A little child shall lead them!
I hear many people today saying they want to see the Holy Spirit poured out. I am sure none of us really know what that all entails.
For one thing, I know that we are asking for the Holy Spirit to be poured out not just on one generation, or gender, or race, or social class. It is upon "all flesh," old men, young men, parents, sons and daughters, men and women, all races and social classes (including bondservants and handmaidens). God will use all types of people in these days.
We need to be preparing a wineskin to allow for this sort of thing to happen, so that God can use children as well as older ones, women as well as men. Many of us grew up in a culture where children were to be "seen and not heard."
Even in many of our church structures today, we remove the children from the place of worship so that they do not disturb those of us who are older while we worship God. Something is majorly wrong with this.
God wants to use the children in this present day. The other evening, my friend, Raymond McLean, pastor of the First Nations Family Worship Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, shared with me the story of a service he had had the previous evening, Sunday evening of July 6, 2008.
He told of a little eleven-year-old girl that has lost her mother this past winter. She was the baby in the family. She got up crying, and said that she wanted to sing a song that she sang at her mother's funeral.
Everybody was deeply touched by her singing. Shortly afterward, the pastor in Garden Hill First Nation called her up for prayer, and she received the filling of the Holy Spirit according to the book of Acts. She was so blessed.
In seeing this, six other children got baptized with the Holy Spirit as well.
Here is a picture of this eleven-year-old girl with Pastor Raymond McLean who then preached that night on the Holy Spirit, taking his cue from what had happened through this young girl. Up until then, the Lord had not shown him what to preach on. At the end of the service, the WHOLE CHURCH was filled with the Holy Spirit.
Pastor Raymond McLean stated, "In all of my 28 years of ministry, I have never seen anything like this happening, where the WHOLE CHURCH corporately received the filling of the Holy Spirit at one time, just like in Acts chapter 2."
The hunger of the Holy Spirit is stirring in the community of Garden Hill, Manitoba, and in other First Nations communities, and God is already using the children to play a key role in this corporate outpouring of the Holy Spirit!
For one thing, I know that we are asking for the Holy Spirit to be poured out not just on one generation, or gender, or race, or social class. It is upon "all flesh," old men, young men, parents, sons and daughters, men and women, all races and social classes (including bondservants and handmaidens). God will use all types of people in these days.
We need to be preparing a wineskin to allow for this sort of thing to happen, so that God can use children as well as older ones, women as well as men. Many of us grew up in a culture where children were to be "seen and not heard."
Even in many of our church structures today, we remove the children from the place of worship so that they do not disturb those of us who are older while we worship God. Something is majorly wrong with this.
God wants to use the children in this present day. The other evening, my friend, Raymond McLean, pastor of the First Nations Family Worship Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, shared with me the story of a service he had had the previous evening, Sunday evening of July 6, 2008.
He told of a little eleven-year-old girl that has lost her mother this past winter. She was the baby in the family. She got up crying, and said that she wanted to sing a song that she sang at her mother's funeral.
Everybody was deeply touched by her singing. Shortly afterward, the pastor in Garden Hill First Nation called her up for prayer, and she received the filling of the Holy Spirit according to the book of Acts. She was so blessed.
In seeing this, six other children got baptized with the Holy Spirit as well.
Here is a picture of this eleven-year-old girl with Pastor Raymond McLean who then preached that night on the Holy Spirit, taking his cue from what had happened through this young girl. Up until then, the Lord had not shown him what to preach on. At the end of the service, the WHOLE CHURCH was filled with the Holy Spirit.Pastor Raymond McLean stated, "In all of my 28 years of ministry, I have never seen anything like this happening, where the WHOLE CHURCH corporately received the filling of the Holy Spirit at one time, just like in Acts chapter 2."
The hunger of the Holy Spirit is stirring in the community of Garden Hill, Manitoba, and in other First Nations communities, and God is already using the children to play a key role in this corporate outpouring of the Holy Spirit!
Roger and Marge Armbruster are bridge-builders and advocates of reconciliation and social justice between people groups and cultures. They both minister cross-culturally -- Marge by teaching English to new immigrants in rural southern Manitoba, and Roger by helping to build relationships between various indigenous groups who understand the connection that there is between people and land, with a special focus on the Inuit of Canada's North.
3 Comments:
amen to what you have written dear ole daddio. this is my heart too.
"YES YES YES..yes yes yes.." - (the lyrics from a new Jason Upton Children's song)
Jesus said 'let them come to me'
In His name may we have ears to hear and eyes to see the children in our midst, released to be who they are in Christ.
Blessings Dad!
Neat to hear about Garden Hill. I have awesome memories of what the Lord was doing there even 20 years ago!
Kevin
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