• See Joseph as their role model Genesis 45 1- 28 • Understand why it's important to forgive • They should have started to forgive people who have hurt them, being a part of the deliverance. DOWNLOAD Lesson #12

AS KIDS ARRIVE PRIOR TO THE LESSON (10 minutes) ACTIVITY
(Hand sanitization for each child, please ensure masks are worn)

Supplies needed:
• Chairs enough for all the children except one.
• Music or a drum.
• Print out musical lyrics..
• Print 'Bible Verse Visual Aid' and get a child to colour it prior to the class.
• Print Visual Aids, GOOD and BAD signs, crayons for children to colour before class starts.
• Print the 'Activity Book'
• Print 'Take Home Bible Memory Verse'
• Print Chapter #12 'And Puppy"

Optional: DOWNLOAD Lesson #12 Visual Aids

1. GAMES: (10 minutes)
MUSICAL CHAIRS:

Children can gather in a circle inside a circle of chairs While the music is playing, or the drum is drumming, the children will slowly walk around the circle, "over and over again" until the music stops.

2. TEAM GAMES: (10 minutes)

‘The spotlight’ then turn away from the group again, saying, "Forgiveness." The first player to touch the stoplight is told "You are forgiven"

They then get to be the next 'Stoplight.'

3. ACTIVE PRAISE CHORUS: (10 minutes)

Optional: Download 'Forgiveness song' video Download 'Forgiveness song' lyrics' Optional: Download 'My God is so BIG' video Download 'My God is so BIG'' lyrics'

4. INTIMATE WORSHIP: (5 minutes)
Optional: Download 'This is my Desire'
Download 'This is my Desire' lyrics'

5. TEACHING:
a. Review: ( If following the two week Deliverance training)

Remember Evil Spirits don't change! •  What did they say after you were born again? They said, "that didn't really happen". •  What did they say after you were healed? They said, "that really didn't work". •  What do they say after deliverance? They say, "I'm still here". Remember they all lie.

a. Review: (If following the Salvation Lesson #8 and New Creation Lesson #9 training)

What stops us from getting that gift? (Sin)

There must be a different way - which 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)

Who can recite last weeks Bible Verse?

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; old things pass away; behold all things become new.

2 Corinthians 5: 17

b. Learn a Bible Verse (5minutes) And he kissed all his brothers and wept over them. Afterward his brothers talked with him. Genesis 45:15 DOWNLOAD Bible Verse Visual Aid

c. Teach the Lesson (15 minutes)

Introduction: Joseph had a lot to forgive his brothers for. They did not believe his dreams. They teased him and were jealous of him. They threw him in a pit and spoiled what was precious to him. Then they lied about him and told his father he was dead!

Forgiving is not easy. It is saying I choose not to hate you for this offence. I choose to let it go and I am asking God to help me not remember it every time I think of you. Download Joseph poster

This lesson is about a family reunion. Have you ever been to a family reunion? A reunion is a wonderful time seeing aunts, uncles, and cousins that you haven't seen for a long time. There is always plenty to eat and lots of hugs and kisses at reunions.

(This does not apply during the COVID pandemic)

Teaching:

Joseph was stuck in jail for more than two years. (Bad)
Pharaoh heard that Joseph had the ability to understand dreams. (Good)
Pharaoh released Joseph from jail to explain his dreams. (Good)
Pharaoh believed what Joseph told him and put him in charge of the entire land of Egypt. (Good)

Now, let's see what happens next.

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Then there would be seven years when there would be nothing. God was telling Pharaoh to set aside grain during the good years so that there would be plenty of food during the bad years. That is exactly what Pharaoh did. When the bad years came, there was plenty grain in Egypt, but all the countries around them were starving.

People came from all the surrounding countries to buy grain from Joseph, because the whole world was in need of food. Some of those people were Joseph's very own brothers. When his brothers came, Joseph recognized them, but they did not know who he was.

Optional: Download ‘Joseph Reunites ’ Video Finally, he could keep it to himself no longer. He told his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father alive?" But his brothers were speechless because they were afraid.

But Joseph said, "Come closer. I am your brother, the one you sold! Don't worry, and don't be angry at yourselves for selling me into slavery.

You see, it wasn't you who sent me here. God has put me here to save people from starving."

Fluctuations were God’s method of teaching Joseph to sustain hope. He uses the same method to teach us the same, so that we shall know how to sustain hope even in the most hopeless situations.

Unless we see the big picture of what God is doing through the difficulties of life, the suffering, the pain, the injustices of life, we will miss the profound and foundational truth that God is using all of it for our ultimate good and His glory.

Optional: DOWNLOAD Lesson #12 Visual Aids

Discussion: Think about anyone you need to forgive . God can help you get rid of the hate and fear that makes you sad and sick, talk about it.

6. APPLICATION / ENCOUNTERING GOD:
Get the letters the children wrote at the beginning of the lesson rip them up, signifying the release of forgiveness, put them in a bin take it outside and burn it. “Today I choose to forgive”

CLOSING PRAYER: Get the children to privately list off the people they need to forgive and choose today to forgive them and pray for them.

https://www.sermons4kids.com/joseph_and_his_brothers_part_2.htm

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