1. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries You Need A Little One 11 Indispensable Relationships You Can’t Be Without! Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Ray of Hope Christian Church

2. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries People were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” And he took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them. - Mark 10:13-16

3. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries Rhoda Disciplines

4. © C. L. Hale MinistriesApril 19, 2011 Your ongoing relationship with Rhoda will keep you: Snug - free to dream and always listening to your heart, so that you don’t miss out on what God wants to do in your life and ministry next. Snug - free to dream and always listening to your heart, so that you don’t miss out on what God wants to do in your life and ministry next. Scared - playing Boo! and Grr! Games. Scared - playing Boo! and Grr! Games.

5. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries Witches, warlocks, and wolves, Voldemorts, vampires and vultures, ogres and evil stepmothers are the stuff of which children’s books are made

6. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries This is how children learn to master their fears. We all do!

7. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries Fear is a thief

8. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries Fear is paralyzing

9. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries Fear causes us to settle for less than the best

10. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries Fear is a state of mind, experienced in a threatening situation and resulting in behavior that is designed to escape or avoid the threat.

11. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries Fear is a mind thing! Fear is based on perceptions.

12. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries We need to face our fears and stop running from them. We need to turn our fears into instruments of creativity and growth - Leonard Sweet

13. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries What are you afraid of?

14. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries You do know what the Bible says about fear?

15. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear. The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of what shall I be afraid? - Psalms 27:1

16. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries I sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears. - Psalms 34:4

17. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries God has not given us a spirit of timidity or fear, but a spirit of power, love and a sound mind. - II Timothy 1:7

18. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries We all have to learn to conquer our fears.

19. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries You can’t be a hero without a villain.

20. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries “Fear is the darkroom that develops negatives into positives.” - Author Unknown

21. © C. L. Hale MinistriesApril 19, 2011 Fear is the darkroom in which negatives can be developed into positives… Probably because it is in the dark that our negative emotions seem to be the most intense and as hard as we try we can’t dismiss or run away from them, if we are ever going to be free. Probably because it is in the dark that our negative emotions seem to be the most intense and as hard as we try we can’t dismiss or run away from them, if we are ever going to be free. Maybe, because the thrill of soaring begins with the fear of falling and we need to get pushed out of the dark, cozy nests to discover how far we can go. Maybe, because the thrill of soaring begins with the fear of falling and we need to get pushed out of the dark, cozy nests to discover how far we can go. Or maybe, it is because the older we get, the easier it is to pretend to be something that we are not and Rhodas scare or give us courage to let the real you out of you. Or maybe, it is because the older we get, the easier it is to pretend to be something that we are not and Rhodas scare or give us courage to let the real you out of you.

22. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries Small - Rhodas keep us Small

23. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries “Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary it is profound.” - Jim Morris

24. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries “To see life with mustard-seed eyes is to see right through the thicket of growth into the essence of things, to understand the primal as primary, to never lose track of the simplicity in the midst of the complexity.”

25. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries If you have faith the size of a mustard seed… - Matthew 17:20

26. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries Luke 22:7-23

27. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries When we do this, in Paul’s words, we “proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes” - I Corinthians 11:26 NRSV

28. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries The essence of the incarnation is that God made himself small.

29. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries God works little large.

30. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries Living Large by loving little – What does this mean to you?

31. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries “It’s the little things that run the world.” - E. O. Wilson Harvard Insect Biologist

32. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries A child’s simple, small questions are the most profound.

33. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries Remember it was Thomas’s willingness to ask a Rhoda question, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” - John 14:5

34. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries That elicited the words from Jesus that have resounded through the ages: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” - John 14:6

35. © C. L. Hale MinistriesApril 19, 2011 Jesus himself modeled the art of questioning? “Who do people say that I am?” Mark 8:27 “Who do people say that I am?” Mark 8:27 “Who do you say that I am?” Mark 8:29 “Who do you say that I am?” Mark 8:29 “What good is it for a man to gain the world and lose his soul?” Matthew 16:26 “What good is it for a man to gain the world and lose his soul?” Matthew 16:26 “Why are you thinking these things?” Mark 2:8 “Why are you thinking these things?” Mark 2:8 “What do you think?” Matthew 17:25 “What do you think?” Matthew 17:25 “What is written in the Law?” Luke 10:26 “What is written in the Law?” Luke 10:26

36. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries Light - Rhodas keep you Light

37. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries Gravity is an adult disease that leads to the grave.

38. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries “Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.” - General Douglas MacArthur

39. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries “You don’t get old from living a particular number of years; You get old because you have deserted your ideals. Years wrinkle your sin; renouncing your ideals wrinkles your soul. Worry, doubt, fear, and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.” - General Douglas MacArthur

40. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries Children keep us young because they keep us flying.

41. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries They will soar up on wings as eagles, they will run and not be weary, walk and not faint. - Isaiah 40:31

42. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries Alive – Rhodas keep us Alive

43. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries The sole origin of philosophy is wonder – Socrates

44. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries “Animation” is “anima”, which means alive!

45. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries In a child’s world everything is alive, from talking animals to talking toys to talking nature.

46. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries For children, there is only the “naked now”.

47. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries Rhodas teach us to live in the moment and to truly celebrate it, with the words, this is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

48. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries “This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” - Psalms 118:24

49. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries If spirituality means waking up, the Rhodas are our spiritual directors.

50. April 19, 2011 © C. L. Hale Ministries Ephesians 5:14-16