Like a little child!!

This post revolves around a prayer time with one of my friends. We were talking to each other before we started off with our prayer time. Her little one came to her saying that she did not understand the Scripture portion that she was reading. It looks like twice my friend had sent her child away saying not to disturb, but third time she said “okay, let me explain it to you, and then you’re up on the bed.” The scripture portion was Isaiah 60, the whole chapter. She read out the chapter, verse by verse, and gave explanation in simple words that the child can relate and understand. Once she finished with it, we started praying. As we prayed, we realized that the Lord has actually spoken to us from the Scripture portion. He has reaffirmed what He had spoken to me the previous week. Also, to my joy and surprise, it was a reconfirmation of my personal promises (most of the verses in that Chapter are my personal promise. I received them in 1997, at which time I did not understand the meaning of those verses fully, but I was jumping with joy as I knew it was the Lord’s Rhema Word).

We never expected for such a move by the Holy Spirit. He chose the child to be instrumental in bringing out His Word on the day that Indians celebrate as “Children’s Day” November 14. Jesus said in scriptures, “Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it” Luke 18: 15-17. To be like a little child is to be simple, innocent, completely trusting, submissive, confiding. There is openness, transparency, guilelessness. We have to completely trust the Lord’s word. Many times our analytical intellectual abilities and reasoning skills of the grown-ups will not help our walk in the KINGDOM, because they contradict the KINGDOM BELIEFS. We just need to simply trust the Word of God “like a little child”  and will have to believe 100% that our DADDY GOD is faithful to fulfill His Word in our lives.
 BE SIMPLE  TO BE SUBMISSIVE TO GOD AND HIS REASONING AND HIS WISDOM AS A CHILD:
Isaiah 35: 8 (AMP) and a highway shall be there, and a way; and it shall be called the Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for the redeemed; the wayfaring men, yes, the SIMPLE ONES and fools, shall not err in it and lose their way.
 
LOVE TO BE WITH JESUS JUST LIKE A CHILD:
Matthew 19:14 (NIV) 14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
 
BE HUMBLE LIKE A CHILD TRUSTING THE FATHER GOD COMPLETELY AND NEVER BE INDEPENDENT OF THE LORD:
Matthew 18:3-5: And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

 LEARN TO RECEIVE THE TRUE HUMBLE CHILDREN OF GOD KNOWING THAT YOU RECEIVE THE LORD JESUS HIMSELF:
 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

BE BLAMELESS AND PURE LIKE A CHILD TO SHINE LIKE A STAR IN THIS GENERATION:
Philippians 2:15 so that you may become blameless and pure, "children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation." Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.


Dear Child of God be blessed as the Holy Spirit ministers to you!!

Written By: Shanta S. Daniel
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