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Song Stories
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Series 1 World Wide Christians Volume 1 , Issue 1 |
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When I was asked to participate in this newsletter I was in awe but very excited because God had answered a prayer of mine . I tend to get long winded , so with this being the first newsletter , I ' ll cut right to the chase . I am a children ' s ministry leader in my local CBS ( Community Bible Study ). If you don ' t know what CBS is , search for it because you probably have one in your area , and if not , maybe you will soon as it is growing more and more each year . Anyway , since I am a leader , we do things a bit different than the attendees of CBS . We , as the leadership council , get together the day before the actual CBS and do our Bible Study among other things like planning for the next session , prayer time , all that . Another thing we do is take turns each week giving a devotion . Well , as soon as I signed up to do my first one , I knew exactly what I would talk about and how I would give it . The message isn ' t important right now as I will share it with you at a later date , but the way I gave the devotion is what my articles will be about each week . I read scripture and told a personal testimony about |
something going on in my life and then played a song . God always speaks to me through song . I don ' t know how to explain it other than to tell you that when I ' m having a bad day , or even a good day , I ' ll turn on KLOVE ( my favorite radio station , which plays Contemporary Christian music ), and a song will play that deals with the exact situation that I am going through and God speaks to me through the lyrics . It ' s an amazing feeling and always leaves me wanting more of Jesus . So , I gave another devotion a couple months later , but this time I just wrote lyrics instead of playing the actual song . Well , at our final meet of the CBS year ( term ), I was approached by a good friend of mine , another children ' s ministry leader , who I had come to know during my time in CBS and grown to love so very dearly . She told me that God had been telling her to tell me that I needed to write . I couldn ' t understand her at first as I thought she meant a book . She meant that I needed to write as a free-lance writer , or for a magazine , or blog , or newspaper , or something .... that I just needed to |
write ! She told me that I was good at it and that God was telling her to tell me to do something with that talent . So , I told her I would pray about it , and I did . And now , here I am , writing this to you . My column will be titled Song Stories . My friend ( who I didn ' t ask permission to use her name yet , so I won ' t ), came up with it , and I think it ’ s perfect . I will write each week about a song that has touched my heart and tell how God has spoken to me through it . I leave you with this , if you have a talent that God has given you , use it . You never know who you might touch because of it . Thank you to my dear friend for nudging me in this direction , and thank you Randall for the opportunity to write with you . And the biggest thank you of all to God , for sending Jesus to die for little ol ' me and also for carrying me through my roughest days and just being there for me no matter what , guiding me in every step that I take . I owe everything I am and everything I have to you . Until next time ... God Bless , Jen |
Jennifer Sikes New Bern , North Carolina jensikes85 @ gmail . com
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