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How to Have Successful Family Devotions
Interaction is the key to effective family devotions!
If you've never had family devotions with your children (or even if you have), here are some keys to making them memorable:
Keep them short. The younger your child, the shorter they should be. Five to ten minutes with preschool or elementary aged children may be all you need. Let your children be the guide: if they're interested and actively involved, keep going. But, when you see their attention start to go, it's time to wrap it up.
Keep them simple. Make it your goal to get one point across - the weeks' Big Idea - and leave it at that. Even older children are more likely to remember the devotion if there is only one major point to think about.
Keep them fun. Family devotions should be a time your kids look forward to each week. But, in order for them to have fun, you need to have fun, too. Look for ways to laugh and enjoy yourself. Your kids may not remember everything you say, but they'll cherish the fun you have together - and so will you.
Keep them consistent. Set aside the same night each week for devotions, if possible. You'll be more likely to remember to do them. Once you make them part of your weekly routine, your kids will remind you if you forget!
Having successful family devotions will take some time and effort on your part, but as you become more involved in your children's spiritual growth and see the impact these times have on your children, you won't regret it. These are the memories that will help lay the foundation for your children's life-long relationships with Christ.
If you've never had family devotions with your children (or even if you have), here are some keys to making them memorable:
Keep them short. The younger your child, the shorter they should be. Five to ten minutes with preschool or elementary aged children may be all you need. Let your children be the guide: if they're interested and actively involved, keep going. But, when you see their attention start to go, it's time to wrap it up.
Keep them simple. Make it your goal to get one point across - the weeks' Big Idea - and leave it at that. Even older children are more likely to remember the devotion if there is only one major point to think about.
Keep them fun. Family devotions should be a time your kids look forward to each week. But, in order for them to have fun, you need to have fun, too. Look for ways to laugh and enjoy yourself. Your kids may not remember everything you say, but they'll cherish the fun you have together - and so will you.
Keep them consistent. Set aside the same night each week for devotions, if possible. You'll be more likely to remember to do them. Once you make them part of your weekly routine, your kids will remind you if you forget!
Having successful family devotions will take some time and effort on your part, but as you become more involved in your children's spiritual growth and see the impact these times have on your children, you won't regret it. These are the memories that will help lay the foundation for your children's life-long relationships with Christ.
Kid's Weekly Devotion
Your heart will beat an average of 122,400 times every day. None of us wants our heart to ask for a vacation or take a day off; we do not even want to give it a short " break” to skip a few beats. Doctors understand the heart is very important to our physical well-being.
God understands that we are hopeless if our hearts are not pure.
Psalm 51:10 says: "Create in me a pure heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me".
Kids, we will not be perfect here on earth, however we have a chance to be better than we are right now!
Ask God to give you a pure heart this week, and see what will happen!!
I DARE YOU!!
God understands that we are hopeless if our hearts are not pure.
Psalm 51:10 says: "Create in me a pure heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me".
Kids, we will not be perfect here on earth, however we have a chance to be better than we are right now!
Ask God to give you a pure heart this week, and see what will happen!!
I DARE YOU!!
Adult Weekly Devotion
"Don’t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us" (Rom. 12:3).
When we get distracted by what others are doing, or by thinking that they have been given more importance or value than us, we become less effective in fulfilling God’s purposes. Comparisons almost always lead to false elevation or false demotion. Could there ever be something more fulfilling than doing and being what God intended us to do and be?
When we get distracted by what others are doing, or by thinking that they have been given more importance or value than us, we become less effective in fulfilling God’s purposes. Comparisons almost always lead to false elevation or false demotion. Could there ever be something more fulfilling than doing and being what God intended us to do and be?
