Starting a Daily Devotional for Kids

Spending personal time with God is just as important for children as it is for you! God wants to spend time with all of His children. Sadly, many have no idea how to start the habit of having a daily devotional for kids. Today, we have several things you can do to help them start establishing a lifetime of relationship with God through a daily devotional for kids.

Make a Space for Devotionals for Kids

First, help make a devotional for kids fun by helping them decide on their own special quiet place to have their time alone with God. Even if a child has their own room, setting up in a specific place for a devotional for kids—like an armchair, desk, or special corner of the room—is good for focus. In good weather they might even have a special place outside. Having a designated space helps make the habit of a daily devotional for kids feel purposeful and special.

Use CEF’s Devotional for Kids Song

Want a fun song to help get everyone in a great mood for their devotions? Check out this one, on our YouTube channel for kids, U-Nite TV. This song is great because it affirms that children have the Holy Spirit too. Try playing this song every morning to let everyone in the house know it’s time to head to their special place for personal devotions.

Get the Tools for a Daily Devotional for Kids

Next, to start creating a habit of a daily devotional for kids, think of what they need for their quiet time. From pens and notebooks, to a Bible or devotional for kids, they’re depending on you to fully equip them with the tools they’ll need to build a daily devotional habit.

Get a Devotional for Kids Through CEF

You can provide kids with an inexpensive book devotional for kids through Child Evangelism Fellowship®. For younger children, we recommend the Every Day with God devotional for kids, which teaches about creation, the person of God, and then walks through the life of Jesus, Moses, and the book of Acts. These books help children to learn to go through the Bible systematically, so they are familiar with all of God’s Word, rather than just jumping around with no direction. For older children, The Wonder devotional for kids covers many different discipleship topics and serves as a kind of systematic theology for children looking to deepen their understanding of God and the Bible. Both devotionals for kids can be found on our online shop and resource archive, www.cefpress.com.

Teach Kids How to Have Devotionals

Next, to help establish a daily devotional for kids, you want your child to know how to have a quiet time. You can provide a keyword or picture outline for how to have their quiet time with the essentials of opening prayer, reading their devotional for kids, writing down their thoughts, and a closing prayer.

Prayer

Teach kids to start by praying—confessing sins, thanking God for what He has done for them, asking God to help them to understand what they will read in the Bible, and asking Him for help to obey what it says.

Reading

Then, read a short passage in the Bible or a devotional for kids and spend time thinking about what the passage says, means, and—most importantly—what God is saying to them through it. The number of verses that a child reads could correlate with their age. But once their comprehension is better, they can read a whole chapter. They might also want to read a few verses in Proverbs every day for those great nuggets of wisdom.

Writing

It’s also good for kids to write something every day about what they learned to help them retain and remember it. Even kids who can’t compose full sentences on their own can still copy a few words from the Bible.

Closing Prayer

Finally, tell kids to end their quiet time by praying again. They can thank God for speaking to them and ask Him to help them obey Him in what they learned.

By starting young, helping to create a habit of a daily devotional for kids who are saved can encourage them to walk with God throughout their entire lives.

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