Prayer is a Powerful Parenting Tool
Parent’s Corner for May 20, 2018
“Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” James 5:16
When my 15 year old was in Kindergarten, friends and I began praying in a group of moms from our local elementary school. Over the last ten years together, we have prayed our children through fears and anxiety, relational and educational struggles, as well as personal challenges and obstacles. We have confessed our sins. We have given the Lord praise for safety and healing of our children and the school staff, victory over personal weakness, and joy in the journey of mothering. While all of our prayers have not been answered as we would have thought, we know we have been heard, and that the Lord has been present with us as we joined in prayer for our children and their schools, and that the Lord knows best.
Prayer is powerful. As we pray, we are not telling the Lord anything he doesn’t already know, but we are loosening our own grip, and giving our cares and anxieties over to the one who can bring us peace. Keep praying for your children! By yourself, with your spouse, with a friend, in a group. . . the Lord hears your prayers, and He loves your children. . . and YOU!
This Week In Sunday School-
2/3s- A Ride in the Night- The Story of Paul’s Escape on Horseback
Scripture- Acts 23:12-35
Lesson Truth- God Gives us people to love and help us.
Aims for the Children- To do at least one of the following during this lesson:
1. Tell who was really taking care of Paul
2. Name some ways in which people help us
3. Make a collage of people who help up
4. Tell who gives us people to help us and love us
5. Make a picture of today’s story
6. Learn an action rhyme about today’s story
7. Thank God for giving us people who care about us and help us
4s-1st Grade- God Gives the Ten Commandments
Scripture- Exodus 20
Lesson Goal- Students will learn God’s standard of perfection.
Bible Truths-
1. God is holy.
2. God gave His people laws called the Ten Commandments.
3. The Ten Commandments help God’s people to be set apart from sin and to live holy lives.
Key Verse- “Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.” Exodus 19:5
2nd-5th Grade- God Gives us the Ten Commandments
Scripture- Exodus 20
Lesson Goal- Students will learn God’s standard of perfection.
Lesson Objectives-
1. List the Ten Commandments in order.
2. Divide the commandments into those that pertain to our responsibility toward God (1-4) and our responsibility toward man (5-10).
3. State two purposes of the Law of God: to reveal the holiness of God and to reveal the sinfulness of man.
Key Verse- “Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant,
then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.”
Exodus 19:5
Children’s Church- Israel Rejects God as King
Scripture- 1 Samuel 8-12
Lesson Goal- Students will not be self-ruled but will submit to God, who is King.
Lesson Objectives- Students will be able to
1. Explain why Israel’s request for a king was sinful.
2. Explain why God was the only king Israel needed.
3. List some of the steps in God’s choosing Saul as king.
4. Describe God’s conditions for blessing Israel and their new king.
Key Verse- “But you have today rejected your God, who Himself saved you from all your adversities and your tribulations; and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us!’ Now therefore, present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your clans”.
1 Samuel 10:19
