P R A Y E R

You cannot really teach children to pray.  You can tell them that they are sinners and that they need to pray and ask God to forgive their sins and help them to be His children and followers.  The moment that they are saved by God’s grace, the Holy Spirit comes into their lives and teaches them how to pray and gives them the need to pray.  
When children believe they can use the Our Father prayer as a model to pray. Believers can use many Psalms or Bible verses, even Bible books to pray.

Ideas for a day of prayer with children.  Ask the Lord to teach the children how to pray.

Start with ACTS  prayers:

A – adoration – praise God for His goodness, His love, His care, etc.

C – confess your sins – ask God to forgive you for not loving Him with all your heart, soul, strength and mind as you should.  To forgive you that you do not love your neighbors as yourself

T – thanksgiving – thank God for all his blessings

S  - supplication – pray for others:  
Use the hand method to pray for others:

1.    Thumb for your family-members

2.    Index  finger – for our teachers, pastors, Sunday School teachers

3.    Middle finger – for those who rule over us

4.    Ring finger – for the sick and poor and under privileged

5.    The little finger – for ourselves and for other boys and girls

How does God answer our prayers:

“YES” – if it is according to His will and time

“NO” – if it is not according to His will and time

“WAIT” – if it is not God’s perfect time yet

Wesley Duewel says in his book “Touch the world through Prayer” the results of prayer are:

You come into contact with God

You become a fellow-worker of God

You overcome Satan

God’s power works in this world

The angels’ help and protection are put into practice

You have the power to move mountains

You have the power to bless people

A believer is as strong or as weak as his/her prayer- life!