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Because I value my relationship with God, I choose to know His character and respond to Him in my worship and life.

How To Be Like Jesus

Worship

I learn to know God and grow in faith through prayer, Bible study, and devotions. There are blessings in both personal and public worship.

Definition

Worship related virtues: Personal devotions, prayer time, family worship, adoration, listening to God, offerings, prayer, singing praises.

Worship means: An attitude of awe and adoration, private and public. Offering gifts.
Communication is sought, petitions are made to a power above and beyond our humanity.

Personal Devotions means: Every day taking time to communicate with God in prayer and Bible study and meditation on what God's will is for my life.
Talking to God and listening to Him as you study His word in a personal involvement, other than family worship, prayer for breakfast, and devotions with the teacher and the class, .
Studying your Sabbath School lesson if it involves personal prayer and listening to what God is saying to you.
Singing or other forms of praise, worship, confession or thanksgiving.
God wants to communicate individually with me. Morning devotions is the time to do that.
Listening to God's voice while meditating and reading the Bible.

Prayer time means: Talking to God as to a friend.
Prayers can be offered for many reasons: forgiveness, thankfulness, praise, prayer bands, public prayer, silent prayer in danger, silent prayer in a crisis, intercessory
Putting our minds in an attitude of the presence of God, listening to His Spirit talking to our hearts.
Including Him in our thoughts and considerations when making decisions and living our life.
Putting aside all the sights and thoughts that would distract us from communicating with God.
Concentrating on Him and what He is saying to us and what we want to say to Him.
Showing our reverence to Him while talking to Him in prayer by our posture of bowing our heads or kneeling and folding our hands and shutting our eyes.

Family worship means: The family joins as a unit to renew their spiritual ties and seek blessings and directions from the Lord. It is also a time to train the younger family members in the ways of God. Times of family worship are: Morning, Evening, Friday Sundown, Sabbath Sundown

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Father, Lead Me Day by Day, SDAH 482
Prayer is the Key to Heaven
Whisper a Prayer in the Morning
We Praise Thee with Our Minds, SDAH 642
Father, Who on Us Do Shower, SDAH 643
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, SDAH 647
The Lord is my Light, SDAH 515
Dear Lord and Father, SDAH 480
Rejoice the Lord is King, SDAH 221
How Majestic is Your Name
I'm Gonna Sing
Praise Him, Praise Him
Oh, Magnify the Lord
Whisper a Prayer
Majesty
Alleluia
Father, I Adore You
I Will Sing of the Mercies of the Lord
I Just Came to Praise the Lord
O Lord, You're Beautiful
Great Are You Lord
Sing Hallelujah
Thou Art Worthy
Isn't He

Student Life Applications

Personal worship:
In many different settings a student reading his Bible as in the following:
1 reading his Bible alone in the morning sitting at a desk
2 reading his Bible alone in the morning outside in a quiet place
3 reading his Bible alone in the morning outside under a tree
4 reading Bible alone beside the bed
5 reading Bible alone sitting on the bed, cross legged
6 reading Bible alone at bedtime
7 praying alone in morning
8 praying alone at bedtime

9 show only the head and hands of student praying
10 student praying in a garden setting
11 student kneeling in pray and the lion walking away

Family /group worship:
1 student with small group praying
2 two or three people praying for a sick student
3 praying before dinner with your family
4 kneeling in prayer with your teacher and your class
5 Student praying with another student at his desk with books open
6 son praying with his father
7 young patient have his doctor and parent pray for him
8 flood scene: water coming down under bridge, students praying, someone in water reaching out to someone on shore who is helping
9 at a busy market, a mom and student in prayer and a policeman bringing a toddler to them
10 family sitting on the beach as sun goes down and singing songs
11 family at home around the piano singing songs at sundown
12 family under the trees singing with student playing the guitar

Corporate worship:
1 profile of student kneeling in prayer with stained glass window in background
2 praying in a church service with the pastor
3 praying at a jungle church site
4 students praying in church people going up to the altar
5 students at school sitting in amphitheater at sunset listening to speaker

Bible, E.G. White

Hebrews 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today;
Psalm 5:3 O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee,
Psalm 72:15 Prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.
Matthew 18:20 Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I.
Matthew 26:41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation:
Matthew 21:22 Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Daniel 6:3 He kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed
Psalm 51:10-12 David's prayer to God for forgineness
Matthew 6:7-13; Christ's teaching on prayer. Evidently Christ's example was so profound that it inspired the disciples to ask what the 'secret' was. The ONLY time the disciples asked to be taught anything.
Mark 9:25-29 Prayer and fasting
1 John 1:9; Of confession and prayers
Luke 11:2 Respect in prayer
Psalm 150; Hebrews 13:15 Praise in prayer
Matthew 6:8; Psalm 62:8 Thanks in prayer
Matthew 6:13 Deity's Address
Hebrews 10:11 So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
Psalm 5:3 O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee
Psalm 72:15 Prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.

“Pray when you are fainthearted. . . . In your weakness lay hold of infinite strength. Ask for humility, wisdom, courage,
increase of faith, that you may see light in God's light and rejoice in His love.” MH 513
“In a simple petition tell the Lord your needs and express gratitude for His mercies..” 6T 357
“You who complain that God does not hear your prayers, change your present order and mingle praise with your petitions.” 5T 317
“Your children should be educated . . . to respect the hour of prayer; they should be required to rise in the morning so as to be present at family worship.” 5T 424
“The hours of morning and evening worship should be the sweetest and most helpful of the day. Let it be understood that . . .parents and children assemble to meet with Jesus, and to invite into the home the presence of holy angels. Let the services be brief and full of life, adapted to the occasion, and varied from time to time. Let all join in the Bible reading ” Ed 186
“Your petitions must be not faint, occasional, and fitful, but earnest, persevering, and constant. It is not necessary to be alone, or to bow upon your knees, to pray; but in the midst of your labor your souls may be often uplifted to God, taking hold upon His strength.” 4T.543
“Precious opportunities may be improved in conversing and praying together, in relating experiences, in making diligent search of the Bible.” GW92. 242
The purpose of prayer may not be what you thought: Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him. SC 93
“In every family there should be a fixed time for morning and evening worship. How appropriate it is for parents to gather their children about them before the fast is broken, to thank the heavenly Father for His protection during the night, and to ask Him for His help and guidance and watch care during the day! How fitting, also, when evening comes, for parents and children to gather once more before Him and thank Him for the blessings of the day that is past!” 7T 43
“Among these mountains we often bowed together in worship and supplication.” LS 256
“When you come together for worship and to seek the Lord, it should be your one aim to honor Him ” SPM.403
“For every earnest prayer put up in faith for anything, answers will be returned.” LS 207
“The earnest prayer of contrite souls will be lodged by the throne, and God will answer these prayers in His own time if we cling to His arm by faith.” 6T 15

Reinforcing Stories

Living Illustrations by J. B. Fowler, Jr. p. 109
“A whole Loaf, Please”, “Gladys and the glue bottle”, “Joe’s Quarter”, “Lost in the Rain”, “Out of the Mud”, Volume 1, Uncle’s Arthur’s Bedtime Stories
“The Man who always said his prayers” , Volume Three, Uncle Arthur’s Bedtime Stories, pg 174, by Arthur Maxwell
“Five Boys in a Haystack”, Book One, The Children’s Hour by Arthur Maxwell
“Ten Million Billion”, Book Four, Great Stories for Kids by Jerry D. Thomas
“Borrow Light”, “One Breakfast a Week”, “Don’t Smother Your Christianity”, Treasury of Devotional Aids for Home and School.
January 30 March 1, May 22, August 10, 31, September 11, October 14, November 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, Sure as the Dawn by Mansell and Mansell

Student Activities

Keep a log of the personal time you spend with God
Discuss books, Bible reading plans, music, methods and kinds of prayer that will make personal devotion time inspiring.
Prayer bands.
Memorize special prayers, sentence prayers,
Find prayers in Bible and write them in first person,
Study the parts of the "Lord's Prayer" and make a prayer of our own with those parts.

Links to the Curriculum

Resources

Goal: Help establish a lifelong habit of personal devotions.
How many students in the class follow that practice?
How many started during the lesson?
How do students exhibit posture and reverence in during prayer?
Do students have personal prayer time in the morning and evening?
Have students learned how to pray in public without trite phrases?

Primary:
Tell or write two ways that show that God is be worshiped.
Tell or write about a time when you saw someone worshiping.
Tell two ways that you can worship.
What is the opposite of worship? Who makes us act that way?
How do you think God feels when He sees people who are worshiping Him?
How do you feel when you worship Him?
What makes you want to worship Him?
Finish the sentence: We can worship when we..........

Middle:
Why does God care if I worship Him?
What difference does it make whether I worship Him or not?
What effect would it have on my future if I did not choose to worship Him?
How would I feel about myself if I did or did not choose to worship Him?
Give some reasons why you think it is best to worship God. Why would someone do differently?
What makes choosing to worship better than the opposite?
List some ways that a person might be worshiping without anyone noticing?
List 3 situations where a person could worship God in his work, home, or at the shopping mall.
Is it possible for a person to get better at worshiping? Explain.
Can you think of someone who seems good at worshiping? What makes them better at it?
How could you learn to be better at worship?
How often do you worship? Think of the last three times and tell me.
Do you like to join in when people are worhsiping? How have you joined in?

High school:
Would you practice worship if no one was checking on you? Your parents, school, or the law?
What is the alternative to worship and what do you see as the results of that choice?
Would you keep quiet if someone paid you a lot of money not to worship?
Are you proud to worship and willing to tell others how you feel?
If someone in a group spoke out against worship would you speak up to give the other side?
Are you willing to put some of your money toward supporting worship in your city, class, work?
Can you say that worshiping has become a habit? How often are you that way?
What effect do you think worship will have on your future?
Do you see your family practicing worship? How about your church, city, or nation? Does it make much difference if they do?
What do you think should be done to promote worship in your family, friends, church, city, and nation?
Does it make much difference if the above are worshiping or not? Why?