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Year 1, Term 3, Week 2: Ideas for Junior Group
Week 2: God Loves His People - And He is Powerful!
Lesson Objective:
God is powerful - he showed Moses that he was powerful enough to rescue His people from Egypt!
Bible Passage:
Exodus 4:1-11 (Moses Miracles)
Memory Verse:
Exodus 4:12- "Now Go! When you speak, I will be with you and give you the words to say."
Story Idea: Tell it with Props!
You will need:
- Stick/walking stick (hold in your hand)
- Rubber snake from cupboard (keep tucked in your jacket)
Introduce:
- Ask the kids if they can remember last weeks lesson
- Prompt them to remember that God spoke to Moses through the burning bush and asked Him to help rescue God's people
- Ask the kids how they think Moses might have felt about being asked to do such a BIG job for God? (Scared, nervous, not good enough)
- Ask the kids if they have ever felt scared or unsure about something
- Ask the kids if they know what a miracle is (something amazing and unexplainable that God does)
Tell:
- Moses was feeling VERY unsure about doing God's task
- God had asked HIM to go to Egypt and help free the people from the nasty king that was keeping them there
- Moses was worried that nobody would listen to him or believe that God had really sent him!
- Moses said, 'But God, what happens if nobody believes me? What happens if nobody believes that you spoke to me?!'
- So God told Moses to throw the stick that he was holding onto the ground (throw stick on ground)
- Just then, God did something AMAZING - God did a MIRACLE
- When the stick hit the ground, it turned into a snake! (Quickly swap snake in your jacket for stick)
- Moses was amazed at how POWERFUL God was!
- God told Moses to pick the snake up by it's tail, and when he did it became a stick again! (Pick snake up and swap for stick again)
- God said that Moses could do these Miracles again for God's people, to prove to them that God really was with Him
- God promised to help Moses save his people!
Quiz Questions:
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1. How was Moses feeling about the BIG job God had given him? Scared, nervous, unsure
2. What is a miracle? Something unexplainable that God does
3. What Miracle did God do to show Moses that He would be with him? Made the stick turn into the snake
4. Is God REALLY powerful? Yes
5. Does that mean we can trust God even if we feel scared or unsure? Yes
Game Idea: Snakes and Sticks
- Have the kids stand in a group
- When you call 'SNAKE' they should all pretend to be a snake and wriggle around
- When you call 'STICK' they should all lie still on the ground like a stick
- The last child to do the action is out and can sit to one side
Remind the kids that God showed Moses that He was powerful by turning the stick into the snake! We can trust God when we are unsure, just like Moses could!
Craft Idea: Paper Plate Snake
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Before the lesson:
- Download and print the lesson reminder circle on coloured paper, cut out, punch a hole through the top and tie a length of string to it
- Gather paper plates and cut them into a snake spiral shape as shown, punch a hole in the tail to tie in the lesson reminder circle
- Gather things to decorate with (paint, sequins, glitter, beady eyes etc.) and glue
Have the kids:
- Decorate their snake
- Tie on their lesson reminder
Activity Idea: Sing 'My God is so BIG'
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Play the following youtube video and have the kids sing and dance along to the actions with you:
