- Begin your family devo time with a prayer asking God to focus everyone’s attention on Him together. Feel free to have one of your kids pray!
- Say this week’s Gospel statement out loud together (in the picture above!)…feel free to have your family say it along with you, or repeat short phrases. Our goal is to memorize this phrase by the end of the week!
- BIBLE TIME: Read Psalm 100 out loud (focusing especially on verse 3).
- Challenge your children who are old enough to read to follow along in their own physical Bibles.
- Feel free to show this short video on your phone, tablet, or AirPlay it to your TV (less than 2 minutes):
- Family Discussion: What does Psalm 100:3 teach us about God? Share out loud together.
- The LORD (Yahweh) is God.
- He made us.
- God has authority over us (we are His, we BELONG to Him).
- He cares for us like a shepherd does His sheep.
- Family Discussion: What other parts of the Bible can you think of that talk about God as our Shepherd? (Feel free to look up one or all of these passages and read them together!)
- Psalm 23
- John 10:1-16, 25-30
- Isaiah 53:6
- Luke 15:1-7
- Take turns praying as a family, asking for a heart to follow God like sheep follow their Shepherd.
- THIS WEEK‘S CHALLENGE: Share the names of the people you mentioned during the last devo who needed to hear about God being holy and creating us to be with Him.
- Did anyone have a conversation with them yet? If so, how did it go?
- Share these names & pray for them all again.
- Have one family member or all re-state today’s Gospel statement: God is holy and created us to be with Him.
- BONUS OPTION TO CLOSE: Listen to the song “Holy (1 Samuel 2:2)” together, singing along with the words:
