Prayer is a great way to get to know God personally.Īfter choosing a prayer each child gets their own cup. His hands belong to him but he has given us his heart and every prayer we pray reaches his heart. Explain that prayer is not guaranteed to move God's hand. For one week take turns praying one sentence prayers with each child. No prayer is finished until a child experiences God's comfort either in the world around him or … in his heart. The point is: every prayer has two halves…first we talk to God then we listen. On one side of each cup write 'From Me to Jesus'. Pick up a Styrofoam cup for each child in the family and one for each adult. It is our prayer that those quotes and this article helps your children take their first step toward sticking with their prayers until they get a LIFELONG connection with God.
He was just there.' Doctor Charles Stanley puts the issue even more personally: 'The ONE thing that has molded my life is learning to LISTEN to God at an early age'. It was just as easy to talk to him as with my mother or father, aunts or brothers and sisters. In her quote Corrie describes her families experience with prayer: 'Jesus was a member of the Ten Boom family. My two favorite quotes about children and prayer are from Corrie Ten Boom and Doctor Charles Stanley. Helping children develop a HABIT of DAILY prayer.
