21 Days of Fasting and Prayer
As we enter 2025, many are eager for a new beginning. Amid the chaos, there is a longing for answers and tranquility. This serves as a powerful reminder that true peace is found in God. Let’s make 2025 a year of deepening our relationship with Him like never before. This year, as we embark on a collective fasting journey, let’s come together with others to form a community that rejuvenates our hearts and minds. We invite you to participate in this year's Fast. Together, as we seek God, we can conquer any challenge.
Today's Kids Devotion
Power to be Witnesses for Jesus
Friday January 24, 2025
Jesus told us to go and make disciples of all nations, but where and how can we share the love of God ourselves?
Jesus told us to go and make disciples of all nations, but where and how can we share the love of God ourselves?
Today's Scripture
- Acts 1:8 (NKJV)
- “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Activity
Read the story of Pentecost in Acts 1:4-11 and Acts 2, or read it in a storybook Bible. How did you see the Holy Spirit at work in the story?
What does it mean to be a witness? To be a witness for Jesus means that we share the truth that we have experienced and heard. God takes care of the heart transformation.
Take out your map of the world, and point out any places familiar to your family. For the disciples, Jerusalem was their city, Judea was kind of like their state, and we can translate Samaria as their country.
On your map, locate and draw a circle around your own city using a pencil or your finger. Next, draw circles around your state and then your country. Discuss what it might look like to be a witness for Jesus in each of those regions.
Read the story of Pentecost in Acts 1:4-11 and Acts 2, or read it in a storybook Bible. How did you see the Holy Spirit at work in the story?
What does it mean to be a witness? To be a witness for Jesus means that we share the truth that we have experienced and heard. God takes care of the heart transformation.
Take out your map of the world, and point out any places familiar to your family. For the disciples, Jerusalem was their city, Judea was kind of like their state, and we can translate Samaria as their country.
On your map, locate and draw a circle around your own city using a pencil or your finger. Next, draw circles around your state and then your country. Discuss what it might look like to be a witness for Jesus in each of those regions.
Supplies
- Print a world map
Reflection/ Prayer
- Reflect: You were made in God’s image to reflect Him to the world. By the power of the Holy Spirit, your life bears witness to God’s love, character and truth.
- Pray: In each circle of the map (city, state, country, entire world), write the name of a person or place you’re praying for. Pray as a family and display the map in your home as a prayer reminder.