Winners’ Chapel Sunday school – Nyeri /Othaya/Karatina   

 Date: 6^th May 2012

LESSON OUTLINE WEEK: 1

Ages: 1 - 15 Years

Waves of Glory: 2012

Prophetic Focus: MY CASE IS DIFFERENT Gen 47:15-27

TOPIC: UNDERSTANDING WHAT IS COVENANT

Do a recap of last Sunday’s lesson. Ask the children e.g. (Who was our Biblical Character? he was from where? he had how many children had he? Memory Verse? How many branches has the Holy Spirit? Let the children list ALL the branches of the spirits learnt.  The songs we sang last Sunday,

Text Gen 39:21 But the Lord was with Joseph and showed Him Mercy and gave Him favour in the sight of the keeper of the Prison.

BIBLICAL CHARACTER: JOSEPH: his father was called Jacob but changed to Israel (Gen 32:28). His mother was Rachel. Jacob had 4  wives (Rachel, Leah, Bilhar, and Zilphar).he had 12 brothers in total they were 13 brothers. He was handsome. He was very loved by the father because he was the last born and was given a coat of many colours (very beautiful) and the brothers were jealous because of that. He was sold as a slave by the Brothers to Egypt. Their country was Canaan. He was a dreamer and interpreter of dreams. Was wrongly accused by Potiphar’s wife and thrown into prison. He was put in charge of all prisoners.

MEMORY VERSE:

Isa 60:22 A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong Nation. I am the Lord: in its time, I will do this …

Objective: Teach and Help the children understand What a covenant is.

WHAT IS A COVENANT?

It is an agreement: a promise(ahadi).it is a contract; if you do this,i will do this: it is made between 2 or more people: it cannot not be broken: it is  legally binding.(give an example of the clothes,shoes,books,bibles we have or are wearing.the shop keeper who sold them to us cannot come back for them because we have already paid them.(you can give examples from the Bible of people who made covenants with God e.g,Noah,Abraham,Hannah(mother of Samuel)

How do we make covenants with God? Examples of covenants that we make with God.

a)        Kingdom service/serving God-coming to church and washing Sunday school dishes before and after Sunday school, cleaning Washing church(Exo 23:25-26)

b)       Offerings/Tithe-explain to the children the difference between the two(Mal 3:6-10)

c)        Worship/Praising God/Praying/Dancing(Deut 16:16-17,Exo 35:4)

BIBLICAL TRUETH: God honours ALL HIS COVENANTS

CHALLENGE FACTOR: Do you keep your covenants or do you sometimes break them?

POSITIVE CONFESSION: God help me not to break my covenant with you

ALTER CALL.

GOOD NEWS! GOOD NEWS! WE SHALL HAVE A FAMILY DAY ON 1/6/2012.  WE SHALLHAVE COMPETITIONS FOR ALL THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS-NYERI, KARATINA&OTHAYA. (START PREPARING FOR WINNING)