, pure things into their minds before the world contaminates them. i know that every thing done in love with the power of the spirit for these young ones are never in vain.

whether they take forever to grow up or not, whether they fall away and return or not, whether i see the impact or not, i am to love them, help them, teach them the Word of God, help them to know Jesus.

i know the children in broken homes need it. i know the children with poor esteem need it. i know the children with learning difficulties need it. i know the hyperactive ones need it.

You have shown me, Lord.

The passion and burden you have placed within me doesn't fade with time or turmoil,

but they grow, forcing me to grow.

God you know it sometimes looks like a hard journey.

it sometimes looks like no one else believes in it.

But give me the perseverence, the strength, the faith, the gifts, the anointing that i so much need.

Jehovah Shammah,

Let me always be mindful of your presence with me, coz with that, all things are bearable.

And if it isn't too much to ask, give me co-labourers for the journey.