Monday

Memorizing The Lord's Prayer + Free Printable - Coffee & Conversation








Have you heard of the Lord's Prayer?

Have you ever recited the Lord's Prayer?

Have you ever read the Lord's Prayer in the Bible?


Well let's make 
Coffee & Conversation 
today
 into a cuppa with the 
Lord's Prayer!






I'm offering this Free Printable of the Words of the Lord's Prayer as a resource to help you to memorize the Lord's Prayer or to give to someone else to help them to learn this prayer.


It is one of my assortment of free printables which can be found in my Resource Library



The Lord's Prayer 


We find the Lord's Prayer in 2 of the Gospels

Matthew ch 6 v 9 - 13

and

Luke ch 11 v 1 - 4










Jesus gave the disciples these words to pray as a great example of how to pray, as a template of prayer and also as a prayer.

It reminds us to 
  • acknowledge who God is
  • bring our petitions to Him
  • seek forgiveness for our sins
  • ask for help and guidance
  • seek protection and to recognise evil
  • come to God in adoration of Him
plus so much more that is too much to cover here in this short blog post.



Brief Tips to help you learn the Lord's Prayer 

  1. The Lord's Prayer printable is available to download in both A4 and Letter size.  So it can be used to help you memorize this gift that the Lord Jesus gave us to come before God the Father.
  2. Break it up into 3 sections, the first 5 lines about God, the next 6 lines about our requests, the last 4 lines about praising God
  3. Then break it up further into individual lines to learn off small amounts within each section and lead on to learning each full section.
  4. Read it through in it's entirety at the start and at the end every time you spend some time to learn it. This will help with the placement in your mind of all of it.
  5. Print out 3 copies and actually cut one copy up into the 3 sections and then another copy up into all the individual lines and then keep one of the full prayer to check as you practice putting the sections or individual lines into place together.
  6. Make it a challenge to memorize it. You can even print out a 4th copy & make it into a puzzle of the whole prayer by cutting out each individual word. 




Have you downloaded the Free Lord's Prayer Challenge yet?












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5 Best Quotes on Prayer + Free Printable - Coffee & Conversation




Here is my choice for the 
5 Best Quotes on the subject of

PRAYER









I am not a fan of QUOTES

In fact sometimes I get very annoyed at how people almost treat a quote
 as more important than the 
Word of God


I actually wrote a blog post about Do We Really Need This Quote?








However I do see that there are certain topics that there are some great quotes on from some very reliable people. This month of course we are thinking about PRAYER so let's get encouraged with some quotes around this.

There are many quotes from so many people on the subject of Prayer but I prefer to only refer to or recommend ones from people who I trust as standing firm on the Word of God.

So in the list below I will quote


Not  Lisa Bevere   but   John Bunyan

 Not  Andy Stanley   but   Andrew Murray

Not  Joyce Meyer   but   Charles Spurgeon





1.  John Bunyan

"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart"








2.  Oswald Chambers

"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work;  Prayer is the greater work."







 


3.  Andrew Murray

"Think of what He can do and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people.  Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!"

 











Have you read the 5 Best Quotes on Prayer?









4.  C.S. Lewis

"I pray because I'm helpless.  I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping.  It doesn't change God.  It changes me."







5.  Charles Spurgeon


   "True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance.  It is far deeper than that - it is a spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth."   

 





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                      Prayer Quotes Free Printable 









Plus why not have a look at the other Free resources in our













Revelation 4 v 11 Word Search with Free Printable - Coffee & Conversation











The Theme for this Word Search is

The Bible Verse
Revelation 4 v 11






I'm offering this Word Search as one of my assortment of free printables which can be found in my Resource Library



Revelation 4 v 11   Word Search


Can you find these words (or groups of words)  
from the verse
Revelation 4 v 11 
in this Word Search Puzzle?









The Word Search is available to download in both A4 and Letter size and of course comes with an answer sheet.


If you are interested in other Word Search Printables or other Free Printables you can find a list of all of them in our Resource Library




Have you downloaded this Free Revelation 4 v 11 Word Search yet?










Other Posts about the Attributes of God
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Sunday

Revelation 4 v 11 - Memorising the Bible + Free Printables


I could never do it!

          Do what?

Memorize a chapter of one of the Books of the Bible!

          Yeah that's not so easy,  BUT  you can learn a verse of the Bible.






Let's look at a verse from the last book of the Bible.

Yes that book which many people avoid reading because they feel they will not understand it.

But

We don't have to understand everything the first time we read it and we might miss out on some very encouraging words 

if we don't read it. 


In this chapter 4 of the book of Revelation we have a great verse which encourages us to consider and remember that God is worthy of our praise and worship and everything else.

It's not a very long verse so let's be encouraged by that as well.


"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."



In memorizing this verse we will look at 4 things:
  • Memorising Tips
  • A Music Video of Revelation 4 v 11
  • A Bible Reading Video of Revelation 4 v 11
  • Some Freebies to help you.









Memorising Tips
If you read the Top 10 Ways to Learn Scripture you will see that I give 10 tips to help in this process but we don't have to use all 10 of them on each verse - just the ones that suit best with the verse.


For Revelation 4 v 11 I'm going to advise using tips 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10



1.  Read the verse often, every day, multiple times in the day.

Leave a bookmark in your bible and every time you go past it grab the bible and open at the verse etc.  (you will pick up other ideas later in this post).

Reading and repeating somethings over and over is the natural way to get it into your head.

With this verse it is obvious to think of it in two parts


"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power:
   & 
for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."





2.  Write out the verse several times.

Why?  Because he action of  WRITING  helps us learn anything.

Write it out in two parts. 

So you are writing it in two halves just as reading it in the two halves as in no.1 above 




7.  Understand the meaning of the verse.

We will never memorize anything properly without having understood the meaning of it and knowing the meaning helps us remember the order of the parts of the verses.


The first part of the verse is a PROCLAMATION and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of how God is worthy of glory, honour and power.

"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power:



Then the second part we notice starts with the word FOR and is the WHY or the REASON the Psalmist is making the proclamation which is because GOD is the great CREATOR.

for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."












8.  Make it easy to see the verse clearly and regularly each day.


In no.1 above I mentioned your bible and a bookmark

but

we cannot have our Bible at hand every moment of the day so if you feel you need frequent readings of the verse like pop-up reminders then do the following:

Get a post-it pad and write the verse out clearly on it then tear off the post-it and stick it on
  • the mirror you will use first thing each morning and last thing each night
  • the front cover of your Bible
  • the front cover of the book you are currently reading
  • the door of the fridge
  • the inside of the door of the cupboard where you go to get your favourite mug for that cup of coffee








9.  Make or use Bible Verse Graphics 

The picture of 1 John 3 v 1 near the start of this post is an example of a Bible Verse Graphic.

A picture with the words written on it clearly.

By making these yourself you will learn as you create them.

or

by using ones made for you that you keep close to hand like these I created below







I also post a bible verse graphic every morning on my
so if you want to be encouraged by a verse each day or have a graphic you can Share to your timeline or Save in Facebook then click through to my Facebook Page and be sure to like and follow the page to see those graphics in your feed each day.

or

by watching a short Bible Reading video like this one I created








or Word Search Puzzles

While completing a Bible Verse Word Search you will be spending time looking for the words and this also helps to learn the verse.








or Colouring Pages

While colouring in a Bible Verse Page you will be spending time around the words and this also helps to learn the verse.

or Phone Screensavers / Wallpaper

What better use of your phone - to keep that verse in front of you each time you go to check your messages.

For this you will need it to be a suitable portrait shape and size so most of the normal verse graphics you see will not suit.


I have a few verses made out for screen savers & you can download them from



and 
finally my favourite way 
but it is not always possible to use this method


10.  Sing it.

It is well known that in singing a song you can easily learn the words of the song.

Fred & I have made several short videos of songs/choruses to help you memorize certain verses and you can watch the one for Revelation 4 v 11 below 




 




I've also prepared a playlist of Short Songs to memorize Scripture on YouTube:



Some More Freebies to help you.

Don't forget that many of my posts on the blog have bible verse graphics and I have many of these available as free downloads in my


Also that's where you will find the phone screen savers for some verses.










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