(To be translated)

•  Understand that Jesus wants to set you free , not teach you how to cope ! •  Know we are in a battle but Jesus has won the battle and we can have victory...in THIS life! •  Learn that we are a Spirit, we have a Soul and we live in a Body. DOWNLOAD Chichewa Lesson #9

AS KIDS ARRIVE PRIOR TO THE LESSON (10 minutes) ACTIVITY
Get children to colour the three Drama signs, the Bible Verse Visual Aids , the other signs and the butterflies, supply crayons, glue and coloured paper to make the butterfly mobile.

Supplies needed:

• Crayons, marker pens, glue, coloured paper, scissors.
• Hangers, tissue paper and string.
• Print Butterfly Visual aids.
• 6 foot rope for tug of war
• Print three signs: SPIRIT, SOUL and BODY.
• String for the drama.
• Yo Yo.
• Balloon
• Print the 'Bible Verse Visual Aid' and get a child to colour it prior to the class.
• Print the English 'Activity Book'
• Print the 'Take Home Bible Memory Verse'
• Print the 'Evening Warfare Prayer' for the older children and youth only
• Print the chapter 9 of the ‘And Puppy’ book one for each child

1. GAMES: (10 minutes) BUTTERFLY MOBILE: Let children draw, or cut out the butterflies and color them, this can be done before the class begins as the children arrive. Write NEW LIFE IN JESUS. Hang the butterflies from a hanger that has been wrapped with tissue paper and hang from a tree outside the classroom. The teacher can have pieces of construction paper cut in various shapes for the children to glue onto their butterflies.

2. TEAM GAMES: (10 minutes)
Slit the group into two equal teams, make a mark in the dirt or a chalk mark on the floor and give the team the rope and play 'Tug of War'.

3. ACTIVE PRAISE CHORUS: (10 minutes) Optional: Download 'Mayamiko kwa Mbuye Wanga' video 4. INTIMATE WORSHIP: (5 minutes) Optional: Download ‘Mundisungile korona by grace chinga’ video

5. TEACHING
a. Review: (5 minutes)
God has a gift for you what is that gift? (Eternal life)

What stops us from getting that gift? (Sin)

We all sin, and we cannot save ourselves, t here must be a different way, what way? (God's way)

Can you tell me the two different sides of God? (Loving and Just)

We have a problem, How did God solved this problem (By sending His son Jesus)

How do we receive this gift? (By faith)

c. Teach the Lesson (15 minutes)
This teaching is about getting set free! We can have the victory. Jesus won the battle on the cross. Before being set free somebody pushes our button (we all have them).we react, we are not free.

Are you walking in victory?

Yohane 10:10 " Ndadza Ine kuti akhale ndi moyo, ndi kukhala nao wochuluka".

Are you having life to the full.or are you struggling, just coping at school? Jesus wants to set you free, not teach you how to cope!

We are more than conquerors in Christ Jesus..are you a conqueror or are children rejecting you and bullying you? Or are you being conquered by your emotions of anger, bitterness, unforgiveness, rejection, loneliness, doubts, thoughts of suicide?

Most adult Christians don't have the victory,
they are like yoyos! (Use the YoYo to demonstrate)

We are created in God's image.

DOWNLOAD Chichewa Lesson #9 Visual Aids

Genesis 2:7 "Ndipo Yehova Mulungu anaumba munthu ndi dothi lapansi, (Thupi) nauzira mpweya wa moyo m'mphuno mwake; (Mzimu) munthuyo nakhala wamoyo. (Moyo)"

Walk around with Spirit leading in harmony with God. (Everybody smiling and in unity) Then the fall... (all the children turn and face the other direction, the balloon is deflated and Spirit looks dejected,)

BODY is now in control, following our own desires, controlled by sin, doing as we please.

SOUL is controlled by body, influenced by the world, by what it sees and hears

SIPIRT is now weak, ineffective in bondage

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But then something happened, it happened one night to a man named Nicodemus who came to talk to Jesus. As Jesus was talking to him, he said something that Nicodemus didn't understand. He told Nicodemus, "No one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again."  Nicodemus was really puzzled by what Jesus said. He just couldn't understand how someone could be born again.

 When it comes out, it is no longer a caterpillar, it has been miraculously changed into a beautiful butterfly. God didn't just take a caterpillar and stick some wings on him! When the cocoon opens and the butterfly crawls out, it is a new creation.

Bible says, "if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" When we invite Jesus to come into our heart, we become a new creation. God doesn't just clean us up, He makes us into a new person. Would you rather be a worm or a butterfly? Jesus will make you into a new creation if you will invite him into your heart.

When we become "born again" normally no change takes place in our soul and body. Body -is not born again, the battle is in the mind. Even Apostle Paul struggled.

Read: Aroma 7:15
"Pakuti chimene ndichita sindichidziwa; pakuti sindichita chimene ndifuna, koma chimene ndidana nacho, ndichita ichi."

(Drama: SPIRIT suggest going to church, SOUL goes along with it but BODY is running in the opposite direction, he is dragged along.)

Romans 12 : 2
"Ndipo musafanizidwe ndi makhalidwe a pansi pano: koma mukhale osandulika, mwa kukonzanso kwa mtima wanu,"

(Drama: SPIRIT is strong, SOUL is transformed, changed and BODY is beginning to come in line.)

6. APPLICATION / ENCOUNTERING GOD:
Optional: Download and Pray the Evening Warfare Prayer (Older children and youth only)

CLOSING PRAYER:

TAKE HOME PAGE/ACTIVITY:

NEXT WEEK: Continue the Deliverance Teaching by learning about Strongholds and Open Doors teaching. (Designed for the older children or youth)

If this is not appropriate then this Lesson can lead onto Lesson #12.

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(Sourced from Healing Hearts Club but adapted for a flood in Africa)

(Deliverance teaching adapted from Warfare Plus Ministries)

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