All week during my worship sets I was getting things about thrones and crowns so I did a study on crowns and came up with a multitude of scriptures that talk about crowns. The Lord gave me music that had a symphonic sound, pipe organ sound, and piano sound, and it caused me to put some music into a new CD which I entitled “Crown Incorruptible.” When I studied on crowns I discovered there are crowns of righteousness, anointing oil, holiness unto the Lord, glory, glory and honor, golden crowns, and more. The most impressive place the Lord took me was to the throne where the four living creatures are continually worshiping before the Lord saying, “Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy!” And the 24 elders are seated at the throne and they take off their crowns which are golden crowns and cast them down before the feet of Jesus and worship him and tell him that he is worthy to be worshiped, honored, and all power belongs to him, and he is the creator of it all. This is the point where the Lord gave me the huge symphonic-type sound with pipe organ and strings along with keyboards.
I decided it was time to have the children in my worship class to participate with the 24 elders so we made crowns. I cut out crown patterns from poster board, purchased a bunch of paints, paint brushes, glitter, glue, and metallic foil paper, beads and gems. After reading the scriptures and having the children recite the scriptures in English and Chinese, we all made crowns. Of course, there was glitter, glue, and paint everywhere, but they came up with some very special creations as they heard about what the crowns looked like according to the scriptures. We decided they were all too wet and the gems and glitter were still falling off, so for a week, we laid them on the window-sill in the worship center and they dried all week.
After we completed making the crowns, it was our day to pray for all of the countries on the continent of Africa. So this time, I drew an outline of Africa on a huge plastic table cloth with multi-colored marking pens. Each country on the continent was one of five different colors and I tried to make it so there were not the same color of countries next to each other. I believe there are about 35 countries, including islands around the continent of Africa. I had some scriptures from the Psalms where I substituted the name of Africa and the countries where it talked about “the nations” and each child took a turn with “Twister-type Intercession.” The child was to put both hands and feet on four different countries, ones that I called out. So for example, the first child’s turn was for the color of blue and he was to put his right foot on South Africa, left foot on Sudan, right hand on Madagascar, and left hand on Morocco. So as the child was stretched out in all directions on these “blue” countries while the rest of us proclaimed that all of these countries would serve the Lord! or all of these countries would repent and be saved! depending on which scripture they were given to recite as a group. Then that person got up and then the next person was to put all of his limbs on the red countries, so I would call out red countries for example, left hand on Egypt, right hand on Mauritias, right foot on Togo, and left foot on Swaziland! and the children were laughing because they were all stretched out all over this huge map of Africa, they were learning the countries, they were seeing where all of them were located, and they were interceding for the country all at the same time.
