As you may know, I teach Sunday School at my home church. The class is actually in preparation for church camp this summer and we are studying the scriptures that will be used for Bible Quizzing. I try not to make the class too much about the competition and sometimes I have to be very creative because some of them are very young and get bored with the layout that must be used to study this information. My favorite thing I have done so far is to incorporate prayer into our schedule... yeah, who knew?
Actually, the material we study is over the miracles that Jesus performed while he was on earth. So, in the first class I established that we were going to see our own miracles within the class. I gave them all a nice little sheet to write prayer requests on and they stuck them in their binders and every week when they study for quiz team they are supposed to pray for the people on their list. Can I just give glory to God right now and let you know we saw some immediate results? It was amazing, but that's not what I want to talk about just yet.
The most amazing change I have seen through this class is not that the prayers are being answered, its that the children are realizing the power of prayer. Last Sunday, a little girl in my class who had not been to church in a while walked into class and immediately asked me if we were going to take prayer requests. I told her that yes of course we were going to and she said "good, cause I have one!" It was soooo precious! She was the first one to raise their hand and she requested prayer for her sister.
During class, while the kids were working on their Bible questions I hung a huge, yellow, banner on one of the walls and told them that when they finished their questions they could come write their prayer requests on the wall. The kids pretty much filled up the whole paper with their requests for family, friends, lost loved ones, and it did not stop there. One little girl requested prayer for her friend's parents, who smoke. Another requested prayer for her mom's coworker who has cancer. It was amazing to see that these kids know what prayer is and they know how powerful it is.
In Matthew chapter 18, Jesus says "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." What if we became like little children again? What if we could learn to trust that God is in control of our every situation no matter how big or small? What if we learned to pray?
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