“Jesus! Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!” The little girl’s words were a direct answer to prayer.
The day before God had burdened my heart to pray that the name of Jesus would be spoken in class at school. I realized that throughout the session we actually got to talk a lot about God at school in response to the children’s questions, more than I ever expected. For example, we asked them who made the light bulb, and they called out in unison “God!”
“God created the light, you’re right! But who made the light bulb?”
Little opportunities like that came up at least a couple times each week, but I’d never gotten to say the name of Jesus at school.
That morning I was talking to God about it, and He gave me the verse, “O LORD, our God, other lords beside thee have had 
dominion over us: but by Thee only will we make mention of Thy name” (Isaiah 26:13). God put it on my heart to pray that, even though we aren’t allowed to mention the name of Jesus at school, one of the kids would say His name in class.
The next day my teaching partner and I went to class and we were talking about authorities, and none of the kids even mentioned God or Jesus. Just before our last class I prayed, “God, I know it’s Your will for Your name to be spoken at school, so please put it on one of the kids’ hearts to mention the name of Jesus.”
We went to our last class of the day and asked them if they knew who some of our authorities are. A little girl sitting in front raised her hand. When I called on her she pointed her finger up and said “Jesus!” I was so excited!
“Yes! Very good!”
She smiled and said again and again, “Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!”
Wow! What God can do when we simply ask in faith. Amy Schwartz
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