This week’s destination: Being right with God – Looking in the Mirror

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Download Session #7 PowerPoint Looking in the Mirror Download Teachers PowerPoint Notes Download Leadership Handout Download Full audio MP3 Looking in the Mirror

MATERIALS: Laptop and sound system to play music. Multimedia projector and screen to show the PowerPoint.
Two boxes and objects eg A fruit, an object such as a pen, something cloth such as a shirt, something electronic such as a phone etc. Tall mirror. Graduation outfit. Certificate. 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 youths to colour the Bible Verse Visual Aids.

1. OPENING GAME: (For Junior youth only 10 minutes))
Whisper question game:
Youth sit in a circle the Trainer starts the game by asking the first youth a question: ‘Are you in Christ?’ The first child whispers in the ear of the child next to them. They pass on the whisper all around the circle. The last child repeats the whisper to the Trainer who started the game. (Sometimes it ends up different to how it started, that is how rumors spread) This can be repeated using different statements from the Gospel Presentation. The Trainer at the end explains to the children how easy it is to misinterpret what other people say and they must listen very careful. The last three rounds:

• “Has the new creation come?”
• “Is the old gone?”
• “Is the new here?”

2. TEAM GAMES: (For Junior youth only 10 minutes)
20 questions
Split the group into two teams select the first leader in each team. Hide an object in a box. Each team tries to identify a person or object in 20 questions or less. Eg A book– Is it an animal? (No) Is it a plant? (No) Is it an object? (Yes) Do you wear it? (No) Do you drive in it? (No) Do you live in it? (No) Do you read it? (Yes) Is it a book? (YES)

3. ACTIVE PRAISE CHORUS: (10 minutes):
In Him we live move and exist

4. INTIMATE WORSHIP: (5 minutes)
Open the eyes of my heart I want to see you

5.TEACHING:
a) Review
Last week we learnt about the New You, can someone recite the Memory Verse?
( “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.” John 3: 5)

• What does that mean? (Water is your first birth, you were birthed in water but the spirit is the second birth and your spirit is born into the Kingdom. Stop looking with your natural eyes and start seeing yourself as a new creation.)
• Does God look on the outer appearance? (No)
• What does God look at? (The heart)
• God tells us don’t look at flesh? (No He looks in the spirit.)

b) Sword Play
Ready…Swords up… 2 Corinthians 5: 17… CHARGE!
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

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

(Use the New Creation Visual Aid and listen to the MP1 audio to assist with learning the verse)

c) Teaching the Lesson - Looking in the Mirror
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 Looking in the Mirror

The Junior Youth OSL audio has been divided into two sessions

Download Junior Youth Part 1 Curriculum Download Looking in the Mirror Junior Youth PowerPoint Part 1 Download Teachers PowerPoint Notes Download Junior Youth Part 1 audio MP4 Download Junior SOAP Weekly Bible Devotional for both Parts

Download Junior Youth Part 2 Curriculum Download Junior Youth Music Part 2 Download Looking in the Mirror Bible verse Part 2 Download Looking in the Mirror Youth Junior PowerPoint Part 2 Download Teachers PowerPoint Notes Download Looking in the Mirror Youth Part 2 audio MP4

Download Closing Prayer

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.

Stop looking at the flesh and start looking in the mirror seeing the spirit, walk as a forgiven person, who God loves, who He saved, even if you fall, it’s not you, it’s sin that lives in your soul and directs your body. He wants to just forgive you who is now born into His family.

Erect a tall full length mirror and have the graduation outfit and certificate available. Get the youth to stand in front of the mirror and affirm them for who they are in the Spirit. Start putting on the graduation outfit and get them to start seeing themselves graduating from university. Get them to repeat “ I see myself the way God sees me and that is the way I want it to be”

CLOSING PRAYER: Heavenly Father I believe your Word, we have looked into the mirror I saw you and I saw myself, the new me, the righteousness of God forgiven clean pure looks like you and as I continue to look my whole being begins to look like you, act like you, a new creation in Christ Jesus. I am no longer a sinner, I the spirit man am clean, right with God, righteous before God, I am full of the Holy Spirit. I have authority over all the power of the enemy and I have the right to use the name of Jesus against any demon, against any sickness against any adversary coming against me. I say in Jesus name I will do great things for God. He does not look at my flesh He looks at my sprit, my heart and he sees inside that I don’t want to serve sin, I don’t want to do the old things, I don’t want to do them anymore and God sees my heart and He trusts me, He believes in me, He has given me an assignment on earth and I will do what He has called me to do. No one can stop me, not Satan or demons, no human being, no one can stop me because if God is for me who can be against me, He fights for me, my enemies may come one way but they flee 7 ways because God scatters them on my behalf. I see myself as the righteousness of God even when I sin my spirit is still clean and I can come to God and receive restored fellowship by confessing those sins, but during the whole process I was still clean and God looks at my spirit so from today I see myself as a sprit, born into the family of God, with no condemnation, no guilt, no fear because God is in me He is with me, He is on my side, I see myself the way He sees me and that is the way I walk from this day forward 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.

This lesson easily follows on to the six week Deliverance Teaching by Living Free Ministries, that is available on this YDT website.

These students are then invited to pick up the Youth OSL at Session #8

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

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