Why is The Devine Inspirations Gift Shop so important? It was rarely brought up before. Why now? And why so often?

The Devine Inspirations has grown tremendously over the past 3 years. We don't charge any fee for anything that we do. It is all by offering or donation. We don't ask for payment because we don't want money to get in the way of where God wants us to go. In short, we are only paid for about 1/2 of the events that we do. We want to continue to go wherever God leads without insisting on payment or refusing to go if the pay cannot be met.

We also believe that God uses all of our talents to serve him. So, we use our talents of creativity and crafting to sell and teach entrepreneurship to our children. This small income is a way to supplement the love offerings and help to pay the gas and other expenses to go to where we are going.

Not only that, but the gift shop money is divided into what goes to The Devine Inspirations and what is given to help World Missions. In 2014, the gift shop gave $400 to buy 110 pair of shoes for children in South America and Africa. In 2015, $100 was given to help drill a well, $100 to help fight human trafficking, $375 given to missionaries, and so far we have over $300 more to give.

Therefore, The Devine Inspirations Gift Shop is a way to STRETCH your dollar and multiply it to spread the Gospel in so many ways...not only here, but around the world.

So, if you need Christmas cards, stocking stuffers, a journal, assorted greeting cards, or want to help us advertise with a Devine Inspirations T-shirt (t-shirts on sale 1/2 price)...please make a purchase online.http://www.thedevineinspirations.com/…/Featured_Products.ht…
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We do sell a lot more than what is online. We have 10 events coming up that are cash and carry. Please check out the calendar page to see where and when you can come make your purchases. http://www.thedevineinspirations.com/calendar.html 

Thank you! 
Rebecca and Adam Devine
The Devine Inspirations
www.TheDevineInspirations.com

​The phone rings.

Adam: “Hi Honey.” 

Me: “Hi.”

Adam: “What were we just talking about and praying for?”

“Lots of things.” 

“Well, one prayer got answered. I just walked out of Aldi and under my windshield wiper was 16 stamps.” 

Silence. I couldn’t talk through the tears.

We have a newsletter for The Devine Inspirations that we have been working on for a year. Each time that an experience touched us we prayed and wrote, sometimes waking up at 3:00 am to write. We pieced the newsletter together and developed a list of 1500 addresses. We have it ready, with one exception; no stamps. We’ve hand delivered about 150 newsletters and prayed that God would provide the means to get the rest sent out. Some people heard of our prayers and we were given $10.00 for stamps here and $5.00 for stamps there. Each time is a blessing and we joyfully pray over the batch that is able to then be mailed. 

This is wonderful, but God is bigger than this. God is specific. God knows EXACTLY what is needed. He doesn’t have to use money. What a miracle that He provided Stamps in response to a prayer for Stamps. I don’t know why that seems so foreign to me, but it is. I guess, with a business degree, I’ve always been taught that everything has to be bought with money. God is bigger than money. The stamps are HIS! He made the stamps. Of Course He Can Give Us Stamps Without Money … and He did. 

I encourage you today to look for the miracles of answered prayers delivered to you. It might not come in the way that you expect but might be right there, in front of your face, between the glass and the windshield wiper. Don’t get caught up in how you want it to be answered and look past the answered prayers and blessings that are right there in front of you.

Rebecca Devine
The Devine Inspirations -- Public Speaking and Family Concerts
Phone 724-376-7362
Email: [email protected]
www.TheDevineInspirations.com
Facebook at www.facebook.com/devineinspirations2012 

It is a regular task for public speakers, writers, playwrights, and even event planners to make an outline. What are the main points that are to be discussed? Brainstorm all of the possibilities that could be part of the final piece. What gets cut? What gets kept? Then organize it and delegate who is doing what. 

Each week, nearly every church greets their members with a handshake, smile, and an outline, a bulletin. It is comprised of the many pieces of the service they are about to attend. Many times, the delegated aspects of the service are so wide spread among different families and departments within the church that there isn’t discussion about the specific topics, songs, verses, or message being presented.  Everyone knows what they are doing individually for their puzzle piece but are working on a puzzle without the front of the box to see what final picture they are making. 

It is a service like this that God Writes the Outline. 

I’m always amazed at the greatness of the presence of the Spirit when the pieces, previously un-discussed,  fit together to form a majestic and meaningful picture puzzle. This morning I was at a service such as this. 

Bellina, my tween daughter, prepared a song for weeks. She spoke three sentences about choosing Jesus and then sang, I Choose Jesus (made popular by Moriah Peters). A child standing on stage, lightly and clearly singing out, amplified through the microphones, proclaiming that She Chooses Jesus! Amen! It was a beautiful thing!

Then, a representative of the Bair Foundation from New Wilmington, PA (www.Bair.org) spoke about Orphan Sunday encouraging us to pray for those children without parents or with temporary housing needs, to foster, adopt, volunteer, give, and so much more for these children. They are a Christian organization emphasizing that they have an eternal family through Christ Jesus! 

The Bible reading was Mark 10:13-16 (NIV)
13 People were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. 
14 When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
15 I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
16 And he took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them. 

And Preacher’s message titled Do Not Hinder the Children, spoke of the church’s and the family’s responsibility to children. 

This evening, at this late hour, I feel God telling me that the outline hasn’t been completed yet. Not all of the work is done. Not everything has been stated. So, I write this to you:

I end this evening thinking about the many opportunities to spread the Gospel , to share love, to build confidence, and to make a difference through children. I encourage each of you to speak blessings and power into children. I don’t mean only your own children but into every child that you meet, see, or who crosses your path. What would you say? You can compliment them. Speak to them as you want to be spoken to. Encourage them. Build them up with power words. Speak with sincerity and look them in the eye at their level. Don’t be fake, but be sincere. (Children can spot an “actor” from a mile away.) At every opportunity, tell the children that they are better than “this” or “that”, that they are “set apart” as Children of Christ, they are “in the world but not of the world”, that they are “the example” and that they are “fully capable of being so because of the Holy Spirit.”  In time, use the opportunity to tell them about Christ Jesus and how to be saved. Don’t put words into their mouths but listen to their words as the seeds, that you help plant, grow into their eternal salvation. 

How young is the right age? One word, birth. If you work in a nursery, day care, or are around infants, you have the greatest opportunity.  Hold them in your arms and pray over them many times a day. You, as children of the King of Kings, have the power to speak blessings into the lives of these princes and princesses. Unleash God’s blessings upon them. Speak out loud several power phrases about God’s love for them; this is an unconditional love, an eternal love, a love greater than any love on Earth. Tell them how smart they are, how brave they are, how bold they are. Let them know that God has a plan for them and that every single bit of them is “perfectly made” for this plan of greatness. Yes, as infants, bring them up with these strengths spoken into them. They will remember. 

As adults, spend less time trying to mend relationships between each other and instead put that effort and energy into building the relationship between the child and Christ. I call this “building the vertical”. When things are going right vertically (between the child and Christ) then the horizontal (between the child and parents, siblings, friends, …) will all work out. Seize every opportunity to encourage the growth vertically. How would I do this? Instead of pressuring the child to “tell me what is going on”, encourage the child to pray to tell God what is going on. Instead of telling the child how disappointed you are, explain to the child how disappointed God is at the sin, not the sinner. Emphasize that God, and you, love them no matter what, that they are good people that made wrong choices. Help them by praying with them at the beginning to let them know examples of how to pray for these things. “Dear heavenly Father, I sinned today. I hit my sister and lied to my mom about it. What do you, Lord, want me to do differently when I feel this way next time? Will you please help me to not respond with sin but instead to handle the situation in a way that is pleasing to and bringing honor to you?” Then, before leaving, have the child pray in their own words. 

May God Bless You and All of the Children,
Rebecca Devine, The Devine Inspirations
www.TheDevineInspirations.com
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