If my People

Youth series · 3 lessons

A series on prayer

Yes, God hears our thoughts and knows our hearts, but He loves to hear our voices.

Three lessons for middle school through young adult groups, with supporting graphics for screens and social media.

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If My People series cover: glowing neon-line praying hands over the words If My People in cream capitals on a warm taupe ground, with A Series on Prayer beneath.

Lesson 1 · the opening verse

God is waiting on your voice.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14, KJV · it opens all three lessons

He wants to hear from you!

Or tap anywhere in the light.Or click anywhere in the light. Each prayer is a line from the lessons.

Lesson 1 God is waiting on your voice

Prayer is a privilege, and a very powerful one.

God is listening for your voice, like a father and mother listening for that first cry of a baby for the first time. It’s the sign of life.

“…from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.”

Daniel 10:12, KJV

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”

Matthew 7:7, KJV

Accessing what God has for us is based on us asking. We must pray!

Also in Lesson 1: Luke 11:1–4 · Ephesians 6:18

Lesson 2 Heaven’s password

Humble is heaven’s password

Lesson 2 graphic: a small neon praying-hands icon above the words Heaven’s Password, with If My People beneath.

To be humble is like an on and off switch of who controls our life.

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

James 4:7, KJV

We must submit before we can resist.

When we humble ourselves we let go of our past, present, and our future.

Our past
When we let go of our past, God can heal our yesterday through the cross and his resurrection.
Our now
When we let go of our present we allow God to order our steps in his word.
Our future
When we let go of our future we simply let God open and close the doors for what’s next.

Second page of the Lesson 2 plan: application notes on our past, our now and our future, and the words of I Surrender All. — Lesson 2, page 2: the application

All to Jesus I surrender All to him I freely give The old song “I Surrender All,” as Lesson 2 closes

Lesson 3 screen: the words Who Is Calling? across glowing neon praying hands, with a small If My People mark in the corner.

Lesson 3 Who is calling?

If we are called by his name, we must call on his name!

“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

Acts 4:12, KJV

The name of Jesus is your access to all authority and power in heaven.

O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not

Daniel 9:19, KJV · quoted in Lesson 3

God will work, but who will let him?

Also in Lesson 3: John 16:23–24 · Philippians 2:9–11 · James 5:16

Supporting graphics for screens and social media

Let your voice be heard in heaven everyday

Every lesson has its title screen and quote graphics, and the series has slides for Today, Tonight, Tomorrow and Next Week.

Lord, teach us to pray.

What’s in the download

“Teach us to pray. We can learn to pray by listening to others pray.” Lesson 1, on Luke 11:1

Download_IfMyPeople.pdfA welcome sheet with the link to all of the graphics for the series.
Lessons/IfMyPeople_01.pdfLesson 1 · God Is Waiting on Your Voice
Lessons/IfMyPeople_02.pdfLesson 2 · Heaven’s Password
Lessons/IfMyPeople_03.pdfLesson 3 · Who Is Calling?

Each lesson plan works from King James scripture, with group or breakout discussion questions (groups of 4 to 6, for 5 to 10 minutes) and an application. Series writer: Zach Hammond.