Reasons to Pray for People Right Away

February 19th, 2016

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When someone asks you to pray for them, pray for them right away. That person is bogged down with their burden, and there is no reason for you to leave them in their misery. It only takes you less than five minutes to lift their burden to the Lord.

Reasons to Pray for People Right Away

  1. If you do not pray right away, you might forget to pray for them. If you tell someone you will pray for them and forget, you are not a person of your word. If you pray immediately, you have at least prayed for them once.
  2. The person receives immediate comfort if you pray with them out loud right then and there. The burden is lifted and divided when you pray for someone.
  3. That person will feel loved. We are commanded to love others, and what better way to show love to our brothers and sisters in Christ than to lift them up before the Lord in prayer.
  4. If you do not pray for them, maybe no one else will. That person will continue to struggle and feel bogged down. For you to know the good that you can do, and not do it, to you it is sin. (James 4:17)
  5. Get over your own self-absorption.
  6. An unbeliever might get saved if you pray for them. When God answers their request miraculously, they will know there is a God.
  7. Sometimes there is a demonic component that you are unaware of, and you need another believer to pray for you, and the fog is immediately lifted. It’s possible that the prayer request is a secondary issue, and that demonic oppression is the primary issue. If someone is asking for prayer, make sure to ask God if there is a demonic component, and that God would remove it from the person so that they can experience peace.
  8. If you help to remove a burden from a person, it frees that person up to minister to others.

Video #7: Why You Should Pray Right Away

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Skin Diagram Collage

February 15th, 2016

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When studying the integumentary system, why not make a skin diagram collage? This art activity will help your students to remember the different parts of the human skin.

You will need the following materials:

  • a rectangle of black felt (or any other background color)
  • pink felt, yellow felt, and brown felt
  • red, blue, yellow, and white yarn
  • black pipe cleaner
  • white school glue
  • hot glue gun

How to Assemble a Skin Diagram Collage

  1. Set the black felt rectangle on the table in front of you. This is the background of your skin diagram.
  2. Cut an onion bulb out of the brown felt. See diagram for shape. This is the hair follicle.
  3. Cut small circles from the yellow felt. This represents the fatty lipids in the hypodermis, which is not actually a part of the skin. The hypodermis lies under the dermis.
  4. Cut out the epidermis (the top layer of skin) from the pink felt, to make it look like icing on a cake. Glue it down.
  5. Glue down all your other felt figures with white school glue.
  6. Make a sweat gland by wadding up some yellow yarn into a blob of spaghetti. Glue it down, with the yarn going up to the epidermis.
  7. The red and blue yarn are veins and arteries. If you make a shape with glue, then you can shove the yarn into the glue. Distribute the veins and arteries evenly, along with the white yarn nerves. They should look like plant roots.
  8. Hot glue a black pipe cleaner to the brown hair follicle. This represents the human hair, which grows from the bottom of the follicle.

Now your skin diagram collage is complete. Enjoy your masterpiece.

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How to Take Every Thought Captive

February 12th, 2016

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How do you take every thought captive?

“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”  2 Corinthians 10:5 KJV

Scripture says that we have thought sins. We can’t let our thoughts rule unchecked and just think whatever thoughts we feel like thinking. No. Our minds have a doorway, and we are not to let in anything that will cause us to sin.

We are also not to think worthless thoughts that waste our lives. We are to purposely think thoughts that God wants us to think. A good list of what to dwell on is found in Philippians 4:8:

“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.” Philippians 4:8 ESV

How to Take Every Thought Captive (Video #6)

How can we functionally take our thoughts captive, especially when we are being wounded by someone and are finding ourselves in a position where we need to forgive an unrepentant person? Listen to the video to see how to accomplish this difficult task:

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Fiery Furnace Cake

February 8th, 2016

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When reading the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego in the book of Daniel, why not make a Fiery Furnace cake to bring the story to life? I baked a rectangular cake and frosted it with chocolate icing. Then I tinted some white vanilla frosting with red food coloring. I placed a circle of red icing in the middle of the cake.

We cut flame shapes of fruit roll-ups and stood them on end into the red icing. (Make sure you buy the roll-ups in red, orange, or yellow.) If you want to make the flames more rigid, you can choose to not remove the paper backing. But be sure to warn the people eating the cake that the paper is still on.

Of course, you will need to add three LEGO figures, or you can use toy people from any other building set. You will want to have a fourth LEGO figure as well.

Now light some candles, so that you see actual fire coming from the fiery furnace. Red, orange, or yellow candles would be perfect. Turn out the lights and set those candles on fire. When you blow out the flames, place the fourth figure (Jesus) into the furnace. Then turn on the lights. At this point you can tell the children that God saved the lives of these three men, and that He was with them in the midst of the fire. In the same way in our lives, God is with us in the midst of our suffering, and He will bring us through it.

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