Family - Prayer

FAMILY – Family prayer can be a sweet, sweet experience. In family prayer, a family stops, puts aside the things of the word (if only for a moment), and reconnects with God. This is a time to express thankfulness, express love, express concerns and needs, and feel the love of and for each other and our Heavenly Father. 

“If you ask me where I first received my unwavering faith in the existence of a God, I would answer you: in the home of my childhood—when Father and Mother invariably called their children around them in the morning and at night and invoked God’s blessing upon the household and upon mankind. There was a sincerity in that good patriarch’s voice that left an undying impression in the souls of his children, and Mother’s prayers were equally impressive. I ask tonight that every father ...  see to it that in all sincerity he impress his children with the reality of the existence of God and with the reality that God will guide and protect his children. You carry that responsibility. ……….

Are you following Christ’s admonition to pray to the Father and teach your children to pray, that godliness, reverence for God and his work, every day may be impressed upon the hearts of your children? That should be in every home. ….

Parents, if you do not do anything else, kneel down in the morning with your children. I know your mornings are usually busy, … but have some time when you can kneel and invite God into your home. Prayer is a potent force. …. 

Through family prayer let parents and children come into the presence of God.”

David O. McKay