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The Secrets of God’s Heart

This Sunday afternoon during Kidz Choir practice, we took a few moments to allow the children to listen to a new song.   I strategically  dimmed the lights, and had everyone close their eyes so they could focus on the words of the song.  Okay, I admit there was another reason I dimmed the lights.  It was because the kids had become a little ’squirrely’ and now they needed an opportunity to sit quietly.  During the song, I noticed one of our smallest choir members was laying on the carpet with her eyes close.   A few minutes later when the song was completed, the same little girl came up to me and asked for a cookie.  As I passed her the snack, she whispered in my ear “God was talking to me.”  Expecting to hear a long story, I asked “When?”   She replied, “God was talking to me when I was on the carpet listening to the song.”  My heart stopped.  I excitedly said, “What did he say?”  The blonde little girl with her cute glasses whispered “It’s a secret!” I wanted to push further to hear the words of truth a child would hear from the Father in a moment of silence.  I asked one more time the same question and with her hand next to her lips she said ”I can’t tell you.  It’s secret!”  Her grin was from ear to ear, and she ran happily back to her seat.

It came to me last night, as I reflected on the event, that sometimes God whispers secrets in our ears.

How could I question a little girl’s statement when just three weeks earlier I had the same thing happen to me during a corporate prayer meeting?  What began as intercessory prayer for the next generation, soon turned to a proclamation by the Spirit over our children.  Protocol states that an interpretation was in order, and I uttered one statement twice “God is calling His kids to Himself”, and then felt supernaturally hushed in my spirit.  That wasn’t all that God was revealing, but that was all that was necessary to be heard at that time.  Several minutes later, a respected intercessor came up to me and said “I have the interpretation for the word that you gave.”  And he began to uncover the same truths that God had been whispering in my ear during the proclamation.   Then he added, “But I felt I wasn’t to say it out loud, at the time.” 

You see, God’s timing is not necessarily our timing.  And sometimes God whispers things in our ear, that will be of benefit to you and perhaps others in the future, but for whatever reason He trusts you to just “hang on to it.”  I love the scripture that says, But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart (Luke 2:19).   I am sure that the encounters Mary had in those early days were spectacular (including a visit from the angel, and entire groups of shepherds confirming the Saviour’s birth).   While the shepherds left the manger scene spreading the news of Jesus, Mary treasured the secrets God Himself had revealed in her heart, knowing even greater miracles were yet to come.

What secret is God whispering in your ear?  What passions of His heart has He entrusted you with, enough to whisper them into the very core of your being?  Is it a compassionate heart?  A gift for serving?  A justice for the those treated unjust?   Cherish it.  Ponder it.  And then be ready to act on it, when the Spirit says so.

Michelle Mercer

Family & Children’s Ministries