LESSON LIFESAVER. I Choose to Follow Jesus reward list. Youth can draw a smile next to each reward for following Jesus and a frown next to the consequences for not following Him.
Great for COME FOLLOW ME, Primary and Family Home Evening, Sunday School, Bible Study, Daily Scripture Devotionals, Young Women, Activity Days
LESSON LIFESAVER
I Choose to Follow Jesus reward list
OBJECTIVE: Help children choose to serve the Lord.
ACTIVITY: Help children make a decision now to serve the Lord by placing a smile (☺) symbol next to the rewards for following Jesus. Then place a frown (☹) symbol next to the consequences for not following Jesus.
LESSON IDEAS: This activity illustrates the Old Testament Lesson 23 (below*). See enrichment activity #4.
SMILES
• The Holy Ghost stays around us.
• We can resist temptation.
• Our faith increases.
• We are blessed spiritually.
• We are happy.
FROWNS:
• We are miserable
• We lose our faith
• We lose our spiritual blessings.
• The Holy Ghost will not guide us.
• It is harder for us to resist temptation.
TO MAKE Print and cut out the I Choose to Follow Jesus reward list for each child.
THOUGHT TREAT (when appropriate): Happy Heart Cakes. Make cupcakes or muffins. With a tube of red or pink frosting, frost a heart on top with a smiling face inside the heart. Tell children that happiness is a feeling that you have in your heart that comes from serving others as Jesus did.
YOUTH CAN TEACH using this LESSON 23 Joshua Leads Israel from the Primary 6 Old Testament manual.
. . . Review the enrichment activity 4, for which the above activity illustrates.
Suggested Home Reading (see the SCRIPTURE CHALLENGE below).
Suggest that the children study Joshua 3:13–17, 6:1–5, and Joshua 24:15 at home as a review of this lesson.
SCRIPTURE CARDS: Help children Search and Ponder this scripture card by filling in the blanks. PRINT this 5 x 7 scripture card from the pdf included with the above activity. You can punch the two holes on the left and tie a ribbon to attach cards or use two metal rings to connect cards.
Joshua 24:15
“Choose you this day whom ye will serve . . . as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
1 Peter 2:21
“Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps.”
2 Chronicles 9:7
“Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.”
