15 May, 2013

Training Warriors

“Papa, this is where Warriors are trained.”
 
These were the words uttered from one of my youngest students to his father as they walked by our school one day.

This profound statement from a Kindergartener is confirmation to what God told me a few months prior.

In August, right before school was to start, I was sitting at my desk looking over the classroom. Thinking. Praying. In the quietness God spoke to me:    

“This is where warriors will be trained..” He said.

I am training warriors. Warriors.

These aren’t mere children- these are warriors! This sort of stuff gets me excited- hearing God speak, getting confirmation about what he said, realizing the immense responsibility I have been given, and remembering that it is these kids that are going to impact nations and change the world!

During class one day, we were talking about different countries when one of my kindergarteners says to me, “Miss Brittaney, I’m going to go to China.” Another one pipes up, “I’m going to go to China too!” Then I replied, “No way, I’m going to go to China one day too!”* The second child got really excited and said, “We’ll go to China and then we’ll see Miss Brittaney there!”

This brought tears to my eyes, seeing their passion, excitement, vision, and faith. Wouldn’t it be something else if one day, we all ended up in China at the same time? I mean, come on now, that would be more than coincidence! I wouldn’t be surprised though if it happened, God works in crazy amazing ways and he speaks to even the youngest of people- often times they can hear him the best as they haven’t had their minds filled with doubts and very little seems impossible to a child.

Friends, look at the children around you and learn from them, champion them- they believe they can do anything, and really they can. After all, nothing is impossible with God- the dead can be raised, cancer can disappear, relationships restored.

Become like a child today. Believe in the impossible- or rather, the possible that we’ve been told will never happen. 

*When I first felt called to missions, God put the country of China on my heart. I don’t know how, I don’t know when or for how long, but I do know that one day I will go there.

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