Morning Devotions

For Preston and myself, one of our favorite times of the day is the early morning time we spend with the boys in devotions.  Right now, we have 2 boys joining us since the other 2 have already left for school.  We recently made the decision to have devotions after breakfast because Pablo is not a morning person and it takes him some time to function after waking up.  After hearing the 2 boys laughing during breakfast, we knew we had made the right decision; Pablo was fully awake and able to participate in the discussions.

We use the devotional "Jesus Calling" each morning.  It's practical and thought provoking.  We all are stretched at times to take a look at how we might "tweak" our responses to every day life situations and what it means to include God in our decisions and life experiences.

The devotional time is usually held in our room or office.  Today, since I was still sitting in bed finishing my prayers when the boys arrived, Freddy hopped up next to me.  Then Pablo jumped up alongside of him; so why not stay there and get started!

My Christmas present to me was a Kindle. This is one of the greatest inventions known to man.  We had to give away our library before leaving the states and PT and I have missed our books.  So, the Kindle is the next best thing; maybe even better. We have the Kindle app installed on all our computers, no matter where we are, we can continue reading a book that was already in progress.  (just a little plug for Amazon's Kindle) Most all the books that are on my Kindle have been free, that's the way I shop for books.  But, I do make exceptions and occasionally purchase a book.  "Jesus Calling" was one of the exceptions and we have it in both English and Spanish.

While reading todays devotion in Spanish, Freddy's voice was changing.  I looked at him, studied him hard to see what was causing the voice change.  When he finished, I asked him "what in the reading had touched him".  He grabbed up the Kindle again, turned to the English edition and began to read the entire devotion out loud in English.  As he kept reading, his voice was getting thick and broken.  At the end he took a swipe at his eyes with the back of his hand.  Something in the devotion had really touched his heart.  

For weeks, we have been talking to the boys about the power of God within each of them. The devotion today talked about God's strength and trust.  But the thing that got to Freddy was this: "I am your Strength and Song.....Remember that I am your Song.  I want you to share My Joy, living in conscious awareness of My Presence.  Rejoice as we journey together toward heaven; join Me in singing My Song."    After reading, Freddy said to me "WOW, I am His Song".   He had twisted the wording backwards, but the Holy Spirit had very clearly sent Freddy a message that he needed to hear.  
Freddy was God's Song.  

Think of it, someone had written a devotional with a message and the Holy Spirit used the message and "tweaked" it in a way that it spoke to Freddy.  Almost like a form of dyslexia in print.

When the boys receive revelation of a spiritual truth, it makes our hearts soar.  It doesn't get any better than it did this morning.  I pray that Freddy never ever forgets that he is God's Song.