Need to Know: God Hears Me When I’m Sad

This week’s Bible story picks up in Exodus 1 & 2:23-25 when Moses becomes the leader of God’s people, the Israelites. In this story we see how God heard the Israelites crying for help and sent Moses to rescue them from mean Pharaoh.

God heard the Israelites when they were sad, and God hears us when we are sad. That’s what we Need to Know today: God Hears Me When I’m Sad. Anytime we are sad we can pray to God, and He will hear us. God loves us and wants us to talk to Him all the time!

Next time you and your child are in front of a mirror, take turns making faces that reflect different moods (happy, sad, mad, angry, surprised, scared). Talk about how we can talk to God when we feel all of these ways, and He will hear us. Afterward, pray with your child, thanking God for hearing us when we are sad.

Keep practicing our Remember Verse, too!  Here’s the verse & the motions we do with it:

Need to Know: Obey God Above All Else!

There are many people we should obey every day, but today we Need to Know to Obey God Above All Else! Nobody knew this better than Noah. We learned his story from Genesis 6-8. During Noah’s time people were doing terrible things. Noah was the only good person God could find, so He gave Noah instructions to build a boat for his family and two of every animal. This boat would save them from the flood God was going to send. Building that boat was hard work, and Noah was made fun of for building it, but he chose to obey God above all else.  He knew this was the best thing to do.

God wants us to obey people like our parents, teachers, coaches and police officers, but the most important person to obey is God himself. He is in charge of everybody and everything, and He knows what is best. Our Memory Verse, Matthew 7:24-25 (CEV), tells us how to obey God above all else—by listening to Jesus and doing what He says to do. Keep practicing this first part of our verse, and we’ll learn the second part in a few weeks.

Does your child ever have trouble figuring out who to obey in certain situations? Help your child make a list of all the people he or she needs to obey. Rank them in order of who to obey first. Remember to put God’s name at the top of the list since we need to obey Him above all else. Place the list in a place where your child can reference it when needing to decide who to obey.