How can we pray?

Welcome to Christchurch Kids. We hope you've had a great week. We are joining in with our whole church today again as we look at prayer.

When Jesus was on Earth, his disciples asked him how we should pray. The answer he gave them is what we now call The Lord's Prayer. We usually say it together on a Sunday and it looks like this.

We are going to try to understand the Lord's Prayer a bit more. We don't think that  Jesus meant we could only use these exact words. He was telling us the type of things we should pray about. 

Here is another version of the Lord's Prayer told in a way that might make it a bit easier to understand.

There are lots of different ways to pray. Some people like to talk out loud, some like to think quietly and some like to sing. Here is a version of the Lord's Prayer which is a song.

We're going to go on a scavenger hunt now. Can you find something...

...with a smiley face on it?

...with a heart?

... soft like a feather?

...sparkly and precious?

... something royal?

...to build with?

...to eat?

... clean and dirty?

... hard like a rock?

... to keep you safe?

... really awesome?!

Prayer

We're going to use the things we found on our scavenger hunt to help us to pray the Lords Prayer.

Our Father in heaven

Find the smiley face object, the heart and the item as soft as a feather.

These represent gentleness, happiness and love to help us think about what heaven is like.

Hallowed be Your Name

Find the sparkly, precious item.

Hallowed means honoured or special. This represents that we honour God and think he is amazing.

Your kingdom come

Find your royal item.

God's kingdom is where God is King - in the world and in our hearts. We are saying that we want God to be King.

Your will be done

On earth as it is in heaven

Find your heart item again.

This means that we want what God wants to happen.

Give us today our daily bread.

Find something to eat and something to build with.

We are asking God to give us the things that we need.

And forgive us our sins 

As we forgive those who sin against us

Find something clean and something dirty.

These items represent that God has forgiven us for the things we have done wrong. We were once dirty but now we are clean. We ask God to help us to forgive people who might have done something wrong to us.

Lead us not into temptation

But deliver us from evil

Find something hard like a rock and something to keep us safe.

The item that is hard like a rock represents difficult times when things feel hard. The item that keeps us safe shows us the God will be with us and keep us safe.

For yours is the kingdom the power 

and the glory now and forever.

Find your really awesome item.

This part means that we think God is amazing and awesome and will be forever.

Amen

In the book of Romans in the Bible, it tells us to pray at all times. This is the verse on our colouring page today and you can download it here

We have a song about praying at all times...

We hope you have a good week and we would love to see some of the objects you found on your scavenger hunt. You can send us photos using the instructions in the right hand column.

We'll be back for Wiggle Wednesday!