Talk to your children

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 

Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 

Deuteronomy 6:4-7 NIV
(emphasis mine)

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV

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Please join me this week in praying for children's ministries, for their effectiveness and potential to multiply and spread the Good News to all nations.

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How to spread the Gospel

Pack a shoebox

Follow the journey (you can track your shoebox)

A child receives your box
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Psalm 127:3

They hear the gospel and attend a 12-week study.

Upon graduation, they receive a bible in their own language, and they go out into the world and spread the Good News. They may share it with their family, friends, and even their entire village. Those people may then share the gospel with others they meet.
Once everyone has heard the Gospel, Jesus will come again! Hallelujah!

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. Matthew 24:14

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Please join me this week in praying for children's ministries, for their effectiveness and potential to multiply and spread the Good News to all nations.

I'll post daily reminders on:

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Staggering numbers

I stumbled onto "Revival Outside the Walls Ministry" website and was absolutely blown away by what I read there. I'm sharing just four of the statistics (see below) as they relate to what we're praying for this week, but I hope you'll take some time to go check out their website in more depth. We need to be in prayer daily for our youth because it sounds as if the principles and doctrines in the Bible are not being shared even in the church.
     A woman in one of our bible study groups posed the question (regarding sharing our faith): What are we afraid of? We aren't persecuted here in the U.S. as those in other countries are. We can speak freely without the risk of being thrown in jail or killed (there are exceptions to this, of course); yet those people living where it's illegal to believe in Christ do share the gospel. They put their life on the line to spread God's word. Here, we have nothing to lose, but we seem to be more afraid and therefore don't share it. It doesn't make any sense.
Possible answers/responses:

• afraid of rejection
• afraid of being asked questions we don't know the answers to
• afraid we're pushing our beliefs on others
• afraid of making others angry or uncomfortable

These are legitimate responses, but none of them are life-threatening. We need to do whatever we can to get past these fears. As for myself, I've been in prayer about it and God has given me opportunities to share in ways that I'm more comfortable with which helps me build up the confidence to do more along those lines. So, whatever your fear is, please pray about it and listen when God responds.

Start with a conversation:

Only half of all the teenagers who grew up in a “Christian Home” had regular family conversations about God. | Revival Outside the Walls Ministry

93% of practicing Christians aren’t comfortable to have a conversation about the Lord with their own grandchildren. | Revival Outside the Walls Ministry

Remember, the children are the future church.

Two-thirds of all American churches are experiencing (1) no growth and (2) a decline in numbers. | Revival Outside the Walls Ministry

24 of 25 Millennials don’t have a Biblical worldview. | Revival Outside the Walls Ministry

You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV

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Please join me this week in praying for children's ministries, for their effectiveness and potential to multiply and spread the Good News to all nations.

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Angels in Heaven

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. 

For I tell you that in heaven 

their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 18:10 ESV

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Please join me this week in praying for children's ministries, for their effectiveness and potential to multiply and spread the Good News to all nations.

I'll post daily reminders on:

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Saving our youth

I came to faith as a child (15 years old) and apparently, that happens far more often than someone being saved as an adult. The statistics in the above photo make it clear just how important children's ministries are. 43% of believers came to Christ as children under the age of 12 and 29% listed children's ministry as a factor. The children need us to invest in them; not just financially, but also by volunteering our time, sharing our God stories with them, and praying for them. What does your church do to minister to its youngest members? How can it draw in more young people and teach them the gospel? How can it prepare this generation to hold onto their faith as they grow up? I don't have the answers, only questions, and concerns.

     Timothy's (Paul's protege) grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice started teaching him from the Old Testament at a very young age. This prepared him to accept Christ as the Messiah as soon as he heard Paul preach the gospel. 

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, 

knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood 

you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, 

which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:14-15 ESV

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Please join me this week in praying for children's ministries, for their effectiveness and potential to multiply and spread the Good News to all nations.

I'll post daily reminders on:

twitter @7DegreesOfMe

Instagram @archadia27

Facebook group 7th Hour Prayer Power