Deepen your family's prayer life by making a prayer board

Creating a Prayer Board: 3 Easy Steps to Deepen Your Family’s Prayer Life

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The MOM Initiative is so excited to have Amy L. Sullivan with us today, sharing an awesome (and super easy) way to deepen your family’s prayer life. 

She’s also giving away her newest ebook, Gutsy Girls: Strong Christian Women Who Impacted the World.  Leave a comment on this post to enter to win!

Here’s Amy…

Creating a Prayer Board: 3 Easy Steps to Help Deepen Your Family’s Prayer Life

By Amy L. Sullivan

Our family’s prayer life had plateaued.

Thank you for this food.

Thank you for this day.

Thank you for our friends.

Please be with us during the week.

Please help the sick.

 Yawn.

It wasn’t as if we didn’t have real needs or reasons to praise God, but our family’s prayers were vague, general, and thrown to God without much thought. My husband and I acknowledged our lackluster prayer time with our kids, but in the mornings we were frenzied, at dinnertime we were distracted, and at bedtime we were just plain tired.

As parents, we wanted a visual reminder about prayer that would spur on our kids and remind us about the importance of continuous prayer throughout our day.

After a few failed attempts (lists, journals, and the very popular but rarely used for prayer dry erase board), our family discovered the prayer board. Our prayer board consists of an ever-changing collage of pictures and words we hang on two large doors. Our prayer board was easy to create, and it is fun to use.

Who knows, maybe you are looking for a way your family can go deeper with prayer, and maybe a prayer board might be a useful tool for you too.

Create your own prayer board in three easy steps:

Step 1: Enlist your kids to design the prayer board and choose a central place to display it. I don’t know about you, but sometimes when I come up with an idea, I can take over in the implementation of the idea. Frequently I need to remind myself that kids are much more apt to buy into an idea if they take part in creating and implementing the idea.

When we designed our prayer board, I thought the best place to hang it would be on the door of the pantry. This made sense to me as my kids are always on the hunt for food, but my daughters disagreed. My girls wanted to hang the board on a set of double doors close to their room. They also wanted to position the board close to the ground so they could see it better. Hanging the prayer board close to the ground was something I didn’t even think about. Go, kids!

Step 2: Make it easy to hang prayer requests. Because our youngest daughter is just learning to write, we used a combination of both pictures and words on our prayer board. We kept a small basket of tape, markers, and index cards close by, and it made adding requests easy.

Step 3: Set-up a designated time to add new praises and prayer requests. Although our family can add new praises and prayer requests any time during the week, we designate Sunday during dinner, as a time to discuss and evaluate our prayer board. By setting aside this time, it prevents our family from going too long before acknowledging how God is working in our lives.

As parents we have the power to deepen and enrich the prayer lives of our kids, and with some tape, markers, and a few index cards, we can do just that.

“Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Do you have any easy and engaging ideas to encourage prayer in your home?

Leave a comment on this post (with your email address) for a chance to win an ebook copy of Amy’s new picture book!

Giveaway of Gutsy Girls by Amy L Sullivan

 

Amy L. Sullivan Bio:

Amy L. Sullivan is the author of the picture book series Gutsy Girls: Strong Christian Women Who Impacted the World and the nonfiction, parenting book When More is Not Enough. Connect with her at AmyLSullivan.com.

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