This week’s destination: Wisdom for Life – The Fear of the Lord

CLICK to download the Senior Youth Teaching Manual (Age 15 plus)

Download Session #11 PowerPoint Fear of the Lord Download Teachers PowerPoint Notes Download Leadership Handout Download Full Faithbuilder audio MP3 Fear of the Lord

MATERIALS: Laptop and sound system to play music. Multimedia projector and screen to show the PowerPoint.

Print: Footprints for game 1, a few copies depending upon how big your class is. Balloons, 2 beach balls, 2 skipping rope, 2 plastic plates. Photocopy: Teacher Notes/Handout. Bible Verse Visual Aids and student take home ‘Sword Play Memory Verse Track’. Activity books for youth. Seven SOAP Daily Devotional Journals photocopy a set of seven for each teen to take home.

AS YOUTH ARRIVE PRIOR TO THE LESSON:
Welcome Teacher/Trainers and students. Get ten of the youther youth to colour the Bible Verse Visual Aids.

1. WELCOME GAMES: (For Junior youth only 10 minutes)
Funny Footsteps
Have students learn a Bible verse in a fun way using footprints.

Download Bible Verse Footprint:

Print off a few of the Footprints place them on the ground and get each student to walk on them repeating the verse, then remove the first one and get them to repeat the process, remove the second footprint and repeat, until there are no footprints left and they know the Bible verse.

Acts 16: 31 “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved,

2. TEAM GAMES: (For Junior youth only 10 minutes)
Funny Relay Race
Divide the students into 2 groups for this team game and have them race by:
Holding balloons between their knees, balancing a plastic plate on head, running holding a balloon between two of the team members heads, skipping, bouncing a ball, kicking a ball etc
Once they master the forward races, have them do them backwards

3. ACTIVE PRAISE CHORUS: (10 minutes):
Trust in the Lord

4. INTIMATE WORSHIP: (5 minutes)
I have decided to follow Jesus

5.TEACHING:
a) Review
Who can recall the memory verse we learnt last week?
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (John 14:6)

b) Sword Play
Ready…Swords up… Proverbs 19:23a … CHARGE!
The fear of the Lord leads to life,
And he who has it will abide in satisfaction;

(Use the Bible Verse Visual Aid and listen to the MP3 to assist with learning the verse)

c) Teaching the Lesson - The Fear of the Lord
Set up the Multimedia projector and screen to show the PowerPoint, or connect to the TV.
Use the Teachers Notes to assist with managing the PowerPoint.
Set up the Laptop connected to the sound system to play the Faithbuilder MP3 Fear of the Lord

The Junior Youth OSL audio has been divided into two sessions

Download Junior Youth Part 1 Curriculum Download Fear of the Lord Part 2 PowerPoint Download Teachers PowerPoint Notes Download Fear of the Lord Part 2 audio MP4 Download Junior SOAP Weekly Bible Devotional for both Parts

Download Junior Youth Part 2 Curriculum Download Music Part 2 Download Bible verse Part 2 Download Fear of the Lord Part 2 PowerPoint Download Teachers PowerPoint Notes Download Part 2 Junior Youth audio MP4

Download Closing Prayers and Declarations

Footprint Bible verse

Visual aids

SOAP:

• Review and discuss the seven SOAP BibIe Study Devotional Journals from last week.
• Give each youth the next seven SOAP Devotional Bible study handouts one for each day of the week to follow.

6. APPLICATION/ENCOUNTERING GOD:
Set up the Laptop connected to the sound system to play soft worship music to set the atmosphere.

If all I do is recognize that you are God that is not the fear of the Lord. The fear is being afraid that God will do what He said He would do, that the Bible is going to play out as it says it will play out. The fear of the Lord is being afraid that things will turn out as God said it would. If God said don’t do something, don’t do it.

There is no one more loving than God but there is no way around Him, He is trying to get your attention but if you harden your heart to Him and He continues to warn you and send others to warn you and stop going to church the day will come when what God will do what He said He would do, we have a choice. It is not just respect. A healthy fear of God is a discipline that will alter our behavior and you don’t compromise.

Don’t ignore wisdom, God wants to pour His spirit out on you. The time will come if you continue to turn your back on wisdom, then wisdom will turn her back on you.

Let’s have a time where we are honest with God, this is the end of this series and we don’t want to leave the same. Repeat this prayer after me.

CLOSING PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father, you know that I have sinned, you know what I have struggled with. I confess it now, it is sin it is wrong, I don’t want any part of it, I need your help, I need the power of the Word, to get to work in my life.

Satan I tell you right now, from this time forward, you have no right to bind me, to hook me, to trap me and hold me down, the Lord rebuke you Satan. I command you to stop your lies, take your guilt and condemnation, and get out of my life. I receive the joy and peace of God, I am the righteousness of Christ, I am not the old person any longer. I am a brand new person, washed in the blood of Jesus, strengthened, empowered by the Holy Spirit, filled with the Word of God.

I have a new life, I am dead to sin, but alive to God, He is going to use me to accomplish big things, I declare myself free from sins, I am pure and holy before the Lord my God, things are looking up, and the Word of God is flushing me out, loosing my bondages forever, in Jesus name. Amen

TAKE HOME MATERIAL:
Set of seven SOAP Devotional Bible Study Handouts one for each youth

Optional: ‘Take Home Quiz Activity Books’ are available for the youth at the end of this session

Optional: ‘Sword Play Memory Verse Track’ one for each youth.

Information sourced from Pastor Jerry Dirmann Founder and Senior Pastor of The Rock visit his website for more great resources

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