Children and prophetic pictures, words, thoughts and feelings, dreams, prayer, tongues and healing, vision, discipleship, leadership and partnership, evangelism, preaching, singing and dancing, touching heaven, preparing for revival - it's all here! If you believe it but haven't seen it, or you've seen it but don't believe it, this book will inform, instruct and hopefully inspire you. |
Roger Mitchell has described Spying Out the Land to church leaders as "an important practical and inspirational document to help us follow our children into the Kingdom of God."
The book is divided into 19 chapters, in the following five sections: Discovering the Land, Viewing the Land, Exploring the Land, Adventuring in the Land and Living in the Land. It is illustrated by children's pictures and words. Spying Out the Land is a softback book with a colour front cover, which is pictured above.
Here is an extract from Spying Out the Land (page 45) |
| We had some special 'open
airs' in Canterbury in the annual family conference. Here
is 11-year-old Jane's description of one of these times: "We went on an open air as part of the Canterbury Christian Family Conference. The night before we had prayed that some of us would receive gifts of prophecy, discernment and healing. Now we were going round in threes - a healer and a speaker for God with one adult. We went round as the open air was going on looking for people to talk to. We met a lady who had her whole home in plastic bags around her. Her budgies were sitting in a cage beside her. We talked to her and asked her if she had anything she would like us to pray about. She showed us a "little" wasp sting on her arm. Her whole arm was swollen and red. We laid hands on it and prayed, then she hurried away. "We also talked to a little girl who was about six or seven. She had never heard of God or Jesus before. She was so open as we talked to her; though she questioned some of the things we said, she never made excuses or said we were being silly. As our adult was talking to someone else, it was just us two girls but still she accepted everything we said, and she was very interested. Her mum then came and took her away but I feel we did something for that girl. "Then we talked to a woman who was very religious but had some funny ideas about God. It was hard for us to talk to her as she was stubborn about what she thought, but when she went we prayed for her that she might see the truth. "We next found a man who would only talk to our adult, Karen. The other girl and I prayed in a corner and she came up with a word and I had a picture. When we shared them we found I had a picture of someone standing at the deep end of the swimming pool not sure if they should dive in, and then at last diving in and coming up safely. The other girl had one word - "Trust". We told Karen to tell him we thought he should trust God and dive in and God's Spirit would help him to swim. She told him and he thanked us again and again then left. Karen told us that he had been on the edge of 'diving in', but he had done that before and bad things had happened to him so he felt God had let him down and he had sunk. Karen said those words God gave us would help him a lot." |