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02 February 2012
“Therefore I remind you that you stir up the gift of God….”
I remember when I first started teaching kids. It was 1978 and I was only19 years old. Pastor Willie George taught a class on Ministering to Children at the Bible School I was attending. One day, Pastor Willie shared 50 ideas for illustrated sermons and I burned up my pencil writing down those ideas.
After graduating from Bible School I became a full time CP at a church in Port Huron, Michigan. Each week I would pick one of Willie’s sermons and preach it to the kids.
I still remember when I used that last idea. Panic hit me when I realized that “these kids know everything that I know.” After that I spent long hours in prayer begging God to give me some new ideas for sermons for kids. I kept thinking to myself “I wish I was creative like Pastor Willie.”
One day the Holy Spirit whispered to me, “You are creative.”
My response was “No, I am not”
“I live inside you and I am the Creator” was His response.
It’s hard to argue with that.
Do you really believe the Creator of the universe lives inside you? We all have the ability to be creative, we just need to stir up our creativity.
Here are Ten Practical Things to Do to Stir Up Your Creativity
