August 2015 Prayer Calendar for Children

This is a prayer calendar that is meant to help children (and families) grow their prayer lives and their faith.

Children want to pray, but it can often be difficult for them to think of things to pray for. “Will you pray for my rabbit?”, “My chicken needs prayer,” “Pray that I can get a guinea pig” . . . these are all prayer requests I have received when working with children. We smile at these requests and shrug them off as childhood concerns, but adults can be just as bad.

How many times has a prayer meeting you’ve attended turned into a list of all the health concerns of the members of your congregation and their families?

Don’t get me wrong, God certainly cares about our health concerns and He wants us to hold one another up in prayer. However, prayer is meant to be so much MORE than that! We ALL need to learn how to pray BIG . . . how to open our eyes and hearts to the greater needs in the world around us and to take those needs to our Father.

The monthly prayer calendars for children are meant to help kids think BIGGER when it comes to prayer. They follow the pattern set up in the Lord’s Prayer. Every Sunday is focused on an attribute of God (“Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name”), Mondays and Tuesdays are focused worldwide and nationwide, often with an emphasis on missions and the persecuted church, (“Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”), Wednesdays are focused on areas that are closer to us, such as family and friends (“Give us today our daily bread”), Thursdays are focused on forgiveness (“forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors”), and Fridays are focused on temptation (“Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil”). Every Saturday, there is a suggestion of an activity that the children can do to help put their faith into action.

So please, print off this month’s prayer calendar for your kids (or scroll down and find it all here on this page) and then share it with others who might want to use it, too. Then help your kids use this calendar as a guide to get their prayers GROWING!!!

And, before you go, be sure to get your own prayer calendar with suggestions of how to intentionally pray for your children every day of the month here.

Have a great month and KEEP PRAYING!

Cheri