Pray With Your Child October 26, 2010
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This is a follow up on our last post. If you need to catch up, click here.
If you missed the 10 Plus ONE or 2 Plus ONE cards distributed in main services and Kid’s Quest this past weekend, you can click here to download them off our Family Resources & Links page.
This month, MBC is focussed on a month of prayer and those who have signed up for the 31 Days of Prayer blog are receiving daily posts and prayer requests written by our MBC Pastors and Directors. If you would like to join or review the archive of the past days, visit http://mcleanbible.org/prayer. On Day 18, our Tysons Campus Pastor, Dr. Joe Henriques, shared the following:
When Choosing A Prayer Partner, Why Not Choose A Child?
“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19:14
When just a young boy, my oldest son, Ben, said to me, “Dad, Jonathan accepted Christ today!” Ben had been praying for his little brother and one day explained Jesus’ love for him, and Jonathan believed! A couple of years later, our third son, Justin, gave the same exclamatory report regarding his younger brother, Matthew. Does God do things in response to a child’s prayer that otherwise would not have been done in the history of the world? Really, does God answer the prayer of a little child? Don’t give a quick answer. Think about it. Does God Almighty, the Creator of the universe, the Sustainer of all life, the Savior of all who believe, the Judge of all mankind really listen to a little child talking to him? If your answer is yes, do you realize the astonishing enormity of truth that you are agreeing to? We don’t think in terms of children being the movers and shakers of the world. Indeed, they may not be able to be by talking with grownups, but they can certainly be by talking with God.
Why not become a prayer partner with a child and pray together for certain people to believe in Christ? Explain to your prayer partner who the people are that you wrote on your list, how you came to know them, and why you want them to believe in Christ. Then, at certain times, pray together. Join the power of a child’s simplicity of faith in God with your depth of understanding about that person. Watch God bring about miraculous new birth in the lives of people that you have been praying for.
Lord Jesus, you had confidence in the faith that children had in you. Thank you that while increasing our knowledge of what it means to have faith and to live by faith is very important, the simplicity of faith is all-important. May we, your older children, join with your younger children in prayer, together trusting you to help other people believe in you In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Take Action: Find a child (perhaps your own) and pray with them and for them today.
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