Tell God why you are thankful to know them! Let’s thank God for this person in your life.Ask God to bring success and joy in those places. Let’s pray for your person’s work or school.What do you think that person is worried about, scared about, or concerned about? Ask God to help in those areas. What might help that person feel healthy and strong? Talk to God about that. Let’s pray for your person’s well-being.How do you think God might do that? Ask him about it, and tell him your thoughts. Let’s pray that God will show his love in a special way to the person on your card.Pause for at least 30 seconds between prompts. Tell kids to follow your prompts as you lead them in praying for the people on their cards. Draw a little sketch of that person on your card. It might be a parent, a friend, your brother or sister, a leader at church, or anyone else that comes to mind. Say: Think of one person you’d like to pray for right now. Give every child a 3×5 card and a pencil. And we can pray anytime! God wants us to be kind to others, so let’s practice praying for people right now. Say: One of the best ways to be kind to someone else is simply to pray for that person. Let’s explore more about the way kindness changes us. Say: When people are kind, it’s sometimes a surprise-something we don’t expect. When was someone kind to you? Tell your own story then have kids share their own accounts. In real life, how do acts of kindness sometimes stop you or surprise you?.Say: Your kindness interrupted me-it made me stop and listen. How does Jesus’ rules for kindness reflect his love for us?.What do you notice most about what Jesus teaches in this passage from the Bible?.Speak encouragingly to kids who have good “kind-sight” about noticing kindnesses in the Scripture. Read Matthew 5:43-48 aloud, allowing moments for kids to interrupt and tell you when they hear an example of kindness. When you hear something kind, stand up, interrupt my reading, and tell me why. As I read, I want you to be looking and listening for moments when someone is kind or kindness is encouraged.
It’s part of a popular teaching Jesus gave that took place on a mountain. Behold, I am doing a new thing now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.Say: God wants us to be kind to others, so let’s practice something I call “kind-sight.” I’m going to read a passage from Matthew chapter 5. Isaiah 43:18-19: “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me thy steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Psalm 138:7-8: “Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou dost preserve my life thou dost stretch out thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand delivers me.Philippians 3:12-13: “Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead.” Paul says, “Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.”.What does the Bible say about forgiving yourself? Colossians 3:12-13: “As the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.” This passage also emphasizes the qualities of “compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience.”.Ephesians 4:31-32: “Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”.What does the Bible say about forgiving others? What does the Bible say about feeling alone?.Did you see the Latter-day Saint edition of the Bible in ‘Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan’?.
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