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When God Works Around Your Lack Of Preparation

7/1/2021

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We, humans, are lazy and slow...sometimes. I am like that. I was tasked with preparing the plan for a worship service that the Jr. Youth team would lead. It's hard to do. You have to choose things that can work. I pieced together a series of songs, a sketch, a bit of a film, and a message. 

Without my knowing, the church was experiencing some verbal attacks from our community at the time. Members of the church felt exposed and discouraged. I didn't really understand much of that. 

Without thinking, I had prepared a sketch with the kids based on Ezekiel 27...the dry bones story. I chose it because it allowed us to use the BOOMWHACKERS that I had purchased and had yet to use effectively. In the sketch, though, I did write one line about how God will work among us when we gather IN HIS NAME. That doesn't mean just sitting on the same bench, but really being unified IN HIS NAME. 

Without thinking, I also included a video that I had been hoping to use ever since late winter. I finally found a way to stick it into my message for the service. The video was a nature film showing a herd of caribou being attacked by a wolf. The wolf panics the herd, then isolates one young caribou, then runs it out of energy and leaps onto its back. The moral of the story is that unity is key when the enemy is attacking the group. Isolation leads to death. 

After the service, days later, I was told that the two different lessons were powerful for many people in the congregation that morning...with the same lesson : we must stick together now! 

God prepared those lessons. I thought I did. Teaching is always more effective when God does the work.

May He continue to use both you and me !


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  • ABOUT US
    • ASAPH Statement of Faith
    • ASAPH Board of Directors
    • ASAPH Administration in Haiti
    • Biography of Andy Stump
    • The name ASAPH
    • Our Location
    • ASAPH Teaching Activities
    • ASAPH Branches of Ministry
  • CONNECT
    • Pray for ASAPH
    • Contact Us
    • Send A Check
    • Donate Online
  • MEDIA
    • ASAPH pictures
    • ASAPH Videos
    • ASAPH The Documentary
    • ASAPH Headlines
    • ASAPH NEWSLETTER
    • MUSIC for ASAPH musicians
  • MORE
    • ASAPH RADIO
    • Essays About Haiti >
      • HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE NEWS
      • Fun Animal Stories
      • From Another Angle
      • A Day in the Life of a Young Rural Haitian
      • A Tribute To PAUL MAIGNAN CEMARC
      • DREAMS
      • Flag Day Experience
      • WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY
    • Essays About Stuff >
      • God Shopping
      • Poverty
      • Sudden Wealth
      • Mozarts Clarinet Concerto
      • A Pole Story
      • A Little Absurd
      • Our Enemy
      • TWO CARS