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CFC YOUTH FOR

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HOUSEHOLD TRACK

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TALK TITLES
Tired? Have a S.P.A
Coming Home To Your Father
God First. Family Next
Following Jesus’ Footsteps
The Bible: God’s Scrapbook
God’s Love
No Appointment Necessary
In God’s Perfect Timing
Faith in Action
Facing Temptations
Worry No More
Bloom Where You are Planted

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Tired? Have a S.P.A.

Goals of the topic:
• To affirm the youth that it is normal to be tired
and to experience difficulties in our lives
• To inspire them that the perfect way to handle
stress is to be with God through S.P.A. (S-
scriptures, P-prayer, A- always accept the will of
God)

Read: Matthew 11:28

Stress is very normal in our lives. We can experience it

through the smallest things like being stuck in traffic on
your examination day, or in a long line in a fast food
chain. It can be as big as a misunderstanding with your
parents or a possible failing grade. No one is exempted
from these things. That is why we always want to have a
break, a reliever that would recharge us, for us to go on
with life.

As each person has a certain personality, our definition

of a stress reliever also differs. Boys would resort to
playing the computer, while girls would opt for a parlor.
Sporty people would choose to shoot the ball in the
courts, while reserved ones would find favor in being
alone, listening to heart-warming music and writing on
their journals.

However, there is something that all of us could resort to,

something that is free of charge, and something that is
applicable no matter who you are.

Jesus is the only way to go and He offers to us the

experience of S.P.A. He promotes this as a solution at

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all times to our stresses. Definitely, it is not the S.P.A. in

those posh places. It is a S.P.A. with God.

Scriptures – we can always use our Bibles and the daily

scriptures to cure our difficulties in life. When we read
stories in this book, we get to realize that indeed, the
people of God even from long time ago, experienced the
same hurt or the same giant we might be facing right
now. They had God, and they were able to get through
every hurdle there was, and so can we.

Prayer – there is no sweeter date than the one we can

have with God. Often times, we seek for the people
closest to us to be with us in times of stress. We want to
vent out, and we want to talk. But what if they can’t be
with us sharing the times when we need them the most?
We must be reminded that even if they are there or not,
God is always available and He is the best one to talk
with. He wants to listen to our very hearts, and He
wants to personally comfort and love us.

Always accept the will of God – in our stresses, we seek

for relief. We want to divert to a place of happiness
rather than loneliness. We want the easy way, and not
the hard one, but hard times come for a reason. God
wants to teach us something, most especially trusting in
Him. He still loves us in situations like these. That is
why we must always be ready to accept God’s will. Most
of the time, we are stressed because things don’t go our
way, but somehow, it is the way to go. It is the way of
God. As we pray, we must learn to surrender to the
wonderful fact that God has a perfect will for all of us.

Guide questions:
• What are the things that cause you to feel
stressed? Who are the people right now that
cause you to feel stressed?

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• How have you been responding to it lately?

Action plan/ output/ assignment:

• Given your situation, seek for God’s word for you
from the Bible.
• In the closing prayer, ask everyone to lift up their
stresses.
• Pray over everyone that they will get to accept
God’s will in their lives.

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Coming Home to Your Father

Goal of the topic:
• to remind us that despite our sinfulness and
shortcomings, God is our Father who invites us
to come back to Him

Read: Romans 8:15-16, Luke 5:11-32, 2 Corinthians

6:18

When you hold up your arms to your heavenly Father,

He reaches down to scoop you up. These passages
remind us that accepting God’s gift of salvation is not a
formal business deal. It’s a picture of a father welcoming
home his rebellious child. It’s just like the story of the
prodigal son in Luke 5: 11-32.

Just like the ungrateful son, we have run far from God.
At some point in our lives, we tried to live on our own,
apart from Him. We packed a knapsack, bought a bus
ticket, and took off for the lights of the city. Somehow, the
plan didn’t work out as we expected, but God, your
Father, was waiting up for you when you come home.

With joy in His eyes, God adopted you as soon as you

held up your arms to Him. He’s your Abba Father. It
doesn’t matter how far you’ve run or how long you’ve
been gone. His love doesn’t change. You are His child.

Discussion Questions:
• What does it personally mean to you to be a
child of God?
• How can you approach Him as His child?

Assignment:

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• Have a good confession.

God First. Family Next.
Goals of the topic:
• To give a reminder of how significant our
families are to use (each member of our family
is God’s gift to our lives)
• To be able to pray for each member of our
family
• To allow us to express our love for them through
prayer

Read: Leviticus 19:2-4

We have always heard that our families are God’s gifts

to all of us. We have different situations in our families,
but no matter what these are, God loves us through
them. We can never deny our families for they are a big
part of us. We are who we are right now mainly because
of them.

It is always a good thing to just think about each member

of our family. When we love them, we just don’t love
those whom we are close with. Each member is
significant. When we share about them, we have the
opportunity to be proud of them.

At the same time, the greatest thing we can do to love

them is to pray for them. Sometimes, we may find
ourselves in a certain conflict with them. Let us not allow
it to be that way. God’s plan is for families to be united.
It is Satan who wills otherwise. Conflicts are normal, but
we should strive to resolve them. At other times, our
prayers for them concern some things in their lives that

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are not okay, without us in the picture. Even in these

cases, we are invited to pray for them.

Activity:
Divide your paper into three columns.
1st column: Write down the name of all your family
members.
2nd column: Write down one thing you love about that
family member.
3rd column: Write down your prayer concern for that
family member.

After the activity, allow each one to share what they

wrote.

Action Plan/ Output/ Assignment:

• Decide to do something concretely aside from
prayer to express your love to each member of
the family.

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Following Jesus’ Footsteps

Goals of the topic:
• To allow each member to draw his or her
priorities in life right now.
• To encourage each one to work on one’s
priorities
• To inspire them to have a passion and to have
the heart for their priorities as a way to achieve
them

Jesus is a role model when it comes to priorities and

reaching them.

Jesus set specific goals. - Jesus had a sense of destiny.

“He knew where He wanted to go. He knew where
people needed Him.” John 4:3

Jesus had developed a passion for these goals. - Jesus

had a passion for His mission and goal in life. He went
as far as dying on the cross. “And whatsoever you do,
do it heartily as to the Lord, and not unto men.”
Colossians 3:23

Jesus finished what He had started. - He started His

ministry when He was 30 years old. He ended it 3 years
after when He was pierced, crushed and crucified. The
bridge that linked God to man was complete. Man could
approach God without fear. “The desire accomplished is
sweet to the soul.” Proverbs 13:19

Jesus gives an example of how to live life to the fullest,

fulfilling God’s plans. He models us on how important it
is to have specific goals. Setting up goals will guide us

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in a rightful journey of finishing something good that

contributes to the totality of a beautiful life.

However, He further models the secret to reaching them.

We need to have a heart - a passion for these goals.
We need to love what we are doing and believe in it,
knowing that this is what could make God happy, and
what could give us peace. We need to do it for God
more than doing it for other people.

Furthermore, God is a living testimony of how to put an

end to reaching one’s goals. That is through finishing
everything that you have started. With God’s grace and
love, we can accomplish everything that He wills.

Guide Questions:
• Write down in total detail everything you would
like to become, do or have during your lifetime.
Write down your dreams in detail in a paper.
• Write down your 12-month goal.
• Write down your 30-day goal.
• Write down the 6 most important things you will
do in the next 24 hours.

The secret of your future is written in your daily routines.

Action Plan/ Output/ Assignment:

Coming from the activity you have done today in this
household...
• Continue the 24-hour (daily) list of goals
everyday.
• Continue the 30-day list of goals for the next
months to come.
• Continue the 12-month list of goals in the next
years to come.

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See how God becomes faithful to you daily, monthly and

yearly as you make Him the very reason for finishing
your goals.
The Bible: God’s Scrapbook
Goal of the topic:
• to gain a deeper love for the Bible.

Read: Romans 15:4, Psalm 119:9-18

The Bible even more comes alive when we realize that it

is God’s scrapbook. Paging through it, you’ll learn more
about Him with each turn. It overflows with collages of
pictures, stories, poems and letters. You’ll discover a
piece of music that David wrote for him and a prayer
God received from Job. You’ll get a glimpse of God’s
face as He watched His Son die.

What makes the Bible a unique scrapbook is that it

doesn’t just commemorate the past – it provides
guidance for today and hope for tomorrow. You can find
your name and face in its pages. Next to each Bible
promise is a picture of you. The same hope, the same
gifts, and the same salvation recorded in the Bible apply
to you. This scrapbook isn’t a nostalgic keepsake. It’s a
living, dynamic, hopeful expectation of God’s plan for the
future.

Discussion Questions:
• What Bible promise is very real in your life
today?
• What steps can you take so that you will be
consistent in your everyday Bible study /
reading?

Action plan/ output/ assignment:

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• Have a deeper commitment to your prayer time

and the use of the Bible everyday.
God’s Love
Goal of the topic:
• to realize God’s great love for us
• to be able to thank God as a household for His
personal love for each one

Read John 13:1, Ephesians 3:14-19, Romans 8:35-39

God’s Word is the most beautiful expression of love ever

written. Shakespeare’s sonnets pale in comparison to
the Bible’s description of love. His love transcends every
kind of earthly love. His love is stronger than any bond
between parent and child or husband and wife. No
earthly image can accurately portray God’s love for us.

Galatians 2:20 explains that Jesus loved you enough to

die in your place. He chose to accept your punishment
so you could spend eternity with the Father. In His death,
Christ committed the greatest act of love ever seen by
human eyes.

With love so devoted, so sacrificial and extreme, nothing

can ever interfere. Nothing can squelch or diminish that
love. You cannot fall beyond the reach of that love. You
can’t lose it. You can’t change it, win it or control it. His
love extends before and beyond time, and He loved you
before you knew Him. When you begin to accept His
love, you begin the most amazing relationship in your
life.

Discussion Questions:

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• In what events in your life did you realize the

immense love that God has for you?
• Can you trust a loving God with the direction of
your life?
• How much do you love God in return?

Action plan/ Outputs/ Assignments:

• End the household by allowing each member to
say one’s personal prayer allowed in
thanksgiving for God’s love.

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No Appointment Necessary
Goal of the topic:
• to remind each one that God is available
anytime and anywhere to talk with us.

Read: Mark 11:20-24, James 5:15

Maybe it seems too good to be true that you have

immediate access to the creator of the universe. You
don’t need to ask his secretary if He is busy. You can
bypass the lobby, phones, and security guards and walk
right into his office. His focus is completely on you, and
His time is unlimited.

You would expect nothing less from your father, right?

God doesn’t treat you like a stranger or business partner.
You are His child, dearly loved and cherished. If you
believe that God loves you, then you can trust that he
will listen to your prayers.

In Mark 11, Jesus told us not to waste our words in

prayer if we do not believe that God will answer us. But if
we are confident that He will meet our requests, then be
ready! Ephesians 3:20 tells us that God wants to bless
us beyond our wildest dreams.

Discussion Questions:
• Do you pray in confidence or in doubt?
• What are the things that you are currently
praying for?

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Action plans/ Outputs/ Assignments:

• Pray-over each member’s personal concerns.

In God’s Perfect Timing

Goals of the topic:
• to realize that everything in this world happens
in God’s perfect timing
• to realize that we just have to trust in His timing,
wait and be hopeful that great things are yet to
happen

Read: Ecclesiastes 3:1-15, Psalm 27:14

Maybe things in your life seem to pass just so quickly

and you often find yourself doing different routines or
habits everyday. You may also have experienced those
times when you feel like things just did not happen at the
right timing which could have made you feel bad and
made you regret what just had happened. Everyone has
experienced such moments in their lives in one way or
another and so it can be labelled as normal, but given
such inevitable circumstances, what is expected of you
to do?

In Ecclesiastes 3: 1-15, we are reminded by God that

everything that He allows to happen in this world we are
living in happens at the time that He chooses. God has
set the right time for everything – may it be the time
when a close friend called you to ask for help or the time
when you learned that you got a high score for your quiz.
However, there are other times that might be difficult and
you might have that experience where you felt that
everything was not just in the right timing, BUT believe it
or not, that is exactly the perfect timing that God has set

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for your life. We may not understand why things do

happen in this way or in that way but that is simply
because God has given us the desire to know the future
but He never gives us the satisfaction of fully
understanding what He does.

This is where faith and hope will come in. Because we

will not fully understand what He is doing, all we can do
is to accept that everything does happen in God’s
perfect timing, that we just have to wait, believe that He
is in control, and be hopeful that great things are indeed
bound to happen. One sure thing that God does is to
make us stand in awe of Him and given that fact, we are
to be happy and do the best we can while we are still
alive.

Whatever happens or can happen has already

happened before and God can make the same thing
happen again and again because everything that God
does shall last forever. Things may not happen exactly
the way that we want them to be or they may not happen
at the time we think is the best time, but it all boils down
to still trusting that it is God’s timing that’s what is most
important and looking at the brighter side of life.

Discussion Questions:
• What were those times when you felt that
everything was not just happening at the right
time?
• How do you usually react to such times or
circumstances?
• How would you want to deal with such times or
circumstances now?

Action plans/ Outputs/ Assignments:

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• Decide to do something concretely to deal

positively with such trying times and
circumstances.
• Write down your Top 5 Steps to help remind you
to really trust in God’s perfect timing and hope
for great things to happen despite the inevitable
trying times that you will still have to face today
or tomorrow. (e.g. calm down, pray, take a deep
breath, think of God’s great plan for me, smile.)

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Faith in Action
Goals of the topic:
• to be reminded that faith does come hand in
hand with action
• to put into practice whatever He is telling us to
do now

Read: Matthew 7:24, James 1: 22-25

In the community where we are in, we may have heard a

lot of great teachings from different talks and sharings
from our different brothers and sisters. God may have
personally talked to us too through our daily prayer time
when we read the Scriptures. All those teachings, stories
and Scripture readings have well contributed to the kind
of faith you now have. You may think that the faith you
have is already too strong that it cannot be torn, but we
must not lose grip on the truth that faith is nothing if not
put into practice.

In Matthew 7:24, Jesus reminded us that everyone who

listens to His words and acts on them will be like a wise
man who built his house on rock. This is what Christ has
called us to do. This is what is expected of us. Given all
the wonderful truths that God has allowed us to acquire
in our lives, He wants us to put those truths into practice,
to walk the talk or to actually put into action whatever we
preach.

This challenge can be found in James 1: 22-25. It was

said here that we should not deceive ourselves by just

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listening to His word. We are called to put whatever we

have heard into practice. What God wants us to do is to
look closely into His truth that sets people free, to keep
paying attention to it and to not simply listen and then
forget about it. If we just keep in our minds and our
hearts this reminder of God, we will surely be blessed by
Him in everything that we do.

It is indeed a great privilege to hear and listen to the

Word of God. It really feels good to listen to inspiring
stories from our brothers and sisters that highlight God’s
greatness and promises in their lives. We ourselves feel
a different high when we personally feel that God is
talking to us, but may all these wonderful things do not
remain in ourselves. May we all realize that all those
great truths are nothing if we do not put it into action.
May we also realize that when we put such truths into
practice, we are actually allowing other people to see
God’s greatness in our lives and those very actions can
inspire them to get to know more the same God who has
allowed such great things to happen.

Discussion Questions:
• What is your faith in God like?
• What is the God’s personal word to you now?
What are you planning to do with it? What are
the concrete action steps that you are to take?

Action plans/ Outputs/ Assignments:

• Pray for one another in the household. Pray for
the growth of each person’s faith in God.
• Write down God’s personal word to you and the
concrete action steps that you are to take to put
that word into practice.

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Facing Temptations
Goals of the topic:
• to have the right posture of the heart when
facing temptations
• to have the right focus on the will of God in
everything that we do

Read: James 1: 12-18, Proverbs 21:2, Matthew 7:21

In the world where we live in today and in the generation

where we belong, things are getting more chaotic each
day, with all the worldly pleasures that surround us. More
and more youth fall into the traps of sin by starting to
entertain different temptations. The world today offers so
many options that if we will not have the right posture of
the heart; we will just catch ourselves off guard and will
just find ourselves committing sins that we actually did
not imagine doing. Given all these bitter truths of reality,
what then should we do?

In James 1: 12-18, we will see that the ones who are

blessed and happy are those remain faithful under trials
because when they succeed in passing the tests of
temptation, they will receive as their reward the life
which God has promised to those who love Him. It is
also made clear in these verses that temptation does not
come from God. We people are tempted when we are
drawn away and trapped by our own evil desires. These
evil desires will then give birth to sin which further gives
birth to death when full-grown.

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If we will come to take a closer look at it, temptations

come from one’s evil desires. That is why it is so
important to keep our heart in check all the time. Our
hearts should always be in the right posture so that it
would be easier for us to resist temptation in times when
we will be tested. After all, God knows everything. If we
can deceive ourselves, we will never be able to deceive
God. We may think that everything that we do is right,
but we must remember that the Lord judges our motives.
He is the one who proves hearts. He looks into our heart
more than anything.

We may be in denial that what we actually long for is

already evil but God knows the real desires of our hearts
and in whatever state our hearts are in. What then
should be the posture of our hearts? In Matthew 7:21, it
is said that only the one who does the will of God will
enter the kingdom of heaven. This means that only those
who do what God wants them to do will be with Him in
heaven, and that is not to give in to our worldly desires
which can lead us to sin and even to death. We should
always be mindful of the will of the Father and assess
our hearts every time if what we long for is what He
wants us to long for or desire.

We should not forget to align our hearts’ desires to what

our dear Father wants us to desire. He only wants what
is beautiful and what is for our own good, and so
entertaining temptations that can destruct us should
never be an option. At the end of the day, may we realize
that we really can face temptations the right way if we
first put on the right posture that our hearts should have
and always think of what the Father wants us to do for
us to be with Him in heaven when His time comes.

Discussion Questions:
• What is the state of your heart now?

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• What are the current desires of your heart? Are

those desires pleasing God?
• How do you usually deal with temptations? How
will you react to the test of temptations now?

Action plans/ Outputs/ Assignments:

• Pray for one another in the household. Pray for
the desires of the hearts of all the members in
the household.
• Have a regular heart-check during your daily
prayer time.

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Worry No More
Goal of the topic:
• to remind and affirm ourselves that the Lord is in
control of everything we are and we have; to
remind ourselves to put our faith in Him and
worry no more as God promises us the certainty
of His beautiful love

Read: Matthew 6:25-34, Philippians 4:4-7

We worry about our lives too much. We worry about our
relationships. We worry about the responsibilities we are
to fulfill. We worry about the many decisions we made
and we are yet to make. We worry about the
consequences of our pasts, about the circumstances of
our present and about the uncertainties of our future.

As we become too preoccupied of the many things we

worry about, we get to disregard the beauty of the
blessings we receive. We get to not notice the little
miracles that the Lord is providing us with every moment
we have. We tend to rub off ourselves of the joy that the
Lord is allowing us to experience. We focus too much on
our anxieties that we lose sight of the happiness that the
Lord wants us to have.

The Lord reminds us to let loose of the worries that we

are holding tight in our hearts and to be still and restful in
His love. The Lord says, “Do not worry about tomorrow.
It will take care of itself. You have enough to worry about
today. I know everything you need and I will give them all
to you.” He wants us to have faith in this promise of His.

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Everything that matters to us matters to our Lord and we

need not be troubled about anything in our lives. He is in
control of everything and He promises us of a “future full
of hope”, of a faithful love that will certainly make
everything wonderful. Lay down all your worries to the
Lord. Worry no more for His love will always keep you.

Discussion Questions:
• What are your worries right now? What among
these worry you most? Why do you worry about
these things?

• How have you been dealing to these worries

lately?

• What is God’s making you realize about how to

deal with these?

Action plan/ output/ assignment:

• Have a reflection song related to being restful in
God’s love. (ex. Still by Hillsong)

• End the household by allowing each member to

say one’s personal prayer, lifting up his / her
worries to the Lord.

• At the start of each week (on a Sunday night),

write down all your worries on a piece of paper.
Afterwards, come into prayer and surrender to
the Lord all that you have written down. Hand
over your problems to God.

• Throughout the week, in every circumstance you

are to face, always remember and affirm
yourself of the promise of God’s peace and love

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for you. Don't let doubt take over the faith which
you welcome each new day.

Bloom Where You are Planted

Goal of the topic: to affirm ourselves that where we are
right now is the perfect place where God planned us to
be, to remind us of God’s calling for us to bloom at our
best and grow where we are planted – where we are
called to serve Him

Read Matthew 5:13-16, Mark 4:30-32

In the parable of the Mustard Seed, the seed represents

us as followers of Christ, that by ourselves, we are small,
but with Christ in our lives we grow to live in the fullness
of His kingdom. We begin as seeds and over time, with
proper care, nurturing, teaching and understanding, we
bloom into all that God wants us to be.

God wants us to bloom where we have been planted. He

can use us right now, in the situation in which we find
ourselves in. Unless it is a sinful situation that we need
to forsake and abandon, He can always show us His
purpose for using that situation for our good and for His
glory. When we allow Him to work in us, we start to
bloom in beauty. This becomes real because we start to
be focused in bringing glory to Him.

God has a calling for each of us, a job for each of us to

do, and like the mustard seed, we are called to grow and

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to be all He wants us to be. We are called to grow in our

families, in our community, in our studies, in our jobs,
and in every aspect of our life.
God tells us, “You have gifts that I have given you, you
have interests that I have placed within you, and you
have Me in your hearts, so bloom where I have planted
you, bloom and do the very best you can whatever it
maybe, grow as My child and produce good fruit that will
bring glory to Me and that will serve as a witness for
others.”

To bloom fully as God’s children we must be continually

watered with God’s word and love, being nurtured in
faith through prayer and service. We must grow in loving
relationship with our God by being committed to our
prayer life.

We may not always understand why God wants us to be

where we are but we must always trust that God plants
us to where we can be faithful witnesses so that others
might see us bloom into what He wants us to be. Listen
for God’s call and recognize that call; and no matter
where you find yourself along life’s journey, bloom where
you are planted, that you may “make your light shine, so
that others will see the good that you do and that they
may praise Your Father in heaven.”

Discussion Questions:
• Where am I planted right now? Where am I
called to bloom right now?

• How can I respond to this call? What steps can I

take to bloom where I am planted?

Action plan/ output/ assignment:

• Ask each member to write down the sharing
points of each of their brothers and sisters so

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that they can remember where each of them are

called to bloom and so that they can pray for
each other everyday during their personal prayer
time.

• End the household by allowing each member to

say one’s personal prayer regarding his / her
life’s calling at the moment.

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