God Keeps His Promises

11/15/2024

God Keeps His Promises by Jennifer Tolbert

This is the conclusion to the story of how God saved Noah, his family, and the animals from the floodwaters. In this story, faithful Noah sees the fulfillment of God's long awaited promise to cleanse the Earth from evil and rescue Noah and his family from that terrible flood.

Noah's faith allowed him to save himself and his family. Noah is an example of faith and obedience. Noah learns that God can be trusted to always do what he says He is going to do. Our God keeps His promises!

Key Concepts:
1. God keeps His promises.
2. Obeying God is very important.
3. God never forgets those who are faithful to Him. Noah was saved by faith.

Memory Verse

Genesis 9:16
“Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind.”

Songs

Books of the Old Testament
Awesome God
Do Lord
The Word Was With God
Genesis 1:1
Rise & Shine (Arky, Arky)
Rainbow Song
God Told Noah
Who Built the Ark
Step by Step (Older Kids)

Story

Begin Class with Songs, Games, Table Activity, or Sharing Time

Open Class in Prayer

Introducing the Story Ideas
1. Rainbow Science Activities: Demonstrate or allow the kids to perform some simple Rainbow themed science activities. Little Bins, Little Hands has several on their blog. SAY: Today, we are going to talk about the first time God put a rainbow in the sky!

2. Promises: Begin a conversation about promises. Is it important to keep a promise? How do you feel when someone breaks their promise to you? SAY: Today, we are going to talk about God, and how he kept his promise to Noah.

3. Share fun facts about rainbows with the kids. You can also show this video if it is helpful. SAY: Today, we are going to talk about the first time there was a rainbow in the sky and what rainbows mean to us.

Story: We have been learning about Noah. Noah followed and trusted God. He had faith in God. But Noah didn't just say he had faith in God. Noah demonstrated his faith by obeying everything God told him to do.
God told Noah to build an ark. Check. Noah did it.
God told Noah to put food and supplies in the ark. Check. Noah did that too.
Finally, God told Noah to put the animals and his family in the ark. Check. Noah did everything God told him to do!
Perhaps it is because Noah already knew what we are going to learn about today! God keeps his promises! If God says He will do it, we can believe God!

READ Genesis 8 or show the power point Noah Builds an Ark, part 3.
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