Today’s Reading:
Read Daniel 10:1-12, 19; Daniel 12
Ever been part of a trust fall before? Parents, this is your chance! Ask your kids to stand in front of you with their backs to you. Tell them to close their eyes and fall backwards. Your job, parents, is to catch them. The goal here is to demonstrate that they can trust you- so it’s probably a good idea to actually catch them! Spend some time talking about why falling backwards into someone you can trust is easier than falling backwards into the arms of a stranger. Trust is an important part of our walk with God, and it is much easier to trust Him if we know Him!
Daniel had more dreams that left him confused. He also had more dreams that God allowed him to understand. Some of his dreams made him very sad. Some of them made him very scared. God allowed Daniel to see the future for the Israelites. Daniel’s vision showed him that the Israelites would face a terrible war but that in the end all of God’s people would survive.
Daniel knew that he could trust what God was telling him because he knew that he could trust God. God had proven himself to be faithful in Daniel’s life. Knowing God makes it easier to trust Him!
Application/Prayer:
Ask your family this question: “Do you think it is easy or hard to trust God?” Spend some time unpacking this with your family and working through what trusting God really looks like Thank God that we know He is trustworthy!
September Memory Verse:
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding; in all your ways know him,and he will make your paths straight.”
Using the daily reading prompts from George H. Guthrie’s Read the Bible for Life, here’s how to use this devotional:
- Bring your Bible! Your kids need to see that everything you are reading to them or learning about comes from an actual Bible!
- Each day starts with a reading prompt. Read the selection as a family. If your kids are readers, encourage them to read along with you.
- After you’ve read the passage, read the short devotional thought that goes along with each passage.
- Prayer and application are important any time we read God’s word! After each devotional, there is a challenge to help apply what your family has read that day.
- There is a reading for six days of the week. The last reading of the week is a Gospel Conversation Prompt to help you connect the reading from the week with God’s plan for salvation.
Other Resources:
September memory verse coloring sheet