Answered Prayers

I just had to blog about what my God did for me & my fellow Children's Ministry workers this past Sunday evening. OK, to give you some background information, my church has a missions time on Sunday evenings as part of our children's ministry. Jenn, Dayna & I lead the missions time (C.i.A.) for the 1st-3rd graders. The previous Sunday, 1/24, came & went leaving all 3 of us feeling like complete failures. We had 12 children in the class that night & had constant interruptions with talking, rudeness, kids yelling at each other, etc. By the end of the evening, we felt totally deflated & ready to give up. Talking w/Jenn during the week, we made a decision to pray (DUH!) before beginning the next week's class. Well, Sunday came & we were busy making cookies in the kitchen of our church for the snack time. However, Jenn & I bowed our heads for a quick minute just before going up to our class room & asked God to bind Satan away from the building & letting loose his Spirit on our class - quoting Matthew 18:18 during our prayer - "Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." To quote Junie B. Jones - wowie wow wow! - did He ever. We had 7 children in the class and it was the most peaceful, distraction-less missions class we've had to date. The kids were nice & respectful to one another and everyone worked hard on our missions project. As a class, we prayed over a box of tapes we are sending to another church so they can record the gospel on them in the language of the Songhai peopel in West Africa. Jenn said she got chills up her spine when all the kids put a hand on the box for the prayer and reverently waited for the prayer to begin. Jenn & I praised our wonderful God after the class, having seen His work & answer to our prayers first hand that evening. He is awesome, isn't He? I just couldn't keep this experience to myself about how great my God is.