Let Your Requests Be Made Known

Verse

Philippians 4:6

Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Theme

Prayer

Lesson

If you could talk to God, what would you ask him?

Trick question–you can talk to God right now! Sometimes we think we have to wait until we get to Heaven to ask God all our questions, but he’s here and ready to listen.

So, what do you say to the creator of the universe? 

Anything you want! You can talk to God just like you talk to a friend. You don’t have to worry about using “thee” our “thou”. You don’t have to make prayers sound like poetry. You just have to talk.

We spent time tonight thinking about the different types of prayer–prayers of praise, prayers of petition, and prayers of thanksgiving–and brainstorming what kinds of things we would fall in those categories. You can see the lists we made below.