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CROCK POT Ingredients
POTATO
SOUP 1 (30 oz.) bag
frozen diced hash
Contributed by Sylvia Williamson browns

1 Put potatoes in Crock-Pot and add 1 (32 oz.) box
chicken broth
broth, cream of chicken soup, and
half of bacon bits. 1 (10 oz.) can
cream of chicken
2 Add salt and pepper and cook on soup

low for 8 hours. 1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream
cheese
3 Put in cubed cream cheese one
3 oz. bacon bits
hour before soup is done. Stir
several times through the last hour. 1 c. shredded
cheddar cheese
4 When cream cheese is thoroughly
salt and pepper to
melted, serve with shredded taste
cheddar and additional bacon bits.

BIBLICAL VIRTUES

to Pray for Your Children

A Servant’s Heart

God, please help my children
develop servant's hearts, that
they may serve wholeheartedly,
as if serving the Lord, not men.

Eph. 6:7

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WHOLE 31 The Bible says godly
speech is beautiful,
DAY25 valuable, and refreshing.
Give examples of how
Proverbs 25:11-14; 21-22; 25-26 your godly words can be
beautiful, valuable, and
refreshing to others?

DISCUSSION How should we react
when others mistreat or
When we share God’s good news to those hate us? (vs. 21-22)
who are “thirsty” to hear truth, what happens
(vs. 25)? When we claim to be followers of What is the reward for
Christ yet live like the world, we are muddied those who are still kind
springs or a polluted fountain. Why does the even when others aren't?
Scripture compare wayward Christians to Answer: Others may
these things (v. 26)? recognize their need for
repentance and you will
be rewarded by God.

The Most Important Word in the Bible Key Verse
Proverbs 25:11

Share the Gospel by using your A ACT OF LOVE (Middle Finger)
fingers and the acrostic G.R.A.C.E. This finger is the tallest finger—
Grace is God’s goodness shown to the greatest act of love. John 3:16,
people who do not deserve it. God "For God so loved the world that
acts in love on behalf of sinners. The He gave His one and only Son that
cross is love demonstrated for us. whoever believes in Him will not
perish but have everlasting life."
G GOD (Thumb) up” Romans 5:8, “While we were yet
(Thumb)
The “thumbs sinners, Christ died for us.”
motion reminds us there is a God who
C COMMITMENT (Ring Finger)
cares. Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning You wear the wedding ring here
as a sign of commitment. Romans
god created the heavens and the 10:9-10- “...if you confess with your
mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe
earth." Psalm 14:1, "The fool says in in your heart that God raised him
from the dead, you will be saved.”
his heart, 'There is no god.”
E ETERNAL LIFE (Pinkie Finger)
R REBELLION (Pointer Finger) You use this finger to make a
You point to draw attention to promise. According to John 3:16, we
something important. Romans 3:23, have the promise of “eternal life."

“For all have sinned and fallen short

of the glory of God."

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SPICED PECANS Ingredients

Contributed by Joan Mundie 1 ½ c. apple
juice
1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
1 ½ c. pecan
Pour apple juice over pecan halves in a halves
small bowl. Let stand 15 minutes then
drain. 3 tbsp. sugar

2 In a medium bowl, stir together sugar, 1 tsp. apple pie
spice
apple pie spice, salt, and ground red
pepper. Add pecans, tossing to coat. 1/8 tsp. salt

3 Spread in a single layer in a lightly 1/8 tsp. ground
red pepper (if
greased aluminum foil lined 15 x 10 desired)
inch pan.

4 Bake 15 minutes or until lightly

toasted, stirring once. Cool in pan on a
wire rack 20 minutes. Separate pecans
with a fork.

BIBLICAL VIRTUES

to Pray for Your Children

Hope

May the God of hope grant that
my children may overflow with
hope and hopefulness by the

power of the Holy Spirit.

Rom. 15:13

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DAY26
Proverbs 26:7-12; 17-28

How would you define a fool? Hint: A What are some examples of foolish
fool is not someone who merely makes living? (vs. 17-28)
a mistake.

QUALITIES OF A FOOL • He harms rather than helps,
like an archer who is shooting
• He is incapable of acting wisely, like everyone. (v. 10)
a paralyzed man’s legs. (v. 7)
• He commits the same foolish
• He does not possess the skill or acts over and over, like a dog
knowledge to use wisdom, like returning to eat its own vomit
binding a rock to a sling when it is Yuck! (v. 11)
meant to be flung out. (v. 8)
• Thinks he is wise even though he
• He doesn't see wisdom begins with is ignorant of God’s Word, like
him, like a drunk who doesn't feel a man who thinks he knows it
a thorn in his hand. (v. 9) all. (v. 12)

It’s Dark In Here KeyVerse
Proverbs 26:12

What is the darkest place you have still see nothing. Your eyes will never
ever been? Maybe it was a room adjust. Unless light appears, you will
or closet, or maybe it was in a tent, never see a thing.
camping deep in the forest on a dark Ecclesiastes 2:14 says, “The wise
night. Have you ever been in a place person has his eyes in his head,"
where there was absolutely no light? and he can see where he is going,
If you have visited a cave, perhaps "but the fool walks in darkness.” The
you have experienced what it is like fool in Proverbs 26 is completely
when you turn off all the flashlights spiritually blind to his condition. He
and are enshrouded by complete and lives in darkness. How freeing it is to
utter darkness. You can wave your see the light and to walk in it! Read 2
hands inches from your eyes and Corinthians 4:6.

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BEST Ingredients
CHERRY
SALAD 1 (16 oz.) can
pitted dark sweet
1 While bringing 1 cup of water to a cherries

boil, drain liquid from all fruit and 1 (8 oz.) can
reserve for later use. crushed pineapple

2 Mix Jell-O in boiling water in a large 1 (11 oz.) can
mandarin oranges
bowl, then add reserved liquid to
Jell-O mix. 1 (6 oz.) pkg cherry
Jell-O
3 Refrigerate until Jell-O is the
½ c. chopped
thickness of egg whites. pecans

4 Mix in fruit and nuts and pour into

Jell-O mold. Refrigerate at least 12
hours before serving.

BIBLICAL VIRTUES

to Pray for Your Children

Willingness &
Ability to Work

Teach my children, Lord, to value
work and to work at it with all
their heart, as working for the
Lord and not for men.

Col. 3:23

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DAY27
Proverbs 27:1-6; 17

We have a tendency to want friends that make us feel good about ourselves and don’t
challenge our way of living. However, true friends offer “tough love.” What does “tough
love” look like in verses 5 and 6?

What are “hidden love” and “kisses from an enemy?” Answer: Hidden love is perception
of failure in another but neglect to act on their behalf or to warn them. Kisses from
an enemy are ways people build up one another's self-esteem even while they are
destroying their own life through bad decisions.

In what ways can one person spiritually sharpen another person? See verse 17 (Prayer,
service, surrendering to the Holy Spirit, accountability, studying God’s Word and hiding
it in our hearts)

Sharp in the Hands of the Master Key Verse
Proverbs 27:17

Maybe you have seen commercials on the world in the hands of the
where someone claims to sell the last Master, they decline accountability.
knife you will ever need. You watch as Knives were not created to sit in
they cut through chains, tin cans, and drawers. They were made to cut.
phone books. Now that is a useful In the same way, Christians are not
tool...but wait! There’s more! called to live apathetic and selfish
Followers of Christ want to be lives. Ephesians 2:10 tells us, “For
useful like a sharpened knife. Our job we are his workmanship, created in
is to make ourselves available to God Christ Jesus for good works, which
to be sharpened for service through God prepared beforehand, that we
accountability and godly counsel. should walk in them.”
There is friction when The Lord has designed us for
iron
sharpens iron. In order to specific challenges. He wants to use
help
us, true friends are willing us, but we must remain sharp. Are
to tell
us things we don't want to your friends sharpening you, or are
hear.
Christians are often content to they part of the dulling process? How
sit
comfortably in the drawer, dull and
are you sharpening those around you
idle. Rather than making an impact for God’s service?

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FRITOS Ingredients
CHILI PIE
CASSEROLE 2 ½ c. Frito corn
chips
1 Place 1 ½ cups Fritos corn chips in a
1 (15 oz.) can chili
baking dish.
1 lg. onion,
2 Arrange chopped onion and half of chopped

the grated cheese over Fritos. 1 c. grated
American cheese
3 Pour heated chili over onion and

cheese.

4 Top with remaining Fritos corn chips

and grated cheese.

5 Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.

Makes 6 servings.

BIBLICAL VIRTUES

to Pray for Your Children

Passion for God

Lord, please instill in my
children a soul that "follows
hard after you," one that clings

passionately to You.

Psalm 63:8

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DAY28
Proverbs 28:7-14

God tells us to pray. Why What makes our prayers We find mercy when
is prayer important? not only ineffective but we confess and forsake
1 Thessalonians 5:17 an offense to God? (v. 9) our sin. What does it
indicates we are to pray We're foolish to live like mean to confess and
continually. How do we the devil and expect God forsake? Do you find
do this? to bless our lives through we sometimes confess
prayer. (Ex: vs. 10-12) without forsaking?

P PRAISE What is so great about God?
R REPENT What have I done that does not glorify God? Psalm 66:18,
A "If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened."
Y We repent by following the counsel of Proverbs 28:13, confess and
forsake!
ASK What would you request from God? Pray for yourself and for
others! Philippians 4:6
YIELD Will you surrender to do what God wants? When we surrender
our control to the Holy Spirit, he comes and dwells within us. He helps
us to live the victorious Christian life by truth found in God’s Word!

How Do We Pray? KeyVerse
Proverbs 28:13

Pour a glass of milk and squeeze the power to live like Christ, we must
some chocolate syrup into it. The surrender. We must allow God to
glass of milk represents our life. stir our lives and fill us with the Holy
When we receive Christ, the Holy Spirit. When we are filled with the
Spirit (God Himself) comes to indwell Holy Spirit, we are constantly walking
us (Ephesians 1:13). with and for Christ.
In order for the milk to be Just like the chocolate takes over
transformed and look like chocolate every part of the milk, in prayerful
milk, the chocolate must be stirred. submission we allow God to stir our
For our lives to be transformed to lives and take control.
look more like Christ and to possess

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COOKIE SHEET CAKE

Contributed by Sue Harris

2 c. sugar Pour into greased and
2 c. flour floured cookie sheet pan.
1 tsp. baking soda Bake at 400 degrees for
1 tsp. cinnamon 15–20 min.
Combine ingredients in a
mixing bowl. Icing
1 stick margarine
2 sticks margarine 1 tsp. vanilla
4 tbsp. Hershey’s 3 tbsp. cocoa
cocoa powder 6 tbsp. buttermilk
1 c. water 1 box confectioner
Bring to a rapid boil and pour sugar, sifted
while hot into dry ingredients Mix wet ingredients and
then slowly incorporate dry
Add immediately: ingredients.
½ c. buttermilk (not low fat)
1 tsp. pure vanilla
2 lg. eggs

BIBLICAL VIRTUES

to Pray for Your Children

Self-Discipline

Father, I pray that my children
may acquire a disciplined and

prudent life, doing what is
right and just and fair.

Proverbs 1:3

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DAY29
Proverbs 29:1; 8-11; 20-22

What are some Can you be angry about What are some godly
common responses something and not sin? ways to handle anger?
when we get angry? Read Eph. 4: 26-27.

Verse 1 Don't “stiffen Verse 8 Rage can harm Verse 9 Do not fight
your neck" or be angry those around you like with a fool! You will not
at godly counsel. fire to a city. A gentle find resolution.
response brings peace

Verse 11 A fool cannot Verse 20 In anger, a fool Verse 22 The “man of
control their temper and talks before thinking. wrath” stirs up anger
must vent their anger. He regrets what he can in others and commits
never take back. more sins in that anger.

How to Cool Down When you Get Hot Key Verse
Proverbs 29:11

What do you expect when you hear it up and write a second letter. This
someone say, “I'm losing my temper!” letter was tactful and diplomatic.
Like a shotgun, they are about to go Out of love and a desire for
off—often yelling and acting out in peace, we need to take our anger
foolish ways. However brief, that and limit it to unsent letters. Instead
moment can damage how others of allowing our anger to overwhelm
perceive our relationship with Christ. us and destroy our relationships, we
When Abraham Lincoln was need to master the art of the unsent
irritated with someone, he would letter. Jesus said, “love your enemies
often write two letters. His first and pray for those who mistreat
letter, the one he called a “hot letter,” you (Matthew 5:44)." Do you find
was deliberately harsh and insulting. yourself treating those closest to you
After he was able to cool down and worse than Jesus commanded us to
put aside his emotions, he would tear treat our worst enemies?

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SPAGHETTI Ingredients
CARBONARA
6-8 strips of bacon
Contributed by Brenda Lindsay
3 whole eggs
1 Cut bacon into small pieces, fry
¼ c. of soft butter
and set aside.
1 c. light cream
2 In large serving bowl in which
¾ c. of (fresh) grated
you will serve the spaghetti, Parmesan
beat the 3 eggs and then
slowly add the cream, butter, 1 lb. spaghetti
Parmesan cheese, salt and
pepper—then beat a little more. salt and fresh ground
black pepper
3 Cook the spaghetti, drain and

pour it immediately into the
bowl with the egg mixture.

4 Stir until the spaghetti is

completely covered with the
sauce. Serve immediately.

BIBLICAL VIRTUES

to Pray for Your Children

Prayerfulness

Grant, Lord, that my children‟s
lives may be marked by

prayerfulness, that they may
learn to pray in the Spirit on
all occasions with all kinds of

prayers.

1 Thess. 5:17

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WHOLE 31 If God is so great, why are we so enticed
by things of this world rather than
DAY30 being content with our relationship
Proverbs 30:3-9 with God?

Do You Crack God’s Word is true (v.5). How would
Under Pressure? you share with someone else why you
believe God’s Word to be true?

Agur had two requests from God, what
were they? (v. 7-9) If you could ask God
for two things, what would they be?

Try this experiment as a family. Place Proverbs 30:5 says that God is “a
an uncooked egg in the palm of your shield to those who take refuge
hand with the small rounded tip in Him.” When you're attacked
pointing towards your fingers and the spiritually by the world’s temptations,
fat bottom facing your wrist. Wrap the desires of your own flesh, and
your fingers around the egg and the Satan himself, remember our
squeeze as hard as you can with even Protector. He will keep us from
pressure. The egg will not break. breaking under pressure. Our
Scientist Steve Spangler tells us knowledge of and relationship with
why: “The egg's unique shape gives God affirms it is God’s power that
it tremendous strength, despite its sustains us.
fragility. Eggs are similar in shape In 2 Cor. 4:8, Paul writes, “We
to a 3D arch, one of the strongest are afflicted in every way, but not
architectural forms. The egg is crushed; perplexed but not driven
strongest at the top and the bottom. to despair; persecuted, but not
That's why the egg doesn't break forsaken; struck down, but not
when you add pressure to both ends. destroyed...” God is our strength, and
The curved form of the shell also we would be wise to regard once
distributes pressure evenly all over again the whole Armor of God for
the shell rather than concentrating believers to wear to withstand the
it at any one point. By completely pressures of life (Ephesians 6:10-19).
surrounding the egg with your hand,
the pressure you apply by squeezing GOD'S POWER
is distributed evenly all over the egg.
However, eggs do not stand up well How wise and powerful is God?
to uneven forces, which is why they Verses 3-4 are a small description of
crack easily on the side of a bowl. God’s limitless power and wisdom.
This explains how a hen can sit on an For a masterful illustration of God’s
egg and not break it, but a tiny little greatness, read Isaiah 40:9-31 and
chick can break through the eggshell.” share portions with the family.

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ASIAN Ingredients
COLESLAW
2 pkgs. Oriental Ramen
Contributed by Cynthia Yount Noodles

1 Crush Ramen noodles in the 16 oz. coleslaw mix
(shredded green
bottom of a large bowl, layer cabbage, red cabbage,
coleslaw mix, chopped green carrots)
onions, sunflower seeds and
slivered almonds. 1 bunch green onions

2 Mix flavor package from Ramen 1 c. sunflower seeds

noodles with sugar, vegetable 1 c. slivered almonds
oil and vinegar. Pour over
layered ingredients. Flavor packet from
Ramen noodles
3 Cover and let sit in refrigerator
½ (or reduce to 1/3) c.
for 8 hours or overnight. Mix sugar
and serve.
¾ c. vegetable oil

1/3 c. white vinegar

BIBLICAL VIRTUES

to Pray for Your Children

Gratitude

Help my children to live lives
that are always overflowing with
thankfulness and always giving

thanks to God the Father for
everything, in the name of our

Lord Jesus Christ.

Eph. 5:20; Col. 2:7

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DAY31
Proverbs 31: 10-31

Guys, what attributes do you want in a Ladies, what attributes would you like
future spouse? How would you prepare to see grow in yourself? What do you
yourself to be a godly man to lead and need from mom or dad that can help
love such a woman? How can mom or you develop these qualities?
dad help you grow in these areas?

PROVERBS 31 WOMAN

This chapter, while not a specific list and fears the Lord above all and
of expectations for every woman, is a demonstrates godliness in the way
description of the virtuous character a she conducts herself in deed and
godly wife will have in the many facets speech. What do you think the world
of life. She is devoted to her household today says are important character
and contributes to the security of the traits women should have? How are
household. She helps the poor and these ideals in contrast with what the
helpless and presents herself in dignity, Scripture says?
modesty, and godliness. She loves

Celebrating Mom of the husband and children in
without Mother’s Day encouraging mom in her pursuit of
Christ-likeness. Her children “rise
Key Verse up and call her blessed,” and her
Proverbs 31:28-30 husband “praises her.” A wife and/
or a mom needs to hear positive
A woman can have many roles in life. encouragement. We should not wait
She can be a mother, wife, worker, for Mother’s Day or a birthday to
friend, daughter, and so much more. share our love and support for her.
Like all of us, she needs love and What are some things you
encouragement from her family. appreciate about mom? What are
Proverbs 28-29 shares the role some ways you would like to show
your appreciation for her?
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