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Rexford Date : Zion's Praises 1st ed. Contact us Advertisements. Skip to main content. Home Page. Never alone. How many times, discouraged Author: Eben E.

Rexford Tune: [I've seen the lightning flashing] Published in 17 hymnals. Author: Eben E. Page Scans. View Page. Display Title : Never Alone! Date : Choice Hymns of the Faith Church and Sunday School Hymnal with Supplement Rexford Date : Everlasting Praises No. Foursquare Hymnal d We discussed many times as a class how we can choose right or wrong and the impact of our choices, including accepting Christ as our Savior and walking in obedience to Him.

I pray he will remember he has a choice and make that decision one day. I had a student in the spring who was really lost because of some horrible events that were happening in his life. I had tried to support him and be a place of calm and understanding in his life, but I will have to see if he is able to realize that his actions are hurting himself.

I still pray for him and his family. This past year, we offered in-person learning. Students could select to be remote if they had medical conditions or family situations which required reduced risk.

One of my students was in person at the beginning of the year but then chose remote learning. They struggled as a remote learner in many ways. I worked with the parents to try to improve communication but little progress was made.

It was a challenging time and I prayed many times that God would use me to help the student through this time even though my initial reaction was to get frustrated and start passing around blame. During this school year, I had one student in particular who I began to be concerned about.

She is a rather quiet student to begin with, but I noticed her grades were slipping, she seemed more distant, and needed lots of redirection to focus. There were math concepts that I had gone over with her in private sessions, group lessons, and as I walked the room helping students during our math hour that she just could not grasp.

I felt there had to be something more going on and the time had come to reach out to her mom. Her mother was appreciative and after talking with her daughter we both came to the realization there had been something quite significant in her life going on. When we helped relieve this child of her burden and walk alongside of her I began to see a dramatic turn around in her demeanor and her grades.

It was an opportunity to show the child how much I loved her, to pray for her, and to speak truth about how much Christ cares for her as well. Her mother and I were able to point her back to Jesus at so many moments and show her the evidence of him working in her life. It was a couple of years ago when I was student-teaching. The student was probably too young for that group, but barely made it in for his age.

Nevertheless, it was worth investing in him. Encouraging him in his struggles and sharing in the little victories boosted his confidence. This was in public school, so I was limited from sharing Christ. I could only share Christ through my actions and behavior. I saw this young student begin to grow. I think he simply needed someone sincerely taking an interest in him and his progress.

He needed to know that he was valuable and there were people on his side. As Christian educators, we care because Christ cared. We love because he loved. We live according to his will and way, because he came to show us that when he was here with us on Earth. One of my students was not progressing well in her English. She had been my ESL student for 2 years and still made many of the same mistakes because she would never acknowledge that she made errors or needed correcting.

We floundered together for a while. Eventually I talked with her, with her mother and asked the school counselor to speak to her too. The girl slowly began to see her need to learn and to listen. The counselor worked with her on Growth Mindset.

Throughout the whole thing, she had faith and a relationship with the Lord. She did however begin to make the progress that she needed and improve in her writing.

These challenging students are the ones that I remember for years to come. I work so hard to see them grow. I still remember my first student in She was a Thai girl in a boarding school in India. She hated learning English, being in boarding, and just about everything else. Now she is an adult and still keeps in touch. She often thanks me for pushing her and loving her.

She is not a believer, but her brother is, and I pray that she will come to faith in Christ too. Recently I started to watch a student grow immensely. They had struggled with math concepts at the beginning of the year, most likely due to Covid interrupting the previous school, but had taken off the last couple of months before the school year ended. But just when I thought we had turned a page he started to regress again.

No longer completing assignments and the parents left with no idea of what to do. The piece that concerned me the most was that he now understood the concepts but seemed to lack the motivation to complete them. At the beginning of this school year, our small Christian school was one of the only schools opened to onsite education, as most schools were online due to COVID. As a result, we got many new students whose parents wanted them to have an in person teacher. Most of the new students did not come from a Christian background and one in particular was very firm in what he had been taught and believed, which is evolution.

I quickly switched gears in what we were learning about in both Science and Bible class to help answer some of the doubts he had about Christianity and Jesus. By the end of the first semester, as he was preparing to transfer back to the now open public school, he shared that he now believed in who Jesus said He was and believed that God had created the heavens and earth.

He admitted he had more questions and that he knew he should stay at our school so he can continue growing his faith. He did end up transferring it, but it was wonderful to see the transition in him and how his attitude changed from knocking anything I said about Jesus or the Bible to wanting to study it and learn more.

There is a student at our school whom our youth pastor had counseled and shared the Gospel with last school year. He then emailed the faculty to pray for this young man.

This student was not in my class but his sister was. I prayed for his salvation and one day had the opportunity to talk to his sister about her relationship with God and that I was praying for her brother. She told me she knew the Lord as her personal Savior and she deeply appreciated me praying for her brother. Toward the end of this school year, an email came out from our Bible teacher that this young man had given his life to the Lord as his Savior!!

How wonderful it was to hear of this and how God had answered our prayers. The past school year, I had two students that discouraged me. He got in trouble a lot, and was very disrespectful. He was prayed over throughout the year. A few weeks before summer break, he accepted Christ as His savior.

He still had some trouble but his behavior and attitude improved. Bob is a different story. He had a rough start in life and was adopted by a Christian couple. He Leadeth Me. Thy hand, in sight of all my foes, Doth still my table spread; My cup with blessings overflows, Thine oil anoints my head. Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus! O for grace to trust him more! My God is true; each morn anew Sweet comfort yet shall fill my heart, And pain and sorrow shall depart.

For I am safe in everlasting arms, And they will lead me home. Where Shall I Be? And old Apolyon bound at last, Where shall I be? When Christ shall reign from shore to shore, Where shall I be? And peace abide forevermore, Where shall I be? Christ Is Mine Forevermore. We Will Feast in the House of Zion. We are not consumed, by the flood; Upheld, protected, gathered up, We will feast in the house of Zion.

We will sing with our hearts restored. The Sands of Time Are Sinking. God is good, God is good. Where is his grace and goodness known? Who holds our faith when fears arise? Who stands above the stormy trial? Who sends the waves that bring us nigh Unto the shore, the rock of Christ? He has contributed to several modern hymns and is the author of the forthcoming book Corporate Worship: The Church Gathers as God's People.

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