The below was written by one of our Granddaughters, Miss Madelyn Accomando (Maddy).  Maddy just turned 13 and she is new to the things of God, not having grown up in church.  But for the moment put that aside and see what God has taught her from His Word (and he can teach you from His Word if you have the same childlike spirit to learn). 

She wrote this in a letter to a good friend of mine in California who emailed it to me. I got so excited I just haven’t been able to stop talking about it and rejoicing over what God is doing.

So why am I surprised? I had prayed for this child every day for the last 13 years. God does hear and answer our prayers, doesn’t he? If not then why pray? Here is what she learned and wrote to my friend —

“In Middle School Ministries we read 1 John 2:15 – 17. We talked about how it warns us not to love the world, where in John 3:16 it tells us that “God loved the world”. That’s because in John 3:16 he meant he loved his children on earth, the children of the world. 1 John 2:15 -17 means don’t love what people do in the world.

Then we talked about the three things that we are warned about in 1 John 2:16.  You see when we try to be perfect women in the eye of a man it is the outer us they see and desire that and we turn into that. Our humanity is taken away. We are more of an object than a human.”

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Well folks, that is pretty profound for a 13 year old who has not had a lot of Bible training.

The object of this lesson is if your kids have not been walking with the Lord – NEVER, NEVER give up. There is more power in prayer than we know. God wants to save our kids and grandkids more than we want him to.

If you raised your children in the things of God and they seem to have discarded the teachings, PRAY. God will answer your prayers. ‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’ (Jeremiah 33:3)