Sisters, how many of you remember School House Rock? When I was a little girl, I couldn’t wait to turn on the television on Saturday mornings. I’d sing along cheerfully, not even realizing I was learning all kinds of information. (I’d later use that very same tool on my own classroom.) One of the episodes from the Grammar Rock series was titled, “Interjections!” The song reminded us to use them to “show excitement or emotion” and then told us they were “set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point or by a comma when the feeling’s not as strong.” In other words, interjections interrupt a sentence. (Hold onto that for a minute.)
This morning, I was thinking about the word amen. (Those who know me personally are not surprised at all, knowing my love for words.) Amen is a declaration that simply means so be it or it is so. That’s why we proclaim “Amen!” at the end of our prayers. We are literally claiming whatever it is that we have just prayed for. Well, the word amen is actually an interjection. (Remember, interjections interrupt a sentence.)
Hmm … That got me thinking! What if we interrupted the nonsense the enemy tries to throw our way by praying, using the authority that God has given to us, asking Jesus to move mightily on our behalf, and sealing the prayer in His name, and then we proclaimed “Amen,” fully believing that our Lord and Savior is going to come through for us? Amen is meant to interrupt some things!
The Manna Chef 