Monday

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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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?

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.

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

(see my freebies)

I also post a bible verse graphic every morning on my

Facebook Page for Sandra's Ark

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.

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.

You can download this Word Search Puzzle of Revelation 4 v 11

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

My Resource Library

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:

Sandra's Ark Youtube - Bible Memorization

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

RESOURCE LIBRARY

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

SEE OTHER POSTS related posts below:

BIBLE MEMORIZATION

FREE PRINTABLES

Monday

The 5 Best Quotes on Why God is Worthy + Free Printable

Here is my choice for the

5 Best Quotes on the subject of

GOD is WORTHY

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 "God is Worthy" so let's get encouraged with some quotes around this.

There are many quotes from so many people on the subject of how worthy God is 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 Joel Osteen but Jerry Bridges

Not Lysa Terkeurst but Matt Pappa

Not T.D. Jakes but J.C. Ryle

1. Jerry Bridges

"God is worthy of my loving obedience because of who He is, not because of what He does."

2. Matt Papa

"Church: if the world could see a snapshot of our worship today, would they perceive that we believe our God is worthy of praise?"

3. D.A. Carson

"Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honour and worth to their Creator-God precisely because He is worthy, delightfully so."