Devotions with Dad will help your family memorize scripture together, pray as a family, and learn together through family discussions on a daily or weekly basis. Use Devotions with Dad on the weekend, or spread it through the week. My family and I have done it both ways, usually in evening. Since the story, discussion, Bible reading, scripture memory verse, and prayer will make a long setting if done all at once, you may want to do it on a Saturday morning. If you want to use Devotions with Dad as daily family devotions through the week, do it like this:
- Monday – Rusty and Misty story; memorize scripture
- Tuesday – children’s story discussion; scripture memory
- Wednesday – church (if that is your local assembly’s schedule)
- Thursday — Bible story; review memorized scripture verse
- Friday — Bible discussion as a family; review all memory verses
When do the Devotions with Dad come?
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More Scripture time
Since scripture memory is such a vital aspect of raising a God-fearing family, do not limit yourselves to just the verses included with these family devotions. My kids and I like to memorize one new scripture verse a day.
You help your family build strong character with scripture memory. You can make it fun. Some verses make great songs (Psalm 19:14; 119:11; Philippians 4:4). Try writing the verse on a white board and erasing one word at a time. Whatever you do, get the family to repeat the verse numerous times.
My family and I learn verses like this: repetition, repetition, repetition. Take a phrase like, “Charity suffereth long and is kind.” We chant it like this:
“CHARITY suffereth long and is kind.”
“Charity SUFFERETH long and is kind.”
“Charity suffereth LONG and is kind.”
“Charity suffereth long AND is kind.”
“Charity suffereth long and IS kind.”
“Charity suffereth long and is KIND.”
Then we move to the next phrase. Then we put them together. Do this with each phrase until you can say the whole verse without looking. It helps them to read it, write it, and repeat it often. For the next week, we will need to repeat each new verse three times a day until we have it down smooth.
Daily, we play “Memory Verse Popcorn.” They review the scriptures by trying to pop out with all the memorized verses they know. Then we memorize another verse or two before breakfast. If you follow this discipline daily from the time a child is 7 until he is 17, he will have memorized over 3,500 scripture verses.