It is normal for children to feel fear at night but we must teach them that our God is stronger. An excellent way to create the habit of prayer in children is to make one to sleep every night. Enter here, and learn how to do it.
Night prayer for children
Prayer is the way we have to communicate with God. After long hours of work, efforts, it is time to have fellowship with the Lord. In this sense, Jesus Christ taught us that the Kingdom of Heaven would be for everyone who lived like a child. He also exhorts us to let children come to him and get to know him.
Matthew 19: 14
14 But Jesus said: Let the little children come to me, and do not prevent them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
As Christian parents we must understand the depth of these words and allow our children to begin a relationship with the God of Israel at an early age. It will not only give us earthly peace of mind knowing that we are being guided and protected by the Holy Spirit.
But we are also giving them the most important and significant gift that we can give them, which is eternal life in Christ Jesus. To make it easy for them to understand, I invite you to visit the following link with the Biblical texts for children where you will find Bible stories perfect for little ones.
As night falls and darkness arrives, little ones can become afraid of things that can happen that are not seen. However, we must show them that our God is a living God who defeated death and there is nothing that can defeat him.
We must recognize that there is truly an evil spiritual world that uses the minds of human beings to implant thoughts that do not correspond to God. The fear and fear that little ones can feel is real and we should not give it little importance.
The important thing is that through the Bible stories presented in an entertaining way but without moving them away from the truth. Understand that the Lord Jesus will guard and protect you as a roaring Lion.
Salmo 118: 6
6 Jehovah is with me; I will not fear
What man can do to me.
Here I share one night prayer for children so that it can be the basis for a life of family prayer.
Night prayer for children
Our father who art in Heaven.
Today I am with you to ask you to take care of me while I sleep
You know me and you know that I'm afraid to sleep alone
The dark scares me but I know you're next to me
Send me your guardian angels and custodians to take care of me from all evil
I trust with all my heart that you will be with me while I sleep like a Lion and that if someone thinks to harm me, you will come to my rescue and your angels with their swords will protect me.
I give you all my dreams so that they are pleasant and I can rest in You.
Take me through them to new places to live adventures.
Thank you because I know that from this moment, although I cannot see you, you are with me.
Dress me with Your holy armor to be dressed as a warrior and if I were to wake up in the night, cry out to You with faith and without fear to give me rest again.
Today I am a brave child because Jesus is with me and I am his greatest and strongest warrior because he holds my hand in the name of Jesus.
And when I wake up the first thing I'll do is thank you for taking care of me all night.
I love you jesus!
Amen.
The sentence
Children are very intelligent and can understand many things that the word of God teaches us. When we are with them ready to pray, we must teach them the importance and meaning of praying.
Prayer is the means we have to enter the presence of our Lord. Prayers immediately reach the ears of our Heavenly Father. We don't need anything just a willing heart and start expressing what we feel.
When we pray we build a unity between ourselves and the body of Christ. From the New Testament to the Old Testament, we can see that prayer was the means to talk to God.
Jesus in his ministry reveals to us the importance of praying and how we should pray through the Our Father. As well as the prayer that he made in Gethsemane hours before fulfilling his work.
John 17: 1-3
1 These things Jesus spoke, and raising his eyes to heaven, he said: Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son, so that your Son may also glorify you;
2 as you have given him authority over all flesh, so that he may give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
3 And this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
children and the bible
The Lord Jesus wants you and your house to serve him wholeheartedly, including the children. He does not want them to be spectators of life in Christ, but to know that in Him there is salvation.
From the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit of God reveals to us the importance of teaching our children daily about the word of God.
Deuteronomy 6: 6-7
6 And these words that I send you today will be on your heart;
7 and you will repeat them to your children, and you will speak of them while you are at home, and walking along the road, and when you lie down, and when you get up.
Depending on the age, the message will be deeper, but as Deuteronomy tells us, when we go to bed and get up we will talk about them. The Word of God is the two-edged sword that our Lord leaves us to face the daggers of the evil one.
If we show these truths to our children from a young age, as they grow, they will understand a little more about the things in life. Your faith and trust will be in the Lord.
Seeking God and his kingdom first is the priority of every Christian and everything else will come in addition.
Finally, I share this audiovisual with you so that you can enjoy it together with the little ones in the house and they can see a little how God takes care of children at all times.