Prayer-Saturated Kids: Equipping and Empowering Children in Prayer
Overview
Raise kids who are strong in faith and powerful in prayer! Whether you’re a parent, grandparent, or church leader, Prayer-Saturated Kids will give you all the encouragement and guidance you need to pray with and for the children in your life. Practical helps and inspiring real-life stories will equip you to teach and mentor your kids to become powerful lifelong pray-ers while your own prayer life is growing right along with theirs. You’ll learn how, through prayer, you can help kids discover and fulfill their original design and destiny—then turn them loose to be history-makers and world-changers.
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- Assists parents and spiritual leaders in teaching children about prayer
- Discusses the healing power of prayer in families
- Includes discussion questions for each chapter
- A Child’s Original Design
- Making Your Home a House of Prayer
- The Power of Blessing
- Healing Prayers for Hurting Families
- Closing Doors to the Enemy
- Prayer Training 101
- Further Up and Further In
- The Role of the Church
- Becoming a Prayer Mentor
- Revival Kids . . . Turn ’Em Loose!
Top Highlights
“Train up a child in the way he should go,’ says Proverbs 22:6 (kjv), ‘and when he is old, he will not depart from it.’ Raise him or her, that is, according to the child’s ‘natural bent.’ The Hebrew meaning of the phrase ‘in the way he should go’ is literally ‘according to his way.’ The Hebrew word for ‘way’ is derek, which means ‘bent.’ It refers to a unique inner design or direction, similar to the ‘shape memory alloy’ that Dr. Boyd described. When referring to our children’s natural ‘bents,’ I like to use the term ‘original design.’” (Page 19)
“Although sometimes God does reveal His life plan for a child at an early age, we caution against making declarative statements (or prayers) that a child will be a doctor, a missionary, or a member of any other vocation. It is more helpful to recognize that a child has a heart for healing or a passion to share Christ with the world, even a heart for the nations.” (Page 21)
“But we can identify them and pray they be used strategically for God’s purposes and according to His blueprint.” (Page 21)
“we have prayed for God to show us who He designed Tyler to be.” (Page 17)
One of the most powerful messages on the heart of God at this moment is this: prepare the next generation! Kids are some of the most powerful prayer warriors because they pray from a pure heart. Every parent with children should read this book. Every Sunday school teacher and children’s church pastor should as well. Cheryl and Arlyn have a way of making intercession easy and personable and fun!
—Cindy Jacobs, founder, Generals of Intercession
This brilliant work will teach you, equip you, captivate you, and convince you. With a sense of urgency, Cheryl and Arlyn encourage, challenge, and teach us to cultivate and pass on to our young generations a lasting legacy of prayer.
—Esther Ilnisky, founder, Global Prayer Movement
Prayer-Saturated Kids is an inspiring and practical resource for parents and teachers who want to cover this generation of children in prayer, pass on a legacy of faith, and equip them to deal confidently and triumphantly with the great challenges they face in today’s world.
—Cheri Fuller, international speaker
Reading Prayer-Saturated Kids has made me thirsty to pray with and bless our grandchildren more. The practical ideas and stories are stimulating and motivating. It’s exciting to contemplate what could happen if we grandparents, parents, and congregations were to catch the vision of this book!
—Gail MacDonald, pastor’s wife
- Title: Prayer-Saturated Kids: Equipping and Empowering Children in Prayer
- Authors: Cheryl Sacks and Arlyn Lawrence
- Publisher: NavPress
- Publication Date: 2007
- Pages: 192
Cheryl Sacks is a national conference speaker and prayer mobilizer. She also serves as an advisor and contributing writer to Pray! magazine. Cheryl works closely with her husband Hal in a Phoenix-based ministry called BridgeBuilders International Leadership Network, best known for its biannual PrayerQuake conference.
Arlyn Lawrence is a writer, prayer leader, children’s ministry director, and the praying mom of five children. She also cowrote and edited the PrayKids! Teachers Guide, a comprehensive curriculum for discipling and mentoring children in prayer. Arlyn has also been a homeschooling mom, Moms in Touch leader, and a leader in youth and children’s ministries. It is her heart to see parents and children transformed, equipped, and flourishing as dynamic, praying disciples of Jesus Christ. She and her husband, Doug, live with their family in Tacoma, Washington.