Prayer

 

     Prayer is such an incredible thing.  We need to teach our children that talking with God is the best way to handle this life and to have a relationship with Him.  They need to see us praying.  We need to pray with them everyday. 

     There are many opportunities in which we can pray with them.  Before meals, as they get up in the morning, when they are having a bad day, when they are frightened, when their behavior is wrong, and when they go to bed are just a few examples.   Prayer is the most important way for them to cultivate a real relationship with God. 

    We also want to teach them how to pray.  It is not used for getting things we want.  It should be used to give thanks and glory to God.  We can ask for things like healing, needs and others, but our prayers should not be selfish.  We also need to pray that God's will be done, not ours. 

     Our challenge is to look for those great times where you can pray with your kiddos. 

Here are some verses on prayer:

1 John 5:14-15

    And this is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

 

James 4:3

    You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.