Whether you are a Christian family having raised your children in church or a family that is new to faith, transform your family devotional time from being “a chore” to being the highlight of your week. This devotional has been crafted to help you as parents share both scripture and your personal testimony in a fun and inspiring way!
Each chapter of this highly interactive devotional includes practical teachings that will equip you to explain various Christian principles to your children. This is all undergirded with prayer guides that will help you pray specific prayers into different areas of your child’s life.
You can start at any time during the year using our unique, fun, and interactive TRAIN method. An acronym inspired by this challenging scripture from Proverbs:
“Train up your children in the way they should go, so that when they are older they will not depart from it” Proverbs 22:6
T - together do something (ideas to create fun memories)
R - relate your life story (conversation prompts to share your testimony)
A - apply scripture (themed scripture memorization & discussion)
I – interact (game suggestions, interactive activities to engage the whole family)
N - now pray (prayer prompts to teach children how to pray)
Remember that you are a great parent, and that God specifically chose YOU to parent the children he has given you! You have what it takes, you were born to do this and you’re doing great, keep going!
Family devotions needed to be fun, engaging, relevant, incorporating scripture as well as our personal testimonies.
Having children that were of different age ranges meant I also needed a family devotional that I could adapt according to my various kids’ ages, stages, and levels of understanding.
Furthermore, I also saw the need for a certain topic to be “massaged in” and simmered during the week rather than rushing through a daily devotional which was both over saturation for these little minds and also hard to stick to with our busy family schedule.
So out of sheer determination to meet all these above requirements, this book of family devotions was birthed. These weekly devotions have been tried, tested, adapted, and re-tested and I am so happy to say they were given the stamp of approval by a gregarious bunch of blessings aged 7-13.
Our family devotional time has gone from being a chore to being the high-light of our week!
R Relate your life story
What makes these devotions so special is that it allows a time of sharing your personal testimony/childhood stories which can be related to the theme of the month as well as to scripture. Because it is your story you can adapt it according to the ages of your children.
We suggest each parent takes 5 minutes to share their story. We recommend that you read this weekly suggestion ahead of time so that you can mentally prepare what you would like to share. Pray about it and allow the Lord to guide you in sharing elements of your story that would be beneficial for your kids to know. We recommend that you be honest and go deep allowing God to transform your life experiences into teachable moments for them.
Sometimes you might be asked to share difficult/negative experiences. We encourage you to remember that “God uses it all” and that we can learn some- thing from every situation even the negative ones. So do your best to share au-thentically and trust the Lord with the rest!
As a pastor who has been in ministry for over 15 years, it’s safe to say I have come across a lot of excellent Christian resources. However, when it comes to family devotionals I struggled to find something that gripped my kids’ attention and made them excited about devotional time.
I realized that I wanted to teach them scripture and bible stories, but my children were more interested in learning about me and my husband’s real-life stories and childhood experiences.
I wanted to pray and have deep revelatory moments with my kids, but they wanted to play games, ask questions, and interact. After a few hits and misses, I quickly discovered that if I were to make family devotion time a good, pleasant memory in the lives of my children we would need to incorporate all these ele-ments and more.
Family devotions needed to be fun, engaging, relevant, incorporating scripture as well as our personal testimonies.