Prayer - God you are amazing!

 Hello and welcome to Christchurch Kids. We hope you've had a good week. 

We are starting to look at something new this week and we're going to be talking about it until the summer holidays as it's a big one... PRAYER

What does prayer look like to you?

Does it look a bit like this - in church with our hands together and eyes closed?

Does it look like this? Asking God for help when we need it? (Maybe he's just lost his bucket and spade and would really like to make a sandcastle!)

Does it look like this? Talking to God when we are feeling sad?

The AMAZING thing about prayer is that it can be all those things and lots more things too. Each week we are going to be talking about a different bit of prayer and this week our prayers might look a bit like this....

Jesus taught us how to pray when he told us what we now call "The Lord's prayer". It starts...

Our Father in heaven, 

Hallowed be your name

Jesus is telling us that when we pray we can tell God how amazing He is. "Hallowed be your name" means "May your name be special". There's a word for this and it's...

Worship

Worship is saying how great and good God is. It isn't about stuff He's given us or things He's done for us, it just saying how fantastic He is!

What can we say when we want to worship God? Maybe you have a favourite song in church that talks about how amazing God is? You can use that as a worship prayer.

We can use words from the Bible as a prayer too. These are words from the Psalms

Come, let’s sing for joy to the Lord.

    Let’s shout praises to the Rock who saves us.

2 

Let’s come to him with thanksgiving.

    Let’s sing songs to him.

3 

The Lord is the great God.

    He is the great King over all gods.

4 

The deepest places on earth are his.

    And the highest mountains belong to him.

5 

The sea is his because he made it.

    He created the land with his own hands.

6 

Come, let’s bow down and worship him.

    Let’s kneel before the Lord who made us.

7 

He is our God.

    And we are the people he takes care of

    and the sheep that he tends.

Psalm 95 : 1-7

We can sing some of those words too. People have been using Psalms as prayers and songs for over 2,500 years and we are still using them today. 

Here's a great version of those worship words...

Prayer

Now it's your turn to have a go at a worship prayer. 

It's great to use our senses when we pray. The Bible quite often talks about smells, fragrance and aromas. Incense is something that was burned in the temple which had a good smell to make the place feel special and holy. God even gave Moses a recipe for a special perfume to only to used in the tabernacle (their holy place).

Find a smell you like today. What would you choose? A nice soap? A freshly peeled orange? A scented flower from your garden?

Smell what you've chosen and tell God how amazing you think he is!

Here's another way to worship God - with a song! We can sing and jump around and dance and tell God how fantastic we think he is. He's an Awesome God - Wow!

Thanks for joining us here on the blog this week. We have exciting news! In a couple of weeks, on May 23rd, we will be starting a Christchurch Kids group in Christchurch on Sunday mornings - Hurray! It will be happening in the hall during the morning service for primary school aged children. We will be sitting at tables with our siblings with resources on each table. Adults will be wearing masks but primary school aged children won't need to. We will be having lots of fun finding out more about prayer with stories, games and crafts. 

If you would like to come along, you will need to book a place as we have a maximum number of 15 places each Sunday. You can book a place by clicking here.

We're really sorry that we can't run Bubbles or Rapidz at the moment.

We will still be here on the blog too until the summer holidays so you can find out more about prayer here as well and chat about it with your family.