Devotional by Mikayla

Thanks for all of you who wrote and encouraged me and said you are praying for Steve and the on-going training in the mountains right now (see post below). The weather cleared (PTL!), and I will post more of an update when Steve gets home tonight. Thanks for continuing to pray!

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Mikayla was recently asked to write a devotional for a booklet to be passed out and used during the World Wakeboarding Championships held here last week. Here was what God laid on her heart to write and photos that were printed in the booklet with her devotional.

It blessed our hearts, hope it will bless yours as well.

-Jen-

A Fresh Start
Hi! I am Mikayla Hagen. I am 9 years old.
My family lives in the Philippines as missionaries.
I want to tell you how God can use anybody in His work, like the story of Saul (Acts 7:54-60, 8:2-4, & 9:1-31).
Saul started out persecuting believers, and he
Even helped kill some of them. But he came
to know God on the road to Damascus. After
that, he suffered many whippings and even a boat sunk under his feet, but he still trusted God. He became known as Paul the Apostle instead of Saul the Persecutor, and God used him mightily in His work throughout the world. Paul had been persecuting Christians, but God changed him and used him to bring the Gospel to many people. This teaches me that God can use anyone, no matter how shy, how sinful or how mean to Christians they are at first, God can change them and use them for His glory.
Mikayla Hagen
‘Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for believers in speech, life, in love, in faith and in purity.’
1 Tim 4: 12