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no worries!

3/4/2016

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We arrived on Tuesday to Berakah for the first time in 2016 since our return to Pretoria, South Africa from our visit in the USA.  We were greeted by beautiful children's smiles and a passionate staff enthusiastically serving in their God-given posts.  As I was sitting with the children praying over them and blessing them (although I knew they wouldn't understand my English words), spontaneously they began to sing:
Ge Modimo a le teng ha'yo mathata!
(When God is here, there are no worries!)
Whatever you are facing, invite the presence of the Lord to infiltrate your darkest challenge, and see the peace of God overtake you and swallow every worry!
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when children praise...

3/4/2016

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Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. (Psalm 8:2)
​We recently witnessed a wonderful move of God at Hatfield Christian Church, the local church out of which we work in the communities surrounding Pretoria.

During corporate worship a group of children found their way to the front of the auditorium, waving flags and dancing. They didn't look like mature worship leaders or professional dancers. They looked like kids having fun. Someone in leadership saw them, and rather than shut them down, he invited them onto the platform to dance and wave their flags before the Lord in full view of the congregation.

Before long, there were reconciliations happening all throughout the building. Generation affirming generation, male honouring female, and every tribe and race embracing and celebrating one another, all in the context of glorious praise to God in at least five languages. It was stunning! And we pray that what God has begun among His people will cover this scarred nation, a salve bringing healing and peace.

Psalm 8:2 says that God has ordained strength from the praises of children to silence the enemy. Everyone's praise is always powerful--because of a mighty God! But there is something special when God moves amidst children's praise. What better to silence the jaded, demonic voices of bitterness, gender tension, and racial strife than the wonder-filled praise of all-powerful God coming from innocent lips!

The millenia-old saying is still true today: there comes a beautiful clarity in the spirit when children praise. What would happen if you and I praise today? What would happen if you and I empower our children to praise today?
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