Adaptability
Memorising Scripture with your children helps God’s Spirit bring about lasting change. Choose a verse for your children to learn. Reading it over at least once every day helps.
Scroll to the bottom of the page for some sample prayers that you can use with your children or for older children, encourage them to use these within their own prayers.
Memory verses
I love You, O Lord, my strength.
Psalm 18:1
For our heart is glad in Him, because we trust in His holy name.
Psalm 33:21
I sought the Lord, and He answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to Him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.
Psalm 34:4-5
Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you; He will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 55:22
Let me hear in the morning of Your steadfast love, for in You I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to You I lift up my soul.
Psalm 143:8
The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; He knows those who take refuge in Him.
Nahum 1:7
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Matthew 6:33-34
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? . . . No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Romans 8:35,37
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Romans 15:13
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose.
Romans 8:28
I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.
Philippians 4:11b
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time He may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you.
1 Peter 5:6-7
Prayers for kids
Dear God, I’m worried about ______________. Would You please be with me and give me courage and comfort? Amen.
Dear God, I’m missing ________ (the person, place or item that has been “lost” through change) right now. Please send Your Holy Spirit to be my comforter. Amen.
Dear God, I feel ________ about ________ (moving, losing a loved one, changing schools). Thank you for caring about me and my feelings. Amen.
Dear God, I just want things to go back to the way they used to be, but I know that can’t happen. Please be with me and be my comforter. Amen.
Dear God, I know You have been sad too. Thank you for being with me in my _______ (pain, loneliness, disappointment etc.). Amen.
Dear God, I’m so afraid of ________ (name the change). Please send Your perfect love to get rid of my fear of ________. Thank you. Amen.
Dear God, thank you for being my Rock. Everything else may change, but I know that You are always the same (Malachi 3:6a). Amen.