Hi everyone, its aunt Fernita
Today's story is called "Heavy enough to float"
The memory verse is from Matthew chapter 7 verse 7
It says "Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find"
Today's message is God cares all about my problems
Pedro needed a calculator to do part of his math homework
but he did not own one
Jose let him borrow his calculator until tomorrow
when Pedro arrived home from school, he opened his backpack
he took out his math book and looked Jose's calculator
it was gone.
He called his friends but no one knew where it was
"Oh man, what a problem"
what was he going to tell Jose?
A young man in our bible story today lost something that he borrowed
and he was very worried too
One day some young men who studied at a special school for the prophets heard good news
The prophet Elisha was coming to visit them
They were happy about that
They could tell Elisha anything and he would listen
The young men knew that the building where they stayed was too small
and they wanted to build another place
They talked it over with Elisha
He agreed. And they decided to build a bigger building
so they set aside a special day to go to the banks of the Jordan river
There they would cut logs for the new school
Elisha agreed to go with them
One young man had borrowed an Axe
He wanted to help build the new school building
Happily, he joined the group working at the river that day
Some chopped down trees
others cut the trees into boards
The prophet Elisha worked right along with them
As they worked, they talked about God's love and care
They with one swing of the axe,
everything changed.
The young man with the borrowed axe lifted it into the the air
The iron axe head flew off
with a splash it landed into the river
"Oh master!" the student cried out
"The axe was borrowed"
"and i have no money to pay for it "
His friends came running
they all starred into the dark water
Elisha hurried to the river bank too
but he couldn't see the lost axe head either
"where in the water did it go?" Elisha asked
all the young man could do was point
Elisha turned and looked around at the trees
Finding just the right tree he cut off a small branch
Then he carried it to the river's edge
He threw the stick where the young man had pointed
The stick made a little splash
Then ever so slowly, the stick and the axe head came to the surface
the floated together in the water
a gasp went up from all the students
The biggest gasp of all came from the young man who had lost the axe head
Just moments before he had thought that his like was ruined
God through Elisha had turned young man's accident into a miracle
he had taken an ordinary work day
and turned it into a day to remember forever
The tired but excited young man walked back to the school that evening
They talked to Elisha about what happened
They were even more sure that God loved them and cared for them
They knew that no problem was too big or too small to take to God