Teach children to pray prayers of confession:

Only the Holy Spirit can teach people how to pray.  We can only show children that we are sinners and far from God.  When the Holy Spirit shows us how sinful we are and that we need a Saviour, we will know how to pray with the wisdom that the Holy Spirit gives us.                                                  

Here is a prayer of confession that we prayed in our church a few Sundays ago:

“Our gracious Father, you sent your Son to die and rise to new life in order that death might be brought to an end and that we too might live a new life.

Yet foolishly, however, we have chosen death over life.  In our thoughts, words and deeds we have rebelled against You and Your intentions for us.  In so doing, we have broken our fellowship with You whose love is better than life and whom to know is life itself.  In so doing, we have hurt others, sometimes unintentionally and sometimes deliberately, and have diminished their lives.

In so doing, we have damaged ourselves who had been created to reflect your beauty.  Father, forgive us our sin for Jesus’ sake.  And grant that Your resurrection power might course through our entire being so that we walk in the ways of love and justice to the glory of your holy name. Amen”