How to Teach Children to Have Fellowship with the Holy Spirit & Lean on Him

In my previous post we talked about how to intentionally have fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Because we may be talking about the importance of the Holy Spirit and His leading, but some of us may wonder; "how does that look like or how do I go about it?"

So we learnt about how we can, then now we can go ahead & introduce Him to our children.

To teach our children to have fellowship with the Holy Spirit & rely on His leading:

1. We teach them Truth

In the previous post we said that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth and He came to testify of truth (John 16:13). In order for our children to have communion with Him they need to know truth and receive it. Don't feel fear or the pressure to compromise on what the Bible says.

And truth is the word of God. (John 17:17)

2. We teach them about Jesus and salvation.

The Holy Spirit was sent by the Father to testify about Jesus, who is truth (John 16:14, 1 John 5:7). He can only have fellowship with those who have received the Gospel; o rather those who are born again (they have repented and believed in Jesus).

When we become born again, the Holy Spirit comes and dwells in us. He is also the one who seals us, marking us as those who belong to Jesus (Ephesians 1:13).

3. By teaching them about the Holy Spirit.

Let them know that there is the Holy Spirit. In Acts 19, Paul met with some disciples and asked them if they had received the Holy Spirit. They told him that they didn't know there was something as the Holy Spirit. 

Let your children know that there is the Spirit of God (Holy Spirit) who wants to commune with them, speak to them, comfort them, teach them about God, etc. That He is walking with followers of Christ all the time. 

(In my previous post you can learn more about the Holy Spirit, if you don't know what to tell them.)

4. Teach them Scripture and to pray

Take time to pray and study the Bible together with them. Teach them to pray and study the Bible alone & on their own as well. This way you give God the opportunity to commune with them & allow them to develop these habits early in their life.

Again, the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth; so we deepen our communion with Him through prayer, meditating on Scripture, obedience to God & other such Biblical practices.