Prayer Pot

I'm back!!!  I haven't posted on my blog since November.  I've had so many thoughts yet time so quickly seems to pass by.

A friend of mine was recently diagnosed with cancer.  Another friend sent out a message with the power of prayer and asked different friends to adopt a time throughout the day to pray for this family.  She had us sign up for a specific time of the day.  This will help us remember the family each day and we will be able to surround them with prayer throughout the entire day!  I signed up our family for the 6pm time slot... thinking we would pray for this family every night at dinner.  I was trying to explain to my kiddos who we were praying for and they couldn't seem to figure out who I was speaking of.  So, I got a picture from facebook and they immediately new who we were praying for... this got me thinking about an idea I saw on Pinterest... A Prayer Pot!  I combined my own creative juices with the idea from the pinboard and this is what I came up with...

I used a pot that a previous student of mine had given me at the end of the school year a few years ago.  I then used a Sharpie paint pen to write a verse that I knew my kids would get!  "Pray Continually."  1Thessalonians 5:17

I added a longer verse on the back of the pot.  Philippians 4: 6-7

Then, I purchased some jumbo craft sticks.  I wrote some ideas for my kids to pray about at dinner with pictures for my youngest, non-reading, son.  I included ideas such as friends, family, neighbors, teachers, church, thankful stick, etc.  These were more broad topics that would help the kids with more intentional prayers.  I then added more specific sticks such as Wilberth (our sponsored child), our family that we committed to pray for, Grandma Hathaway (she's in the nursing home), and Grandpa Budrow (has MS).  On the more specific sticks, I added a photograph on the stick to help my kids connect to that person more.

The plan... as we set the table and prepare for dinner, each family member will take a stick and lay it on their plate.  We will each pray for our "stick."  Then, of course, eat dinner!

Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.  Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done.  Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can understand.  His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.   Philippians 4:6-7