MEMORY VERSE

Choose a memory verse for the family at the beginning of the week. Recite it together at the family meal table each night. Write it up in big letters in your house. Also write it on cards so children can put it in their pocket or father can take it to work in his pocket. By the end of the week everyone in the house should be able to recite the scripture.

Learn a verse together as a family each week. Here’s some good memory verses for you to learn as a family:

Joshua 1:8; Joshua 1:9; Psalm 119:11; 119:105; Proverbs 3:5-6; Isaiah 26:3-4; Matthew 6:33; John 8:12; John 14:6; Acts 1:8; Ephesians 6:1-3; Philippians 1:6; 2:14-15; 4:13; 1 John 1:9; 1 John 2:15-17; Revelation 3:20.

TAKE A TURN

When children are older, they can be asked to take a turn at leading the Family Devotions. They are to find a suitable passage from the Word and read it to the family and share why this passage is so special to them. Another idea, especially with older children, is to ask each one what they received from the Word of God in their Quiet Time at the beginning of the day.

We should encourage our children to have a daily Quiet Time. We can then encourage them to share what God has spoken to them in their daily reading. The above ideas are just to get you started. I know you will think of loads more. As much as possible, use real live illustrations for the table and for your food to help teach your children the ways of God. This is the greatest way they will learn.

NANCY CAMPBELL

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