Surrender- From Itunes Miracle to Salvation!

There was going to be a mad nasty cookoff! USA vs. India. After all the festivities I had a moment to talk with John Longshore and Austin Alvarez. After some fun discussion on callings, people, and life, John passed on some tunage for my desperate ears. He hit me up with some Kim Walker and Misty Edwards. I took my new found treasures home with great promise that my life would be changed. I popped my CD in to load on to my laptop and its starts saving until it gets to track number 7. The computer totally freaks out and does all but slap me and call me stupid. i attempted to load the CD several times and that song would not for the love of anything pure and holy load. I stopped, sighed, and noted the title of the song. "I Surrender". At the time i did not think anything of it. I told John that it wasn't working and kind of in jest said that Something must not want me to hear that song. Then I really stopped and thought about it. What if something really did not want me to hear that song. I tried to load it again and to no avail. With a heavy sight i removed the CD from the computer and all of the sudden the song pops up and begins to play. Did I not just remove the CD? Had I not just tried to load the CD umpteen-bazillion times. Well I guess God saw that it was a song that I needed to hear and He made it happen. Like honest to blog, HE totally made it play. So yes God works miracles through Itunes. I am sure you are thinking woohoo a song played, alert the pope. Well the story continues and gets soooo much cooler.

On the way to work I am listening to this miracle song. As I listen to the song speak of surrender, I stop and ponder if my fourth grade class knows what it means to surrender (I teach at a Christian school). I went on to school but the question lingered heavily fluttering around my heart. I then decided to scrap all of the afternoon lesson plans and talk about what it means to surrender. I took the students out one by one and video taped their response to the questions "What does it mean to surrender?" and "What does it mean to surrender to God?" After we finished filming, we talked for a while about what it means to surrender and what are things in our life that can be surrendered. We looked at the lyrics to the "miracle song". I then had the students write down something that they thought that they should surrender to God. As they were writing I called the students out and filmed them sharing something that they needed to surrender. One little boy came out and I posed that question to him. His response was that he needed to surrender his whole life. After I turned off the camera he told me that He did not think he really had a relationship with Jesus. Then and there he prayed to receive Christ. It was an amazing day. The Spirit was swirling around my class moving and whispering to my students hearts. So yes, amazingly so, God does use Itunes for miracles.

I love you all!

PEACE!

-Nichole Johnson