At breakfast I try to have a bible study followed by prayer time each week day. We pray in a circular fashion. Our nearly three year old has been interrupting other family members' turns with his own prayers. That caused us to finally give him a turn too. Now when it is his time to pray I try to coach him. If I don't, we will be listening to hundreds of repeats of all the prayers he's heard before. It sounds innocent enough. Unfortunately he asks for people to "come to know You" who already know Jesus, and so forth. I think he needs some direction.
Recently I decided to make the most of the opportunity and have him pray for himself. He has been quite headstrong and very challenging to train, thus far. That means his days are full of tribulation. I asked him to copy my words in prayer. I usually try to suggest praying that he will be obedient, come when we call him, not cry about having to go to the potty, and so forth.
Twice recently I have said, "Please help me to obey today". So he prayed, "please help Mommy to obey today!" I repeated the prayer several different ways, but no matter what I'd said, it was always the same when he prayed: "Please help Mommy to obey today." Alright, maybe I needed those prayers and I'll have to resort to praying for him myself. But the good news is that he has been listening to our prayers. He copies them perfectly. He is the one who cries to potty, stands up in his chair, refuses his breakfast, demands toys, so I'm wondering how he heard anything over top of himself??? It's a good reminder for Mommy to keep obeying God and train them up in the way they should go no matter how disinterested and unaffected they appear on the outside.
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