Week 2 family devotion

The revealing game:

Gather 10 random items in your house, put them on the floor and cover them with a sheet.  Give each child a sheet of paper and tell them to pay very close attention. They will need to write down or tell you (younger children) all 10 items. Make them think that on the count of three you will take the sheet off and reveal the items but don't actually take the sheet off!  Ask them to name all 10 items and watch their funny responses....  Now do it again and this time take the sheet off for 10 seconds and then replace the sheet and see how many items they can recall.

Devotion   (Have your child training bible out and let them keep their paper)

Let's talk about the game we just played.  I asked you to recall the 10 items under the sheet without actually removing the sheet. That's impossible!  You might have been able to guess a few items correctly but you really needed to see them to recall them.  That is a lot like God's word.  God is revealing himself to us through His word, but we need to open it and uncover God's will, and His ways for us.  Let's start with the yellow Gospel section. Before we begin let's read the prayer in the front of our bible. ( Father, thank you for the honor....)

On the other side of your paper, make 4 columns:
God
Man
Jesus
Now What?
As we read through each section, write down a word or a phrase that reveals something you need to remember. ( for example, the tab on Genesis 1:1 says "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Have them write down the word creator under the God column on their paper) 

Read through all verses under these four sections.

Now that we are finished, let's take a look at everything you wrote down. Just by reading His word we have been able to know more about God, read what the bible says about us (man), discover God's plan of salvation by sending Jesus to die for our sins and what His word is telling us to do now.... Repent, confess, believe, turn...  Let's put your paper on the fridge so we can see it all week. We discovered some things through opening the bible, now lets open our hearts to what God is speaking to us. Lets pray together!

(Give each child the opportunity to pray over something that God has revealed to them through His word, giving thanks.)