|
|
home>>kudyara mbeu yekubudirira >>chidzidzo 5>>chidzidzo 6
Kudyara Mbeu Yekubudirira - Chidzidzo #6
Download English Lesson #6
This week’s destination: NURTURING THE
SEED
This lesson in this series focuses on Nurturing the seed both physically and Spiritually. God
wants us to grow spiritually. We have already learnt in order to grow
plants need sunlight and water. The light is like the presence of
God, Jesus is our light.
• Spiritual Growth
• Jesus our light
• Being filled with the Holy Spirit
MATERIALS:
A watering can full of water, a cup, a healthy plant in a pot, break
off a branch and allow it to wither and wilt before putting it in
a pot. Balloons, small piece of paper with 1 Cor. 6:19 written on
it. Photocopy Bible Verse Card, crayons.
AS KIDS ARRIVE PRIOR TO THE LESSON :
Get 1 child to colour the Bible Verse Card.
Examine the Moringa plants ensure they are being watered. We are
going to learn today that being watered is like being filled with
the Holy Spirit.
1. WELCOME GAMES: (10 minutes)
“Jesus Says” game. Children
line up facing the leader. The leader gives the children instructions
... 'turn around, touch nose, touch elbow, quack like a duck'
etc, whatever you can think of. If the leader says
“Jesus Says” before the instruction such
as “Jesus says quack like a duck', the children should
do the activity. The leader then says “Jesus says stop”they
immediately stop the activity. If the leader does not say “Jesus
Says,” prior to the instruction eg 'Quack like a
duck' then the kids should not do as instructed, if they do
they are disqualified.
2. TEAM GAMES: (10 minutes)
Father, Son, Holy Spirit Sit in a circle on the floor. One child,
the tapper, walks around the circle tapping a child on the head
saying “Father” then another child “Son”
when they tap the child they wish to select, they say/yell “Holy
Spirit.” That child then has to chase the tapper around the
circle, they then become the tapper.
3. ACTIVE PRAISE CHORUS:
(10 minutes)
4. INTIMATE WORSHIP (5 minutes)
Prayer: Dear God You wants us to grow Spiritually.
We have already learnt in order to grow plants need sunlight and
water. The light is Your presence, Jesus is our light. Being watered
is like being filled with the Holy Spirit living & growing in
us. Keep us connected to you like the vine and the branches we can
do nothing without You
5. TEACHING
a. “Back Track” Review
Remember we learned that God is like a farmer or a gardener and
we are like his garden. God wants us to grow Spiritually.
|
|
 | |

|
In order to grow Spiritually
He must plant the Jesus seed in the right type of soil. Your
heart is like the soil, if your heart is full of anger, bitterness
and pride it is like hard soil.
Optional:
Download 'Parable of the Sower' English review video |
Remember the Parable of the Sower?
‘Sower’ is another name for farmer. Who created
the earth? (God the Father is the Gardener)
Optional: Download Shona Review
‘Parable
of the Sower’ quiz |

|
Optional: Download English Review
‘Parable
of the Sower’ quiz
Remember God first planted the Jesus seed
in our lives by the Holy Spirit. So although Jesus was speaking
about seeds in the parable, the story really applies to people.
Where did the first seed land? (On the path) |

|
If you put little effort into your relationship with Jesus it is
like rocky shallow soil. If your heart is full of worldly things
it is like thorny soil. Our hearts need to be like good soft fertile
soil.

| Optional: Download 'One Seed' Engish video, lyrics and music sheet
|
b. Shona Sword Play
Ready…Swords up… Marko 4:26-27.… CHARGE!
26Ɀino akati: Ʋushe bgaMŋari bgakafanana nomunhu unodɀara mbeu muvu, 27akaʋata, akamuka, ʋusiku namasikati; mbeu inomera, icikura, iye asiŋgaziʋi kuti ɀinoitika sei;
Marko 4:26-27
Download
Shona Bible Verse Visual Aid |

|
b. English Sword Play
Ready…Swords up… Mark 4:26-27.… CHARGE!
26 “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters
seed on the ground. 27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets
up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.
Mark 4:26-27
Optional:Download
English Bible Verse Visual Aid |

|
c. Teach the Lesson (15
minutes)

|
c. Teach the Lesson (15
minutes)
Bible Reading:1 Corinthians 3:6-7
Second English Memory Verse
So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything,
but only God, who makes things grow.
(1 Corinthians 3:7)
Optional:
Download Bible Verse Visual
Aid |
God wants us to grow spiritually. In order to grow plants need sunlight and water. In order to grow spiritually we need to spend time in the presence of God and be filled with the Spirit.
The light is like the presence of God, Jesus is our light in us and you become a light to others when you talk to them about Jesus. Being watered is like being filled with the Holy Spirit.
Download Shona 'Planting the Jesus seed' colouring page. |

|
God wants us to grow spiritually.
In order to grow plants need sunlight and water. In order to
grow spiritually we need to spend time in the presence of God
and be filled with the Spirit.
The light is like the presence of God, Jesus
is our light in us and you become a light to others when you
talk to them about Jesus. Being watered is like being filled
with the Holy Spirit.
Optional:
Download English 'Planting the Jesus seed' colouring page. |

|
Without spending time in God's presence and being filled with the
spirit we wither and die like a plant without water or sunlight,
we will not produce fruit. (Hold up withered branch in a pot like
a dead plant)
Object Lessons:
1. Fill the cup up with water from the watering can and empty it
on a plant, but then the water gets used up and the plant needs
to be watered again. God fills us with his Spirit just like I fill
this cup with water. But just being filled once with His Spirit
isn't enough because the water gets used up. And then we need a
fresh outpouring of God's Spirit in our lives each day. If we want
our Moringa plant to live we need to water it daily especially as
a young plant, and it needs sunlight daily. If we want to grow Spiritually
we need to spend time in God's presence.
2. (Bring out the wilted plant again) This plant I have
here was neglected. It was left in the dark and deprived of water.
Instead of growing and becoming a beautiful plant, it is now a dead
limp, ugly plant. As Christians we need to spend time in God's presence
just as this plant needed to spend time in the light. If we do not
we wither and die Spiritually. We also need to have the Holy Spirit
poured out in our lives just as this plant needed to have water
poured out into it.
3. Give the children balloons let them blow into their balloon
and talk about being FILLED with the Holy Spirit. Then tell children
that if we aren't filled with the Holy Spirit, then we'll be LIFELESS
and let the balloons fly around the room until they all land on
the floor without the air in them!
Discussion Questions:
1. Who lives in our bodies? (The Holy Spirit)
2. Plants need light, who is the light? (Jesus)
3. Plants need water, what is water like? (Holy Spirit.)
 |
SHONA BIBLE VERSE:
'19Hamuziʋi here kuti muʋiri wenyu itembere yoMŋeya Mutȿene, uri mukati menyu, wamakapiwa naMŋari? '
(1 UAKORINTE 6:19)
Download Shona Bible Verse Visual
Aid
|
Write the verse on a small piece of paper, roll
it up and put it in a balloon. As you blow up the balloon explain
how God breathed His breath, the Holy Spirit into the first
man – Adam. (Let the balloon deflate) this is
what happened after the fall, but once we give our lives to
Jesus the Holy Spirit then lives in you. Giving you power, (keep
bowing) it’s EXPLOSIVE. Quickly blow up your balloon
until it burst, WOW. get a child to find the verse and read
it out to the class.

|
ENGISH BIBLE VERSE:
Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit,
who lives in you and was given to you by God
(1 Corinthians 6:19)
Optional:
Download English Bible Verse Visual
Aid
|
6. APPLICATION / ENCOUNTERING GOD:
CLOSING PRAYER
We thank you Father, for sending your Holy Spirit. Thank you
for breathing life into the church and giving your Spirit to all
who believe. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
SHONA TAKE HOME BIBLE VERSES:
Download
Shona ‘Take Home Bible Verses'
These should be photocopied prior to the Session
and available to take home.
|

|
ENGLISH TAKE HOME PAGE/ACTIVITY:
Optional:
Download English ‘Activity
Book’ available for the children and
can be downloaded from this website.
Optional:Download
English ‘Take Home Truth
|

|

|
Take home their Moringa plant, remember to water
it a little each day, do not over water it.
Be sure that you protect it as it gets bigger, the goats and
sheep love Moringa.
There are some fun games and quizzes that can be downloaded
to help the childen remember what they have been taught.
Optional:
Download English quizzes
Children's Sermons from Sermons 4 Kids | Object Lessons...
|
NEXT WEEK
We will discover that gardens need to be weeded! Take your Zakalanda (Moringa)
plant home, check for any weeds, remember to water it every other
day, do not over water it. Bring it back next week so we can see
how well it is growing it is soon time to plant it outside your
home.
CLICK
to view Session #7
SOWING SEEDS OF SUCCESS - MORINGA CURRICULUM
|
|
|