As you prepare plans for Bible Time with your children, you may find this simple Bible Time Planning page helpful! It outlines the three key elements of Bible Time, giving you space to write your plans for singing to the Lord, and time in the Word and prayer with your children.

This Bible Time Planning Page is very flexible. You can use this page to plan for a single Bible Time, for a week of Bible Time, or even a month of Bible Time, whichever would serve you best!

Print the planning page as many times as you like for personal use and place the pages in your First Place Bible Time Planner. This way the plans will be easily accessable as you continue to enjoy Bible Time with your children!

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Looking for a way to intentionally pray with your children about your Bible Times together? Consider using Bible Time Prayer Cards!

These prayer cards identify specific aspects of Bible Time to pray about. A printable is available to help you get started. This printable includes:

1. Five Bible Time Prayer Cards that focus on the three key elements of Bible Time: Sing, Bible and Pray.

2. Discussion Questions

3. Instructions on how to use the prayer cards.

Have a wonderful time talking to the Lord with your children. And if you choose to use these prayer cards, we’d love to have you share a comment or send a note our way! :-)

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There sit on my desk this evening two very special things.

One is my accredited college degree in all of its official glory, bearing quiet witness to hours of study and many answered prayers.

The other is my Bible, a generous split at Matthew and another in John make it somewhat lumpier than it was on my 12th birthday. But the penciled notes and familiar pages are simply the visual marks of the reality hidden inside my own heart.

You may have heard the story of how my mother encountered great pressure to shorten Bible Time in order to teach me, her firstborn, the academics. But she and my father chose instead to put Bible Time first. God, His Word and prayer were top priority in their own lives and in our family life.

Did it make any difference? It made all the difference in the world because our personal relationship with God is the foundation for everything else. I learned from my parents who God is, how much He loves me and how He sent His Son to die for me. It was the most natural thing in the world to respond back to Him in love and ask Him to be my Savior.

I learned from my parents how to pray, how to study the Bible, how to memorize Bible verses and how to put the Bible into practice. I saw through my parent’s example that seeking Christ, walking with Him, was a joyful way of life. Much of this I learned during Bible Time. It sparked a flame in my own soul that grew to a tremendous desire to know the Lord deeply and to share Him with others.

And their choice to put Bible Time first? It forged an inner steel into my own soul that Christ is to be Lord of every area of my life. As I grew older, having my own personal quiet time as one of the first priorities of my day was natural (if not always easy). More than that, it was critical. Faithfulness in my relationship with the Lord came so much easier thanks to the regular habit of Bible Time in my childhood.

I highly value my college degree. It means a great deal to me. I learned much through obtaining it and it has been a blessing in my career.

But I value far more my personal relationship with the Lord. Life is full of challenges, expected and unexpected. When my world slides upside down, I don’t reach for my degree. I reach for the hand of my very Best Friend, the Lord Jesus Christ. His strength never ends, His wisdom is infinite and His presence is the greatest joy of my life.

In Micah 6:8 we are challenged to walk humbly with God, to have that close relationship with Him. Bible Time was one of the key places where I learned what that looks like. And it changed my life.

As you homeschool your children this year, I pray you are filled with fresh vision and continue to put Bible Time first, despite all the pressures and distractions. I am so thankful my parents did. I think your kids will be too.

Love in Jesus,

Melanie (33)

*Adapted from the Foreward in “First Place, a Bible Time Handbook for Parents.”

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Do you have the desire to help your children love Jesus and grow in Him, yet wonder how to go about it or where to begin?

First Place Plans are here to help! First Place Plans provide you with a simple yet intentional guide as you enjoy Bible Time with your children. They offer creative activities and encourage participation, discussion and discovery as you and your children read, study and memorize God’s Word together.

Two Plans!

There are two 5 Day First Place Plans to choose from. Plan 4A is designed to be used with children who have yet to read or write. Plan 4B is designed to be used with everyone else! Plan 4A and Plan 4B can also be used together if you have both children who can’t read and children who can.

Hymn, Song and Activities!

A hymn, Scripture song and creative activities are included! Just click on the active links in the download before printing.

Resources!

Related Memory Verse Cards and Bible Study Pages are provided.

Great news!

These plans are flexible! Miss a day? No worries. Just pick up where you left off and keep going!

Binder!

Bible Study Pages can be kept in a three ring Bible Study Binder. (Binder Cover Download available here)

You’re all set!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out and ask. It would be wonderful to hear from you.

And if you do decide to use one of the 5 Day First Place Plans I’d love to hear from you as well! Your feedback will help us as we continue to make more First Place Plans.

May the Lord bless the work of your hands as you choose to put the spiritual nurturing of your children in first place over their academic studies and other endeavors.

Note: Files are created for two sided printing.

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Do you have the desire to help your children love Jesus and grow in Him, yet wonder how to go about it or where to begin?

First Place Plans are here to help! First Place Plans provide you with a simple yet intentional guide as you enjoy Bible Time with your children. They offer creative activities and encourage participation, discussion and discovery as you and your children read, study and memorize God’s Word together.

Two Plans!

There are two 5 Day First Place Plans to choose from. Plan 3A is designed to be used with children who have yet to read or write. Plan 3B is designed to be used with everyone else! Plan 3A and Plan 3B can also be used together if you have both children who can’t read and children who can.

Hymn, Song and Activities!

A hymn, two more songs and creative activities are included! Just click on the active links in the download before printing.

Resources!

Related Memory Verse Cards and Bible Study Pages are provided.

Great news!

These plans are flexible! Miss a day? No worries. Just pick up where you left off and keep going!

Binder!

Bible Study Pages can be kept in a three ring Bible Study Binder. (Binder Cover Download available here)

You’re all set!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out and ask. It would be wonderful to hear from you.

And if you do decide to use one of the 5 Day First Place Plans I’d love to hear from you as well! Your feedback will help us as we continue to make more First Place Plans.

May the Lord bless the work of your hands as you choose to put the spiritual nurturing of your children in first place over their academic studies and other endeavors.

Note: Files are created for two sided printing.

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