Praise Arrow

The word 'Praise' written in Gold lettering.

Telling God how much you love Him and why.

From the Bible:

Every day I will praise you.
I will praise your name for ever

and ever.
Lord, you are great.
You are really worthy of praise.
No one can completely
understand how great you are.

Psalm 145 Verses 2-3

A cartoon picture of Albert the Chimpanzee. He is wearing a blue waistcoat. He is standing next to an upward pointing yellow arrow. The arrow has words around it. the words are: Great, Holy, Everywhere, Loving, Big and Kind.

Ponder:

When you think about God, what makes you go ‘Wow, 'He's Amazing!'? 

Is it something He has made or something He's done?

Cartoon stick child with butterflies to his left and a giraffe to his right.

Or maybe You're amazed He can hear everyone’s prayers at the same time, in different languages – and not get them mixed up!

That amazes us too!

Is there a 'wow' word, or short sentence that you could use to describe God?

There are lots of words you could use, like 'Big', 'powerful' or 'kind'.

Maybe you want to make up a word that you think describes God. Albert thought up the word ‘humunginormous’!  He doesn't mind if you want to use that one.

My 'wow' is the fact God made so many types of butterflies, so mine was the sentence; "an amazing creator!"

Pray:

This could be a loud shouting prayer, but if someone doesn’t like noisy things you could make it a whisper prayer. If someone finds speaking difficult; make up actions for the chosen words instead.  If you know Makaton or BSL, it would be even better to use those!

You could even use a phone to say it for you.

Do what works for you!

A cartoon stick child shouting.

Remember one of the words you pondered and get ready to shout, whisper or sign it.

For example, my 'wow' is the fact God made so many types of butterflies, so my word was more of a sentence; "an amazing creator!"

Albert remembered his made up word about God, which was “Humunginormous”.

Ask someone to start the prayer by saying “Dear God, you are….”


Then everyone can either shout, whisper or sign their word or short sentence at the same time.


At the end, say amen. (It doesn’t mean “The End”, it means you agree with everyone's prayers.) 

It might sound like a big mushy muddle of words, but remember - God can sort it out and understand!

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