Listen to the truth I speak to you: Whoever says to this mountain with great faith and does not doubt, ‘Mountain, be lifted up and thrown into the midst of the sea,’ and believes that what he says will happen, it will be done.
-Mark 11:23 TPT
The Lord has really placed the importance of prophetic actions on my heart, especially for children. Children have great faith-innocent trusting of the Father that is such a gift.
As we have been ministering to our own children, the Lord has almost always given me an action for them to solidify their faith experiences. For example, we have recently been dealing with some mountains in our lives; mountains of sin, sickness, etc.
We read the verse from Mark 11:23 (TPT) together and did a coloring sheet. As they were coloring, I heard the Father whisper to my spirit that they needed more than just coloring and memorizing the verse. They needed something that would be tangible to them, an action to go along with their faith.
I asked them to label their mountain with something they were struggling with and explained the verse we learned in-depth. We discussed what it means to have a mountain and how God tells us we can tell it to be cast into the sea and it will be if we believe. We talked about how King David had some mountains like the lion, the bear, and Goliath and how he put his faith in God and the mountains were removed from his life. They love the story of King David and we're easily able to understand what I was talking about. We watched the story of David and Goliath on Superbook together. It can sometimes be challenging to get children to understand figurative language, but drawing parallels to something they are very familiar with helps.
We made a special trip to the beach after labeling our mountains to ‘cast them into the sea.’
We stood in the beach as a family and declared to the mountains in our lives that the Lord was throwing them into the sea because we believe. We each picked up our mountain and ‘threw’ it into the sea. We prayed and then praised as we drove home and had a celebratory hot chocolate before bed.
Moments of deliverance can be beautiful memories for your children, and your family!
Giving them prophetic acts to go with what they're walking out in faith will be something tangible they can return to again and again in their walk with the Lord. They will forever have the memory of sending their mountains into the sea. These moments can become faith points of contact as they grow and mature in their faith.
Freedom Bound, the book I wrote for the spiritual freedom of children, is filled with simple prophetic acts you can do with your children to really bring their faith alive.
If you don't have a sea to go to, pull up a video of the ocean on your phone, play a sound clip of the ocean, or have them draw a picture of their mountain in the sea and praise God together that He constantly sets us free!
We are always going to be walking out freedom in life and equipping our children from a young age to know how to walk out their freedom is such a necessity.
Please feel free to download this free coloring sheet and try this prophetic exercise with your child!
“So if the Son sets you free from sin, then become a true son and be unquestionably free.”
John 8:36 (TPT)
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December 18, 2022
-Jenny Johnson
Originally published December 18, 2022 @ jennyjohnson.net
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