How to Teach a Child to Pray

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Linda Lion with Expert Village, and I've been working with children for a very long time. Today we are going to teach you how to pass your protestant faith along to your children and one of the most important things that you can do is to teach your children how to pray and I believe that we should teach our children how to pray according to what the bible tells us. In the bible it tells us to teach our children how to pray by saying the Lords prayer that's a simple one. "Our Father which art in heaven hallowed be thine name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen". We should teach our children to pray scriptures, that is one of the best ways to do it. Another way to teach your children prayer especially if they are small, give them forms, teach them how to pray with their hands together, it's a sign of respect and honor to God. Teach them how to pray with their heads bowed it's a sign of honor and respect to God, heads bowed eyes closed, that is what was what we were always taught. Another thing you can do is to teach your children how to pray by kneeling, get on the floor with them in the evening. Get on the floor with them and kneel and teach your children how to pray that way and then finally I would like to encourage you also and I think this is very important, teach your children they can pray anytime anywhere anyway they can. Don't get them necesarily so acustum to putting there hands together or bowing there heads or closing their eyes that when they get in an emergency situation they think that they must do that in order to pray. You should let them know that prayer is a living communication between them and God and that He is available to hear them 24 hours a day 7 days a week anyway that He can, that will bless them because when your children go off to school and they run into certain encounters they may not be able to kneel they may not be able to bow down but they can still pray and the last thing also teach them that they can also prey within, silently they can pray within and these are the things that will bless their lives. I'm Linda Lion with Expert Village"