More Than A Song

MORE THAN A SONG

I have been feeling The Lord move on my heart to write a new story for you all.

I have been praying and asking His covering over it and to reveal to my heart what He wanted me to write. To bless me with His words, so that He may be honored in my writing for Him. I have asked Him to bless your hearts in your reading of this, so that you may know how much He loves you and cares for you. So you may know how precious you are to Him.

This story came to my mind, during a conversation I was having with my husband. As I retold him this story…I could feel the full impact of the working of the Holy Spirit in this and I began to weep. Feeling the raw touch of my Lord still on my heart as if it all just happened yesterday.


This is a true story. It really happened.

First let me set the stage and give you a little history that leads to what happened.

Some years ago, I was director and teacher for The Children’s ministry at a Church we were attending for years. This ministry was for the children that were 3, 4, 5 and K’s. There were upwards of about 150 children at times. We had a wonderful ministry team as well. Their hearts were so pure and so full of joy for these children. God really blessed this ministry with so much goodness. We would all look forward to Sunday, just to be with the children and teach them God’s great stories and show Jesus love to them.

I had decided with prayer, to add worship to the morning. Taking time, to gather all the children together to sing a few songs to Jesus. The team leaders were on board. So we went right into praying and planning together.

I particularly took “great pride” in this. I was so excited and couldn’t wait for our first gathering to sing to God with the children.

That first Sunday was arriving soon. I had let everyone know, what songs we would sing, so they could prepare as well…I had the music picked out and the cd player ready at the door of my home…to grab as I went out that Sunday morning. I had envisioned how we would all meet in the huge foyer and get in a big circle holding tiny hands and singing to Him with our whole hearts.

After story and craft time…it was time to get everyone together…

As we got the children out in the Foyer and we all got in our circle and held hands…we said a little prayer and then we were ready to sing…

But there was no music, no cd player….I forgot it all. It was all still sitting inside the door of my house.

I was upset with myself. I said to the leaders, “I forgot the music and the music player!”

I said in my heart, “God I can not believe I did this! After all this planning for them to sing in worship to You, I forgot the music!”

One of the leaders said to me, “Kim, what do you want to do now?”

I said, “We will sing….Jesus Loves Me.”

As I said that, I looked at the faces of those little ones and saw pure joy on each tiny face as they heard me announce that song.
                                                                     

                                                                     
                                               Smiles lit up everywhere!                                           

They sang that song with their whole hearts….pouring out the words like sweet honey. Joy began to fill each of us as those little babes sang with their whole hearts. They got louder and louder with each verse! All in unison! Oh how beautiful they sounded!

All at once, I heard Him…right in the middle of their song…
                                                                         ”I accept their worship.” 

                                                 

                                                                                          
                                                                                    
              
I said, “Yes Lord.” “I understand.”

Later, our Youth Pastor came to me and told me he could hear them little voices singing all the way in the gym where the elementary kids were. He said they sounded so beautiful…that everyone just suddenly stood still and quite to listen. There were 300 kids his group! And they all were quite to hear the little ones sing to our Great God! Do you understand this?!? 300 elementary children, stood still and quite to hear the singing of babes!

I gave that a lot of thought later, when I got home…

I reflected on how loud the elementary kids always are…in everything they did in their “church time” with the Youth Pastor. The only time they were usually quite was during the time the Pastor was telling them their lesson. Even then, we could hear them all in our classes. We always heard the elementary kids. We just learned to tune them out. But that day…I remembered, there was an unusual quietness, during the time the little ones sang Jesus Loves Me with their whole hearts!

When the complete understanding of that morning dawned into my heart…I became so overwhelmed by it all, I fell to my knees in humble awe and thankfulness of God’s beauty in it all and the sweet lesson He taught my heart.     

                                    


                                   God taught me a lot that day! I will never forget it.

                                                        
                                 I never did use that music or that cd player after that.

Kim Wenrich
 Psalms 139
2 Corinthians 5:17
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Don't Worry.....I Will Take Care of You

                                   

Do Not Worry …I Will Take Care Of You.

The other day…I was chatting on the Facebook with my sweet friend, Trace…she was about to go on a weekend trip and was trying on different clothes and discovering she needed new clothes…

Instantly my mind began to get flooded with the memories of how God has provided for me. One incident in particular replayed in the theater of my mind, with complete clarity. As I reflected on this…..

God said to my heart…”That’s it, I want you to write about that. I want my children to know, how I Am the One that meets all their needs.“ “I take good care of my own.”     

                                                 

I got filled with joy and I am so excited to tell you this remarkable story.

At the time I was attending a weight loss program at our church…It was a spiritual avenue to weight loss. Using scriptures and depending on God for all the emotional and physical needs toward losing weight. I really loved this class and felt it was going well for me. I learned so much about how much God cares about what we eat and how He created everything for our good and enjoyment. He wants us to apply self control in our lives and depend on Him to meet our needs in everyway. I met some wonderful women in this class, on this journey of rediscovering who we are in Christ.

Trusting God is not easy, you have to die to yourself so many times, so often.
It is work. The rewards are great.
God teaches you how and walks with you each step, every emotion, every desire, and every need.
And He is in the things that are beyond what we could do or hope for ourselves.

This is Faith in action.
The Faith He alone gives us and builds within us. Drawing us ever so closer to Him.

At this time of my life, I was considerably heavy. I had lost about 45 lbs in this program…Trusting God with my food. But it is so much more than that. Deeper. God is incredible.

I had learned that what I wanted and what I needed were two separate things. This takes some doing.
We confuse these 2 things. Wants as needs and needs as wants.
God can teach you the difference. Oh, He gives you wants too, often beyond what you thought you wanted, better than you thought you needed.

Whenever I listened to my spirit and not the desire of my flesh…I lost weight.
But I was experiencing more than weight loss…

See, every time I obeyed God, trusted Him, with my weight, concerns, feelings and needs and even wants…Every single time, I trusted and listened….
I received an unexpected jewel from God. His jewels are priceless and life changing.

Don’t think I had easy times. Oh no….It is hard to die to myself. Food is what I ran to then and still fight it today…I was learning to run to God instead.                       

               
                                                               
One time, I was having a very hard time. I prayed hard and sought after God with everything that was within me, in this moment.
The next day…I decided to weigh myself…normally I did not use the scales…I wanted to trust God. I didn’t want the scales to govern my life or emotions. I wanted God to do those things for me.
I had lost weight.
God had put promises on my heart for my life. He told me He was going to heal my life.

I learned I was responding to food to fulfill my inside needs and hurts…trying to fill those deep places with food that God is supposed to fill and take care of.

After some time, I began to notice my clothes hanging off, falling off.
One morning, I complained to my husband….
”I don’t have anything to wear, even my underwear are falling completely off. What am I going to do? We don’t have money for me to go out and buy a wardrobe. I can’t go around like this.”

My husband said to me, “Kim, if you are trusting God with your weight, then why aren’t you trusting Him with the clothes you need?”

The night before, I had written out a list of things I needed, I wrote…underwear, bra, shorts, pants, dresses, shirts, and even put on there a bathing suit. I had shown the list to my husband.

Right after my husband had asked me to trust God…The very second after he said that…The phone rang.
It was the leader of the class calling me.
She said, “Kim, I was just sitting here thinking about you. I have a couple of boxes of clothes, I don’t want them anymore. I thought maybe you would like to have them.”

Oh My Goodness!
YES! I got off the phone and told my husband.
He said, “See, I told you to trust God.”

I had class that night. I went to church and my class leader came out and pulled her car next to mine and unloaded the boxes into my car. I was so excited.

After class, when I got home, I went through those boxes with happiness in my heart. I felt like a little girl with dress up clothes, putting on this and that.
Trying on this and that and prancing in front of my husband to show him.
Everything was in there from what I had wrote on my list. It all fit perfectly. Even the bathing suit.

I have so many stories like this…Our God is so good.
He does take care of His own.

I suggest you read Matthew 6: 25-34                                              

1 John 5: 14-15

God does not lie and He wants to take good care of you.

Kim Wenrich

Psalm 139                         
2 Corinthians 5:17                                             
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