Hi Friends....
Our family started reading through the book 'Operation World' and it has been amazing watching our kids pray for others and even LEARN to pray for others. It has been a humbling experience to, at the end of every dinner, pull out the book and pick a country to pray for. This book has tons of stats and challenges for prayer that our family can specifically pray for. Even Jaci gets in on the prayer time. Its PURE bliss to hear our little ones praying that people can get the opportunity to have a bible to read. Prayers for drug wars and poverty and that they can have the opportunity to go to school and that missionaries will flood the country we are praying for. Hearing my 8 year old, with his soft heart, pray that the people need to stop doing drugs and selling them and instead KNOW Jesus. This prayer is coming from our son, who since was little thinks when he gets big he will become a missionary. Oh the heart of a small young one...he has no idea how the enemy will try and steal that joy and that passion. We pray hard for each of our kids....but not near hard enough. Its a blessing to walk through how to pray with Brock - its been humbling to realize how he doesn't even feel comfortable to have an out-loud prayer in front of his family!! God help us to be better examples. Thank you for intervening though and placing this book in our life so that we can get outside of ourselves. That we can start making prayer a BIG part of our lives.
Does anyone else struggle with making prayer a BIG part of their lives? Why is it so hard? Makes me mad....! How can I just pop out of bed and shower and get ready for the day and totally forget to get on my face and thank Jesus for EVERYTHING and to praise and worship Him? Am I alone with this struggle? I don't think so but would love to hear your thoughts!
Our family started reading through the book 'Operation World' and it has been amazing watching our kids pray for others and even LEARN to pray for others. It has been a humbling experience to, at the end of every dinner, pull out the book and pick a country to pray for. This book has tons of stats and challenges for prayer that our family can specifically pray for. Even Jaci gets in on the prayer time. Its PURE bliss to hear our little ones praying that people can get the opportunity to have a bible to read. Prayers for drug wars and poverty and that they can have the opportunity to go to school and that missionaries will flood the country we are praying for. Hearing my 8 year old, with his soft heart, pray that the people need to stop doing drugs and selling them and instead KNOW Jesus. This prayer is coming from our son, who since was little thinks when he gets big he will become a missionary. Oh the heart of a small young one...he has no idea how the enemy will try and steal that joy and that passion. We pray hard for each of our kids....but not near hard enough. Its a blessing to walk through how to pray with Brock - its been humbling to realize how he doesn't even feel comfortable to have an out-loud prayer in front of his family!! God help us to be better examples. Thank you for intervening though and placing this book in our life so that we can get outside of ourselves. That we can start making prayer a BIG part of our lives.
Does anyone else struggle with making prayer a BIG part of their lives? Why is it so hard? Makes me mad....! How can I just pop out of bed and shower and get ready for the day and totally forget to get on my face and thank Jesus for EVERYTHING and to praise and worship Him? Am I alone with this struggle? I don't think so but would love to hear your thoughts!
Pray on ... The Kellenbergers
Amazing prayer resource right there! We even started using it in our adult Sunday school class at church. I recommend the book as well. :) I can totally relate to you Kim about my prayer time. Sometimes accountability helps.....ask me here and there how my prayer life is going... :)
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