If I could give just one piece of advice to families raising children it would be this: Spend time in the Word together.
Do not limit spiritual training to Sunday morning at church. Those are a beautiful two or three hours each week, but what about the other 109 awake hours every week?
(Yes, I did the math. 24 hours a day x 7 days in a week = 168. Take away 8 hours of sleep each night = 112. Take away 3 hours of church on Sunday = 109 awake hours outside of the church walls. You are welcome. Never ask me to do math again unless it involves measurements in a recipe. It’s better this way.)
Through 20 years of parenting, we’ve learned that spiritual training as a family takes place all day long, every day of the week. Through scripture, conversation, prayer, humility, and surrender, together with our kids we learn to trust God, seek Him, listen to Him, and love Him.
One aspect of our spiritual journey we’ve been especially focused on recently is Praising Him. This is slightly different from being thankful. Thanking and praising go together, certainly, but try this sometime:
Have family prayer time together in which you only praise God.
Don’t ask for anything. Don’t petition Him. Just praise Him.
“God, we praise you for…” “God you are…”
Fill the room with praise. Do this with your family. It is truly glorious!
As we’ve been practicing more praise in our home, I’ve been looking through scripture to find verses and passages that are exclusively in praise to the Father. There are many!
Here are 10 of our favorites, put onto beautiful printables for us all to enjoy! Not only have we found that it’s important to fill our home with praise, we love hanging scripture in every room of our house.
Please help yourself to this packet of free printables. Enjoy them with your family. Memorize the scriptures together. Spend time praising together. Talk together about His wonders and goodness!
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May we all fill our homes with praise to the Father!
P.S. If you’d like to read more about how we have established a Family Bible Reading time, I wrote about that here.
Melissa says
Thank you for the gift. I can not wait to print these out when I get my new internet service this week. What a blessing.
Jenna says
Thanks for these! We stopped memorizing scripture after a move this summer and I think that these cute print-outs will get us back on track! Thank you!
Maria says
Thank you very much.