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Identify one or two practical ways you can help prepare your students for the struggles they’ll face in the world.
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Train them in a prayer life.
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The first is through prayer. We must continually tell our students that prayer must be constant all day. A running conversation where there are moments of reflection and silence and moments when we pour our hearts out to be ready to endure everyday. Second is through developing Biblical habits of reading Gods Word. We want to know what He wants for us, then we have to spend time getting to know Him. Taking time to understand what’s important to God.
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One way to help students prepare is for them to realize that there will be struggles, but that we have a God that never leaves us and a guide that we can pull from. That is why knowing scripture is important.
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This seems similar to a previous question. I think having students become aware of current issues in the world. Discuss ways to respond to these circumstances in concrete ways in advance of them experiencing their own situations.
As the instructor mentions, bring relevant Biblical accounts to the discussion. How did the Biblical persons respond? How did God act through their words and decisions? What was the outcome? And, explaining that we cannot force God’s hand to act as we wish and outcomes will be different, we emphasize that the Lord will remain faithful to promises made. God with us more evident in times of trouble
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I believe that sharing your story and the challenges you’ve faced and experience in your life is a great way to give the students a glimpse of challenges they may face in the world. It also is a great way to show students how God works and moves in ways only He can for our good in His glory. Allowing other students to share their experiences with the classroom and how God has met them where they were and used those hard situations would be powerful as well!
