SINGING TIME. “A CHILD’S PRAYER” song visuals. Children/Youth may wonder if Heavenly Father is really there, but with this song, they can feel it; He is there. Heaven is not far away each time they pray. God will listen and they will feel His love just as Jesus gathered the children around to listen and heal them. Write the words on the cue cards (in your language) to place on the back of the visuals.

PRAYER song visuals "A Child's Prayer"

SONG VISUALS:
“A Child’s Prayer”
(Children’s Songbook, p. 12)

DOWNLOAD INCLUDES:
. 32 visuals (color/black-and-white/cue cards) pdf
. Fun Ways to Use Song Visuals pdf

USE SONG VISUALS FOR ANY LANGUAGE – Just add the words on the cue cards provided.

LYRICS & MUSIC FOR THE SONG
“A CHILD’S PRAYER”

TO MAKE AND USE: Mount cue cards on the back of each poster that matches with the song verse.

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Lyrics

  1. Heavenly Father, are you really there?

    And do you hear and answer ev’ry child’s prayer?

    Some say that heaven is far away,

    But I feel it close around me as I pray.

    Heavenly Father, I remember now

    Something that Jesus told disciples long ago:

    “Suffer the children to come to me.”

    Father, in prayer I’m coming now to thee.

  2. Pray, he is there;

    Speak, he is list’ning.

    You are his child;

    His love now surrounds you.

    He hears your prayer;

    He loves the children.

    Of such is the kingdom, the kingdom of heav’n.

Words and music: Janice Kapp Perry, b. 1938

© 1984 by Janice Kapp Perry. This song may be copied for incidental, noncommercial church or home use.

IDEAS TO PRESENT THIS SONG:

1. Talk about heaven and how “some say heaven is far away,” yet it is very close to us when we pray.

2. Talk about how Jesus gathered the children around Him and blessed them when He was in Jerusalem and also when He visited the Nephites in America.
• See: “Jesus Blesses the Nephite Children” (November 2012 Friend) – A retelling of the story of Christ blessing the Nephite children.
See: “Jesus Christ Blesses the Children” (June 2009 Friend) – A rebus story about Jesus Christ blessing the Nephite children.
See: Coloring page: “Jesus Christ Blesses the Little Children” (January 2013 Friend)

• See: Video: Book of Mormon Stories, “Chapter 44: Jesus Christ Blesses the Children”

3. Talk about how we can pray in our homes and in our chapels and anytime, anywhere and Heavenly Father and Jesus and the Holy Ghost can be there to guide us.

Prayer: LDS Primary Singing Time – Song Visuals, “A Child’s Prayer” – Primary music leader, family home evening

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