This week’s destination: Being right with God – Protecting your heart

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Download Protecting your Heart PowerPoint Download Teachers PowerPoint Notes Download Leadership Handout Download Full audio MP3 Protecting your Heart

MATERIALS: Laptop and sound system to play music. Multimedia projector and screen to show the PowerPoint.
Print: Two hearts for game 2. Photocopy: Double hearts for craft, (Scissors are needed and Markers) 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 younger children to colour the Bible Verse Visual Aids.

1. GAMES: (For Junior youth only 10 minutes)

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Photocopy the hearts one for each child write their names on each heart and tape it to their back. The aim is to try to collect as many of the other players hearts, without losing your heart. When the game is over the winners are those who still had their own hears because they ‘Guarded their Heart’

2. TEAM GAMES: (For Junior youth only 10 minutes)
Spit into two teams, have the young people make two rows start by whispering in the first child’s ear “Above all else, guard your heart” get them to pass on the whisper until the last child then calls out what they heard.
Repeat 'Set a guard over my mouth' and lastly "Create in me a clean heart, O God"

Discuss how different the last one was from the first. This is how it is with gossip it gets changed and distorted as it is passed on until it becomes a lie.

3. ACTIVE PRAISE CHORUS: (For all youth 10 minutes)

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Give your heart to Jesus

4. INTIMATE WORSHIP: (For all youth 5 minutes)
Heart of Worship (
Lord I lift your name on High

5.TEACHING:
a) Review
Last week we leant about Jesus being tempted. Jesus had all the power in the world and Satan tempted him to show it off, but Jesus didn’t. How did Jesus resist temptation? (He used the Word of God against Satan)

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"TEMPTATION DRAMA” We are going to get in groups and I want your group to make a very short skit of common temptations that teenagers face. You have 10 minutes to come up with your skit that you will then share with the rest of the group.

Suggestions for skits as needed:
• Friends encouraging you lie to your parents about where you will be tonight.
• Cheating on a test or paper.
• Joining in on teasing someone at school.
• Stealing something ‘small’ at a store.
• Gossiping over Social Media
• Watching pornography
• Excessive use of video games
• Being rude to your teacher

b) Sword Play
Ready…Swords up… Psalm 51:10… CHARGE!
Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Split the group up in four groups. Allocate parts of the verse to each group eg
1. Create in me a clean heart,
2. O God,
3. And renew a steadfast spirit
4. Within me.

Have the groups say their allocated section doing different things eg, stand up, spin around, hop on one leg, dance etc,

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

c) Teaching the Lesson - Protect your heart
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 Protect your heart

The Junior Youth OSL audio has been divided into two sessions

Download Junior Youth Part 1 Curriculum Download Protecting your Heart Youth PowerPoint Part 1 Download Teachers PowerPoint Notes Download Protecting your Heart Youth Part 1 audio MP4 Download Junior SOAP Weekly Bible Devotional for both Parts

Download Junior Youth Curriculum Part 2 Download Protecting your Heart PowerPoint Part 2 Download Teachers PowerPoint Notes Part 2 Download Junior Youth Part 2 audio MP4 Download Part 2 Music

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.

We have been taught that genuine fulfillment and long term commitment come from a hearts that have purity and righteousness in them, when we take selfishness and perversion into a relationship and we will not be satisfied.

We have come to ask God to help us to protect our eyes from crude movies, internet porn, girlie magazines, ask God to protect your eyes.

Proverbs 4: 25 tells us to let your eyes look straight ahead, and your eyelids look right before you.
Ask God to put blinders on your eyes, look at nothing or anyone with lust, make a covenant with your eyes like Job did.

Don’t be like everybody else, You can’t be like everybody else because then you will be like everybody else, you want to be different, you want your life to be significant, fulfilled, enjoyable, you want to be honoured, and noble, so you can’t let those things in your mind, you have to look straight ahead.

Sexual imaginations result from opening the eye gate to sexual perversions.

Stop talking sexual talk, telling smutty, sexual jokes, sexual gossip on Social Media, anything perverse put far from you. You want to be free stop all those comments. You may think you can talk that dirty talk and get away with it but God says “And he who has a perverse tongue falls into evil.”

Open the alters for those young people who want to ask God to give them the strength that they need to resist temptation.

CLOSING PRAYER: Heavenly Father we have come to repent for all the smutty jokes, sexual double meanings, sexual suggestions, flirting and sexual contacts that have sow seeds which are growing into trees of sexual perversion.

Help me to put a guard on my eyes, my ears, my feet and hands. Protect my mind from sexual imaginations, we pull them down in the mighty name of Jesus and cover our minds with the blood of Jesus. Amen

TAKE HOME MATERIAL:
Set of sevenSOAP 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. Hearts are available if the students would rather make their own Memory Verse Track. (Scissors are needed and Markers should be provide to beautify the track)

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

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