Elf on the Shelf

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Welcome back to my blog! We are in the last month of the year, it is December 5th! If I'm honest looking back on my life from this year alone I am blown away by how God has moved in my life. I am so humbly grateful to the Father for just being so good to me. Most of all for waiting patiently for me to run back to him fully and completely. 

As you may know I am a preschool teacher, and with that I am very animated and have a broad imagination when it comes to teaching and keeping my students engaged.  We are in December so of course my students are beyond excited for Christmas and Santa bringing all the presents! Now we all know the reason for the season, but my babies are 4. I have introduced them to Elf on the Shelf. I have one that personal looks like me, but we also have one that is going around the center to all of the classrooms. On this passed Friday all the classes came together to watch the Elf on the Shelf movie and when I tell you I was in tears the Lord spoke so loudly and clear through a 30 minute movie that was focus on Santa but was actually focused on Him for me to share with you. 

Just a short background of the movie. There's a young elf name Chippy (named by the children) that is eager to go down to earth for his first assignment Now Chippy is new to this, but has faith he can do the job with no trouble. Santa tells him he is a little young but trust him to do the job. In his assignment he has a boy name Taylor who does not believe anymore and twin sisters that do. Chippy does all that he could to get Taylor to believe. He brought out old pictures with him and Santa, but nothing was working. He still did not believe. 

Did I forget to mention that the kids were not aloud to touch Chippy and if you would touch him he would loose all his magic and be stuck on earth forever. One day Taylor  wanted to prove that Chippy was not real, he said, "If he's so real he would move when I go to touch him." When he touched Chippy; Chippy fell over,! With devastation his sisters ran to tell his parents. Chippy tried to make his way back to the North Pole but was to weak to fly. However the other elves saw him and helped him and brought him back to the North Pole.  STAY WITH ME HERE !

As Chippy was in the hospital the other elves tried to cheer him up saying "Rise up, rise up, it's time to show it. I can hear the Queen in Black Panther saying, "Show them who you are!"   but Chippy felt like he failed his assignment. Taylor felt horrible so he wrote Santa a letter to apologize for hurting Chippy. 

Have you ever lost hope in what you needed but gained belief when you wrote it down? As Taylor wrote Santa he sent it off to the North Pole, and Santa received his letter. 

Here's when God began to speak. Now Santa is huge compared to the elves, and He also carries all the magic, but he gives each elf magic to hold on too. However, it is up to them to stir the magic up within them.  My My my God is amazing. That's how God uses us, each of us have the Holy Spirit in us and God is waiting for us to stir up the gift that we have in us to do the work that He has called us to do. 

II Timothy 1:6-7 NKJV

Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power love and a sound mind. What gift has God given you that you're not using? Have you adapted the feeling of fear, instead of trusting the power thats within you?

As Santa sat at his desk reading the letter He got up to go visit Chippy who was well to return but began to feel sorrowful and began to have doubt cover him.  Have you ever been in a place where after everything you tried wasn't working out so doubt began to cloud your mind.

Santa said, how are you doing Chippy?", with sorrow Chippy said, I let you down Santa I did everything to get him to believe but nothing worked, I failed you. Have you ever felt like you failed God? I know I did and then God reminded me that There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. - Romans 8:1

 Santa said, "Chippy you can't make people believe you just have to be there and do your work. They must feel it in their heart to believe in me. Is your heart posture fixed on God? Do you believe God to give you the strength and the power to do the job He is calling you to do. We are called to do the work, but we can't force people to believe and God can't force you either, but He can show you who He is. It's in our actions and speaking that we can demonstrate how good, and big our God is.  Recognize who your father is and where you get your power from, and gain your identity with the Father. 

John 15:1-11

I am the true Vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.  Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that continues to bear fruit, He [repeatedly] prunes, so that it will bear more fruit [even richer and finer fruit].  You are already clean because of the word which I have given you [the teachings which I have discussed with you].  Remain in Me, and I will remain] in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself without remaining in the vine, neither can you [bear fruit, producing evidence of your faith] unless you remain in Me. I am the Vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him bears much fruit, for [otherwise] apart from Me [that is, cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown out like a [broken off] branch, and withers and dies; and they gather such branches and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you remain in Me and My words remain in you [that is, if we are vitally united and My message lives in your heart], ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you.  My Father is glorified and honored by this, when you bear much fruit, and prove yourselves to be My [true] disciples.  I have loved you just as the Father has loved Me; remain in My love and do not doubt My love for you.  If you keep My commandments and obey My teaching, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. I have told you these things so that My joy and delight may be in you, and that your joy may be made full and complete and overflowing.

 Santa allowed Chippy to read the letter that Taylor wrote and his heart was overwhelmed with joy. 

John 9:4 says, I must work the work of Him that sent me while it is day, for the night will come and no man can work. 

You must know that the work you are doing is not in vain, that if God called you to the assignment then He has faith to believe that you can complete it. Chippy believed in the begin, but started to feel doubt when things became difficult. Not every task is easy, but it's worth it. 

I'm a living witness on how God moves. Look how he moves through movies 😉

I pray that this blog blessed you! I pray you will stir up your gift and do the work He has called you to do. Be bold for  God as He continues to be bold for you

I love you but Yehwah loves you more.