Be creative as to how to make the scriptures fun.

Sing together songs that the family enjoys.

Engage with family.

Show notes:

• Read the Word with your children, make it a fun time.

• Let them choose what scripture to read.

• Read as a family together, be creative.

• Reading or singing of the scriptures helps the scriptures become real or alive for the family.

• As parents we can lay a foundation for our children like no one else. Include their friends.

• This all has to do with the family of God.

References:

Mark 9:36, 37

36 Taking a child, He set him before them, and taking him in His arms, He said to them,

37 “Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me.”

Psalms 59:16, 17

16 But as for me, I shall sing of Your strength; Yes, I shall joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning, For You have been my stronghold And a refuge in the day of my distress.

17 O my strength, I will sing praises to You; For God is my stronghold, the God who shows me lovingkindness.

Psalms 66:4

4 “All the earth will worship You, And will sing praises to You; They will sing praises to Your name.”

Psalms 51:14

14 Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation;

Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.

Isaiah 52: 8, 9

8 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.

9 I will give You thanks forever, because You have done it, And I will wait on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.

Romans 10:17

17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Ephesians 3:15

15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,

Proverbs 22:6

6 Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Matthew 18:2-6

3 and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

4 “Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

5 “And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me;

6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Quotes:

• " Sing , it was so beautiful to do it together"

• "Anything to do with God make it fun"

• "You are relating with your family and there is a connection that will never be forgotten"

TAKE AWAY:

Read the scriptures together and find a way to make them fun, it will create a love for the Word.