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The Sheep Fold(Bible Lesson)

Day 3 The Good Shepherd Provides for us!

Supplies needed:

bowl of m&ms 

hand out sheets

Advance preparation:

Get a bowl of m&ms ready for each class.  take the time to seperate the red m&ms from the rest. 

Introduction:

Have the kids come in and inform them that you have a special treat for them. Let them know that if they do 10 jumping jacks that you will give them all the red m&m in the bowl.

While they are doing the jumping jacks take out all the red m&ms.

Tell the kids you changed your mind….honestly  this time if they do 10 jumping jacks they can have all the yellow m&ms.

While they are doing so take out all the yellow m&ms that you can find.

Now tell the kids…you changed you mind again…but THIS time for SURE you are going to be certain. If they do 10 more Jumping jacks then they can have all the green m&ms.

While the kids are doing this take out as many green m&ms that you can find.

Ask the kids…How did this make you feel?  Did you believe me by the time we got to green m&ms? Do you think that I was being fair?

Give each of the kids a some of the m&ms while you read from the bible.

Bible Time:

Read the Bible passage.

How would you feel if you were Jacob?  What would you do if you had someone agree to pay you one thing and then took it away after you had done the work? Do you think that it would be hard to trust God to provide for you?

Read

When Jacob started out working for Laban he had nothing, and when he was done working for Laban he was very wealthy , even though Laban kept trying to cheat Jacob, God still allowed Jacob to earn what he needed. 

Sometimes what we need is stuff like food, shelter, water, and things that money can buy, and God is capable of providing for those things in our lives, but what are some things we need that money can’t buy? (allow for answers, friends, hugs, kindness, love, ect) Is it sometimes hard to trust God to provide for that kind of stuff? Remember how we learned on Day one that the Good Shepherd knows us?  Well that neat thing about God being our Good Shepherd is that he knows us so well, that he knows what we need even more then we do.  Sometimes we might think we NEED a brand new toy, or a bag of candy, but then we might find out that what we really need is a new friend, or maybe a new project to work on.  Can anybody think of a time when they thought they needed one thing, but then they found out they really needed something else? 

Bible Memory :

Let’s review the bible verse we learned today. Today’s bible verse is really easy, so today would be a good day to pick one of the extra verses on your take home sheet and work on getting some of those extra points they talked about during Corral Time.

The Lord

(point up)

Is my shepherd

(point to self)

I shall not

(shake finger no)

Want

(rub tummy like hungry)

Psalm 23:1

 Hand out:

Give the kids their take home pages, and make sure to point out the extra credit verses.

Closing:

Pray with the kids and make sure to thank God for providing for us.