APRIL 2024
PATIENCE: WAITING UNTIL LATER FOR WHAT YOU WANT NOW.
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN PATIENCE AND GOD’S CHARACTER, AS SHOWN THROUGH GOD’S BIG STORY
Waiting is a part of life. Thankfully, we don’t have to wait on our own. Through the Holy Spirit, God can help us experience the patience we need to wait well. After all, God is patient with us. God is in control and knows what’s best for us. Even through God’s people had been waiting for years for the promised Savior, at just the right time, God sent Jesus. Because we’re created in God’s image, we can reflect God’s patience in our lives. We can be patient when we remember what God has done. We can lean on God’s Holy Spirit to give us the strength we need to trust God and show patience with the difficult circumstances in our lives.
THIS MONTH
PATIENCE - Waiting until later for what you want now.
Memory Verse - “Wait for the Lord. Be strong and don’t lose hope. Wait for the Lord.” Psalm 27:14, NIrV
4/7 - Waiting can make you wise. (A Patience Proverb - Proverbs 14:29)
4/14 - When you think you can’t wait, think twice. (Esau’s Impatience - Genesis 25:24-34)
4/21 - When you have to wait, remember what’s true. (Golden Calf - Exodus 32:1-35)
4/28 - God is with you while you wait. (Simeon Waits for the Messiah - Luke 2:25-35)
WEEK 1 - April 7, 2024
WEEK 2 - APRIL 14, 2024
WEEK 3 - April 21, 2024
WEEK 4 - APRIL 28, 2024
SUNDAY NIGHTS
Our goal is for every elementary-aged kid to be a part of a 2:52 Group and connected to an adult small group leader that is helping them discover who God is and understand how His virtues apply to their life. During the school year on Sunday evenings from 6-7pm for all elementary, it's a great and fun time for kids to connect and build relationships with each other, focus on memorizing scripture, pray together, and take the Bible lesson they learned in the morning to a deeper level.
GOD TIMES
These are excellent resources to help your children have some time with God each week and begin forming the habit of regular Bible study. There are four different devotions on each GodTime sheet. Each devotion is designed to be done on a different day. At 2:52 Groups on Sunday nights, we do the first God Time with your child, leaving them just 3 more to do during the week. Turning in last week’s completed God Time gets your child entered into our Great God Time Giveaway. For more information about this, click here.
Each day’s devotion includes:
1. a verse(s) to read
2. a devotion paragraph that teaches something about God and an explanation of today’s verse(s)
3. an activity that makes real-life application of the day’s devotion
4. a suggested prayer.
K-3rd GRADERS
Even though kids in early elementary (Kindergarten through 3rd grade) are beginning to read things on their own, most are not mature enough to have a God time by themselves. We encourage you to do this with your children.
4th-5th GRADERS
Encourage kids to choose four different days during the week to do these devotions. Most 4th and 5th graders are capable of having a “quiet time” on their own, once they’ve been taught how to do it, but they still need an adult to prompt them and/or follow up on it.
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