The Way the Spirit Moves
I am always amazed at how God works in and around us to accomplish His purposes. When asked a few weeks ago to speak to a group of parents during the break at an Upward basketball game, I immediately started worrying the topic of the devotional in my mind—asking God to speak to me and through me. Speaking at Upward is rather intimidating—give me a group of teenagers or women any day—to add to the intimidation, the speaker only has three to five minutes to give the devotion while holding a microphone in the middle of said gymnasium with little children running back and forth getting snacks from the concession stand. I’m no stranger to these events, but it has been a few years since I’ve presented the devotional due to the hectic Saturday schedule I keep in January and February. A few days before I was scheduled to speak, I was still unsure of which direction to take when a verse flitted through my mind seemingly out of nowhere: “Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a