A photo of a little 7 year old boy, Trey Elliot, praying over a Tulsa police officer has gone viral getting shared more than 10,500 times as of Wednesday morning. Trey has already prayed for several officers.
In 1 Timothy 4: 12 Apostle Paul writes, “Don’t let anyone think less of you because you're young. Be an example to all believers in what you teach in the way you live, in your love, your faith and your purity.
God has called children throughout the scriptures to help teach and spread the gospel as in the Old Testament Bible stories of the baby Moses pulled out of the Nile river in his basket boat by Pharaoh's daughter, David the shepherd boy who went to battle against the giant Goliath, or the little girl who was Naaman's wife's maid who told her mistress about the prophet Elisha whose God could heal Naaman's leprosy, and also Samuel, whose mother keeping her promise, left him with Eli the priest in the temple as a very young child to serve God.
In the New Testament God continued to call on the youth to help. Jesus blessed the loaves and the fishes from the young boy's lunch his mother had prepared for him and the boy offered to the disciples to feed the 5
thousand people who had come to hear Jesus teach. Timothy the eager young assistant recruited by the Apostle Paul to teach the gospel, and there are many more stories of children mentioned in the Bible.
All through scripture God has called upon children and young people to help spread his word to the world. God calls upon you also to help spread the Gospel by the way we live. Live pure lives by minding our
parents, getting along with siblings and friends, sharing with others, telling others about Jesus. Like Trey you too can pray. Pray for your country, pray for your church, pray for others needs and healing. God can use us no matter our age to spread his word and blessings.
In Psalms chapter 8 verse 2 King David writes, " You have taught children and nursing infants to give you praise.” Let us give our God praise today.
God bless,
Linda Shields
First Presbyterian Church
Independence, KS