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“What were you doing?” He’ll say. “Why didn’t you take advantage of those things?” “Well, LORD, I was always too busy.” “I know you were. That was the problem. I spoke every day, over and over, but you were always occupied with something else. You weren’t paying attention.” I remember one time when The LORD said something very much like that to me. It was shortly after I started this ministry. I received a call one day from my spiritual father, Brother Oral Roberts, and he told me he was coming to spend the weekend with Gloria and me. I was thrilled. “Yes, sir!” I said. “Just tell me what time you’ll be here, and I’ll be at the airport to pick you up.” When we finished our conversation, I told Gloria about it and both of us sprang into action. The prophet was coming; we had to get things ready! The first morning after Brother Roberts arrived, when I went into the kitchen for breakfast, he was already there at the table waiting for me. He had his Bible lying open in front of him, so Gloria and I grabbed our Bibles and sat down with him. We spent the whole morning talking about The WORD and having a marvelous time. Some really outstanding things happened that weekend, and afterward I was praising The LORD for them. “Oh, God, thank You!” I said. “It’s just been glorious having Brother Roberts here.” I’ll never forget how The LORD responded. “I’ve been there every morning,” He said. ****article continues on p. 8**** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Commander Kellie’s Corner What Should I Be? Happy New Year, Superkids, Superparents and Superkids at heart! I have an expectation that this year is going to bring more life and more grace than we’ve ever seen before! I see change happening all around me! Maybe you do, too. People always say that change is hard, and while that may be true, change is also GOOD! Especially the Jesus kind of change. And, that’s what this year will bring, if we allow God to do a work in us. The Lord began talking to me about you this morning as I began to write to you. Before I tell you what He wants you to know, I have to tell you about my youngest daughter, Emily. She’s 4, and in preschool. All week long, Emily has dressed up as different characters for different themes at school. We have put her costumes together at the last minute, so the mornings have been a bit hectic with all the hairspray, pins and costuming needed. However, the end result has been worth it. Emily has been supercute every day. Today’s theme was “Dr. Seuss.” Last night, I laid out some things for a pretty decent Cindy Lou Who character. But, as I was half asleep last night, I had a sudden inspiration that Emily should be a “PINK YINK.” You know what I’m talking about: Now Yinks are not pink but what do you do? When the PJs you have are not yellow, but blue? You look and you look until you can find Some PJs whose color will do as a rhyme! OK, I got carried away so I’ll stop Dr. Seuss-ing. I went through her drawers, my laundry room and our costumes—all the things we had around the house to transform Emily into a Yink. We took her pink princess footie PJs, turned them inside out, and added feathers, using safety pins. I made a wild Yink-like hairdo from socks, rubber bands and pipe cleaners. Go ahead, you can laugh. It was pretty funny! As I was working on the fountain-ish Yink-do, Emily began to do some Seuss rhyming herself: “Pink Yink or Yellow Yink, what should I tweet?” We both began making up endings to her rhyme, such as “Color doesn’t matter, just be sweet!” Pretty clever for a 4-year-old, I thought! A great thing to ask ourselves is, “What should I be?” Emily’s Pink Yink transforming process is a great example of how we should decide the answer to that question. Let’s go back and look at how Emily was changed into a Pink Yink. People may have other ideas, like a Cindy Lou Who, life for you. But when God INSPIRES who you should be, the fit and the look are always just right. The word inspire means “to fill someone with the URGE or ABILITY to do or feel something especially CREATIVE.” And who inspires us with greatness like our CREATOR? God breathed your life into you before you were born. Psalm 139:13 says He formed you in your mother’s womb, He put you together with so many different colors, like a fabric that is woven from many colored threads. What does that mean? Before you were born, He breathed the talent, desires, personality, gifts—all the things inside you that you would need to be YOU—not someone else. That’s why it’s a struggle to try to be like someone else or to have their talent, personality or mind. That person’s personality is made for them; yours is given to you for WHO God has called YOU to be. Just like Emily’s costume was put together from the things we had HANDY around the house, your life and calling come from all the things God has placed IN YOU. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, “Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart....” Eternity is your destiny, your future! God has placed it in you. You don’t need to go looking for it or asking anyone, “What should I be?” He knows. He put it together. There is just one thing to remember. James 1:23 compares the Word of God to a mirror. Look in it and find out what He says about you, and the Word will begin to bring those God-things out in you. After Emily was all YINKed up, she went to the big mirror in my closet to see how she had been CHANGED. Wow! And Emily laughed at the Pink Yink she saw, For she was not like the others at all. But this little Yink was inspired by God, And not by the colors or look of the lot. So let this inspire your life to this end, You don’t need to look or sound like your friends. For you’re NOT a Yink from Dr. Seuss, For Superkids learn who they are from God’s Truth! Happy New Year, Superkid. And Happy Changes! ♥ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BVOV : 7

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