Is it hard to pray for the families in your church when they are not sick or having some other physical difficulty? What can we pray for them that goes beyond, Lord bless ____?

How can we help our children to learn to pray?

Here is an idea we have used recently.

I put the names of each of the families of our church on a card. Then I put scriptures to pray on another set of cards. For example, Psalm 1 could be a prayer that "they would walk not in the council of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, but delight in the law of the Lord." Give each child a family card and a scripture card and asked them to pray for that family using the scripture. It is wonderful to hear the little ones praying the scripture and to be able to pray in a meaningful way for families.

We did this for about two weeks. Then it seemed like it was time to add new verses. Now to find the time to make more scripture cards, so we can start again!