Need to Know: God Helps Me Obey Him

We continued learning about Moses today in Exodus 3-4 where God asked him to obey by rescuing the Israelites from mean Pharaoh & the Egyptians. The crazy thing was that God asked Moses to obey through a bush that was on fire! Moses did not think he could obey God, but God promised to help him. One way God helped Moses was by giving him a staff that turned into a snake—this staff would show mean Pharaoh how powerful God is. God asked Moses to obey Him, and then He helped Moses obey Him!

Just like God helped Moses obey, God helps us obey. That’s what we Need to Know today: God Helps Me Obey Him. When we obey our parents and all the people in charge, we are really obeying God. Sometimes we may not feel like obeying our parents, people in charge or God, but God wants to help us obey Him. We can pray and ask God to help us obey Him & He will!

Play this fun game to help your child understand how God helps him or her obey. Choose an object from around your house and place it in the room you and your child are in. Blindfold your child and spin him or her around three times. Then guide your child to the object using phrases like “Walk forward,” “Slow down” or “Put your right hand out.” Continue until your child has found the object. Explain how you helped him or her obey and find the object by giving directions. God does the same thing to help us obey!

As a family you can also continue practicing our Remember Verse. Here is the verse and the motions we do along with it:

Need to Know: Never Give Up Doing Good!

Today we learned to Never Give Up Doing Good by following Nehemiah’s example in Nehemiah 1-6. While Nehemiah was working for the king, he heard that the wall in his hometown, Jerusalem, was crumbling. He wanted to do a good thing by helping rebuild it. While people made fun of Nehemiah and even threatened to hurt him, Nehemiah never gave up doing the good God told him to do.

Sometimes it is hard to keep doing good things. We may want to do something else, or people may make fun of us, but we cannot give up doing good! God wants us to do good things, and He will reward us when we Never Give Up Doing Good! Thankfully, we have a way to know what good things God wants us to do. God tells us these things in the Bible. One way we can remember the good things God wants us to do is by memorizing Bible verses. Here is the first part of the verses we are memorizing throughout this series:

This week at home, help your kids understand to Never Give Up Doing Good by working as a family to do good things in your community. Serve at a non-profit organization, clean up trash in your neighborhood or help a relative or friend in need. Afterward, talk about the fun and not-so-fun parts of your time serving, and remind each other to Never Give Up Doing Good!