INTRODUCTION
These lessons will be best used when both parent and child interact together, and who knows perhaps you both learn something about each other and grow a little closer.
The lessons are intended to be short, direct and to the point, with the hope that the parents will make the lesson suitable for their own particular child, but, maintaining the overall emphasis..
Thank you for your time, contributions and the difference you are making in our community through 5+2.
LEADERSHIP
Commitment your first step:
But Ruth said: "Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God." Ruth 1:16
While every 5+2 project leader needs money and human resources (people) to reach his or her goals, commitment should always precede those resources.
When it is your family's project month, be sure as a leader to demonstrates a commitment to the mission and goals of the organization, for that is when God will move and a whole stream of events will begin to flow.
In the very first chapter of the book that bears her name, Ruth chooses to stay with Naomi, her mother- in-law, even after she loses her husband. She didn't know it, but her commitment would lead to all kinds of open doors. Ruth finds work during a difficult time, makes friends in a foreign land, and eventually gains a new husband, Boaz. Most impressively, God includes her -a Moabite adopted into the family of Israel-in the line of Christ. The child she bore became part of the lineage of the Messiah.
The key? Commitment. Once a leader definitely commits, God moves and all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings, people, and material assistance will begin to stream forth.
PRAYER
There are many ways to communicate to God through prayer, and praying scripture is the at the very foundation. There is no single "right way" to do it. These prayers are appropriate to pray for yourself, a single person, or for two or more people at the same time. We can pray God's word verbatim, or as a paraphrase using our own words. Praying scripture keep God's Word at the center of our prayers, so that we are praying according to his will and his ways. Here is a prayer for Spiritual Growth and Maturity.
Scripture:
"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." 1John 4:18
"I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,.." Eph 3:18
Paraphrasing scripture:
Father, I/we pray for______ .
Thanks you for your perfect love. Help ____ to be aware of your love, and
to experience that love in a real and tangible way.
Help ______ to realize that your love is so big, so long and wide, so high and deep, that_____ will
never understand it. Yet, may ______ know how much you love ______ ( him/her /them) with absolute certainty.
Most especially, help _________to return Your love, to love you will all _______(his/her/their) heart, mind, soul and strength. Matt 22:37
5+2, making a difference in the community around us,one step at a time...
Blessings
5plus2kidsclub@gmail.com
http://www.5plus2club.com/
