Você pode me dizer o que significa orar? Sim, a oração é falar com Deus. Você sabia que Jesus falou com Seu Pai muito através da oração? Se Jesus orou, devemos seguir o Seu exemplo e orar também…
Many people are not happy with their lives or simply have grown complacent over the years. Now while there is nothing wrong with being content with your life, we should always be growing. When I was younger, I found it hard to do both at once. I would either be not growing and fine with that or trying to grow but would be impatient to get to the next stage. Good things take time. That's why we should always try our best to look for the lessons in every situation that life throws our way. I hit rock bottom a couple
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Prayer Changes everything. Dont be anxious, pray instead. If god is for us, who can be against us?
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This week's bible story was about Hannah. For those who don't know, Hannah was Samuel's mother. Her story is a story of faithfulness and trust in God. In short, Hannah was one of two wives to Elkanah, and Peninnah was the other wife. Hannah did not have any children, while Peninnah did, and back then, how many children you had was a big deal. For many years, Hannah prayed to God about becoming pregnant. She actually prayed so hard that she could not eat, and another time, she prayed so hard the priest thought she was drunk...Hannah even made a promise to God that if He gave her a son, she would have her child serve God for all of his days. After all this time of praying, Hannah became pregnant, and later, she gave birth to Samuel. Once Samuel was old enough, Hannah indeed turned him over to serve God. Even though she was giving up her baby, something she prayed for years about to the point that she was sick over, she still praised God. She still praised him for being holy. You can read her whole prayer in 1 Samuel 2, and more about her conceiving Samuel in chapter 1. Originally, I had this craft in mind, but I could not find the printable for Hannah. My artistic abilities are not that extensive, so I settled with this. We made prayer books with things we can pray about. Super easy if you can't tell, and it sparked great conversation with the kids. On the inside, we had 4 pages with 3 of them being things that they can pray for. ' We put things like my family, my friends, and my church, and had them illustrate who/what they were praying for. To make the hands, I just traced a rough, slightly larger mitten shape of my hand and cut it out on 5 different colors to make it a little more appealing to the eye. For the words to the book, I uploaded the file here and you are more than welcome to use it in your book. Super easy, and a great discussion starter that can also serve as a reminder to both us and them to pray about everything. xox, lauren
One of my favorite things about my Presbyterian tradition is the vocabulary. Not the endless parade of PC(USA) acronyms or technical terms (shall ordinarily and if the way be clear). No, I love the way that my tradition connects with language and the written/spoken prayer; the way our hymns are full of 10 cent words; and the ways that we prioritize the word rightly preached. For example, as a child my favorite verse of my favorite hymn was: Crown Him the Lord of years, the Potentate of time, Creator of the rolling spheres, ineffably sublime. All hail, Redeemer, hail! For Thou has died for me; Thy praise and glory shall not fail throughout eternity. I also am a huge fan of liturgy. I love the ways that theological concepts, biblical images and poetry can be woven together seamlessly, and the fact that reading these kinds of beautiful things out loud in worship is what I get paid to do. Yet as I have struggled in my adult prayer life, I find that the thing which trips me up most often is finding the correct words to say when I am engaged in personal prayer. I believe that this primarily stems from an earnest belief that God is not waiting for me to come up with the perfect turn of phrase in order to understand what it is I am praying for. God does not need me to march through a laundry list of the ill or grieving so that God might know where to focus attention that day. Kierkegaard wrote, "Prayer does not change God, it changes the one who prays." I recently have found myself asking the question - if I want to be engaged in an extended time of prayer and words in this private moment seem to not be enough, what can I use more effectively to focus my specific and personal prayers without letting my mind wander, while at the same time allowing myself to actually be changed by the act of prayer? Ironically, I can't name any other time that my prayers have been more clearly answered than when a good friend and colleague passed on to me Sybil McBeth's book Praying in Color. This post is by no means a complete tutorial on this particular prayer practice, and I would encourage everyone to read the book for themselves to fully understand the process. What I can show you here is an example of how it works for me. I am a habitual doodler and have been since college, which is why this practice works so well for me. Basically what you are doing is writing down a key phrase, scripture verse, name or even a question around which you want to focus your prayers. After writing that word, you simply use a variety of colored markers (or pencils) to draw, color and doodle around that word. As you work, you may add new words, shift your prayers to a different concern, or even write down insights as they come to you. One of the most beautiful parts of this technique is that in the process you have also created a type of prayer icon that you might be able to call to mind later in the day, the week or even years later. The image at the top of this post comes from a prayer that an artist in my congregation gave to me as a gift after attending one of my classes. I love it and keep it permanently displayed on my desk. First, it is very helpful to have good supplies. Sybil recommends, and I strongly concur, that the best markers to use are permanent. I use washable markers or colored pencils when my son and I do the exercise together, but permanent markers provide such vibrant and non-smudging colors that they are worth the effort. When I teach a class on this or we pray this way at youth group, we will often use large sheets of white tag board, but for personal practice, I would also recommend investing in a quality unlined journal. Here is an example of a prayer that I prayed recently, using the poem "Children Learn What They Live" by Dorothy Law Nolte. I took the phrases: If children live with Sharing they learn Generosity; if children live with Encouragement they learn Confidence; if children live with Fairness they learn Justice; if children live with Acceptance they learn Love. After writing down each of these words, I spent time doodling and coloring around them as I reflected on how I live out those values with my own son. I then added additional words to represent the qualities I believe I need to foster in myself in order to make this happen. Here are two other examples of how one could either pray prayers of intercession for individuals or pray a particular piece of scripture. These are just my examples, though. McBeth's book has many more, and I would emphasize that there is not one RIGHT way to do this. This is a wonderful method to use with children and teenagers to engage in conversations about the things that we share in our prayers with God. It is also a helpful technique for a family in times of discernment or in the midst of a conflict. Here is an example of a prayer of thanksgiving that my son did. You can see how he used both language and pictures to express his prayers. The second best thing to finding this practice for use myself is the reactions that I have gotten from youth and adults who have practiced it along with me. The most glowing praise came from a life-long Presbyterian woman who told me that this was the best thing she ever learned at church. I think I might agree!
Prayer prompts for kids are a practical tool to help little ones understand how to pray and what to pray about. We've organized some prayer prompts to help guide...
Children can really identify with a sense of sadness and, as a fact of life, sad things happen- in our lives, in the lives of people we know and in the world as a whole. Here is a prayer station to help children (especially younger ones) to pray that God will bring joy and happiness to those experiencing times of sadness. We're going to use it next term in one of our lessons with the 3-5s, but I wanted to road test it first! I got some thin, sheer ribbon and attached lengths of it to the spokes of an old umbrella. Then I stapled some blue raindrop shapes to each ribbon.. You need some way of balancing the umbrella in order to perform the prayer activity. When working with a small group, the leader could hold it but balancing it on a chair also seems to work! Children can then think of someone who is sad, or a sad situation in the world and ask God to bring them joy. As a symbol of their prayer they can then draw a smiley face on a circular sticker and stick it onto a raindrop... I did think of using smiley face stickers, but actually having to draw a face on the circle makes the children more directly involved in the prayer. Now we just have to wait and see how this works in practice!
“Maar hou moed: Ek het die wêreld klaar oorwin.” Onmiddellik nadat Jesus hierdie woorde gesê het, het Hy gebid dat die kerk eensgesind mag wees, net soos Hy en die Vader een is, sodat die wêreld Hom kan ken. Wat is eensgesindheid? Eensgesindheid beteken om dieselfde doel en strewe te hê; dit behels dat ons ons … Continue reading "Kom vandag saam sodat ons vir mekaar kan bid"
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One of my favorite Primary songs during Thanksgiving time is "Children All Over the World." I just love the happy, swaying melody. I've made a flip chart you can download below. I also made some fun posters that I got the idea from the book, The Children's Songbook Companion which was originally designed to be a lesson manual for the Children's Songbook. I embellished the posters some. I will try and take pictures and post as soon as I can. Here is a lesson plan and some ideas on presenting the song to the children that I put together last year. LESSON PLAN WITH VARIOUS IDEAS TO USE Say one of the foreign words for "thank you" in the song that the children may not know then ask: If you know what I said, raise your hand. What? you don't understand this word? Do you think that Heavenly Father understands this word? There are children that live all over the world and they speak many different languages. Do you think Heavenly Father understands all those different languages? I want you to listen while I sing to find out if Heavenly Father really does understand all the children around the world. [YES] I want you to also listen for the word I said (repeat the foreign word "thank you" in the language you chose earlier) and see if you can figure out what the words means. [THANK YOU] Sing then receive answers Post flip chart on the board so teachers can sing with you. Listen again and this time count how many different languages I sing for "Thank You." [6] Sing again and let the teachers sing with you if you want then receive answers. SWAY & FREEZE Tell the children to follow you carefully swaying side-to-side with their bodies and arms but they must freeze when I stop singing. The piano stops as well. It is helpful for the pianist if he/she sees your arms swaying so he/she knows when you stop and so the pianist can stop. Stop and freeze after each short phrase only working on a section at a time. Here is an example of a section of the song cut into four phrases. Phrase 1: All over the world at the end of day Phrase 2: Heavenly Father's children kneel down and pray Phrase 3: Each saying, "Thank you" in his own special way Phrase 4: Saying, "Thank you. Thank you." In his own special way Repeat swaying and singing going through each phrase with the children repeating each phrase a time a two before moving to the next phrase. Repeat the process when you are ready to move to the next section of the song. Make sure you help the children pronounce the foreign words. CHILDREN POSTERS Make and use posters for the children to hold up while they sing. The kids do love the posters. Another fun thing to do with the posters is to have the teachers come up and be the "poster children" holding them. The kids get a good laugh out of that. I'll post the ones I made as soon as I can. BELLS Invite 4 children to play the bells on the words “THANK YOU” (all languages) & after singing “He loves them” at the end of the song. This is great to start doing when you want to practice just the last section of the song on the "loves them" part. This can give a nice break from the Sway & Freeze activity. Have them ring the bells 2 times all together on the echo part of "loves them" and after "every one." After they get the end of the song down, sing the whole song through and incorporate the bells when ever "Thank you" is sung as well. I used the following tone bells: Low A, D, F#, & A. You could add G if you want 5. OTHER POSSIBLE QUESTIONS TO ASK Write the following questions on pieces of paper and attach to different flags from around the world or print another set of flags from the flip chart and cut out and attach the questions or put the questions in a bowl to pick from. As you are learning the song, have a child pick one of the questions and have the Primary listen for the answer as they sing the song. What do Heavenly Father’s children all over the world do at the end of day? [Kneel and pray] What does each child say in his own special way? [Thank you] Who hears them? [Heavenly Father] What else do we learn about Heavenly Father? [That he knows, loves and understands the language of every person.] Tender voices are heard where? [All over the world.] You could have them figure out which country each language is from in the song. Gracias: Spanish Malo: Tongan Wir danken dir: German Tak: Danish Merci: French Kansha shimasu: Japanese BEAR YOUR TESTIMONY that Heavenly Father does love every single child around the world no matter where they live, what they look like or what language they speak and that Heavenly Father does understand you when you pray to him. Hope that gives you some fun ideas for teaching the song. Children All Over the World—FC-Nalani
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One of the things I have loved most about being home this summer is time the children have for personal Bible reading. What a wonderful habit to develop early! Each morning the big kids read their…
