A prophetic story by Sandy Warner

A PROPHETIC WORD IN THE GROCERY STORE ---ABOUT THREE LITTLE PENNIES -----

A prophetic story by Sandy Warner SWauthor@aol.com Website: http://member.aol.com/swauthor/webpage/ [You may subscribe to Sandy's newletter, "The Quickened Word" by writing "The Quickened Word" in the subject line when you write to her at: SWauthor@aol.com]

The Lord often speaks to me through daily life parables. I love it when He speaks to me this way! It is true when one has a full grown language of interpretation that anything in life can have a symbolic meaning, but He says, only what is quickened by His Spirit gives life. "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." (John 6:63 KJV) And so I have learned to tune into those little daily true life stories that He quickens as His Word. Usually when these kind of "Words" happen, I walk them out, then suddenly He breaths life on them and I realize the spiritual significance to what just occurred and how it applies to what He is saying to me. Even more fun is when I get a word of knowledge that something about to occur is one of those kind of Words. Recently I had one such Word.

As a background to this story, He had told me that He was bringing me into a training time in deeper levels of certain gifts. His key Word was "training." The story begins as I am pulling my cart up to the long grocery store lines and trying to figure out which line is the shortest. I glanced at the shortest line and noticed the sign that said, "Checker in training." The Lord imparted to my heart that He had a parable for me. Now I had some preconceived ideas about this checker in training! He had the shortest line because he was so slow. He would take forever looking up the fresh food. He would make mistakes and have to call the manager. He would not make mistakes and still have to call the manager.

All my life I have been given the wonderful gift of watching, listening and analyzing people s lives, learning from their hard life lessons, and adjusting my choices so I didn't make the same mistakes. This is a part of having a teachable spirit. I had it all figured out ahead of time that the Lord was about to give me one of those negative parables for my own good. "For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged." (1 Cor 11:31 NKJV)

I cringed as I took my place in line, watching this checker carefully. Soon it was my turn and I watched every move he made! He greeted me pleasantly. He didn't hesitate, he didn't void out an entry, he didn't call the manager and he made it through the veggies just fine. I had been so expecting him to make a mistake I was disappointed when nothing was quickened to me! While I am writing the check, I asked, "Lord, I don t get it, what was the parable?" I handed him the check and waited for the receipt. He handed me 3 pennies with a smile. Incredulously I stared at the pennies. "You mean I wrote the check for 3 pennies over????" He smiled graciously and said, "Yes." I thanked him and felt like they had been 3 million dollars.

As a child I used to hear people say, "A penny saved is a penny earned." Nowadays pennies don t buy much and no one really cares about pennies. But God still cares about pennies.

He was telling me that in my season of training, He wasn t interested in how slow it took me to catch on, how many mistakes I made, how many times I had to stop everything and call on Him to bail me out and whether or not I had all the correct answers in memory! What He was asking was that I be faithful in the little things and He would take care of the rest. I felt so loved when I left that store.

I pray that if you are carrying loads that are too heavy, you will find your way back to the Lord s lap and ask Him to help you to be faithful in the little things.

Matt 11:28-29 TLB "Come to me and I will give you rest-all of you who work so hard beneath a heavy yoke. Wear my yoke-for it fits perfectly-and let me teach you; for I am gentle and humble, and you shall find rest for your souls; for I give you only light burdens."

Matt 25:21 TLB "His master praised him for good work. `You have been faithful in handling this small amount,' he told him, `so now I will give you many more responsibilities. Begin the joyous tasks I have assigned to you.' "

Lovingly, Sandy