She paces back and forth, again and again, her one-year-old daughter on her hip. With each prayer that goes forth from the microphone, she whispers in her baby’s ear simplified versions of those amplified prayers. “Shine Your light, Jesus.” She grabs a tissue. Wipes her daughter’s runny nose. Whispers again. “Break in.” She wonders what in the world she’s even doing. Her baby is one. She can’t possibly understand, can she? She knows there has
Prayer Books PRAYER BOOKS are great for both getting prayer subject matter and prayer language in front of your child, no matter what age your child may be. Plus, they are portable! PRAYER BOOKS can be used in corporate prayer settings as well as individual prayer times. They can also be customized for each child, so they are personal. Could they be just what you need to revolutionize your family prayer time? Read on and
So, you’ve hung your prayer wall up. Now what? Once you’ve narrowed down WHAT to pray FOR, you have to help equip you children with WHAT to SAY. Prayer becomes intimidating for anyone – no matter what age- when you don’t quite have the words you want. Praying in front of people terrifies plenty of grown men and women, so we can understand why a young child would give the deer in the headlights look.
Prayer Crayons “This may look like just a crayon, but I can use it to make a prayer.” We started coloring our prayers when my first two children were itty bitty – at the very beginning of the Hanks’ House of Prayer. We were going to color anyway, right? Why not add purpose to it by making those crayons tools of intercession? So we started associating different colors with different prayers. As my two-year-old
“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it…” Ezekiel 22:30 I read this verse when my firstborn was two and it stirred my heart. God was looking for something. He wanted someone to build a wall. So, I stood there with two children two and under, up to my knees in
Equipping the Children