Devotional

Junior High Sunday School Session 8 Devotional ^{0}

This Quarter Chip Prins is leading the Junior High Sunday School Class through a study called Knowing The God Who Is. Included in this study are weekly devotional helps. I’ll post these the week leading up to Sunday School. Please encourage your son or daughter to work through these, even better work through these with your son or daughter.

SESSION 8
Q. How do believers demonstrate their love for God?
A. Believers respond to God’s love by trusting him and obeying his commands.

Read each passage from Deuteronomy below. Then choose one verse from each to write out. Include a short response of how you are applying or will apply it to your life.

Day 1
Deuteronomy 4:15–31

Day 2
Deuteronomy 4:32–40

Day 3
Deuteronomy 5:22–33

Day 4
Deuteronomy 6:1–15

Day 5
Write a short scene about a teenager who’s obeying and/or disobeying God’s commandments. Which commandments did your story include? Bring it to Sunday School next week to share. Below is an example:

Dave has been grounded for a month because he took the car for a drive with friends without permission from his parents. Next Friday will be the first night he isn’t grounded, and he has plans to go out and celebrate with his friends. But he is scheduled to work. So Dave decided to call in sick and go out with his friends instead. And since he was short on money, he took some out of his sister’s purse without asking. His sister was upset but she didn’t tell on her brother. She did ask him to pay her back. (Commandments 5, 8, 9, 10)

By futuregrace Category: Devotional, Feature, For Parents, Junior High, Sunday School

Junior High Sunday School Session 7 Devotional ^{0}

This Quarter Chip Prins is leading the Junior High Sunday School Class through a study called Knowing The God Who Is. Included in this study are weekly devotional helps. I’ll post these the week leading up to Sunday School. Please encourage your son or daughter to work through these, even better work through these with your son or daughter.

SESSION 7
Q. How is marriage like Christ’s relationship to the church?
A. Christ loves the church and gave himself up for her. Marriage is designed to reflect that relationship.

Read the following Bible passages and answer the questions. (You may not have answers for every question).

1 John 3:1–3

How does God show his love for me?
What does God promise?
How am I to love others?

1 John 3:16–18
How does God show his love for me?
What does God promise?
How am I to love others?

1 John 4:7–12
How does God show his love for me?
What does God promise?
How am I to love others?

1 John 4:13–18
How does God show his love for me?
What does God promise?
How am I to love others?

1 John 4:19–21
How does God show his love for me?
What does God promise?
How am I to love others?

Just how much does Jesus love you?
Make a list of all the ways you know that God loves you.

By futuregrace Category: Devotional, Feature, For Parents, Junior High, Sunday School

Junior High Sunday School Session 6 Devotional ^{0}

This Quarter Chip Prins is leading the Junior High Sunday School Class through a study called Knowing The God Who Is. Included in this study are weekly devotional helps. I’ll post these the week leading up to Sunday School. Please encourage your son or daughter to work through these, even better work through these with your son or daughter.

Session 6
Q. What is a Christian?
A. A Christian is a person who is born again by the Holy Spirit, repents of his (or her!) sin, and believes in Jesus as Savior.

Romans Road to Salvation

Read Romans 3:10–23.
Why is it essential to realize you are a sinner?

Why is it important for Christians to continue to be reminded of this fact?

Read Romans 5:6–8.
What do these verses tell us about God? about Christ?

Read Romans 6:20–23.
What are the wages of sin?

What is the free gift of God?

Read Romans 10:9–10.
Paraphrase these verses without using the words believe, saved, confess, or justified.

Can you believe without confessing?
Confess without believing?
Why or why not?

Read Romans 12:1–2.
Based on all the mercies God has shown us, what is our response to be?

Pray that the Holy Spirit would give you the courage to share these verses this week with someone who doesn’t know Christ.

By futuregrace Category: Devotional, Feature, For Parents, Junior High, Sunday School

Junior High Sunday School Session 5 Devotional ^{0}

This Quarter Chip Prins is leading the Junior High Sunday School Class through a study called Knowing The God Who Is. Included in this study are weekly devotional helps. I’ll post these the week leading up to Sunday School. Please encourage your son or daughter to work through these, even better work through these with your son or daughter.

Session 5
Q. Who makes the first move?
A. People cannot be redeemed unless God makes the first move in their salvation.

Read one chapter of Ephesians each day for six days, and you will have read an entire book! Write down what you learn about God and about yourself as you read.

Read Ephesians 1.
What is God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit doing in salvation in
verses 3–14?

What are some of the spiritual blessings Christ has given you? Make a list.

Read Ephesians 2.
Write out the verse or verses that could encourage you this week. Reread them every day.

Read Ephesians 3.
Then pray Paul’s prayer for yourself as printed below, inserting your name. Then pray it for each person in your family.

For this reason I, _________________, bow my knees before you, God my Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of your glory you may grant me to be strengthened with power through your Spirit in my inner being, so that Christ may dwell in my heart through faith—that I, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that I may be filled with all the fullness of God.
I pray this to you, God, who is able to do far more abundantly than all that I ask or think, according to the power at work within me, to you, O Lord, be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Read Ephesians 4.
Make a list of what Christians are to put off and what they are to put on from these verses.

Read Ephesians 5.
What sins do you need to confess that these verses point out?
Read 1 John 1:9. Pray, confessing each sin. Believe that God has forgiven them all and cleansed you from sin through Christ.

Read Ephesians 6.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how well are you obeying your parents (10 being all the time)? What do you need to confess? What specifically do you need to ask Christ to help you with? What pieces of the armor of God are you using? Which ones do you need to sharpen to be more useful in your life?

By futuregrace Category: Devotional, Feature, For Parents, Junior High, Sunday School