I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.

So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.

I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the ‘village’ is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.

What’s your cause? Does it move you to tears? What is it that moves you passionately?

I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.