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Psalms 141 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Let My Prayer Be Like Incense

Answers here are a guide. Welcome any answer that shows a child is thinking about the story, and celebrate their effort. Talk About It questions are open, so they have no set answers.

PreschoolGuard My Mouth

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Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.

KindergartenMy Prayer

PRAYER → picture 3INCENSE → picture 1MOUTH → picture 4HANDS → picture 2

Grade 1Guard My Lips

Let my prayer be set before you like incense. → picture 4The lifting up of my hands. → picture 3Keep the door of my lips. → picture 1Don't incline my heart to any evil thing. → picture 5My eyes are on you, Yahweh. → picture 2

Order:

1. Let my prayer be set before you like incense2. Keep the door of my lips3. Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing4. For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord

Grade 2A Prayer Like Incense

  1. Whose name is in the title of Psalm 141? David (circle)
  2. What should his prayer be like? Sweet smoke from incense (circle)
  3. What does David ask God to guard? His mouth (circle)
  4. What does he ask God to keep from evil? His heart (circle)
  5. Where does David keep his eyes? On God (circle)
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Grade 3A Guard for My Mouth

  1. What does David want his prayer to be like? Incense
  2. What does David ask God to set before his mouth? A watch
  3. What should God keep? The door of his lips
  4. What is correction from a righteous person like? Kindness, like oil on the head
  5. Where are David's eyes? On Yahweh
1: Let my prayer be set before you like incense2: Keep the door of my lips3: Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing4: For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord
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Grade 4Prayer, Speech, and Correction

  1. Why is incense a good picture of prayer? It rose to God each evening in the temple.
  2. What does David ask God to guard? His mouth, his lips, and his heart
  3. Why does David refuse the wicked's fine food? So he will not be pulled into their ways
  4. How does David view correction from the righteous? As kindness, like oil on the head

Word bank: 1. prayer; 2. incense; 3. mouth; 4. lips; 5. eyes

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

Grade 5A Watch Over the Heart and Lips

  1. What does the evening sacrifice connect to? The evening offering and incense in Israel (Exodus 30:8)
  2. How does temptation often come, according to the psalm? As pleasant company and good food
  3. What does humility do with correction? Receives it as honor, like oil on the head
  4. Which New Testament book also speaks about taming the tongue? James (James 3:8)
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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